Brutal Child Kidnappers.

With the alien symbiote clothing him, Harry leapt over the rooftops, the alien propelling his every move while protecting his bones from splintering into little bits, heading for his destination. He had spent weeks after learning of children, who were found brutally murdered with their tongues cut out, and looking for the bastards responsible. Only one body at a time was found, but for Harry, it was more than enough for him.

Harry had been living on the streets for a short time now since he'd gotten away from the Dursleys, and it was more than enough time for him to know when people were going missing.

He had been worried and he had been investigating for two months now, and he had finally gotten a lead. He had watched two people, a man and a woman walking with a downcast child, a girl.

The moment Harry had locked eyes with the girl, she had looked at him with fear and hope. Venom might not have been bonded with her, but the alien fed on emotions; he could tell the girl was terrified of the couple, who portrayed themselves as the perfect couple. Harry had been convinced it was them, and so he had followed them, and he had even gotten close enough to the girl for Venom to gently touch her, to form a pseudo bond that would be enough for the alien to help find them.

At the same time, the pseudo-bond had allowed the alien to look at her memories. The girl, Catrina, had once been a very happy child. But then she had been kidnapped by the couple, who'd snatched her off of the streets and they'd worked together to cut her tongue out. Then she had her hair dyed and different contact lenses put in place, to disguise her features so she would only look slightly like she had; there were posters of Catrina and desperate pleas for her to come back from her parents. But Harry knew the twisted couple had no intention of her getting out alive. They were using her as bait, hoping to snag another child for the twisted pair to kill and mutilate.

How is she, Venom? Harry asked.

Venom concentrated on the slight bond. She's terrified. She's also being hurt. We'll get there in a moment, Harry.

Good. When we do, I want them mutilated, but alive.

Alive?

The police need to know, but if we maim them so they can't escape then you'll be well fed. At the same time, Venom knew enough about his beloved bonded to know Harry had just gotten a twisted idea and was smirking inwardly and outwardly at it, I want everyone in the city to know we exist. We can eat the man helping them, but the couple can lose their hands and feet, and the woman can have a kidney and one of her lungs torn out.

That would kill her, Harry.

Well, we can stay for a bit, and wait for the police to arrive, and then we can tear her lung out and you can eat it, Venom, Harry compromised.

Venom was silent for a moment. Harry.

Yes?

Have I ever told you how much I love you?

I know.

When they arrived, Venom didn't bother with subtlety, he burst in through a wall in the house as he followed the bond, and he extended his whole body and blanketed the forms of the couple, and their helper, while Catrina looked on in terror and awe. She became even more hopeful when she heard the sounds of the kidnappers became louder, more pained as there were terrible cracking sounds before they were just dropped to the ground.

The black….thing went back and reformed into a slightly short, but not too tall figure covered in the black goo with the weird white eyes, and the massive, sharp teeth with the tongue lolling around.

The man Catrina had learnt was called Maurice, tried to crawl painfully away, but the thing leapt at him. "Nu-uh," he said, waggling his finger mockingly before he lifted Maurice easily like he was just as heavy as an apple, or a tennis ball. "Eyes, lungs, brain, pancreas…so many snacks, so little time," he said, licking Maurice with his long tongue. Just what was he?

The thing then threw Maurice away and leapt towards Michelle and Jack, and Catrina blinked in horror when the thing just bit their hands and feet off before he glanced at her, and then picked up the phone.

"Police, please. Send an ambulance and some officers too," he rattled out the address he had seen on an envelope, "Miss Catrina Lake is here, and she needs medical attention. But so too do her kidnappers," a menacing tone crept into his voice, "Listen to them. They have no feet, no hands. And soon they'll get more serious injuries. Oh, you'll find out when you get here. Goodbye….Oh, you want a name? Very well. We are Venom!"

With that, Venom leapt towards the stunned Maurice and picked the man up, who began struggling madly. He walked towards the still screaming and writhing Michelle and Jack and kicked them to get their attention. Catrina closed her eyes at the couple's and Maurice's screams when Venom began savagely eating him, chomping down, off his head, his hands, his legs, his arms, and parts of his body; when the girl opened her eyes, she nearly shut them tightly, when she saw the pile of bloodied flesh on the ground.

-8-

Later when the police and the paramedics arrived on the scene, they were horrified by the number of gruesome trophies Michelle and Tom, with Maurice's help, had managed to get. They had collected numerous photos of the missing kids, even preserving their tongues as trophies. Catrina was just the latest example, and it wasn't long before they found her tongue. It was hoped they could reattach it.

As for the scum who'd kidnapped her, well they were terribly and they were nearly dead. Michelle's right lung had been torn out, while Tom's entire shoulder and his right leg had been torn off going up and up until it reached way past his pelvis towards his intestines, even spilling them out. Both of them were soon put on life support machines to keep them going, and they nearly died several times. Fortunately, Catrina was alive, and she was the only witness. She wrote down everything that happened to her, and what happened. When the media and the police learnt about Venom, they learned the creature was savage and vicious…and it matched the stories out there, of some weird creature savagely killing criminals on the streets. But now they knew it was not a rumour.