Symbiosis

|Chapter 15|

POV Venom:

I'm so tired...

My breath was coming out heavily as I dragged my host's metal knees along the ventilation shaft, I listened to every single noise that surrounded me, the boy's sounds of pain as his knees started to hurt from the crawling, the whirling of fans directing the wind down the vents, I could even hear the voices of the droids below us, but just barely, the words sound more like a whisper as they spoke, yet I listened and crawled closer and closer towards our destination. "Ummm...Sir?-", the boy's few words echoed across the metal sheets, getting louder as they echoed back towards us, stopping in my tracks, I shifted my weight and turned back towards him, pressing my finger against my mouth, I hushed him, which only caused him to flinch, his head turned downwards, "Look-", my words were hushed, leaning closer to the kid, I tried to be loud enough for him to hear, yet he couldn't.

Dragging my hand over my host's face, I pinched the bridge of his snout, wanting so badly to be out of this place, I waved my hand and pointed towards the end of the vent, telling him to follow me. I followed the path Mother gave me and turned down every single corner it showed on the projection, turning left then right then right again, each step was starting to get harder and harder to complete as the fatigue was getting to the both of us, however, the pain was wearing the boy down.  Turning down the last corner, I could see it, the light, it was so dim that for a moment if I was any more tired I would have missed it, yet I could see the streams of pink coming from the opening. Crawling closer to the light, I rested my elbow on the bottom of the vent and pulled myself closer, and with my other hand, I reached into the pouch and pulled out the alien slug, slowing down, I pushed myself up and waited for the boy to catch up, "Why'd you stop?", the top of the vent if I stood up to my host full height and reached up that would still leave five feet of space left to reach. 

Standing up to my feet, I reached for the boy's hand and watched as he hesitated, turning away from me, he stared down the vent, looking in the direction we came from, "But...what about my sister...she's out there...I know it-", the boy looked back up towards me as I crouched down, staring into the kids worry-filled eyes, "I can't just leave her behind!-", his words, his voice was starting to get loud once again, but as I pressed my finger against my mouth, he voice stopped. "Listen, if you follow me just onto this roof, I'll tell you something that will make you super happy, okay? And if the news isn't what you want it to be, we'll look for you sister...okay kid?", he didn't say a word, looking back and forth from me to the direction we came from, he slowly looked at me and nodded his head, his hand reaching for me as I stood up. Hugging around my host's abdomen, I aimed the slug to the top of the vent and watched his the tentacle flew through the air and stuck to the very edge, pulling on the slug, our feet flew off the ground and rose closer to the very top of the opening, until finally I was able to reach, pulling both me and the boy out of the ventilation shaft.

 I was breathing heavily as I looked up at the dark pink sky, 'Who would have thought I would miss the Prison Dimension... its quieter than this dump', pushing up from the ground, I listened to the noises around me, the soft wind, the monsters' screams, I was even listening to the kid breathing as well, he was safe. "I don't get it..."

"Get what...", I chuckled, smiling softly, I turned back towards the kid as he looked up towards the sky, "Why did you save me", the way the kid spoke sounded nothing like a question, but words he spoke not to me but to himself, "I'm not sure...but when I heard you say you were looking for a mutant infant, one that looked like a snake, it only reminded me of Krisa-"

"Krisa? Who's Krisa", I turned away from the boy as I pulled the satchel into my lap, scooting closer and closer, I sat just a foot away from the frog, and pushed the satchel closer to the kid, still keeping it on my lap, "Your sister of course...", opening the bag just enough to give him view of the infant's face, I watched as his eyes widened, his hand reaching towards the small snake as he placed a single finger in her palm only for her to grab onto it. He was so lost in thought as he stared at his sibling, I looked up from the bag and saw something strange, he was trembling as a clear liquid fell from his eyes, I questioned if he was experiencing what Terra had gone through, I couldn't tell if I did something wrong, but instead of a frown, he smiled, "Oh my- I'm so happy she's okay...", he reached into the bag, wanting so badly to hold her, "Wait- hold on-", but I couldn't not now, not until we're somewhere safe, "Let's get somewhere safe, the guards are going to notice your gone, so we need to leave now-"