Venemous ~ Petekey

Prologue

"I just wanted to help."

The words were as pathetic as they sounded, echoing around the almost empty alleyway.

"Stupid boy. Don't you know? You never help. We never help." The familiar low growl sounded in his head. The tightness around his torso moved in towards the middle of his chest, around his heart.

"I know." The blonde whispered, a small tear landing on the blood stained ground. Moonlight struggled to climb over the wall before being suffocated and snuffed out by the hallowing dark.

Beneath his feet lay a lifeless body, a gaping wound in its neck and dried blood surrounding its face. Three out of four limbs were set out like a fan around the body; the last was still in his hand.

In a moment of anger it struck out and it happened again. Someone died. Again.

"Pictures are just painful reminders." The stony faced man said to himself, staring down at the mess of shattered glass and broken wood on the floor. He'd been working too hard for too long; it made him clumsy and as a result, the photo frame of his recently deceased wife had fallen to the floor.

"I don't want to be alone anymore." The man sighed, tapping his pencil against his teeth, unable to think clearly after hours of strenuous brain activity for a shitty job he didn't care much about.

"I know."

Startled, the blonde's eyes widened and he dropped the pencil in his hand.

"What the fuck." He whispered, looking around his empty apartment.

"I know you don't want to be alone." The grating voice came again. It reverberated around his head, making it spin and ache.

"Who are you?" His voice started to waver, eyes searching the peaceful room.

"Who are we."  It corrected him. "We are the future. We are the storm. We are strong."

The blonde man turned around and froze. He saw it. The slimy, black creature. The bulbous black head. The rows of knife-like teeth that lined black, slimy gums. It flicked a long, thick, pulsating tongue out of its salivating mouth - if it could even be called that - and grinned.

In the blink of an eye it slithered across the apartment and shot into the young man's chest. It punctured through the skin without splitting the flesh, making the innards of his torso it's new home.

The man gasped, his hand automatically moved over to where his heart was. Excrutiating pain radiated through his chest, a pain like no other he had ever felt before.

It twisted, it stabbed, it flailed and it burned like venom coursing through his being.

"I know you, Mikey Way. I see you, hear you, feel you. We are powerful, we are tortured." It growled, the voice getting louder now situated in his skull.

"We are Venom."

"You made me do it again. You made me a killer." Shaking violently, Mikey dropped the mangled arm watching it land with a satisfying thud in a crimson puddle. The feeling alone made him sick. He found it satisfying. What had he become?

"We did it. We are a killer. You're not alone anymore." It hissed. Mikey could hear the physcotic grin in it's tone.

"What have you done to me?" The tightness in his chest moved to his shoulder then down his arm. His right arm became heavy and the monstrous face he only saw momentarily in reflections, looked him in the eye.

"The world has too many superheroes. It's time we fought back. It's time we rose from the dark and the dirt and watch from high above with pride as the world they tried so desperately hard to save, burns before their very eyes." It's white, unblinking eyes looked through Mikey's own and saw his very essence, very core.

"This is our time." It growled. Mikey nodded slowly, holding back a squeal. The creature let a toothy grin spread across its 'face'.

"We are Venom."

I'm fucking buzzing for the movie and for the rest of this book, hope you all enjoy!!! Xox