Venom: Unleashed

Chapter 3

After dragging him outside, the young woman lead the confused Eddie to a rusty-looking trailer around the Mansion with haste and urgency.

Once they got there, the young woman hurriedly pushed him inside and shut the door closed, quickly locking it.

"You shouldn't be here." The young woman stated with a stern look on her face that made Eddie a little worried, "I can help you get out of this place alive but you have to do exactly what I say from now on."

Eddie was a little lost for words right now and it took him almost a minute to say anything, "I suppose I'm in a bad place right now, don't I?"

"It goes without saying when you stepped into this hellhole. Now, you may still not have encountered the horrors that lingers here but you will if you want to save your friends and get out of this place alive."

"Um, who are you referring, lady?"

"You mean to tell me that you don't know Ethan and Mia Winters?"

"Okay. First of all, I only met Ethan but I don't really know him that much about that guy. Second of all, I only heard of Mia but that's it."

"That's strange. He spoke with great concern about you and told me to help you and warn you about this place. I suppose he's just quite the helping type. But enough of that, are you still willing to go there and help them?"

"Help them? From what? What the hell is going on here?"

"Time is running out! Are you going to help them or not?"

Eddie could only nod at her question as he has no words or any smart-ass remarks to say.

"If that's how it's gonna be, take this." The young woman slowly offered her a pocket knife in which Eddie hesitantly accepted as he finds it useless but since he has to keep up appearances, he had to, "Be careful out there. I will contact Ethan you are coming. Good luck."

"Thank you."

The young woman didn't reply, only giving him an uncertain look that made Eddie a bit uncomfortable that he slowly exited the trailer and proceeded into the mansion.

'That woman is bad news, Eddie. He didn't tell us shit. Although, her words may not be lies, I still get the feeling she was hiding something.' Venom speculated with suspicion as Eddie pocketed the knife the young woman had given him.

'I agree. But there's no point complaining now. After all, you might get a snack for this.'

'We! Eddie! We. We might get a snack for this.'

'Oh yeah. That's right. But please be quiet. I wanna focus.'

'Fine.'

As soon as Eddie finally entered the premises, he was greeted with an ominous darkness and a chilling sensation that makes his skin crawl.

"Well, this is quite the welcoming sight." Eddie commented out loud before he saw something lurking in the darkness that quickly disappeared the moment he laid his eyes on it, "Hello?! Anyone there?!"

When he got nothing, Eddie only sighed in mild annoyance before heading inside, looking for Ethan and Mia.

'Eddie. There's something underneath this Mansion and it's coming straight for us.'

'Can you figure out what it is?'

'It's not human. That's all I can figure out out. It's strange. This thing gives off a strange similar scent like the girl we just met not so long ago except that this one is just vastly different and gives off a horrible stench.'

'Right. What do you suppose we do now?'

'We wait and we'll find out.'

'Oh, yeah. Good idea. We'll wait for something that might try to kill us.'

'Well, it's better than charging head on, dummy.'

Eddie would have given him a snarky reply if not for the sound of footsteps coming slowly close towards him.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" A cocky cheeky voice echoed throughout the premises before the owner of the voice slowly revealed itself; it was an old man in a faded yellow shirt with a large axe in his hand. He had a delirious smile on his face that made Eddie a bit nervous, "You lost there, little fella, huh?"

"I suppose. I'm trying to find Ethan and Mia. Do you know where they are?"

"That's funny. Because I'm trying to find them too." The old man replied before his smile disappeared, replaced by a stern frown with a murderous glare, "Now, I don't suppose you would try to take our beloved Mia away from us, don't you?"

Before Eddie could explain, the man continued with bursts of rage, circling the cornered already freaked out reporter like a predator readying for the kill, "Because she's one of ours! She's family! You won't take her away from us! I will not let that happen! Never!"

With that, the old man charged forward with his axe aimed to cleave Eddie's head off. But the old man was quickly caught off guard when the man in front of him quickly changed into what many would call a monster. A behemoth of a smooth oily black monster with a humanoid appearance. It's slit narrowed white eyes has a glare that far surpasses of the old man and it had a maniacal grin that revealed it's razor sharp teeth.

"What in the-" Before the old man could even finish his sentence, he was quickly grabbed by the dark slimy behemoth in the throat before his axe was easily pulled away from his hands.

"Look at yourself. Old and weak. You are nothing."  The monster spoke with a very deep demonic voice as it strangles the old man.

"What the hell are you?" Those were the only words the old man could croak out as he tries to break free.

"We are Venom."