Chaos -Infected Book Two- (Complete)

Chapter 8

Eddie opened the apartment door. I knocked him out of the way and laid down on the couch. "We're home!" I yelled. "I never want to go back to a hospital ever again." I don't want to go back for anything, not even for a flu shot (even though I still go.)
"You won't need to with me." Said Azlin.
"Thank you, Eddie. Thank you, Venom. We're back together, all of us!" I stood up. "I'll make a huge dinner. Everything you guys want!"
"I don't think we have enough money for the amount of food Venom is going to eat." Eddie tossed his keys on the counter and hung up his jacket.
"You're right."
"Make whatever you want. We'll eat it." He suggested. I shook my head.
"No, this is a meal for you guys. You guys won and now Azlin's back."
"We didn't win." Said Venom. "They escaped."
"We'll get them but tonight, we feast!"
"I'll help!"
"You can only help if you don't eat while we cook Azlin."
"No samples?"
"No. Mm, maybe one or two."
"We should hunt them down while we can."
"Venom, we'll get them when we can but that's not important right now."
"It should be." I looked at Eddie.
"I have to agree with Venom." I rolled my eyes.
"Come on you two. Think about that tomorrow." I pulled out ingredients from the fridge. I had three meal ideas in mind and they could all be cooked at once.
"They are weak." Said Azlin.
"Ugh, not you too."
"Weak? How?" Asked Eddie.
"Come on you guys!" They ignored me. I was free from the hospital stress only to have to worry about this now.
"They're weak from me splitting us apart. I took a significant amount of power at once."
"This would be the perfect time to go after them." Said Eddie.
"I learned that they are not a match and they know it."
"Really? Are you sure?"
"Yes. Chaos is quickly changing her DNA so they can be a match."
"That's possible?"
"Any symbiote can do it if they're strong enough but it takes time and a lot of effort. Those are two things we don't have a lot of and have to start right away if we want the human to survive. Venom and I are lucky. We didn't need to do much to match the two of you."
"Dr. Morg said the foundation was shut down. Where would she go?"
"It's not completely shut down. A small group of scientist were left to care for the left over projects. She's using the labs secretly. Her colleagues still trust her."
"You read her mind?" I asked.
"Yes. Her memories show a very rich and fulfilling childhood. Her memories now, are very, very evil. I did not see anything to cause her to be the way she is."
"She's evil by choice, it seems." Mumbled Eddie.
"What else did you learn?" Asked Venom.
"I learned that I was a seed extracted from a symbiote that died. It was one that came with Venom to earth. They froze us until ready."
"Us?"
"There are many seeds still in their care. They were quick when it came to finding ways to preserve the life of symbiotes. Dr. Morg was there when we were born. I remember seeing her and knowing I didn't like her. But he was different."
"Do you mean Chaos?" I asked.
"Yes. He was born a little before me and I'm sure he had interacted with her enough to take on her evil traits. They had not bonded physically but they were definitely bonded mentally.
Whatever human he took over he used that time to talk to her. When the humans began to die, he obeyed what she would say and leave before he died too. This went on for a few months before I escaped. I had killed three humans and he had killed ten."
"So you two were born around the same time?"
"Yes, we're from the same symbiote. He is my 'big brother' as humans would say." I was very surprised. Did sibling relationships matter to symbiotes?

"His powers are similar to yours and his color scheme is the same except inverted." Eddie said putting two and two together. Azlin nodded.
"He doesn't need physical touch to learn about you but it's the strongest way for him to know more at once."
"You don't use physical touch." Said Venom.
"No. I can if I want but I choose not to. It's too much to take in all at once. It... Frightens me."
"Are we going to gloss over the part that they're related?" I finally said.
"No. But that detail means nothing to me." She answered. It was a cold response. It was unlike her to brush something off the way she just had. I'm sure their relation would mean something to her if he was good.
She's cuddled up to Venom many times before, unless all those times she was expressing my feelings. I wasn't a "cuddler" but anything was possible when I was with Eddie.
Venom didn't respirate her love-ish tendencies, which was very Eddie. He did tolerate it and never told her to stop. She was young and had adopted parts of my personality as her own unlike Venom who was an adult before he bonded with Eddie. Symbiotes can take on personalities similar to their hosts. It's how they adopted empathy. If your host has none then you're not going to change. That's what Venom told us.

I stopped zoning out. Coming to I realized that the three of them had made plans about when and where to go after them.
"Wait, wait, wait, we're doing this tonight?"
"Yes." She answered. "It's the right time."
"I don't want to."
"(Y/n)," Eddie grabbed my arms. "I can understand if you're scared. That was your first time taking on a different symbiote and it almost killed you, however-"
"No, I'm not scared." I was a little scared. "I wanted to come home and take a break. You need a break. You fought a few hours ago. You're going back so soon. What if this time Venom is taken and you almost die? What if Azlin is taken again?"
"It's not going to happen again. We've gone up against them twice. We know what to do."
"It's okay to say you're scared, (y/n)." Said Azlin.
"Don't do that, Azlin. Don't voice my feelings for me. I said I'm not scared."
"You don't have to be. We'll fight together and then we won't have to worry about them anymore."
"Do you mean we'll kill them?"
"Yes!" Venom said too enthusiastic about it.
"Only if we need to."
"We need to." Said Venom.
"I agree with Venom." Said Azlin. "Our problems will go away if Morg goes away. She has to die."
"I don't like you talking like that, Azlin." She felt too innocent to suggest killing someone.
"If we need to" Eddie repeated. "Venom and I will do it. You two won't have to."
"I don't want it to happen."
"You're too nice sometimes." Eddie said and kissed my forehead. Not wanting to kill and being nice were not the same in my eyes.