Bloodlust

Edward "Eddie" Brock || Alien Host || Lethal Protector of Innocents || Spider-Man is ours, and ours alone

[vencmcusbrock]

“So… you’re a parasite?” he asked, since that was how it made sense to Aiden’s mind, “Not that I’m gonna judge, despite us cats being excellent at that,” he added loftily, “Though you may wanna be careful, there’s lots of heroes running around this city nowadays and if they’re not heroes they’re creepy green monsters that look like people.”

The cat shook his head from side to side, “It’s not even safe for animals to wonder around anymore.”

“Yes, Skrulls--we have heard about them. We heard that they snatch up heroes or important figures and masquerade as them.” Eddie went on, frowning as he thought about it. Luckily for him, the alien gave him heightened senses--enough so that he was able to detect who was real and who was a fake. So far their spider remained the same. He hoped that will remain the case. Spider-Man only belonged to Venom, after all. 

“So you...wander about and hope to stay out of sight?” he questioned. 

[vencmcusbrock]

Well it was a good thing that her business was done then. “I’m assuming, then, that you’ve just finished your feeding ritual, then,” she surmised, “Or do you need another low-life to find so you can feed some more?” As long as it wasn’t her, then she’d be fine helping get rid of a few people who pissed her off.

Eddie brushed off his shoulder and offered her a crooked smirk. “Well our initial feed is done. One would do us for now. Unless--” he paused and let out a dark chuckle, “--unless you have any ideas.”

[vencmcusbrock]

Aiden sat and curled his tail around him as he did so, it had taken a while to get the hang of the bloody tail. “So he’s dead then?” his gaze moved to the body for a moment before returning to the man, “That’s not surprising. He had a very dark aura.” He could never tell just why people gave off the ‘vibe’ they did to him, but he’d never been wrong yet.

“You’re pretty dark not, but not in a strictly bad sorta way.” he added lightly, “So how come you’re out draining people?” he asked, sounding completely blasé about the whole thing.

Eddie shoved his hands into his jean pockets and shrugged his shoulders over the initial question. He felt no remorse, especially towards those who did not deserve any sympathy. The dead person at his feet were among them. There was a glimpse of his last few years through Eddie’s thoughts while they drained his life, all of them horrid. In a way, he put the man out of his misery. 

“When you put it like that, no. We were...in a fight. It left us weak. Consuming others strengthens us.” 

[vencmcusbrock]

Sin had only been passing through, out on her own getting supplies and causing havoc as she went. Both Skrulls and humans alike had the unfortunate experience of crossing her path and she enjoyed every minute of making them shiver in her presence. As she started to head back to the compound Zemo had set up (much to her annoyance - it should be hers) she saw the black symbiote shift back into the human form. “Maybe,” she replied with a simple shrug, “what shit luck gave you that ability?”

Eddie chuckled darkly when she acknowledged his counterpart. “Luck? Oh no, we consider ourselves grateful for this power. Granted, we have to feed when we grow weak, but we choose those who target the innocents.” Whether or not she liked that explanation did not bother Eddie in the slightest. He figured she could formulate her own opinion with that. 

[vencmcusbrock]

Finishing a regular job for the Shield, Carol about to leave when she spotted this random guy running for his life. Maybe she wasn’t done finally… She didn’t stop the guy but walked to where he was coming from. There she saw the corpse and the mysterious hooded guy next to it. Ready to say something, Carol stopped herself at the question. “From where I am? Not really.” So she walked closer, not afraid. “Step back, be polite and don’t try to run or to attack me while I’m checking something.” Now just at few inches of the body, she looked again at her suspect. “Step back.” She asked again, her hand following her request. She simply had to check if the blood of the victim was green or red, if he was a Skrull or not, so she finally squatted down to find her answer, taking her phone to have a bit of light because damn she couldn’t see shit right now.

Eddie stepped back as the woman demanded. He sense a great deal of power from her, so he knew better than to attack while unprovoked. Was she a hero? An ally? Neither of them knew. The best he could do was cooperate and watch her as she crouched down to analyze the blood left behind. 

When the light revealed a sickly, green color, he grimaced. “Disgusting. What is this?” 

[vencmcusbrock]

The benefit of wondering ally’s as a black cat was people never looked twice, he may as well have been invisible for all the mind people paid him. So when he spotted a mugging he figured he could at least jumping up and claw an eye out of the guy to give the woman a chance to run, he’d prepped a jump but it seemed he wasn’t needed as… something did the job for him and send the woman running.

He easily hopped onto a closed dumpster and looked at the (now) man in front of him. Aiden wasn’t sure if it was a rhetorical question aimed at a staring cat of the guy could tell, but he answered anyway, voice coming out just as his human one would.

“Sure did. And I’ve seen some freaky crap in my nine lives but Mister, you are something else. Did you kill that guy?”  

Eddie scoffed at the body before him before he whirled around, trying to pinpoint where the voice was coming from. No person was there, just a cat. Puzzled, he frowned at the creature. He was not necessarily mad for being caught, just perplexed that it was a cat of all things. 

“We drained his life force.” he answered simply. “The man was pathetic anyway, we learned this was not the first time he assaulted another innocent.”

[vencmcusbrock]

Weak. 

You let him get away from us. 

Feed

F e e d

The words resonated in his consciousness like a never-ending mantra. Eddie knew he messed up in taking control of the symbiote’s hatred towards Parker. However, killing the spider was not part of their deal. He saved Anne. They made a deal. There were other people to fight to satiate the symbiote’s blood lust. Especially right about now. Loud noise weakened him, and that made both him and the symbiote sluggish with their energy drained. There was only one way to correct this. 

As luck would have it, a mugging was happening in the vicinity. Disgusting. Humans though they could prey upon the innocent and hurt them. Not on their watch. Using the darkness to his advantage, he stalked the runaway criminal before jumping in his path. His teeth were bared and that prehensile tongue of his fell out of his mouth hungrily. 

“You are done with this.” he spoke in a low hiss before the man disappeared within the blackness of the creature. Their energy was restored after feeding upon the man’s terror and aggression. Much better. Of course, the innocent they saved fled in terror once her purse was retrieved. Typical. 

The symbiote shifted back into Eddie’s regular street clothes with a hood covering his head, for the most part. A sniff of the air made him sigh when he realized when he was no longer alone. 

“Get a good look?”