Chapter 18 - Eventually… Time Will Catch Up To You

Melissa ran through the woods as fast as she could manage. She started to feel eyes behind her. The cool night air, piercing darkness and cold feet was starting to get to her. The lack of wind meant that she could hear the sounds of the forest. This was quite a feat considering her out of practice lungs and underused muscles led her to struggle through the rough ground between the trees. She could hear all manner of animals, insects and the distant sounds of the city beyond.

She didn't really know where she was headed but she kept on as she knew what she was heading away from. She heard the distinct sound of a large being pushing off from a branch, definitely not a squirrel or a bird. It was big.

Jane…

She tried to double down with her speed, the quiet but defined sound of her jumping from tree to tree loomed over melissa's head. It was over… but she had to carry on.

She tripped. Time seemed to slow down. Her toes caught the root of a tree. Her weight shifted forward to her brittle knees. As she went to the floor the pain shooting into her joints at her knees and wrists was more than she had been used to for years. She rolled a bit onto her side. She looked down at the ground, and lifted both her hands into the floor to push herself up. As she did a small drop of green landed onto the back of her right hand.

"Fuck," Melissa muttered into the floor.

"Now Now, that's no way to treat an old friend," she heard from above her. The distorted voice drilling into her ears. She had almost never heard it coming from outside of herself.

Melissa looked up, She was standing there with her hand stretched downwards and an open palm. The suit slowly rippled all over her now accentuated body and the tongue swaying from side to side, her dead eyes gave nothing away, the tongue disappeared inside the large jaws.

"Let me help you up," the tongue returned out once she had finished the sentence, which seemed more like a demand. If I don't let her, she will be pissed, but if I do she will almost definitely do something to me. It's a catch-22.

Jane seemed to know what would be going through Melissa's mind, she stood there, stoically still except for the slow movement of the tongue. Eventually making up her mind, Melissa slowly lifted up her hand and grabbed the alien claw. Jane seemed to smile. She tenderly wrapped her long talons around Melissa's hand and effortlessly pulled her slowly upwards to her feet.

"See, nothing to worry about," Jane commented.

"No," Melissa replied.

They stood there in the woods for what seemed like forever. Hand in hand. Darkness around them. Melissa was struck by the face staring back at her, maybe it was different for different hosts, but the Venom face staring back at her was almost cute and inquisitive, rather than the terrifying monstrosity she tried to purvey. Like the difference between a Charmander and Charizard. She looked down at the clawed hand wrapped around hers and wondered…

The hand closed around hers, tighter, tighter and completely crushed her hand. Jane closed her fist with Melissa's mangled fingers inside. Then let go.

"Ahhhhhhh, Fuck! Fuck you you fucking bitch!" Melissa screamed, staring at her mangled hand. She grabbed her arm looking down. The pain had crept up her arm to her shoulder. Any movement sent twangs of pain through her hand.

She looked back up and Jane was gone.

"You got complacent Melissa, your hubris was your undoing. Relationships take work, and love in both directions. You can't just take take take. Now we are one, and we are going to do it better than you." The voice came from the trees.

Melissa spun around in the woods looking for her, still clinging to her arm.

She felt a wet slap on the back of her leg, her weight was pulled from under her, she spun up into the air, hanging from one of her legs. She kicked and struggled trying to get loose. Between the pain in her hand and the lack of any muscles she couldn't even reach the web that held her. She kept trying, every push made her wince in pain as her fingers tapped against each other. She screamed in pain.

"Hello Melissa, We don't like you," Melissa heard from above her. She looked up as much as she could.

Jane in the full suit dropped from the tree above. She landed with no ceremony or effort. The alien suit however carried on travelling. It fell off her with speed crashing as a liquid on the floor splashing around over the trees and towards melissa's face. It was like a giant wave of black hit the floor. Once it had settled the puddle and small droplets spread out around the forest slowly but surely returned to their new host. Disappearing into her. As it did her face gave a coo of enjoyment as Jane stood there naked in the forest with none of the alien left in site.

Her body was noticeably more toned, with flawless skin, it was like looking at the most beautiful model in the world, completely photoshopped of every blemish or mark right in front of her. She very slowly took one step at a time closer, being sure to cross her legs over and really make it take as long as possible.

"And you're going to hate us." Jane added. Before punching melissa in the face with her bare hand. "Even without your little gift, I'm pretty sure I could end you."

Blood filled melissa's nose, she struggled to see and could feel the blood dripping to the top of her head.

"It's not a gift, you bitch," she shouted bitterly as best she could manage.

Jane Punched her in the face again. Melissa was sure that she had some teeth or jaw broken then.

Jane grabbed each side of her face and pulled Melissa's face into her's. She gave her a kiss, just a little one on the lips. Melissa tried to grab jane, before her hand could get close, Jane's hand shot up grabbed Melissa's hand by the wrist and snapped it to a right angle. Melissa screamed again. It wasn't very loud, she gurgled as she tried to spurt out in pain.

"Tut Tut," Jane cockily said. She punched her in the face one more time.

Melissa started slipping in and out of consciousness.

Jane had a particularly mischievous look on her face as the alien life form, crawled all over her body, forming her skin tight suit, up to her neck. She held out her single long talon. Stabbed it into Melissa just between the belly button and her pubic region. She then pulled her arm down cutting through her belly button in between her breasts. The blood slowly poured down onto Meissa's face. Jane jumped up onto Melissa, her feet could have gripped onto her but instead she dug her claws on her hands and feet into her. More blood came out of each injury, Jane crawled over her, rotating till she was behind her, toe claws stabbed into her ass one clawed hand gripping her neck, the other hand on the back of her head. Tentacles came out of her hand and crept through Melissa's head. Through the pores, in her ears, coating her brain and stimulating her back to consciousness.

"Mmmmph." She managed to get out of her mouth.

"We don't need you to answer back, we just need you to understand. We've won. This is the end. We hope it was as uneventful as you deserved." Jane shook Melissa's head with her hand. She opened her mouth and Venom's long tongue came out, filling her mouth. It smacked into Mellisa's throat, or what was left of it. Filling her mouth. Small black tentacles drew up over janes head, up from under her chin and all drew together at the tongue they stayed black for a moment but slowly ordered in the teeth of the jaw and the blank white eyes of venom's face. Her grip on her head increased, the tongue applied pressure from within. Another tentacle came out of Janes ankle, gripped round the shin of the leg which was webbed to the tree and sliced it in two. Jane and Melissa dropped head first to the floor. Jane made sure Melissa's head took the brunt of the weight, smashing it to pieces on impact. Because of the symbiotic enhancement she was conscious the entire time.

Jane was covered in Meslissa's blood. There was still blood dripping from the foot suspended in the air above her. She could taste the saltiness of Melissa on her tongue. She stood up slowly, looking almost drunk with the way she did so. She looked down to her black clawed hand, it had bits of brain on it and was almost completely red with blood. She put the whole thing in her mouth, the giant tongue ran in between her fingers and over her hand to lick it all up. Her knees started to buckle as she started moaning. She took the hand out of her mouth and began screaming.

"Oh yes, oh, mmmm," she landed on her back on top of Melissa's corpse. Jane's bucking on top of her started to splash blood everywhere which only seemed to increase what was happening. The alien and the woman were now truly together.