A/N: Just when you think the Venom craze has ended, you realize that it has only just begun.
In all honesty, I've found it incredibly difficult to get my InFamous/Rosario Vampire crossover off the ground again. I haven't given up on it, but the idea of putting it up for adoption has crossed my mind more than once. I don't want to see it either die or gather dust since it's been shelved for the last couple years. Though the decision is still in the air at the moment.
For right now, given that there are more and more original Venom crossover ideas being made every week, I figured I would add one more to the mix before focusing on everything else. It's best to get original ideas out there while you have the chance and they're still fresh. And this little gem has been bouncing around in my head before the Venom movie was released. Having it out there now has given me more incentive to post it while I have a chance.
So sit back, and tell me what you think.
X
The street was pitch black, save for the lone street light that shined down on the bench where a young man could be seen sitting. Given the late hour, he stood out quite a bit since he was dressed in torn jeans, converse shoes and a black t-shirt that hid a decent amount of muscle on his six-foot frame.
His short, messy black hair shined with a hint of red from the light reflecting off it, and his blue eyes stared out into the shadows across the street in front of him. His face angular and defined, no trace of baby fat making him almost look older than his actual age of 16.
Elbows resting on his knees, hands held together under his chin as he was lost in his own thoughts.
He wasn't running away from anywhere, despite the duffel bag sitting on the bench beside him, it was the opposite actually. He was being sent somewhere. Some private school his parents had heard about and said would be good for him given his unusual...situation.
A situation...that was a mild take on what his life had become. Hell, eight months ago the only thing he was worried about was getting good grades, dating and figuring out his future. Now? Now things were different.
"Can we get something to eat? Waiting is boring." a dark, demonic voice echoed from the back of his mind.
"We ate dinner not even an hour ago, how are you still hungry?" the teen asked the voice out loud.
"Did you forget how much we require to sustain ourselves?" asked the voice.
"I don't need to be reminded of how much you can eat. Christ, our food budget at home has almost tripled since you and I bonded."
"I don't ask for much."
"So says the thing that can eat a thanksgiving feast in one sitting by himself."
"It was just that one time!"
"We've been banned from two grocery stores, three Seven-Elevens and a hotdog stand! We almost got arrested too!"
"They wouldn't have caught us. Stop being a pussy."
"Smartass parasite." the teen muttered
"PARASITE?!" the voice bellowed in outrage. "Apologize!"
"Hell no!"
"APOLOGIZE!"
"Eat me!"
His hand was encased in black, rippling flesh that came up and slapped him across the face. The teen pinned the hand down only for a black tendril to come out of his back and smack him in the back of th head.
"Don't make me listen to country music again!" he threatened, causing his possessed limb and the tendril to freeze at his words.
"...You wouldn't dare..." the voice spoke hesitantly. "You're bluffing!"
"Try me." There was silence for several long seconds before the strange black flesh slithered back into his body. "That's what I thought." The teen sat back again and resumed waiting. Another tendril slithered out of his back and came around to his front, the end shifting and turning into a face with a pair of white pseudo eyes that had a soft reflection in them and a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth.
"What is the name of this place again?" asked the head.
The teen dug out the pamphlet his mom had given to him. "Yokai Academy. Looks like a nice place." he said while the creature looked over his shoulder at the information. "Sounds Japanese though."
"Looks a bit different than the school you used to attend. And what does it mean by 'Boarding School'?"
"It means a school that has dorms where the students live on campus." the teen explained.
"So, we will be alone, with females all around us?" asked he head with a perverted grin.
"Don't start with that. Seriously. Or do I need to remind you of why I need to go to this new school in the first place?"
The sound of a diesel engine caught their attention. The head slithered back into the teen's body as a regular yellow school bus pull up from the darkness and stop in front of him.
The doors opened to reveal the bus driver in a blue uniform behind the wheel. Glowing eyes hidden beneath hit hat as he smoked a cigar. "You Brock?" he asked with a gravely voice, a plume of smoke expelling from his lips.
"Yup." said the teen stepping on to the bus and taking a seat without another word.
"I hope you know what your getting yourself into kid. Yokai Academy is a pretty rough place." said the driver as he closed the door started driving down the street.
"After everything I've seen and done, I doubt that." he said as he watched everything outside blur by.
The driver grinned widely as his eyes glowed a little brighter, "If only you knew kid." he mumbled.
As the bus got farther away from the stop, the teen laid his head against the cool glass as he was taken to his destination. His 'other' settling down for what would most likely be a long trip, eyes closing as he drifted to sleep.
X
Edward Brock Jr., the son of Eddie Brock and Anne Weying, at one point had a pretty good life. His father worked in journalism, while his mother was an attorney, both of them making good money and providing all three of them with a stable home in San Francisco.
That was until a series of events happened eight months ago that changed everything.
When he had gotten home from school, he found his parents in the middle of a massive argument. Staying out of sight, he listened in and discovered that his dad had gone to the Life Foundation, a multi-billion dollar genetics company invested in the betterment of mankind, to interview their CEO, Carlton Drake.
However, Eddie Sr. had gone through Anne's private files and discovered that she was building a lawsuit against the company and used what he had found to try an implicate Drake in a series of illicit and illegal activities not known by the public.
The backlash from his father's actions had cost both him and his mother their jobs, which in turn sent their relationship into a downward spiral. Eddie Jr. could only stand on the sidelines and watch as his family fell apart at the seams. His parents were finally planning on tying the knot when all this happened.
After a solid month of fighting...his parents split up.
The younger Brock ended up staying with his mother while his dad got himself a small apartment in the city as they tried to figure things out. But for the teenager, his life was crumbling. Part of him hated and blamed his father for causing everything and barely spoke to him as a result as the months went by. His mother had started dating some doctor she had been friends with for along time, but he knew that she was just trying to fill the void given she still loved his dad despite everything.
After a while things started to settle into a somewhat normal calm. Then, one night, his dad called him asking for help.
While he was at a small market, Eddie Sr. encountered a scientist that worked for the Life Foundation who knew about what Drake was doing behind the scenes and had gone to their labs to get evidence and prove that he had been right and put the company down.
Eddie didn't know what had happened, but when his father called asking for him to help he felt compelled to see if everything was alright. Anger at what he had done to their family aside, he still cared about him a great deal.
When he had gotten to his dad's place, he found the older Brock bedridden looking pale with a high fever. Being sure to tell his mother where he was and what he was doing while the teen tended to his sick father. Considering taking him to the hospital because no matter how he tried he just couldn't help improve his father's condition
What he had failed to realize at first was, on the first night when he crashed on the couch, whatever had been 'infecting' his dad had chosen that moment to leave him. Slithering through the apartment and going to what it had discovered was a better, healthier host.
It was then, and in the days that followed, that the young Brock's life changed. When he discovered that not only was their life outside their planet, but one had taken residence beneath his own skin. When he found himself hunted by the same corporation his father intended to bury...
When he met the symbiotic lifeform known only as Venom.
And a very strange, and powerful partnership had been born.
X
"Eddie. Wake up!"
Eddie groaned, cracking his eyes open as sunlight shined through the window he was leaning against. A dull ache in his neck telling him that he shouldn't have slept at an odd angle and would be regretting it later.
Yawning and blinking away the grogginess, he looked out the window and saw that the environment outside was very different from what he saw before falling asleep. Long gone were the high buildings and busy streets of San Francisco, in its place was a barren landscape complete with dead, blackened trees.
Turning his head and looking out the other side of the bus, he saw a small cliff a couple meters from the road that dropped down to what could only be described as a red ocean, more than likely contributed by the red sun hovering in the sky above.
"Where the hell are we?" Eddie thought as he tried to figure out just that.
"I don't know. The driver went down a long tunnel after we left the city, and suddenly we were here." replied Venom just as confused as his host was.
After several more minutes, the bus pulled to a stop beside a sign. The driver looking over his shoulder at his lone passenger. "We're here. This is where you get off."
Looking back out into the landscape outside, Eddie was skeptical. "You sure you didn't take a wrong turn, old timer? This doesn't look like a school."
"It's up the pathway ahead, through the forest." replied the driver while puffing on his cigar. "Better watch your step out there, it can be a little hazardous for newcomers."
"He obviously doesn't know us that well." said Venom as the host picked up his bag and stepped off the bus next to a scarecrow with a jack o lantern for a head with a sign that read 'Yokai Academy' with a bus schedule beneath it.
The bus doors closed, the driver gave a nod to the teen before driving back down the tunnel of which they had come through earlier. Eddie turned his attention to the path ahead of him, which lead through the forest and up to a castle-like building in the distance.
"Must be the school...could do with better scenery." the symbiote snorted in agreement as they started making their way forward.
The sights didn't seem to improve the farther along he traveled. Aside from trees, complete with crows and bats, there had also been an old graveyard that branched off the pathway.
"Either the people here really love Halloween, or it's a warning." Eddie said as he looked over the dozens of headstones.
"The finals here must be murder." the symbiote commented with a good laugh at its own joke. Eddie couldn't help but crack a smile as well, shaking his head before continuing his journey. Pausing when his ears picked up something coming his way.
A hundred different ideas of what it could be crossed his mind. But none of them were the bicycle that came flying out of the trees straight toward him.
Time slowed to a crawl as Eddie lept into the air, flipping over the bike with super-human reflexes and dexterity before landing on the ground behind it as the rider crashed into the ground and getting thrown off in the process off. He spun around and stopped, eyes wide and mouth agape.
The person on the ground, was by far the prettiest girl he had ever seen. Long, pink hair that reached her waist, a beautiful heart shaped face with bright emerald-green eyes. Long, pale, slender legs that disappeared under the short skirt she wore. And a chest that was barely contained in the white blouse she wore under a green uniform jacket.
"Well...the view certainly looks better now." Venom commented, knocking his host from his daze.
"Ouch." She whimpered rubbing her behind after landing as hard as she did.
"Are you okay?" asked Eddie, kneeling down and holding his hand out and helping her to her feet.
"I think so. Sorry if I startled you. I have anemia, and it can make me a little dizzy from time to time." she said with a light blush that made her look even cuter.
"It's all good. As long as you're okay." the host said smiling.
The girl smiled back, "My name is Moka Akashiya." she introduced.
"Eddie Brock Jr. I take it you go to Yokai Academy too?" he asked.
Moka nodded, "Yes, it's my first year here..." she trailed off suddenly, her eyes seeming to glaze over. Inhaling air deeply through her nose as though she were smelling something good. Eddie tilted his head in confusion as she drew closer, almost putting her nose to the side of his neck and smelling deeply again.
Though a part of him didn't mind having such a pretty girl this far into his personal space, something in the back of his mind tingled the closer she got.
"What the hell is she-?"
"I'm sorry...I can't help it." Moka mumbled, cutting off his thoughts. She gently gripped his shoulders as she drew closer to his neck again. "It's just that...I'm a vampire." Eddie felt two small pricks in his skin where his neck and shoulder connected and knew right away that she had just bitten him.
Eddie froze, stunned to his core that this was happening. Even Venom was shocked. Normally he would have torn apart anything that tried to harm his host, even more so when he felt a very small amount of blood being sucked from where the pinkette had bitten Eddie.
But the symbiote didn't detect a threat from the girl despite the obvious, infact both he and his host felt a rush of endorphins flooding their system from the contact alone that overshadowed the very slight pinch of pain.
Just as quickly as it had happened, the girl released her hold on Eddie. Leaning back with a blissful smile on her face. "Hmmm, so yummy..." she almost purred in what could have been described as a drunken stupor.
Another blush creeped on the host's face. "Uhh...thanks?" he said scratching the back of his head not knowing what else to say. Checking the area of the bite and not even seeing a drop of blood, just a minor hickey that disappeared quickly.
In the next instant, Moka's eyes returned to normal and she gasped. "I'm so sorry! I didn't know what came over me!" she exclaimed, covering her face in embarrassment.
Eddie chuckled and held his hands up, "Relax Moka, it wasn't that big of a deal."
The young vampire calmed down a little, "Really?" she asked unsure.
He shrugged, "There are far worse things than a pretty girl sucking on my neck." he said with a wink. Moka's face turned the same color as her hair before the host spoke again. "Come on, we're gonna be late if we don't hurry." he said as they retrieved her bike and began walking toward the school together.
After being silent for a few minutes, Moka spoke up in a timid voice, "E-Eddie? Do you...hate vampires?"
Eddie thought about it, "Honestly? I've never met one in person, so I really can't judge." he looked her way, "Though, if they're as kind and pretty as you are, I doubt they're all that bad." The pinkette blushed again and smiled at him as they continued the rest of their journey.
"Good for you, Casanova." Venom said with a grin in his tone.
"Appreciate the help back there." Eddie thought back sarcastically.
"Don't tell me you didn't enjoy it. I feel everything you do, remember? And besides, it's like you said, there are worse things than a pretty girl sucking on our neck."
The teen looked at the girl walking beside him and for a moment was lost while drinking in her beauty again. "I guess things here won't be so bad." he thought. His other grinning in agreement.
X
Orientation for new students went by rather quickly, afterward the students were told where their dorms would be and were assigned their rooms for the year.
Eddie was actually impressed with his new living space. The main room was a combination living room, bedroom, and kitchenette with a bathroom with a shower branching off. It was perfect for one person...or two in his case.
After dropping off his things, deciding to put them away later, he looked over the school uniform that had been assigned to each student.
"Okay, boarding school is a little less cool now." he muttered at the green and white outfit.
"I could shred it." Venom offered.
Eddie sighed, "Tempting, but apparently I gotta follow at least some of the dress code. They can kiss my ass about the tie though." he changed into the uniform, rolling the sleeves up to his elbows and tossing all the ties into the garbage.
Now dressed, he made his way back to the main campus of the academy and followed the directions he'd been given during orientation that would take him to homeroom. Finding a seat in the middle row closest to the window while he waited for class to start.
The teacher walked in, and Eddie couldn't help but consider her a bombshell. She stood at about 5'9'' with blonde hair in two tufts sticking up like cat's ears and a very perky and happy expression on her face. But the most noticeable thing that the young host could find was a long cat tail coming out from under her knee length skirt.
"Hello! And welcome to Yokai Academy everybody!" she said cheerfully. "My name is Miss Nekonome, and I'll be your homeroom teacher this year!"
The teacher had a powerful aura of kindness and cheer that seemed to be infectious. Even Venom found it hard pressed to feel anything but happy when she spoke.
"As you all already know, this is a school for monsters. Now, like it or not, humans are the dominant species in the world and we must learn to coexist with them." said Miss Nekonome. "That is the purpose of this school, to help young monsters learn to coexist with the human race."
"Wait a minute...did she just say 'monsters'?" asked Eddie, replying what he had just heard several times in his head.
"It would appear so, which would explain the strange energy I've been feeling in the air since we arrived." said the symbiote, "Not to mention we met a cute vampire earlier and the teacher is a cat girl."
"But teach," one of the students spoke up. "Can't we just eat the Humans? And maybe have a little fun with the girls?" he said with a lecherous grin.
The student that had spoken, which had slicked back blonde hair and had the build of a football player, put his nose into the air and sniffed. Turning a narrowed leer Eddie's way as the host glared right back. A long forked tongue slithered out of the teen's mouth and swished in the air.
"Put the tongue back in your head, douche-nozzle, I don't swing that way." the host said as clear as day making several students in the class widen their eyes. A couple of them fighting off chuckles as the teen's leer turned menacing.
Nekonome saw the signs of a possible conflict and quickly started speaking again. "There is a powerful barrier put around the school to protect it from the human world. And even if a human were to accidentally stumble into the school's grounds...they would be immediately put to death."
Eddie tensed. "Execution? That's way to fucking harsh for a place that suppose to be teaching these guys to blend in with humanity."
"That doesn't really apply to us. You and me together, you're anything but human now." stated Venom.
"True. But we better keep a low profile for now. The last thing we need is to draw too much attention to ourselves."
"This brings us to rule number one here at the academy!" Nekonome continued jovially. "You are not allowed to reveal your true forms to anyone! Not even to your fellow students! We are here to learn about coexistence, so keep your true forms a secret. Next we-" she was cut off when the door to the class opened and someone ran inside.
"I'm so sorry I'm late! I got lost on the way here and couldn't find the room!" The host perked up hearing the familiar voice and saw Moka at the head of the class breathing as though she had just run a 10K.
All the guys in the class who saw her immediately started drooling. Their eyes roaming over the pink haired girl's form as they mumbled praises of how she looked and how much they'd give to be with her.
Miss Nekonome gave her a pass on being late and told her to have a seat anywhere. Moka looked around the room and her green orbs locked on to a familiar pair of blue ones. "Eddie?" she asked, her face lit up with a million-watt smile before she practically flew across the room and tackled the host out of his seat and knocking the wind out of him. "I can't believe we're in the same class together! This is great!" she exclaimed happily.
Eddie chuckled and patted her back, "Yeah, it's pretty cool." he suddenly felt a chill go down his back and looked up to see all the guys in the room sending glares his way. If looks could kill...he would have been dead well over a dozen times by now.
"So much for keeping a low profile."
Venom chuckled, "Low profile's boring anyway. At least now we might get a chance at a little fun!"
X
Class ended a couple hours later. And Moka wasted no time dragging Eddie out of the room to get a better look at the school grounds.
It had been a good thing to. Any longer and holes would have burned into his skull from all the jealous glares he had been receiving. But it didn't last long as even more were sent his way with each person they passed in the halls.
"This is exactly why I hate high school." he thought to himself as the pinkette continued to drag him around. "Jealous morons as far as the eye can see and not a whole lotta brains."
"We could munch on a few? Bring the census down a bit." offered Venom.
Eddie rolled his eyes at his other's comment. "Ease up there Moka. You're gonna tear my arm off if you keep yanking me so hard." he said with a light chuckle at the excited pinkette.
The young vampire slowed down and looked sheepish, "S-Sorry about that. I'm just so excited! This place is so clean and neat! I couldn't even imagine all this."
Eddie shook his head as they continued on. The girl's curious and innocent nature playing on his heartstrings the more they moved. Her delicate, yet very strong, hand gripping his as they walked side by side down the corridor and out into the courtyard.
Walking over to a nearby vending machine and getting a couple of drinks before taking a seat on a stone bench. "So how are you liking the school so far?" Moka asked, taking a sip of her tomato juice.
"No complaints yet, definitely an improvement over my last school." Eddie replied drinking about a third of the energy drink he had bought. He felt Venom become more animated as the caffeine was introduced to their system. "How bout you?" he asked back.
"It's a bit different than where I've been before." replied the pinkette a little timidly. "I was a little worried to come here, if I'm honest. I don't know a lot of people and I wasn't ever really good at making friends."
That comment stumped both Eddie and Venom. "That's a bit unbelievable. With her appearance alone others would flock to her like moths to a flame."
"It would also make others able to use her innocence to take advantage of her." the host thought back.
"Well, we could be friends" Eddie said, making Moka look at him surprised. "I mean, after how we met earlier, a little odd maybe, but that was a good way to break the ice."
The vampiress blinked a could times before smiling happily, "R-Really? You'd be friend's with a vampire?"
"Why not? Neither us know anyone else here, and we seem to get on pretty well." the host found himself wrapped in a firm, but soft hug from the beautiful girl in front of him. Eddie was quickly made aware of Moka's generous curves as he felt most of them pressed into his front.
"Well, well, it would seem you have already found a possible mating partner." said Venom
"Cram it sluggo!" Eddie mentally shouted back, while at the same time trying to contain the sudden blood flow rushing in two different directions.
After a minute of awkwardness from the sudden embrace, the duo continued to talk about random things, Moka giggling at a few random jokes the host threw out as they enjoyed the warm sunny day, and he couldn't help but smile at the sound.
However, it all seemed to come to a sudden stop when a large shadow loomed over them. "Hey there sexy." spoke a deep, yet familiar voice. The two looked up and saw the same large student that had been in class. The same one that talked about eating humans and 'having fun' with women. "You're Moka Akashiya, right?" he asked, his eyes scanning down her ample chest shamelessly. "You're pretty cute."
"Uhh...thank you?" Moka said nervously. Shifting herself a little closer to Eddie in the process. "And you are?"
The guy puffed out his chest. "Saizou Komiya, one of your classmates." he said with plenty of arrogance. "And your future boyfriend."
Eddie snorted causing Saizou to scowl. "Something funny to you punk?"
"Just curious to know if that pick up line actually works. Cause from where I'm sitting, you couldn't pick up an old lady with it." said the host, casually drinking the last of his energy drink. "And the whole 'tough guy' routine you got going? That just makes you come off like you're overcompensating for something."
A large hand came down and grabbed the front of his shirt and hoisted him up off the ground.
"You got some nerve, asshole. You won't be making many jokes when I smear you across the ground!" Saizou growled in his face. The action causing a few other students to watch the events unfolding.
"Let's bite off his head!" Venom exclaimed.
"No! Leave him alone!" Moka pleaded.
Eddie looked back at the bully unfazed. "You better ease off, tiny. Before something bad happens to you." His fist clenching at his side covering in black tissue in preparation.
Saizou laughed, "Or what? You'll laugh me to death?" His laughter stopped when the teen in his grasp suddenly struck him in the face. The enhanced strength behind the hit enough to not only make the bully release his target, but sent him crashing through the stone bench Eddie and Moka had been sitting on.
Back on the ground, the host cracked his neck to the side. "I'm only giving you one chance here. The lady doesn't like what your selling. So step off, or I'll do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the 90's."
"Is that right?" the larger teen said, spitting to the side and standing at his full height.
Moka quickly got between the two, "Sorry! But we're in a hurry! Right Eddie?" she asked him with a pleading expression. The host shot one last glare at Saizou before the young vampire grabbed his hand and quickly lead him away as quickly as she could.
Saizou watched the two disappear back into the school, his gaze narrowing as he grit his teeth. A half-empty can of tomato juice that had been forgotten rolled into his foot. A long, whip-like tongue lashed out and snatched it up.
A loud crunch was heard and the red juice splattered across the ground like blood.
X
A/N: It's a start. But like all my work before it, this story had much potential that I hope to tap into. And unlike most of my stories with pairings, I will confirm right now that this one here IS a harem story. But given the anime series this is crossed over with, it shouldn't be a surprise.
Read, review and let me know what you think folks. And I'll work on an update when I am able.