I know I'm swamped with other stories, but I had Villainous on the brain, and it wouldn't leave my mind for awhile.

I originally wanted to do an original superhero, or the ghost rider, but it wasn't turning out the way I had planned, and I went with an original character who's bonded with a certain symbiotic alien when one of my viewers ( DeathKip12 )brought it up, and I thought it was genius. But I was still on the fence. Then GabrielHerndon fully convinced me to take the opportunity, since he pointed out that no one else has done one like this yet (to my knowledge at least).

You can already guess who this is from the title, and story description.

This is also rated mature because of blood, gore, and strong language.

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Atreno City, Midnight...

In the city where the sun always shines, a woman can be seen walking along the moonlight covered sidewalk while carrying plastic bags.

The woman has pale white skin, white irises, light grey sclera, a light grey lab coat jacket that even covers her neck, black full arm length gloves, black pointed shoes, black eye shadow, black lips, and long translucent black hair that looked like it was made of a shadow and that you can see her scalp.

This is former Doctor Penelope Numan Braxton, or more commonly known these days as Penumbra.

Due a condition known as Numbra Disorder, she can't be in direct sunlight or she'll be burned alive.

Anyways, she's out late at night because she's running some last minute errands. Penumbra would've done these errands earlier, but she didn't want to run the risk of running into Atreno City's so called superhero, Sunblast.

She absolutely hates him! He doesn't care about people with Numbra Disorder, and doesn't even take her to jail because he likes fighting her.

Real asshole, right?

Currently, Penumbra is carrying bags of groceries, and whatever she needs for her experiments. Despite the fact that it's the concrete jungle, she can hear crickets, and the sound of an Owl hooting. Which is rare in this city.

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Hoooooo! Hoo-hoo-hoooooo!

As she walked past an alley, she's suddenly grabbed from behind, and pulled into said alley. She tried to scream in protest, but whoever grabbed her had also covered her mouth.

She dropped her bags as she began to struggle in the grip of her assailant.

"What the hell?! GET OFF OF ME!!!" She screamed angrily.

Penumbra was just about to use her hair to attack them, but she froze when she felt a cold metal barrel press against her forehead, and her assailant spoke.

"You so much as continue to scream, or even move that shadow hair of yours, and I'll give you lead poisoning." The thug growled.

Penumbra did what he said, and didn't scream or use her hair. But that didn't stop her from being afraid.

Two more thugs appeared from the shadows of the alleyway, and into the moonlight.

Penumbra couldn't see their faces because they're wearing ski masks. They even wore the same dark brown jackets, and white shirts.

They looked like stereotypical robbers.

"Well well well, look at who we caught." One of the thugs spoke.

Penumbra assumed this one is the leader because he seems to be the biggest.

The one next to him was slimmer than him.

"I think we caught ourselves the numbra queen herself, boys. Nice work, Chubs." He continued, speaking to the heavy set thug who's holding a gun to Penumbra's head.

"It was easy, Lug. All it takes is a little gun, and they quiver like a leaf in the wind." The thug, now known as Chubs, said.

"You numbras are always easy pickings, no matter what time of day. Ain't that right, Lank?" The big thug, Lug, said.

"Damn right, Lug." The slim thug, Lank, said.

"Now here's what's gonna happen; you'll cough up whatever dough or valuables you have on you, and we'll be on our marry way. However, be difficult, and we just might have a little fun with you." Lug chuckled darkly at the last bit.

It didn't take a genius to know what he meant by fun.

"P-Please, no." Penumbra begged.

"Oh? Is that the sound of someone being difficult?" Lank asked mockingly.

"I think it is. Do you think so, Lug?" Chubs asked with the same mocking tone.

"I think it is." Lug said as he began to approach her.

Penumbra began to freak out in Chubs's grip.

"No! No! Please! Leave me alone!" Penumbra screamed.

"Hey! What did I say about-"

*WHACK!*

*SLAM!*

Chubs didn't get to finish his sentence, because his gun got knocked out of his hand by a fist full of shadow hair, and a fist full of shadow hair to the face.

"Oh you bitch!" Chubs exclaimed angrily.

Penumbra immediately got up to run, but she didn't get far when she she's suddenly tackled to the ground by Lug.

He then presses a dagger to her throat, making her freeze again.

"Should've made this easy when you had the chance!" Lug growled angrily.

Suddenly, a black substance grabs the dagger, and yanks it away from him towards the rooftops of the buildings.

"What the-?! What the hell?!" He exclaims in disbelief, and anger.

Suddenly, a black substance splats against his chest, and it looked like a black spiderweb.

Within the next second, Lug is suddenly yanked away towards the top of a rooftop.

Lank and Chubs could only look on in worry, and confusion, as this happened. Their worry turned into horror when they heard what's happening on the roof.

"What the hell are you?! Wait. Wait! NO! NO-"

Lug's voice is suddenly silenced by the sound of bones crushing, and flesh being torn. It sounded like something was eating him.

The sounds practically made everyone's stomachs churn like they were having food poisoning, and are about to vomit.

Suddenly, Lug's body had been tossed onto the floor of the alleyway, and they can see that Lug's head is missing! It's like a shark bit down, and tore his head off from the top of his chest!

Penumbra, and the two thugs, screamed in horror at the sight of the bleeding headless corpse. Chubs even bent over to throw up from the horrendous sight.

"Oh my GOD! What the fuck just happened?! What did that?!"

The next thing they knew, something from the rooftops had leaped down into the shadows of the alleyway, and landed with a loud heavy thud that cracked the ground underneath.

They all could hear a deep growling coming from the shadow alleyway. Then heavy footsteps are heard as whatever or whoever this is began to approach them.

Once it walked into the moonlight, they can now see who, or what, it is that ate Lug's head.

Illuminated in the moonlight is an oily black colored humanoid masculine being that stands at seven feet, and six inches tall. It also has a white spider emblem on the chest, with the spider legs going around to its back, and it also has a white square on top of each hand. Each finger on its hands ended in a pointed claw. The humanoid's feet look like they're actually just spandex shoes. However, one look at its face would say otherwise. The eyes are white with no pupils, and are in a curved teardrop shape with points on both ends. The mouth seemed to be in a sinister smile while permanently baring its many sharp teeth, and licked its teeth with a long pointed tongue.

"What... the fuck... is that?" Chubs asked fearfully.

Chubs is suddenly grabbed by the creature's arm, which morphed into a tendril, and is thrown behind the beast.

The large black clad humanoid then grabbed Lank by the throat, and held them up close to their face.

The beastly humanoid then spoke in a deep growling masculine voice that gave everyone chills.

"Eyes... lungs... pancreas... so many snacks, so little time." The monster spoke, then licking the man's face with his long tongue.

Not only was the man terrified, he also recoiled in disgust from feeling this thing actually taste him.

His terror increased tenfold when the creature opened his sharp toothed maw so wide that the thug saw the inside of the mouth, and he began to panic within the monster's grip.

"No! NO! NOOOOOO-!"

*BANG!*

A gunshot to the creature's back had suddenly stopped it from eating him. The beast turned his head around to see that the second thug, Chubs, had shot it with his pistol, and tried again in the chest of the beast, but it had no effect. The supposed wound just regenerated with ease, like nothing happened.

"So, you'll be next to die." The creature spoke, then tossing the thug he had in his right hand, and the thug landed roughly behind the thug with the gun.

It distracted him for a second, the next second was when chubs looked back to see a sharp toothed maw clamp down onto his head, and instantly killing him.

He screamed, and was soon silenced in a near instant. The beast had just bit Chubs' head off in a mere sickening second, and discarded his body to the side.

The monster then marched over to Lank, who began to crawl backwards as he screamed in terror. He's soon silenced when the beast grabbed him once again, and brought him to his face.

"Hmmmm... change of plans for you. Congratulations! You get to live after all." The beast spoke.

The beast then hung Lank upside down, and shot black spider webbing from the wrist of his left hand while having his middle finger curled back. It made it look like a 'rock out' gesture but with the thumb pointing out.

A/n: For those that know about Spider-Man's hand gesture when he shoots webs, you know what I'm talking about.

The beast webbed his legs together, and webbed his arms above his head.

The beast then grabbed Lanks bound hands, held him against a wall, and webbed him to it by his arms and body.

Lank then finally found his voice, even though he's still terrified.

"What the hell are you?" He asked fearfully.

The beast got close to his face, and he answered his question.

"We... are Venom... the lethal protector. Now let's make something clear. You come here again, in fact you go anywhere preying on the innocent, and we will find you. Then eat both of your arms, then both of your legs, and we'll eat your face right off your head. Do you understand?" He demanded.

"N-No, plea-"

"Yes! Then you'll be this armless, legless, faceless thing wouldn't you? Rolling down the street, like a turd... in the wind." The creature grinned.

Lank remained silent as he began to hyperventilate.

"So watch your back... otherwise."

He then made Lank flinch with a high pitched yelp as he chomped on the air in front of him for emphasis on what he's implying to do to him.

The beast then whipped his head towards a horrified Penumbra, who's shaking in sheer terror, and has become too scared to move.

"You're still here?" The beast asked in confusion, arching a brow.

Penumbra didn't respond.

"Oh, where are our manners." The beast said.

A tendril formed from his back, and grabbed the bags that Penumbra dropped, then giving them back to her. Much to Penumbra's shock.

"We believe these belong to you." He said, the tendril retracting into his back.

He still sounded scary, but his tone sounded more gentle then previously.

"We bid you farewell, Penelope." The beast said, turning around with his back facing her.

"Wait!"

"Hm?"

"How do you know my name?"

The beast smiled, which creeped her out, and answered.

"We have our sources. Goodnight."

With that said, the beast leaped onto the wall of the building, and leaped over the rooftops wall, then disappeared.