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Eddie has been trying so hard to concentrate himself in his life, his works for the Daily Bulge and the remains of his mental sanity, but the whines of them are too much to handle, they're so fucking annoying when they wanna be. 

"Tater tots" 

"NO, EELS"

"Fuck off! Burgers"

Three bastards in his mind argued about the dinner of that day. It's been so hard these last two months with the incluson of a new mouth to feed. 

Luckly Eddie got himself out of all the Cletus Kasady's incident with the help of Anne and her lawyer superpowers, but now he had to deal with not just one, nor two, but three symbiotes with three different personalities. 

The first one just wanted to be with him, play the hero game and do whatever he and his host wanted. 

The second one reminded him what a looser he was, how he and his species are superior and are going to eat this whole planet, eventually. 

The last one only though of death as an art expresion and as a fun way to kill time, he always used the phrase "we'd kill two birds with one shot". 

It was hard to keep them in line, Eddie developed a care and love for them but it wasn't enough when they're hungry, and when they are they can become a living hell with whines, threats and growls. 

"We had tots yesterday, we should have lots of burgers today"

"SHUT UP YOUNG MAGGOT, WE GETTING EELS AND SHRIMPS"

"We will never understand your fascination towards those fishes"

"I'M NOT IN THE NEED FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND" growled the silvered symbiote deep under Eddie's lungs. 

— Guys guys please don't fight. Venom, you had tots yesterday, and Carnage, we had burgers the day before yesterday, it's Riot's turn — Eddie got hit by a feeling of disappointment mixed with victory through their shared bond, making him shrugging and shutting his eyes close. 

"You won this time but tomorrow its my turn" groaned the defeated red one tangled arround Eddie's guts. 

— Noup, tomorrow is my turn, you three chose what you wanted this week, it is only fair for me to have a day as well — said Eddie while saving the script of his most recent work, something ridiculous about a giant scorpion shadow terrorizing the southeast of San Francisco.  

"I agree, but only if it doesn't has spinach" rumbled Venom nested arround Eddie's heart, his favorite place. 

— It doesn't... Tho it does have brocoli — Eddie shrugged putting on his jacket, grabbing his wallet and both home and bike keys. 

"Ugh, brocoli"

"Ugh, brocoli"

"UGH, BROCOLI"

All three wined at the same time, putting a smile on Eddie's face. 

It was incredible how they survived and ended up in Brock's body. First, pieces of Riot stayed with Venom even after getting separated by the screeching noise and thought technically Riot died at the rocket explosion, his matter grew strong along with Venom's, bringing him back to life. 

With Carnage was way simpler , Venom couldn't completely destroy him when he tried to eat him, instead, Carnage survived. 

Both Carnage and Riot are bonded -more like chained- to Venom, none of the three can escape from the other. They could merge and become one symbiote but none of them want to give their selves up by making a discusting amalgame of black, silver and red goo. 

The sea market at the west of San Francisco had everything Riot wanted, he became a fan of sea food when he was in Malasia and being here triggered excitement on him, which Eddie and the others could easily feel even if Riot denied it. 

— Only eels and shrimps? — asked Eddie walking calmly through stalls full of various kinds of fish and sea animals. 

"Crab"

"Tuna"

Said at the same time Carnage and Venom. 

— Al'right then — Eddie walked to meet the same guys who sells him the goods, Eddie had meet him durning a reportage he did about the morals of sacrificing the fishes and the techniques used to give them the most human death posible. All that when he still had his TV show and a great salary — I'm gonna have to declare myself in bankrupt one of this days because of you three — 

"You could save money if you feed us brains" snarled back Carnage. 

"He's right Eddie, feed us brains" echoed Venom. They both started to sing in sync "brains brains brains" like little kids trying to convince their father to buy them snacks. 

"LIKE FATHER LIKE SON" if Riot could roll his eyes he would, but Eddie could so he did. 

— Good evening Eddie, the same as always? — greeted an asian/american looking guy. 

— Yeah uh — Eddie tried to gave all his focus on the guy infront of him, ignoring the continuous chants of two annoying symbiotes in his head — also, Josh, I'd like the same quantity for crab meat and tuna, the greasy part please — 

— Working on it — Josh turned and begin to prepare Eddie's order. 

Meanwhile Eddie looked at the docks, so pacific at this hour of the day in comparison on early mornings. Eddie thanked Venom for blocking the strong fish odor but sadly he couldn't smell the sea neither. The sun was setting leaving the oranges and reds paint the sky and waters of the sea, it was all so relaxing. 

"My favorite hour"

"Night is better than sunsets"

"NIGHTS ARE NOTHING WITHOUT THE SILVER MOON"

— Blue days are nice too — tried to add Eddie but the three gave him a straight "No" and continued to discuss if clouded nights were better than starry ones — Assholes — Eddie mumbled. 

Few moments later his order was ready, and when he was searching in his wallet for pay they heard gunshots just behind them. Josh instantly crouched hiding behing the counter. Eddie turned, seeing a group of guys in cheap ganster clothes pointing at the merchants with their hand guns. 

"Y'all own us money! So you better pay us fast or we will start making the example with her!" scram a yourng blonde man dragging an old black lady from her stall, pointing his gun at her head. 

"Not the lady with the tasty clams!" yell Venom, wait, they have never bought anything from her. 

"Great! It's hero time!" joked Carnage, ready to creep out. 

— Not here, we gotta hide first — whispered Eddie walking away, searching a place where his symbiotes could take out. 

"Who cares if somerandom sees us?" Carnage stared to creep out from Eddie's hands until-

"NOT SO FAST RED MAGGOT" yell Riot, being faster than Carnage in enveloping Eddie in his matter, growing in size with silvered muscles with red veins, sharped face full of long fangs replacing Eddie's and daggers growing from his back bending fowards. His size wasn't as big as with Drake but was still imposing. 

The focal point was his chest, red and black tendrils creeped in roots shapes from the very center, some tangled with silver ones and with eachother. 

"Bitch" 

— IT'S MY TURN — growled slowly — YOU SNACKED THE PEDOPHILE LAST WEEK —

"No! that was Venom!" 

"Not true! You liar!" entered now into the discussion Vee. 

"Shut up! You're the more spoiled here! We usually get nothing!" 

— LOOK WHOSE TALKING! BROCK'S NEW PROJECT — 

"Yeah! Since you arrived Eddie's been busy dealing with you!" 

"I did not asked to join in your stupid relation! That was your and Riot's fault for trying to eat me" 

"ENOUGH!" Cried out loud Eddie through their bond making Riot's matter tremble for a pair of seconds "You three parasites forgot that there's innocent people in danger! We gotta move on! We'll discuss this at home but for now, let's focus!" 

The three symbiotes growled in discomfort, having to stop their ridiculous fight, for now. 

— ALLRIGHT, LET'S GET GOING — Riot walked back, hiding behind stall's curtains, preying on the bad guys in turn. 

"Ten" adverted Carnage. 

"Take down first the one holding the hostage" advised Venom. 

"And be faster so the rest won't try to take more hostages" echoed Eddie. 

— I GOT IT, I KNOW WHAT TO DO —

— No more people is paying their debt? Money worths more than the life of this woman? — said woman was now on her knees, holding back tears, begging for her life to be spared — What eager and selfish workmates you have — the man looked at her with pity eyes, but he was more than ready to shoot except that he couldn't, his hand loosened it's grip letting the gun fall. 

The women had spats of blood on her face though it wasn't hers, it was from the blonde guy's arm. A silvered dagger, now painted in red, was sticked in his inner arm. 

It is when Riot jumped out his hideout, just infront of the blonde guy. His smile widened before opening his mouth and leaning fowards to tear the guy's head from his body, swallowing it without too much munching; that's just how hungry he was. 

— BEN! — the now dead guy's friends looked in horror the monster at their eyes, some of them opened fire against him while some others preferred to save their lifes by runing away. Bullets did nothing but tickles on Riot's mater. He went easy on the rest of the guys, just hitting them as hard as they could handle before passing out. 

"They're Escaping!" screamed Carnage. Red roots with some black veins grew from Riot's chest, now being this color the one enveloping Eddie, pushing Riot back inside. His look was almost the same as when he firstly made apparence at St. Quentin's prison using Cletus as host, only that this time he was slightly wider and of course the roots on his chest, black and silvered ones, tangled with his and eachother. 

"HEY!" wined Riot. 

— You're too slow! You would never catch them — excused Carnage runing on all his four, tentacles growing out his back. To be honest he's right, Riot is the slowest of the three of them but come on, they're stopping simple humans, Riot is faster in their comparison. 

— S-Stay back! — cried one of the guys before the dagger on Carnage's tentacle went through his stomach, dragging him closer to eat him, or at least his head for later throw his remains to the ocean. 

"What did we said about killing?!" yell Eddie. 

— Owgh- Riot can eat somerandom's head but I can not? — spat Carnage annoyed. 

"... No more killing!" averted Eddie. 

— Yeah whatever! — Carnage continued hunting the ones who escaped, restraining their movement with his own matter or grabing them by their legs with his tendrils and smashing them agains the floor with enough force to maybe fracture some bones... Or maybe totally breaking their spines, he can't measure his strength yet but he wasn't killing -"These guys were still breathing!"- he pretext. 

One guy left, hidden behind containers at the loading dock. Carnage knew exactly where he was by hearing his quick heart beats, but he played dumb. 

— You can run but you can not hide — chanted slowly, making the terror build up before catching him. Carnage walked between the containers, scratching them with his long pointy fingers. 

All the screeching sounds faded away, the man, leaned against the metalic walls with a shotgun in hands, sighed in false security, he moved slowly to check if the monster already gave up. He saw him nowhere arround. 

— We've found you — he heard just above him. When he lifted his head he saw Carnage, atop of the container looking at him like if he was a puny annoyance. The man didn't hesitated and pointed with his shotgun and shoot, failing on hit him twice — Ha! Even Venom has better aim than you — that's what he thought until he heard cables breaking just above him, when Carnage looked up a container was already falling on himself. The man used this chance to sprint away back to the stalls. 

In mater of seconds he lifted his hands trying to stop it, but it was heavy, really heavy for him, it was crushing them. Carnage was panicking and his others could feel him. It is when the black roots on Carnage chest grew, replacing the red for black with grey veins; Venom was the bigger of the three and so the strongest, showed by his muscled arms. Again roots were on his chest, now in red and silvered colors. 

Venom could lift and hold the container few moments before throwing it just infront of him. Breathing heavily but with enough energy to leap towards that guy, falling just behind him but too close for Venom to hold his neck and make him turn. 

— You almost crush us! We should crush you! — snarled at his face. Venom was ready to snap out his stupid face, opening his jaw when he saw the people at the stalls, as much terrified as the guy at his hand. 

Venom didn't wanted to be seen as the bogey man that will end your life if you misbehave. He actually wanted to be the hero, Eddie too, even if the other symbiotes didn't cared about how the people saw them. 

Venom closed his jaw, giving a quick glance at the guy before throwing him at the sea, taking a better choice. 

Too bad Venom didn't knew the man never learned how to swim.

He walked through the stalls, in slow pace to where their fish order was. He grabbed the bag and left the money on the counter. 

Josh, still hidden behind the counter, saw him and something clicked in his head. 

— T-Thanks, please come back whenever you want — said Josh with trembling voice. 

— Thank you, we will — answered Venom before climbing up the metal structures holding up the carpet giving shade, swinging with his tentacles once in the upper part back to the city. 

— I'm so proud of the three of you. But! Riot, you need to pull back more your punches. Carnage, moderate your force, just because they're breathing doesn't mean they will for the next hour and Venom you did great — they were back at home, Eddie preparing the sea food with a new recipe he and Riot saw the other day while watching videos, including lots of lemon juice, spices, tomatoes, onion and celery. Riot helped squeezing the lemons with a tendril while Eddie cutted the rest of the ingredients. 

— PULLING MY PUNCHES EVEN MORE?! — 

— Moderate my force?! — 

— I did great?! —

Three heads floated just at Eddie's sides connected to his back from the same point. Riot and Carnage looking ofended while Venom was actually happy for doing a good job. Carnage floated a little farther than the rest. 

— Yes to all, but we can work to be better, today was unexpected and we weren't prepared but that's how life is — he rinsed his hands at the sink before tuning to his left to see Carnage, Riot and Venom imitating Eddie— You're ok? —

— Yeah! I am ok! Why I would not? — answered a little defensively, turning his head aside so they wouldn't see his face. 

— Don't be stupid, we felt you panicking! — snapped back Venom. Carnage just completely turned his head giving them his back... Of his head? — Not just for your own safety but for the four of us —

— Does that even matters? We're okay! you played the hero anyways! —

— IT DOES STILL MATTERS, WE CAN NOT WORK THIS OUT IF YOU DO NOT SHARE THIS KIND OF THINGS WITH US. IT IS THE SAME THING WE HAVE BEEN TELLING YOU SINCE YOU JOINED US — now continued Riot floating closer to Carnage. 

— And you like it or not you're stucked with us — ended Eddie raising a hand to stroke Carnage's matter that connected to him, making the red alien turn, his smirk was small and his eyes narrowed — you want to talk about it? — Eddie gave him the most sweetest and patient look he could. 

Carnage hesitated —... After eating — he floated close to his others. 

— Allright, just let me finish and we're ready to go — stroke one las time Carnage's head to later focus on finishing dinner. 

Half hour later they were eating at the sofa, watching a movie about a man son of the hell who is friend of a fish, the boyfriend of a girl on fire and an annoyance for a young agent. 

— IF WE WERE SOMEONE FROM THAT MOVIE, EDDIE WOULD BE THE AGENT BECAUSE THEY ARE PUNY LITTLE MEN — Carnage and Venom agreed growling their "yes" and "you're right". 

— Well thank you — said sarcastically Eddie rolling his eyes while eating some of the shrimps from Riot's plate. 

— I would surely be the demon — continued Carnage. 

— Because of the red? — asked Eddie. 

— And because we're both cool — 

— Surely you are — Eddie petted Carnage's head again and he could swear he felt him vibrating. 

— I WOULD BE THE FISH ONE — yell Riot. 

— Of course you would! You have a thing for fishes! But unlike you I would be the lady, I want to know how it feels to burn without dying — Venom gave Riot a stare, referencing the day he almost died at that explosion. 

— UNLIKE YOU I DIED — spat back — YOU BURNED BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO SAVE AND LIVE WITH OUR PATETIC HUMAN — 

— Yeah, sadly you survived! — 

— Can you imagine? — interrupted Eddie — a world where Riot and Carnage actually died and there's only Venom and me — 

— What a borring world, dealing with the stupidest of us three — Carnage stoped, thinking his next words while a "Hey" came from Venom — you wish that to had happened? — he leaned close to Eddie, with a worrying tone on his voice. 

— What? No — Eddie said immediately — I'm glad you survived. I can give you a second chance, specially you Carnage, your first host wasn't what we would like you to have — 

That just filled his heart with a warm feeling, coming from his others. 

— We love you too, Eddie. But I love you more! — bragged Venom, starting another silly fight about who loved Eddie the most. 

Three symbiotes snarling at eachother is Eddie's everyday bread but it was ok, they were together, doing better. 

— I love Eddie more than you two elder shits! — 

Or at least trying. 

Eddie just let them be, focusing on the movie, they joined him when finishing their discussion, enjoying it until the end of their meal. 

— HEY, EDDIE — broke the silence Riot. 

— Yeah? — 

— We have decided, the blue sky is the best sky — continued Carnage. 

— And why is that so? — 

— Because your eyes are as blue as the sky at day time — ended Venom. 

Eddie couldn't answer anymore, he was just happy, so happy he could hug them, and that's what they did, they build the upper part of their bodies to hug their human. 

Their Eddie.