Persona {Possibly Slow Updates}

14 hours earlier....

Matt watched as Cassandra collapsed.

"Cassandra? CASSANDRA!!!" He yelled, but she didn't respond. "BABE! CAN YOU HEAR ME? CASSANDRA !?!?! CASSANDRA!!!"

Cassandra moaned softly. Matt sighed in relief, thinking she was coming around. But then she screamed long and hard.

"CASSANDRA!!!" He yelled.

Her scream turned into a roar as black goop covered her body. She gritted her teeth together, lurching upwards and breathing heavly, beads of sweat dribbling down her forhead as the black goop covered her face. Matt gasped and stepped back. Instead of his girlfriend Cassandra being there, was a hulking body with a mouth full of white, gleaming fangs in a twisted smile.

It stood up "NRAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!" and roared in his face.

Matt turned white and fainted. The creature ran into the party. People turned and saw it. They screamed and ran, scrambling out of the mansion. It stormed in, bellowing a battle-cry-like noise as it charged. Somebody called the cops and soon they arrived.

"Unidentified creature! You are ordered to cease action! Come out with your hands up!" The chief yelled through his megaphone. What it did, however, was shoot a long web out and swung away, the police stunned. "Somebody better get S.H.E.I.L.D. on the line. We got ourselves a problem."

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"Commander Fury, there's a call coming in for you from The Los Angeles Police Department!" A woman said.

Commander Nick Fury of S.H.E.I.L.D. walked over. "Thank you Terry." He said and pressed a few buttons on a keypad. A screen high above him flickered and the Chief of Police's face appeared on the screen. "What can I do for you?"

"Sir, we have a problem over here. Something we believe is the supervillain Venom is here in L.A."

"Whoah! Hold up! Venom? That's impossible. He's over here in New York City's own Vault."

"Well, from not what we've seen. Take a look."

The screen blinked and replayed the scene where Venom swung off. Nick Fury's eyes widened. "But how can one symbiote be in two places?" He muttered.He turned back to the chief. "We advise you to track it down, capture it and bring it to us. There's something fishy going on here, and S.H.E.I.L.D. needs to know. This could be a serious matter."

"We'll do everything in our power, sir!" The screen flickered off. 

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Carmella Cortez sat on the couch in her home, watching the news quietly. Suddenly, there was a loud "thump!" from her daughter's room. She turned off the Tv and got up. She walked to the staircase.

"Cassandra? Honey is that you?" She called. There was no answer. "Cassandra?..." She walked up the stairs. She approached Cassandra's room. The door was closed. "Cassandra?"

She wrapped her hand around the knob and yanked it open. What she saw made her scream in horror. A beast unlike anything she'd ever seen stood there. It had a hulking black body, weird eye-like things, a long tounge that flung saliva everywhere, and two rows of long, white fangs in a mouth that curled in a freaky smile. It stared at her. Carmella glanced away from it for a moment. It had something in it's hands. Her eyes widened even more so. It was clothes. Cassandra's clothes. Carmella could only assume the worst. She screeched and grabbed a broom and ran into the room.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY DAUGHTER YOU MONSTER?!?!?!?!?!" She shrieked, hitting it with the broom.

It suddenly swayed and toppled, falling to the ground. Carmella froze, lifting up the broom defensively. The black goop coiled away and the body shrank. Carmella dropped the broom and gasped, covering her mouth with her hands as a body was revealed. The monster WAS Cassandra!

"Oh baby!" She whispered.

She couldn't believe it. She'd attacked her own daughter! Carefully picking her up, she placed her on her bed. Cassandra moaned. She seemed to be asleep. She brushed away some of her daughter's sleek, black hair off of her face, and then noticed something. A strange-looking mark covered her face. It had curling vines spreading across her forhead and down her cheeks and a moon shaped just above her right eye. The mark was a black color, the exact color of the creature. Did the mark and the creature have something in common? was the thing a part of Cassandra's new powers? Or... could it be something different entirely? Cassandra began to stirr as she woke up.