Venom's tendrils grasped at the empty air, trying to find the boy he'd just been holding, but there was only a faint scent of him left and the stone. The scenery disappeared and Venom was once again in the vast, grayscale portion of the Dark Dimension, a sepia aura colored the area around the Soul Stone and Venom pulled the stone inside of itself as the alien covered up the still sleeping Eddie. Besides his dreams, it was completely silent in the surrounding area, the battle through the small portal seemed miles away. Knowing that time was not on their side, Venom shot a tentacle upward into the portal, launching them upwards when they latched onto the rock that the battle was taking place on.
It was no trouble for them to fit through the smaller sized hole, but they oozed through it rather than squeeze through it, and while their form was mostly humanoid, it wasn't as solid appearing as usual, not having the exact shape it usually did when Eddie was sharing control. The zealots didn't waste time, attacking Venom as well as Strange, but the alien just sat there in half a puddle of itself as it was struck by spells. What had just occurred fully hit the creature, and their body rippled as it hunched down, still feeling the love it had craved so much from Peter, and feeling it fade along with everything else that made up the teenager.
Venom suddenly let out a heart-rending shriek, which caused all of the zealots to pause fighting, not because of its volume or its tone, but because of its effect on them. With the stone, Venom was able to drive its grief into their very souls as if it were their own, one of them collapsed into a fetal position while the rest of them were forced to conjure and fire their spells through their tears.