• The Devil's Cup • Pt. 1

:jack_o_lantern: Don'tTakeItPersonally :jack_o_lantern: 06/06/17

I'm starting a new book! And hopefully I'll this to WattPad, but for now I'm sticking with writing it here! (If you want to know the plot check out the post if do before this!) I really thought the song Young God by Halsey fit this but uh... don't mind the really cringe edit. I'm tired. I might make another one.

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Prolouge

It's been days, weeks even. No one has found him. No one knows him. But he's found us. He knows us,

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Chapter 1

Dan and Phil were silently sitting on the couch, not minding the local news at the moment. They both scrolled through their phones and sighed. Dan swiped a hand through his hair, and silently kept scrolling through Tumblr. Phil had his knees against his chest and sat on the far right of the couch, where his right elbow was on the couch's arm. His left hand contained his phone, while he scrolled through Twitter.

They both were distracted from the news, but as the lady -with a very strong British accent- said something about "missing people", "apartment building" and "Kaitlin". This obviously made Dan's head pop up from Tumblr browsing. "What happened?" He said confusingly. "I'm not sure, you'll have to rewind it I guess." The black haired boy said. Phil looked up and grabbed the t.v remote. Phil rewinded it to the part where the lady mentions the 3 words that sent Dan's head flying up.

"Are you serious? Everyone in our apartment complex has been disappearing?" Dan said violently. "I-I guess so. Kaitlin was really nice." Phil replied. Kaitlin was their neighbor and often sent them cookies or different baking recipes she had. She was a former fan, who had a baking channel. She was 23 and just left University for culinary. "Ya, she was really nice. I hope she's okay." Dan sighed and slowly relaxed again, looking back at his phone that had unfortunately turned off. "I hope she's okay too." Phil said, pushing his glasses back on his nose.

"Did you happen to water the cactus, this morning?" Phil said reluctantly. Dan at first felt confused why Phil wasn't so worried. "N-no....?" He said, slightly questionable. "Okay, I'll take care of it." Phil said, his fingers quickly hitting the screen on his phone. "The whole 'Kaitlin Missing' thing, is really blowing up on BuzzFeed, and Twitter," Dan said, but Phil just nodded. "Aren't you worried?" Dan said, his voice becoming a bit more complex. "Well, stuff like that happens all the time, Dan. Eventually she'll turn back up and hopefully- alive." Phil said, moving the hair out of his crystal, blue eyes. "Ya, I guess so..." Dan said grabbing his phone. "I'm.... gonna go upstairs," He said, and Phil not even paying attention. Dan raced upstairs and eventually made it to his room. He collapsed onto the bed, and sighed.

Just as night began to fall, Phil made his way upstairs. "Dan?" No response. "Dannnnn?? Hellooooo...?" No response. Leaving Phil to assume he was asleep. Phil skipped back down stairs and into the living room. He grabbed his coat, phone, and a leather bag with him. He made his way onto the streets of England.

That morning, Dan woke up to a weird smell. He lifted himself off the bed he collapsed on, and walked down stairs. "Phil!? What is that smell?" Dan exclaimed, angrily walking into the living room. The stench almost smelt like dead fish. "Oh god, what is that?" Dan sighed, he held his breath until he found Phil asleep on the couch, not wearing the same clothes as before. "Phil?" He shook Phil. "U-uh, D-dan..?" Phil opened his blue eyes to a slightly confused and tired Dan. "I smell.... and hear something weird." Dan said. There was a faint noise of someone pounding on metal. "I-I don't know what that is, b-but I'm cold and tired... so I'm gonna go back to bed," Phil snuggled into the couch and quickly fell back asleep. Dan was obviously confused,

Phil is always the one going to bed early, and he usually doesn't take naps! It's 9 in the morning! This doesn't make any sense! He's being suspicious, or am I going crazy? Oh well.

Dan tried following the noise but it stopped and Dan could hear a small: "Help me," before every noise coming in that direction, suddenly stopped all at once. Dan was obviously freaked out, and thought he was going crazy.

This can't be happening!

He thought before racing upstairs. Once Dan came back downstairs he had taken a shower, brushed his teeth and hair, and put in his earrings. Since it was 10 AM, he thought it was cold so he grabbed his leather jacket and wallet before heading out onto the streets of people. Many flyers of missing people were up. And all Dan knew, some, Phil didn't even know. He was starting to stress, but made it to the coffee shop. He ordered one for him and one for Phil. He didn't really expect Phil to be awake when he got back home.

While Dan walked home a couple fans stopped him, asking if the people Dan knew, - who were missing -, if they were okay. Dan had no clue wether not. So he just said: "I have no idea." The girls happily went on their way, not wanting to waste Dan's time. Once Dan got home he set the coffees on the bar. He noticed a couple speckles of red on the door, floor, and Phil's jacket. He had no clue what it was so he touched it gently. It was liquid, and looked like it wasn't supposed to be on a suspicious man's coat.

That whole night, Dan and Phil didn't talk to each other. Dan was so upset everyone he knew was disappearing, just like magic. He didn't want him nor Phil to be next. But he suspected Phil just a small percent. But it still scared him. He knows Phil, when he gets mad, sad, happy, excited, scared, anxious, he knows all of it. But Phil has never seen Dan mad, and Dan doesn't want to show him that. Dan had no clue what to do at this point. This morning he got alerts that 3 people were missing. The day before he found out Kaitlin was missing along with 1 other.

"Dan?" Phil yelled.

No response.

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NOW MY CRINGE EDIT FOR THIS