Don't Trust The Internet: Dan and Phil fanfiction

Part 1

It was the week of Halloween. Daniel James Howell sat down at the computer desk in the upstairs office. Stretching his arms forward, he turned the camera on and waited for the red light to start blinking.

"Phil! get in here, I've started recording!" he yelled, his voice echoing throughout the rest of the apartment. Sighing, he turned in his chair so he was facing the couch and looked at the decorations Phil had put up the previous day. The mask that was sent in by a fan lay on the top of the couch, and fake cobwebs were spread all over the wall. Dan thought he saw movement from the corner of his eye, but soon forgot when he heard the loud footsteps of his best friend, Philip Michael Lester, resonate from the staircase.

"Took you long enough." Dan greeted Phil in his usual sarcastic manner. He smiled at his friend to let him know he was joking, and turned his chair back to the screen. Phil sat down in his chair and looked at the camera.

"Hi!" Dan greeted the camera cheerily, giving his audience a small, two-fingered salute.

"Hello, DanandPhilGAMES shadows!" Phil directed to the camera at the same time. They both laughed, and Phil shrugged his shoulders, as if indicating that he was running out of ideas to call their viewers. They turned off the light for total immersion and used Dan's phone as a flashlight.

"So, for Day One of Spooky Week," Dan began, "Phil picked out the game. I honestly have no idea what it is, and I'm hoping he didn't download another fan-recommended .exe file onto my computer." Dan's eye widened when his statement was received with silence. He laughed quietly to relieve the tension, and handed the keyboard to Phil.

"So what are we playing today, Phil?" He asked, silently praying it wasn't another Sonic-themed game.

"Oh, it's a Zelda game!" Phil replied cheerily, and opened a small shortcut from the lower left hand corner of the screen. The screen lit up with bright green, and both friends flinched from the sudden brightness in the room. Feeling as if someone was breathing down his neck, Dan shivered and hurriedly whipped his head around, hoping he didn't look as scared as he felt.

"What is it, Dan?" Phil asked, his large smile melting slightly from his face. Dan scanned the dark room behind them both, certain that he had seen a rustle of movement from the corner of the room.

"Nothing." Dan replied, facing back at the computer screen. Phil looked at him doubtedly, but clicked the START button on the screen. Suddenly, the screen turned black, causing the two of them to jump in their seats. Immediately they both started laughing. The screen turned slightly grey, filling the room with a low light. Dan's laughter suddenly changed to screams as he looked in the camera's flip-screen and saw a large figure looming behind Phil.