The Human Race | Darkiplier X Reader

| FIFTY-NINE |

Dark's POV

The news channel bores me to death as I drink from a large black coffee mug.
Nothing interesting really happens around here.
There's quite a few deatha and murders along with Humans who've gone missing.
Nothing new.
I sigh and focus my gaze on outside.
The sun had risen a few hours ago.
I wasn't able to sleep last night.
I don't really have to sleep though because the darkness gives me engery.
That doesn't stop the bags from growing under my eyes.
I take a large sip from my coffee as the sound of footsteps comes down the stairs.
"Where's Y/n?" Mark.
I just roll my eyes and keep my sight set on the sky.
"Hell." I tell him.
I can feel him tense at my words.
"What?" He seems confused.
"She took my book and made a portal to Hell."
I take another sip of coffee.
"Are you fucking insane?!" Now, of course, he's pissed off.
"I would much rather use the words 'mentally unstable'." I chuckle to myself.
"How can you be laughing right now?!"
Two more sets of footsteps come down the stairs.
"What's all the noise for?" I hear Jack yawn.
"This asshole gave Y/n his voodoo book and sent her on a death mission to Hell!" Mark shouts.
I finally turn to face them.
Anti looks worried while Seán just seems confused.
"And he claims to be in love with her? That's hilarious."
I glare at Mark.
"For your information, I did not send her there in the slightest." I say.
"I knew she would go and I did not want to be here when she did it, so I left. She then took my book and went somewhere to make a portal."
Anti steps forward.
"Why didn't you stop her?" He asks.
"I...I just felt like I should not have."
Mark rolls his eyes.
"Yeah, because you knew she would die if she went and you just wanted her off your back." Mark's words almost hurt me.
"Wrong. My Human is perfectly safe. Only a few Demons still live in Hell and they're all very peaceful."
Mark scoffs.
"So assuring."
"Mar-" Jack goes to grab Mark's arm, but Mark pulls his arm away.
"And stop calling her my Human. She has a name bastard!"
Mark tries to walk over to me, but stops.
"Mark you need to calm your ass down." Anti uses his magic to freeze him.
"How do we know that she's safe?! Huh? Cause it seems to me like she'll fucking die out there!"
He no longer looks angry, but scared and worried.
I put my hands together before slowly pulling them apart.
As I do, you can see Y/n walking around Hell as a Demon.
"Who is that?" Jack asks.
"Her." I tell him.
"Last time I checked Y/n wasn't a Demon." Mark spits at me.
"She used a spell from the book to make her look like one."
Mark sighs.
"So...she's safe?" He asks me.
A small smile forms on my face.
"Yes."
Anti unfreezes Mark who falls to the ground.
"How isn't she burning?" Anti questions.
"She took one of my fire resistance potions too."
I watch as Seán smiles softly to himself.
"She's not an idiot."
I ignore him and look down at Mark.
I lean down in front of him.
He looks up at me with a sad expression in his face.
"I...she's like my little sister man." He tells me.
"I know."

Y/n's POV

I follow the map for a long time before I finally begin to actually see that I'm going deeper into Hell.
As I was walking I came across a few weapons shops.
They were all empty so I took a bunch of plain swords.
None of them had any Hell blades.
At this point I seem to be walking down a large winding staircases.
It's black with details of orange flames.
It looks really cool.

What time is it back home?
I hope I haven't been gone for too long.

I take a glance down at my had to see the map when I notice something glowing on my wrist.
Turning my hand so it's palm up, I see a timer that wasn't there before.
It reads, 00:20:08.
My eyes widen.

What does that mean?!

I try to think of anything going on with me that could be timed.
All I can think of is the Demon disguise.
That is until I look closer at the numbers.
They're written in a familiar handwriting.
I try to remember where I've seen letters written like those before.
Then it hits me.

The potion.

It's Dark's handwriting.
Panic starts to set in.
The potion has twenty minutes before it's up and then I'll slowly burn to death.
I speed up to a speed walk.
Then a jog.
Next a run.
Finally I'm full on sprinting down the stairs.

I have to get back.
I need to bring them these blades so we can save everyone.

I go as fast as I possible can until I see the bottom.
A large smile spreads across my face.
I hop down the last few steps.
Looking around, my smile immediately fades.
There's another set of stairs.
My wrist reads, 00:17:47.
My eyes water.

No.

I wipe them away.

I'm not giving up that easily.

I run over to the stairs and see that there's only a few steps.
I go down them and my smile comes back.
About ten feet away is the pit of black lava.
I waste no time in running over.
I yank my bag off of my shoulders and start tossing swords, knives, and the rocks into the lava.
Nothing happens for a few.
But after a few minutes they all come flying back out.
I laugh with joy and collect them as they come flying out.
They're red with black and purple details all over them.
Once I know that the pit is done spitting Hell blades at me, I look back to my wrist.
00:12:23

Fuck.

I want to jump for joy about the blades, but my celebration must wait.
I take off back in the stairs, going back the way I came.

- - -

Following the map backwards, I make it back to the weird suburban area.
I feel confident in where to go and take a right.
After that I take a left.
Then anothet left.
Then finally a right only to see just another house.
I turn around only to see that I've found myself in the middle of am area that all looks the same.
My wrist starts to burn.
00:05:15
I try to go back the same way I came, but can't tell anything apart.
My mind grows dizzy from running in circles and for trying so hard to remember where to go.
00:03:37
I run through a yard and hop over a fence.
My bag gets caught on it.
"Come on Y/n!" I yell at myself, struggling to pull it off.
00:02:06
I manage to get it off and run back into the street.
I stand there in the middle of the street as I look all around me.
00:01:21
That's when I see something that I recognize.
It's a large building.
00:01:01
I run for it.
My legs are burning and I can't tell if it's becauset he potion is wearing off, or the fact that I've been running around for a while.
00:00:44
I push myself to go faster.
I exit the suburbs and see the portal off in the distance.
00:00:25
As I get closer the purple and blue aura surrounding it.
00:00:13
It's not too far away.
I can feel the portal pulling me towards it.
00:00:08

I made it!

I'm about to stop running when my foot catches on something.
I gasp as my ankle twists and I fall to the ground.
00:00:01
I yell out in pain.
00:00:00
My skin begins to burn.
Not like an intense burn.
It's more of a slow tingly burn.
One of my tears that fall to the ground immediately evaporates.
My cheek begins to burn really badly along with my hands.
I force my hands to push myself off the ground.
I stand up and take a step froward.
My ankle makes a cracking sound.
I manage not to fall back on the ground.
I limp over to the portal, falling through it.