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Ben Tennyson #1 [Omniverse]✓

title: The Darkness Within [part 1]

Ben Tennyson x Reader
Ben 10: Omniverse

note: This story was requested by Alyssajj11, and I hope that you like it. I made it more alien instead of black magic to keep in the Ben 10 theme, but it is essentially the same. The song above inspired their idea.
warnings: mentions of blood/ mild gore

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"Take that!"

"Oh no you don't,"

Fingers mashed buttons and palms squeezed controllers to almost breaking point, the teenagers too absorbed in the game to notice.

(Y/N) and Ben had just got the new Sumo Slammers game: Sumo Slammers and the Jaws of Death IV. They were on the verge of clocking the game despite buying it only seven hours prior. Yes, they had been non-stop gaming for seven hours straight. Not that that wasn't normal anyway.

"And... BOOM! Suck it, B-man!"

"No fair! You totally poached that last kill!" (Y/N) cackled at Ben's reaction to losing.

"Not my problem that you're too slow." She said. Ben huffed and rolled his eyes.

He playfully pushed her controller, but when she flinched he immediately regretted it. He then saw the bandage covering her left hand.

"Hey, what happened?" Ben asked. (Y/N) paused the game, her character mid-victory dance.

"Uh, it's nothing. I just- um, cut myself on a can the other day. It's fine, really." She sputtered out. It wasn't a complete lie, but she left out the majority of the story.

Ben ate up the lie like a meatball subway despite her obvious hesitation.

"Okay, well maybe we should take a break then. I'll get some drinks," Ben said, standing up. Once he left the room (Y/N) got angry at herself.

'Why did you lie to him? You never lie to him?! He might've been able to help!' Her thoughts raged, but the other half of her mind rebutted; 'What if he told you off for going in there? It was completely your fault and then he'll know how stupid you are.'

A nearby cup shattered, almost like it was responding to her thoughts, sending fractures of glass and water gushing to the ground.

All of her thoughts ceased as she stared at the scattered broken pieces on the coffee table.

'Did... Did I do that?'

flashback 1 week

(Y/N) had had an average day at school. Her science reliever was very dull, but she didn't have to do any work in that period. English was okay. Lunch was nachos, the school famous for how horrible it was, but the chips were at least edible.

However, her day was only about to get worse.

On her normal route home after school had finished, she heard a cry from an alleyway. Normally she knew to steer clear of suspicious noises in suspicious alleyways -- but it was the cry of a child. What if they were hurt?

Deciding to find the upset child, she stepped off of the main street into the alley. A blood curdling scream sent ice through her veins and she bounded deeper into the darkness.

At the very end of the alley she saw a child huddled into the corner, shaking.

"Hey there, are you alright?" She asked gently, kneeling at a cautious distance from the kid. The small boy looked up. The fear in his eyes was tangible and they looked raw from tears, but he wasn't looking at (Y/N). No.