Within In

D-Day

The room was so quite except from the sound of laughs that came from outside the window, "Arsenio" was just staring at me, speechless, he must have been thinking that I am crazy.

Finally he sat on his bed and said with puzzled eyes:

- I know that you are not the type of person who would make jokes like this so can you tell me more? may be I will believe too.

As expected he was a very nice person; so I inhaled some air to pile up my courage and told him about everything that I know, about those monsters, about how every country came up with new weapons to defeat them but in vain, even how I died, everything, except for how he died.  

His eyes widened and fear showed up on his face while I was telling him my story, and after listening to me he said in a trembling voice:

- So from where did those monsters come from?

I shook my head and answered:

- No one knew; they just appeared out of no where, started attacking people and crushing them like insects.

I noticed that he was starting to turn pale; then he turned away to avoid looking straight into my eyes and whispered:

- Sorry but this is too much to believe, even if you are right.

His unexpected words made me nervous so I yelled:

- but you said that you believe in me.

He replied in a barely heard voice:

- I know; its just too much to believe; I am really sorry.

And then he stood up and walked out of the room leaving me in a horrible state, for a moment there I thought I made an ally but how can I blame him? I am not 100% sure my self.

It is not easy to tell people that an apocalypse is coming and expect them to clap for you.

I grabbed my desk chair, sat down and opened my laptop then with trembling fingers I browsed the internet looking for any piece of information on unknown black monsters with purple electric waves in there bodies, I searched in mystery websites; folk legends and even posted questions on various website.

I rested my back on the chair while waiting for answers; but more questions popped up in my head.

"Why did I travel back into the past?"

"Am I the only one who travelled back?"

"Was it real or was I just dreaming"

"How can I survive?"

"How can we all survive?"

I bit my lips and then refreshed the pages where I typed my questions but no answers were posted, so I knew that no body have ever heard of such monsters.

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Days were passing too fast without me finding any useful piece of information except that I did already live those days before; me and "Arsenio" never spoke about this again except for one time when he apologized to me for what he thought as rude behavior but no one can blame him.

It was already October 07, two days left until the attack and I still did not find any useful information so I started to analyze the information that I got from my past experience in the future.

I started sketching on a piece of paper:

" October 09 the beginning of the attack, no warning was received. Target: all people..."

I stared at the roof of my room thinking:

" Wait! not all people; I remember that the news said that the monsters did not attack children and also some people wrote on their social media pages that the monsters ignored them"

So I erased the sentence "All people" and wrote "Target: according to their an unknown standards".

But that was not really important because I needed to figure out how to destroy them, what was there weakness point.

Time was rushing and still; I could not get an answer.

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October 08, 10 PM; I sealed every possible entry way to our room; bought a lot of food and other necessary surviving stuff children toys hoping that they are afraid of kids and of course some basic weapons like knives and baseball bats.

Then I crawled under my blanket shivering in fear. 

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D-Day; I could not sleep last night and at the moment I saw the sunlight that penetrated through my window, I jumped out of my bed and turned on the TV, praying that everything was fine.

But...

It was not.

News about dark monsters attacking all cities and countries were on every channel.

I inhaled loudly then rushed to "Arsenio" and woke him up yelling:

- Wake up; they are here.

He shouted in fear:

- What?

At that moment we heard screams and crushes sounds from outside; "Arsenio" quickly got off his bed and looked outside from the window, his eyes widened in fear as he took few steps back and muttered:

- You were right; I can see them.

Then he covered his mouth and continued:

- What shall we do? I do not want to die.

The memory of him getting crushed by the inviable walls came out to my mind; I remembered that, back then, he got too scared and started running aimlessly and this how he got attacked while I just stood by watching him losing his soul but this time I decided that I would protect him; I decided that I shall not repeat the same mistakes that I did before and I knew that I was chosen to go back in time for some reason and that I could do it.

I could save the world.

"But for now I will just hide in my room"

I thought as I was looking for someplace to hide.

But then we heard loud angry knocking on the door, it was not just knocking, it was as if someone is trying to crush into the room.

We both stood at the corner like trapped mice, I was holding the baseball pat while "Arsenio" was holding a pocket knife but as if they would actually harm anyone.

Bang!

The door flied through the room, hitting the corresponding wall too loudly, so both of us screamed hopelessly.

It stepped into our room in calm and confident steps, ready to kill us.