Within In

"What is this power? I feel like I am being crushed from both sides by invisible walls" I looked at the unknown creature who just stood in front me, staring at me, killing me, I wanted to grave its appearance in my soul so that I can hunt it later. It looked like a 3D shadow of a muscled man, dark with purple electricity jumping out and diving into his body in endless motion, it was immune to any types of attacks; we tried everything, fire, bombs, water, and even wooden sticks but nothing worked, it was hopeless. I could hear crushing sounds from my body marking my end and just after it I felt my soul as it has left my body.  Ah, I wish I had spoken to her.                                                                                              *** As if I was asleep, I woke up, my heart was beating so fast, I took a look around me while confused, I found myself in my university dormitory room and for the first time in days I could not hear screams from outside the window, only people talking and laughing. "Was I dreaming? but it was so real" I wondered before getting off my bed heading to the window, indeed it was peaceful outside with no monsters in sight. At that moment I heard the room's door opening, so I turned around knowing that it was my room mate "Arsenio", who died brutally in my dream, I am glad it was just a dream, he is the kindest, most considerate and best room mate one can ever have. "But was it really a dream?" He looked at me in surprise and asked: - "Osiris" did you just wake up? what about your exam? is in it after 10 minutes? I replied: - But I have already finish it, it was two weeks ago. He gave me a doubt look and then checked his phone before anxiously saying: - No, today is October 1st you have psychology exam today, how could you forget about your favorite class? "What is he saying? I am sure that I already took this exam" I looked at the calendar in my phone and to my surprise he was right; I jumped to my bag, garbed it and ran in my maximum speed to the exam hall, I must have dreamed that I had already finished the exam. Luckily I was on time, the hall was full of my colleagues but my eyes could only see her, "Grace", her beauty stood out too much to be blended with the rest, people were commoners compared to this queen, her dark long black hair, her deep ocean blue eyes and her kind soul, made my heart skip a beat every time I saw her but I was never able to bring myself to speak to her. The teacher interrupted me as he put the exam paper in front of me, I told my self that I should concentrate now to impress her with my brilliant unrivaled brain later. I started reading the exam but then froze, I have answered these questions before, every one of them, but how? so I skimmed through the whole exam, nothing is new, my memory is strong and I trust it. Something was wrong. I finished the exam quickly as I already remember every answer, I did not need to think about any of it, I submitted my answer paper, went straight back to my room and quickly turned on the TV. The news was on and as I started watching a shiver ran through my body, I saw this gloomy negative news before, the school that was burned down by angry students, the man who was killed by his colleague from work and the elections, everything was known to me. The remote slipped from my hand to the ground as I stared at the tv trembling in fear, confused and wondering if this was just an illusion projected from exams' stress. I remember that at 1 PM "Arsenio" will come in complaining that he had spilled water on his exam paper and it was a mess so he could not concentrate for the rest of the exam due to anxiety. It is 1 PM already, the door opened and he came in while complaining: - You would not believe what happened today, I .. I quickly interrupted him: - spilled water from my bottle on my exam's paper and could not concentrate on the rest of the exam.  He gave me an astonish look before wondering: - How did you know? I know that you are brilliant but still; are you a fortune teller now? is it written on my face or something? my cloths are not wet. I could not answer him because I could not explain it myself, but I could only reach one conclusion, a scary one, which is that I somehow travelled back in time before the apocalypse, which means that... "We are doomed" Nausea hit me along with fear, if it was not really a dream then the monsters will attack on October 09th, which was around one weak from that moment, they will crush every one with invisible walls, "Arsenio" will be the first one to be killed from my friends, I will survive for three days then get killed but "Grace" was still alive until my last moments... - "Osiris" are you alright? you are turning pale. "Arsenio" voice interrupted me; I raised my eye's sight to him, speechless, so he gave me a worried look before asking: - Oh my god, you look so sick, what is wrong? do you want me to accompany you to the campus clinic? I made up my mind, I should tell him, I cannot lose him again, so I swallowed my hesitation and said: - I know that this sound absolutely crazy but I think I travelled back in time. He looked more worried now but I decided to continue: - That is why I knew about your small water accident, and I also know that you are planning to confess your feeling to your classmate tomorrow. His face turned red as he denied: - How did you...no not true. I looked straight at his eyes so he gave up and wondered: - How did you know? I replied: - because I travelled back in time but what is more important is that an apocalypse is coming.