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Despair

The last thing I expected was that those monsters were humans; I kneeled down to examine the suit, carefully touched it, the material from which the suite was made was polyester, nothing special about it, so I decided to check the dead body, he was very thin unlike how he looked like when the suite was active so then I became sure that the suite is the weapon. 

Then I noticed a writing on the back of his nick, so I carefully approached it to read it, but it was only one word:

"Damar"

So I deduced that this is the identity of those people, I pointed it out to "Arsenio" who was too creeped out to look at it and then I said:

- I believe that this is their name, it is an Arabic word which means "destruction'', good thing that I listened to my mom and learned my origin's language, although Egyptian Arabic is a little bit different from traditional Arabic but still this is a comment word, what do you think? 

He just nodded his head with disgust look on his terrified eyes.

I took out my phone and took picture to post the updates on my social media hoping that people would believe that I defeated a monster at it turned out to be just a human, but the moment I opened my page I noticed that people commented on my previous post, about toys, in a very aggressive way like:

- You are a liar, the toys did not  repel the monster away.

- My friend was killed because of your lie.

- You are a life savior it worked.

- It did not work for me, you are an attention seeker, how can you lie in a time like this?

I could not understand, "it definitely worked for me, so how come it failed?" 

"Arsenio" asked me:

- What is the matter?

I showed him the comments, after reading them, he frowned and said:

- May be they are just scammers, your method definitely saved us and even more, showed us the true nature of those monsters or "Damar" or whatever.

My heart was filled with gratitude, in thee last time I was alone but this time I have a support, how ever as I survived the first event and saved my friend I started to worry about the love of my life, ''Grace".

But things did not go that smoothly, before I get to say any word, I heard footsteps behind us, coming from the entrance, so I quickly turned around and at my dismay another "Damar" stood there, frozen while it was clearly looking at the dead one, before it raised its head to look at us.

I was terrified, my heart was beating too fast, as if I am stuck in a problem in an exam, however and despite how hard my body trembled I yelled:

- Yes, we defeated your friend, just who are you people?

"Arsenio" also shouted:

- We know your weakness point, and it is funny, how did you think that you will invade the world while your weakness point is just toys, now scam.

The "Damar" put its hand on its chest as if it was praying for the lost soul of its comrade before it bend down to examine the gray toy and say in a very humanly man's voice:

- I see, this is toy was bought from a charity collector,  a very noble act indeed, however...

He paused and grabbed an other toy that was beside him and continued in an angry tone:

- I am afraid that your conclusion was wrong.  

There was no time to think about what he said, the moment he finished his last word, he stood up, stretched his right arm towards me while the purple electric waves speed up like angry snakes.

I did not think much, quickly grabbed the nearest toy which was just a tidy bear with  innocents look and throwed it at him with all my strength, but the tidy bear just lightly hit him making a cute sound in the process.

"Arsenio" shouted:

- He was not lying, it did not work!

But I could not believe that I was wrong so I kept throwing every toy that I could grab toward him even when "Arsenio" pulled me from my arm until I let go of my stubbornness and ran with him and I was glad that I did that because I heard a bursting sound from where I was standing.

The "Damar" pressured the air in that area till it burst.

We ran in desperate to back door, underneath it there was a red spot, must have been the owner of the shop, I wished that I have seen that earlier before I went off and told everybody that toys are the "Damar" weakness point and got everybody killed.

At that moment, I felt like I should give myself in to that "Damar" to kill me, my mind told me that I ...

Deserve it.

But "Arsenio" opened the door and pulled, the spaced out, me while shouting:

- I know what you are thinking of and It is not your fault.

We got out to the street, blood spots with toys beside them were every where, my sin was at every corner, I stopped again to give up to that monster, to be crushed but "Arsenio" yelled:

- I said it is not your fault, and if you still do not believe me find a way to defeat them, you are brilliant and I believe in you.

Those word did not encourage me yet they made me feel obligated to find a way to defeat those "Damar", so I nodded my head, "Arsenio" looked relieved before he was turned to a red pond, all of a sudden in front of my eyes.

I breathed heavily while warm liquid dropped from my face, terrified, I looked at the "Damar" in front of me, his arm was already reaching out to me and a force steadily started to crush me, but I did not scream.

I stared at the dark monster, swearing that...

"It is not the end"