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The Face off

We were surrounded with no way out except for our souls to leave our soon to be crushed bodies, I looked around in despair searching for an exit but in vain.

Just like mice in trap we were surrounded by evil and with nothing in our hands but a charity box that might be a scam.

One of them lifted their arm towards us in a move that meant that they were getting ready to crush us; I knew that I have to get any information from them before I die, again, so I shouted in a trembling voice:

- I know that you are humans so tell me why are you doing all of this?

The "Damars'' did not seem to be surprised at all, as if they knew that I knew, however one of them replied in an awfully young man voice:

- You ask why we are doing all of this? the answer is simple, because if we do not do this...

His toned turned aggressive as he continued:

 - An apocalypse will come.

My mind went blank as his last words ringed in my ears, however "Arsenio" yelled:

- But you are the apocalypse.

The "Damar" almost said something but an other one ordered him:

- Enough.

  The talkative one murmured: 

- They are dead meat any way.

Then he lifted his arm getting ready to attack again but this time "Arsenio" did not say anything as if he knew that it was useless to try to speak with those murderers.

I had no choice but to think quickly, to come up with a solution in less than once second, and the only thing that I was able to think of was the charity box full of coins in my hand, but then I thought that there are five of them while I have only one box.

And then an idea flew into my head.

But I needed some to buy some time for it so I put up courage and asked:

- What if we wanted to join you?

"Arsenio" screamed:

- What?

while They exchanged looks to each other while whispered words that I could not hear but that did not bother me because I took advantage of this few seconds to open the charity box, took some coins and passed others to "Arsenio" while whispering:

- Throw the coins on them.

He reached the coins with trembling hands while nodding his sweaty head.

Then I whispered to the coins in my hand:

- I am not stealing you, I promise I will put you back in the charity box if I survived this.

Then I shouted:

- Now!

We threw the coins with all of our strength towards them, like a shower, the coins poured over them, my heart was beating too fast as I was waiting for the coins to hit them, I did not know that milli-seconds could last like hours.

The coins finally hit them all, and contrary to what I expected...

The "Damars" started to twist in pain while the purple electricity waves in there suits started to turn navy.

Until finally they all dropped dead.

We were frozen in time for a second before "Arsenio" screamed:

- We did it!

I could not believe it as well, I took several steps towards the bodies, carefully touched them with my feet but they did not budge.

I breathed s sigh of relief before checking the coins that turned into grey, I searched my pockets and took the same amount out and put it in the charity box.

"Arsenio" said:

- So may be the owner was using the money for charity after all.

I shrugged and said:

- May be and may be it remains charity money until it is used in the wrong way. 

He nodded before he asked:

- So what now?

I answered:

- I need to show this to the world but I forgot to record it.

Then I glimpsed a security camera so I wondered while pointing at it:

- Do you think that this is working?

"Arsenio'' contemplated it before saying:

- May be, let us go to the security room and check.

We ran to the back of the restaurant where the security room usually is, we found it quickly and entered it, I felt like a thief despite that what we were doing then could save the humanity. 

I turned on the screen but everything seemed so complicated to me, I did now what should I press or choose so I just stood there puzzled but then "Arsenio" smirked while moving me aside.

I forgot that his major was something related to IT, he has always explained what his major was to me but I have never remembered it so he gave up on me at the end and asked me to just know that he is a computer guy.

He quickly tapped on the keyboard, slid the mouse in every direction while concentrating on the screen, he looked very cool which made me understand why he was so popular among girls despite him being a scared cat all the time.

Finally he smiled and said:

- Found it.

He pressed the enter key and a video played on the screen, it was the correct one that showed how we defeated the "Damars" so we jumped happily while feeling victories.

I connected my phone to the restaurant's computer and transferred the file into it then posted on the social media:

"It seems that charity tools do work against them, this video shows how they lost to coins from a charity box, however, we should be careful as this is just a theory"

I put the phone back into my pocket, I could not help but to think about what happened last time, the disaster that I caused, my social anxiety creeped to me.

"Arsenio" asked:

- What now?

I made humming sound while thinking before I suggested;

- let us continue searching for our loved ones.

"Arsenio" laughed awkwardly and said:

- Right I forgot.

We both laughed while heading out into the unknown.