Clan Fighters by Kaitlyn Garlets (dark academia books to read .txt) 📖

of her hit as he skidded backwards, hitting one of the Skincrawlers that was on his left, knocking them both to the ground while the Skincrawler on the right of the middle one lunged himself at her.
Reece threw herself to the ground, the Skincrawler barely missing her while the other Skincrawlers got up and tried to jump on top of her, but she rolled out of the way, grabbing the branch that she had thrown at the leader.
"Griffen, help!" Reece screamed, looking to her right, where she saw a light on in a house.
Reece rolled to her right on the dewy grass and was thankful that the branch had snapped in a sharp way, stabbing one of the Skincrawlers in the stomach, blood gushing out all over her face, the Skincrawler landing on top of her, making her gag to the side.
"Griffen! Help! I'm stuck underneath one!" Reece said, trying to roll him off of her. When she finally rolled the dead Skincrawler off of her, she stood up slowly.
Reece looked around and saw that the other Skincrawlers were backing up.
"Its not possible!" The one that looked like the leader yelled.
Reece looked up in the tree and saw Griffen on a thick branch right above a Skincrawler.
Reece ran straight at the leader, yelling as she ran. She jumped on top of the Skincrawler, immediately regretting it. The Skincrawler had a hold of her and was trying to jump into her skin. Reece's skin was burning and she could feel the Skincrawler jump into her body. Reece rolled on the ground and thrashed around, trying to get him out of her before he ate her from the inside out. She could hear Griffen yelling something, but she was too busy trying to get him out. She could feel him gnawing at her insides.
Griffen grabbed her shoulders and punched her in the stomach as hard as he could. He punched her stomach again until the Skincrawler screamed and jumped out of her body, falling onto the ground a few feet away from Reece who rolled over farther away from him.
Reece gasped, grabbing her stomach, when she rolled.
"Griffen..." she whispered.
"I had to do that. I'm so sorry, Reece."
Reece grabbed her stomach and stood up, feeling the pain inside her. The Skincrawler that had been inside her was on the ground, huffing.
Griffen grabbed his by his jacket and pulled his up, being careful to not touch his skin.
"No one, and I mean no one touches her unless she wants to be!" he said, and punched him in the face, knocking him out cold.
The final one ran up to Reece and almost grabbed her, but Griffen saw him coming before she did and leaped over her, his hands full of fire and threw a fireball out of his hand, mid-air at the final Skincrawler's face, burning his face, making him scream in pain.
Reece backed away and let Griffen finish him off. She looked down at the out cold Skincrawler and saw a strange mark on the side of his neck. It was like three slashes like someone had scratched him, and she knew that it wasn't fresh because they were scars.
Reece looked at the other dead one that she had stabbed and saw the same thing on the same side of his neck, which sent a chill up her spine.
Griffen finished killing the other Skincrawler and stood up, walking over to Reece, who was still grabbing her stomach from the pain.
"I'm so sorry I had to do that."
"Is that how someone would get one out?" Reece asked, leaning her head on his shoulder.
"Its the only way. I wish I didn't have to do that, but I couldn't stand around and watch you thrash around on the ground in pain. It pained me just watching you roll on the ground, trying to get him out."
"Its okay, I would have done the same thing for you."
"Really?" Griffen asked, surprised.
"Yeah, you are my friend, right?" Reece asked, lifting her head so that she could look around to make sure that no one had seen the fight. "You know, this town is always being nosey, so I don't know why anyone hadn't seen this or heard it."
"Well, I don't have an answer for that one. But I think that someone had seen it, and you know her," Griffen replied and pointed to Monika's house, where when Monika saw Reece looking, she closed the curtains quickly and turned the lights out.
Reece groaned and let her head drop to Griffen's shoulder again. "Maybe I can force her to forget."
"You can't. Even if you can make people do whatever you want, you cannot make anyone forget anything, no matter how hard you try, and you can't make them lie or fall in love with whoever you want them to. That's the only thing a Sightseer can't do."
"That's so stupid. Then there wouldn't be any point in being one," Reece said, groaning again. Griffen laughed and put his arms around Reece, who slipped hers around his waist. "I want to go home now."
"Okay, lets go. Its over there," Griffen said, leading Reece to her house.
"What are we going to do about Monika? I mean, I can't just tell her everything."
"Maybe you can, but we can talk about this later."
"Okay," Reece said, nodding.
They walked up to the door and found that it was unlocked, even though there was caution tape all over her door. She was thankful that everyone had left and all seemed the way it had been before Brian had died.
Reece opened the door slowly and winched when she heard the too familiar creak of the door when someone opened it. She entered her house and saw that everything was just how she had left it.
Reece spotted her purse, remembering that she tossed it onto the counter when she heard Brian scream from upstairs.
Reece grabbed it and looked through it and found her cell phone with ninety-seven messages on it.
"Geez, I wonder who had called me," Reece said, flipping though the missed calls.
"Wow, almost a hundred people called you," Griffen said, looking over her shoulder.
Reece skipped over the ones she didn't want hear at the moment and looked to see one was from the police. She held the phone up to her ear and heard what the police had left her: "Hey, this is Officer Greg, and I just wanted to call and let you know that we didn't go through every room, but we had everything from the crime scene cleaned up and we will be back in the morning to check up on you and get your full story and all that kind of stuff. Some detectives want to question you too, so if you want to come down to the station when your ready, that would be great. Otherwise, everything should be back to the way it was, and please, stay away from your house because we still have to go through everything else in your house for clues and that kind of stuff, so see you tomorrow! Bye."
Reece heard it click and she took the phone away from her ear, and she flipped through the rest, seeing that Monika had texted her, asking where she was.
"What did he want?" Griffen asked, looking around her house.
"Just to tell me that he still has to go through my house and look for some clues is all. I don't even want to check the rest, because it looks like the whole town had contacted me," Reece said.
Griffen nodded, pacing back and forth, still looking at her house.
"Lets go and find those papers now," Reece said, not knowing where to look first.
"I'll check down here, if that's okay with you," Griffen said.
"Okay, just make sure that everything goes back in the place it went so that the cops don't think someone had messed anything up," Reece said, walking upstairs slowly.
Reece's heart raced harder and harder with each step she took, knowing that there probably would be a stain of dried blood on the floor in the shape of her brother when he had died.
She stopped at the top of the stairs and saw exactly what she didn't want to see: her brother lying on the floor dead. She blinked, realizing that she was seeing nothing.
She walked around the dried blood stain that looked like the Crime Scene Investigators had tried to clean it up, but didn't finish cleaning it and walked to her room, where she saw most of her clothes thrown everywhere.
Suddenly, her brother appeared right in front of her face, scaring her. She slapped a hand over her mouth so she wouldn't scream.
"Brian, you scared me," Reece said.
"I know, but I just wanted to come and see what you were doing," he said, his voice sounding distant.
"Not that I don't like you being here, because I do, but aren't you supposed to be in Heaven?" Reece asked, sitting on her bed.
"No, I cannot go to Heaven."
"Why not?" Reece asked, feeling sleepy.
"Because He won't let me cross over."
` "What do you mean?" Reece asked, not understanding.
"He said that I cannot cross over until I help you find your way. He said he will when I do. Its as simple as that," he said, shrugging his shoulders.
"Do you know where those papers are? And what was the old scroll that you showed me in the small shack?" Reece asked.
"The old scroll had all the names of everyone in every Clan. The Sightseers, Skincrawlers, Firewillers, Necromancers, Watermakers and Skywalkers were all in their own Clan and each Clan with each name of every person in the Clans. I just wanted you to know that our real mother and father are the leaders of all the Clans, and that is why you have all the powers now. Not only are you the girl from the prophecy, your parents are the leaders of the Six Clans. You need to find them."
"But what about the papers?" Reece asked, remembering that Brian had whispered in her ear that she was the Princess of the Clans.
"You don't need the papers, and plus, Macbeth destroyed them and told you that they were here to throw you off. And now you know what you are and I know that I should have told you about this a long time ago, but I just didn't know how to tell you. Macbeth was right about one thing though: I was going to tell you the other night, but the Skincrawlers got to me. I'm so sorry that I wasn't there for you. I never meant to spend my entire life like this."
"You don't have to apologize to me, you know. I know how sorry you are."
"I have to go for now, but you really need to find our real parents."
"Wait! What do they look like?" Reece asked. "Our parents, what do they look like?" Reece stood up as she watched Brian walk over to the window. "What? Is someone out there?"
"No, there is a secret compartment in the window. I have been researching them for three years, and I found a picture of them. I have to go now. Goodbye for now," Brian said and disappeared.
Reece stood there, looking at the spot that Brian had disappeared and still couldn't believe that he was dead.
She snapped out of her self-pity and looked around at the window. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary, but then she saw a small knot in the wood that she had seen before and stuck her finger in it, pushing the knot out. A piece of the wood came off and she