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

and whoever this guy is clothes. Can you tell me what is going on? I thought that we are friends and I thought that you could tell me anything. What did you do to me?" Monika asked, pointing her finger at her as they walked over to her house.
"Look, can we talk where there isn't any people around to hear us?" Reece asked, putting her hand in Monika's face to make her stop talking.
Monika shut up and looked at her feet as she walked.
Once they were at Monika's house, she opened the door and they all walked into her house.
Monika closed the door as Griffen entered. "What is going on? I saw you fighting some weird bald creepy things and you killed them. What were those?" She asked, the minute that she closed the door.
Reece looked at Griffen, knowing that he was thinking the same thing that Monika knew more than they had thought she knew.
"Do you really want to know? You might be in danger if I tell you," Reece said.
"Yes, I want to know. We are friends and you shouldn't keep things from me," Monika said, nodding firmly.
"Okay, but if we tell you, then we might have to kill you," Griffen said, sarcastically.
"Griffen!" Reece said, giving him a mean look that made Griffen back up from her. Reece turned back to Monika and said, "He didn't mean that. He was just kidding. But are you really sure you want to know?"
"I have to know. The way you killed those things was way unnatural. Not human. I saw everything that Griffen did. I have no idea how he can do that stuff with fire, but it scared me. A lot," Monika said, her color from he dark face draining.
"Okay, but if you don't believe me, then that's your choice," Reece said, still hoping she didn't have to tell her anything, but she knew that Monika wasn't about to back down.
"I saw something that no human would believe, and I know everything that happened was real. So I think that I would believe everything that you tell me. So just tell me and stop trying to make me back out because I won't. There is no way that I will back out or back down."
Reece sighed and sat down on Monika's torn-up couch. "You should sit down too. I had to sit down too."
Monika sat down and looked at Reece, who really didn't know where to start.
"Okay, so I am a Princess. My parents are leaders of different clans with different powers. There is the Skincrawlers who you saw us fighting. The Skincrawlers can literally jump into your skin if they touch your skin and they will eat you form the inside out. Its not run to have one inside you because I had one inside me. Griffen told me that the only way to get them out is if you punch the victim in the stomach until you get them out.
"Then there is Sightseers. They can kind of control your mind and sort of see into the future, but only images. They can also tell if your lying or not," Reece said, sighing, remembering when Macbeth had told her all of this.
"That explains why I never got away with anything," Monika replied.
"Yes, and then there is Skywalkers, who can control anything in the sky including the weather. Too bad that I haven't learned to fly yet."
"You can fly?" Monika asked, her eyes practically popping out of her head. "What's it like?"
"I don't know, I never tried. I just learned that I had powers not even three days ago.
"Anyways, then there is Firewillers, and that is what Griffen is. He can will fire in an instant if he wanted."
"So that was what I saw," Monika said, looking up at Griffen, who was pacing back and forth around the living room.
"Yes. And you can't tell anyone about this."
"I know, I know..." Monika said, waving he comment away.
"Anyways, then there is Watermakers, who can will water and make stuff out of water like a water ball or something like that. I'm not really sure about that one. So far the only things that I can do is shoot lightening out of my hands and control the wind and fire and stuff."
"Wow, I wish I had what you have. How did you get the powers?" Monika asked.
"Oh, before I tell you how I got my powers, there also is Necromancers, who can talk and communicate with the dead. Not those stupid physics that think they can talk to the dead, because they can't. They just think they can. When Brian died, he told me that when he and I were born, we were given every power from every clan and sent here to be protected until we were old enough to fulfill the prophecy."
"What prophecy?" Monika asked.
"I think that Griffen can tell you about it," Reece said, looking up at Griffen, who stopped pacing when he heard his name.
"What? I was thinking. I wasn't even listening," Griffen said, frowning.
"Tell her about the prophecy."
"You told her everything else?" Griffen asked, surprised.
"Well, all that I could think of so far," Reece replied.
"Oh. So you want to know about the prophecy? Well, it was said that one day, a brother and a sister would be born and they would be gifted with every ability from every clan, which is at least six or seven, I can never remember. Anyways, once they were gifted with the powers, they would be protected until they could come and save the clans from destroying everyone and everything. And if Reece doesn't, then we will be doomed and the Skincrawlers and the Firewillers will take over and kill everyone off, even the leaders of the clans who look after the clans."
"Wait, aren't you a Firewiller?" Monika asked.
"Yes, I am, but I was the half that didn't join the Skincrawlers. I was the only survivor."
"Hold on," Reece said, remembering something that the Skincrawlers had asked her outside near the tree.
"What?" Griffen and Monika asked at the same time.
"The leader of the three Skincrawlers that were attacking us in the road near that one tree asked me where my real parents were, and I told them I didn't know, which I don't know where they are. So does that mean that they don't know where my real parents are? Do you think that they are hiding?" Reece asked, her heart racing as Griffen looked at her like she just figured out something that they needed to know.
"You right, there is no other reason why they would ask that unless they were trying to find them. They have to be in hiding from them because they knew that the Skincrawlers would come after them! And if they asked for both of your real parents, then that means that both of your parents have to be alive!" Griffen said, grabbing Monika and Reece's shoulder.
"I'm not understanding this. I thought that your real parents died in a freak airplane accident," Monika said, putting a finger to her lip, thinking.
"Those were my fake parents who were only here to protect me. But I think that the Skincrawlers and Firewillers must have gotten to them while they were on the plane ride home because I remember asking how it happened, and they said that a fire broke out and the plane just crashed into the water," Reece replied.
"Your right," Griffen said. "What time is it?"
"Umm, only ten twenty-three, why?" Monika asked.
"We need to get to a library because Griffen needs to look something up," Reece explained to her.
"You can go right now while no one is there. I have a key to get in! I volunteer when I have the time and I work when its closed!" Monika said excitedly.
"Really? I didn't know that," Reece said, wishing that she had known that.
"Yeah, I told you a ton of times and you just let it go in one ear and out the other," she replied, sighing.
"Really?" Reece said, knowing that Monika meant to have what she said make her wince. "I'm sorry I never talked to you like I am right now. You know me, I'm always busy and stuff like that."
"Don't give me that bull shit, Reece. I know you heard me, but you just didn't want to talk to me probably because you probably don't even want anything to do with me, right?" Monika asked.
"Honestly? I have no idea. But I will promise that any time that you want to talk to me, you just call me up okay?" Reece said, hoping that would get Monika to drop the conversation that was making Griffen really uncomfortable.
Monika frowned but then she thought, why not? If she's willing to talk to me whenever, then that's fine with me!
"Okay, but if you don't want to talk that's okay. I just wish that there wasn't so much tenseness between us. I mean, look at you!" Monika said, motioning to Reece who looked down at herself, not understanding what she was getting at.
"What do you mean?" Reece asked, frowning.
"I mean, we aren't this tense at your restaurant. Why are you so tense talking now?" She asked.
"I don't know, maybe its because I have to tell you something that I didn't want anyone knowing unless I really needed to tell them."
Monika's eyes went wide from what Reece had just said. She was shocked. Reece had never talked to her like that before.
"You mean that? You really think that you can't tell me because you have trust issues or something?" Monika asked, tears rolling down her cheeks.
Reece shook her head. "No, that's not what I meant at all. What I meant was that I just think someone shouldn't know something that they weren't meant to know. And I'm not trying to hurt your feelings, but you really don't need to know about all this."
"I don't understand. I want to be your friend and I can be useful! I am trying to be your friend, and all your doing is pushing me away. Maybe you don't need my help after all," Monika said, standing up from the soft couch. She walked up to her fireplace and had her back to Reece and Griffen, who were both staring at her.
"What have I done?" Reece asked Monika.
"Oh, I don't know..." Monika said as she turned to look Reece in the face. "maybe you did something like, oh, I don't know, push everyone that cares for you and wants to help you and just be friends with you away so that you can be friends with a total stranger?"
Reece creased her eyebrows and frowned. "Maybe if someone was trying to be friends with me, then they should forgive them for whatever they did even though they can't figure out what they did wrong and forget that the fight ever happened, but I guess that someone can't do that for the other person, can she?" Reece asked, her fists clenching into balls over and over again.
"What are you saying?" Monika asked, narrowing her dark eyes, her arms crossed over her chest.
"I'm saying just because I never listen to you, doesn't mean that I don't want to be your friend. I do want to be your friend, and I do admit that I never listen to anyone. I just learned that I have these powers that I never even believed in until three days ago and I have changed so much, that I don't even know who I am anymore, even if I look in the mirror and I see myself, but I am not