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

type to want human's help. No offense," he said quickly.
"None taken. But I'm still not understanding why you want to help me or why your telling me about how you became a Skincrawler," Monika said, looking around with her eyes to see if there was an exit she could take just in case he decided to attack her, but only found the bedroom doors.
"I want to help Reece. I don't want the same thing to happen to her like it did to me. I really don't know how its possible to end up like something you got bitten from, but it happened to me. I was a human until one came up to me and bit me, out of the blue."
"What happened after that?" Monika asked, her heart racing from anticipation.
"Well, long story short, I was turned into this somehow, and let me tell you, it wasn't painless. Then he took me to where he said his Clan lives. And I know that Reece and Griffen want to get rid of them, and I do to because of what they did to me. You know what its like to eat humans? So gross. I try not to, though. I eat animals more than I do humans.
"Anyways, I know how they can kill them off. But I need you to get this message to them..."
Monika smiled and knew this was all a gimmick.


Griffen finally finished searching for the three things he was wanting and he headed back to Monika's place, where he saw the door was ajar. He didn't think that was good, so he began to run until he kicked the door open the rest of the way, calling Reece's name out loud.
"In here!" Reece yelled from somewhere in the back area of the house.
"Where?" Griffen yelled. "Where's Monika?"
"I'm in the bathroom! I can't move!" Reece called, and Griffen could hear her teeth chattering really, really hard.
Griffen ran to the back area and opened the first door that he saw, which was the right one, but it was only a room which looked like Monika's brother's room. He closed the door quickly and tried to open the left one, but it was locked. He backed up and kicked the door in, finding Reece rolled up in a ball, covered only by an extra large fluffy black towel on the floor by the toilet, her whole body from what he could see was blue and purple from being so cold.
Griffen rushed to her side and grabbed her in his arms. "What happened?" he asked, rocking back and forth.
"I-I was-s i-in the sh-h-ower a-and I-I sl-lipped and f-fell a-and couldn-n't g-get up," she said, her teeth still clinking together.
"Shh...just stop talking and you can tell me when your not freezing, okay?" Griffen said, picking her up, thankful she was wrapped in a towel.
He stepped on top of the kicked in door and took her to a bedroom, where he laid her on top of the bed and covered her whole body with at least ten blankets he could find in the closet in the room.
Instantly, Reece's teeth slowed to a stop and she began to warm up and she could talk better.
Griffen looked disturbed by what he saw.
"I can breath underwater, Griffen."
"That's what you did? You tried to drowned yourself just to see if you can breath underwater?" Griffen said. "What's the matter with you?"
"No, that's not what I meant. I was dirty, so I asked Monika if I could use the shower, and she said yes and went to get my hair brush and my tooth brush so that I could freshen up. And I stepped into the shower before I could get the water to the right temperature and I slipped and fell and something was holding me down. I guess that the tub had been plugged up because water was filling in the tub and it was really, really, freezing water."
"Oh, my God. What did you do?" Griffen asked, grabbing his temples and rubbed them, closing his eyes.
"Nothing. I just thought about how it would be to not be on the planet any more and I wasn't afraid to die. Then I thought about-" Reece stopped talking and thought about how she had thought she would never ever like Griffen more than a friend because she knew that it would be a distraction from what she really was going to do and she just really wanted to be friends with him anyways.
Griffen opened his eyes when Reece stopped explaining what happened. "So, what happened when you were thinking?"
"Well, the water was already passed my nose and mouth, and I knew that humans could only breath underwater so long, but I had stayed underwater longer than any normal human could, so I knew that something was different. And all of a sudden when I was thinking, I knew that I didn't want to die and I knew that I had to live through this no matter what, so I gathered what strength I had and I tried to move. But I couldn't so I thought: If I have powers that the Watermakers gave me, then I must be able to use water some how. So I put my hands palm up and closed my eyes."
Griffen was looking at her like a little kid would be looking at a person reading a child’s book to them as she talked about how she made it out of the tub. "What happened then?"
"When I opened my eyes, I had made all the water in the tub into a large water ball that was floating in mid-air right above me. And then I could move. It was weird. I was so freezing as I got out and I barely made it to the small closet in the bathroom to get a towel and I just lost all my strength and I just laid there until you came and got me."
"So, your telling me that you can make water into a ball like I can with fire?" Griffen asked, amazed.
"Yeah. I wish I knew about it before I was in a tub full of freezing water."
"But how did you figure out that you can breath underwater?" Griffen asked, sitting on the edge of the bed where her feet were still trying to get the feeling back in.
"I told you. I was in the tub underwater for like ten minutes before I could get my strength and try to get out. What does that tell you?" Reece asked, the color in her lips finally coming back to her normal color of a light pink and red.
"Oh, right. How though?"
"Well, come over here and look. While I was on the floor waiting for someone to come and get me, I felt my neck and I found this," Reece said, moving her long hair out of the way for Griffen to see.
"Oh, my God. Is that even possible?" Griffen asked, running his fingers over four lines of skin flaps in a row on her neck. "Are these what I think they are?"
"Yeah, gills. I think they just came in."
"You should have had them before today, don't you think?" Griffen asked, looking at the other side of her neck to see if the same marks were there.
"No because I have never been submerged underwater before. I don't know how to swim, Griffen. Silly, huh?" she asked, her face turning red.
"No, not at all. I didn't know how to swim until I was twelve years old. Usually people learn to swim when they are babies."
Reece giggled at how silly she felt.
Griffen was still looking at her neck, and he wasn't just looking at her new found gills. He took his eyes off her neck and moved closed to her, looking deeply into her beautiful eyes. He leaned in closer to her and kissed her before she could react.
Reece was surprised by the kiss, and she didn't even feel anything between them. The kiss still made her heart race, but she didn't feel anything other than her heart beating fast. He was kissing her with such desperation that it kind of scared Reece.
She pulled away from him, seeing the look in Griffen's eyes.
"When I was in the tub, thinking I was going to die, I told myself that if I ever made it out of there alive, I wouldn't get distracted by anyone or anything. And that means a relationship."
"But I thought you said that you would see how things went?" Griffen said, feeling rejected again like he had been when he tried to put his arm around her when they were sitting in her office at the restaurant.
"I know how much you like me, and I do like you, and I think your a smoking’ hot guy, but I don't think that we are right for each other. I do like you, don't get me wrong. But if we are going to be friends, I really don't want to mess that up by having a relationship with you," Reece said, not knowing how else to put it.
Griffen knew she was right. And he shouldn't have kissed her even if he desperately wanted to kiss her. He couldn't lose her like he had with Meg, and he almost did today, but she didn't and he didn't want to lose her.
"I have to tell you something, Reece. And I know that you don't feel the same way."
"Okay, tell me."
"I'm in love with you, Reece. I have been ever since we met. I fell in love with you when you had that shovel in my face," Griffen said, smiling when he thought about when they had first met. "And I also have to tell you that I had an ex-girlfriend named Meg. She was hunted by Skincrawlers and was murdered. She was the only thing that I cared about other than hunting Skincrawlers and killing them. When she died, I told myself that I would never care about anything else other than getting rid of Skincrawlers. Then I met you and you melted my heart into tar. I wasn’t supposed to fall for you, and I tried not to, but I can't help it. I think I really like you because you remind me of Meg. But your so much better.
"I need you. I can't stay away from you," Griffen said, not taking his eyes off of her the whole time he told her.
Reece didn't know what to think. No one has ever told her that before. But she knew in her heart, that she didn't love Griffen, even if she thought he had great abs. She so badly wanted to be friends with him, and she wouldn't know what to do without him as a friend.
"You understand what I'm getting at, don't you?" Griffen asked as Reece thought about what to say next.
Reece nodded and leaned over to him and kissed him lightly on the cheeks, telling him that this would be the last kiss he would get from her.
She pulled away from his slowly and said, "I hope you'll forgive me and still be friends with me, Griffen. That's all I want. If you love me enough, then you'll just be friends with me, okay?" Reece whispered.
"I understand. I want to be your friend too. Your right. And I shouldn't have kissed you like that."
"Its fine, just promise that we are going to tell each other these things any time. Because if we don't then that just means that we can't trust each other. I thought we had gotten to that in my house," Reece said, pulling the covers up to her neck to get them warm.
"I know. And