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

/> Monika looked at her husband. "I know, honey, but we must be. Good things come to those who wait, remember?"
Creon looked at his wife and sighed. How did he get so lucky?
Well, he had gotten lucky when Monika first found out about Skincrawlers and the rest of the Clans when one night Reece had let Monika come to her house with her and Reece had went to her second floor and accidentally bumped Monika, who fell off the balcony and fell to her death. Reece didn't know what to do and she panicked, leaving her house. She left her house, thinking that what had happened was all just a dream, but in fact, it was real and Creon had seen the whole thing.
Once Reece panicked and left her house, he ran up to Monika, who was bloody and dead and he brought her to life.
Now, you must be wondering how it is possible for a Skincrawler to bring back someone from the dead, but Creon was different from all the rest of the Skincrawlers. He was a Skincrawler with every power from every Clan there is, with some bonus powers that only he possessed.
He had gotten his powers from his creators, Roney and Erone, who wanted to make a new world with creatures that not even the King or Queen of the Clans could think to exist. So they did, and Creon was the first one.
When he was created, he hated his creators, but soon grew to love why they had done what they had done.
His creators wanted him to watch over Reece to make sure that she didn't find out what had happened to Monika.
They had met one day when he was watching Reece at her restaurant, and had sat down at a booth. Monika walked up to him and asked what he wanted to order, so he ordered some food and fell for her instantly.
But when Reece had invited Monika over to her house one night because it was her birthday, she had fallen from the balcony and died in front of Creon's eyes.
When Reece had panicked and left, he rushed to her side and brought her back to life and told her everything that had happened to her and how he felt about her. She believed him of course and they made The Plan to get revenge on her for what she had done to her and Creon and everyone else. But the hate to Reece grew more and more over the years.
But once Reece came back home and found Monika sitting on the couch, obviously not dead, she felt much better and walked right into Creon, who took the memory of Monika dead and left before Reece could come around to figuring out what had just happened. When Reece asked Monika what had happened, she just said, "I didn't see anything. You must be tired."
She had said that so nicely, but on the inside, she wanted to kill her.
"Yes, I know dear. I must wait. And I will, but I don't want to," Creon said, grunting.
Monika looked at her husband, dreading how she was going to tell him what she had been wanting to tell him for days now, but was afraid about how he would react.
"Creon, honey. I have to tell you something very important. But I don't want you to get mad at me, okay?" Monika said, grabbing Creon's arm and pulled him down to the couch. Creon looked puzzled, not sure what she was going to say. "I don't know how this will affect The Plan, but...I'm..."
"What? Spit it out!" Creon demanded, trying not to get angry as she stalled.
"I'm pregnant," Monika squeaked out in a whisper.


Reece looked through her safe until she found the money that she had kept in there for emergencies only. And she felt that this was an emergency.
"Got some?" Griffen asked.
"Yeah, here, hold it for me while I get something else, okay?" Reece asked, not even bothering to question her decision to make Griffen hold the money while she grabbed some things out of it.
"I thought that you had trust issues?" Griffen asked, smirking as he took the large stack of money. When he looked at it, he said, "Whoa! How much did you grab?"
"Almost half a million. We might need it," Reece said, still moving some stuff around in the safe, finding the matching necklace that went with the one that had opened the box Brian had given her.
"Half a million?" Griffen squeaked out a little to loudly.
"Shh!" Reece said, standing up as she slammed the safe closed, locking it.
"Don't you think someone would know about it?" Griffen asked, frowning as he handed the money back to Reece, who stuffed it into her pocket, making it bulge out on her side. "And don't you think that someone would think that its suspicious that you have half a million dollars stuffed in your pocket?"
Reece frowned and thought about it. "Yeah, your right. Didn't think of that. But we might need it. What if we needed to stay somewhere like a hotel or something? Or some food and water? Or a cab?"
"Well, you got me there, but how are we going to hide the money? And can I ask how long you've been saving that much up?" Griffen asked, pointing to her stuffed pocket.
"I've been saving it since five years ago. I've been putting money in the safe here and there, which came in handy because I've never touched it till now. No one even knows this safe is here, not even Monika. I just thought that I should have one with me just in case I needed more money for the house or something. But I don't think I will be seeing the house anymore," Reece said, thinking about how Officer Greg would be coming by today. Or was that yesterday? "Oh, Griffen. The police are coming by my house today, so we need to stay clear of it, okay?"
Griffen nodded, still thinking about how to hide the half a million dollars.
"Wait, what if you gave me half of the half million and I'll hide it on me!"
"That's a terrible idea, even if I trust you, Griffen," Reece said, smiling as she raised her eyebrows at him, who scoffed and said, "Well, I thought it was a good idea!"
Reece shook her head and looked around her office to see if there was anything to hide to money in.
Suddenly, Brian appeared.
"Oh, hey Brian. What's up?" Reece asked, still not believing that she was talking to a ghost.
"I need to talk to you," he said, looking at Griffen, who was staring at Reece with a look. "Alone."
"Its okay, he can't hear you," Reece reassured him.
Brian took another look at him and smiled. "Of course he can't, Sis. Just a minute, though, will you?"
Reece nodded and watched Brian disappear and reappear in front of Griffen, who's expression changed from Reece-is-talking-to-a-ghost-guy to I-think-someone-or-something-is-right-in-front-of-me-and-I-can't-see-them-because-the-guy-in-front-of-me-is-a-ghost-maybe-I-don't-know.
Brian grabbed Griffen's face in his hands and shook him, causing Griffen to freak out and yell, "Reece! If this is your brother doing this to me, I don't like it!" Griffen back up, but that didn't help anything.
Reece looked at him and half smiled, knowing that this was the old Brian she knew. "He wants you to leave so that we can talk in private, Griffen, so just go out and watch for anyone, okay?"
Griffen nodded, eyes wide and left without saying anything then closed the door behind him.
"What was that all about?" Reece asked, hugging Brian, who seemed distracted by something else.
"I have to tell you something."
"Sure, what?" Reece asked, seeing the worried look on his face, telling her that something was bad.
"I learned something that I think you'll want to hear."
"Well, tell me," Reece said.
"I was looking for our parents, when I came by another ghost, who said that she was killed by a Skincrawler who has the same powers as you, but more. You know how Sightseers or anyone in the world for that matter can't make people forget stuff? Well, this one can."
Reece couldn't believe her ears. "Are you sure?" she asked.
"See, I asked her the same thing, and she said that when she was captured, she was taken to the Skincrawler's House, you know, their Layer, and was bitten. She said there was tons of those kinds of Skincrawlers."
"So, your saying that there is a new brand of Skincrawlers, better than the old ones?" Reece asked.
"Yes. She also told me that while the new and improved Skincrawlers had her locked up, she heard some of the new Skincrawlers talking about something called The Plan. She said that they are going to kill off all the old Clans after they get rid of our parents and that would start a new world. She also told me that they were going to kill off all of the humans so that they don't get into the way while they are trying to make new ones. You have to stop them, Reece."
Reece couldn't believe what she was hearing. She just found out that she had powers that could stop them, and now they have newer and better ones that overpowered her. And she didn't have Brian with her anymore except in ghost form, and he really wasn't any use except to tell her things like what he was telling her right now.
"What am I supposed to do?" Reece asked finally understanding that she had to save the world soon or the whole planet would be slaves to them.
"I don't know. How are you doing on the whole thing? How far are to finding our parents?" Brian asked.
"You know, if your a ghost or something, you should be able to go to where they are and find them and stuff, but you don't do you?" Reece asked, not answering his question.
"I can't," Brian said, frowning.
"Why not?" Reece asked, confused. She always thought ghosts could do anything they wanted to do.
"Because I am stuck here with you. I cannot leave your side. I might not show myself all the time, but I can only go, like, a hundred miles away from you."
"Why?"
"Because, sister. I'm a ghost that can't cross over until I help out whoever He chooses. And he chose you for me to help. At least I didn't get someone that I didn't know. But once I help you, then I can cross over. Until then, I'm stuck with you even if I don't show up often."
Reece sighed, looking around her office. "Do you have anything that I can hide this money in?"
Brian looked at where Reece had said, seeing a big wad of money in her jean pocket sticking out like she had shoved a whole head in.
"I don't know. Why do you have so much money in your pocket?" Brian asked, laughing.
"Well, Griffen set a meeting up with his old friend, who hunts Skincrawlers and he thinks they can help. I don't even really remember why we have to meet him," Reece said, then remembered that she was to train with someone. "Maybe he will teach me to train or something. I don't really remember why. Seems like I've been forgetting stuff, huh?" she smiled, but it faded when she thought about how Monika had acted towards her.
"Well, why don't you put the money onto a credit card?" Brian suggested.
Reece shook her head. "I don't think that will work because I don't want anyone knowing that I have that much money. But we need it because we might need food and water and a cab