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

or a hotel or something that we need for certain. So I have to take this much because I don't want to be left on a sidewalk stranded or something."
Brian nodded, understanding where she was getting at.
Reece shook her head, sighing, at loss. She didn't know what to do. Griffen would be upset when he finds out about the new and improved Skincrawlers. "Wait, did the other ghost you were talking to say anything about newer Firewillers?"
Brian frowned, thinking. "I'm think she said something about the Skincrawlers are going to just kill them off because they are a nuisance to them or something like that."
"Oh, Griffen won't be very happy when he hears this. I just don't know what to do," Reece said, remembering when she was in the bath tub. Reece looked up at Brian. "Oh! I forgot to tell you something! I almost died today!"
Brian looked worried when she said that excitedly. "How is that good? Your happy you almost died?"
"No, you don't understand. Okay, so I was at Monika's place and I had asked to take a shower, and you know how I like to stand outside the shower until the water is the right temperature? Well, I was so tired, I forgot about that and I stepped into the tub and slipped and fell. And I didn't even notice that the tub plug was plugged, and the tub was filling up with freezing cold water and I couldn't move. So I thought about how it would be nice to not be on the planet anymore, and I didn't care if I died or not, but then I thought that I needed to live, so I somehow made a water ball in mid-air above me and I could move again. It was weird. And I found out that I can breath underwater. See, I have gills," Reece said in one breath, moving her hair out of the way for her brother to take a look at. Brian looked at the gills on her kneck, then smiled.
"I have some too. We have to same powers, remember?" Brian asked, still looking at the gills. "I still should have told you long ago. How long were you under the water for?"
"Almost ten minutes or something like that. I wasn't really counting. I should have learned to swim years ago. I still don't know how," Reece said, frowning.
"Yeah, we have made some mistakes in our lives, huh?" Brian asked.
"Yeah, we have. But we can't go back in time and change that, no can we?" Reece asked, knowing what he would say.
"Nope, we can't. But listen. I have to leave again, but I will be back so that I can keep an update of things going on, okay?" Brian said, fading from her sight.
"Wait, Brian!" Reece said, trying to grab his wrist, but her hand just went through his.
"Yes?" he asked, the fading stopped.
"When I was in the bathroom, I saw a shadowed figure, and I think it was a man. Do you think you could look for him?" Reece asked.
"You saw a man in the bathroom?" Brian asked, confused.
"Not exactly. I saw something tall and large, but it was only a shadow. I don't really know what it was or if it was a person. I'm not really sure," Reece said, trying to describe it, but couldn't really.
Brian nodded, trying to picture what Reece had described to him, but he couldn't.
"I have to go now, Reece, but if you need me, you know how to find me, after all, you are the one from the prophecy," Brian said, smiling as he disappeared.
Reece sighed. She had no idea what he had meant by if she needed him, that he would be there or something like that. She didn't even know how she was going to tell Griffen about what Brian had told her.
She opened the office door and Griffen walked back in. "So, what's going on?" he asked.
Reece sighed and looked away from him, not even sure how to tell him. He probably wouldn't believe her.
"I have to tell you something, Griffen. And I don't think that you will like what I'm going to tell you. So, before I tell you, why don't we get a cab and head to Las Vegas?" Reece asked, not wanting to tell him right now.
"Just tell me now, Reece. What's going on?" Griffen asked, knowing that she wasn't about to tell him now. It had to be something really bad.
"No, lets get a cab. Then I'll tell you. How far is it to Las Vegas?" Reece asked, changing the subject as she pulled Griffen out the door, making him close the door behind him.
"I don't know. Maybe three or four hours. Why?"
"Just wondering. Lets go," Reece said, feeling at loss. She hardly could control her powers, so what made her brother think that she could save the world? She can't. That's how.
Griffen looked at Reece who had shoved Griffen out the door of her restaurant and locked it, throwing the key back into the rock that hid it well. She seemed distracted, which only told Griffen that it was something bad that Brian had told her, and she didn't want to tell him because she thought he would be mad at her over it.
Griffen knew he would never get mad at her over nothing. But she thought differently. She just needed to learn to trust him, and he thought she didn't trust him as much as he would like her to. She did trust him, but not enough. She still had trust issues.
"You okay, Reece?" Griffen asked.
"I don't know. You'll say the same thing to me when you find out what I found out," Reece said, walking past Griffen towards the street.
Griffen ran to catch up to her. "Is it that bad?" he asked.
Reece nodded, not trusting herself to say anything.
Griffen didn't even bother to ask what it was about because he knew she wouldn't tell him yet.
Reece looked up at Griffen as they walked to the main street to get a cab with a look on her face that Griffen couldn't identify.
"Reece?" Griffen whispered, still trying to make out her look on her face.
"Hmm?" she asked, looking away from him so that he wouldn't see her tears, but it was already too late.
"I want to tell you that you can tell me anything, no matter how it will make me feel, okay?" he said, not sure what else to say.
Reece nodded, knowing he was right. She looked back up at him, thinking. "Why are you here, Griffen?"
"Why am I here?" Griffen asked, not sure how to answer her.
"Yeah, why are you here? I mean, I haven't been very nice to you and I don't even know why your helping me by asking your friend that I don't even know to help me to. I just don't get it."
Griffen thought about what she had asked, not sure what she meant. She knew how he felt about her, and it was really hard just telling her that to her face.
"You know how I feel about you. What else is there to say besides the fact that I am friends with the girl from the prophecy," Griffen said, sort of feeling uncomfortable talking about this.
Reece didn't talk until they reached the end of the road and stopped. She looked up at him and stared into his eyes.
"No, Griffen. We are best friends. Even if you like me more than that, you are the only friend that I really had or have. I never had someone that would kill to save me from a freakish creature that wanted to eat your guts out. I never had someone to talk to. I have always been the kind that hides in the back of the classroom so that no one would even look my way or pick on me to be their science partner. I was always the one that got picked on when I dared to sit on the swings that was owned by the bigger kids.
"I don't want to be that girl anymore. I want to save the world and I want to be the one who everyone knows and wants to be my friend. I am so tired of hiding in the background until someone that I don't know comes to my rescue and takes me off to some land that doesn't exist. I'm tired of living like a regular person. I just want to be me," Reece said, knowing that it was true. She did want to be herself, and she was tired of hiding. She needed, wanted, to be the person that she was meant to be.
Griffen looked at her as she pulled back from him when she had yelled at him a second ago.
"Oh," was all Griffen could get out.
"Griffen, from now on, I am taking charge, and no one is going to stop me. Not even you. Lets get a taxi and get to Las Vegas so that William can help us and teach me to control my powers. I don't know why you can't though."
"I told you. I cannot help you with that kind of things because I don't know all the things you can do. William knows way more than me because he knows more people with powers in his group that keep him updated about things. I think he would be better at helping you than me," Griffen said, frowning as Reece walked past him and whistled so loudly, that his ears rang for a few minutes.
A cab pulled up and a woman stepped out of the cab, opening the door.
Reece put a foot in the car and nodded to the woman. Griffen followed her and went to the other side of the cab and opened the door, sitting himself in the seat that had so many rips in it, that he couldn't believe it was still sit-able. He closed the door after Reece had and the woman got into the cab drivers seat and waited for Reece to give her directions.
"Where to, Reece?" The woman asked.
Reece looked at Griffen for the answer. "Las Vegas. I want you to take us to Las Vegas."
"Seriously?" the woman said, raising her eyebrows.
"Yes. The Black bar to be exact. I don't know the address, Ma'am, sorry," Griffen said.
The woman nodded, mad that she had to punch in The Black Bar into her GPS system.
Griffen leaned over to Reece, who was as far as she could get away from him and asked, "Do you know her?"
She nodded, whispering, "She was once my babysitter until my brother was old enough to watch me."
The woman looked into the mirror and said, "I'm sorry to hear about your brother, he was a good man, Reece."
Reece nodded, and resumed looking out the window, telling her and Griffen that she wasn't going to talk, but Griffen wanted to know what Brian had told her.
"Hey, aren't you going to tell me what happened?" Griffen asked, shifting uncomfortably in the seat.
"Not till we get to Las Vegas."
"But-" he started to say, but she gave him a look that told him to shut up.
She didn't want to tell him yet. And she wasn't going to. Not yet. Not while her old babysitter Mary was in the cab. She didn't even think about it, but it was too late now. "Just wait till we get there. For now, just sleep. You look terrible, Griffen."
She rested her head on the window as they drove out of town.
Griffen didn't know where this all of a