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

when he said that. "What are you saying?" She squeezed his hand.
William just looked at her. He was going to say something, but then someone from in front of them stopped.
Reece looked into the street to see a Skincrawler right in front of them, staring right at them. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the Little Piggy and the Player?"
William grabbed Reece's arm and pulled her behind him, tensing.
"What do you want, Skincrawler?" William asked.
"Just dropping by to say hello. And to kill you both!" The Skincrawler lunged at William, screaming as he ran at him.
William shoved Reece back as the Skincrawler hit him full force in the chest, Reece falling into the door, glass shattering on and around her. She was cut on the arm and her leg, but she still got up and ran inside.
Evernime was in the office, sleeping. She probably decided to get some sleep and give her and William some privacy outside. "Evernime! Help! William is being attacked by a Skincrawler!" she yelled.
Evernime yanked the door to the office open and ran past Reece, who followed her to the broken front door.
When they got there, the Skincrawler was tied up on the ground.
"How-" Reece was going to say, how did you do that so fast? but she remembered that he told her that he learned self-defense.
"What do you want, Skincrawler?" William asked, grabbing his shirt.
The Skincrawler smiled and spat in William's face. He wiped it off.
"Evernime, you can have him now," William said, shoving the Skincrawler back on the ground. Evernime smiled at William and grabbed his shirt in the same spot that William had and dragged him into the bar and flung him across the room as if he was nothing and landed with a THUD! against the wall. He slid to the floor.
"Who are you?" Evernime asked.
"I tell you nothing!" He spat.
"I am a Mindreader, and I think your going to tell me, or I will read your mind and see the truth!" Evernime said just as scary-like as the Skincrawler had.
"You lie!" he yelled, struggling to move, but he couldn't. William had grabbed a rope that had been tied on the door handle and tied it around the hands of the Skincrawler without touching him.
"I never lie. I cannot lie. If I do, then I die. Do you think that I would want to lose my life just to lie to a disgusting creature like you?" Evernime asked, both William and Reece knowing that it was part true and part lie. She couldn't lie, but it was possible to lie. She was just bending the truth. She would eventually die from telling lies and the more she lied, the quicker she died.
The Skincrawler went even more whiter than his usual skin color of gray as she said that.
"I was told to come here. I was told to kill the girl and if I couldn't, then I was to swipe her mind so that she didn't know who she was," the Skincrawler said, shaking with fear as Evernime and William picked him up.
"Wait!" Reece said. She didn't want to see another person die, even if it was a Skincrawler. "What are you going to do with him?"
"Kill him of course!" Evernime said with a smile. She truly hated Skincrawlers.
"No, I don't want you to kill him," Reece said, grabbing both Evernime and William's shoulders.
"What?" William and Evernime asked at the same time.
"I said don't kill him. I want to know what he meant by swipe my mind so that I wouldn't remember anything," Reece said, still standing in the same position as she had been.
"She's right. We need to know what he meant," William said, taking his hands off of the Skincrawlers leather jacket.
They all sat the Skincrawler down on the floor and stood over him.
"What is your name?" Reece asked.
"Why do you want to know my name?" He asked.
"Just because. So I don't have to keep calling you a Skincrawler, okay?" Reece said, rolling her eyes.
"Creon. My name is Creon."
"Well, then, Creon. Let my ask you this. Why do you believe in this prophecy?"
"Because. I just do."
"Just tell me, your probably going to die in the end, anyways, so go ahead, tell us," Reece said, knowing that she wasn't going to kill him.
Creon looked up at them with wide eyes. He was not expecting this. He didn't think that they would be this far with their abilities. He really didn't want to die now that he knew his wife was going to have their first child.
Reece looked at him closely, seeing something that she had never seen in a Skincrawler's eyes. "Hey, you look familiar, Creon."
"What are you talking about?" Creon asked, confused, then remembered that he had swiped her memory when she accidentally killed Monika.
"I see something in your eyes that I have never seen with any of the other Skincrawlers that I have come across with that in their eyes. It looks like..." Reece looked deeper into his eyes and saw something that made her gasp. "That's impossible!"
William and Evernime looked back and forth between Creon and Reece.
"What do you see?" William asked.
Reece shook her head. This couldn't be. She didn't think that Skincrawlers were even possible to do what she saw. "Its...its...love. I see love in his eyes. How is that even possible?"
William looked at Reece. "That can't be right, can it?"
Evernime shrugged, not knowing. "I have no idea. I don't see anything." She bent down to look, but like she said, she didn't see anything.
"Well, I do. I can see it plainly. Who is it that your in love with?" Reece asked Creon, who was still frowning at the way William and Evernime were trying to look into his eyes.
"My wife, if you must know."
Reece was surprised. "You have a wife?"
"Yes, and you killed her!" Creon said.
Suddenly, Reece saw something. She saw herself in her house at the top balcony with Monika and she had accidentally pushed her off the edge and killed her.
Reece staggered back, gasping for air.
"Reece? What's wrong?" William asked, rushing to her side.
"I...killed her. I had killed Monika!" Reece looked at Creon, who was smiling. "How is that possible? I saw myself accidentally push her off the edge of the balcony and she died. How is she still alive? I saw the blood and I saw..."
"Yes, you did kill her, but I brought her back to life. And I married her. I love her," Creon's eyes weren't looking at either of them, but they were imagining Monika standing there with him. "We are having a child together," he said, but more to himself then to them.
"A child?" Reece asked, catching her breath. "Monika is pregnant?"
"Who's Monika?" William asked, confused.
"She's one of my friends. Well, I thought she was one of my friends."
"She was never one of your friends!" Creon spat. "She wanted to be at first, but you just toyed with her until she lost it and accidentally lost her balance on that balcony and fell to her death because of you!" Creon moved closer to Reece.
Reece shook her head and backed away. "I never meant to! I have never had a friend before! You cannot blame me for something that was an accident! She is alive, so what does it matter?"
"It matters. I love her and I told myself that if anything happened to her, I would kill whoever did what they did to her. And I was going to kill you, but your boyfriend there stopped me."
"Why do you think that killing solves anything?" Reece whispered, sitting in front of him but not in reaching distance.
"I don't think it solves anything."
"Then why did you swear that you would kill me because of what I accidentally did?" Reece asked, looking at him.
Creon sighed. "I really don't like to kill at all. I was just saying that because I was mad. I don't want to even be in this at all, but I have to."
"Be in what?" Reece asked.
"This," Creon said, waving his hands as best he could around him. "I just wanted a normal life with Monika and forget that I was even what I am."
Reece suddenly felt sorry for him. "I'm sorry. I bet that your boss or whoever told you to do all of this."
Creon nodded. "Yes, its true. I always did what my creators told me to do. But that has to change. I needed to talk to Reece alone."
"I don't think so. You might try something we don't want you to try," William said, trying to get in front of Creon and Reece.
Reece pushed William's legs away from her so she could see Creon clearly.
"I think we should let them talk alone, William. I mean, Reece told me that she has killed a few before, and we can trust her, right?" Evernime said to William, who frowned when she actually agreed with Reece to leave her alone with Creon.
"I don't think that that is such a good idea, Evernime," William said, not moving from the spot he was at when Evernime tried to grab his arm and pull him along.
"Well, she can take care of herself, and he is tied up. Let them talk!" Evernime said, grabbing him by the waist and picked him up and took him into his office in the back where she closed the door behind the her when he tried to get past her.
"Tell me quickly. I want to know what is going on," Reece said.
"I need your help. I know we are supposed to be enemies, but I don't want to fight anymore. I just want to have a normal life with Monika and have our child together. That's all I want now."
"How am I supposed to help? And how am I supposed to believe you?" Reece asked, not sure what to believe. "Evernime said that Skincrawlers will try anything to get into people's minds."
"Not really. Us Skincrawlers just want to mess with people. In truth, they are just very weak creatures that think their stuff doesn't stink. I don't even care about the prophecy anymore. Like I said, I just want a life for me and my family," Creon said, looking down. Reece could see tears falling from his eyes. Even if he is a Skincrawler, she had never seen a male cry except her fake brother when their parents died in the plane accident.
Reece looked around and finally found what she was looking for. She used her telekinesis to pull a tissue out of the box and brought it up to Creon's eyes and wiped the tears off his cheeks and eyes. He looked up at her and searched for something.
"Why are you doing this for me?" he asked.
"I cannot stand to see someone crying, even if you are supposed to be my enemy."
"Oh," he said and took the tissue in his hands.
"There is no prophecy, you know. Its all just a legend," Reece said.
Creon looked up at her quickly. "What? Of course there is! The whole Skincrawler clan thinks of nothing else!"
"There isn't. Evernime can see the truth in everything, and she says that it was just made up and every clan decided to go through with it, even though it would never happen. Everyone was lied to, even the Skincrawlers."
Creon could see she was telling the truth. "Oh, my God. What have we done?"
"Killed millions of innocent people and other creatures is what you've all done. We all have been fighting over nothing.