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

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Monika shook her head, not speaking. This was her last breath she would take because Roney smiled just as Erone had and sliced her neck, killing her instantly.
Her blood dripped into the grass just as it had when she had first died that day she slipped off of Reece's balcony.


Griffen knew something was wrong. He just knew it. Something was wrong with Reece. Every time that something was bad, he would get a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach and it was never wrong.
Griffen was at the Bellagio where Reece had always wnted to go when he got the feeling in his stomach.
The moment that the strange feeling started, he packed whatever he could find, which wasn't much and checked out, faces and eyes staring at him, whispering questions like, 'why is he leaving such a wonderful place when he just got here?' and 'why is he leaving?'
He ran as fast as his legs could take him and he made it to the small bar after two o' clock in the evening.
He looked at what was in front of him. The front glass doors to the bar were broken and shattered.
He opened the door slowly and saw the whole place was a mess. It looked as if someone had struggled in there. Someone must have slammed a body into the wall because there was a large indent of a body on the far wall in the bar area.
"Hello?" Griffen asked, looking around the bar, seeing nothing that would help him find Reece and the others.
He walked over to the counter and walked around it, seeing that they didn't clean up the spot where Reece had telepathically shoved him against.
Then his eyes spotted something. A note on the counter. he picked it up, thinking it was a ransom note from the Skincrawlers or something.
It read: Dear Griffen,
By the time you read this, I will be long gone with William and Evernime, followed by a man named Creon, who is a Skincrawler with great powers, but he does not want to hurt us. I will explain everything to you when/if you want to find us. We going to a place called the California Pizza or something like that. Well, that's what William said. He should know. He lives here. Lol. So, if you are still wanting to be with us, then come find us. We probably will be there for a few hours and right now its past twelve o' clock, so...just come find us if you want. If you get this note after today, then we are heading to the Skincrawlers layer to fix things. I miss you, Griffen please come find us.
I have a lot to tell you about us.
♥Reece

Griffen sighed, thinking about what Reece had wrote about 'us'. Does he mean her and him together? Or...he didn't really know what to think of it.
He knew where the California Pizza was. He past by it on the way to the Bellagio.
Griffen waded the note up and threw it on the floor, running out the door. He would be there in twenty minutes or less if he ran as fast as he could.
But what if they already left? He didn't know what to do if they had already left.


Seventeen minutes later, he made it to the pizza place and jogged in, stopping instantly, the door hitting him in the butt.
He saw something that made his emotions go wild.
William and Reece were kissing. She hadn't been talking about him and her, she had been talking about those two together. It made him made, and also sad to know he lost her. He should have known when Evernime sent that telepathic message to him saying that he would lose her to William if he didn't try. And that was when he left, so it was his own fault.
He slowly walked over to their table once he saw William get up to go to the bathroom, standing right in front of them.
"Hello, Reece," Griffen said, sitting at the only other empty table.
Reece looked up from her plate and stared at him like he wasn't there. "Is it really you?"
Griffen nodded.
"Where have you been? Do you know how worried I have been about you?" Reece asked.
"No, I haven't. Didn't know it was your business to worry about me. I thought you would be more worried about your boyfriend over there in he bathroom," Griffen said.
Reece's face went white. "How did you know?" she whispered, looking down at her pizza.
"When I walked in and saw you sucking his face," Griffen said a little too rudely.
Reece's head snapped up from her food. "You jealous, Griffen?"
"A little," he said.
"Well, get over it. There is nothing you can do. Evernime told me that you had your chance, and William took it because you left because you were pitying yourself," Reece said, taking a bite of her pizza.
"I don't understand you, Reece. Why didn't you give me a chance when you know me more and longer than you do William? You just met him yesterday," Griffen asked, knowing what she would say.
"Because I fell in love with him. If that's okay with you. Oh, wait. Its probably not," Reece said, smirking.
Evernime smiled to herself. Reece was right though. Griffen had his chance, but he blew it and left, so William took his chance and won her over. Evernime knew that this how it would end up, anyways.
"Okay, young ones, why don't we stop talking about this. We all now know that Reece is dating William. Now get on with it before I lose my mind!" Evernime said.
"On the other hand, if William hadn't been here when Griffen left, he would have ended up with Reece, but he probably was to fixated on self-pity," Creon said, taking a bite out of his pizza slice.
Griffen looked over at Evernime and Creon. He hadn't even noticed that they were there until now. He had been fixated on Reece.
"Who is this?" Griffen asked.
"This is Creon. He is a Skincrawler," Reece said, thankful to change the subject.
Griffen stood up as fast as he could and was on Creon before anyone in the place could stop him.
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
Creon grunted.
Reece stood, looking around, glad that there was only a few people. None of the people in there even bothered to look their way. Maybe they see this all the time. The cooks weren't looking either, so that was a good thing too. "Griffen!" She hissed in his ear. "Let him go right now, or I will kill you!"
Griffen knew she would if she had to, so he let Creon go and sat back down in the chair he had been sitting in when he got there.
"What the hell man?" Creon asked, fixing himself.
"Why is he here? Who is he?" Griffen asked.
"This man, that you just attacked is not on the Skincrawlers side. He is on ours. He wants a normal life with his wife, Monika. They are having a child together and he is going to help us fight the other Skincrawlers if we have to. We are going to try and explain things to them. There is no prophecy and he is going to try and explain that to them. But if they don't like it, then we will fight them till death," Reece said.
"What? Are you crazy?" Griffen asked, looking around for William. Thank goodness he wasn't out of the bathroom yet. "Monika? He is married to Monika and they have a child together?"
"Yes! They love each other very much, and I could see it when I met him. Now you should know about love unless you only think of yourself anymore," Reece said, sitting down, her appetite gone.
"I do love you Reece and you know it. Don't even think twice about that. I cannot even believe that you think I only think of myself. When I left, all I thought about was you,' Griffen said.
"I don't believe you, Griffen. I might trust you with my life, but I do not believe you one bit. If you cared about me, then you would never have left. All you were thinking about was yourself and you know it!" Reece said, pointing her finger at him. "If you really cared about me, you wouldn't care how much I kissed William or not. You would have kept you mouth shut and not say a word, but you didn't. If you still care about me, then your going to have to prove it to me, or you can walk out that door right now and never come back again and you can just pity yourself!"
Tears fell from Reece's eyes and she stood up and ran to the bathroom. She stopped at the sink and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked at her eyes and saw that they had puffed out, telling her that she really had cried.
She sighed and stepped into a stall to cry some more. She couldn't believe that Griffen had actually showed up and yelled at her for being with William. He should have known that that would happen if he left, but he left anyways because all he could think of was himself.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the bathroom stall door. "Its me, Reece. Let me in. We still need to talk about this."
It was Griffen of course. Still wanting to talk about something Reece didn't want to talk about.
"Go away, Griffen! I told you, I am in love with William and you had your chance and you blew it so now I am with someone else and your just going to have to deal with it," she said trying not to cry anymore.
"Please, Reece. Come out and we can talk about it, okay?" Griffen said, sighing deeply.
"Why won't you get it, Griffen? I told you at the table. If you cared about anyone else other than you, you wouldn't have done what you did. I'm sorry, but I think that you should leave," Reece whispered.
Griffen didn't say anything but just stood in front of the girl's bathroom stall and sighed again. He knew she was right, but he didn't want to admit it.
Reece waited until she heard Griffen's heavy footsteps and the door close behind him as he left the bathroom.
She opened the door and slowly looked around to make sure that he was gone. He was, so she left the bathroom after looking in the mirror quickly.
She walked over to the table they had sat at. Griffen wasn't there. He had left like Reece asked him to. He had proven to her that he did love her.
"Hey, you okay?" Evernime asked, standing up. She turned to Reece and put an arm around her shoulder for comfort.
"Where is William?" Reece asked, looking around. "He should have came out of the bathroom a long time ago."
"He did. He just went to go and pay for the pizza," Creon said, standing as he wiped the crumbs off of himself.
Reece looked at the register and saw William handing some money to the cash lady. He turned to look at the table and saw Reece there and smiled at her.
Once he got a slip from the lad, he walked over to her and grabbed her hand. "What took you so long?"
Reece smiled weakly. "Griffen came here while you were in the bathroom. We got into a fight and I told him to leave,