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

couldn't have been, Reece and you know it," William said, looking at Reece as she felt the lump. "Hey, what are you doing?"
Reece didn't even know what she was doing. Her fingers felt like a million tiny prickly things poking at her fingertips. Her fingers began to glow a bright reddish color. Not just her fingers were glowing, but her hands and then her arms.
"What's going on?" Reece asked, not moving her fingers from William.
William shook his head, wide-eyed. "I don't know! What are you doing?"
"I don't know!" Reece said.
Suddenly, the glow shot out of her fingertips and shot right into William's wound.
William cried out in pain, grabbing the wound. Reece backed up and gasped. The red glow was gone from her fingertips and so was the prickly feeling.
"Your wound! Its gone, William!" Reece said, pointing to where the lump should have been.
William looked down at the spot where his broken rib had been, but it was gone. "Reece...you healed me."
Reece wasn't listening to him. She was still looking at the wound that wasn't even there anymore.
"I don't get it," Reece whispered, shaking her head.
"What don't you get, Reece? You healed me!" William said, jumping up from the small bed that Griffen had brought in.
Suddenly, the door swung open and Creon walked in. "I heard someone say that they healed you?"
"Yes, Reece healed me!" William said, kissing Reece on the forehead.
"I-I healed you? How is that even possible?" Reece asked.
"Who cares!" William said, putting his hands up in the air. "You healed me is all that matters!"
"What's going on?" Evernime asked, standing up as she rubbed her tired eyes.
"Reece healed me!" William said, grabbing Reece, kissing her.
"I did, didn't I?" Reece said smiling.
"Yes you did!" William said, grinning. He picked Reece up and spun her around.
"How did you do it?" Creon asked.
"Well, I'm not really sure. I was touching William's wound and then I was thinking if it was possible to heal someone, and then my fingers started to glow and then he was healed!" Reece said, laughing. "I healed you, William!"
Evernime chuckled, smiling to herself as she shook her head in disbelief. Reece was coming out with more and more powers that she didn't even know about.
"So, you can heal people? What else can you do?" Evernime asked, putting a hand on her shoulder, laughing.
William stopped spinning Reece around in circles and sat her down on the bed.
"I don't know. New powers keep emerging every now and then. I don't even know how to use half the ones that I already have!" Reece said.
Evernime chuckled again and sat next to Reece, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Reece, I may not like how your with William, but each person in this room likes you just the way you are. And so do I. You have extraordinary powers no on else in the world would ever dream of having. Your like a wand full of powers walking around like nothing. I just don't get how you can, but I always thought that your powers are more stronger when you believe in yourself. Well, that and the wave patterns in the air. You are a wonderful, beautiful woman. And I think that's why everyone likes you so much, Reece."
Reece looked up at her and smiled. "Really?"
Evernime nodded and hugged her. "Your a great friend, Reece, and I know that I get jealous sometimes, but I do like you and don't you get me wrong."
"Why are you telling me this now? Everyone already knows that you get jealous. Its okay though. Your a great friend too, Evernime."
"Please, call me Ever," She said, waving her hand.
William looked at Evernime. She never let just anyone call her that. He was holding his breath without noticing and suddenly began to cough.
Reece and Evernime looked up. "You okay there, William?" Evernime asked.
William coughed again, shaking his head. "I'm fine. I was just holding my breath. Evernime doesn't just let anyone call her that, you know, Reece."
"No, I didn't know that. But I'm honored. Did you get your sleep that you wanted, Ever?" Reece asked, grinning.
Evernime laughed. "Not really. Who needs sleep anyways when they are on the run with a supernatural chick that doesn't even know all her powers and a freaky Skincrawler who was madly in love with his wife and an almost-ex-husband?"
Everyone laughed a few minutes, but went silent after a few. The sky was turning a bright pink outside.
"So, when are we going to the Skincrawlers layer?" Reece asked, looking out the dusty window.
Creon sighed and lowered his head.
He still didn't want to tell them where the layer was, even though he told them that it was in Texas, which it is, he didn't want them to know where the exact location is.
"Look you guys, I know that you've made a plan and all to go to the Skincrawler's layer and all, but I don't think that I can. I mean, I would be a traitor. They would hate me if I ratted out where the live. I mean, they can be civilized if they wanted to be!" Creon said.
"Creon. We've been over this so many times!" Reece said. "We don't want to hurt them, even if they are savage creatures that only think of themselves. We just want to talk to them. Nothing more than that. We are only going to try and talk to them about a truce so that we don't have to worry about them anymore."
"I still am not so sure about that. They will still hate me for it," Creon said, closing his eyes.
"I am sorry, Creon, but if you won't tell me, then I will have to ask Monika because she knows where it is," Reece said, standing up. She walked over to Creon and put a hand on his shoulder as she past him.
Suddenly, Monika appeared. "Hi, Reece! You call?"
"Sort of. Your husband doesn't want to tell me where the Skincrawlers layer is. You know where it is, don't you?" Reece asked, looking towards Creon, who wasn't looking at anyone.
"I figured out how to show myself to anyone else now! I will talk to him if that's what you want me to do. He just doesn't want to betray his own kind is all. But I know that you would never!" Monika said, floating over to Creon, who shook as he felt a draft.
Monika showed herself to Creon, who gasped and fell to his knees.
"Monika..." Creon breathed.
"Yes, its me. I want to tell you that you are not being very fair to them. All they are trying to do is save the human race. And they want to do it in the most civilized way. But your just not being very fair about it!" Monika said, shaking her finger at him.
Creon nodded, still on his knees. He looked as if he was praying.
"I will. I will!" Creon said, nodding.
"So you are going to tell them where it is, or I will!" Monika said.
Creon nodded about a million times until Monika said she loved him and disappeared.
"Wow, that gets freakier every time I see it," William said, shaking his head.
Reece laughed. "So, Creon. Where is it?"
Creon sighed and stood up slowly. "In Texas."
"We already know that, Creon. Just tell us, please," Evernime said.
"Okay, fine. Its around the Alpine area. You can find it from there," Creon said, feeling like he betrayed his clan. But he already had once he quite eating humans and married a human and had a child with her, so it really didn't matter.
"The Alpine area? What is that supposed to mean?" Evernime asked, confused.
"That's where it is, now please, just don't ask me again. I think I need to leave," Creon said, pushing the door open.
"Wait, Creon. We need you still. If your not there, then they might think that we are just trying something silly! Please! If your there, they might actually believe us!" Reece said, pleading him to stay.
Creon stopped at the door and turned back. "Fine, but if they don't want to the first time, then I will fight with them, not you. I will fight with them because I am a Skincrawler, nothing more. And I belong with them, not you."
"Then why did you come to us asking for help?" Reece asked, narrowing her eyes at him.
Creon was about to say something, but stopped, knowing she was right. He had come to them for help because he had no reason to stay with the Skincrawlers.
He sighed and closed the door. "Your right. I need to start acting like the person that I am."
"That's right, you should. Now, lets call a cab," Reece said, taking William's cell phone out of his pocket.


{~Chapter nine~}


Reece was jolted awake. The cab driver had run over a large bump in the road.
"Uh, Cab driver? How far till we get there?" Reece asked.
"We are just about there. All ya'll have been sleeping the whole way here. Ah, here ya'll are!"
Reece shook everyone awake.
"We're here!" Reece said, excitedly.
William rubbed his eyes, smiling when he saw Reece looking at him.
"What? Already?" William asked, planting a kiss on Reece's lips.
She smiled and returned the kiss. "We are."
Evernime and Creon woke up a few seconds later.
"So, this is it?" the cab driver asked. "The middle of nowhere?"
"Yup! This is it!" Reece replied, jumping out of the car followed by everyone else.
"So how much do we owe you?" William asked, handing him a wade of money.
The cab driver smiled and said, "This should do it. Thanks."
Once everyone was out of the cab, he drove away, dry dirt flying in their faces.
"So, Creon. Where is it? I don't see anything," Reece said, looking around. She grabbed William's hand and started walking.
"Its over there. I wish you could see it, but only Skincrawlers can," Creon said, shaking his head.
"Well, lead us to the layer!" William said, putting a fist to the air.
Creon sighed and began walking to the layer of the Skincrawlers.


They were walking so long and everyone even Creon was getting tired of walking.
"When are we going to get there?" Evernime wined.
"Yeah, when?" William asked, wiping sweat off his face.
"We are almost there. Just hold on a few more minutes. We could have asked the cab driver to drive us over here," Creon said, pointing to the layer entrance. "but no...none of you wanted to."
"Well, we didn't know where it is!" Reece said.
Creon sighed. He had been thinking about something ever since they began to walk to the layer. What if he just went into the layer and asked them to forget about the prophecy. Or he could wipe everyone's memories. One or the other.
"Creon?" Reece asked, stopping in front of Creon who had stopped walking.
Creon looked up at her, frowning. "I've been thinking, Reece. Since none of you are Skincrawlers and they only like Skincrawlers to enter, why don't I just go in myself?"
Reece frowned. Some how she just knew that he would say something like that.
"I don't know. I don't think you could take on Erone and Roney even if you tried. We are all in this together, and you know it, Creon," Reece said.
"You talking about us?" a voice said from behind them.