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

see how you made lightening come to you! And the fire! Your so much better than I am at using fire! I can't even make that much fire come to me, no matter how much I want it to! Your a natural!" Griffen said, hugging her, swaying.
Reece lifted her head and looked at Griffen and saw the truth in his eyes. "Really? You think that?"
"Of course! Your an amazing person, and I wouldn't want you to change," he said.
"Really?" she repeated.
"Yes. So why don't we go and look for those papers of yours?" Griffen asked, putting his arm around her shoulder.
"Lets take the scroll. Where did you leave it?" Reece asked, looking around.
"I left it-" Griffen stopped, gasped as he looked at the burnt dust on the rotten table that was also burnt to a pulp.
"Oh, no. Did I do that?" Reece asked, putting her hand on the scroll that was now a dust pile.
"It was an accident. I don't think it was important though," Griffen said, pulling Reece to the door.
"No, it was important! If Brian showed it to me, then it had to have been important!" Reece said.
"We can figure out all of this later. Lets just get your papers and go find those people that can help us, okay?" Griffen asked, looking into Reece's eyes.
Reece nodded, knowing that he was right.


{~Chapter three~}


It was chaos at her house by the time they got there when it was dark. Police were still there, trying to find answers and get the nosey neighbors to leave.
"This is your house?" Griffen asked, thinking it was a nice home for this town. This town usually had small, one story houses, but this one had two floor with what looked like four bedrooms.
"Yes, I don't think that we should have came so soon. The police are still trying to find the people that killed Brian, my brother," Reece replied, remembering the smell of blood coming from Brian, who had laid on the hard wood floor, barely alive, seeping blood from his chest.
Reece shivered, a chill climbing up her spine.
"You alright?" Griffen asked, grabbing Reece's hands.
"Not really. Do you think that the cops found those papers? Or do you think that Macbeth was lying about the whole thing. I mean, she did say that she didn't care if she died and that she wouldn't tell even if we killed her."
"I could see the truth in her, didn't you?" Griffen asked.
"I don't know. I was too distracted."
"I know."
"Oh, my God!" Reece said, remembering something.
"What is it?" Griffen asked, jumping when he heard one of the police say something loudly into the microphone about go away and that the police were doing everything that they could.
"We look like we just killed someone. What will the police say when they see us like this? We didn't even think this through. We can't just ask to go in and grab whatever we want. And if the police see our marks and clothes, they might think that we did something to earn us life in prison!" Reece whispered, bringing Griffen to a bush across the street.
"Your right. I have a plan. How about I distract them and tell them that I saw something and get them talking to me and you can run in there and look for the papers."
"But there is going to be people inside the house! What do I do then?" Reece asked.
"Well, if you have all the powers from all the Clans, then you should be able to make them think your not there. Like what Sightseers do."
"But I don't know how," Reece explained, frowning.
"Try it on me!" Griffen said, smiling.
"What? No way!"
"Come on, why not?" Griffen asked.
"Because I don't do that kind of thing!" Reece said, annoyed that he even offered to let her practice something on him that she didn't even know that she could do a few days ago.
"Oh, who cares?" Griffen said, waving the thought away before it was even something.
"I care! I don't want you getting hurt!" Reece said.
"Who said anything about getting hurt?" Griffen asked, grinning.
"How can you think something like that?" Reece asked, thinking about how she lost control when she had a grip on Macbeth and had killed her. "I mean, I think I lost control when I had killed that Skincrawler and then I lost even more control when I killed Macbeth, and that time, I didn't even mean to! What if I do something to you? I mean, you have been so nice to me ever since we met and I haven't made a very good impression for you."
"You didn't need to. I knew that you were different, but I didn't know how different until I saw what I saw. And I think its fine if you want to just leave and never see me again, but I would rather you not leave. I like having you around. And I think that it is just fine if you use me as a target because you need to get in there and find out who and what you are and what powers you possess and who your real parents are. And I am not just saying that to just make you feel better. I am saying it because it is true. You are the most unique person that I have ever met. And let me tell you, I have met a lot of people," Griffen said with a half smile, feeling embarrassed.
"Wow, no has ever said that to me before. You know, one day, when all of this is over, I think I want you to come and see my restaurant. You would love it!" Reece said, meaning every word she spoke.
"You have a restaurant?" Griffen asked, surprised.
"Well, I took over after my parents died. They left everything to me and my brother. But I was the one who wanted to really work at Small Town Restaurant. Brian went off and would drink. He did that ever since my parents died. But Macbeth said he didn't drink because of that," Reece whispered, looking at her hands while they knelt behind the bush, waiting.
"Wow, that must have been a handful for you, huh?" Griffen asked, looking above the bush to see what was going on.
"It is. It was harder when Brian didn't want to help. Then I would come home after work and find Brian either drunk or passed out on the floor or wherever he wanted. And then I would have to get up in the morning to clean his vomit up. It is tough, and some times I wish that I could get away from it all, but not like this!" Reece said waving her hands and arms around at her house where people were still at, waiting for an answer to who could have killed her brother.
"Oh, I see your point. But I don't care if you try it on me, I have taken worse than someone controlling my mind," Griffen reassured her.
"Fine, but if something bad happens to you, I'll say I told you so," Reece said, frowning when she agreed.
"Ha, okay. You can say that. So go on, say something."
"Say something? What do you mean?"
"I mean, make me do something or whatever. I was once under the control of someone and she had to say something to make me do it. Like she said to roll on the ground, and I rolled on the ground. Like that, okay?" Griffen explained, hoping that Reece did know what she was doing, even though he was sure she didn't.
"Okay. Say peanut butter," Reece said, giggling at that because peanut butter always made her laugh when she said that.
Griffen just sat on the ground, looking bored. "Are you going to make me do something, or what?" Griffen asked, grinning.
"I'm trying! I don't know what to do!" Reece said, annoyed.
"Why don't you try clearing your mind and then thinking me saying or something like that?" Griffen suggested.
"Okay. Hold on," Reece said, trying to clear her mind of everything but a picture in her head of Griffen jumping up and down like a monkey. "Jump up and down and make monkey noises like a fool, Griffen," Reece said, holding back a fit of giggles that we already escaping her mouth.
When Reece heard Griffen making monkey noises, she burst out laughing, rolling on the ground, as she watched Griffen jump up and down like a monkey.
"Please, stop!" Griffen begged, laughing with her. "I don't like this! Its worse than getting tortured! And I know what that is!"
Reece just kept laughing, holding her stomach as she laughed.
"Please!" Griffen pleaded.
Reece stopped laughing and stood up, regretting standing up because she had always got dizzy when she cried or laughed too much. "Okay, stop jumping up and down and making monkey noises," she said, giggling as he dropped to his knees, hiding a smile. "It worked!"
Reece hugged Griffen so quickly, she surprised him, but then he leaned into her and hugged her back, loving the feeling of having her in his arms.
"Okay, so we need a change of clothing. My friend lives close by and she has a older brother who can let you have some of his clothes," Reece said, untangling herself from Griffen who seemed to not want to let go.
"Oh, okay, lets go then," He replied, making a fake cough.
Reece raised her eyebrows at him, but ignored it, standing up to see which house her friends were at. When she spotted Monika, she grabbed Griffen's arm and pulled him along to Monika's yellow tiny house on the corner of Springpatch Road.
Monika loved to make gardens in the spring, and she believed that if you watered your plants in the night, then they would grow big and large, so she was outside, watering her plants of zucchini, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, and other vegetables and fruits.
Monika heard the gravel in her driveway crunching, as Griffen and Reece walked on it, and she raised her head above the water still on, spilling and flooding all over the plants.
"Reece! Where have you been?" Monika asked, rushing to her side where she was embraced in a bear hug. "I thought someone had killed you and I kept calling your cell phone, but it just kept going to your voice mail. I thought that those people that had killed your brother had gotten to you too! The police over at your house kept saying that you were safe and in a hotel! I searched all the hotels and found the one you were staying at, but you weren't in your room. Everything looked like a mess and all your stuff was there. I waited there for a whole day and you didn't show, so I thought the worst!"
"Well, now you know that I am safe. But I need a favor from you," Reece said, eyeing Griffen who looked a little too shy to be himself.
"Okay, what do you need? Anything. I am so sorry about your brother. I know how much of a mess he was in, but I had no idea! The police were telling me that he was murdered and you came home and found him and called 911! And right after your parents died too!" Monika babbled, shaking her head, opening her front door and waving for them to come in.
Reece had been in Monika's house before, but only briefly because she was just picking something