Kierstyn's P.O.V

It shriveled with a shriek as Kierstyn plunged her Seraph blade through the Hydra Demon's heart. Its many heads bobbled together as the Demon withered and turned to ash.

"Finally, after weeks of chasing that bastard we got him," Senia Rosewood exclaimed, wiping the Hydra Demon's black sticky blood on her black leather pants. Kierstyn watched her Parabatai as she cleaned all her weapons. Senia's long flame red hair was tied into a messy bun that sat at the crook of her neck. Her long legs and torso made her almost taller than almost every boy our age.

"What are you staring at?" Senia snapped, hands coming up to rest on curvy hips. "Come on, clean your weapons, we can't be the best female fighters if you don't keep your weapons clean now can we?" Shaking her curly chocolate brown hair, Kierstyn started working on her weapons.

A sigh filled the empty hallway as Kierstyn walked towards her room in the institute, shuffling her feet on the warn wood floors. Senia's mom, Dawn, was not to happy when they came home covered in blood and cuts at two in the morning. Kierstyn remembered it perfectly as she opened her door to her room of twelve years. She looked around, carefully checking the empty shelves and walls for any signs of trouble. When she was satisfied she quickly un-dressed and hopped in the shower hoping to scrub all her worries down the drain. Memories swirled in her head until the events of this evening found a hold and swung into full motion.

They crept halls silently, hoping against hope that Mrs. Rosewood had fallen asleep. A creek sounded behind as they both turned to face an angry glare set in steel grey eyes and a tight, thin mouth. Frown wrinkles criss crossed in the corners of her thin, tight lips. Her red hair, that was more cherry red the flame red, was bound in a tight high bun, making her already tight, round face look even tighter. She towered over us, even over Senia, her stare seemed to look deep within their souls.

"Where have you two been?" Her voice croaked with tiredness and depression.

"Fighting, where else?" Came Kierstyn's easy reply as she leaned her lean and short body against the wall, hand playing with the ring that rested on her middle finger. She noticed Senia steel eyes flicker towards her, they were filled with worry because she was the only one who could really tell what was floating around in Kierstyn's head.

Kierstyn watched as Dawn eyed her coolly, the debating of wither she should tell Kierstyn off for smart-mouthing was crystal clear on Dawn's face; Kierstyn saw that Dawn decided against it and smiled in victory, in her mind of course. Instead Dawn said, "Get changed and come to the library." When Kierstyn didn't move, but instead opened her mouth to reply, Dawn snapped and yelled, "NOW!" Kierstyn scampered off like a dog with its tail between its legs.
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Kierstyn sighed as she stepped out of the shower and quickly dressed. Wiping the steam off the mirror, she regarded herself. No curves like Senia or amazing eyes. Just a girl with no bust, a tiny waist, dull grey-blue eyes and silly curls that didn't do anything she wanted. Stepping away from the mirror, she marched down the hallway and was about to push open the door until she heard talking on the other side.

"That was mean mom, you shouldn't have done that." Senia's British accent flowed through the door.

"I know but I've given her time to come around after what happened but she hasn't. I just don't know what to do. She is always fighting. Fighting with me, fighting demons, fighting with you, even fighting with herself. I just..." Dawn soft accent slowed to a stop.

"You can't keep pushing her to warm up. She watched her parents get tortured then murdered and she was tortured herself and almost dead when we found her. Just because she's been living with us for twelve years doesn't mean she's completely over it. She still has nightmares about it." Kierstyn cursed under her breath, she thought Senia hadn't been able to pick up on that.
Tired with the conversation she pushed open the door, making sure her face was emotionless. Both Dawn, her step-mother, and Senia, her best friend and Parabatai, jumped. She raised an eyebrow at both of them, looking blank. Mrs. Rosewood sat behind a huge wooden desk that sat in the middle of the room; Senia stood beside her, looking uneasy.

"Why did you want me here?" Kierstyn asked as she turned and picked up a document dated back to the 1870's, when the institute was raided by a clockwork army.

"You might want to sit down girls."
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"You want to send us to New York?" That's an ocean ride away and plus London has enough Demons for us to handle." Senia sat in a hostile position with her arms crossed across her full bust.

"I know you don't want to go," Dawn pinched the bridge of her nose, "but wither I like it or not, you girls are the best female fighters in your age group and they need both of you at the institute there."
Senia glared at her mom from across the table. "Because they can't handle a rogue Shadowhunter?" Dawn shook her head, cherry red hair falling out of her bun to frame her face. "Valentine's son. His name is Sebastian and his father injected his son with demon blood. So now Sebastian is stronger and faster than any Shadowhunter."

"Why do they want us? Why not any other Shadowhunter?" up till then Kierstyn had been quite but now, she was interested.

"Because of my daughter's talents and her Parabatai's skills." Kierstyn watched as Senia flinched at the word 'talents'. When Senia was in her mom's belly, her father, who was closely aligned with Valentine, injected Angle blood directly into Dawn's belly. Now, seventeen years later, Senia has an amazing gift. She's telepathic and can move stuff with her mind. That's how she's able to know what's going on in Kierstyn's mind, because she can really see it. Only two other Shadowhunters in history have ever had Angel blood running in their veins. Clary Fairchild and Jace Herondale. Clary is able to create new runes and make old ones stronger were as Jace can fall from unimaginable heights and not hurt himself and jump very high. Both of them were Valentine's experiments along with Sebastian, who got demon's blood instead of Angel's making him as tough as nails and very hard to kill.

"Alright," Kierstyn said standing up, breaking Senia and her mom's staring contest, "let's go."

"Go? Kierstyn Bellewright did you just agree with my mother?" Senia was staring at her Parabatai in with disbelief.

"Yes now let's go." Without looking back, Kierstyn walked towards the library's doors and walked out.