~A couple of weeks after City of Lost Souls~

Clary

I'm running to the training room. I want to get there partly because I need to train but mostly because Jace is going to be my trainer. I don't think I need training but he still thinks I do. After the whole thing with him being tied to Sebastian and stuff he thought that I should start to move along faster with my training so he called in a warlock that I hadn't met before.

"Hi, I'm Svad and I'm looking for a Jace…?" he had said when he was standing at the door. Confused, I went a got Jace and brought him to the door.

"Aaah, you must be Svad. Do you have everything you need?" Jace asks.

"Yes, it's all here."

"Well then follow me. You too Clary." I find myself following Jace and Svad through the institute and we stop outside the door of the training room. Puzzled, I open my mouth to ask Jace but before I can say anything he begins to explain.

"I thought that if anything happens to one of us again, the other should be fully trained and since I already am, it's just you that needs to be. I will teach you everything normally but Svad here will give you a potion which lets you memorise and perfect that skill instantly," he says. I am completely confused and unaware of what he is saying.

"So in English that means…what?" I say.

"It means that you will learn every skill by today and your training will be complete!" he says cheerfully.

I agree to what he is saying but I'm still unsure. Svad hands me a putrid coloured potion of brown-green but as so as the flask touches my hand its contents turn and bright, striking pink that makes it instantly more appealing and easier to lift to my mouth. I let the liquid slide into my mouth and it surprisingly tastes like strawberries.

"Alright, let's get on with our training, shall we? Svad you can go if you want or oversee our training," Jace says.

"But, what about my payment?" Svad questions. Only know do I realise that he has an accent that is no doubt European but I can't tell where from.

"Remember, I already paid you beforehand. You really should get to work on your memory spell or potion or whatever it is you are making."

"Hmmm, okay, I believe you this time but if I find you are lying then-"

"Ummm, I think that's enough. You can leave no Svad."

Svad walks away in the direction of the institute doors. Then something clicks in my head.

"Jace, how come that warlock can enter the institute?" I ask. Only those with shadowhunter blood can open the doors to the institute and those with demon blood can't even come inside.

"Svad is special. He was once a shadowhunter and still now has angel blood running through his veins. When he was very young he was somehow changed into a warlock and still no one knows how."

So here I am now, with my training fully complete and still I must practise at the training room. When I walk in, I am surprised to see that Alec, Isabelle and Jace are all standing there. When they hear the door open they turn and stare at me. Jace is the first to speak.

"Hey Clary," he says and I can see in his eyes the love he has for me and it is all I can do not to run up and kiss him at that very moment.

"Today will be the test of all your training. You will battle Alec and Isabelle and if you beat both of them then you can fight me but I promise you, that will be a waste of time," he says to me with a smirk.

And with that all of them walk over to the weapons area and start taking their pick so I follow.