Hello everyone. This is June here! I really hope you enjoy this story and please don't get upset about Clary! I have a plan for her, I promise. I don't own the Mortal Instruments. That honour belongs to Cassandra Clare. I wish I owned Jace...
The moment the loud scream trilled through the air, she leapt out of her king sized bed. Inching towards her alarm clock on her bedside table, Aria gnawed on her lip. The time was a quarter past eleven and the night was blacker than her aura, darker than her soul. Another bloodcurdling scream split the air. Aria knelt to the ground, pulling out the darts from her dart board, under her bed. Her hands shaking, she tiptoed towards the door, making sure she didn't trip over anything and make any sudden noise. She combed back her silky hair, as her slightly trembling fingers closed around the cool metal door knob. Silently, she opened the door, careful not to make a sound, the darts pointing outwards towards any intruders that were in the house. "It's not our fault!", a familiar voice pleaded in another room. "Don't kill the children! They know nothing of Nephilim!" Her mother! Aria knew what she had to do without having to think about it, as if her natural instinct was more than just human. Aria opened the neighbouring door in the hallway, next to her bedroom, to reveal her quaking brother in the corner, darkness covering most of his features, but Aria could still tell that he was scared. Pressing a finger to her lips, a sign to stay quiet, she held out her hand. Her younger brother took it hesitantly, as if she was about to start screaming her head off. Aria crawled over to the toy box to pull out two baseball bats, as weapons, as Aria didn't like feeling defenceless. She handed it to Liam, and stroked his head. In one hand a bat, and her other, a group of darts. Aria felt like she could take on anything. Anything except what was in the room next door.
Swivelling her head to analyse her surroundings, she tugged her brother into the kitchen. Keeping the darts in front of her, she silently swiped some of the kitchen knives from the knife holder, tucking some into the elastic of her pants. Aria looked ridiculous, but she didn't care for the screams had continued. Handing her brother another knife, she put one of the bats on the bench, making sure her brother still had plenty to defend himself. All of a sudden, a gurgling scream rang through the air. It was coming from the living room, two rooms away. Not daring to leave her sibling alone, she beckoned Liam. Aria's ears pricked up at a slight, vicious hissing noise. Poking her head around the wall of the kitchen, her jaw dropped in shock. A large, violet, jelly-like creature towered over her mother, who was in fetal position. A weapon lay a bit more then an arms length away, a silver glow surrounding it. A flaming sword was in the monsters's grip as he waved it around tauntingly above her mother. She shrieked as the flames licked up her arm and dangerously near her face. As her mother looked up, she glanced at Aria and Liam, who were holding weapons in their hands. Thankfully, she didn't acknowledge them. Aria put up a hand to signal for her brother to stay put.
Liam nodded, his shoulders shaking so much that it looked like he was doing the shimmy. Aria took a bold step forward, but the creature didn't notice. "You see", the creature whispered, "you killed my children. Now I shall kill yours, Juno. You won't escape now, not ever again!" Aria didn't hesitate and raised her largest knife above her head and thrust it into the creature's gloopy back. A terrible whistling noise pierced her ears and made her eyes water. Still, she pushed the knife deeper, feeling something deep inside her driving her knife into the monster. The deeper she pushed it, the worse the whistling noise became. Soon it became so unbearable, Izel thought that she should get the hell out of there. Eventually, the monster exploded with a puff of lilac dust and with a sigh of relief, Aria fell to the floor. The lilac dust was everywhere, on the couch, table and T.V. Izel ran to her mother, who was lying on the floor unmoving, with her eyes closed and her arms resting out beside her, as if she was sleeping. Aria saw her brother's tears starting to fall when he approached their mother and her injuries, almost declaring death on her frail body.
Fearing for her mother, Aria called the ambulance but not the police, as she felt something within her telling her not to. Thinking about her mother brought her thoughts back to reality and she soon remembered her brother. She ran to Liam, hugging him as tight as she could. "Oh Liam, I'm so glad your ok." She hugged him as the tears fell onto his pyjamas. He looked so sad at that moment that it almost brought tears to Aria's own eyes. Almost. Realising that her little brother needed a drink, Aria drifted off into the kitchen, her mind on the monster. "What was that thing anyway? Where did it come for and why did it come for my mother? And what was she saying about Nephilim? I know they're half angel half human people but they don't exist, do they?" Aria muttered questions for ten minutes when she realised she was meant to be getting water for her brother. She rushed back to she if he was alright and if her mother had made any changes. As soon as she dropped down to the floor her brother enveloped Aria in another big bear hug. At that moment, three figures dressed in black barged through the slightly ajar door, there body laced with weapons and determination set on their faces.
Okay, now, that's one chapter. So I don't have much to say since nothing has really happened yet. I should call this chapter:- 'How to deal with a burglar.' Please review!
