Am Drag in the downworld
disclaimer: I don't own shadowhunters or American dragon
Summary: Jake is friends with Simon and Clary, before they get introduced to the downworld. Jake is the same age as Clary and the others and his family has mostly passed away. (maybe I'll use some characters from american dragon like Fuu dog.) He, being a dragon is the protector of the downworld and knows about it for a long time. Pairing: Jake x Izzy most likely, small chance for JakexClary.
Jake Garroway a tall dark haired, well build 20 year old and adoptive son of Detective Lucian (Luke) Garroway is sitting in a coffee-shop next to one of his two childhood friends, Simon Lewis while they are waiting for their other childhood friend Clary Fairchild.
A few minutes after ordering for them and Clary, she arrives at the coffee-shop, just having finished her audition to get accepted into the brooklyn academy of arts.
"Give me a name and I will end them, you know with a scathing email to the dean." Simon says seeing Clary's disappointed face.
"Don't bother." she replies taking a seat across from the two boys putting down her stuff on the table.
Jake sees the letter and glaces over it seeing 'Congratulations!' written on it in big red letters.
"Good one." Jake tells Clary handing Simon the letter to see for himself.
"What? Sad face, really? Well played, well played." Simon says fist bumping with Clary.
"Thank you. You know it's weird, they kind of liked my assigned work but they flipped out over the drawing of our graphic novel. This day will go down in history as the greatest 18th birthday I've ever had." Clary exclaims cheerfully while the waiter comes over to the group, putting down their ordered food and drinks.
"Which is why we're celebrating tonight. Yes with Maureen after our show." Simon tells her.
"Absolutely, so what's the deal with you and Maureen?" Clary asks him.
"What deal? Nothing we sing together." Simon replies taking a sip from his coffee after which he gets a playful slap at the back of his head from his friend sitting next to him who mumbles "dumbass." before drinking his own coffee.
"You seriously don't know she's been crushing on you this whole time?" Clary asks him surprised.
"What? no!" Simon replies.
"Simon how can someone as smart and perceptive as you not realize that the person sitting right there is in love with you." Clary asks him, causing Jake to raise an eyebrow at her own obliviousness.
"Guarantee you, I'm not the only smart perceptive person to make that mistake." Simon replies.
Clary looks down at her drink and looks for her biscotti, finding it nowhere.
"That's a latte." Simon tells her jokingly at her confused expression.
"But I could have sworn I had a biscotti." Clary replies.
"Maybe you ate it so fast you didn't even notice. When I'm happy, when I'm sad but I will replace your mythical biscotti with an extra one." Simon tells her handing her his own.
"Thank you." Clary says and Simon toasts with her and Jake telling her "here's to you."
Clary takes a sip of her coffee and then looks at the table surprised seeing a drawing of a biscotti, where she put her own one but ignores it thinking she's imaging things.
"Well I've gotta go, don't want to be late for work even if my dad is my boss. But I'll see you guys later." Jake tells them grinning and gulps down the last of his coffee.
"By the way how is it being a detective trainee?" Clary asks him.
"Well, not much different for me than before, since I've been involved with Luke's investigations ever since I joined the department and he was allowed to officially tell me stuff." Jake replies, taking his own biscuit and breaking it in half, putting one half next to Simon telling him jokingly "don't choke." and leaves the shop on his way to the police station.
Half an hour later
Jake arrives at the crime scene and sees that his dad is already there, looking at the corpse and talking to his partner Alaric "Same M.O. as the others?"
"Yeah this one's drained of blood." Alaric tells him, while Jake comes over to them asking Luke "Demon?" quietly. Luke nods and then looks at a search dog, who's been barking ever since Jake arrived and glows his eyes, ordering the dog to stand down.
"This makes seven. You know what that means." Alaric tells Luke.
"Yeah, not good." Luke replies and sees their captain coming over to them.
"Hey captain Vargas." Luke greets her.
"Another body drained of blood?" she asks.
"Yeah, Alaric and I are chasing down some leads already." Luke informs her being as general as possible since he can't very well tell her about the existence of the downworld.
Luke's phone rings and he declines the call to which Vargas says "You know she can tell when you decline the call right?"
"Yup." Luke replies.
"I need you to do something for me." Vargas tells him.
"What catch these guys?" Luke asks.
"Besides that, marry Jocelyn, what are you waiting for?" she asks him.
"Thank you, I've been telling him that for, what like 3 years now?" Jake adds chuckling.
"Me and Jocelyn, we're different." Luke tells them before answers the incoming call telling Vargas "It's for Clary's birthday."
"You're already acting like a husband, go be one." She tells Luke, who's walking away to take the call.
"Don't you know it." Jake sighs looking over the reports of the other victims with Alaric.
An hour later
Clary arrives at home and after greeting Dot and receiving a shirt from her as a birthday present she goes upstairs to tell her mother of the news.
"Mom." Clary says, getting her attention.
"You did it yay." Jocelyn cheers, hugging her daughter.
"You also follow Simon?" Clary asks.
"He only has 92 followers, he need 3 digits. Congratulations." Jocelyn replies grinning.
"Thank you. # stalker mom." Clary jokes and puts down her bag.
"Happy birthday." Jocelyn tells her, handing her a small wooden box.
Clary opens it and takes out a stele.
"It's called a stele." Jocelyn tells her.
"What is it? Like a paper weight?" Clary asks excited.
"No, it's much more than that. It's very ancient. I want you to have it, it's a family heirloom." Jocelyn replies.
"We frays have heirlooms?" Clary asks jokingly.
"A few." Jocelyn replies serious.
"You know it's weird I doodled something like this this morning. Must have seen this around the house somewhere." Clary tells her, brushing over a rune on the stele.
Clary gets a text and checks, who wrote her and then gets up from the couch she and her mom had been sitting on telling her "It's Simon, he's on his way over."
"But we need to talk." Jocelyn pleads.
"I can't right now, I have to change. I'm going to see campaign enema tonight." Clary tells her.
"What?" Jocelyn asks confused.
"Yeah, I know it's a weird band name. But Simon, Jake and Maureen are taking me out afterwards." Clary says.
"But, it's your eighteens birthday and everything is going to change for you now." Jocelyn says.
"Mom, we've had the talk, I'm good." Clary replies trying to calm her mother down.
"We need to have a much different and more important talk." Jocelyn says.
"And we will, but can it be over breakfast alright? I love you and thank you for the heirloom." Clary says, kissing her mothers forehead and walking to her room to change.
A few minutes later Luke and Jake arrive at the fray's home and come upstairs to the living room.
"Hey. Sorry we're late, captain got us working on some demonic murders." Luke tells Jocelyn, who's looking at Clary's folder.
"Look at the drawings. It's already happening." She tells him.
"We knew this day was coming. We'll tell her together." Luke says.
"No, it was my choice I'll do it alone." Jocelyn decides.
"Alright but do it soon, if she's unprepared your live is in danger and so is hers." Luke tells her.
"Why didn't you want to get her involved anyway?" Jake asks Jocelyn.
"I didn't think that this is a good world for a child to grow up into." She replies.
"Hmm I guess, well what's done is done anyway, if you need me when you explain it to her, I'm here. You know like flash my wings for make the fire dance." Jake says grinning.
"I don't think that will be necessary but thanks." Jocelyn replies thankfully.
"Hey Luke what's up? Did Jake ruin work for you or how come you're here so early?" Clary greets Luke who's like a father to her.
"Hey!" Jake protests.
"Hey, incredible drawings. And I got you these, spray paints." Handing her the cans after ruffling his sons hair.
"Oh they're perfect." Clary says excited.
"If I find these on any city walls I will arrest you." Luke jokes.
"The paint is for Simon's van. I'm insisting they rename the band." Clary tells him.
"Oh yes please." Jocelyn adds.
"Did your mom talk to you about that?" Luke asks Clary seeing the stele hanging out of her jacket's pocket.
"The heirloom. Yeah, It's beautiful." Clary replies.
"Clary you're eighteen now and..." Luke starts to say but Clary interrupts him saying "What is with you guys, I'm turning eighteen it's not like I'm going on some epic journey."
"But you are, see we're going to Lumbardy's to celebrate after our concert." Simon tells her having just arrived at their home.
"You should come back here after, the city is not that safe right now." Jocelyn tries to argue.
"Thanks mom but we're set. Also Jake is coming with us and being a big police officer he can protect us." Clary replies
"I'm doing what now?" Jake asks them having had his focus on the food he and Luke brought with them, since he was gonna go out with Clary and Simon making his chance to eat rather small.
"Wait is that chicken cacciatore?" Simon asks interested.
"Simon your gig." Clary reminds him."
"Oh, you're singing?" Luke asks him.
"Yes, big gig and by big I mean not so." Simon replies jokingly.
"breakfast, you and me promise?" Jocelyn asks her daughter, hugging her long.
"Promise, mom, you have to let me go now." Clary tells her.
"Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of." Jocelyn whispers.
"Shall we?" Clary asks them, handing Simon the paint.
"Yes." Simon replies cheerfully.
"Come on Jake you can eat later." Clary says.
Jake grumbles a bit and gets up, patting Luke's shoulder and then goes over to Clary, bending down a little before throwing her over her shoulder and making their way out of the house, yelling to his dad and Clary's mom "Later guys, you better leave me some chicken."
"Let her be a kid for one more day." Jocelyn tells Luke.
"OK. But man I can't believe it's been 14 years since I adopted Jake, he sure has grown up." He agrees.
"Been that long hasn't it. I still feel like it's my fault his parents are dead." Jocelyn says.
"Don't blame yourself, they knew the danger when they stopped Valentine from getting the cup." Luke tells her.
"It still surprises me though that a Warlock with shadowhunter ancestors and a Seelie would marry let alone bear a child." Jocelyn replies thoughtfully.
"Yeah, he's one in a million isn't he?" Luke tells her smiling.
Later that evening
After their gig Clary, Simon and Maureen are at Simon's van, talking and repainting it, inspired by the new band name 'Rock solid panda'. Meanwhile Jake went to a small restaurant around the corner to get something to eat.
Clary after finishing painting the van gets bumped into by Jace, who is invisible to Simon and Maureen causing them to think that she's going crazy. Clary confused at why her friends can't see the guy follows Jace into the club Pandemonium and Simon and Maureen follow her, thinking that they can party there together with Clary to celebrate her birthday. Simon also sends Jake a text so that he knows where to find them.
Jake reads the text and immediately leaves the restaurant because he knows that Pandemonium is crawling with downworlders.
Simon and Maureen go over to the bar to get some drinks to celebrate Clary's birthday while Clary is going to the back of the club following the guy that bumped into her earlier.
In the private section of the club Jace is confronting the demon who is after the mundane blood, but she refuses to tell him what he wants to know and they start to fight soon after Clary arrives in the section.
Jace pushes Clary back to keep her away from the demon, causing her to fall on the floor.
Izzy who has been dancing on the stage, distracting the other demons sees Jace activate his seraphs blade and uses her whip and a seraphs blade to fight the demons close to her.
Alec also joins the fight on the other side of the section, close to the entrance.
Jace gets attacked while he's helping up Clary and he looses the seraphs blade. Clary picks it up, causing it to glow like it did with the others and Jace pushes a demon onto the blade, killing it and causing Clary to shriek back in fear.
While they are all fighting Alec and Jace start to fight back to back, sharing Alec's blade because Clary still has Jace's and Izzy gets pressured into a corner by 5 demons.
Jake arrived at the club moments before and used his skill 'ear of the dragon' a partial body transformation, causing his ears to shift into those of his dragon form to find out where Clary is before going after her and sees the fighting going on. Seeing that Clary is save, protected by Jace he goes to help Izzy, who is struggling against her foes at the moment.
He comes up behind the first demon who is about to hit Izzy with a knife and transforms his hands into his dragon claws, having red scales on top of his skin them and long, black and sharp talons instead of fingernails.
He grabs the raised arm and snaps it, causing the demon to let the knife fall before he uses his other hand to slash the demon across his throat, killing it.
Izzy sees that she's getting help from someone and nods appreciatively while Jake asks.
"Need a hand?"
"Why not?" Izzy replies a small grin on her face before she gets back to attacking two of the demons since the other two are now focused on Jake.
Jake looks behind him, checking on Clary and sees that she's hiding behind a couch and can't see him from where she is before he transforms his head into that of a dragon and releases a stream of fire incinerating the two demons in front of him and one of the ones fighting Izzy making her look at Jake shocked having just finished off the remaining one herself.
"Who are you?" Izzy asks him shocked.
"Meh, forgot me already? We met before about 2 years ago. But let's talk later, we should check if the others need any help." Jake tells her while loosing his transformations.
"Yeah." Izzy agrees and they make their way over to Jace, Alec and Clary while Jace is just killing off the last demon.
Clary uses the chance to get away and runs out of the section and out of the club, hailing a cab to bring her back home completely ignoring Simon and Maureen and not having seen Jake in there with her.
Meanwhile Jace asks Jake "Who the hell are you?"
"Man really? Does no one remember me?" Jake asks jokingly, slumping over slightly, playing disappointed.
"forget him, what's up with the girl? Is she a shadowhunter? The seraph blade lit up." Izzy asks her brothers.
"I don't know but she doesn't appear to know any of what is going on." Jace replies.
"She doesn't and yes she is a shadowhunter at least by blood, she wasn't trained. Her mother thought it'd be best to keep her away from the downworld for as long as possible." Jake informs them.
"How do you know that?" Alec asks suspicious.
"I've known her for close to 14 years now. Anyway, I better go after her see ya around. Hopefully by then you'll have remembered me" Jake replies before walking out of the section, going after Clary.
"I don't trust him, we should get back to the institute and find out what we can and keep an eye on the girl." Jace tells them.
"Agreed." Alec says.
"I don't know he seemed to be telling the truth, I think he is a warlock by the way, maybe we met him while he was setting up wards in the institute or something?" Izzy tells them thoughtfully.
"Doesn't matter we'll find out soon enough, let's go." Jace says and leads them out, headed for the institute.
AN: Hey, here's the first chapter, I wasn't sure on how much I should describe the caracters or if at all since all of you probably know them, or at least what they look like.
Anyway leave reviews and follow if you like it so far, the more people are interested in this story the more excited I'll be to keep working on it.