Clary~~~~~~

Mom was dead two years, father four. I saw his dead body myself. I burned his remains with the help of my mother and she died two years later. My father, Valentine, died because of a wound he received at my hands. I had hunted him for a year and afterwards asked my mom to help burn him.

I was moved to the Death Valley institute when I was three. I am 2% bird 3% cat 45% angel and the rest is human. I escaped but I still have to hide my cat ears and tail. Thankfully I have a tail that's easy to hide. I also have wings and can control how wide my pupils are. I have to keep them under contacts but usually I'm fine.

I typically stayed with my friend Luke, a werewolf, after mom died but he was killed a year ago by hunters. I now live off and on with his old pack. Off is when the full moon is approaching. Then I'm on the run again, or staying with Magnus Bane, a warlock friend of mine.

Tonight I'm talking to my friend Simon at Pandemonium. Or at least he's talking

"Clary you're spacing again" Simon is a Vampire that can walk in daylight. He even ages like a normal human but when he reaches age thirty he immediately reverts to being a kid again. He never has puberty again though. His powers stem from being part jackal. He can control his age and makes sure to wear glasses whenever we go out at night to look like a normal teenager because the children of Moon, Night, Fey, and Lilith don't need them.

"Clary!" I suddenly notice that he's said my name like twelve times.

"Hm?"

You're spacing again, and not even bothering to dance. Am I just sitting here till my ears bleed from this awful music or are we actually hunting?"

I blush, "We're hunting Simon."

"Look!" I just spotted a cute looking demon boy from across the room and we begin to move toward him.

"Finally!" Simon whispers.

"Look, he's standing near the maintenance door." We are on the hunt again. Suddenly out of nowhere this gorgeous girl comes and starts to flirt with him.

"Simon!"

"I see it." He replied grimly

"We have to save her," I groaned.

"Look at the bright side." I turn for the moment.

"What bright side? And anyway don't say bright side, it is weird hearing a vampire say bright side."

"You don't have to play bait is the bright side. And the rest of that message I'm going to ignore." he grumbled the last bit. We carefully entered the storage room just in time for us to see three angry teenagers kill the demon.

"Whoops. Sorry we're leaving." I acted like we had just gone in to make out."

"Wait!" I had to look at the one who spoke, a blond boy with hazel eyes. Human, therefore I don't care about him.

"What?"

"You shouldn't be able to see us." He was scary, but cute. I tugged on my cap. I had to make sure he couldn't see what I was.

I acted just like a mundane. "Why not, you're there." I pointed out, finally noting too late that there was glamour around them.

"Yeah but we're glamoured."

"What is that supposed to mean?" playing stupid is our best bet.

Simon finally spoke up, "Clary weren't we supposed to be home in an hour?" thank you Simon

"Yes!" we did need to get home

"Wait." What could goldy want now?

"What?" I answered just to be safe.

"Give me your number" he was acting like he wanted to find out more.

"Don't have a phone" I said simply

"Clary!" Simon sounded freaked out

"What?" I tried to sound calm I knew exactly made him that freaked.

"W-we have to get home" he said meanwhile giving me the last part of his message via eye phone meaning he looked me in the eye and the words he wanted to say were printed on his eyes. I read: "Erasers about twenty."

I eye-phoned him back, "our chances?"

"We need to go"

"Yeah we need to go. Look, just forget about us." I said to them they look wierded out. We walked out the door. They followed us. I can't wait to find out how this turns out

~Jace~

We just killed a demon and were feeling pretty good until I realized that there were two people in the door frame. There was a girl (I refuse to say cut but I think it anyway) with red hair and she's average height. The boy next to her is a geek type complete with glasses. I can't believe we didn't notice them coming in. Even more impressive their eyes were wide and the girl said, "Whoops, sorry we're leaving." and turned to go. That was when I realized that she could see me even though we were glamoured. "Wait!"

"What?"

"You shouldn't be able to see us." she was cute. She tugged on her cap. She looked nervous.

She acted just like a mundane. "Why not, you're there." "Yeah but we're glamoured." I had to make that point to see if she really was a mundane.

"What is that supposed to mean?" playing stupid or really a mundane… hmm.

The boy finally spoke up, "Clary weren't we supposed to be home in an hour?" Momma's boy as well as a class A. nerd.

"Yes!" she almost looked relieved

"Wait." I had to be able to find her again later.

"What?" she answered.

"Give me your number" I can't wait, all girls drool over giving me their number…

"Don't have a phone" she said simply. I stared

"Clary!" the boy sounded freaked out. His eyes (I just noticed) were an unnatural blue/black but I wasn't picking up demon shortwave.

"What?" the girl turned to look at him in concern.

They seemed to almost have a silent conversation.

"W-we have to get home." He sounded close to panic and was glancing at the door repeatedly. I wonder.

"Look, just forget about us." I can't believe she said that. It was supposed to be my line. They turned to leave and we followed. They got outside and instead of hailing a taxi they headed into the woods. That was where we lost them. Tomorrow I will find her if I can.

Later at java jones -

"Why are you following me?" she accused him

"How did you know I was following you?" He said as if he didn't care what the answer was.

"I'm just paranoid." She ground out, "I don't like people who are following me."

"I was curious about why you would be able to see me. You seem to be a mundane like any other but you can see me. It's a conundrum. By the way can I see your hand?"

"If I show you my hand will you leave me alone?" she was tight lipped and reluctant to give her hand to a stranger.

"Sure I will." He seemed amused by her reluctance and then took her hand and looked at the back.

"Nothing." He said and he seemed rather disappointed.

"What did you expect to find?" she asked still wary.

"When shadow hunter children turn twelve we get a rune on our hand that gives long sight. It signifies that you are a nephelim."

"I have no idea what you just said and I probably shouldn't ask." Her phone began to ring.

"You can answer that if you want." He said still watching her, and wondering at the fact that last night she had said she didn't have a phone.

Hello?(clary has underlined words)

It's Firelight

What is it?

Guess who just showed his ugly face

Who?

Jonathon is downstairs

WHAT! She shrieked at the top of her lungs

No kidding,

So should I…

Yes please, I don't know if the demons he brought can find me in here but I don't want to find out.

Bye

She hung up.

"I have to go."

"I need you to come to the institute…

"No."

"My tutor needs to see you."

"Does it look like I care?"

"You're coming whether you want to or not."

"Is that a threat? You're going to kidnap me?" rather than what he was expecting she was smirking.

"You saw what I can do after I killed that demon last night and you think I can't?"

"I know you can't" she turned and whistled softly at the door

"You are coming"

"No"

"Clary!" Simon was coming out of Java Jones. I motioned him that he could act like he saw Jace now.

"Simon I just got an emergency call from Maia." She looked him in the eyes and he got the rest of it, Jonathon had gotten into their safest house and Maia happened to be in said house.

"We have to get her then," he finished.

"Hey!" Jace said to Clary

"What?" Clary growled

"My tutor wanted to see you and I'm not going away that easy."

Simon snickered "you think you can stop Clary from doing something she wants to?"

"Yes I can"

"Good luck living through the experience"

"Simon Maia is in a life or death situation with a demonian and you're chatting with some guy who kills demons for a living!"

"Whoa, wait Jonathon is at the house?" he was staring and turning pale

"Who's Jonathon?" Jace was getting annoyed

"To your nearest definition the combination of all the most powerful qualities of shadow hunters and demons combined plus he's my brother" Clary rolled her eyes

"Your brother is more powerful than a shadow hunter?"

"Even though I am only a lost hunter myself? Yes."

"A lost hunter?"

"Talk while we move" Simon grabbed each of their arms.

They all started running toward Clary's house and Jace seemed surprised that they could move so fast.

"A lost hunter is someone who willingly left the shadow hunters or was born of those who did"

"You left?"

No both of my parents left and then they died"

"How?"

"How can you have so many questions? Oh we're here"

Thirty seconds and they were at the house

"Maia" Simon whispered toward the window

"So are you a 'lost' shadow hunter as well?" Jace asked Simon

"No I am a 'day lighter'" Simon looked significantly relieved when Maia climbed out onto the balcony and let herself down

"And are you going to explain that or am I going to have to stand here like a doorstep waiting to pick up hints?" Jace pretended he didn't care while wondering what he had gotten himself into

"You can stand there as long as you want but we're hardly going to tell you everything. Simon griped."

"Who are you anyway?" Maia asked suspiciously

"Some guy desperate enough to follow Clary home from Pandemonium last night and ask to kidnap her." Simon said

"I am not desperate and for your information I am perfectly able to take her to my tutor as ordered without asking" the boy smirked and Clary rolled her eyes.

"I hate to break up this cozy gathering but we have a demonic psycho upstairs need to get out of here and are apparently being tailed by a half platoon of erasers." Clary continued

"The IHL is getting desperado" Simon smirked "but we do need to get away from them quickly"

"I found another safe house yesterday with a werewolf pack, the leader agreed to let us stay because he was married Mundie to my mother." Clary relayed the info even though the rest of the group (minus Jace) knew about Lucian.

"Your shadow hunter mother married a werewolf?" Jace was getting more confused by the moment.

"She married him after she ran away from my father because he turned Jonathon into a demonic undefeatable thing."

"What was his name?" Jace was curious

My father?" Clary confirmed

Yeah just in case I meet him down a dark alley so I can kill him."

Simon laughed, "You couldn't kill him if you tried, and Clary already did when he fought with her. She's the one you don't want to meet down a dark alley. His name was Valentine Morgenstern." He finished off with a smirk.

"The traitor who started the uprising?" he stared at these freaks.

"As you know him yes," Clary gave him a sidelong look. "He was my father."

CRAP!" Maia spat out "we have a following and I don't think they care whether there are Mundie's about."

Jace unsheathed his angel blade and quickly asked "where?"

"Erasers and they are immune to rune blades don't ask me why, I don't know."

Jace turned exactly to ask them why and that was when he saw that their following was made up of about twenty men and women acting for the entire world like they were an army.

"Time to get bloody kids." Clary was grinning like a maniac and Jace was slightly confused as to why then he looked at the three kids,

Maia was transforming into some kind of were creature he had never seen before,

Simon was tilting his head back and cackling while his ears migrated and transformed into something like a jackal's ears,

Then he turned back to Clary to ask and his breath stopped. Clary's face was becoming more beautiful and streamlined and she appeared to be growing into some kind of really tall elf with pointy ears. She had two throwing knives in her hand, Simon had false claws sticking out of his knuckles and punctuating the real ones (wolverine claws) Maia had a bow as tall as she was and was picking off the forsaken were-things that had started to transform into disgusting versions of werewolves.

At least werewolves looked halfway decent when they transformed. These things had neither sense of decency nor any care about the fact that they were scaring the crap out of every living thing around and freaking out the populace.

O.K. so I want Jace to be a bird-kid so the others have invented a bird-kid potion and force fed him plus knocked him out so deal with it. BTW Magnus meets Alek who is already dating him and after the bird-kids lost Jace they meet Magnus to discuss safety measures and Alec was more than slightly wierded out that the kid his tutor had Jace try to find was right in front of him having taken out his fighting partner Mr. I-can-totally-take-out-a-greater-demon-without-sweating Jace

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