Pollux usually hated the runs he was sent on. His dad, Jace, said it was neccacary that I take my 15 year old sister along too, which made it worse. "Alexile will you hurry up!" I was witing downstairs of the old church where we lived. "You take forever." I had to go take care of some demonic bussness over around the empire state building. I hated new York and all its bigness. They had cute girls though. I take after my mom and my dad in equal shares. I got my moms eyes, my dads height, grandfathers hair, and everything else is completely my own. Except my ability to draw portals in midair and my skill with a blade. I was in the middle of drawing a portal to the area we were going when my sister came downstairs with only a dagger and a stele. "you might need a bigger blade sis." "don't be silly pollux you know this is all I use." As I stepped through the portal I heard her sigh and come after me.
Violet was used to hard. That's what her whole life was about. But 7 adhd sugarjacked dyslexic demigods was a new challenge entirely. Her friends nyx and avander who were dating were no help either. they tried to help but always got "distracted" and disappeared for a little while. So I was startled when a tall blond dude stepped out of thin air not 5 feet in front of me. "Scuse me miss." he walked past and a girl came right after him not a year younger they were both carrying weapons and my senses went into "monster mode". He was much too pretty to be human and I tried to look through whatever mist was guarding their true identities but I couldn't seem to focus. Nyx and Avander showed up and I told them what I saw, their faces hardened and they reached inside their pockets for their swords. Nico was watching the girl that had passed with much interest. Huh she thought, I wonder if hes changed. avander voted we follow them and we agreed we left the kids in the hands of the gods literally in the empire state building with a few other chaperones. Then we retraced them to the allyway I had see them disappear. what we saw made no sense. The guy was battling a...thing with a flaming sword and surprising skill. then we saw the girl jump off a fire escape onto its back and start stabbing it. It should have dissenigrated like normal mosters do but it kept chugging along. Finally though it fell to the ground and didn't move. the boy raised his arms above his head and spoke in what sounded like ancient latin but I couldn't be sure. Nico was watching the girl in awe the same as everyone else. Nyx looked at me and I suddenly realized what these people were. They were shadowhunters. "Gods mercinaries" "Nephilim" whatever you wanted to call them.