To my fellow fan fiction authors, my last mortal instruments Fanfic ended up as a dud, so I'm trying again. Anyhow I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Lol

Xoxo Sarah

Prologue: She started into the fire, the bodies of her family folded in on them like a burning piece of paper. The flesh on her family's bones burned black and came off in chucks. The smell of burning hair was overwhelming, it burned and dried out her eyes, she blinked out the dust and smoke, mixed with tears. She looked up at the night sky and saw the full moon high in the sky, signalising midnight, she looked down at what used to be flesh hands, but were now bone claws stained with the blood of her family.

Chapter 1

Jace darted across the training yard of the abandon school, Isabelle and Alec had on his tail. Jace sprinted towards a tree; its leaves had been striped off with the harsh winter wind. He jumped up on the one of many branches. Isabelle and Alec kept on running towards the abandon school and slowed to a jog, Jace flung himself onto the red brick roof and grabbed his Seraph blade, it glowed a dull yellow as he touched it he whispered it's name and soon it came to life with a burst of yellow. Jace was facing Isabelle and Alec on the roof and signalled them to slowly go inside, Jace looked down at his marked skin, the black runes inked into his skin. He looked up again and scanned the perimeter, his gold hair blowing in the breeze each lock soft on top of his hard head. Satisfied that the coast was clear he jumped from the roof and landed on all fours, the door was left open for him he touched the old wooden door the red paint faded and starting to peal off. He stepped into the abandon school and let his mind relax, the picture jumped back in front of him only this time it was an old church, Jace walked down the cold stone steps and walked down the isle to where Isabelle and Alec stood near the giant cross on the centre of the stone wall. They waited facing the cross and soon enough the cross, shaped into a warlock.

"Mmmm, Shadowhunters" The warlock sniffed the air and licked his lips; the air was a lot colder than it was outside and Jace looked at Alec and Isabelle. Isabelle's hand twitched ready to grab her whip at any moment, Alec was stiff and a look of surprise locked on his face.

"We heard that you are the long lost cousin of Magnus Bane" Alec spoke up, Jace looked at him sharply and Alec cowered under his stern glare.

"Ah, my pathetic excuse of a cousin. No, I don't work with him and his sheep, no please don't bother me anymore I was quiet busy" the warlock said, his black clothes replicating to the matrix uniform, his black short and spikey, his orange cat like eyes scanned the three of them and stopped on Isabelle.

"But, I could make an exception for the female shadowhunter. She would make a very lovely companion, yes, Magnus would've had much trouble trying to keep his hand off you" he said, coming behind Isabelle lifting her hair away from her neck and smelled her tattooed skin. Isabelle's blue eyes rolled into the back of her head and she let out a moan.

"Actually, he couldn't keep his hands off Alec, there" Jace said, he twirled his Seraph blade between his fingers and walked towards where the cross used to be, he crouched and flung himself at the stone wall, he bounced off dragging his blade across the stone tablet drawing a rune onto the slab of cement. Jace back flipped and landed behind the warlock.

"You never really told us your name, James" Jace said, the slab cracked in half and soon collapsed onto the cold floor.

"You've been practicing, Jace. Or is it your cold heart has finally woken up from hibernation and fallen for a cute little red head" James said and snapped his fingers, the small concrete layer, that lay beneath the giant slab that Jace cracked open, crumbled away, revealing Clary tied her hands were bound with what looked like wire and were above her head, her legs were tied with the same wire.

"You see, I was ready for you when you came. Your sweetheart here came and tried to kidnap me, but she forgets that I'm a warlock with very powerful powers. Was that your plan, you were going to kidnap me?" James threw back his head and laughed, he was a lot taller than Jace.

"Don't listen to him Jace" Clary grunted, Isabelle went to move, but James moved quickly and soon had his hand around Isabelle's neck.

"Move and I swear, they both will die, I'm quite capable of it and you know that I will" James swirled his hand and soon enough a fireball appeared in his hand. Jace knew he should've been panicking, but his mind was too calm. Jace dropped the Seraph blade and slowly put his hands up in a surrender mode. There was a loud thud and James' hand fell from Isabelle's neck and he collapsed, Alec stood behind him with one of the halves of the concrete slab.

"Our plan wasn't to kidnap you, but to kill you. We don't trust people who work for Valentine" Alec said stabbing his light blue blade into James' back. Black blood sprayed everywhere, Isabelle covered her eyes and Alec flew backwards and soon collapsed against one of the pews.

Jace went over to the remains of James, his body soon turned to dust. Isabelle ran over to Alec and lifted his head; Jace soon ran over and checked for a pulse. Alec's eyes opened slowly and smiled.

"Did I kill him?"

"You sure did, Alec. You did good, kid" Jace said getting up and extending his arm for Alec to grasp it.

"Who are you calling kid? I'm pretty sure I'm older than you" Alec said smiling. A grunt grasped Jace's attention; Clary hung there, blood ringed around her wrists, where the wire had dug into her flesh. She had given up on trying to hold her head up, her beautiful red curls, in clumps with blood. Jace ran towards her, leaped and with one slash of his Seraph bladecute the top wire, catching her small frail body just as she was about to hit the floor. He cut the wire around her feet and carried her to the door of the church, he kicked it open and there parked in the old car park was Simon's new black truck. Jace saw Simon's face pop up from behind the tinted window screen and soon he was in front if Jace, Simon slipped his hands under Cary's back and disappeared into the truck. Alec and Isabelle soon came out, Alec had his arm around Isabelle's shoulder, Isabelle propping Alec's weight. Jace ran over and helped Isabelle.

"You scared me there for a second Jace, I thought you were going to let me die" Isabelle said around her brother's body. Jace felt a stabbing pain in his chest; he undid the first button with his free hand. He saw a black swirl on his chest in the shape of a fancy R.

"That's funny" Jace said "I don't remember you drawing this rune on me, Isabelle" Jace said as they approached the black van.

"That's because I didn't" Isabelle said eyeing the new marking on Jaces chest. Simon had come out and opened the door for Alec and Jace, Isabelle stayed out side as Simon closed it, Jace knew that they wanted privacy, but since Simon was reborn as a vampire Isabelle had grown more attracted to him. Jace looked at Clary, he eyelids were a light purple, and her lips were dry and split. Jace gently tucked a lock of red hair behind her ear and kissed her forehead.

"Clary? Are you okay?" Jace asked caressing her beautiful face. Her eyes fluttered a bit, but didn't open instead she let out a sigh and tried to lift her hand, Jace grabbed it and kissed it. She smiled and soon was unconscious.

"Will, you ever give up on her?" Alec said, rubbing the back of his head, wincing. Jace looked back at Clary and felt his heart swell.

"I don't think I can, or will. But I will try" Jace said as the van stopped. Simon opened up the door to let everyone out, Jace scooped up Clary and followed Simon, Isabelle and Alec into the Institute. Simon stopped outside the doorway and looked at Jace.

"Take care of them, Jace. Both of them, I mean it" Simon said sharply.

"Whatever, you're still a rat faced mundie to me" They both laughed and walked their separate ways.