A/N The first chapter of the fanfiction! I hope you guys like it. Please review and tell me what you think.
"Rissa! Come on!" Jace turned from where he was talking along the sidewalk to glance back at me. I jogged forward.
"I can't help that the rest of you have longer legs than me!" I shot back. Isabelle smiled over at me. We reached the club that Jace insisted there would be demon's in: Pandemonium. I couldn't disagree. I mean it was pandemonium. It seemed as though there would be demon's there.
"Izzy, you're bait." Jace told her as we walked inside, unseen by all the humans due to our 'Unseen' marks.
"Why do I have to be the bait? I'm always the bait! Why can't Rissa be bait?" Isabelle demanded.
"You're dressed up for it." I noted, eying her long white dress, meant to cover all her marks.
"I didn't know Jace was allowing you to come! If I did, I certainly would have made you dress the part!" She shot back. She, in return, eyed my sleeveless, knee length black lace dress and black leather ankle boots that showed off my marks.
"There!" Alec motioned towards a blue haired boy. To everyone else in the club, he was normal. Well, as normal as you could be with blue hair. But to us, we saw his true demonic form.
"Izzy, go! Lead him to the storage room!" Jace pushed Isabelle forward. She maintained her perfect balance and went to flirt with him.
"Come on." Alec, Jace and I hurried into the storage room. We waited out of sight for Isabelle to bring him in.
"Why don't you just observe this time?" Jace suggested to me, trying to keep his voice casual. I shot him a death look.
"That's all I've been doing since… forever! Alec, help me out here!" I pleaded, turning to look at the oldest Lightwood. He glanced back at me and then looked at Jace.
"It's one demon. She's fine." He went back to staring intently at the door. I looked over at Jace smugly. He rolled his amber eyes. I sighed quietly, wondering how long it would take Isabelle to bring him in here. I traced my parabatai rune with my finger. It was placed on the inside of my wrist, just like Isabelle's was. We were parabatai, just like Alec and Jace were. I worked my way up my arm, tracing each rune in turn, and then went to the rune placed high on my ankle. It was Equilibrium rune, giving the Shadowhunter perfect balance and making them hard to knock off their feet. It was always placed on a limb. Then the storage room door opened. Alec, Jace and I each drew our weapons of choice. There was whispering for a minute before we heard Isabelle's voice.
"He's all yours, boys!" Jace stepped around the corner first.
"So, are there any more with you?" He asked.
"Any other what?" The boy asked.
"Come on now. You know what I am." Jace teased.
"Shadowhunter." He hissed. I couldn't see it, but I knew that Jace was smirking.
"Got you." Alec and I ventured out to join them.
"Little young to be a shadowhunter, aren't you?" The demon snarled at me. I found that offensive. I was fifteen (almost sixteen) already, though, admittedly, my size might make me look younger.
"Little stupid to be out alone, aren't you?" I shot back.
"So, you still haven't told me if there are any other of your kind with you." Jace said, cutting off an response that the boy could have had.
"I don't know what your talking about."
"He means other demons. You do know what a demon is, don't you?" Alec spoke for the first time.
"Demons-." Jace traced the word out in the air with his finger. "-Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension-."
"That's enough, Jace." Isabelle interrupted.
"Isabelle's right. Nobody here needs a lesson in semantics. Or demonology." Alec agreed.
"Isabelle, Rissa and Alec think I talk too much. Do you think I talk too much?" Jace asked the demon.
"I could give you information. I know where Valentine is." The demon said. Jace glanced back at Alec and me. We shrugged.
"Valentine's in the ground. The thing's just toying with us." Isabelle flipped her hair out of her eyes.
"Kill it, Jace. It's not going to tell us anything." She told him. Jace raised his knife to do just that.
"Valentine is back! All the infernal worlds know it! I know it! I can tell you where he is!" The demon protested.
"By the Angel, every time we capture one of you, you claim you know where Valentine is. Well, we know where he is too. He's in hell. And you can join him there." Jace told him. He raised his knife again.
"STOP! You can't do this!" A red haired girl jumped out of the shadows. Jace's knife clattered against the floor. Alec spoke first.
"What's this?" He demanded. Jace recovered his composure.
"It's a girl. Surely you've seen girls before, Alec. Your sister Isabelle is one. You're standing next to another one." Leave it to Jace to be a smart-aleck. Alec glanced at me. I shot him a look. Did he have to look to see if I was actually a girl? Maybe he was just looking past me at the demon. I wasn't sure.
"A mundie girl. And she can see us…" Jace added.
"Of course I can see you! I'm not blind, you know!" The girl shot back at him.
"Oh, but you are." Jace bent down to pick up his knife.
"You just don't know it. You'd better get out of here, if you know what's good for you." He finished, straightening up.
"I'm not going anywhere! If I do, you'll kill him!" She pointed at the demon.
"That's true." Jace admitted, twirling the knife between his fingers.
"What do you care if I kill him or not?" He wondered.
"Be-because you can't just go around killing people!" She sputtered.
"You're right. You can't go around killing people." He pointed at the demon. "That's not a person, little girl. It may look like a person and talk like a person and maybe even bleed like a person. But it's a monster." Jace explained.
"Jace, that's enough!" I finally snapped.
"You're crazy! I've called the police, you know! They'll be here any second!" She told us.
"She's lying. Jace do you-." Alec started. In that second, the demon broke free. He slashed out at us and caught me in the arm, causing long, painful scratches to appear on my upper arm. Then he flung himself at Jace. He landed on Jace's chest and swiped at him with his hand. His hand came back with blood on it. Isabelle, Alec and I raced towards them. The demon swiped at him again and Jace flung up his arm to protect himself. Blood splattered. Isabelle's whip came down on the demon's back. He shrieked and fell to the side. Jace rolled over and swiftly sank the blade of his knife deep into the demon's chest. The demon stayed on the ground as Jace stood up again, yanking the knife out.
"So be it. The Forsaken will take you all." The demon snarled. Jace snarled back. The demon's eyes rolled back and his body began to jerk and twitch as he crumpled, folding on himself. He vanished entirely. The girl scrambled to her feet and turned to run. I moved to get in between her and the door. There was a cracking sound as Isabelle's whip shot out and wrapped itself around the girl's wrist.
"Stupid little mundie!" Isabelle growled.
"You could have gotten Jace killed!" I added, pointing my dagger at the girl. She kept trying to pull her wrist back, but was unable to.
"He's crazy! You're all crazy! What do you think you are, vigilante killers? The police-." She started.
"The police aren't usually interested unless you can produce a body." Jace told her, cradling his arm as he crossed the room to stand closer to us girls. Alec followed, scowling.
"They return to their home dimensions when they die? In case you were wondering." Jace told her.
"Jace! Be careful." Alec hissed, going over to examine my arm.
"She can see us, Alec. She already knows too much." Jace returned.
"So what do you want me to do with her?" Isabelle demanded.
"Let her go." Isabelle shot him a surprised and angry look, but did argue. Her whip slithered away from the girl's wrist. The girl rubbed the red mark on her wrist.
"Maybe we should bring her back with us. I bet Hodge would like to talk to her." Alec said, dropping my arm again.
"No way are we bringing her to the Institute. She's a mundie!" Isabelle protested.
"Or is she?" Jace asked softly.
"Have you had dealings with demons, little girl? Walked with warlocks, talked with the Night Children? Have you-."
"My name is not 'little girl'! And I have no idea what you're talking about." She interrupted him.
"I don't believe in… in demons or whatever you-." She started.
"Clary?" A voice called. She whirled around. Alec pulled me out of her way, careful of my arm. A tall, lanky boy with glasses stepped into the room.
"Why are you in here by yourself? What happened to the guys you saw? The ones with knives?" He asked. She stared at him and then looked at us. Jace grinned and gave her a half mocking shrug. Clary turned towards the boy again.
"I thought they went in here. But I guess they didn't. I'm sorry. It was a mistake." Isabelle giggled.
We walked back towards the Institute. Jace, Alec and Isabelle were arguing a few feet ahead of me. I had my stele out, trying to draw a healing rune on my bare arm and walk at the same time. I tripped when one of my feet went off the sidewalk. I hit the pavement with a painful thump. I crawled halfway under a parked car for my stele, which I had dropped. When I crawled back out, Alec was crouching down on the sidewalk, watching me.
"You okay, Rissa?" He asked. I nodded, pushing myself to my feet with my good arm. He pulled me back onto the sidewalk and snatched my stele from me. He swiftly drew a healing rune on my upper arm and handed the stele back to me.
"Thanks." I mumbled, ignoring the stinging sensation from the rune. He nodded and pulled me along. Jace and Isabelle were several yards ahead of us by now, still arguing from what I could tell. Alec's arm brushed against mine as we walked. I tried to ignore it. The only person who knew of my crush on him was Isabelle, who, as far as I knew, had told no one. We rounded the corner and reached the Institute.
"I'll tell Hodge about what happened." Isabelle offered as we got inside. She walked off. I headed for my bedroom. I stripped off my blood stained clothes and got into my pajamas. Then I climbed into bed. Church meowed and jumped up onto the bed next to me. I petted him.
"Hey, Church." I greeted him. I snuggled up to my pillow and fell asleep.
A/N Just a few things I wanted to explain:
1. Even though it follows the book, the ages are the same as in the movie. Clary is turning eighteen instead of sixteen.
2. Alec is not gay in this fanfiction.
If you don't like that I changed the ages and changed it so there's no Alec/Magnus pairing, then you don't have to read it. I just think that it should be this way for this fanfiction.
As I said above, please review and tell me what you think!