Annabeth cursed in Greek as three empousa chased her, Percy, Nico and Will. They had been enjoying their double date when the monsters appeared, they soon were chased out of the cinema as the empousa had lunged at Will. They ran down the pavement, feet thundering.
"Annabeth," Percy said, "We need to get out of the way of mortals, I don't know what the mist will make them see but it won't be good."
"It never is." Will muttered.
Nico nodded, "Gods them empousa are fast." He said as he looked behind him. "Hey, go into to that ally there, that way no one will see us." Will said pointing in front of them. The four of them quickly ducked into the ally, gasping for breath. Nico smiled, "Good idea Sunshine."
"I'm known for it sometimes, Death Boy."
Annabeth looked down the ally and gasped, the boys turned to see what she was looking at. Two teenagers were fighting some kind of monster, they looked about seventeen. A girl and a boy. The girl was short with fiery red hair, her arms and neck were covered in some sort of tattoos. The boy had blonde hair and was average height, he too had tattoos inked all over his body. They both wore black gear and held a glowing blade, they moved with angel like grace, as if they'd been trained, but Annabeth was sure she hadn't seen either of the two teenagers at camp before. Annabeth moved forward to help as an arrow sunk into the monsters side, a tall boy jumped off the roof above them. He had black hair and he too wore the black gear and had tattoos inked into his skin, he fired another arrow at the monster. With that skill he could be a son Apollo, she thought.
"Annabeth, move!" Percy shouted. She dived out of the way as the empousa fell forward. Grabbing her sword she stood up, moving toward the empousa. Near by Nico and Will were fighting one of the empousa, whilst Percy fought off the third. The vampire lady bared her fangs at her and lunged, Annabeth slashed with her sword and rolled out of the way as the vampire came at her again. Annabeth preferred fighting with a dagger but the sword that Damasen gave her would do. The empousa leaped at Annabeth again as she stabbed the vampire in the heart, the empousa dissolved into dust. Annabeth looked around to see Percy stab his empousa with the riptide. Nico and Will had already killed theirs and Nico was complaining as Will grabbed his hands to check him over for any injuries.
"Hey, Wise Girl," Percy said , "Any injuries?" He asked as he limped over, just as Annabeth was about to reply the blonde boy shouted out, "Clary, look out!" The red head turned just as the monster sunk its tail into her side, she fell to the floor with a scream. Annabeth rushed forward to see if she could help the girl to find Will had got there first, he had carefully moved her out of the way and his hands began to glow as he sang a hymn to try and heal her.
Annabeth turned to see the tall dark haired boy fire an arrow at where the monsters heart should have been as the blonde boy stabbed it with his sword. As soon as the monster was gone the blonde haired boy rushed over to Clary.
"Get away from her!" He shouted, Will fell away from Clary exhausted, Nico ran to feed him some ambrosia.
"Jace," the dark haired boy tried, "Look at her, Clary looks much better than she should after that Shax demon." Blondie sighed, and dropped to his knees beside Clary and got out a pen like thing and started to draw a tattoo on her arm, as Annabeth watched it looked like he was burning it into her skin.
Just as she was about to mention it Percy said, "Wise Girl, is it just me, or is there two kids up on that roof fighting something?" Annabeth looked up and saw a dark haired girl sprinting across the roof closely followed by a brown haired boy. They both ran to the edge of the roof and jumped off, they landed with the same grace Clary and Jace did when fighting. The girl was undeniably beautiful her long dark hair cascaded down her back. She jogged over to the boy Annabeth assumed to be her brother given their dark hair and similar sharp features.
Both her and the other boy wore black gear and had the same tattoos. "Hey, Alec, what's going on?" the girl asked as she glanced at Annabeth and her friends. The brown haired boy rushed forward at the sight of Clary on the floor. "By the angel, Jace, what happened?" He asked. Alec quickly filled them in then turned his gaze to Will and Nico, Will who was now sitting up looking like he wanted to help.
"What did you do to help her?" Alec asked Will.
"I sang a hymn to my father, Apollo, to heal her. I cured the most of it but the poison needs to get out of her blood stream."
"Poison!" Jace shouted angrily, "Alec, we need to get her to Magnus now ."
Just then Nico decided to speak, "Her life force is wavering, I can feel it." Jace looked up at Nico, "What do you mean?" He asked warily.
"I mean, if we don't heal her soon, she'll be visiting my father in the underworld." Nico answered.
"Nico," Will said, "We need to have another talk about your people skills." The dark haired girl walked over to Annabeth, "I'm Isabelle," She said, "and that's Alec," she gestured toward the boy Annabeth thought was her brother, "That's Jace and Simon," pointing at Jace and the other boy, "And that's Clary." She said, casting a worried look towards the red head. Annabeth glanced at Percy before answering, "I'm Annabeth, this is Percy, Will and Nico." She said pointing at each of them in turn.
"Her life force is flickering." Nico said bluntly.
"Alec!" Jace said pleadingly.
"Jace I can ring Magnus but he won't be able to portal here just like that." Alec snapped.
"Neeks?" Percy asked, "Could you?" Nico nodded. Simon looked at them, "What?"
"Um… I could shadow travel us to that guys house you want to go to." He said shyly. Although Nico was still quiet around people, he was slowly becoming more confident speaking to others, and he was smiling more, Annabeth was happy for him.
"What that? Shadow travel?" Isabelle asked, shooting a curious look at Simon.
"Um, all you need to know is I can get you there fast and it isn't dangerous." He said quickly, " Look I can give you a demonstration if you want."
Alec, Isabelle and Simon nodded whilst Jace looked up curiously, "You, can you slow the poison?" He asked looking at Will, Will nodded and held his hands over Clary and began to sing quietly. Jace looked at Nico and nodded, Nico stepped into Percy's shadow and appeared at the other end of the ally. Isabelle gasped as he disappeared and stood before us again.
"Jace, it's the quickest way to get her to Magnus." Alec said.
"Um, whose Magnus?" Percy asked. Alec looked at Percy and said "My boyfriend."
Jace sighed, "Okay then death kid. How do we do this?"
"First of all, don't call me death kid. Everybody needs to hold hands, I'll have to hold hers," Nico said, nodding in Clary's direction," It's safest that way. Also I need to know where I'm going."
Alec quickly told Nico an address in Brooklyn,"…Top floor, I have a key so it wont be hard to get in." Nico nodded then took Will's hand with his left and Clary's with his right. Jace held Clary's other hand, then took Alec's, Alec held Isabelle while she held Simon. Percy took my Annabeth's hand as she took Simons and Percy, Will's.
"Every one ready? Don't let go." Nico warned as the shadows wrapped around them.
Soon Annabeth found herself standing in a large living room, with floor to ceiling windows. A tall, Asian man came in dressed in black skinny jeans and a purple top, covered in glitter.
"Alec, you brought guests." He said as he strode over to them, he gave Percy and Annabeth a once over then turned his gaze to an unconscious Nico di'Angelo, and a glowing Will, who was quickly singing a hymn as he held Nico's hand.
"What happened this time?" He asked, seeing a unconscious Clary on the floor," Is that blood, on my clean carpet?" He said ushering everyone out of the way.
"Magnus," Alec said," Can you heal her? She got caught by a Shax demon, we got here as fast as we could." Though he had asked, Alec's tone suggested Magnus didn't have a choice in healing her.
"Get her on the sofa." He said as blue mist swirled around his hands like the children of Hecate did at camp. Percy helped Jace carefully move Clary onto the sofa, "All of you away now." Magnus commanded, everyone stepped back as Magnus started to chant very quietly under his breath. Will looked at Magnus in awe," How does he do that?" He asked Simon. Simon looked confused for a moment then answered," Magnus is a warlock, I assumed you were too." Will glanced at a now sleeping Nico," No, I'm a son of Apollo god of the sun, music and healing."Will said, making his hand glow in demonstration.
"Still think he's a warlock." Simon muttered under his breath. Jace looked at Percy then asked, "What institute are you from?"
"We're not from an institute." Annabeth said, Percy grumbled muttering, "Rude to think we're from a mental institution when we've just met."
"Seaweed brain, I don't think he means that."Annabeth froze, slowly, crawling towards her was a spider, Annabeth couldn't breathe as she was transported back to tartarus.
~Jace's POV~
Clary's eyes flickered as Magnus stepped away from her heading over to Alec. Clary's brilliant green eyes opened, "Jace?" She croaked. Jace rushed toward the sofa, "It's okay, Clary, I'm here. By the Angel you gave me a scare, I thought you were going to die."
The death kid looked up," Her life force is stable."
"People skills, Neeks." Percy muttered.
"Who…" Clary started, suddenly the Annabeth girl started to cry, shaking violently. Percy wrapped his arms around her and began muttering in her ear, Jace could only catch some of it, "It's okay, Wise Girl… We're alive… together…We're out, we got out." Slowly she started to calm down and pointed at the floor, "A spider?" Alec asked, "Magnus get it out of this loft now!" He said as he moved towards the kitchen. Magnus laughed, then picked it up following Alec.
"Out! Now, Magnus no!" Alec shouted, from the kitchen. Jace laughed, "Who knew Alec is such a wuss when it comes to spiders. He can go to hell and face countless demons, but spiders." He smiled.
Percy scowled, "Don't say that again." Then in a quieter voice," Not when Annabeth like this, please." His eyes met Jace's, broken. Jace looked taken aback, he didn't think anyone could care for someone as much as he did Clary. But looking at the way Percy held Annabeth, and the way he looked at her with them broken eyes, he started to think, maybe.
Suddenly Clary sat up, "Ugh, my head hurts."She complained.
Magnus shouted through from the kitchen, "You should be fine, biscuit, be careful though, if you need pain killers take them, you still need rest."
Percy looked up and said," Look, we should be going. Nice meeting you." He walked towards the door as Alec ran in front of him, being chased by Magnus.
"Whoa, watch where your going!" Percy said his arm still around Annabeth.
"Sorry." Alec said sheepishly as he went to talk to Jace.
Percy grimaced as a mist appeared in front of him, a girls face came into view, "Percy we need you and Annabeth back at camp, a group of hellhounds are at the boarders and our fighters are getting tired." The girl was pretty, she had choppy brown hair and had light brown skin. Her eyes were like a kaleidoscope, going from blue to green then to brown. Suddenly a loud explosion echoed from behind her, she turned and screamed, "Jason!" She looked back at Percy," Please hurry." Then she waved her hand through the mist.
Percy paled," Guys we need to go, now." Nico and Will stood up, Will reaching for Nico's hand, though Nico blushed he still took it as he grabbed Percy's other hand as the four of them disappeared in to the shadows.