Renaissance - A Shadowhunter Tale

by writing-foryou1564

Following Simon's Ascension and his return to New York, strange things began to happen all around him. Clary and Jace have been acting oddly for weeks, Emma is bring drawn away from the LA Institute, and Simon's pretty sure someone is running around LA with his face on. Was the Academy enough to prepare him for what's next?

1. Prologue

The Mark on Simon's chest seared red hot - sending shivers of pain through each of his limbs, making them jump slightly as if they had been electrocuted. He closed his eyes and breathed while his parabatai rune flashed again - he wanted nothing but to latch on to Clary, to beat down whatever was hurting her, to stand by her side and fight until they'd beaten this foe… but if he was going to get the entire team out alive, he needed to be smart.

When Simon opened his eyes - everything seemed to be happening at once - silently and simultaneously. The portal was finally shifting open - just as the thundering above them began again. Simon's eyes latched on Isabelle's face, distorted and pleading, pulling on his hand in an attempt to get him through the portal. As his eyes met hers, another explosion of pain rocked his body, starting at the rune that meant the most to him.

When Simon ascended and became a Shadowhunter, he thought he had understood all the dangers, all the possibilities of death that his life would bring to him and the ones he loved. But when he was approached with the knowledge that he might lose everybody he cared about if he didn't do this one thing correctly, he couldn't help but blame Scarsbury and Loss for their lack of proper education.

His eyes focused again on Isabelle - she had one leg in the portal, her hands still wrapped tightly around Simon. The plan had been simple - while the other two played bait, Simon and Isabelle would go to the Clave for help - yet at the brink of freedom, on the edge of Idris, Simon was frozen.

"Simon!" Isabelle was screaming now, "we don't have time! Come on!"

Without warning, the pain in Simon's chest dulled, filling him with the sense that something had happened… something very, very, very bad had happened. Without even a seconds thought, he sprang into action. He pulled his hand away from Isabelle, knocking her off her feet. He bodily shoved her into the portal - something he knew he wouldn't have been able to do if she hadn't been putting all of her weight into him.

Without waiting to watch the portal close, Simon turned on his heels and sprinted towards his parabatai.

None of the characters included in this story are mine - they all belong to Cassandra Claire and the Mortal Instruments series. I am just borrowing them for a short while.