A scream rips through the calm air in the empty house. At least I had thought it was empty. I sat on the bed in my room reading my book, but not anymore the book was now thrown across the room and I was at my door with one hand on the door handle and in the other a baseball bat. This is the one time that it would come to use, and the one time every person dreads. No one really puts a weapon out expecting to put it to work, but here I was with the bat in hand. Fear washed over me as I went to turn the knob and I opened the door. The hallway was dark compared the light of my room. I shut the door so that light no longer spilled from the room and silently slipped down the hall. Another scream echoed through the halls of the house and brought a tingle to go up my spine and made my knees shake harder. What was going on? Shelby couldn't have been home already… right? Just then a hand grasped onto my shoulder. As I went to turn and confront whatever it was with my bat I was slammed against the wall. The bat slid from my grasp and smacked onto the floor where it made a loud clang as the wood hit wood. A loud hiss came from what held me against the wall.
"Where is she?" The man hissed into my ear. At this I was lifted higher on the wall and my neck was what was holding my up. As I struggled for air they tightened their grip on me. My eyes began to feel heavy and I knew I would go under at any moment so I began kicking at the person in front of me. I felt my foot strike with the person that was holding me against the wall and their grip loosened on me and I escaped from their grasp. With a gasp I dropped to the ground panting and searching for the bat. The bat connected with my hand and I swung it at where I assumed the man was. It must have hit the man because a yelp came from him. A feeling of triumph ran through me at this. As I got to my feet and brought the bat up to swing at the shadowy figure in the dark again I was tackled to the ground. My head connected to the wooden floor with a thud that sent shock waves coursing through my body. I let a scream slip from my mouth and begin to fail my arms and legs around hoping to strike at least one of the people. A hand smacked against my mouth stopping my scream. I clawed at his hand with the very little nails I had. That's when it all settled in. This was probably going be how I died, at the hand of some crazy men. Images of my older sister, my mother, my father, my grandparents, and everyone else I love flashed through my mind as I lay on the ground being squished by whatever was on top of me. Then I felt the weight of the body lifted from me. I gasped for more air and began to back away from the men. Now another man was in the room, and he held a blade. He whispered something that sounded like a name to it and it lit up brightening the room. Another scream slipped from my mouth. The boy that is holding the blade looked at me, but I must have distracted him because he quickly looked back and the person that had just tried to kill me. He began lashing around with his blade and that is when I closed my eyes. I heard the blade connect with bodies and the thought of it all made me queasy to my stomach. Just at that moment I blacked out. I woke to arms wrapped around me and holding me close whispering in my ear.
"Evelyn? Are you ok?" A man held me in his arms and he looked down at me in the dark. I let a scream rip from me again and I began to try and pull away from him but his grip only tightened on me.
"Who are you?" I asked with a shaky breathe. I hid my face in my hands so I didn't have to make eye contact with him.
"Don't worry I won't hurt you… I just saved you from the demons. You would have died had I been a couple of minutes late."
"What do you mean demons…?" I asked curious to what he meant.
"The demons are what came and attacked you… They came for your sister and they found her. When I arrived they were about to kill you and they already had her."
"What do you mean he took her?" I asked "she went out with friends…" At this the boy grew tense and grabbed a cell phone out of his pocket. He still held me close to him. When his phone turned on it eliminated his face and I could really see him. His eyes glowed a beautiful sparkling gold that would make girls swoon, and his hair looked a golden too that hung in his eyes. Then he began talking into the phone.
"Hodge, Evelyn says her sister was out of the house. Send shadow hunters around the area and look for her. The demons will be looking for her too." With that he hung up and began to pick me up.
"I can walk fine on my own thank you. Can you please set me down?" he looked at me and with a look of hurt in his eyes he set me down. "Thank you." I muttered to him.
"By the way I am Jace." He held out his hand to shake and I took it and welcomed his greeting. "Now Evelyn we should go to somewhere safer than this house. So we should go and pack some clothes and stuff and we can be on our way to the Institute." With that we were on our way to my room ready to go to a place I didn't know of with a guy I didn't know.