I sat on the couch swinging my seraph blade around staring at the screen in front of me.
"Who is draining mundanes of their blood? And what could they possibly want with it?" I stood up the click of my heels on the hardwood floor of my apartment in the city. As I turned I waved my hand turning off the screen and grabbed my stele and holstered my blade.
"Looks like it's time to do a little hunting" I said with a smirk. My name is Adelynn Vain, my mother raised me alone to be the best Shadowhunter around. The only thing she would tell me is that I was special. She never said why but I felt it, also Dot my best friend told me a lot. She also taught me how to use my magic and told me I was special because of my magic but she enforced the fact that no one could ever know. My heels clicked the stairs and I passed by Luke as he went into his apartment downstairs from mine.
"Evening Addy" he greeted me.
"Hey Luke" Luke lived downstairs with his wife Jocelyn and daughter Clary something told me they had secrets, but I never asked and Luke never stopped looking out for me since my mother died, and I promised my mother that I would look out for Clary as she told me one day she would need me more than ever. "Wish Clary a Happy birthday from me, and remind her ill see her tomorrow, I'm a little tied up tonight" he smiled and I continued down the stairs.
"I will Addy" he laughed. I exited the apartments and made my way to the nightclub, either someone was getting stabbed tonight or I was getting information.
I activated my invisibility rune and made my way into the nightclub head held high. I scanned the room quickly finding many demons around the room, shapeshifters. I followed them back into the back room and when the leader looked and saw who I was all hell broke loose.
"Come to Mama" I whispered and pushed up leaping into the sky coming swiftly back down and swinging my blade swinging sideways and the demon disintegrated. I heard grunts and saw 3 other people with seraph blades in the room with me. Shit other Shadowhunter's. I saw a demon coming from my left so I black flipped using the wall to propel me high and spun coming back down slicing through 2 more demons. Blondie on my right took out the two closer to me while the black hair Archer to my left aimed at the one heading for us with a direct hit. My concentration was broken when I head a scream, I turned towards the door seeing a frightened and familiar redhead.
"Clary!" she turned at the sound of my voice her eyes going wider than they were. I saw the demon attack her from behind and Blondie went to help her but got knocked down dropping his blade and it slid on the floor towards her. She grabbed it and it lite up and my eyes went wide, there was no way. I shook it off and jumped up towards Clary coming down on the demon that was coming on her left and she got the one on her right. I stood next to Clary the other in the room looking at us in confusion, one she was mundane, two the blade was light up in her hands Three I was someone of their kind they didn't know.
"Adelynn why do they look like you and how come I killed someone" she asked her voice quivering. I sighed,
"Look Clary, that was a demon but right now you need to go home" I looked at her but knew I had to go before the others in the room asked questions.
"Ad-" I cut her off as she began to speak.
"GO HOME" I emphasized. "I will meet you there I have to go" and with that I turned and ran not before running into the black hair boy with the bow and arrow.
"Who are you" he questioned. I didn't answer but our eyes caught and I felt like he was familiar to me but instead of answering him I ran past him back to my apartment knowing I had question for a certain someone.
I walked into the building and yelled.
"DOT!" I looked around the shop "DOT where are you!"
"Addy what's wrong" she asked coming out from the back of the shop.
"My mission was a little more than I thought, where you ever going to tell me Clary had the sight?" I asked her almost yelling. She sighed and ran a hand over her face.
"I was sworn not to but many people, what happened?"
"All I know is I went on a mission tonight and in the middle of the attack Clary shows up, she can see us and the seraph blade light up when she grabbed it" I said to Dot "So either she is a Shadowhunter or I'm hallucinating" I snarked at her.
"Where is Clary?" Dot asked concerned I left her somewhere bad.
"On her way home." I answered, "Now I'm going to bed so I can figure out what to say to her tomorrow when I see her" I quickly walked to the stairs heading to my apartment.
"Jace what are you doing" Alec asked the blonde boy as he walked away after the mission.
"I'm going to find the Redhead" he answered with an eyeroll.
"Which one?" Izzy asked the boy just as confused why the two they had never seen before seemed to know each other. Alec was just as confused for the fact that the redhead covered in runes seemed like someone he used to know, someone he lost a long time ago.
"Both are as equally intriguing but I'm more worried by the Mundie who has the sight than the other" Alec snapped.
"Who said she was a Mundie?" Jace shot back as his brother, his parabatia.
"New Shadowhunter's don't exist Jace" Alec shot back as Jace walked into the night. Alec then turned to the other one in the area with him. "Lets go Izzy" he told his sister and with a sigh the girl followed her brother back to the institute.
I sat on the couch still armed up just thinking. Why would my mother not tell me about Clary, is this part of the reason I had to protect her? Why wouldn't Luke tell me either. I was broken out of my thoughts but a crash and a scream, a familiar scream, and not the first time I heard it tonight. I shot up from the couch running down the stairs as fast as I feet in heels would take me and I crashed though the door seeing a demonic looking Dot attacking Clary. I ran in my blade held high swinging left but the demon dodged it.
"Clary RUN!" I yelled as the demon left her and aimed at me. I felt a claw in my side and I screamed dropping my sword but kicked the demon away from me and I saw a sword slice through the demonic Dot and it disintegrated leaving me face to face with the blond boy from the club.
"What no thank you for saving your life?" he said slyly. I went to open my mouth with a comeback of my own but I felt myself falling.
"Shit" was all I managed before the world turned black.
"What no thank you for saving your life" Jace asked the girl, her eyes flashed annoyance at his arrogance and she opened her mouth to speak but she started falling.
"Shit" was all she managed to say as he caught her. Jace caught her before she hit the ground and he picked the girl up with a sigh. He looked down and saw she had a healing rune so he took out his stele and activated it.
"Don't hurt her put her down!" Clary screamed, he turned to face the other red head in the room and saw he almost in a panicked state. he smiled at this girl and put the stele back in his pocket.
"Trust me I'm not going to hurt her why would I have saved her if I wanted her dead?" he asked.
"You're a killer!" she screamed at him knowing he just killed someone else.
"Look im not going to hurt you or your friends but I need to get her somewhere safe to get her help and soon"
"She's not my friend I barely know her" the girl answered the boy.
"Well she seemed to know you and she tried to save you from-"
"From what exactly?" Clary asked.
"A Shax Demon, they are shapeshifters" he answered her.
"I thought it was Dot" she mumbled. Jace started walking towards the door holding the girl in his arms bridal style, he looked back and smiled as he saw the other girl following him. he swore, Alec was going to kill him.
I looked around and saw my mother talking with a man.
"Catherine are you every going to tell him he has a child?" he asked.
"No, he doesn't need to know that he was experimented with during a friendship."
"But she needs to know what she is you can't train her to be both" he said.
"I will find a way, she will be able to learn both" my mother said.
"If the clave finds out about her they will put her on trial for high treason." He reminded her.
"I know, trust me I will teach her to hide in plain sight, they will never find out about her" mom said and I felt myself leaving the memory or vision or where ever I was.
I took a deep breath and looked around not reconizing where I was. I sat up knowing I wasn't at home and the room seemed to spin.
"Woah relax" I looked over and saw the girl from the club sitting next to me on a chair. "Hi im Isabelle but you can call me Izzy" she said introducing herself.
"Adelynn" I answered her.
"So its true" The archer from earlier rounded the corner "You brought the unknown and a mundane into the institute?!" he yelled. And I saw blondie follow him around the corner.
"I think we covered that they both are Shadowhunter's Alec" Blondie told him.
"There is no such thing as new Shadowhunter's Jace" Alec growled back.
"Im far but new" I spoke up. They both seemed to stop whatever they were going to say next and both looked to me.
"You're awake, how are you feeling?" Jace was the one to ask me and Alec seemed more annoyed than anything.
"I'm fine, what happened?" I asked and before they could answer that I saw a familer redhead follow Jace around the corner.
"Can someone please explain what is going on, I need to find my mother?!" she groaned. She stood behind Jace almost annoyed and I felt for her, a lot has happened in one day.
"Clary?!" I question.
"Oh Addy? Are you ok?" she questioned running over to me and I looked back to the group that saved me and probably her.
"Yeah, what do you mean you need to find your mother, where is Joycelyn?" I asked confused.
"all I know is someone has kidnapped my mother and now you guys have kidnapped me and Adelynn." She seemed very panicked and I looked over at Izzy and she seemed sympathetic with her.
"I think kidnapped is a strong word I think we saved both of your lives" Jace cut in rather rudely.
"Well I don't seem to have said I know either of you" I snapped back at them, knowing I had to be careful. The black hair boy looked from me and back to Jace.
"A mundane shouldn't be here Jace" he growled.
"She is not a mundane!" Jace snapped back at him. "And how are you so sure Jace" Alec said to the blonde.
"Because the seraph blade lite up when she used it." Jace countered to the boy.
"That is Jace and Alec, my brothers" Isabelle said with a groan. Like I couldn't tell the sibling bond. The black hair boy Alec looked over at Isabelle and I and his face seemed to soften. I looked down and saw that I wasn't in my clothes and I began to panic.
"Where are my things, I need my things" I shot up from the bed I was on and became to try and find something of mine. Alec was the one to come over to me and out his hands on my shoulders getting me to stop. Normaly I would flip someone over if they touched me but his touch was oddly calming.
"Your clothes were torn and covered in demon and your blood we had to get rid of the dress, your jacket is over on the table and a change of clothes is there as well."
"Thanks to me" Isabelle sang out, I almost cracked a smile at her, she was so cheerful
"Doesn't anyone else find this unusual?" Alec said.
"Alec you find everything unusual" Isabelle said.
"Guy seriously two weird things happen in one night, the stuff with Clary, And then we have this girl come out of nowhere and is defiantly a Shadowhunter but doesn't even know about the institute." He paused gesturing to me "I need to report this to the clave" the room was silent for only seconds before the other boy started talking
"Alec dial it down a notch" Jace commands.
"You know as well as I do that my brother doesn't have a dial, but I agree with Jace." Izzy said to Jace.
"Hey give me a minute and here's a word you never hear me say, please?" Jace looked back to the group and they sighed. And we left him alone with Clary and Izzy grabbed my arm.
"So how do you know they redhead?" she asked me.
"She is my downstairs neighbor, I hang out with her every now and again, I don't know her super well or anything but her stepdad Luke has helped me a lot since my mother passed away a few years ago." I answered her.
"So how come ive never seen you around here before?" she asked. "I know you're a Shadowhunter and you're definitely trained."
"My mother taught me everything I know and well she never told me about the institute so I don't know, I knew there was more Shadowhunter's but never even thought about it" I said thinking back at things my mother taught me. Our converstation got cut Short but Clary running past us on her phone heading to the the front doors Jace on her heels. Me and Izzy shared a look before following them out the door where I saw Simon her best friend. But no body saw the attack coming from behind him.
"Jace look out" I yelled and jumped up grabbing my blade as Jace turned around and pushed the man back with a gasp.
"Circle" was all he said before they ended in a hand on hand combat and I came back down from the air swinging my blade the same time Jace swung his and we killed the man at the same time.
"Nice work Red" he said with a smirk, I could tell he was checking me out in my very revealing outfit from Izzy.
"Looks like I could give you some tips Blondie" I stated and he smirked.
"You wish" we looked away from each other as Clary spoke.
"Can you guys de-glamour or whatever so my best friend doesn't think I'm going insane. I smiled and watched as Izzy and Jace became visible but I walked right over to Simon making my voice the only thing known.
"Boo" I yelled. And he jumped about six feet, I wish but he did jump. I de-glamoured appearing only an inch or so from his face.
"What the fuck ADDY!" he yelled and I laughed, and out of the corner of my eye I even saw Jace smirk.
"Don't look like you saw a ghost Simon" I laughed.
"I don't even want to know" he mumbled. I ignored most of the conversation but I heard Jace say something about Simon and he grabbed the mundie's hand bringing him inside.
"Are you sure you're not on drugs Clary?" he asked looked around the empty abandoned church, Jace groaned and activated the rune on his arm and grabbed Simon's hand allowing him to see the inside .
"What the-" Simon breathed.
"Why is there another Mundane in the institute?" Alec seethed looking over at Jace.
"Someone from the circle followed him to get to Clary." Jace answered. I felt something wrong and I had to leave, I felt Dot in trouble and I knew I had to try and look for her, alone. As the group split up I snuck out the door before anyone knew I was missing.
"Glad to know Izzy's cooking didn't kill you Mundie" Jace joked, going on the fact that Izzy had watched over him earlier and said she was going to make breakfast.
"Nope still alive" he stumbled. And then the dark hair archer walked in.
"I don't approve of this mission." Alec said walking towards the group in the computer room. He heard groans but he continued "I spoke with the clave and there are sending Seelie scouts to search for Valentine, but they made it very clear that the little girl doesn't leave the premises, and the other girl is to be kept here until they figure out who she is."
"My name is not little girl ok?" Clary said "I don't care what that clave thing or you want I'm going to find Dot" he sighed seeming annoyed.
"Good luck doing that on your own" he said to her.
"She is not going to be doing this alone" Jace shouts at us "Alec this warlock could have the answers we need, with Valentines people out there searching for Clary she's not safe outside alone"
"Jace has a point" Izzy says looking at me. Alec growled but gave in.
"So little girl since you seem to know everything, where do you suggest we search?" he asked seeming annoyed.
"We should start at dots Apartment in Greenpoint and there's this thrift store-" Clary touches her necklace and closes her eyes on a sigh.
"What wrong? What is it?" Jace asked worried.
"I, um, weirdly, I think I know where Dot is" she replies.
"Great!" Simon replies "I'll Drive" he earned some weird looks from everyone, but before we left one of the other Shadowhunter's ran over to me.
"The Adelynn girl is missing" I turned around faster than he finished.
"WHAT? How could you let her leave?!" I yelled.
"She must have slipped out." He replied nervously. I ran over to the computer and brought up her picture and pressed search.
"Get out there and find her, before the clave finds out we lost her!" he growled and made his way out the door as Izzy spoke to Jace.
"I've never seen him care so much about someone besides himself." And he choose to ignore her as we went out to search for Dot.
I was trying to concentrate on Dot but all I came up with was nothing. I stood in the alleyways between Pandemonium and other building and I yelled in frustration my hands firing purple before I regained control and fell to the ground in sobs. I have truly lost everything, my mother is dead and I feel like Dot is too, the only person I had left that knew everything. I heard footsteps running and I looked up only to be faced with Alec, Jace, Simon, Clary and Isabelle.
"What's going on?" Jace was the one to ask slowly. I stayed looked calm but I was trying to find an escape route that wouldn't have me creating a portal.
"Adelynn you don't need to run." Alec was the one to speak next, he slowly made his way forward.
"No, no, no," I whispered, knowing this was about to end badly.
"Yes you are a Shadowhunter." he said.
I looked at the man approaching me in the eye, his blue eyes almost speaking to me.
"No Alec, you don't understand" I said.
"So help me understand." I turned to run again but I felt him grab me from behind. I quickly reached up from behind me and took this man who was twice my height and flipped him over me pinning him on the ground and I straddled him and I felt a blade at my back.
"Let him go." I heard Jace say.
"Maybe he shouldn't be grabbing people" I growled not moving one way or the other.
"Jace back off" Alec said staring at me. "Why were you here, why did you leave the institute." I looked at him trying to decide if I should answer him.
"I was looking for Dot" I said getting up and I reached my hand out to him, he took it.
"But I can't sense her anywhere, I know she's not dead but I don't think she is in this dimension" I said and looked to the others.
"How do you know Dot?" he asked, I felt something tug at me heart.
"She was a second mother to me growing up." I said quietly and Clary walked over to me and put a hand on my shoulder.
"She was to me as well Adelynn" she said.
"We have to get Clary her memories back," Jace said and It looked like they we almost having a silent conversation.
"To the silent Brothers we go" Isabelle said and they started walking away but Alec seemed to stop and he reached his hand out to me. For some reason I couldn't help myself I grabbed his hand and followed him to whatever the silent brothers meant.
