Disclaimer: This book was originally owned by Cassandra Clare, but some of the characters that are in this book are my own.
Clary and Jace had just returned from the Silent City.
The treatment that Clary had to face during her visit there was intense. Her brain was still shaken up by all the pain that she received during the treatment.
As they walked up the stairs to the institute, Clary saw a young girl that looked almost exactly like her. The girl had her eyes, and same everything, but the same color hair.
Clary was astonished by what she saw, and noticed that Jace was too. The girl walked towards them. Clary and Jace alarmed by what was happening, didn't respond. It took Clary a bit longer to process what was happening at the moment because of all pain that still seared through her brain. Jace unlike Clary processed the entire situation faster, but still not quite understanding it.
When the girl got closer, she said "Hello, my name is Serena. I'm Clary's twin sister, and I was summoned from Idris to assist you on missions." Jace still alarmed went straight towards her. Clary noticed that Serena had the snake cuff around her arm, but she still had a seraph blade.
Isabelle came out of the institute. Her smile widened when she saw Serena. Serena smiled back, and said "I'm Clary's twin sister, and I was summoned to help your team." Isabelle's delight showed on her face. There was a long silence. Serena was the first to break up the
silence.
"I have been fighting demons all my life," Serena explained to everyone. Everyone's eyes wandered to her. Serena not knowing if to feel comfortable or uncomfortable, just stared back. Serena was getting praised by Isabelle, and the fact that she took an even greater liking to Serena.
Alec was just about arriving as Isabelle and Serena were starting their conversations. "Alec, this is Serena, and she was summoned from Idris to help us, and she has been fighting demons all her life," Isabelle exclaimed in delight. Alec just looked at Serena, but he wasn't glaring at her. There was something that was changing in him, and he knew it.
Clary's eyes widened she never knew that anyone would have the power to change Alec. Serena would be the first one to completely transfer Alec's thinking to not only liking guys, but also girls.
The Institute was welcoming her in with a warm friendly feeling, although Isabelle and Alec were still not use to Clary, they were starting to trust her. Serena on the other hand was heading off on the right foot. She was much better at socializing than Clary, and was much better at fighting demons than Clary.
"We are going to have to see Magnus Bane tonight," Jace said. Everyone, but Serena were looking at him surprised.
"I have known who Magnus Bane since I was about thirteen. I also had the block on my mind, but I wasn't an artist like my sister, so Magnus couldn't install the angelic rune in my brain to see when the block was coming off. I was always into writing books about fairy-tales. Even if I started to write about demons, and all sorts of things from this world, my mom wouldn't know when the block was off. Clary on the other hand was always in the mood of drawing, so he knew that installing the angelic rune in her brain to see when the block was fading was fine. When the block had come off, Magnus decided that having me stay living in the mundane world was too risky, especially when I had received my abilities early. Magnus sent to live in Idris 'til I was of age and ready to come help this team. He would always come to visit me in Idris every two weeks to see if I was fine. I was only worried about Clary, and how she would enjoy life in a cluster of lies," Serena explained.
"Do you know where Magnus lives?" asked Alec. Serena rewarded him with a smile and a nod.
"I know, but we have to start to get dressed," Serena answered.
"Why do we need to get dressed, and in what style?" Isabelle questioned.
"We have to get dressed in party clothes because today of each week he has some kind of random party," Serena replied.
Isabelle pulled Clary into her room. Isabelle went digging through her closet for something for Clary and herself to wear to the party. Meanwhile, Serena had bumped into Hodge on her way to an empty room. "Hodge would you have an extra room for me?" Serena asked politely. Hodge nodded, and lead her to a room right in between Jace and Alec.
She used her whip/serpent cuff to pull all her luggage to her new room. When she got settled down, she scrambled through her suitcases in look for a perfect party outfit. As she dug around her suitcase, she found her black sweetheart neck line dress, with knee high boots, and of course, her leather jacket.
She walked to her vanity, and grabbed her nude lipstick, and splashed it on. The eye shadow, and and eye liner were black as usual. She tried so many different hairstyles, but none of them seemed to work, so she left her hair down.
When she was done, she walked to the front of the institute, as she saw Clary and Isabelle coming towards her. Serena gave one quick look at Jace, Alec, and Simon, before leading the way to Magnus' house.
When they arrived at Magnus Bane's house, Serena knocked on the door. Before the person that opened the peep hole looked at them, Jace drew a rune, that made the person stare blank face at the rune. They walked in without a worry or care.
They walked into the middle of the party, and found that separating would be the best course of action. Jace, Clary, Serena, and Alec, while Isabelle being hard headed went off with Simon.
After a while, Magnus soon appeared out of the blue.
"I don't remember inviting any children of the Nephilim to my party," Magnus said.
"Drop it Magnus we're here on business," Serena being a kind girl said it very strictly because she was running out of patience.
"Serena, Its been a while since I've seen you," Magnus ignored the insult, but seeing Serena's fists clench, knew it was best to just allow them to talk.
He led them to his room, and locked the door. Serena was felling dizzy and weak, but decided to hide it. "Okay, you are here on what kind of business?" Magnus asked. With Serena dizzy, she didn't explain, but was relieved when Clary jumped in, and told her story. Magnus suddenly raised out of his comfortable chair, and asked Serena, Jace, and Alec to stand outside of the room.
Clary and Magnus were in the room for such a long time, that Serena and the guys were starting to get worried. Suddenly, the door opened, and Clary came out. Magnus was all completely tired, Serena could see it in his eyes, as he bid them farewell.
They walked back to the party, and spotted Isabelle, but not Simon. "Where's Simon?" Clary asked. Isabelle shook her head viciously, and then said that vampires took him. Clary's face went paler than the moon, and she looked like she was going to faint. She held herself up, so that it didn't look like she was that weak.
Jace and the rest of the shadowhunters made their way to the church that was nearby Magnus' house. They walked to grab some extra weapons to take out all the vampires in their way. Clary, Isabelle and Serena were a team, Jace and Alec were the other team. They were take care of each other no matter what.
When they had gotten prepare with all their weapons, and Jace had shown Clary how to use the weapon that he gave her to use, they headed for the vampire lair, Hotel Dumort/Hotel of Death. Serena and Jace were the first ones in the hotel, followed by Clary, Isabelle, and Alec.
Serena, still feeling dizzy didn't mind the lack of light in the hotel. She still had a witchlight out to see where she was going, but other than that she didn't use it at all. Jace in the lead, but Serena two feet away from him knew what to do if they were attacked by vampires. Serena armed with her whip and seraph blade knew that vampires were very good jumpers.
As Jace turned the corner, Serena felt someone touch her shoulder, but when she turned around, she didn't see anyone there. Jace about one foot away from her now was feeling as nerve wrecked as she was, but she wasn't about to admit that she was scared, so she continued the trip. Jace gave her a heads up meaning that he had found Simon, so she quickly flashed the witchlight notifying the rest of the shadowhunters to come.
Just as Alec was arriving, a pair of hands wrap around Serena's waist, and pull her up with it. Alec trying as best he could to grab her before something bad happened to her, wasn't on time.
When the rest of the shadowhunters had arrived, Alec was staring at the last place he had seen Serena. They asked him what was wrong, and he answered "Serena was taken away by vampires, but they aren't far yet, we can still save her and Simon." Clary looked like tears were about to far from her eyes, but she held them in.
Jace returning a few seconds after he had found Simon realized that Serena was missing, but he didn't know he care this much about her. Alec was still staring at where she had last been. Clary heart broken thinking that she would never see her precious sister or best friend forever. "Simon is the closest one to us, so we can get him first," said Jace. Everyone followed the order.
Clary balanced her way to the middle of the board that Jace and Alec put out for her to get Simon untangled from the clock lines. When Simon was finally freed, Clary walked back to the other side with Simon leaning on her for support. "Now we need to find Serena," Clary said. Jace nodded, and walked in the lead again.
As Jace lead the team through the vampire's dark lair, and soon found a girl the was blind-folded, and tied up in the corner next to a blood thirsty vampire. who said "I want your blood child, and you will give it to me. Serena shivered as the vampire got closer to her.
"Stop!" announced Alec.
"Why should I do that child of the Nephilim?" asked the vampire.
"Because I care about her," answered Alec.
Alec heard gasps around him, but he didn't care.
Alec soon started lounged himself at the vampire, but saw that the vampire had grabbed Serena, and threatened to start drinking her blood.
A/N:
I left you all in a cliffhanger, but promise that the second chapter will be published later on today. Hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Please vote and review, and if you haven't followed me please do. :)
