~Cinis cineris ut cinis cineris, Pulvis ut Pulvis. Hic adveho proeliator inrideo in caligo nox noctis- From dust to dust and ashes to ashes. Here come the riders in the darkness of the night.~


Chapter 2

The room was silent after the blonde boy had spoken. Jessamine spoke up first.

"Of course it's Tessa! Tessa this! Tessa that! Tessa everything," She yelled, her voice rising higher. Will and Jem turned to shoot her a shocked glance and Charlotte shot her a scolding look.

Tessa just sighed and sank back onto her chair. Clary was giving Jessamine a look that clearly said "Wow".

"You should really work out those anger issues. It's not good to keep it all bottled in." The blonde boy drawled out lightly.

Will stifled a laugh which earned him a light punch from Jem who was eyeing the redhead girl. She had remained silent and was now just watching everyone with a glint in her eyes.

Jessamine's face lit up like a light bulb. Her face was getting redder by the second.

She was just about to say or rather shriek something back at the boy when Clary spoke.

"And you should learn to keep you're comments to yourself, Jace." she said sending a, "Shut up" look.

The room remained silent for a few more tense seconds before Charlotte spoke up.

"Well it… uh... You're all Shadowhunters?" She managed to choke out still shocked.

"Yes." The other girl answered, speaking for the first time.

"What are your names?" Charlotte asked re-gaining her voice now.

Clary smiled at her politely and pointed a hand out behind her.

"This is Isabelle Lightwood and her bother Alec." She said moving so they could get a better look at the two dark haired siblings.

Jem's eyebrows rose in his hairline but remained silent as she continued.

"This is Jace Herondale and I'm Clary Fairchild." She said motioning a hand to the blonde boy and then to herself.

Jessamine eyed Jace with distaste before saying "Well that explains a lot."

"And where are you from?" Charlotte asked managing not to give their outfits another look.

Isabelle answered this one with a small smirk on her lips.

"We're from New York. Exactly 132 years in the future." She said watching everyone's reaction.

Charlotte looked ready to faint (again) and Henry looked thrilled and excited and shocked all at once.

"132... That's 2010? 132!" Charlotte said in a hoarse whisper.

Clary just gave the lady a small smile before turning around and facing the wall where the portal sat.

"Umm... Alec? Why is the portal still open?" She asked her eyes widening in surprise.

Alec spun around and looked at the portal then to Clary than back to the portal.

"I have no idea." He said still eyeing the portal.

Clary moved closer to the portal and sighed.

"This is what happens when you get Magnus to do these things. I told you it would've been easier to just draw a portal, but NO why does anyone need to listen to Clary?" She ranted to herself as she pulled out a steel from her pocket.

"Clary, darling. Talking to your self is not a good sign." A voice said lightly.

Clary rolled her eyes before saying, "Mr. Bane, one of these days I will harm you and it will hurt."

A light laugh floated through the portal as Clary began drawing some un-familiar runes around it.

"You can try." Was the last thing everyone heard before the portal closed soundlessly.

"Magnus Bane?" Jem said curiously turning to face Clary.

"The one and only." She answered as she looked him over, a small grin replaced her annoyed look.

"Jem Carstairs?" She asked him, still watching him intently.

Jem nodded slowly then turned to Will who was watching Jace.

The two boys were looking at each other with curiosity but each had small smirks growing slowly on their lips.

"So why have you come... here... Back here?" Charlotte asked hesitantly looking around.

"We need your help." Alec said simply.

"Help with what?" Tessa asked speaking for the first time.

"I think everyone should sit down." Clary said.

Everyone obeyed with the exception of Will who remained standing with his arms crossed over his chest.

Isabelle and Clary rolled their eyes at him before walking around to the front of the table.

"As I'm sure you know the Magister and Nate are trying to take down the Shadowhunter community." Isabelle started.

Tessa flinched slightly but continued to watch the girls.

"In our time the History books say that you five and others in Conclave... Enclave, sorry, destroyed them before they were able to do more damage." Isabelle continued.

Will perked up at the mention that they destroyed them but remained standing.

Clary took over from where Isabelle left off.

"But now something's wrong, in our time Nate and the Magister are once again trying to destroy the Clave."

That caused a reaction from everyone. Questions were shouted up and arguments were started.

Clary shook her head and yelled out "HEY! I'm not done yet!"

Everyone shut up and listened once more.

"As you may have noticed that makes no sense. With some help from Magnus and our contacts we found out that someone from the future went back in time and told them how they were killed and all the flaws in their plan. Mr. Mortmain and Nate managed to get a spell that made it possible for them to live forever. We came back so we can stop you all from dying and prevent things from happening." Clary said, her green eyes boring into everyone as the information sunk in.

Will spoke up. "Why were you sent? You look about our age." She motioned to himself, Jem and Tessa.

"Why are you asking about that?" Charlotte asked shooting a confused glance at him.

Will laughed lightly.

"I don`t believe their story. They could be working for Mortmain as far as we know" He said.

"There's no way we would work for that... That psycho!" Isabelle sputtered out in disbelief. She shot Will a look of anger before Alec put a comforting arm around her and whispered in her ear.

"Would you like us to prove it to you? I have no problem kicking your ass and showing you some new moves." Jace said taking a step towards Will. The accusation seemed to piss everyone off.

Will stood in a fighting stance and raised his eyebrows at Jace.

"Whenever you're ready." He said easily.

Jace moved to lunge for him but Tessa and Clary moved in between the two before anything could start.

The two girls exchanged an amused look.

"Jace go sit down. Will doesn`t understand why he just pissed everyone, so relax." Clary said calmly.

"Why don't you explain it to us? That way we can avoid any further confrontations and we might be able to help more if we knew more about it." Tessa said, shoving Will on the shoulder, he took a few steps backwards but his eyes remained on Jace.

"Let`s make a deal. Prove you're from the future and we won`t ask anymore about it. Unless you want to explain it to us." Will said, his hands still clenched and ready for a fight.

Tessa sighed and walked back to her chair.

"Deal. But how do you want us to prove it to you? I don`t really have anything with me from the future except the Sensor." Clary said motioning to the black object still on the table.

"I like Jace`s idea. A fight. In the future there has to be some new moves so this would be a great way to help solve our problem." Will said moving towards Jace again.

Isabelle and Alec laughed quietly in the corner.

"What is it with boys and fighting? For the love of the Angel could something be resolved without a battle to the death?" Clary said.

Jem let a small laugh escape before Will glared at him.

"Clary, we don't have time for this." Isabelle said walking over to her.

"Will. They're here to help and unless proven otherwise they will be given rooms and welcomed to stay at the Institute." Charlotte said, her tone left no room for argument.

"Do you have any clothes? Well, other than those ones you're wearing? They don't, well, you're going to stand out just a bit." Charlotte said looking over their clothing.

"Magnus said the same thing so he gave us these." Isabelle said, pulling a small square cube from her pocket.

"How does that help?" Charlotte asked.

"Their suitcases with dresses in them. Magnus shrunk them down so we wouldn't have to throw them through the portal and kill someone." Isabelle said with a smile.

"Will, Jem, can you show the boys to the two rooms across the hall from you? Sophie can you show Isabelle and Clary to the rooms across from Tessa, please." Charlotte asked.

"I'll show them." Tessa said standing up. Sophie still had to clear the table and wash the dishes.

"Thank you." They called over their shoulders as they opened the doors that led into the hallway.

Charlotte sighed and collapsed onto her chair.

Henry walked over to her and rubbed her shoulder lightly.

Charlotte looked up at him.

"And just when I thought things were getting back to normal." she said with a small frown.

"Nothing's going to get back to normal for a while, dear." Henry answered back with a sad frown of his own.


So this is one of those annoying "Filler" chapter's, I'm once again SO SORRY for the long wait it seems my TEACHERS all hate me so just bare with me. In about three weeks it will be CHRISTMAS VACATION and I'll be able to do some writing :D

Tell me what you think, It is going to get more interesting soon, sorry if this isn't the bus chapter...It felt a little forced but I'll leave that for you to decide.

Lots of Love 3

~Mandy

P.S- ALEX PETTYFER ( The future Jace in my mind) is ENGAGED To...**Gasps**...*Cry*...Dianna Argon ( Quin on Glee)...I'm now sad...Please review to make me happy :P

P.P.S- I feel like such a DOUCHE...I've been forgetting to GIVE A HUGE THANKS TO MY FABULOUSLY AMAZING AND WONDERFUL BETA"S: Maxwaylandgray and Inessat :D

...OK...I'm done...Please REVIEW :D