CHAPTER 2

MAGNUS' POV

I stormed out of the lunch hall fuming. How dare he, how dare that bastard Morgenstern talk about that man. I stalked towards my friends on the bleachers flopping down next to Camille and Ragnor. Camille took one look at me and her forest green eyes narrowed and her perfectly shaped blood red lips became a thin line. Her hair a rich, honey gold blonde piled on her head suddenly looked like Medusa's snakes as her aura got colder and colder. Ragnor on the other side of her noticed instantly the change in the atmosphere and his bright yellow eyes became slits as he looked over her shoulder at me.

"It's nothing, I'm fine." I sighed and then put on my brightest smile that felt wrong even to me.

Camille gave me the 'look' there was no way I would be able to tell her nothing now and Ragnor raised an eye brow looking at me. This is why I loved my friends they always knew when I was bullshitting them and when I was telling the truth, it was great most of the time and they always knew when I wanted to bitch or cry or even fight something or someone. They also know that of I really was fine I wouldn't say it like I was trying to convince myself. These two crazy ass people were around when my mom decided that she should be the new chandelier hanging from the ceiling and my dad decided that I resembled my mother too much and thought that the bathroom would look better with splatters of red all over it if you catch my drift. They were there to pull me through and out of the void that threatened to make me decide that the river needed my magnificent self. They were great which is why they are so over protective and will probably destroy anyone that tries to break me in anyway. That includes Jonathan 'the bastard' Morgenstern.

Camille scoffed. "Yeah and I'm Morgana Pendragon, who was it? And I'll show them my witchy powers." I laughed and hugged her, this is why you love Camille she is just so awesome.

Ragnor behind her grinned "Ok ladies break it up. As you all know I am the unicorn and unicorn powers are way more awesome."

We pulled away and laughed leave it to Ragnor to believe unicorns are the most awesome. I smiled and opened my lunch and picked up an apple. Taking a bite of the sweet fruit I looked over the quad. On the field a mixed group of guys and girls were walking across towards the forest, there were three guys and two girls. One of the boys was golden he had golden hair and skin making him look like an angel, another one of the boys had dark curly hair that seemed shaggy and not well kept and tanned skin, he also had on glasses that gave him the feel of a werewolf. The girl closest to the golden boy had auburn hair that made you think of an open fire on a dark night in the woods making me think of a demon though I am a bit crazy when I'm bored and the girl next to her had waist length midnight black hair that contrasted against her creamy skin elegantly, she had on a top that seemed to shimmer around her giving the appearance of wings which made me smile as she seemed so much like a faery. The fifth person of the group was another guy; he had darker than midnight hair and snow white skin. He and the faery must be related since it's very rare you get two of a similar look if they're not twins. The last guy didn't make me think of any fantastical creature he made me think of a prince valiantly protecting his kingdom from evil snakes like in the story my mom used to tell me as a child.

Camille next to me sighed breaking me out of my trance "What I wouldn't give to get into golden boys pants over there. It's such a shame that he's infatuated with the red head."

I turned toward her and grabbed her hands. "Who are they?" gesturing to the woods where they disappeared into.

Camille raised an eyebrow and held up her hand "Golden boy or better known Jace Wayland is captain of the soccer team and is quite literally a boy wonder he has the second highest GPA in the whole school and will probably be the valedictorian next year, however he is quite the bastard. He has an awful personality and he is always very sarcastic. He's been with most of the girls in the school but now he doesn't want anyone other than that of Clarissa 'Clary' Fray, she is Jonathon Morgenstern's half sister but decided she didn't want her dads name so she kept it as her mothers. She has the top grade in art in the school and she wishes to get into the Brooklyn art university her best friend is Simon Lewis, he is a geek when it comes to computers but is really into comic books and monsters. He has a band that has no name at the moment as they can't decide on one and he has the biggest crush upon Isabelle Lightwood. She was the one with the dark hair and the shimmery top. Isabelle is in the same year as Jace and he is her adoptive brother she is a fighter and is captain of the girl's taekwondo team. She has another brother Alec Lightwood; he was the other guy with dark hair and white skin. You might not have noticed while you were gawking but he had a bow on his back which is not surprising as he is the mentor of the archery club though he doesn't participate which is weird considering he know so much about it.

"Every lunch they all go into the woods and they are back before classes start looking all hot and bothered, I would say that they go and have fun in a group but that's kinda gross as three of them are siblings which makes me wanna gag. God"

I grinned and let her go, looking at my friends and then the woods. "Well, isn't that a little rude? They go to have fun and they don't invite the only three way in town?" the others nodded and we all stood up. Jumping from the bleachers we made our way across the field and towards the dark woods following the group.

When we walked into the woods everything went silent. Birds stopped singing and the wind stopped. It was like it knew that we were intruders into its land. We followed the path until it forked into two. The path to the right was bright and seemed livelier than the part of the forest we were in ourselves, it had sun on the path and the trees were leaning over swaying in the slight breeze almost beckoning us towards the light. We couldn't see at the end of the path but it was bright and it looked like it opened out in a clearing. Alongside the path at the roots of the trees were many flowers ranging from bluebells and primroses to forget me knots and jasmine making the whole path look and smell glorious. The path to the left however seemed dark, dank, dead and downright creepy. There was no sun on that side and no pretty flowers. The trees had no leaves and they seemed like a shell of their former selves. The path itself was muddy and full of dark ebony leaves that squished underfoot. Camille grabbed on to Ragnor and he squeezed her back.

"Why the hell would anyone come here?!" she hissed, she began to drag Ragnor over to the right but I grabbed them.

"Magnus come on! Let's go down the nice smelling path and get away from the dead one!" Ragnor said.

I shook my head something didn't feel right about that path something that stood up the hairs on the back of my neck. Someone or something was watching us. They wanted to see which path we would take. I started down the left path dragging a protesting Camille and Ragnor with me. We walked slowly so as not to slip and fall upon each other and we tread carefully over the roots and dead flowers. We had taken no more than five steps there was a shock wave knocking all three of us on to our asses. Next thing we know we are at sword point.