Alec's POV

When I get to the Institute, it's no surprise to see Jace and Isabelle waiting for me at the door.

"Took you long enough," Isabelle scowls as I join them.

"Shut up Izzy," I tell her, not in the mood to deal with her shit tonight.

"Fine," she says irritably.

"Heads up," Jace says as he tosses a crossbow my way. I catch it and he throws me a quiver of arrows to me as well.

So what's the situation exactly," I ask as I secure the quiver around my torso.

"If you spent more time at the Institute you'd know," Isabelle says coldly.

"Isabelle," Jace says in a warning tone before I have time to respond. Seriously, what is with her lately?! I wish it was just a bad night for her, but Izzy's been acting like a total bitch for weeks.

"Whatever," Isabelle says, pulling me out of my thoughts. "You catch him up to speed. I'll scout ahead and meet you there. Don't keep me waiting long."

Not even waiting for an answer, she takes off; disappearing into the night.

"Well then," Jace mutters under his breath before turning back to me. "I'll make this quick. Some werewolves didn't like Luke's rules and left the pack a while back. There weren't any problems until recently. Civilian deaths are being reported with the cause being listed as animal attacks. We tracked the rogue members to a forest near an elementary school. We need to eliminate them before they start preying on the children there."

"How many wolves," I ask.

"I had Clary ask Luke about it. He said that there were six who left but we don't know if they've turned any new followers so they're could be more."

"Well let's get going then. I want to get home at a somewhat decent time."

We start walking towards the intended hunt site.

"So do you know what's up with Isabelle?" I ask Jace.

"Not at all," he tells me, "You know how hard it is to read her. But I think she's just jealous."

"Jealous?"

"Of you and Magnus."

"Why would she be jealous?"

"Well it's not just you two. It's also me and Clary. Not to mention how much it must've hurt her for Simon to choose Maia over her. I think she's lonely, whenever we aren't hunting you're usually with Magnus and I'm with Clary. Isabelle doesn't have anyone to go home to."

I take in Jace's words and can't help but feel guilty. She's my sister, how could I not have noticed she was so upset? I should talk to her after the hunt before I go home.

"How is Clary?" I ask, trying to change the subject.

"She's doing well," Jace says with a grin, "We've been training together three times a week. It's only a matter of time before she can start coming out with us."

"Whats her weapon of choice?"

"Like me she prefers an angel blade, but she's pretty comfortable with chakrams."

"Chakrams, impressive."

"I know. Her aims a little off but she has good control over them. I wanted to take her with us tonight but I wasn't too sure how Isabelle would react so I told her to go visit her mother."

"Shame, we could've used her tonight."

"I know, but we don't want to push Isabelle over the edge."

"True."

We continue to walk in silence until we arrive at the elementary school. Isabelle is standing by a soccer field near the woods. She turns to us with a nasty scowl on her face.

"Took you long enough," she says viciously. "You guys ready?"

"Yeah," we say in unison.

"Then let's go," she says as she heads towards the forest, silver whip glistening in her hand. "Just remember to be quiet. We don't know where they're gonna come from so stay alert."

Jace and I prepare our weapons and follow her in dead silence. We walk for what feels like an eternity and come to a clearing with a small pond and large rocks near by. So far none of us have seen any of the wolves.

"Huh," I whisper. "Maybe our intel's wrong."
"Shut it Alec," Isabelle responds softly but harshly.

"What? It's happened before."

"Our intel isn't wrong," she snaps back, "They're here."

"But-"

"She's right," Jace puts in, "It's too quiet."

Suddenly a shadow shoots out from the trees and leaps at Isabelle. I let an arrow fly from my crossbow. It hits the beast in it's side and it crashes to the ground. It lays motionless and suddenly four more attack us. Two go for Jace, one for Izzy and one at me. I try to keep the creature at bay, but with none of my shots hitting it gets dangerously close to me. I can smell the metallic scent of blood on it's breath as it gets within an inch of my face. The beast lunges back as I notice Isabelle's whip coil around and pull the creature back. As it turns on her I line up a shot to finish it while it's distracted. A strong impact knocks the crossbow away from me. As I turn to find the source I get sent flying by another impact. Pain crushes my body as I land hard against one of the rocks; knocking the wind out of me. I look up and see an unusually large werewolf snarling at me. Getting up, I attempt to get to my crossbow; only to be tackled again. I feel a hard pain in my head and then everything goes black.