I step out of the air, shimmering through the dimensions to land in mundane New York. Times Square hadn't changed much in the past year for mundanes, but now?
It looks completely unrecognizable.
Cars and taxis lie abandoned everywhere, like some sort of complicated metal maze. The screens above us are smashed, glass crystals strewn across the tarmac far below. I hear cries as mundanes flounder over each other like fish as they try to escape.
A few metres ahead, a band of Shadowhunters are fighting the shadows.
With my six demons around me, I pull my hood up and step forwards. I morph into smoke and solidify on the bonnet of the car in front of them.
Isabelle- good lord they're all here- cries out as I reach down to grab hold of the creature attacking her. It struggles fruitlessly for a second, then I snap it's neck with one hand.
'Magnus!' I call over the din, as I chuck the twitching thing over a bus and out of sight. He turns, a fistful of blue fire in his hand, looking as emaculate as ever.
'What?'
'You called?' I smile and sweep him a bow. His anger shows all over his face.
'TWO HOURS AGO!'
'I told you I suck at timing. Anyway you seem to be doing fine on your own.'
Alec appears at Magnus' side, all black hair and haughty looks, and his jaw drops as he sees who is below the hood.
I laugh. I laugh and laugh, chucking the hood back as the sound rings throughout the square. Kate joins in, as do the others, until it just turns into a din of unbearable cackling. They all stop to listen. All the Shadowhunters and all the shadows fighting them, just to stare at me.
A coil of smoke curls around my fingers. I stop laughing. Silence rings out, awful and final.
Welcome to hell bitches.
'Get them.'
Clavis thrums to life, glowing with a million red dots of life, or unlife, as I summon all of hell's demons. The shadows scream as hellhound after Oni after Shax come to destroy them. They leap up between the cars and pounce, avoiding the Shadowhunters, but ripping their teeth into the black monster flesh.
'This what you wanted?' I call. Magnus, pale and stock still, just stares and shakes his head. I giggle and turn to face the big screen which I can't remember the name of, and sigh. Chaos rages all around me. Kate sits on the roof of the car, and together we watch the demons tear the shadows of Lilith apart, killing them, roaring their-
Roaring?
It's nighttime here in New York, but that is not a demon roar.
'Bee!' Vine shrieks, pointing into the distance, a look of terror on her little face.
Kate and I whirl around, weapons out, and for a split second I scan the faces below me. Magnus, Alec and Izzy, Maryse, some others I can't remember but no-
A streak of light hits me in the chest and I tumble backwards off the car. Hands wrap around my legs, white wings extend, and a beautiful face laughs aloud as the Angel catches me and sets me down beside him.
'D'you miss me?' He cries in his heavenly voice, ruffling my red and black hair and grinning widely. I smile despite myself.
'Hello Jonathan. Or should I call you Gabriel now?'
