p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay, drop your weapons."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"The boys looked confused at each other. Jace decided to break the silence. "What do you mean, 'drop your weapons'?" He said as he set a step backwards./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Sometimes a shadowhunter has to fight without his weapon." Hodge narrowed his eyes slightly. " A down-worlder might take a hold of it during battle. So we need to make sure you will still be able to finish them off." Hodge said with an icy tone./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec had never considered this before but he understood that it was something necessary. He put away his bow and arrows and turned to Jace. He was a little shocked at the sight of him. Jace had already dropped his weapon on the ground and was ready to fight. Fight fight. He was jumping from side to side while holding his fists close to his chest in the air. His expression was dead serious, so serious it gave Alec the chills. It was so mean, so powerful, so fierce, as if his look could pierce through titanium./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec was a year older than him, but Jace knew that he had always been the better soldier. Jace eyed his brother carefully as he got closer. He seemed hesitant when getting in position, he did get it right however./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Come here." Hodge signed to the both of them. "You can do whatever you want ever you want, but except for hitting on the cross." He said with a straight face, in a low tone./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec was a little confused. Whatever they wanted? So he could go be punching on Jace's face? Alec started to feel a little anxious, he wasn't sure if he would be able to hurt Jace. Even if it was just sparring. But he knew that Jace wouldn't be having any issues. This made him wonder, how was he not going to utterly fail? Then Alex realized that this is how it's supposed to go, all parabatais need to have this training at some point. Besides if they don't prepare themselves now, they might have a much bigger problem in the future, on the field./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jace realized that Alec wasn't going to blow the first hit. So he did. With dead precision, right underneath the left chest. His movements looked so calculated and smooth. He would make it seem easy to a regular bystander./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec witnessed the punch almost gliding through the air. His first instinct was to dismiss it with his arm but Jace clearly carried to much power with his fist. He choose to defend himself by lowering his arms like a shield. He was too late however. The impact was catastrophic. Although for a brief moment it also made him angry. He quickly thought it away. Before he could initiate his move, a fiery Jace was already clasping his arms around Alec. One around his shoulder and one around his left side./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec braced himself for the fall, it turned out to be not as bad as he had expected. He quickly leaned up and saw that Jace hadn't fully turned to him yet so he jumped fo his legs. Alec fell on the ground. "Fuck." He let go./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec put his right arm around Jace's throat and got him into a stranglehold while lying on his back. Jace was surprised, but he was not about to lose. He got up with Alec still clasped behind him and tried to throw him over himself./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec pushed with all his body the ground and grabbed Jace from under his arm to make it impossible to be thrown on the ground completely. His defense was somewhat successful, it resulted in them both falling away from each other./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jace realized something when he came back up. Right when they were launched from each other there was a tearing sound that came from his side. Thinking it might have been his shirt he looked down. He was right. His shirt was torn from under his arm to all the way down. He sighed and gave a cold stare at Alec. Alec however didn't seem to be paying attention. With fierce Jace grabbed his shirt's collar and ripped it entirely from himself. Like a bull he jumped to Alec./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec had only just looked up because a sudden sound of something tearing to see that it was Jace who had torn his shirt off. He was startled by a shirtless Jace approaching him dangerously. He felt paralyzed, he didn't know what to do./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Using all his force, Jace hit Alec with his shoulder. For a short moment the tall boy struggled to breathe. Alec clenched his right fist and hit Jace on his left side, noticing that despite the relatively new rune, Jace felt smooth and soft still. But also warm. Jace hit Alec back on his jaw and then put his hands around his throat tearing the taller boy on the ground. He had Alec in a stranglehold while his left hand was still clenched around his throat./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec was struggling to breathe. He stared in Jace's eyes, trying to tell him that he could stop now. Alec's vision started to get smaller and Jace still hadn't seem to have lost his rage. Alec started to deliriously hit the ground while trying to shout Jace's name./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Enough." Hodge spoke before removing Jace from the other. Alec let out his brother's name that he had been trying to shout. Alec was trying to get it all together when Jace turned to him and demanded almost like a challenge "Beat that." With a faint smirk over his features./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Okay." A confident voice spoke from behind. The three men almost synchronically turned to the source of the sound. No one had expected her./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jace had beaten up Alec real bad which surprised Izzy a bit. It was true that Jace was the best soldier of them but Alec was also not bad himself. At least that's what she had always thought. Getting rid of her whip she stepped to face Jace more closely. Jace let chuckled a little at the sight of Izzy being so confident. He wasn't used to seeing her like this. Izzy narrowed her eyes and spoke then with an alluring voice. "Afraid of getting your ass kicked by your lil' sis?" She said almost teasingly before stepping to Alec. "I don't want you to get hurt." Jace spoke to her. She put her hand through his hair to get it back into the way she liked it. Jace continued. "We both know that I'm going to win so why risk it." He said with a confident smile. Alec didn't like his hair to the right but he realized it probably looked better than how it was right after the fight. While still busy with her Alec's hair she continued. "My old brother wasn't feeling well today so he wanted me to quickly handle it." She spoke playfully. "Right?" She forcefully added that not long after looking Alec in his pretty big eyes. Alec looked back at her. What was she thinking? He didn't want to break her heart but wasn't a fan of her getting beaten up by Jace either. He sighed and faintly rolled his eyes. Just not too frustrated, so Izzy knew that he wasn't going to stop her even though he didn't agree with her idea. Her precious smile took over her features and she turned back to the other man again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Before Jace was able to say anything Hodge spoke. "Izzy you're not ready yet."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""A little confidence sensei." She said while in the midst of her sentence eyeing at Alec too. "Let me show you how ready I am."/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jace shrugged and got into his position and spoke. "Okay, you asked for it." Alec at the other side looked frustrated at his sister who had gotten into position too. They did the ritual of respect and waited for Hodge's sign./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Their chakra's had only just collided and Izzy had already fired her first four punches. Straight on each still-bare shoulder, twice. So fast, like a snake. Jace tried to flex his muscles to take a little away from the impact, but he was too slow. An electric feeling rushed from his shoulders all the way to his fingertips, leaving his arms briefly paralyzed. His sister was constantly moving from side to side and her movements were smooth like his, only more snake like. He gave her a head-butt, hoping to disadvantage her as well. She shouted but it didn't stop her from pulling his head down and then kicking his feet so that he would fall down. "Fuck." Jace spoke trying to make the damage as slight as possible. He fell on his back./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Izzy moved to Jace's side who was lying on the ground and aimed to kick him near the balls with the back of her feet to shock him. It seemed like she missed the target a little going by his shout./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Alec had never seen his sister on fire like this before and he was pleasantly surprised to see that his sister already on this level. It would mean that soon they could go out to missions as a team of three. "Ooh." He softly spoke when Izzy kicked his brother in the balls. He was getting mixed feelings about this. On one hand he was absolutely proud of his sister, on the other hand he felt bad for Jace's pain. At the end he was happy that his sister had initiated this fight with him. It gave Alec the opportunity to thorough enjoy the sight of his best friend./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jace could understand how he could have let this happen. He hadn't given himself entirely to this fight from the beginning guessing it wouldn't be needed for Izzy who was much younger and had far less training. At least that is what he thought. Just when he was trying to get back up from the fall he saw the back of her feet nearing his cross. No. Fucking. Way. He thought. He was lucky she wasn't wearing those new pair of high heels, he thought. Her feet partially hit his right thigh, but mostly it was right on his balls. He shocked and let out a shout, even though the kick didn't hurt that much, it was just an automatic response. An instinct, his nature. He was more so afraid of what he knew was coming. After a few seconds had past he started feeling it. This strange, gaping pain seemed to grow exponentially. Not only that, it was tricky as well. Right when Jace thought the pain had reached it's highest, it grew again, and again./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hodge waited to see whether Jace would get back up. After seconds of witnessing him trying to suppress the pain he knew that this fight was over. If a man couldn't get back up in a few seconds after being kicked in the balls, it meant it was really bad. Sometimes they were lucky. Sometimes it just didn't hurt that much. But other times it did and there was no in between. He wasn't sure what to say. Izzy had won, but not on the fair way. But, he couldn't recall speaking of any rules before she started fighting him. And that would mean she was theoretically allowed to./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She approached Hodge and her brother with a smirk. "See, a little confidence is more than enough."/p