"Stop pacing Harry" Ginny said for the fourth time in the last 10 minutes, but her words seemed to reach deaf ears.
"Harry!" Hermione snapped standing right in front of her best friend "Would you stop pacing? It's making all of us nervous!"
"My godson was kidnapped!" Harry exclaimed "I'm trying to think of something and you are not helping!"
"Maybe he wasn't kidnapped" Ginny said softly "Maybe he ran away"
"He wouldn't do that" Harry said shaking his head "Why would he?!"
"His grandmother just died Harry" Hermione whispered taking a seat on the sofa next to her husband, Ron Weasley "The person who raised him…"
"But why would he run away?" Harry sighed letting his body drop on one of the armchairs "He knows he has us…We can help him if he needs anything"
"But does he know?" Ron asked "Do you really think he knows that?"
"Of course he does!" Harry exclaimed looking at his friend with wild eyes "Why would you suggest otherwise?"
"Because maybe he doesn't" Ron explained "Look mate, lately you have been busy with Lily and we've been busy with Hugo…"
"What are you trying to say?" Harry asked sighing
"What I'm trying to say that maybe we're not giving Teddy the attention he deserves…Maybe he thinks we don't care about him"
"But we do!" Harry complained
"But he doesn't know it!" Hermione argued, agreeing with Ron's point "He most feel ignored"
"So…you think he left because he felt ignored and that we didn't care about him?" Harry asked sighing once more.
"It's a possibility" Ginny said nodding "We checked his room…His favorite book wasn't on his nightstand. Neither was the photo of Tonks and Remus wedding"
"But…where would he go?" Harry asked again feeling frustrated.
"Maybe we could try tracking him" Hermione said "The ministry is working a new device that helps us locate someone wherever they are…I could try to get one so we could use it"
They agreed on that. Hermione made her way immediately to the Ministry of Magic via floo network with their fireplace. The other three adults waited for a couple of hours until the clever witch was back holding a small device. It had the form of a muggle ipod with a kind of camera lenses on one side and a screen on the other.
"We need something that belongs to Teddy…it'll scan it and locate him" Hermione explained.
The four adults made their way to what used to be Andromeda Tonks' house and climbed up the stairs to Teddy's room where they took the shirt he had used at the funeral and made the scan. Something started to show in the small screen.
They were buildings. High buildings that reached the sky with many different announces of some muggle product or movie or restaurant. There were people, lots of them. All of them walking down the streets in a hurry. People with different styles of clothing. Some were colorful teenagers and others were adults with formal suits making their way to work. The image moved down the streets between the buildings stopping by a sign that said 'Brooklyn' and then moving to an dark alley that was abandoned…or almost. The screen showed the face of a man. He was looking to one side so you could only see his milky-white skin, his high cheekbones and firm chin. Messy black hair fell over his eyes and as he turned you could see the eyes were of an icy blue color.
"Brooklyn, New York…United States" Hermione said. "Why would he go there?"
"Ted would never go there…he barely knows the place and has no way of going there!" Harry exclaimed
"I guess we were wrong…Someone took him there" Ginny sighed with a concerned look in her eyes "He was kidnapped and taken to another continent"
"Who is that man anyways?" Ron asked frowning.
"The last person who saw Ted" Hermione explained "Probably our kidnapper"
"Let's go then!" Harry said getting his wand ready "We need to save Teddy"
And with that the four adults have a small twist to their wands and they disappeared with different cracks.
"There's nothing here Jace" Alec complained with a heavy sigh "We've been looking for an hour already and haven't found a thing. I doubt we're finding anything now"
"There must be something!" Jace exclaimed clearly frustrated "A kid can't come to New York just like that!"
Suddenly they both heard a distant crack sound coming from somewhere near the entrance of the alley. Both teens got into Shadowhunter mode and made their way with caution. Jace was in front a seraph blade at ready on his hands while Alec trailed behind him, his bow at ready, looking around and trying to find anything dangerous.
"Those are not demons!" Jace sighed disappointed as he put his blade away.
Alec looked over Jace's shoulder and found the silhouette of four mundanes looking around the entrance of the alley.
Alec sighed as well and put his bow down and over his shoulder. He was about to suggest they head back when something flew over Alec's shoulder, barely missing his face.
"What the hell?!" Alec exclaimed getting his bow back in position.
"Stupefy!" Someone cried sending a bolt of red light in the direction of the two teens.
They both dodged, getting on different sides of the walls of the alley. Jace recovered first and charged against the people standing in front of the alley. However there weren't four anymore, instead they were only two.
Alec realized that too late and Jace was hit from behind by a bolt of red light very similar to the last one. Jace fall to the floor not moving. Alec turned around and shoot an arrow at one of the figures. Said person cried out in pain and he shoot another to the ones behind him.
"Petrificus Totalus" Alec felt as something hit him in the back and suddenly his whole body became rigid. He could no longer move but he could see and feel everything clearly from around him.
"Is he the one?" One of them asked, a girl.
"He is" A man said.
They all stepped forward and Alec could now see them clearly. There was a girl with ginger hair, a bit lighter than Clary's. Next to her stood another girl with mushy brown hair. She was supporting a guy with ginger hair like the girls'. Apparently the red-haired man was the one who Alec hit with an arrow. Next to said man stood another man with jet-black hair and round glasses.
"What do we do with the other one?" Asked the red-haired girl.
"We don't really need him" the man with glasses said "He should stay here…warn the others if there are more"
"So we're just taking this one?" The girl with curly hair asked
"For questioning" the man with glasses nodded.
The girl with curly hair nodded curtly and raised a kind of stick towards his face. It looked like a wand, but before he could think further about it a yellow light spread out of it. He felt his whole body relax and he was able to move. He wasn't able to do anything, though because darkness swallowed him and he felt no more.