Here's chapter 7! The next shout out is for Puppyballerina2012. She's writing an awesome crossover about mortal instruments and Percy Jackson. Great story and totally worth reading. Also I just released another Infernal Devices one-shot entitled "Attack of the Shanghai Institute" and it talks about how Jem lost his parents and how he got addicted to yin fen. I don't own the Mortal Instruments characters. Cassandra Clare does.
Chapter 7
We ran down into the city, the city in chaos. People were running about, screaming for their loved ones. People had already been killed and their bodies were scattered on the street. I saw a body torn into bloody pieces and I tried not to puke. "Come on!" Will yelled over the screams as people run in terror. "Mummy!" a scream came and I whipped my head around to see a young girl get cornered by a demon. She screamed as its jaws came down. I snatched an arrow and let it fly, hitting its mark. The demon howled and died.
"Come here!" I yelled at the girl, who ran towards me. She was around ten, her eyes big and terrified. But she did not cry. Shadowhunter children did not cry or scare easily. But this was an entirely different story. "You alright?" I asked, checking her for wounds. She seemed fine and her skin was bare of any Marks. "What's your name?" I asked and she answered, "Marissa." "Come on, Marissa. You follow me and this young man here. Stay with us," I said but I realized she was cringing away from me in terror.
"Your eyes. They shine like the burning city," she gasped and my hand flew to my face. "Never mind my eyes. Right now, we have to stick together," I said and I grabbed her hand as Will cleared a path for us. "Where are all the adults?" he asked as windows shattered around us. "They're still up in the Gard. Only the old and the young are here," I said as we fought our way through. I had handed a seraph blade to Marissa, who held onto it for dear life.
"Gabriel!" I shouted and my seraph blade came to life. It hummed and shone as I slashed into a demon, spewing guts. It howled and folded onto itself. "Where did Isabelle go?" Will shouted as the screams got louder and louder. "I think she headed back to the house! I didn't see any of the Lightwoods!" I said just as Marissa let out a scream. A tentacle had wrapped itself around her waist and lifted her in the air. She slammed down the seraph blade down into it but it hadn't been activated yet.
"Shout a name! Jovel!" I called out but the name never left her mouth. She uttered a final scream just as it ripped her in half. As her body fell to the ground, I did what a Shadowhunter wasn't suppose to do. I screamed and screamed.
"Diana!" Will called out as he shot an arrow at the demon. It merely grinned and came towards us. "It killed her. It killed Marissa," I gasped, trying not to stare at the two bloody halves in front of me. "If you don't get up now, we're next!" Will screamed as it came towards us. Reflexes took over and I snatched up my bow and fired arrow after arrow. One by one they hit their mark and it howled and shrieked. I grabbed my seraph blade and slammed it down and down.
"Die, you monster!" I screamed as I hacked it into pieces. "Stop, Diana! Its dead!" Will shouted as he pulled me off. The demon disappeared in a flash. I sobbed in Will's arms, oblivious of the chaos around us. "She's dead. I couldn't save her," I sobbed as Will comforted me. "It wasn't your fault," he said, stroking my back. A scream came from behind us as a demon bit into a little boy, silencing his screams. An old man was thrown into a shop, shattering the glass. "Right now, we've got to keep it together," Will said as we ran.
I slashed a Speed rune and Agility rune onto my arm. I saw Will ink runes onto himself as we dashed deeper into the city. We scramblled onto the roof, firing at long range to help get the others to safety. After we had gotten most of the survivors to the Accords Hall, we went back out into the fray. Most of the Shadowhunters fighting now are all around our age. I saw a blonde girl, her sword slicing into a demon. A Chinese girl twirled, her metal fans slicing demons into ribbons. A boy wielded a double-bladed sword, decapitating his opponent. I never felt so proud to fight in battle with the Shadowhunters of my generation.
"Glad you can make it!" a boy with brown hair said, his katana flashing. He was Japanese and his sword was a blur in the fray. We stood in a circle, facing a horde of demons. "Sean Watanabe. I hail from the Tokyo Institute," he said as he sliced a demon to pieces. "We hail from the Toronto Institute," I said as I shot arrows. I was running out of them. I heard a girl scream as she lost the battle with her opponent. "Let's kill these filthy creatures," Sean snarled as he charged at them. He was cutting into one when another sneaked up behind him. He cried out as it wrapped an arm around his neck and yanked his head off.
His head rolled towards us and I screamed. Will tried not to hurl as he shot at the demons. I snatched up Sean fallen katana and closed his eyelids. "Ave atque vale, Sean Watanabe," I whispered as I slung my bow over my back. I held the katana in my hand and brought it down, unleashing my fury on them. I fought and fought, not caring whether blood hit me or sprayed my clothes. I was mad and I was filled with adrenaline. With my werewolf heritage, I was faster and stronger than the average Shadowhuntera dn for once I was glad of it. As they surrounded us, I yelled, "For the Angel, Shadowhunters!" and the remaining Shadowhunter roared with strength and charged.
Just then, a pack of wolves came streaming into the city, coming towards us like a flood. "Werewolves!" I heard the Chinese girl cry out and we braced ourselves. They shot past us, moving past us like water parting over a rock. We stood there as they charged at the demons and started fighting them. We joined the fray, hacking our way through. The wolves were fast and strong and we fought like allies. I felt a certain piece knowing my mother's kind fought alongside with us that night.
As we fought, we heard a roar coming from the hill as the adult Shadowhunters poured into the streets from the Gard. I saw my father swing his ax into one demon, cutting it in half. We fought, Shadowhunters and werewolves until finally the demons just disappeared. I collapsed into my father's arms, sobbing as I clung on. "Thank the Angel you're alright," he said as he hugged me. Will came up and held onto me. We headed back to the Accords Hall and were met with a horrifying sight.
The Hall was filled with bodies, lying in rows with their eyes bound with white silk. Family members were moving about, searching for their lost ones. Those who had found them sank to their knees and wept. I saw a couple run over to Marissa's body. The woman broke into tears as she held onto her daughter. I felt my stomach turn as I saw so much sadness around me. Will was moving about, searching for the Lightwoods. A shout came from behind and I saw Dom coming towards us, his face streaked with blood.
"Thank the Angel you're alright," he said as he hugged me. My father started to talk to him and I made my way over to the fountain. I saw the werewolves, who were dragging in more of the Shadowhunter and werewolf dead. In death, they didn't look much different. I saw the Lightwoods near the fountain,a small slight figure lying on the ground.
I saw a group of teenagers running towards them. A boy with black hair and blue eyes sank to his knees and held the small figure's hand. I recognized the figure as Max Lightwood. His glasses were askew, his eyes closed and pale. My heart dropped when I realized he was dead. Alec held onto his brother, sobbing. Isabelle was screaming and crying, trying to get away as her parents held into her. Jace was standing there, watching the family cry over their loved one. Will stood apart, watching as his family mourned for their lost.
Jace looked up and for a moment he looked at me with the same golden eyes I had. "Guess I'm not the only one," I muttered to myself as I saw a small girl with green eyes and flaming red hair break apart from the group and ran towards the doors of the Hall, throwing them open. Sunlight crept into the desolated Hall and I saw the beginnings of a new day that most people didn't have a chance to see. I felt a light squeeze in my hand and I saw Will, who gently kissed me as we tried to drown out the sorrow around us.
