A/N: Sorry its taken me so long to update. I'm still not really happy with this chapter. These AP classes are hard! A special thank you to Luminousfishy and everyone else who reviewed. You guys are awesome!

"Iris!," a voice- Katherine was shouting.

"What?," Iris asked.

"You were staring off into space," Zach said. "So the prophecy has started then. What makes you think so?"

"You know how Razil said that I would start the prophecy-"

"YOU said. You should have seen yourself, Ris. You were scary.," Sam interrupted.

"Ok, I said. But its beside the point. I just…. know, ok? I'm going to find something out, something important, very soon. And its going to change everything.," Iris said.

"Ok, you're going to find something out. Care to tell us what it is?," Zach asked.

"That's the problem. I don't know yet."

"JACE!," Clary shouted as she emerged from the forest. "I need to talk to you RIGHT NOW!". Jace, looking worried, ran over to her, shouting behind him

"Keep training, guys! I'll be back!". Max knew this could be a likely time for them to spill a secret, so he followed them, saying to Stephen

"This is bigger than you think. Be quiet.". He walked over, hiding behind a bush on the edge of the forest. H heard hi mother breathing hard. She was saying,

"Oh god Jace, I don't know what happened. She knew I was there but she didn't say anything, then she walked though a wall of thorns that she opened and-". Clary stopped, taking deep breaths. "I don't know, Jace. It was like, it was like she was like Sebastian"

"We would know though, Clary. Demon-children have those black eyes. And we love Iris. We would know. Most likely, she was just trying to show you that she knew what she was doing. Its probably just the angel blood.". There it was again, Max thought. The mention of angel blood. He had to tell Iris.

"What do you guys know about Clarissa Fairchild and Jonathan Herendole?," Iris asked. "Its part of what I have to find out. A very big part."

"Never heard of them," Katherine said. "I'll look them up, though."

"I think they were some sort of war heroes or something," Sam said.

"Yeah. When I had to study wars when angels got involved, there was some sort of mention of them.. I'll look them up too.," Zach said. Just then, Iris's phone chimed, showing that she had a new text message. It was from Max.

"Shit. I have to go guys, meet me here in a week, okay?," Iris said.

"Ok, I'll tell you if I find anything out," Katherine said.

"Thanks! Bye guys!," Iris said as she sprinted to the forest.

"Well, see you guys in a week!," Zach said as he flew off. Katherine just jumped in the water, so Sam was just standing there.

"Bye," he whispered, and conjured up a small flame, which he jumped into.

"Hi Mom!," Iris said as she sprinted by Clary and Jace, who were still talking, though according to Max, "About nothing important". She ran over to Max, and said, "We need to talk."

"Sure," Max replied. "Where?"

"C'mon. My room.," Iris said. They walked there and sat on Iris' bed.

"So what did you find out?," Iris asked.

"More about the angel blood thing. And there was a demon, I think named Sebastian. I think he was born to a human woman though, because Mom was practically in hysterics when she was talking to Dad, and she said "What if Iris is like him?", and he was like- "No, we'd know". And she said something. . . about you opening up a bush? Dad thought that you did because you wanted to show her that you had angel blood.," Max said, extremely fast. But somehow Iris was still able to understand him. Call it sisterly love, whatever you like, but it was still impressive.

"Ok, thanks Max. I found out some stuff today too, but I need to sort out my thoughts first, and then I'll text you about it. Can you please go now?," Iris asked.

"Sure," Max said, a little hurt that she wanted him to get out. But he knew that his sister had her reasons. He walked out of her room and closed the door.

Iris decided to write down a checklist, something she had taught herself to do long ago when she was stressed out and had trouble organizing her thoughts. Her list looked like this.

THINGS I KNOW

Dad has some extra angel blood

Me and Max probably have some extra too

Parents were some war heroes- knew they were in some war but not the heroes.

That war had some angel involvement

Some half-demon guy named Sebastian was involved

The prophecy is starting

THINGS TO DO

Research Mom and Dad

Research wars with angels got involved

Just then, her phone rang again. It was a text from Sara.

Sara: Your parents thought they were siblings at one time or another. Call me.

Iris did. What else could she do? Sara picked on the first ring.

"Iris," She said. "Thank god. My parents were talking- I only caught the end of it, but your parents thought they were siblings at one time or another. Turns out, your mother has a sibling. Sebastian. He and Jace led parallel lives, raised by the same guy. Jace thought that he was his father until he found out that he was cut out of some dead woman's stomach. Thats all I heard.". There was that name again. Sebastian. A half-demon guy who was, apparently, Iris' uncle.

"By the angel. This puts it all together. Thanks, Sara! I'll call you when I have all the details," Iris said. Then, she heard someone tapping at the window. She turned to look. . . and it was Zach. She jumped.

"Uh. . . Sara, I'm going to have to call you back. Bye.," Iris said, and she hung up the phone. "Zach! What are you doing here? My parents would FREAK if they saw you, the amazing flying boy."

"I'm sorry Sara, but you're going to want to see this. Those people you mentioned. . . They're pretty important. I'm pretty surprised you haven't heard of them. They lived in New York, at the institute. There was this guy named Valentine, he was after the mortal cup. This woman, Jocelyn Fairchild, his ex-wife, had hidden it. This group of good-doers, shadow hunters Clarissa Fairchild, Jace Wayland, Isabelle Lightwood, Alec Lightwood, Simon Lewis, and a warlock named Magnus Bane, tried to save it from him. Problem was, only person who knew where it was, Jocelyn, was in a coma. Valentine had captured her, not there was a lot of use for her. Basically, they saved it from her and the cup. In the process Simon, the mundane guy, turned into a vampire. Then, this guy named Sebastian, who was half demon, half shadowhunter, came to Idris where this group of good-doers where at the time, and unleashed a bunch of demons on the city. He killed Alec and Isabelle's little brother. The Jace guy killed him, but then he was preserved by the demon Lilith. Jace was controlled by Lilith and captured everyone. The Simon guy was blackmailed into resurrecting Sebastian. Then, Sebastian gained control over Jace and they ran away. Clary ran an undercover mission to save Jace. She did, but Sebastian ran away. They went on a mission to find him and killed him. The story ends there, I guess. Theres nothing else on them.," Zach said. "I have to go. bye. Hope it helped." and with that, he flew out the window.

Iris' thoughts were in a disarray. She knew that no list would help her now. She decided to venture into the forest to calm her thoughts.

Iris was walking down the stairs. She looked as pale as a ghost.

"Iris, honey? Are you alright?," Clary asked. She was still deathly confused, but that was all overruled by her concern for her daughter.

"Yeah, Mom. I'm fine. Just. . . going out into the forest for a bit.," she replied. She could never look at her mom the same way again, knowing what she had done.

Finally, she was in the forest. The only place she could truly be alone. Iris climbed up a tree and nestled into a small nook. There she stayed for ten minutes, just sorting out her thoughts, until she heard a twig snap. She looked around wildly. Normally, she wouldn't have thought anything of it. There were many animals residing in the forest. But this sound- this sound sounded like a human. There was nothing under her, nothing to the right of her, nothing to the left of her. That only left. . . up. Slowly, Iris turned her head up. A face was grinning down at her, a face with solid black eyes and white hair.

"Hello," the face said. "Little niece."