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Chapter 9: Think pawsitive

"Jonathan Herondale, put the god damn sword down" shouted Clary "It's just a duck"

"Exactly why we need to kill it" replied Jace. Alec began to approach Jace as calm as possible or Jace could hurt the duck or worse himself. "Alec, if you come any closer to my blade I WILL kill this duck" Alec froze on the spot, with a pleading gaze.

"This is ridiculous" Said Magnus clapping his fingers, making the duck disappear. "Come on, the faster we get moving the faster we can have lunch with Tessa and the others."

The whole team searched every inch of the park surrounding the trees, Alec and Jace searched the other side of the fence of the park, while Clary created a new unwetable rune, and dove down the frosty pond, Isabelle and Simon searched the trees, while Magnus used magic to see if he could 'trace' the magic.

Simon looked at the trees at the edge of the park, they all the same he thought, he learned over at the trunk of the tree, looking towards the pond seeing Clary's red hair occasionally pop up to breathe. Isabelle appeared behind Simon, and took his hand, smiling "I find Clary's face hilarious whenever she pops up to breathe" she looked disgusted but confused, "and her mouth pouts a bit making he look like one of those grumpy flat fishes." Said Simon, Isabelle watched the pond intently waiting for Clary's head to pop out. When Clay's head finally appeared, Simon and Isabelle burst out laughing. She did look like one of those grumpy flat fishes, when Clary swam down again, Simon and Isabelle went back to work.

"Izzy! Magnus! Clary!" shouted Simon, as he examined a mark at the branch of the tree, the mark seemed to be two snakes linked with each other eating their own tails, Simon took out his phone and took some photos of the mark, just as Isabelle appeared behind him and began examining the it, Magnus appeared shortly after Isabelle, the colour from his face drained as he stared at the mark. It is one he hasn't seen in over 130years, not since the Pandemonium Club was closed after the Infernal War in London. Clary's wild red hair distracted his train of thoughts, her green eyes filled with curiosity, which reminded him of an old friend and Clary's ancestor, Henry Branwell.

"I haven't seen this mark before, is part of the Texas thing you were talking about earlier?" asked Isabelle

"I think it's called a Nexus Isab –"begun Simon but was cut off by a sound of footsteps from behind them.

Everyone's tensed body soften at the sight of two tall figures, Jace with his blond hair and matching golden eyes and Alec with his onyx straight hair and familiar dark blue eyes. "Don't tell me, you guys are carving couple names in a love heart on a tree, no wait, you saw a massive heart with an 'I LOVE JACE HERONDALE' carved in it, either way, I wouldn't he surprised" smirked Jace as he walked towards the group. His smirk disappeared when Jace saw the mark on the tree, it was not just a mundane marking a tree with a design as a relief from boredom, but a rather detailed mark on the tree, with black burns of some the curves and edges of the snakes, as if put there by branding it into the bark.

"Magnus, what symbol is that on the tree?" asked Alec.

Magnus looked at his boyfriend with a worried look, "The Pandemonium Club." Said Magnus

By the time Magnus and the other rest of the gang with him arrived at Taki's, Tessa, Zachariah, Jem and Will already stood outside.

"I swear on the angel, Jem, I saw six- fingered Nigel in there, looking rather angry at me, perhaps it was because he claimed I took advantage of his sister that one night, when he tried to rob me, and still hold grudge on me to this day" cried Will, Jem just shook his head. Magnus and the others approached them and gestured them to enter the diner.

Just as Jace opened the door, Zachariah shook his head "no, not today. It has been years since I spent more than a few hours with Will, and there is one thing I never got to show him." Said Zachariah before leading them to a traditional Chinese restaurant a few streets from the diner.

A woman greeted them at the front door, wearing a traditional silk red dress with floral pattern. "Hello, hello! Welcome…. Table for eight?!" the woman said. Zachariah smiled and spoke to her fluently in Chinese, Jem interjected and spoke in equally fluent and graceful Chinese. The lady smiled and gestured the others to follow her to their table. Their table was round, and in the middle a large glass turntable, everyone took their seats.

Even though the menu was thick, filled with pictures of delicious dumplings, none of the group other than Jem and Zachariah could read the menu. Neither Zachariah nor Jem minded being constantly asked what the menu said, except for Clary and Magnus who sat in their spots looking through the menu as if both could read Chinese.

"Clary, stop trying to read it" said Jace

"But I can…" replied Clary smiling. She lifted her sleep and showed Jace the rune on her arm, a rune with what looked like an H and L with lines through it, Jace could only knit his brow together in confusion. "Language rune" said Clary. In the end, the gang gave up in choosing what to eat and let Jem and Zachariah to choose. The waitress came to their table with three pots of tea, and began to pour them in their cups before taking their order. Just as Jem and Zachariah finish, Clary piped in "Don't forget number 32" and winked at them both. The two boys grinned at the same time and nod.

"Okay, to business" said Jace, putting his tea down. "We found a lot of things in the park and about it and we know how you two got here" pointing at the boys. Magnus began to explain what happened in the park that day and what they found.

"The Pandemonium Club? Are you certain?" said Will. Simon took out his phone and showed them the photo of the mark, Will paled, Tessa gulped and Zachariah took her hand, trying to calm her down.

"That's the same mark on the sword we found on the street a week before you found Tessa" said Jem, worrying slightly

"Mortmain is very dead in this century, if that's what you're worried about Will ... and Jem" said Magnus calming them down slightly.

The food began to arrive, bit by bit, there were ten different types of dumplings, soups, and other various dishes. Everyone began to dig in, trying bits of everything. Will's eyes widen when a darkly glazed poultry came into the table, putting a couple of pieces on his bowl followed by Jace. Magnus on the other hand paled, Alec looked at his boyfriend worriedly, asking him softly what's wrong.

"Poor duck, I saved him from one harm and handed him to the next" said Magnus, looking sad.

"How do you know?" said Isabelle sitting next to Magnus

"I can sense the magic on the dish. How many ducks tend are used to practice magic upon by making it appear and disappear" replied Magnus. Jace heard the whole conversation, and stopped chewing, Will looked at Jace and stopped as well. The two boys paled and began to spit out the duck and sculled down the warm cup of tea and a few glasses of water

"What are you both trying to do?! Kill us?" said Jace wiping his mouth.

"I know you're jealous of my good looks Jem, but poisoning me was just not the way to treat your parabatai" said Will

"In our defence William, it was Clary's idea to get the duck and William, I did not just devote my 130 years as a Silent Brother trying to keep your descendants out of trouble, to poison the first and last of the duck fearing Herondales" said Zachariah defending their actions, Jem just smiled and thought, by the angel, I must have changed after all these years.