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Chapter 11
(CPov)
"Wake up!" Annabeth hissed.
"Wha-?" Clary said, sitting up and staring at her bedside clock, which read 2:37 AM.
"Something's going on outside"
"How'd you get in my room?" Clary asked, rubbing her head.
"That doesn't matter" Annabeth began "Just get ready so we can go"
"Fine" Clary grumbled, getting out of her bed and pulling on the pair of skinny jeans she had worn the day before, and keeping on her black pajama tank top. After pulling on her combat boots, Clary armed herself and left her room, following Annabeth.
"Now will you tell me what's happening?"
"I don't actually know, Percy barged into Thalia's and my room and sent me to get you while he and the others went outside to check it out."
The two girls made their way out of the dorm and broke into a run as they entered the protection of the forest. After running for not too long, Clary heard voices.
"You can't kill them!" someone, probably Percy had shouted.
"How do I know they're here with honorable intensions?" That one was Jace.
As Clary and Annabeth entered the clearing where they had met the shadowhunters weeks ago, they saw a tall blond figure, Tyson, standing next to a giant black fur ball, Mrs. O'leary.
"Clary!" Tyson yelled when he saw her. He ran towards her and wrapped her in a bone crushing hug.
"Hey big guy." She greeted, short of breath "What are you doing here?"
"Daddy wanted me to visit you, and to give you something." Tyson produced a brown box, the size of paperback book and handed it to Clary.
"Thanks Tyson." She said, examining the box.
"You know him?" Jace asked incredulously.
"Of course I do, he's my half-brother." Clary told him.
"You're related to a Cyclops?" Alec asked in surprise.
"That is so cool!" Max exclaimed.
"Daddy says to open your present later." Tyson told Clary, Ignoring the shadowhunters comments.
"Ok, how long are you here for?" she asked.
"Just long enough to give you your gift, I have to go now." Tyson said sadly.
Clary frowned "Well ok Tyson, I'll see you soon though, ok?"
Tysons face lit up "Ok!"
Tyson made his way to Mrs. O'leary and sat on her back. After a moment she ran directly at a tree and vanished.
"Next time you have visitors I expect 24 hours' notice." Jace said from behind Clary.
"So would I" She told him.
The rest of the school week went by at a painfully slow rate. Classes were boring, work was boring and her teachers were boring. All Clary wanted was for it to be over, and when Friday rolled around, she was ecstatic.
"We should do something off campus tomorrow." Isabelle proposed that day during lunch.
"Like what" Clary asked with her head down.
"We should go to the mall!"
"I don't know about that" Clary told her, wanting to spend her precious weekend sleeping.
"What do you guys think?" Isabelle asked the rest of their group, which consisted of all the demigods and all of the shadowhunters minus Max, who went to the elementary school.
A general murmur of approval rose from the other teens, making Clary groan.
"It's settled then, we're going to go to the mall!" Isabelle cried happily.
"Wake up!" Isabelle said, shaking Clary from her not so peaceful sleep.
"What do you think you're doing?" Clary demanded groggily.
"It's Saturday!" she exclaimed matter of factly.
"Exactly, now go away!" She mumbled.
"But we're going to the mall!" She said, as if those words would get her to magically jump out of bed and get dressed. Instead she rolled over and pulled the pillow over her head.
A few minutes later, Clary heard the door open and then shut. Not thirty seconds after that Clary was covered in two gallons of ice cold water.
"What the Hell?" She cried, jumping out of her bed.
Isabelle was laughing hysterically, and Thalia and Annabeth joined in seconds later, each holding an empty gallon bucket.
"What moron pours water on a daughter of Poseidon?" Clary asked them incredulously.
"What are you going, do drown us?" Isabelle teased.
Clary turned towards her soaked bed and
Twitched her fingers, causing the water to leave her bed and rise in the air, and then she flung it at Isabelle.
"My makeup!" She cried, running to their bathroom to assess the damage.
"Consider us even" She called after her. Turning to Annabeth and Thalia she said "Now get out before I decide to drown you both."
Both girls left the room giggling.
Fifteen minutes later Isabelle and Clary left their room to go meet the others in the parking lot.
Annabeth, Thalia, Pecy and Grover had all piled into Annabeths blue convertible, and Nico, Max, Jace and Alec were all standing by Clarys beat up black SUV.
"You don't all expect to fit in my truck do you?" She asked skeptically.
"It seems that's our only option" Jace said nonchalantly.
"This is going to be interesting." Clary remarked getting into the driver's seat.
Ten minutes later, they were on the road. Isabelle was in the passenger's seat, Jace, Alec and Nico were all in the back and Max sat on the center console, between the drivers and passengers seats.
"You need a bigger car" Complained Nico.
"You need to get your own car." Clary told him angrily.
"I'm just saying" Nico began "If you had a bigger car we wouldn't be in this uncomfortable situation. If we get pulled over right now, we'll undoubtedly be charged with child endangerment!" He said pointing to Max, who remained in his uncomfortable perch.
"Shut up Nico" Clary said, not in the mood to argue further.
"I for one cannot wait to check out this mall." Isabelle announced. "I'm in the market for some new shoes to wear with those God awful uniforms."
"You already have a thousand pairs of shoes" Alec told her from the backseat.
"Well I'm looking to get a thousand and one." She told him
"That's a lot of shoes" Nico remarked. "I've only got two."
"You don't understand" Isabelle told him "I'm sure Clary does"
"Actually, I haven't got a clue what your obsession with shoes, jewelry, and pretty much everything shiny is." Clary told her.
"You're telling me you don't own anything nice?" Isabelle asked, appalled.
"I own nice clothes, just not a billion different items of clothing."
"Well we're going to have to change that now aren't we?" Isabelle asked cheerfully.
Clary groaned, wishing more than anything that she had remained in her bed.
The mall was huge, huge and full of people.
"Where should we start?" Annabeth asked.
"Lets go there!" Isabelle exclaimed, pointing to a huge boutique, featuring multiple pairs of boots in the window."
Clary got no say, Isabelle was literally dragging her.
"See you later" Jace called after her, laughing.
After travelling from store to store for hours on end, the girls found themselves in yet another boutique like store.
"Oh my God!" Isabelle exclaimed from two racks over.
"What?" Clary groaned, knowing Isabelle would undoubtedly want her to try whatever god awful apparel she had just discovered. As if on cue, Isabelle called "Clary! I have something for you"
Sighing, Clary made her way to Isabelle, who was holding a green and black dress in her perfectly manicured hands.
"What do you want now?" She demanded.
"You have got to try this on, it matches your eyes perfectly!"
Clary had learned early on that if she argued or resisted in any way isabelle would drag her into the dressing room and put the dress on her herself, and they were also banned from that first boutique they entered.
Clary roughly grabbed the dress from Isabelle and entered the dressing room with a huff. She pulled the fabric over her head and slid it over herself. Looking in the mirror, she was genuinely surprised. The dress was the same green as her eyes, with a black sash on the midsection. For Isabelle it would be every day wear, but for Clary, who wasn't accustomed to wearing skirts besides the school uniform, it felt like a formal gown.
"Are you done?" Isabelle called impatiently from outside the dressing room.
Sighing Clary opened the door and stepped out for Isabelle's inspection.
"That's gorgeous!" She cried when she saw Clary "You have to buy it!"
"I don't think so." Clary told her "I'm not really a dress kind of person."
"Oh come on!" Pleaded Isabelle "It's prefect for you!"
"I don't know" Clary said.
"Come on!" Isabelle said again.
Clary looked at the price tag and discovered it within her price range.
"Fine" she sighed, if it will shut her up I'll do it, she thought.
Ten minutes later, the girls made their way to the food court, where they met up with the rest of their group.
"What took you so long?" Percy asked.
"We're at a mall, therefore we were shopping" Thalia told him.
"I guess that's a valid excuse" He said.
"Can we eat now?" Max asked, clutching a bag from the comic book store.
"Yes" Isabelle told him.
"Good, because we're starving" Nico said.
"Hurry up!" Nico, Jace, Alec and Max all screamed.
"I'm not going to get pulled over just so we can get back to school before them."
"But then we'll lose!" Max cried.
"We'll lose if we get pulled over and arrested for child endangerment." She told him irritated.
"That's a risk I'm willing to take!" Nico called from the backseat.
Angrily, Clary applied a little more pressure to the gas petal, they were traveling at over eighty miles per hour when all of a sudden, something came barreling out of the trees and into the road before Clary could break. They collided with the creature and the car went flying.
So what do you think? I'm not particularly fond of this chapter, and I hate the way I ended it, but I hope it's not to disappointing. I want to thank everyone who has reviewed and/or added my story to alerts/favorites, you guys are the best. Please read and review, as always, and I'll update as soon as I can.