Hey everyone, Sorry for not updating sooner, but I've had my head stuck in a book (3 books). I have only just started reading the 3rd book, but the internet isn't working so I can't continue right now. I'll post this chapter, and probably another as soon as the internet is working again. Thankyou to those that reviewed, favourite and followed my story, please review, I love them more than favs and follows. Here you go…
A Try at a New Life
I landed on the concrete side walk of London. I had no Idea where I was in London, only that I was in it. I wonder if they have a pandemonium club here if they do, that's where I'll be going. It's the place where downworlders and demons go. Shadow hunters only go if there are demons, so I shouldn't be running into many of them, thank god. Pesky creatures sometimes, I was just having my mind changed about some of them.
I tried to navigate my way through the streets of London, stopping at a few stores along the way. I found a suitable outfit to for the club. It was just getting dark when I finally came upon the pandemonium. I lined up and waited about five minutes to get into the club. I could put on glamour, but I didn't feel like it. I walked into the club and was greeted with deafening music and the tightly packed bodies of people doing what seemed like dancing.
I pushed through the crowds to the bar where I ordered three glasses of beer. It was a night club, and what's the point of being here if you don't get a little bit tipsy. I downed the glasses as quickly as I could and the stumbled to the dance floor. I began moving to the beat, like everyone else. People came up to me to dance, and I accepted to every time.
I was having a marvellous time. After every few people who came up to dance with me, I would go back to the bar and get two glasses of the first type of alcohol I saw. Now I was on the dance floor with at least eleven glasses of alcohol in me. I was extremely drunk, every time a guy came up to me to dance, we wouldn't just dance, we groped each other, and I ended up making out with at least seven different guys that night.
This wasn't me, I never drank seeing as I was under age, and I'd only ever been to a night club twice in my life. But I was on holiday and looking for entertainment. I had just finished dancing with a cute brunette when I saw them in the corner of my eye, a small group of shadow hunters coming out of a storage room. They were probably from the London institute; I'd never seen them before. If I wasn't so drunk I would have stayed clear of them, but seeing as I am drunk, I headed over to them.
"You know, it's not ve-ry nice toooo killll peopllllle." I slurred my words.
They all stared at me, clearly surprised that I could see them with their unseen runes on. I laughed at the faces, which made me unbalanced and I almost fell over.
One of the shadow hunters, a good looking one about my age steeped forward, and smiled at me, "if you can see us, you must know what we are, which means you know that we don't kill people."
I laughed again, I tapped him on the nose as I spoke again, "of course I know what you are, but demons have feeling you know!"
They stared at me like I was crazy, "uh huh, and what are you? And who are you"
I sighed and shook my finger at them, "everyone asks me that question, I don't tell anyone, people, weird people, are my friends and another person what I am, but my name is claaaaarrryyy."
"Okay, clary, where are you staying?"
I laugh at through my hands in a circle above my head and yell out, "under the starry sky."
Their eyes are wide, staring at me like I'm a lunatic, "maybe you should come to the institute tonight."
I shake my head and finger, "I've already stayed with you weird people for a while, they made me go to Idris, and I don't want to go to Idris, even though it is beautiful. And Maggie is there and so is joycie."
They look from me to one another, then back to me.
"We aren't taking you to Idris; we're taking you to the institute."
"Okay shadow hunter, lead the way." I salute them while standing at attention.
They lead me out of the pandemonium and to the institute, me marching the whole way behind them. When we arrived, we were greeted by more shadow hunters, they were talking about things, I didn't hear a word they said, and then someone grabbed my arm with no warning and half dragged half lead me up stairs to a room. I giggled the whole way, and then when they shut the door behind me, I stumbled over to the bed and lie sideways over the bed, and fell asleep.
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"arrrrggghhhh." I moaned as I woke up.
My head was ponding, I was lucky that the curtains were drawn. A stayed lying down for a few more minutes, trying to go back to sleep, which I failed at doing so, then I sat up. I realised that I was lying the wrong way and moved so I was lying the right was, with my back propped up against the pillows.
I took in my surroundings; I had absolutely no idea where I was. I tried to remember what happened last night. I remember drinking, dancing, loud music, bright lights and marching. Oh god, did I say demons have feelings? Other than that, I don't remember anything.
When my head pounding died down to an everyday headache, I finally stood up. I looked at myself in the mirror, I looked awful. I opened one of the doors in the room, the first was a hallway, and the next was a bathroom. I stripped and climbed into the shower, freshening up. It was then I realised that I didn't have any other clothes to wear. I sighed and blinked once, I ended up in a soft loose shirt and leggings. There was a hairbrush in the bathroom which I used to turn my hair into waves.
When I finally looked decent, I went out into the hallway to figure out where I was. I was wondering down what seemed like the tenth hallway when I released something. I let out a loud groan; I must be in the institute. The long hallways which were easy to get lost in, the style, it must be. I could smell food, so I let my nose guide me until I reached the kitchen where it was confirmed were I was. There were four shadow hunters in here.
They looked up at me when I walked in, "good morning clary."
How in god's name did they know who I was, "morning, how, may I ask, did I end up here, of all places?"
They laughed at me, a boy with brown hair replied to me first, "you came up to us in the pandemonium and told us that it wasn't nice to kill demons, and later you said that demons have feelings. We offered to take you here because you were incredibly drunk and seemed to have nowhere to go, at first you said you had enough of staying with 'weird people' and you didn't want to go to Idris, we told you we weren't taking you to Idris and seemed pleased enough with that and marched behind us all the way here."
I groaned and slapped my face to my hand, "please say I didn't tell you anything about me?"
"You refused to tell us what you are, but you told us your name was clary, that's it."
"Oh thank god, now I have to go as soon as I can. I've had enough of shadow hunters."
They looked at each other, a blonde girl spoke next, "why have you had enough of shadow hunters?"
I frowned for a moment before sighing, "Just, a lot of questioning etcetera."
"You don't have anywhere else to go, you might as well stay here, and we won't ask you anything if you don't want to. I mean we would normally, but if you've already been questioned, have the clave questioned you?"
I scoffed, "the clave, yes they have, the clave, an institute, valentine."
They stared in shock at me, "valentine?"
"Uh huh, he wants to know what I am, I've only told one person, and I don't plan on telling anyone else, he also kind of kidnapped my adoptive mother, who's actually his wife, Jocelyne."
"wow." Was the only thing they said.
I looked at all of them, "fine, I'll stay, just don't ask me questions if you can, and I can leave whenever I want to."
They nodded, "yep, sure."
And with that I sat down for breakfast.
