So in this chapter, we find out Rafe's opinions on Demon Hunts.

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***Rafael P.O.V***

Dad had always said it was one thing to fight Demons on your own, but it was something else entirely to fight demons with your Parabatai. I had always wanted to know what that was like, but at some point I'd accepted that I would never know. Sure I knew Shadowhunters my age: I trained at the Institute with my cousins and the other Shadowhunters who trained there, and I got on with them but I had never felt a strong enough bond with them, there was nothing about them that made me think "this person right here is the person I want to have as my parabatai". That all changed when I spent a year abroad in Argentina, in the Institute of Buenos Aries. There I meant a Shadowhunter called Leonardo, and even though we had only known each other a few months, we both realised we had something going on, and he asked me to be his parabatai, and I had agreed.

The first demon hunt Leonardo and I went on made me realise what Dad had been talking about when he spoke of hunting with Jace. I knew with every inch of my being that Leonardo had my back, and would defend me regardless of what happened, because I felt the same about him. Not just that, but I felt stronger, because the runes given to you by your parabatai were stronger, more effective. The first demon hunt we went on was a relatively straight forward one, and we had dealt with it in no time. I came home buzzing with excitement and spent the next 20 minutes telling Dad all about it. I eventually stopped once I had ran out of breath. Dad just hugged me saying he was proud of me and was happy that I was happy.

He then admitted that he saw an element of him and Jace in me and Leonardo, which caused me to start grinning like an idiot. I'd grown up looking up to both my Dad and Jace, thinking that they were some of the best Shadowhunters around. It was also seeing their bond that made me want a Parabatai of my own, so knowing Dad was proud of me, and saw him and his own parabatai in me and my own parabatai was really great. I'd always been fairly close to Grandpa, but since Leonardo and I had become Parabatai, we'd become closer. Grandpa once told me that he had once had a parabatai when he was my age, but he had made some terrible mistakes, resulting in him losing his parabatai. He'd turned around and had said "I've done a lot of things I regret Rafael, some of them link to how treated my Parabatai. I can't go back and fix my errors, no matter how much I want to. The link you have Leonardo is a special one, so do whatever you can to keep it. Don't follow in my footsteps. Instead follow the example of your Dad and Jace, or of Clary and Simon. They know what they are doing, a lot more than I did" and with that I felt the conversation was at an end. This was the first time I had heard about Grandpa having a parabatai, and I wanted to know more, but I had a feeling that he wasn't going to tell me, so I decided not to ask.

Depending on the nature of the Demon Hunt, determined on who I went with. If it was a small, straight forward Demon Hunt, I would only go with Leonardo. If it was still straight forward, but there was an added layer of danger (such as a few Demons, but they were the sort that were easy to get rid of) we took the girls with us. If it was a dangerous Demon Hunt, we took as many Shadowhunters as we could. Each type had their own feel, and I enjoyed each type for different reasons. I like the straight forward ones with Leonardo as they were easy, and we could be done fairly quickly. It also meant I could spend time with someone whose company I enjoyed and I knew would always protect and defend me, no matter what. When we went with girls, there was always a bit more things we had to think about, but it did mean I got to spend time with my best friend and girlfriend (don't worry, I did spent time with the pair of them that didn't include demons). The bigger demon hunts were great as there was always a massive element of danger. I think I must be an adrenaline junkie as I was always buzzing throughout the entire hunt. Although Max had grown up with Shadowhunters and understood the way of life, he hated it whenever Dad and I went off on the larger hunts, and he would always stay up until we returned home, so he knew we were alive and safe. I couldn't complain, I knew he did it because he cared, and because I had done the same with him and Papa whenever Dad had gone off and I hadn't been allowed to go.

When I was five, and had first become a Lightwood-Bane, I had been terrified of having the sight. I could see things nobody else could and that had scared me. Both Dad and Papa had explained to me why I could see these things: I was a Shadowhunter, and Shadowhunters had to either fight the things I could see or defend them, but I had tried to fight that. I just wanted the things I was seeing to go away. Now I embraced the fact I was a Shadowhunter with both arms. I was a very proud Shadowhunter and wouldn't want to be anything else. Funny to think how much a person's opinion on something can change so much.