The Power

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Do you know who I am? The Silent Brothers asked.

"No. How could I? You all look the same to me. No disrespect." Stephen asked.

I am Brother Zachariah. He said. I'm here to help you regain your memories.

"Oh yeah? And just how are you going to do that?"

Like this. Brother Zachariah touched his forehead and Stephen's eyes rolled to the back of his head.

Flashback

"Are you sure the werewolves are at fault for the attack?" a younger Stephen asked.

"Of course they are, and they will be punished for their crimes." Valentine turned around to face Stephen. "Why would you ask me that? Are you doubting your leader, Herondale?"

Stephen set his face straight and said "No, sir. Some of the other members thought you were at fault, and so I wanted to console to them."

"Really? Some of my closest allies are second guessing me? Who?"

Shit. He was in for it now. "I wish not to say. We should probably keep going." He began to walk but Valentine grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"Who, was it?" he asked threateningly.

He gulped. "Sir, I really think it best if I didn't-

"You will tell me." An eerie silence then flew about in the air.

"Jocelyn." Stephen could think of the only person that Valentine would most likely not kill for their unsureness.

Valentine lowered his hand. "I see. Thank you for telling me, Stephen. I know I can always trust you."

"Of course, sir." He answered and the two were on their way.

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A short while later, they arrived in a clearing. The surrounding trees had claw marks on them. Werewolves marking their territory. They were in the right place. Werewolves liked to wait for their bait to walk to the center of the circle so that they could surround them. Valentine sure knew that.

Stephen sure didn't.

Valentine walked them to the center. When they did, the trees around them began to rustle. Good. Valentine thought.

They watched as one by one, werewolves came out of the trees. Their entire bodies were covered in fur, their mouths filled with fangs.

Shit. Thought Stephen. A cold silence swept through the air as the pack and the Shadowhunters stared each other down. A moment later, a fight broke out. There were claws, fangs, blades, punches and kicks. It was complete chaos.

Then for a moment the chaos stopped. Stephen turned just in time to see Valentine walk away from the fight. I knew it! Damn, I'm screwed now. "Valentine? Where are you going?" he yelled to the white haired man.

Valentine looked at Stephen over his shoulder. "The fact that you don't trust me, and would blame my wife of such, is just unbelievable, Stephen. And… unforgivable. For your crime? You must die."

"Die!? Just because I had a change of heart?"

"The wrong choice it seems."

The werewolves closed in on the golden haired man. Stephen spun around and saw he was surrounded. He turned back to Valentine.

"Valentine please. What about my son? He'll never know his father-

"Yes he will. Me."

Stephen gasped. "You touch him and I will kill you!"

"How? You're just a dead man walking anyways." He chuckled and turned around to leave.

"Valentine? Valentine! You're weak! You're getting Downworlders to do your dirty work for you! You think you're this great leader, when in reality you're a pathetic coward!"

Valentine slowly turned. "You call me a coward? You didn't even have the balls to tell me it was you who distrusts me! Hopefully your unborn son won't end up like you. The actual coward in this." He turned and was gone.

"Valentine!" he yelled again, but the man never came back. He turned and faced the werewolves. They weren't closing in on him anymore. In fact, one of them had stepped forward. Probably the pack leader.

"Don't talk so loud, Valentine's still watching us." The werewolf said. Stephen squinted at him. Why would he tell me that?

"Let me get this straight. You have an unborn son and Valentine wishes to take him from you?"

"Yes." He answered slowly. Why is he asking me this?

"You know. I had a wife and daughter. My daughter was only 3 weeks, when that man killed my wife. So I'll help you."

What? "You will?"

"Yes. But you have to promise me something."

"It depends on what it is."

"Oh you'll like it." The werewolf walked up to Stephen. "I want you to kill Valentine."

Stephen grinned. "Consider it done." The werewolf smiled grimly.

"Now, I'm gonna pretend to throw you over to that rock and you're gonna pretend to get knocked out. Then we'll 'eat you'. Get it?"

"I get it."

"Good. Here we go." The werewolf seized Stephen and threw him. Stephen put his energy into it, making it look as if he were being thrown. What he didn't expect was to actually hit the rock and knock himself out. He hit it hard with a thud, his head striking it. He was out cold.

Flash-forward

Brother Zachariah let go of Stephen's forehead. His eyes rolled back and a flood of memories came rushing back. Him holding his mothers' hand as a child. Him getting his first rune. Him going to Idris. Him meeting Amatis. The two later locked in a sexual embrace. Him looking at himself in the mirror. Him meeting Celine. Him seeing Celine's stomach bump.

Everything came back to him.

Then he realized who Jace was. Finally.

Go and see your son, but after you are done, I want you to come and talk to me.

Stephen nodded and started for the door.

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"Hm. Ryeland and Magnus sure are taking long." Isabelle said.

"Maybe they're having an intimate threesome." Jace inquired.

"Dude!" the family of two yelled.

"Jace!" everyone else yelled.

"That's my brother, my best friend, and my dad you're talking about. I'm 100000% sure it's not that. Nana just likes to run her mouth is all." Blu explained.

"He's not your dad."

"Neither is Valentine, but you considered him it, so shut the fuck up."

"Calm down, hound. I was only saying that because you called him your uncle earlier."

"Oh. Sorry."

"Of course you are."

"You know, for once-

"Stop it, you two." Alec said. He sounded serious, so they stopped. He then sighed. "I just don't get it."

"Get what?" Jace asked.

"Why Magnus didn't tell anyone that he was 'fathering' all of you."

"It's because he wanted to give us a chance to grow up normally." A tiny voice said.

Everyone turned around to see a bruised, battered, and holed Theo Jaymes.

"Theo!" The family of two yelled. Leo ran but didn't get far before Blu lifted him off his feet, ran over to Theo, picked him up too and spun them all around. When he put them down, tears were streaming down his face.

"Theo. What the hell? Where were you?" he whispered, from the tears. "Why did you leave when we told you not to!? I should beat your ass for that crazy shit! You could've died! If you died, I would've killed you!"

"What?"

"I know what I just said!"

"Ryeland said the same thing to me when he saw me." Leo said.

"Because he stole that from me."

"Oh." The twins said and jump hugged their older brother.

"Okay, let me use the bathroom before I pee myself from all this excitement. And when I get back, you're going to explain everything to me." He said and excused himself from the room.

"He's probably gonna take a dark dootie." Leo said, and the twins giggled. The Shadowhunters looked at them like they were stupid.

"Where did you guys go?" Robert said. The twins looked at him awkwardly.

"Well we, me involuntarily, went to go follow Uncle Mag and them to go check out mom's house. When they rode off, Jonathan came from behind us and knocked us out.

The other twin continued. "He took us to a warehouse in Atlanta, but I let Leo escape. I figured we stood a better chance if at least one of us got out and pretty far away, than both of us escaping and not getting very far."

Leo turned to his twin and grabbed his shoulders. "Man, I was worried about you."

A cheesy smile broke out on Theo's face. "You were?"

"Never mind. Go fuck yourself." He said, and the two laughed.

"Did Charice let you swear?" Robert said.

"Yeah. Why? Is there a problem?" they answered together.

"What, did you guys rehearse that?" Isabelle said.

"No." they answered together again.

"Man, you two are creepy." Alec said.

"We know." They answered in a creepy voice. Upon seeing everyone's reaction, they burst out laughing.

"You two are… special." Robert smiled then stood up. "I'm gonna go and find Ryeland."

"And Magnus." Alec added. Robert didn't say anything, just walked away. He was stopped short when a tall figure got in his way.

Ryeland. He looked shell shocked, and he had one hand in his pocket.

"Ryeland. There you are, I was just coming to get you. Where's Magnus?" Ryeland didn't answer, just moved the hand that was in his pocket, eyes opened wide.

"What's wrong?" Leo asked him.

Ryeland took a shaky breath. "Magnus is-

"Is right here." A voice boomed. Magnus walked in the room, Ryeland staring at him.

"Why does he look like that?" Leo asked.

"Well, Nana wanted to discuss a birthday present for Blu and I told Ryeland that if he told Blu what it was, I'd hurt him. He didn't believe me." Magnus clapped Ryeland on the shoulder. Hard, emitting a yelp from the twenty-two year old. "Isn't that right?"

Ryeland gulped. "Mh-hm." He said uncertainly.

"Hey, where's Blu?" Magnus asked.

"Right here. I was in the bathroom." He explained.

"Where were you two?" Blu asked.

"With your girlfriend." Magnus explained. Blu blushed. At that moment Church came running across the floor and jumped on top of Blu, scratching and clawing him. He screamed.

"Get him off! Get him off!" he yelled.

"Get your beast off my son!" an unexpected voice came. Everyone turned to see Jocelyn and Luke striding up. Magnus had magically removed Church from off of Blu's face.

He hadn't attacked Blu before, so why is he, now? Thought Ryeland.

"I heard the news. The twins were captured by Jonathan, which means that Blu actually is my son, since he can't be in two places at once." She smiled weakly at him. He frowned.

"My little brothers were kidnapped and the only thing you got out of that was that I'm actually your son? You're fucking ridiculous." He said, rubbing his scratches.
"Yeah, and we're right here." Theo said. Jocelyn's eyes widened.

"How are they back?"

"They came back on their own. You don't mess with Jaymes'."

"Yeah!" The twins fist pumped the air.

"You can 'yeah' all you want, you're not flying again." Magnus laughed as their faces fell. "Hey, I told you."

"But we found out secret stuff about Jonathan!"

"And found out that they have Annalice!" Leo finished.

"And almost got yourself killed. And you still didn't tell us how you got away, man." Blu said.

"Well, I used my knife to cut the ropes that he put around me-

"You had a knife?" Blu asked.

"Yeah, my Swiss Army knife I carry everywhere. Anyways, there was a window nearby and I put a demonic pentagram under it and covered it up with a rug. Then I made a 'trip trap' and put a camouflage spell on it and the rug. Then I put myself halfway out the window. From his view, it'd look like I got stuck trying to escape, so he walked over and was trapped, but then he got hit by the 'trip trap'." He turned to the Lightwoods. "And you guys said it was hard to overcome him. He's lame."

"You should never underestimate that dude." Blu said. Everyone looked at him shocked. "What? I'm just saying. I'm him, and I'm smart as hell, so he probably let you guys get away. It just doesn't seem possible that him being who he is, let a little kid beat him."

"You're just mad because I escaped from you." Theo taunted.

"No, I'm serious. I think he let you get away. I don't know what for, but it seems highly likely. Maybe he put a tracking device on you two, or I don't know. Or maybe, he wanted you two to escape to tell us where he is, only to get there and it'll be a trap."

"That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Jace remarked.

"Well, it's better than what you're guessing, which is NOTHING."

"Oh shut up, snow white."

"Fuck you, Goldilocks."

"You know, I'm sick of you." Jace said as he stalked towards Blu, sword raised.

"Ooh! Bad boy. You gonna kill me? I doubt mother dearest will allow you." He said looking at his mothers' stern expression.

"I'd rather be a bad boy than a baby boy, needing my mommy to fight for me."

"She's not my mother!"

"I'm pretty sure a tubby black woman couldn't conjure up a horrid snow white like you, even if she wanted to."

Blu gasped.

"That's enough, Jace." Maryse said.

"So you're defending him now? He's the enemy!"

"No he's not, he's my son and if you lay a hand on him…Clary's going to be looking for a new boyfriend." Jocelyn interjected.

"I DON'T need your help, bitch!"

"Obviously you do." Jace said.

"Jace." Robert yelled. "That's enough."

"No, no, we're just getting started." Blu said.

"I'm so sick of you."

"I'm sick of your unnecessary insults, jokes, and threats."

"They're very necessary, and I'm sick of you prancing around here like some angel, when we all know who you are. Well, at least I do."

"I'm not Jonathan! You saw for yourself. I can't be in two places at once."

"It's a video. You could've filmed it earlier and left it there."

"But I was at Jocelyn's house the entire time."

"How do we know that it wasn't just another 'clone'?"

"How do I know you're not a jealous prick? Oh wait, you are."

"What does jealousy have to do with anything!?"

"Everything! You're jealous because for just a moment, you were the golden boy. The one everyone cared about. Now it's turned around. Everyone cares about me. Whether to make me a weapon or they actually care, I don't know. But I'm more important than you. That's what's setting you off. You live, breath, shit, and eat off of attention, and you're not getting any, so you take it out on me. Claiming it's because you think I'm Jonathan Morgenstern."

Jace swing his sword at Blu, all warnings not to, forgotten. It struck Blu, slicing right through his rib cage, cutting him in half part of the way.

Blu fell to the floor, a river of blood flowing from his mouth. He bled to death, everyone staring in shock.

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That's what would've happened. As the sword came close to Blu, a sword appeared in Blu's hand, deflecting the blow. It seemed as if it were made of smoke and was completely black. It looked exactly like the Mortal Sword.

Everyone's eyes widened, especially Blu's. The two rivals looked at each other then back at the sword. Blu then held up his hands as if a cop were telling him to, the sword falling to the ground. Right before it hit it, it disappeared.

"What!? Where'd it go?"

"Oh like you didn't know, you lying-

"Jace!" a man yelled. Everyone turned around to see Stephen walking out of the room. He looked different somehow, and he was wearing a scowl.

He slowly walked over to Jace. Soon, the two were standing face to face with each other.

Silence.

"You look like your mother around the eyes." Stephen finally said. He smiled and Jace's eyes lit up. Stephen leaned in to hug his son, surprising 'goldilocks'. They embraced each other for some time.

When they pulled away, Stephen held Jace's shoulders and said "My son. Look at you. You look exactly like me. Of course I'm the better looking one." The reunited family chuckled.

"Great sense of humor, there." Jace remarked and his father barked a laugh.

"How are you alive?" Robert suddenly asked. Stephen looked over at him and opened his eyes wide.

"Robert. Maryse? How come you look the same?"

"Because I'm her daughter." Isabelle said.

"Oh, wow." Maryse stepped from behind her husband.

"There you are." He said and she walked over and hugged him. He then went and clapped Robert on the back. He soon began explaining his story.

"Thanks for blaming it on me." Jocelyn said and smiled.

"You know me. The notorious coward."

"That's not true." Maryse said.

"Yes it is." He turned to Jace. "Did you ever get my letter?"

"Yes."

"Good. The one thing I really wanted from you was to not be weak like me. And of all the stories I've heard of you, I know you're not." He clapped his son on the shoulder. "I'm proud of you."

Jace smiled weakly.

"Well, I like the family reunion and all, but can talk about what happened with Blu?" Alec asked.

"Yeah, that was pretty sketchy."

"He's like his sister." Magnus said and walked forward. "He can create things from his head. Except he has to look at the image to make it."

"How do you know that?" Jace asked.

"I don't. It just makes sense, seeing as how he'd seen the Mortal Sword earlier and the sword he made looked exactly like it."

"Ooh! Told yo ass, nigga!"

"Your vocabulary is most extraordinary. And… ghetto."

"Do you know who my mom is? Okay then."

"Alright, well now that everything's settled out, can we focus on making a plan to ambush the warehouses?" Leo asked.

"There's a tiny problem in that plan, though." Said Theo.

"What?"

"Well, when I jumped over the fence, I looked back and the place was gone. For a second I thought that I was dreaming, but then I saw the hole in arm, and I was like 'hell no, I'm not dreaming."

"Must've been one of Jonathan's 'portable' places." Clary inquired.

Jace shook his head in disarray.

"Wait. Since you can conjure up the things you see, Blu, if you saw the warehouses, couldn't you conjure it up to where we can ambush it?"

"I don't think he can. The sword he made was of demonic energy, so only he can touch it." Magnus explained.

"What if you can somehow make it touchable for them with your powers?" Blu asked.

"I'm not a miracle worker, but I can try. Try summoning something first."

"Kay." Within seconds Blu had summoned a cup. "Huh. That was easier than I thought. Your turn Mag."

Magnus's hands sparked blue and he sapped the cup, turning it real.

"Yeah!" The twins and Blu fist pumped the air.

"We should try something bigger, just to make sure."

"You're right. Let's go outside and-

"Wait. How can you conjure up something you haven't seen before?" Stephen asked.

"True. Well, I could enter his dreams and find out what it looks like."

Everyone knit their brow.

"You can do that?" Isabelle asked.

"Courtesy of being Lilith's son. But yeah. I always ended up in my family's' dreams. Never even meant to."

"Hypnomancy. That's what it is." Magnus explained.

"Alright, so you guys should go and make sure he can conjure up something large, and if you can, then get dreaming." Stephen ordered.

"Okay, let's get going." Blu said.

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And with that, Blu set out to find the warehouse in Jonathan's dreams.

Hey guys. Sorry i haven't been on for quite a while. It was snowing where i live, and it hasn't snowed for 4 years, so i was out all the time, then i had projects to do. This chapter isn't very good, but i promise you the next one will be. ^_^