Disclaimer: I'm not Cassie Clare. Not Edited.
Previously…
Closing my eyes I position Glorious' tip in front of my heart. I felt the energy radiating from the Heavenly Fire radiating immense heat and energy just by a touch. I took my last breath and thought about who I'm doing this for. Images of Jace, the Lightwoods, Ainsworths Mom and Luke, Simon, Magnus flashed in front of my eyes. I gripped the hilt of the sword tighter and pushed in. I gasped and screamed as fire filled my whole body. I felt like I was burning, every inch of my body on fire. I writhed as I heard Raziel chant something. The fire wasn't stopping, my whole body was tingling on adrenaline. My vision began to fog and the last thing I remember was the chanting of Angelic voices.
Jace's POV
I opened my eyes and felt like someone pounded my head against a brick wall continuously. My vision started out blurry but fanned out slowly. I was met by a lot of eyes on me. They were all here, Alec, Isabelle, Simon, Magnus, Maryse, all the Ainsworths including little Penelope and even Luke and Jocelyn.
"What the hell happened?" I groaned as my voice amplified in my head.
Isabelle was the first to recover. "Well, while you and Clary were on a date, Sebastian's 'Dark Army' as he called it, ambushed the Institute and apparently Jocelyn and Luke. Jocelyn gave me a death glare. She looks like she could kill me if she wasn't attached to the chains. Wait, I look around and notice that we are all chained to the wall.
I look around the room. The walls were all white stone slabs with a table at the center of it. We seemed to be in a separate room which I thought was a large glass cell. I look through my fellow prisoners again and notice that Clary isn't with us.
I don't remember much of what happened before this. I'm just praying that she's okay.
"Where's Clary?" I swear when I mentioned Clary that Jocelyn growled. Isabelle looked down at the ground as did a few other people. My stomach did a somersault, what is going on?
Alec was the first to speak up. "He made us watch it." I raise an eyebrow.
"Made you guys watch what exactly?" Jocelyn grimaced but I ignored it.
"When you guys got back from your date and then took you, he made us watch it." I looked to Alvin was the one that spoke.
"Well…is she okay?" Jocelyn laughed humorlessly.
"Okay? You call thirty minutes of absolute no movements okay?" I looked in Jocelyn's familiar emerald green guys and saw that they were bloodshot.
"What does she mean? And how long have you guys been in here?" I ask. There's a moment of silence before Alec talks again.
"Well after you got captured and disappeared you reappeared here with Sebastian in the cell where he tied you down. We didn't have to look at the screen anymore but Clary-she didn't move for thirty minutes. I don't think she breathed either, she just laid there. But then Sebastian turned off the screen and muttered something along the lines of 'that takes care of that'. And I think we might've been her for at least three hours."
I felt my blood boil. "Do you think she's okay?" I hear Amelia ask.
"She has to be. She's the only one that knows about us being gone and probably the only one that can stop Sebastian because he has the Hell Fire in his possession. She's strong, she'll find a way. She always does." Izzy's optimism is the only thing I have to hold on to.
Clary's POV
My eyes flutter open. I launch out of bed because I feel like I'm burning and I want it to stop.
Don't move and just calm down, it'll help tame the Fire. Am I hearing voices, specifically Raziel's. Yes, I'm here to help you with the Heavenly Fire. I put a telepathic ruin on you so you can hear my thoughts. But hurry because the ruin can wear off any minute.
I look down at myself and see that I'm wearing the gear that Raziel gifted me with, everything felt amazing on me. I was fully equipped and saw that I had Glorious was in a sheath on my hip. I have no idea where to begin, how am I supposed to do this without reinforcements. That's when I remember, I can go to the Clave. Dead or not, I need their help and I'm not a demon anymore so what could go wrong.
Raziel are you there?
I'm always here, Clarissa. What do you need?
I'm going to the Clave to get back up, do you think you can back me up if they refuse? I mean the Clave has a thick skull and a very big pride to uphold. Let's also not forget their very large ego.
I'm afraid I can't help you with that Clarissa. I'm only here for you with the Heavenly Fire but I think telling the Clave is a good idea but how you do that. Only you know.
I nod to myself and take a stele out of a pouch on the sheath. I drew a portal and thought of the gates right outside of Idris. The portal opened wide and I can feel the nervousness engulf me. The fire in me was begging to be let out but I had to hold it in. My whole body was glowing an eerie gold, I felt heat rise up in me when I heard Raziel's voice again.
Clary, try not to be too nervous or you could lose control of the fire and that could have terrible consequences.
I closed my eyes and took in deep breaths before entering the portal. My whole world swirled around me and then I found myself at the gates of Allicante. Before I can even ask for permission to enter, the gates swing open.
I look up at the sky. "Thanks Raziel." I muttered. I gingerly walked through the streets of Allicante. I remember someone telling me once that 'no matter which street you take, you will always find yourself at the Accords Hall'. So I just started walking through the streets, I noticed shadowhunters in all sorts of clothing and features. I was amazed when a woman with light brown skin, brown hair and chocolate brown eyes walked past me in a sari with seraph blades on her. I wonder if it's difficult to fight in saris.
I get sucked out of my thoughts when I suddenly come face to face with a large building. The Accords Hall. I smile triumphantly, not letting the nervousness consume me this time. I reach the doors and take a minute to look at my reflection on the glass doors.
My red hair that I always thought looked like a carrot's skin now looks like a river of blood and fire. My old emerald eyes were now replaced by a golden emerald colour with flecks of dark green. My skin which was previously covered in a blanket of freckles now seemed to only carry a tinge of pink. I realized how far I've come, from a scared 16 year old girl with a world full of insecurities to a 20 year old woman that is now engaged to the love of her life. This only brings passion to my cause. My cause to lead Nephilim on the right path, I want to do everything I can to protect the ones I love.
Without my family I always seem to become that scared 16 year old girl again but not anymore. I now realized that I was never alone. I've always had Heaven on my side.
I fling the doors open hastily knowing that time is ticking and also the fact that time is against me in this battle. I feel my nervousness rise again and with my nervousness comes the Fire. I quickly suppress any emotion that can trigger the Heavenly Fire to explode. I mean literally explode, I feel like a ticking bomb that is about to disintegrate anything.
Once I reach the double doors which I knew lead to the Clave meeting I took a couple of deep breaths before opening the door.
Jace's POV
We have probably been in this glass cell for about 4 and a half hour. I'm praying to Raziel that Clary is breathing and alive. Sebastian's really got the upper hand over us now, I mean we don't even know what he's planning. We basically know nothing.
Everyone around me looks tired. Little Penelope is leaning into her sister Amelia with her eyes closed, she looks absolutely blessed sleeping. Like nothing can bother her, like there is no evil brother-in-law trying to destroy all of humanity and the Earth.
I get sucked out of my thoughts when I suddenly heard the main door close. All our heads snapped to the door where we were met with the white hair, black eyed monster. AKA Sebastian. I felt heat rise in me as he comes towards the glass door. He kneels down right in front of the glass with a mocking tone.
"How's your day, guys?" Sebastian pauses for half a second before dismissing his question. "You know what I really don't care."
I growled in my throat as he taunts us. "Where's Clary?"
Sebastian laughs menacingly. That bitch actually laughed. "You don't have to worry about her, she's fine." But I can see the evil glint in his eyes that makes me question otherwise. "Don't worry dear brother, I wouldn't ever think of hurting our little Clary too badly." I felt anger bubble up in me as Sebastian laughed menacingly.
"When I get out of this cell I will rip you throat apart." I growled.
He smirks; he still has a tainting tone. "Who say you're getting out of this cell. Who says any of you have are going to get out." He growls back.
Alec sneered at Sebastian. "What do you need us for?"
He turns to Alec and narrows his eyes like he's daring Alec to do something. "Leverage my good friend, leverage."
"Leverage? Leverage for what exactly?" Asks Luke curiously.
"You see, Clary has something I want and I will stop at nothing to get it." We all give Sebastian a questioning look.
Alison gives Sebastian a stern look. "What is it she has that you want?"
Sebastian smiles like he wanted someone to ask him that question. "The Heavenly Fire of course." Alison, Maryse, Jocelyn, Luke and Magnus gasped.
"How could you possibly think that she has the Heavenly Fire." Magnus argues. Magnus found out the next day that she has powers and wings but everyone else has no clue.
"Let's just say dear Raziel made her stab herself right over the heart with Glorious and she did it. You should have seen it, it was really something else. Raziel thinks the she can destroy me with the Heavenly Fire but some people are just too naïve to understand that sometimes…the bad guys win." He gives his psychotic smile. "But let her come to save you. Then when she arrives with the Clave I'll rip her wings off and destroy the Heavenly Fire once and for all." My gut twists in horrible ways.
"What wings?" Amelia whispers. Sebastian seems amused by the fact that she doesn't know about Clary's powers.
"Oh so she hasn't told you about the experiments?" Amelia shakes her slowly. "Well let me show you. Dear sister is stupid enough to go to the Clave and ask for help. But alas I can get rid of all of them in on swipe. Nephilim will be no more and Lilith's children will rise." He reminds me of some twisted Shakespeare but Shakespeare was twisted none less. But intelligent.
He snaps his slim fingers and a screen shows up in front of us. There it shows a picture of a girl with black shadowhunter gear with swirls of golden ruins that I've never seen before. She had her hood up as her black knee high books clanked as she walked. But you could see the red inside of the hood, my heart swelled up with pride. That's my future wife.
She looked really badass with all the gear and weapons. She suddenly stops walking and stops in front of the double doors that lead to the Clave meeting area. She seems to glow like an odd light. Clary pushes the double doors open…
Clary's POV
Once I enter the doors, no one sees me or notices me. Probably because everyone seems to be arguing, I can barely understand anything that they're saying and Inquisitor Appletree seems to be okay with it.
I walk to the nearest table and slam my fist on the table causing the table to break in half but also make a loud noise. Thank you protective gloves. Inquisitor Appletree stares at with half shock and half rage.
"YOU-YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD!" He bellows from his table. I roll my eyes as all attention drifts to me.
"Well sorry to disappoint Appletree but I'm very much alive." I smirked. I see some shadowhunters grab weapons. Inside I'm panicking and I can feel the Heavenly Fire reaching its surface but outside I keep a calm and collected demeanor.
"Not for long!" He growls. The next thing I know is that a bunch of knives are being thrown at me. I focus on the knives and snap my fingers making them freeze in mid-air. Gasps erupt from the crowd as they look at the frozen knives in amazement. "What kind of witchery is this?" I roll my eyes at his dramatic voice.
"That's no witchery, it's the angel blood." He looks pissed at me for breaking his perfect walls in his perfect world.
"But you have demon blood now. You're a demon." I laugh at the fear in his words.
"Rather I was a demon. I killed that part of me and then a few days later I was re-experimented on with higher dosages of angel blood than human blood which caused me to have powers. I'm an angel." The crowd laughs quietly but I don't let them bother me.
"If you're an angel then where are your wings, little girl?" Said a voice from the crowd. I smirked as my back tensed and my wings came sprouting out. Another wave of gasps came erupting from the crowd.
"Do you believe me now?" I see some nods and some mutter a yes but Appletree looks like he could rip wings of a butterfly for fun. "I need your help fellow Nephilim, Sebastian has attacked again and ambushed everyone from the New York Institute which includes the Ainsworths, Lightwoods, Magnus Bane, Simon Lewis, Lucian Graymark and Jocelyn Fairchild. We need to get rid of Sebastian once and for all and for that I had a little help from Raziel himself. Raziel gave me three items that will help me lead us to victory; he gave a an Angelic Stele made from pure Angel's Blood molded from Heavenly Fire, gear that is made for angel's and Glorious." There are audible gasps. "But Glorious doesn't hold the Heavenly Fire anymore, I do. That is how we will distinguish Sebastian's Hell Fire. We will return with the Gard lit saffron." The room was quiet for a bit.
I saw Appletree grab for more of his knives but before he could I hear a shrill scream. I turn around and see a hologram of Sebastian.
"Well done little sister. You got information passed through the thick heads of Nephilim." I was about to argue but he suddenly disappeared and then reappeared behind Appletree. "I don't like how you're talking to my sister old man." But before he can even retort his hand plunges through Appletree's chest. I can see pain and surprise on the Inquisitor's face. Sebastian's hand shoots out and I notice that he's holding what looks to be a heart. Appletree falls to the ground, Sebastian's hand is covered in blood as he flings the heart across the room.
I think I'm going to hurl.
"Listen up Nephilim if you want true power then you would think about being one of Lilith's children. We are stronger than anything and everything. So if you are going to join please step forward now." Sebastian paused. No one was stepping up which made me smirk despite the un-beating that is only a few feet away from me.
"Looks like Nephilim chose already so you can leave now." My voice stern and cold.
"We shall end this once and for all at the Burren. We will be awaiting your disgrace." And with that he disappeared into thin air.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE LISTEN UP, I WANT ALL NEPHILIM IN GEAR AND TAKE AS MANY WEAPONS AS YOU CAN. I'LL MAKE A PORTAL AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT AND WIN. UNDERSTAND?" I yelled. Loud cheers erupt around me. I take out my stele and started to create the portal.
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