"By the angel, Isabelle. This dress is way to short." Skye mumbled as she pulled the dress down a bit, she shot her parabatai a glare who smirked and winked at her. 'I hate you' She mouthed the words before looking at the others heading to the rave.
"Last time we were here, this place was crawling with vampires." Clary said and let out a sigh.
"Relax, all Downworlders hang out here. We just came on vampire night." Skye said trying to reassure her little sister before once again pulling down her dress a bit.
"Do you think red's my color?"Isabelle asked, as she looked down at the beautiful necklace around her neck. Clary and Skye exchanged looks before looking at the Lightwood.
"Iz, with a body like yours, everything's your color." Clary said with a chuckle, Isabelle nodded in agreement.
"Good point." She replied "Damn, I make this necklace look so good."
"Will you take it off? I'm certain Magnus Bane doesn't want drool on his ruby when we make the exchange." Alec said in a serious tone, he wasn't taking this lightly. Not only were they helping one daughter of Valentine Morgenstern but two of them and he was worried that they could have been spies...you never know.
"You know, I wouldn't be so sure. Most men like it when I admire their jewels." Isabelle said with a smirk, Skye snorted and cleared her throat while Jace glanced at the girls and shook his head.
"Can you just give it to Jace?" Alec asked, Isabelle rolled her eyes before taking the necklace off and handing it over to Jace.
"You're such a buzzkill."
Walking into the rave, Jace stood in between of Clary and Skylar...both of the girls looking for Magnus. One was more happy to see the warlock while the other is pissed off at the warlock who took her memories. You can guess who's who by that. Skylar smiled when her eyes landed on Magnus...yes Magnus Bane the High Warlock of Brooklyn. She hurried over to him, smiling brightly.
"Magnus." She said, Magnus smiled at the blonde before standing up and pulling her into a tight hug. It had been a while since they last seen each other.
"Skylnn Fairchild." Magnus said softly before pulling away from her a little, he scanned her facial features trying to see whether she looked different. The only different thing was Skylar's eyes had become brighter as they always did every year for some reason. Magnus let out a sigh when he saw a redhead approaching, immediately recognizing her...she looked just like Jocelyn..almost the spitting image of her.
"Clarissa Fairchild, you've grown into a beautiful young woman." He said, Skylar turned around to face her sister and Jace.
"Magnus Bane." Clary said, her tone cold and bitter. She was not happy with this warlock at all...taking HER memories away from her..who does that? "So you're the one who stole my memories." Magnus held up his finger and shook it a bit, that was inaccurate.
"At your mother's request, she knew the risk." Magnus corrected, he wasn't going to let anyone believe that he simply just went and took her memories. "Show me the jewelry, Shadowhunter." He demanded, Jace showed her the necklace but before Magnus could get it...Jace had pulled back and shook his head.
"Ooh Give Clary back her memories, and you get the jewelry." Jace said, Magnus gave him a look and glanced at the others.
"I have to confirm it's authenticity." Magnus said, Jace looked at Skye who nodded at him...telling him to give it to Magnus. Jace let out a sigh of defeat before he handed the necklace to Magnus who looked right at it..scanning it.
"Amor verus numquam moritur." True love cannot die. Oh, how I've missed this jewel." Magnus admitted as he admired it, the red head cleared her throat not wanting to wait anymore. She was getting a bit impatient.
"Now, it's your turn to pay up." Clary said
"I wish I could retrieve your memories, but I no longer have them." Magnus said, Skye mumbled something under her breath...another dead end here.
"What? Where are they?" Clary asked, this couldn't be happening to her now. She needed to find her mother now...and now she couldn't get her memory back or she thought.
"I fed them to a memory demon for safekeeping." Magnus replied quickly as he put his necklace away without them asking any questions.
"And why the hell would you do that?" Jace questioned, stepping forward. Skylar hurried over to stand beside Magnus, she didn't need things to go sour.
"To protect Clary and the Cup, if Valentine ever captured me, he could torture Clary's memories out of me. Just like he tortured Dot." Magnus explained, it wasn't wrong for the warlock for wanting to protect himself. Valentine wasn't someone anyone wanted to mess with at all.
"Tortured? Wait, is Dot okay?" Clary's expression had change quickly the moment Dot was mentioned, first she was angry and now she was worried about her friend.
"You don't know? Dot is dead." Magnus said softly and sighed.
"What? How do you know?" Clary felt her world just shatter once again, everything was just getting worse and worse.
"Magnus can sense other warlocks magic, and...usually when warlocks are dead...he can't feel their magic." Skylar explained, this was awful...now Dot was dead all because Valentine wanted the cup and Dot wouldn't help him
"Valentine killed her because she would not betray your mother." Magnus said before moving towards her, placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Oh, my God." Clary whispered and gulped.
"Come with me, Clary. My lair can offer you protection no Shadowhunter ever could and Skylnn...you are always welcome to come back home." Magnus said taking Skylar's hand and looking back at Clary who backed away from him.
"No! No, I'm not going anywhere with you and you can't go either Skylar!" Clary shouted
"Don't be a fool, your mother would want you and your sister to live." Magnus said
"Then help me get my memories back from whatever demon you gave them to." Clary said softly, Magnus let Skye's hand go and shook his head.
"Valentine is hunting you, too. And every moment we're outside my lair's protection, is a moment Valentine gets closer to finding us. Come with me." Magnus said before snapping his fingers, opening a portal for them all. His gaze going from one Fairchild to another, he had a pleading look in his eyes. "I won't offer again."
"No. No, I won't hide from my problems and neither should you." Clary said, until they heard Isabelle shouting at them.
"Look out!" Isabelle shouted, as an arrow shot past hitting the Circle Member who almost attacked them, Magnus watched Alec walk past him.
"Who are you?" He asked before heading towards the portal knowing he needed to get out of here.
"Magnus, wait! - You're my only hope." Clary said, grabbing his hand to turn him around.
"Valentine found us, I warned your mother this might happen." Magnus said before going through the portal quickly as possible.
"Wait.." Clary whispered before looking at her hand and opening it, revealing a ring in her palm.
"The area's secure, looks like he was the only assassin." Isabelle said walking over to the others, Alec examined the body of the assassin and looked over at them.
"He has a Circle rune on the base of his neck." Alec said, Skylar walked over to him and looked at the rune before sighing.
"He's right..." She mumbled before running a hand through her hair. "They found us, it's not safe here. We have to go." The blonde grabbed her sister's hand and followed the others out of the rave.
"S-Skye, Dot's dead..."
"I-I know.." Skylar said and cleared her throat as Alec and Jace began to speak to one another.
"You know what? This is great." Alec said "And not only did Magnus not get the girl her memories back, he took the necklace and you let that blonde on get to you."
"This is fantastic Alec, the girl her name is Clary and the blonde's name is Skylar I highly suggest you keep your voice down." Jace said back, clearly these two were getting upset.
"Why? What, are you afraid I'm gonna upset her? We have risked our lives again and again for these girls, and where has it gotten us? All right? Nowhere. We're no closer to getting the Mortal Cup, and we've lost the Institute's necklace." Alec said before Clary rolled her eyes and let out a sigh.
"I will I will never get my memories back!" Clary reminded them, Jace shook his head before grabbing the ring she tossed before walking away from them.
"You give up way too easy." He said before using his stele and using his tracking rune.
"What is he doing?" Clary asked, Skye smiled a bit when she noticed what Jace was doing. He was really trying to help them which was good.
"He's tracking Magnus." Skylar said and held her sister's hand, trying to reassure and calm her nerves down.
"Be quiet and keep your distance." Alec said looking at the three of the girls
"The button belonged to Magnus." Isabelle said, they all stayed silent as they watched Jace attempt to track Magnus. He turned around and shook his head.
"No, the signal's not strong enough. Magnus must be blocking the track. Let's do this, Alec." Jace said, Alec nodded and walked over to his parabatai. They held each other's hand and stared at each other, as they began to track Magnus..together.
"Do what?" Clary asked in a low whisper, Skylar and Isabelle exchanged looks and smiled.
"Parabatai tracking. When parabatais track, their power grows stronger. Jace and Alec are gonna track Magnus together." Isabelle said before shaking her head a bit.
"I honestly think, Izzy and I should be doing that." Skylar admitted, Isabelle chuckled and nodded in agreement. Clary gave them both a look before going back to watch Alec and Jace.
"Yeah, this whole parabatai thing seems oddly intimate, if you ask me." Clary said quietly, the girls chuckled.
"You don't know the half of it." Isabelle and Skylar said at the same time before Jace and Alec pulled away. They managed to track Magnus down, Jace smirked a bit as he looked at the girls.
"Got him." Jace said, finally they were getting somewhere again. Clary was determined and she was going to get her memories back somehow or someway. She needed these memories to find her mother while the other thing going through Skylar's head to finding the cup..and getting it to the Clave before Valentine found it.