Clary watched helplessly from her cage as members of the circle dead bodies were thrown about. Whatever was attacking them was extremely powerful, and they stood no chance. As soon as they had drawn their seraph blade, this thing had attacked. Her heart was pounding in her chest, had this been a creature Valentine had made and was now turning against him, just by looking around the room she was being held hostage in there were clear signs that Valentine enjoyed experimenting and she had heard the rumors from the downworlders that Valentine enjoyed experimenting on them before he killed them. If this was the case, then had it attacked her brother. Was this creature so lost in its madness that it couldn't recognise the difference between Valentine's supporters and his prisoners? What if this creature had killed her brother, what if it went after her unconscious mother? Could she even try to reason with it? Clary had seen movies where tortured beings gave into the madness and then saw everything in their world as against them.
Another dead circle member's body slid into the room, barely stopping before it hit her cage. Then another, and then another. Valentine hasn't moved from the spot he was originally standing in. He didn't know what was attacking him, he has never seen or felt anything so powerful before. Valentine drew his seraph blade, not that it would help him that much as he saw the number of his dead circle members continue to rise. This creature, it had to be a downworlder. This creature was living proof that downworlders were evil and they shouldn't exist in this world. Some could kill just by the flick of their wrists whilst others took pleasure in feeding on the mundanes as they slowly drained them dry.
The creature stepped into the room; Its glaring dark orange eyes stared at him like it was looking into his soul, its white angel wings stretched out behind it. Flaring like an angry bird ready to pounce.
"Alec," Clary said shocked. She had never seen her brother show so much power before. He was practically teeming with it, his dark orange eyes and white wings fluttering behind him. Those must be the warlock marks Isabelle and Jace had been referring to. Why hadn't she seen them before, they were so obvious? Could their mother have done something to Alec which hid the wings and the eyes from everyone else, including Alec?
"This monster is your brother," Valentine said. This creature looked nothing like the bastard he and the circle had been torturing. The chest wounds had healed, leaving no traces of what he had been through. The magic pouring out of it was nothing Valentine had ever felt before, even from those who were considered the most powerful warlocks out there. Could this powerful abomination exist because of the result of mixing angelic blood with demonic blood? Had the angel blood somehow amplified his warlock capabilities? If that was true, Valentine couldn't allow this creature to live any longer. It was a threat to the shadowworld and his plans.
Valentine raised his blade, charging at the creature, but it raised its hand, using its magic to bat Valentine away as if he was a rag doll. His body crashed into a storage shelf containing rows and rows of chemicals Valentine used to experiment on his victims, but Valentine didn't have the chance to worry about that as he passed out.
The raw power surrounding Alec seemed to subside, but his dark orange eyes stayed as prominent as ever as if they had always been there.
"Clary!" Alec said, moving towards the cage Clary was trapped in and used his magic to open the door, "He didn't hurt you, did he?".
Clary didn't waste a second later as she flew out of the cage and threw her arms around Alec, pulling her brother into a tight hug, "I'm fine. What about you? I heard what Valentine was doing to you".
"I won't say I'm fine because I'm not but… wait can you smell smoke," Alec said stopping halfway through his sentence to look around their surroundings only to see that a small fire had erupted from the smashed chemicals near Valentine's unconscious body.
"Shit" Clary said as she pulled away from her brother and moved over to their mother, "Do you think we can get her out of here?".
Alec nodded before using his magic to open a portal whilst Clary reached out to grab her mother's arm. They both knew how dangerous it was for someone to enter a portal unconscious, so Clary knew that either Alec or herself would have to go through with their mother to ensure that she wouldn't become stuck in limbo after they only just got her back.
"You go first," Alec said motioning for his sister to move, Clary nodded as she pulled her mother through the portal whatever was making her float also made it easier to move Jocelyn. So, Clary didn't struggle to push her mother's body through the portal with Alec stepping through it not far behind them. They appeared in an abandoned and extremely dusty warehouse. It was the same abandoned warehouse that Simon, Clary, and Alec used to play in during their early teenage years whenever they wanted to escape from the struggle of teenage life and the hell of 7th grade. It also happened to be where the circle had kidnapped them, but Clary refused to think any further into it.
"We have to find out a way to wake our mother up. Should we take her to the institute or Magnus?" Clary asked. She had her back to her brother as she looked over her mother for any injuries. It seems that Valentine had actually looked after their mother, except for the new circle rune on her neck. Clary was so distracted that she didn't hear her brother fall onto the floor clutching his stomach.
"We'll be lucky if we get to either place" Alec groaned; the pain was getting worse.
"What do you…" Clary started but trailed off as she turned to look at her brother to find him on the floor, "Alec, what's wrong is it your injuries?".
"No," Alec said shaking his head, "I've lost control of my magic. Something's wrong with me, I've never had so much magic at my disposal and my body doesn't know what to do. Dot's control techniques aren't working, and I feel like I'm about to explode".
"Oh god," Clary muttered. Alec clenched his teeth as the power inside him kept growing, "I'll go get help, just hold on Alec. I'll be back soon".
Clary darted towards her brother, pressing a kiss to Alec's forehead before she ran out of the warehouse.
