Prologue
"Quick, get out of here now!" he screamed on the top of his lungs. "Dean, take Sam and Clary outside now!" He ran into Sam's room screaming 'stop it'. I could smell burning and everything was hot, and it felt like my lungs were on fire.
"Run!" I barely heard Dean say it, everything was moving so fast. Before I knew it, we had sprinted down the stairs and ran outside into the cold night. From here we could see the house covered in a blanket of flames and smoke. I watched my Dad run out of the house as fast as he could, stumbling as he fell over his own feet. He had tears running down his face uncontrollably as we all watched in silence as our house burnt down.
"Daddy, where is Mummy?" I asked the question that would haunt me for the rest of my life, and somehow, I knew the answer already.
"She's gone, Charlie… Your mum's dead, I'm sorry. A demon killed her."
We all stood still as we processed the news. She's dead. I would have cried like waterfalls coming from my eyelids, but I was used to this news. We were taught that everyday people would die around us. It was nothing new. That's what it was like being one of us. Slowly, I unconsciously let a tear fall down my cheeks. But I wiped it away before anyone could see. And I thought I had gotten away with it, but Dean saw, and he had done the same. Sammy was crying hysterically with tears falling down his cheeks like rain on a window. Dad was controlled, quiet. But I knew he was dying on the inside. We stood there, watching our house turn to ash, quietly.
That's when I woke up. That's when I always wake up. I always have that dream. Or nightmare should I say… No one knows except for Dean. Out of both him and Sammy, he's the one I'm closer to. I don't talk about it much. I can't. No one here knows the truth about me except for Eddie. People here think I'm a 17-year-old dhampir novice who has killed two Strigoi. They think my name is Rosemarie Hathaway.
They are all wrong.
My real name is Clary Rosemarie Winchester. And I'm not a dhampir. I'm a Hunter…
There are so much more than just humans on this world. There are demons and vampires, werewolves and shapeshifters, and many many more. There are races like the Moroi and dhampirs. Moroi are mortal vampires who can control one of the five elements. The dhampirs are half Moroi and half human and they protect the Moroi from the Strigoi, a type of immortal vampire. Their kinds are at war. A war they are losing. But they are also at war with us.
Who are we? We're the Elementals and Hunters. Similar to humans but Elementals have the ability to use a sort of elemental magic, like the Moroi but a different at the same time. Whereas the Moroi can manipulate the elements slightly, move them, stop them, control them; the way an Elemental uses their magic is different. We don't refer to it as magic, but more as bending. It's a part of us, it comes from within us. It's an art form. An elemental can bend one of the 5 elements; Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Spirit.
Then there's us. They call us Hunters. Half Elemental and half human. Our version of a dhampir but not quite. You see, there's 6 types of Hunter, all dependent on if and which element they inherit.
When an Elemental is born, they can be born with any element and it's essentially randomly assigned but due to our half human nature, we tend to be different. The first is just a Hunter, someone who doesn't actually inherit any of the elemental magic and they tend to be the closest thing to a dhampir we have. The only difference is that all the dhampirs heightened senses, strength and speed are just more so in a Hunter. In fact, they tend to be the strongest of all of us.
Secondly, we have the Therian. These are hunters with earth magic in them, but, most likely due to our human blood, they can't actually use earth magic like Elementals can, but it instead is a physical part of them. Therians can take an animal form, and it's seen as a representation of their primal desires and their souls.
Then, we have the Merfolk. These hunters are where the tales of mermaids come from. Due to their water magic, they can transform slightly as water is a higher element than earth, but also use water magic to an extent. They can bend water in its liquid form and some skilled users can use it to heal.
After them, we have the Seraphim. That's what Eddie is. A hunter with air magic in them. They're born with wings and can use air magic to the same extent as an Elemental.
The fifth type of Hunters are the Drakon. That's what I am. A hunter with fire magic in them. We can bend fire just like an elemental can, but fire is the highest of the 4 physical elements and we don't tend to have a physical manifestation of the element unlike the others with their shifting, tails and wings. But we tend to be able to form close relationships with dragons, the first fire benders, and something fire elementals can't do.
Then we have the last type. We just call them Spirit Hunters or Spirit users. Apart from the human blood in their veins, there is no difference between them and a Spirit Elemental. Essentially psychic, they can perform mental capabilities like telepathy, telekinesis and aura reading.
Both Eddie and I are staying at St Vladimir's academy, undercover for our people. No one here knows what we truly are. Not even my best friend and bond mate, Vasilisa Dragomir, or my mentor and the man I love, Dimitri Belikov. If they did, they'd kill me...
