Chapter 7

Magnus headed to the training room to meet up with Clary. He was pretty sure he had seen her around the institute, but he hadn't been introduced to her yet. He knew she had played a big part in what had happened a few years ago with Valentine, but other than that he didn't know much about her. When he entered the training room, he saw a red headed girl in the center of the room with a lanky brunette wearing glasses. He figured the girl had to be Clary, but he wasn't sure about who the boy was. He stood and watched them for a little bit before making his presence known.

"Hello there," Magnus said moving to the center of the room.

"Oh hi, how are you?" the girl asked turning to face Magnus.

"I'm doing good. I'm Magnus," Magnus said introducing himself to the girl.

"I'm Clary and this is Simon," Clary said introducing herself and her friend to Magnus. "Izzy has told me a little of what she knows about you. I'm looking forward to getting to know you."

"I'm looking forward to getting to know you as well. I haven't heard anything about Simon though and it is nice to meet you as well," Magnus stated turning to face Simon.

"Hello. I'm Clary's best friend but I'm just a mundane. I don't have any special powers or anything, but they still let me hang around," Simon said moving to shake Magnus' hand.

"Well it is nice to meet you as well Simon. I'm sure you must be a pretty great person if they are letting you hang out at the institute," Magnus exclaimed.

"I would love to stay and talk more, but I do have some things that I need to be doing. Clary I will see you later and Magnus, I hope I get to know you better as well," stated Simon turning to leave the room.

"Thanks Si, I'll talk to you later and see you at your gig on Friday," Clary mentioned as she watched Simon leave.

Magnus stood watching the interaction between the two friends and missed his own friend. He made a mental note to try calling Ragnor later to see how he was doing. He could feel that he was fine through their bond, but it was different not being able to see him every day. He was settling in fine, but he still missed his friend. Magnus watched as Simon left the training room and moved to start warming up. With everything that had happened over the last week he hadn't had a chance to really train like he did back home.

"Ok Magnus let's get started," Clary stated turning to face Magnus.

"What are we doing?" asked Magnus unsure of what he was going to be with Clary.

"We are just going to talk for right now. I know you were hoping to start training again, but in order for that to happen I want to know a little bit more about you. I know that you will be working primarily with Izzy and Jace, but Izzy wanted me to train with you. I still have a lot to learn about being a shadowhunter, but Izzy mentioned to me that you are a pretty good fighter and it may help me to learn from someone who isn't Jace or Izzy."

"Well what would you like to know? I look forward to getting to know you and helping you become a better fighter. I wasn't expecting this, but I think it will be good for us. With being the newest shadowhunters in the institute we're going to have to stick together."

"Well just tell me whatever you feel comfortable telling me. I know that you came here from the Jakarta institute, but Izzy hasn't told me more than that. I'll tell you more about me afterwards."

"Well ok then. As you know my name is Magnus and I'm from Jakarta. I trained my entire life to be a shadowhunter and this is my first time living outside of Indonesia. I am an only child, my parents are Asmodeus and Melati Bane. They are in charge of the Jakarta Institute and have been my entire life. My best friend is Ragnor Fell and is currently in the London Institute for his placement. Ragnor is also my parabatai, so us being separated is hard for me. We haven't been apart for longer than a few hours since we became parabatai.

"Besides all the boring shadowhunter stuff, I enjoy fashion if you couldn't tell by my amazing outfit. I like to read and learn new things. That's about all I can think of for right now."

"Well I guess that means it is my turn. As you know my name is Clary Fray, I mean Clary Fairchild. I lived the majority of my life as a mundane. I didn't find out about the shadow world until shortly after my fifteenth birthday. My mom had been taking me to a warlock to wipe my memory of anything to do with the shadow world. I guess it was fairly complex magic that made me forget something after I saw it. The warlock who created the spell for my mom was unable to reverse the affects without seriously hurting me. My mom was taken by my father when he was looking for the Mortal Cup, he was unable to find out where she had hidden it because she put herself to sleep with a potion, she had a warlock make for her.

"I spent the next few months trying to locate my mother. Izzy and Jace helped me to locate my mother and to also find the Mortal Cup. I may have gone against the Clave and broken quite a few rules while trying to locate my mom, but we were able find her in the end and stop Valentine. There are quite a few things that happened in between that. I've been here in the institute since we took down Valentine training and learning about how to be a shadowhunter."

"Wow that is quite the story. You have been through quite a bit in the last couple of years. I couldn't imagine learning about the shadow world with all of that happening to you. So is your mom okay with your involvement with the shadow world now?"

"She is adjusting. She wasn't happy with me wanting to continue my training. She left right before I was born for a reason, but that reason doesn't really exist now. She would love if it I would continue my normal life and isn't too happy that Simon got dragged into all of this as well. Simon is my best friend and we have been through everything together. Even when I tried to limit his involvement, he still somehow managed to get messed up in everything. I think we were both destined to discover the shadow world together."

"Having a best friend is the greatest thing in the world. I'm glad that Simon has been able to go through all of this with you. I know I miss my best friend and hope that I will get to see him soon."

"I'm sure you will. It is strange though that they separated the two of you for your placement. I mean they don't normally separate parabatai so that is strange."

"It is, I don't understand why it happened. My dad told me it was because of the trouble that we get ourselves into, but I think they also wanted to see how we would do when we are separated. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. You mentioned that you have only been in the institute for the last few years. I have a question for you."

"What's your question? I don't know if I can answer for you, but I will try to the best of my ability."

"When Izzy was giving me a tour of the institute, I happened to see a corridor that had guards in it. I thought it was strange that it was the only corridor that had guards. When I asked Izzy about it, she said she didn't see any guards. Do you know anything about this?"

"I know what corridor you are talking about. When I first came to the institute, I saw it and asked Jace about it, but he just said it was a corridor that wasn't used anymore because of an incident that had happened a few years prior to me coming to the institute. I remember seeing the guards there when I first arrived, but I haven't really been in the same area as the corridor since, so I don't know if they are still there."

"That's strange. How is it that not everyone can see the guards there? It doesn't make any sense."

"Unless there is a glamour on the guards so people don't see them and ask questions."

"If there is a glamour then how is it possible that I can see them? That doesn't make any sense at all."

"I don't know, unless you can see them because you are new to the institute and the glamour doesn't affect you. That's the only thing I can think of."

"That would make sense, but what could the guards be guarding? There has to be a reason why the guards are there. I could help you look into it when we aren't busy with our other duties. I almost wonder if this has to do with the disappearance of the oldest Lightwood."

"The oldest Lightwood, I thought that was Izzy."

"No, Izzy is the second born. There is a little brother Max, but he studies at the academy in Idris. Jace was adopted by the Lightwoods when he was around 10. They had an older brother named Alexander Lightwood, went by Alec for short. He disappeared shortly after his 12th birthday. I guess they have been looking for him since, although others that live here have said they think they have seen him. I don't know if it is true, but it could be worth looking into."

"I think you might be right. I want to look into this, but I also need to focus on what I was sent here to do. I don't want to get in trouble, but this is going to bother me until I can figure it out."

"Well I'll talk to Jace and see what he can remember from around the time that Alec disappeared. Maybe that can be a starting point for us. Well anyway we should get started here so we don't into trouble with Izzy."

"True. Let me know what Jace tells you. I think there really is something here."

Clary and Magnus finished their conversation. The conversation hadn't gone quite like Magnus thought it would. He learned more about Clary, but he also learned that there had been another Lightwood child. He wondered what could have happened to him and what that had to do with the corridor with the guards. They went to the center of the training room to warm up and get started. Clary watched as Magnus went through his warm up routine and started with what he was comfortable doing. Clary had her own routine and went through everything that she had been taught by Izzy and Jace. They continued on in the training session until Clary finally called it quits. Magnus felt good after the training session was over. He hadn't trained since he arrived in New York and it was good to be back at it.

Simon left Clary to head to meet with his trainer. He was starting to wonder what was going on. He had mentioned to Clary that he was being trained in how to fight because he wanted to be able to better protect himself when they got into one of their scrapes. When Clary had asked him about who was training him, he couldn't remember anything. He knew that he had a trainer, but he didn't know where he went to train with him and he couldn't tell Clary anything about his trainer. It was almost like his memory had been wiped. He remembered the training sessions, but that was about it. Simon continued on his way to where he was to meet his trainer. He entered the corridor with no one being the wiser and him with no recollection that he was still in the institute.