JACK'S POV~

The walk to the Institute was short, but the whole time I was lost in my mind. Shadow Hunters? What the heck is a shadow hunter? A person who hunts down shadows? Really, being a shadow hunter is as true as a unicorn can throw up rainbows (and trust me they can't). I do not even remember in any of my history books (Demigod 101 knowledge of the gods, minor gods, monsters, and other beings) of shadow hunters being a type of person. But know that I think about it, there is a lot of stuff those books do not talk about. Like what kind of monster just attacked me.

I wonder what they think of me though. Do they think I was lying or crazy when I said that I am a demigod? Most mortals do not believe there are demigods anyway, even though most of them seen us but never notice.

"Is it me or that building was not there a second ago?" I asked as we walked up to a castle like building. The building appeared to look like it could have been a church before, but improve to look like royalty lives here. I wonder do they really live here. I looks like it can hold hundreds, maybe thousands of people, and that's looking from the outside.

"No the building was there the whole entire time. I just surprise you can see it without us explaining how it looks or taking you inside yet." Clay said, while Jace looked like he rather just hurry up into the building and get this over with.

When Jace knocked on the door, a girl with long black hair and very attractive brown eyes opened the door. She was wearing a black t-shirt and black skinny jeans with at less 5 inched high heels. I wondered if she was going somewhere or she was one of those girls who just like to torture them self by wearing heals all day, anytime a day or even as they were sleeping.

"Jace, clary, who is this?" she asked them with a look of confusion.

"This is jack. We found him in an ally fighting a demon thing." Clary explains like random people show up here all the time. While she was explaining what happened I wonder why she kept saying demon and not monster, because that thing was no demon. I think.

"Izzy is Hodge here? We need to talk about this with him." Jace said, sounding a little impatient.

"He is in the library, like always." The girl that Jace called Izzy walked back into the building and we followed.

LEO'S POV~

"Hey anyone seen jack?" Leo was looking for jack, the one month or so old camper. Leo was in charge of helping keep an eye on him.

Leo always thinks of jack as a child of hades. Jack had this kind of darkness to him that kind of screams death is near, or you soul might be sucked from your body if you mess with him. The problem was, his mom died not so long ago. This was one of the reasons Leo said he will help keep an eye on him, he knows how it feels to lose your mom.

By now, jack was supposed to be claimed by his father, but it did not happen yet. If Percy was here, he would have been upset that the gods are not holding up their end of the wish. Without telling the whole story of how Percy was able to get an wish from the gods and goddess, the wish was that they would claim their children when they turned third teen and that they should remember that us demigods are not their pawns, or so that's what everyone says. There are not that many children who are not claimed here, maybe five or six kids but that's it.

"Leo I have some news about jack," Said piper walking to me.

"What's the news?"

"Jack is nowhere to be found around camp, but some campers say that they saw jack leaving around seven a.m. while everyone else was asleep." Piper said

"What do you mean by leaving?" I ask.

"Leo, jack left camp to go somewhere no one knows." She said staring into my eyes making sure I understand, and I do understand. Jack left camp, but why?

"Any one told Chiron about this yet?" how could jack leave without telling anyone, mostly me, why he had left?

"That's why I am here Leo. Chiron wants me to tell you to find Rachel and see if she knows what is going on," and like someone summon her -which we kind of did- Rachel walked towards us.

"We all should talk about this," Rachel said, like she already knows what is going on. "I kind of feel a prophecy coming up, not a large on but a small need to know this now kind of prophecy." Rachel is getting better on feeling prophecies soon to come, so now no one would be surprise if she starts being oracle like.

"Ok I guess." I said, really not in a mood for another prophecy.

JACK'S POV~

The library was huge, even for an institute. We walked into the library looking for this Hodge guy, but only found an empty room filled with books, and a giant bird staring at us.

"Hodge was in here." The girl that I know now is named Isabelle, said out loud.

"Well of course I am in here." Jack looked up at the man who spoken. The was a thin, sort of between short and tall, man grey streaked hair and a long nose, marks like the rest of the other shadow hunters ,and a thick scar up the right side of his face. Jack wondered how that happened, already guessing this was that Hodge guy everyone was talking about. "I was just putting some books someone forgot to put back." He said slightly smiling to clary.

"Oh, I am sorry about that." Clary said, blushing.

"Who is this kid?" Hodge stared at me like he was trying to figure out some kind of code.

"That's what we are here about. This is jack. He claims to be a demigod." Jace said

"A demigod," Hodge looked at me in shock this time. "I have not seen a demigod since that one accidental run in." he said like everyone knew what he was talking about.

"What run in?" asked Isabelle

"It happened years before the incident with the circle." Hodge walked over to the window, looking out of it. "There was a group of demigods that somehow found a way to Idris. They were looking for something we would never know about because it's a demigod thing." Hodge said, shaking his head and laughing lightly. "I also heard that a shadow hunter befriended a demigod. Well let's say that did not turn out well when fights started to happen and people threaten war. I still wonder if they were romans or Greek." Hodge started to walk around. Soon I got to dizzy to watch him walk back and forth so I looked away.

"So what you are saying is that demigods are not something to really be near." Isabelle said, walking away from jack.

"No that is not what Hodge is saying Izzy." Jace shook his head while clary laughed a little.

"I think you need to know that demigods and shadow hunters are similar in so many ways. Demigods are like our distant cousins who we disagree with." Hodge went on. "But demigods only show up when something not so good is going to happen, I bet it have something to do with shadow hunters too."