A/N: Hey guys, sorry for the long wait between updates! I'll try to revert to my old schedule of updating once every two days, but nothing goes as planned. Maybe I'll update earlier, maybe I'll update later. Sorry! But anyways, here is the fourth chapter of the vocab stories. As always, the words are underlined and their definitions are given at the bottom. Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: Cassandra Clare owns the Mortal Instruments series, ideas, and characters. I only own what was not explicitly stated in the books.
Pandemonium
How it all began.
Pandemonium n. 1. Wild uproar or unrestrained disorder. 2. Utter chaos. 3. Hell. 4. The abode of all the demons.
"It's useless," Isabelle declared, throwing herself down into the armchair with a sigh. "It's been three weeks, and our tracking mission's gone stagnant. That demon's always one step ahead of us."
"Not as stagnant as your soups," Jace said, studiously inspecting his fingernails. "The one we had for dinner last night had decomposing potatoes in it. I don't suppose those were part of the recipe?"
Isabelle glared at him, ready to pulverize him. "Do me a favor, Jace? Stick your head through a window."
"No, thanks," Jace replied emphatically. "I have no desire to mar the perfection that is my face."
"Hey," Alec spoke up, trying to get them back on topic by reviewing their information, "What do we know about the demon so far?"
"It's an Eidolon demon, a shape-changer, so it's hard to pin down," Isabelle began. "It's been going into nightclubs, disguised as a teenage partygoer, where it lures its victims, usually female, into the back room."
"What does it seem to want?" Alec asked.
"The eradication of all Shadowhunters, no doubt," Jace replied. "But it's content for now to wreak havoc on the mundane world as well. This one's a nasty one; an especially pugnacious demon. It's already killed four mundies, in four different cities."
"Well, we need to obliterate it completely," Alex declared. "Kill it before it can get the better of another mundie, and then remove any trace it was even there."
"It's my turn," Jace called.
"Whoever gets the opportunity will take it," Alec forestalled the breakout of another argument between his sister and his parabatai. Jace looked at him steadily, knowing that Alec wouldn't take the opportunity even if he had it. Alec met his gaze, then looked away. "Where's it's next target?" he asked, trying to change the subject.
Jace looked away as well, reverting back to his sarcastic self. "Tomorrow night, the cataclysm that will appear on the news is that the demon's going to try to blight some poor mundie's life, at some club called… Pandemonium."
Words and their meanings:
Blight (v/n) - to have a negative effect on; to ruin
Cataclysm (n) - an intense and violent disaster or change
Decomposition (n) - the process of rotting
Eradication (n) - the act of tearing out by the roots; completely destroying
Havoc (n) - widespread destruction or chaos
Mar (v) - to damage the quality of
Obliterate (v) - to wipe out completely
Pugnacious (adj) - eager to fight
Pulverize (v) - to pound or crush into dust
Stagnant (adj) - stale/foul from lack of movement, lacking progress
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