Jace POV

We walked into the training room to see it set up with punching bags and dummies along the walls. In the center were lots of square fighting mats, with a large one right in the centre. Four stood up onto an empty crate in the middle of the training room.

"Initiates! Training today. To begin with i want everyone to grab a punching bag and practise punching and kicking. 6 and i will walk around correcting your technique!" He stepped off the crates and walked over to 6. Together they looked terrifying. I smirked at Percy and Sanley."Lets get punching bags near the girls to show off these bad boys." I then kissed my bulging 'guns'. Percy rolled his eyes while Stanley just punched me in the arm and walked over to claim a bag. Soon the room was filled wth the sound of bags being punched and surprised gasps as knuckles split. I continued punching my bag and kicking it, and soon enough i was in a rythym. Punch, punch, kick. I was actually really uruprised with how naturally this came for me. Candor didnt really shun physical activity but it wasnt very common.

I was so focused that i didnt even notice when 4 came up behind me and grabbed my hand. He hit my knuckles, flattening them out and hitting down on my elbow joint. it hardly buckled. He looked impressed. "Good technique." then he turned away it check on Percy. I could hardly supress a smile as i kept hitting the bag. After what seemed like forever Four called for us to stop and gathered us around the main ring. "Right now, we're going to pair you up to fight on the outer mats. Fight until someone in the pair calls stop, have a break and then keep going. After lunch we're going to reassign your pairs and you'll fight in the main ring, where youll begin to be ranked. At the end of each stage rankings will be posted. Unlike previous years no-one will be cut until the end of stage 3. There are 10 spots available. There are 9 of you and 6 Dauntless born initiates, which is less then usual. Any questions?" The look he gave was so intense that it wasnt surprising that no questions were asked. "Good, we'll get to the pairs shall we? Mat 1 will be Gale and Johanna. 2 will be Annabeth and Jason. 3 will be Stanley and Percy. 4 will be Jace and Maren Eli-" he cut off after recieving the death stare from Maren. "er, sorry, Maren. That should leave Isabelle to mat 5, you'll be fighting with six for now." We all nodded and left to find our mats.

I arrived at mat 4, turning to see Maren right behind me. "Hey babe."

"Dont call me babe, " she said through gritted teeth.

I laughed and took a fighting stance on one side of the mat. "BEGIN!" Four shouted across the room.

We circled eachother for a bit before Maren threw a soft punch into my abdomen. I laugh, "uh-uh, that aint gonna touch these puppies" I smirked, punching my abbs with my hand. She rolled her eyes and went for an uppercut punch to my jaw, and while I was distracted she swiped my legs out from under me. I rolled over on the mat and jumped back up, joking side discarded. I went in for a slow punch to her thigh, testing the waters to see how much she under-estimated me. From her lack of response, quite a bit. I jumped back to avoid getting smashed in the face and ducked down to swipe her legs out from under her. She easily jumped them and grabbed my ankle, spinning me around so I was facing away from her. She went to shove me away but I did something surprising us both. I used her pushing momentum to launch myself in the air and landing with a thud behind her. i just backflipped over her. Hell yeah. I laughed crazily and went full power for a kick to the jaw. Woops, too much. She fell back gasping and her hand flew to her jaw, gently carresing the large bruise already forming. My bad. I helped her up and guided her to where 4 sat. 4 stood up and inspected her jaw. "Wow, Jace if she wasnt seriously injured I would be impressed, but shes seriously injured. Fractured jawbone." I gasp. "Maren, i'm so sorry I didnt mean-." She laughed. "No, dont worry, it was an excellent kick. Just watch your sorry ass." She then flounced off to go grab an ice-pack. I turned back to 4 sheepishly. He watched a few more initiates fight before yelling for lunch. Grateful I grabbed my hoodie and headed towards the pit.

Stanley saw me walking and ran to catch up with me. "Jace, man that was one awesome kick. Funny though, didnt see you as a girlbasher," he then started smiling at me in a patronizing way. "Well, it was self defence, and dont let me get started on you. You were getting smashed by Percy! All i heard is that you kept asking for a breaks and Percy did pushups in them."

"Well, i, uh." he stuttered,"i'd like to see you take Percy on!"

"Hmmm, maybe i will."

"Maybe you'll what?" asked Percy, joining our conversation.

Stanley smirked, "take you on."

Pery laughed. "Any time bro, i'll smash you."

I laughed and grabbed a tray for lunch. I decided to eat a hamburger, wedges and a coke and then went and sat down to eat my lunch. We sat at our usual table with the rest of the transfers, and everyone began excitedly chatting about training and what was coming up. Apparently everyone saw my kick because I kept getting slaps on the back from the guys and the girls kept glaring daggers at me, except for Izzy. She just sat there looking bored as she did everytime that Mayrse told her off for being too slutty at nightclubs. I stood up so fast that my chair flew back with a thud that echoed around the pit. I felt my face go as white as a sheet and everyones eyes were glued to my face.

"Dude, you ok?" Percy asked, picking at his hamburger.

"I uh, need, some, yeah i need some air."

"Whatever, can i have you wedges?"

Geez, Percy ate heaps for a guy so thin. I nodded absently to him before running out of the pit. I heard footsteps behind me and turned to find a very surprised izzy. "Jace what the hell, you take one look at me and then go mental?"

"Izzy?" It comes out as a whisper.

"Yes, how did you know to call me.."she trailed off. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Its just, Izzy, I, I kn-I know you."

"What are you talking about Jace, of course you know me. We've basically grown up together since you came and-. Oh." Her eyes widdened. "Jace? I feel like i missed you even though i didnt know it." She jumps in for a hug and I give her a long heartfelt hug until she pulls away, tears in her eyes. "But, i dont under-like what?"

"I know, what the hell is happening? One minute we're faction transfers the next minute we're fully fledged shadowhunters once again? It doesnt make sense."

"Wait, I do remember something. We were in the institute when all these people appeared out of nowhere and started shooting colours at us. They captured you and then knocked us out. The last thing I remember is giving one guy a black eye."

I laugh, "Good on you Iz, good on you."

"Do you remember anything after being taken?"

"No, I, dont, I..."I stopped, thinking hard."Wait. Wait I do remember something. There was four of us in a room and this crazy guy came in and said something about memory loss and helping or some crap like that. Percy was there too. Then he said to talk to..Toby? No wait there were 3 people. Uriah, Beatrice and Toby I think. Wait no."I snap my fingers in triumph."Tobias Eaton."

"Well ok then. How many people are here?"

I shake my head. "I cant remember exactly. We each had a cretain amount of friends in with us, and I remember Percy had the most and I had the least, and I was pissed at him. So I think if I see someone I know I'll remember them but other than that I wont."

Isabelle rolled her eyes, "Well thats convenient."

I nod in agreement. "Maybe we should head back to the table?"

"Yeah, good idea. Although perhaps we should keep quiet about this..mess, or people will think we're crazy. Just look out for a Tobias Eaton, Beatrice or Uriah so we can interogate them." She says with a crazy grin. We walk back to the table in time to hear 4 telling us to meet back in the training room.