Authors Note: Thank you everyone for the reviews they really meant a lot. =) The song in the last chapter was Every Rose has its Thorn by Poison (I forgot to add that in the last chapter) I know the last chapter was short but it really was just a prologue, the chapters will be longer, well at least this one will….

Chapter One- Introductions

: Clary :

Clary stood on the steps of The Institute and stared. It was rather large but so were all of the Morgenstern mansions so it wasn't necessarily the size of the building that held her interest, but rather what laid in it. She was walking into a situation where not only did she not have the upper hand; she also had no idea what she was up against. Clary decided she didn't like it.

The architecture of the building was beautiful. There were also fields in the back she saw as she was driving up. From the distance she saw dummies swaying in the wind and children fighting with steles and swords. It was different yet in some way similar to her home. Home she really despised that word. Home was a place you felt safe in, surrounded by people you love and who love you back. She didn't have a home.

She took a deep breath and headed into The Institute, she trained her whole life to get here, to show the adults what she could do. And she knew she was good. She had to be. She had to be the best. She would never again be as vulnerable as she was on that night. She shook the thoughts of her mother out of her head as she climbed the stairs to The Institute, pulling her suitcase along with her.

She entered the large building and looked around. The main part of the building was huge, to put it bluntly. The ceiling was so high that Clary had a hard time believing that someone actually owned a latter that would go that high. It made Clary, who was just under 5'2, feel even shorter, if that was possible.

"Well, you're looking a little lost, there, my dear," Clary snapped her head forward and met the eyes of a boy who looked around her age. He had long black hair that fell in his face and a pleasant smile. Clary noticed that his fingernails were painted black and was that glitter? Yes, it most definitely was, he had glitter all over his black shirt. Clary assumed he was probably wearing glitter eyeliner as well, but she was too far away from him to know for sure.

"Where's the main office?" She asked. She was slightly mad at herself for not hearing him approach, he should not have surprised her the way he did.

"Ah, a girl who gets right down to the point, I love it!" he exclaimed laying a hand on her shoulder. She stiffened from the contact before glaring at him. She picked his hand off her shoulder, like it carried some sort of disease, and dropped it by his side.

"Watch it," She growled.

"Feisty too, I love the outfit, it screams 'touch me and I'll kill you'" He said waving his hands in front of her body, gesturing at her black leather pants and cropped leather jacket, which laid over a white tank top. She was also wearing knee high black heeled boots, which she saw him admiring. "I love the boots." She smirked. At least he had good taste.

"Thanks. Now where's that office?" She glanced around the room one last time to triple check that she didn't miss it.

"Follow me, madam, by the way the names Magnus, a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, I think we are going to get along just fine!" Magnus pronounced loudly.

"Clary," She said and followed him down the hall. She wasn't here to make friends, but he knew more about this school than she did, and for all she knew she might need him. There could be one of those high school food chains here that she heard so much about from movie and the books she read. And if not her father taught her it was better to have more friends than enemy's. Not that her father knew what a true friend was supposed to be, to him they were people who would be willing to put their life at risk to save his, not that he would ever do such a thing for them.

"Clary, I like it, unique, good kick ass name, I may use it for my next clothing line. What extra do you do?" Magnus asked. Clary knew what he was asking about, apparently they weren't just worried about your training here, they actually planned to teach you here, like any other mundane high school. Clary didn't understand it, sure she loved her guitar, she loved playing, but she knew she was never going to become some sort of rock star. Everyone here was going to end up a shadowhunter and ninety percent of them would probably never make it past twenty-five.

"Music and Art"

"Nice an arts girl, what instrument do you play?"

"Guitar," She motioned the guitar case hanging on her shoulder.

"Nice, you have to play for me sometime. I'm a designer and violinist myself; maybe we'll be in the same classes." He grinned at her, and she felt the need to give him a strong smile in return, he had this energy that just drew you in, making you want to be as happy as he is. "Well here you are, the schedules are all in alphabetical order to last name, and everything you need is on them." He motioned to a white table with stacks of white paper on it. Behind the table was a closed door named 'Office'.

She started fettling through the papers, trying to find her name. When she finally did she pulled it out and looked at it. She was in room 213 she said this too Magnus.

"Cool, you're down the hall from me, I'm pretty sure that's Isabelle's room as well she hasn't had a roommate in years this should be interesting." Before Clary could even begin to ask who Isabelle was a dark haired boy appeared behind Magnus.

"Hey, Mag, Who do you have here?" he asked. He was beautiful, then again Clary saw everyone as beautiful, it was an artist thing, but he had something different.

"Alec, dear, this is Clary, my new friend, I really enjoy her, I hope she stays for a while." Magnus said to the boy who she assumed was Alec. Magnus put his hand on Alec's right arm as he held his right one out to shake Clary's hand.

"Alec, nice to meet you Clary," He offered her a smile before turning his attention back to Magnus. Ah, so they play for that team, okay. It wasn't a big deal to her; she was the last person who should judge anyone.

"You too," she mumbled. She still was not good with friendly conversation. "Um, is there stairs around here?" She asked them. Hopefully her roommate wasn't all bad, what did Magnus say her name was again? Isabelle, that's it.

"It's at the end of the hall; I'll see you in the lounge later, alright? You're so lucky you came on a Friday!" Magnus yelled after her, she was already down the hall by the time he told her he'd see her later.

Clary made her way to the second floor and searched for her room. When she found it she threw the door open, only to find a girl with braided long black hair sucking face with some guy with brown hair. She couched to get their attention.

"Wha- ugh, you must be the roommate, Simon get off me." The girl scrambled off the bed and looked me over. She had dark eyes, she was fairly pretty, the kind of girl that probably had guys going at her constantly. The boy, Simon she presumed, rubbed his face before grabbing his glasses off the end table next to his bed, his eyes widened when he saw her, she was used to that expression from guys. "Hey. I'm Isabelle and this is Simon, my boyfriend." Isabelle said pointing to Simon.

"Clary," She said dropping her suitcase and throwing her guitar on the bed opposite the one Isabelle and Simon were just on.

"Nice to meet you, Simon how bout we meet you in the lounge in the twenty minutes?" Isabelle asked Simon. He nodded his head.

"Yeah sure, nice meeting you Clary, hopefully the next time we meet, you'll talk more." He said looking Clary over. She raised her eyebrows at him. She liked him.

"Don't count on it." She smirked before throwing herself onto her bed next to her guitar. "Consider yourself lucky, most people don't like to carry on a conversation with me." She smiled up at the ceiling before turning towards him. He was grinning at her and even Isabelle had a hint of a smile on her face.

"I highly doubt that, I'll see you guys later, bye Izzy, Clary," He bowed before exiting the room.

"Nice boyfriend you got there," Clary said turning towards Isabelle.

"I know," She winked at Clary before kneeling down next to Clary's suitcase. Clary got up and sat down next to Isabelle on the floor. "So what do you have in here? Judging by the clothes you have on, you have to have stuff borrow worthy," borrow worthy? Isabelle unzipped Clary's suitcase and placed the three steles's she had on top next to the bag.

"Excuse me?" Clary asked giving her a look. Like hell she was touching my things.

"Don't worry, you can borrow my stuff as well, In fact I'll probably try to dress you myself, I'm majoring in design and I love redecorating people." Isabelle smiled at Clary before pulling out Clary's second favorite pair of boots. Isabelle squealed "Oh my god are these Gucci? They are. Oh I love them! You may be my favorite roommate yet. Mind if I wear them? They'll look great with the outfit I'm going to wear to the club tonight. Oh, do you wanna come with? I wonder what the guys are going to think about you. You can even wear what your wearing now, actually I have a shirt that will be perfect for you, or wait-"

"Isabelle, one thing at a time I can barely keep up with what you're saying." Clary said cutting her off. Isabelle was okay, she definitely could have had a worse roommate. " Now what about a club?"

"We're going to Pandemonium tonight, it's this really cool club here, some night's we even find a few demons lurking around, so make sure u bring some kind of weapon. But What I'm trying to say is that I'd love if you'd come with us, it might be nice having an actual girl friend." Isabelle smiled at her and Clary grinned back. She never really had a real friend before, and she like Isabelle and sure her father warned her about what it was like caring about someone after Caroline. Clary flinched at the memory. Her father wasn't here and he can't tell her what to do, after all these years, after everything he's done, she had to learn not to keep his lessons to heart. He can live his way; Clary was going to live hers.

"I'd love too, and don't worry," Clary lifted up the hem of her shirt and rolled down the top of one of her boots, showing the stele's there. "I never go anywhere without weapons." Which was true, she was always on guard.

Isabelle grinned at them and stood up. She walked over to a closet and started throwing clothes out of it, going through hangers. "Ah ha, perfect. Here you go." She threw Clary and silver glittery tank top. "That'll look great with you whole leather look, which by the way looks hot on you."

Clary shrugged out of her jacket and tank top, she pulled Isabelle's on. Clary walked over to the mirror and admired it. It looked great. "Thanks, Isabelle."

"Please, call me Izzy. What do you think?" Clary turned to see Isabelle in her boots, along with dark wash jeans and a white top. Clary smiled.

"Looking good, Iz"

: Jace :

"But he refused to back off and I was sitting there like 'dude, I don't really care if she's your girl friend, she came on to me.' She was hot and all but not really worth-," Jace stopped listening to Jonathon and surveyed the room for what felt like the hundredth time . They were sitting on a couch in the lounge waiting for Izzy to come down. Well he was waiting for Izzy to come down or Alec, hell he wouldn't care if Magnus came in. He was just tired of hearing about some chick Jonathon landed last night and the fight he almost got into. Usually he could stand to be around Jonathon, on occasions, such as this, when the only other people in the room to talk too were Simon and Sebastian.

He clenched his fists at just the thought of Sebastian. He didn't really care for Simon, he was Izzy's play thing at the moment, Jace wasn't sure what the attraction was to him though, to Jace he sort of resembled a rat. Sebastian was a different story, while he didn't particularly like Simon or Jonathon, it was nothing compared to the hate he felt towards Sebastian. Every time he saw him he had to restrain himself from punching his face in, or banging his stuck up head against a wall.

Jace heard the familiar clank of heels coming down the hallway. "Finally," he muttered. He listened to them approach and noticed that there were two sets of clanking. Jace groaned inwardly at the thought of Aline or Kaelie coming to Pandemonium with them. Jace braced himself as the door opened.

"You should have seen it man, I was throwing punches left and right and then he- whoa" Jonathon stopped talking at the sight of the two girls who just walked in, Izzy was there and with her was a girl Jace didn't know but instantly knew he wanted too.

Iz spotted them and smiled giving them a little wave before pointing them out to the other girl. The girl had curly red hair and a small frame and when she turned in his direction he saw she had the brightest green eyes he's ever seen. He heard Jonathon's breath hitch and knew he was thinking the same things. This girl was hot, well that was really an understatement, she was beautiful. And judging by what she was wearing and the way she walked, she damn well knew it.

She smirked at him, catching him staring at her. He liked her already.

"Izzy who do you have here?" He asked winking at the girl, she lifted and eyebrow in return.

"The names Clary," She stated before Izzy could say anything. He glanced over at Isabelle and he noticed her grinning at his and Jonathon's expressions.

"Jace," he said standing, Jonathon stood up as well.

"My names Jonathon, nice to meet you Clary, you Isabelle's new roommate?" Jonathon asked, holding out his hand to Clary. Clary stared at it before looking back up at Jonathon.

"That would be correct, hey Simon." She said as she noticed Simon on the coach across the room. So she already met Simon, interesting. Before Jace could answer, Magnus and Alec came in the room, Magnus grinned when he saw Clary.

"Clary! I see you've made some new friends." Magnus came up and hugged her. Now that was odd, they knew each other too. Clary stiffened on contact.

"Magnus I thought we talked about this, I don't like to be touched." She said glaring at him, but Jace could see a hint of a smile on her lips.

"Well that has to be unfortunate for the guys in your life," Simon mumbled. Shut up, Simon. Clary smirked at him.

"Well I make certain exceptions," She said winking at Jonathon, Jace heard him breathe out loudly. So she was cocky, he liked it. He did not like what happened next.

"Clary," Said a deep voice that Jace instantly recognized.

Sebastian.

Jace watched as Sebastian wrapped his arms around Clary's waist and saw her face drop. Jace's fists clenched at his sides, he was ready to walk over and rip Sebastian's arms off. But before he could even move, Clary whirled around and had Sebastian pinned to the wall.

"And I know I specifically told you, Seb, not to touch me. Or do you want another black eye?" Venom leaked through her words and Jace wondered if maybe everyone knew about Clary before he did.

"Clary, Clary, and here I thought you might have missed me? How's dear old dad doing?" Clary shoved him harder into the concrete. Jace couldn't help but smile.

"Oh Seb, of course I've missed you. I mean it's so hard to come by men who are so willing to be my new punching bag." She smiled sweetly and pushed off the wall, walking towards Isabelle who was staring at her in shock.

"As feisty as always Clary and even more beautiful. Have anything fun planned tonight? If not I could find something for you to do." He smiled at her. I'm sure you do.

"What you?" Jace asked with a smile earning a laugh from Clary. It was a beautiful laugh.

"Oh, Seb, are you still here? You can go now." Clary said. Anger flashed in his eyes before he smirked at Clary.

"I'll see you later, Clary." He then turned and walked out the door.

"Like hell," She muttered, and Jace burst out laughing. Clary turned towards him, with a look of amusement. No one spoke for a while until Clary broke the uncomfortable silence.

"So where's this club everyone's been talking about?"

Authors Note: Wow, that was long, I was debating stopping it before Jace's point of view but I wanted to make sure everyone met her in this chapter since its called introductions. Of course not everyone has met her but at least the main people have. Caroline is a character I made up who you'll hear more about in later chapters. Thank you everyone who read and reviewed the last chapter, please do the same for this one =) hahaha the next chapter is at the Pandemonium club where the group learns just how well of a fighter Clary is.