Here is your next chapter! I think this chapter is a lot better than the last. More happens and you finally get to see how our new team Tessa and Maryse work out! I'm not saying that they don't get along! There are a couple pranks in this chapter and the War finally gets the start it's needed. I hope you like the new chapter, and I'm glad you understand my new update schedule. I think I just made a bad decision on writing two stories at the same time, and I don't want to just stop writing them. I will just update them a little later. But enough of this, here's your new chapter. Enjoy!
When Tessa and Maryse walked into the institute they expected to see Jace or Clary there, but they couldn't seem to find them. Tessa was feeling a little guilty, since she only knew a couple people in this war. She didn't want to prank others she rarely knew.
"Who do you think we shall prank first?" Maryse asked her, leading her to the kitchen.
"Well, since I only really know Magnus…" She thought for I moment. "I don't know. I would prank Magnus and Alec but it looks like Magnus has been through a lot."
Maryse laughed. "Yeah, I thought he looked a little different when I saw him. Well there are currently four teams." Maryse sighed. "There is you and me, then Magnus and Alec. The other two are my daughter Isabelle and her vampire boyfriend Simon." Tessa raised her eyebrow at her. "And the other team is two werewolves. Maia and her boyfriend Jordan."
"Well the only team I am completely unfamiliar with seems to be the werewolves." Tessa sighed.
"Well, I'm not too familiar with them either. But when Clary and Jace came back home really late I eventually wanted to know what pranks they did. Apparently they went to Maia and Jordan's apartment and covered the floor in silver powder."
"That's just pure evil, I bet that hurt like hell for them!" Tessa whined
"Well yeah!" Maryse agreed.
"How about your daughter and her vampire boyfriend." Tessa smirked. "I'm surprised that you were okay with that."
"Well when I first found out I was very angry with Isabelle, and I was a jerk to Simon. But I eventually wound up liking him. He was very sweet to me even though I was being a bitch to him."
"Oh, well I was just a little surprised. So should we prank them?" Tessa rested her elbows on the island in the kitchen.
"I guess." She answered. "But we should wait until its dark out. "
"Yeah, but luckily, I have something that can really help us if we get stuck in a situation." Tessa grinned.
"What?" Maryse asked her.
"Well, I have had this power for a while now, you will just need to help me a little so I can do it."
"Isabelle!" Simon complained. "Stop glaring at me like that! It's not my fault that Jace and Clary did this to you."
Isabelle just kept glaring at him but stayed silent.
"Please Isabelle… If I knew what to do then I would do something. But I don't know what to do! Do you want me to take you to Magnus'?"
Isabelle's eyes lit up and she nodded her head quickly. And then Simon got up grabbed Isabelle off of the couch she lounged on.
Unluckily they didn't take a car here so they wound up walking to Magnus'. The walk took a while but they wound up enjoying it. When they approached Magnus' flat building they ran up to Magnus' floor and knocked on his door so he would let them in.
Magnus' opened the door slightly and when he saw Simon and Isabelle he looked sort of surprised. "Come on in." Magnus open the door and stood out of the way for them.
"NO! Magnus don't let them in!" Alec yelled at him from across their living room.
Once Isabelle could see exactly why Alec didn't want them in she understood. Almost filling up the entire living room floor was mounds of buckets filled to the brim with pink sparkling glitter and tons other buckets filling the furniture had glue.
"Ops." Magnus said. "You didn't see this…"
"It's cost ya." Simon said.
"You want money?" Magnus raised his eyebrows.
"No, Isabelle has been impatiently waiting for this silence rune to fade but it's been a few hours and the rune is still pretty dark. It hasn't faded at all." Simon said in worry. "You can do something about this can't you?"
Magnus looked over at Isabelle and saw the glare in her eyes. "Where is the rune?" Isabelle turned around and lifted her dark hair off of the back of her neck, showing the swirling dark rune on the back of her neck. Magnus walked closer to Isabelle and looked at the dark rune. "Yeah, this rune isn't going away for a while. Clary's powers made the rune to powerful, you're lucky that I'm here. I can fix this rune…"
Magnus started chanting and rolling his hands, blue sparks emitting from his fingers. The rune on the back of Isabelle's neck started to fade and eventually the rune looked like all of the other old runes that Isabelle had. A white faded rune sat on the back of her neck, no longer a dark lasting rune.
"There you go." Magnus stopped his chanting and snapped his fingers.
"Thank you Mag's!" Isabelle hugged him with a big smile. "We won't rat you out. Who is this for?"
"Maryse and Tessa." Magnus grinned.
"Tessa Gray?" Isabelle asked in awe. "That's my mom's partner?"
"Yup. Now Shoo! We have work to do!" Magnus shoved them out the front door.
Isabelle smiled at Simon and grabbed his hand. "Well I wonder how having my mother and Tessa in this war is going to work out?"
Magnus grinned at Alec as they stood by the back entrance of the Institute, surrounded by buckets full of glue and glitter. Magnus gabbed two buckets, as well as Alec and ran into the back entrance of the Institute. They walked slowly into the library doors and luckily Tessa and Maryse weren't in there.
This prank wasn't as time consuming as they thought it would be. It only took a few minutes for Magnus to flash the glue to the walls and then they just threw the buckets of glitter to the walls. The library was now sparkling in a bright pink glitter and they both looked at their work in pride.
Next was the training room. Maryse and Tessa were heard talking in the kitchen so they ran up the stairs quietly and walked to the training room. Magnus and Alec repeated the steps, except they left the rest of the buckets of glitter outside so Magnus would have to flash them in a few buckets. Once the walls of the training room were coated nicely in a pink sparkling glitter, Magnus covered the targets perfectly in glitter, as well as the handles of their weapons.
Lastly was the kitchen, but Tessa and Maryse were busy talking in there. So they decided to do the living room and all of the hallways. The living room was done in only a couple minutes but the halls were more time consuming.
The halls took up more than they thought. But after about ten minutes, the halls has a nice coat of pink sparkles like the other rooms they had done. Having just a bucket left of glitter, Magnus flashed in a grown duck and doused it in the bucket full of pink glitter. Since this is where Jace and Clary were staying, he may just add a prank in for that couple to. So before they got caught, Magnus just flashed them out of the Institute and back to the living room of Magnus' flat.
"We did it!" Alec hugged Magnus happily.
"And we didn't get caught!" Magnus exclaimed. "Let's hope this is a nice beginning for our new pranker's Maryse and Tessa."
"I bet Tessa is going to go after us most of all. She seems to know you really well." Alec let go of their hug.
"Well I have known her for hundreds of years, I haven't seen her in forever." Magnus sighed and threw himself into the couch.
Alec laughed at him. "Well let's hope that you pranking her automatically doesn't cause her to go evil on us…"
Tessa and Maryse continued their conversation a while in the kitchen. And it was heading near noon, so Maryse began to prepare a little meal for them. Tessa headed to the bathroom as Maryse was cooking and got a little surprise. The hallway was coated in sparkles. Tessa didn't think Maryse was a sparkle type.
But once she got to the bathroom it all made since. Written on the mirror, in pink glitter, was a message. 'Welcome to the War' was written and Tessa grinned. It looks like Magnus is already having fun pranking her and Maryse. Tessa planned to stop that.
Tessa walked back to the kitchen where Maryse was setting the food on the table. "Maryse, I have some news for you."
"What's that?" Maryse asked, not looking up as she severed their meal. They both sat down across from each other.
"Well, Magnus has already pranked us." Tessa said as she picked up her fork.
Maryse stopped eating and looked up at her with wide eyes. "No he didn't!" She denied. "If he did then what did he do?" she asked startled.
"You'll see…" Tessa said.
"Maryse finished her food quickly and stood up and ran into the hallway. She was very surprised upon seeing the entire hallway wall covered in glitter. Tessa was by her side now, laughing at Maryse' confused state
"I didn't think you were a pink sparkly person." She smirked.
"I'm not!" Maryse glared.
"Check the bathroom." Tessa said.
Maryse ran down the hall, her heels clicking on the wooden floor. She looked at the message on the mirror and smiled evilly. She walked back out to where Tessa was leaning on the wall outside the bathroom.
"I say we prank them first anyway." Tessa said wistfully.
"Agreed." Maryse smiled.
"Let me shape shift into Jace or Clary, the disqualified team. Then I can easily get into Magnus' flat. Once I'm in, I'll cover their entire bedroom floor in Lego blocks!"
"Where did that come from, and what are Lego blocks?" Maryse asked.
"You know, those little building block things that children play with. I once discovered that stepping on only one, hurts like hell." Tessa smiled. "It's be hilarious! You can wait at their bedroom window and I'll let you in!"
"Okay…" Maryse said. "Let's do it."
"Do you have anything here that's Clary's?" Tessa asked.
Maryse looked around, before responding she saw a black hair tie sitting on the counter in the kitchen. "I think this might be hers. " Maryse handed the flimsy tie to Tessa.
Maryse watched in awe as Tessa took the hair tie in her hand, closing her fingers around it and closing her eyes. Before she knew it, Tessa was no longer standing in front of her, it was Clary.
Tessa/Clary slipped the hair tie on her wrist and looked up at Maryse. "It worked." She said.
"I forget you could shape shift Tessa." Maryse said. "That was amazing."
Alright, let's go to Magnus'." Tessa said.
Tessa knocked on Magnus' door and stood there for a second before the door opened.
"Hey Clary, come in." Magnus said.
"Magnus, can you please let me and Jace come back into the prank war?" she asked him automatically.
"Sorry Clary. But rules are rules. And you broke them." Magnus said. "Where's Jace?"
"At the Institute." She lied. "Please Magnus! We were only in it for one day!"
"That's your guys' fault." Magnus sighed.
"Please Magnus." She begged.
"No Clary." Magnus said sternly.
"Well can I use your bathroom?" She sighed in defeat.
"Yeah, there's one next to my room, the first door." Magnus said.
Tessa nodded and walked to the second door instead. Magnus didn't notice as he sat down on the couch next to Alec.
Once Tessa entered his room she ran to the window and called for Maryse. Tessa flashed her into the room. Even though she was a shape shifter, she was still a warlock. Maryse smiled at her.
"Alright." Tessa whispered. She flashed in tons of buckets of Legos. Maryse grabbed two buckets and entered a door in the back of their room. It was Magnus' own bathroom. She piled the Legos over the floor quickly and ran back out to see Tessa had already dumped the rest of the buckets all over the bedroom floor. The Lego's went up to both of their waists. "Alright, I'm going to flash you back in front of the building. I'll be there in a minute." She snapped her fingers, flashing Maryse from the room.
Tessa flashed herself into the bathroom next to Magnus' room so he wouldn't know she was in there. That, and if she open the door, Legos would spill out of the room and Magnus would catch her.
"Are you sure you can't make an exception and let us back in?" Tessa asked as she walked out of the bathroom.
"You might as well stop asking. You guys were messy with your pranking and you got caught. You guys are out, no exceptions." Magnus didn't even look at her.
Tessa ran out the front door and slammed the door harshly. Tessa found Maryse waiting impatiently outside the front of the building and smiled excitedly when she saw Tessa. "Hopefully they get the message." Tessa said, taking the tie off of her wrist and changed back to herself.
Magnus sighed as Clary slammed the door to his flat. "That's one angry red head."
Alec laughed and stood up. "I'll be back."
"No…" Magnus whined stretching his arms out at his boyfriend.
"I'll be back, I just have to use the bathroom." Alec laughed again. He open the door to Magnus' room and was knocked off of his feet. Once Alec opened the door to their room he was ambushed by a bunch of Lego building blocks.
Magnus turned around after hearing a scream coming from his boyfriend. Once he seen the sight of his boyfriend covered in a bunch of colorful blocks, laying on the floor in fear he couldn't help but laugh. "Oh my god!" Magnus jumped to his feet. Chairman Meow was walking towards the dangerous pile of Lego blocks covering their floor. "Chairman you can't walk on that! You might die!"
"What about me?" Alec said appalled, standing up and wiping at his shirt and jeans.
"You're my brave, blue-eyed shadowhunter. I think you can handle yourself." Magnus held the small cat in his arms.
"How are we going to clean this up?" Alec asked.
"Easy." Magnus snapped his fingers and not one block was on their floor in their bedroom.
"I never thought I would see so many Lego blocks in my life. Who the hell did this?" Alec asked and took Chairman out of Magnus' arms.
Magnus walked into their room and opened their bathroom door. More Logo blocks spilled out of the room and onto the floor in their bedroom. Magnus just snapped his fingers again and got rid of the blocks.
He walked up to the mirror in the bathroom, legible black writing appeared on the glass. "I think I know who it is." Magnus laughed. "Looks like someone wasn't happy about the message we gave them."
"What?" Alec asked, cuddling the small cat. Magnus gestured for him to walk forward so he could see the writing.
In slick black letters the writing said…
'Thanks for having us. Let the War begin.'
Looks like Tessa is getting evil with the pranking. I hope you liked the chapter, I really liked this one. This one was fun to write. Who do you think is going to be disqualified next? Because eventually there has to be a winner! I've been thinking about how long I'm going to have this story be, but I'm not ending it just yet! I don't even know if I'm halfway done… I've been searching pranks because I just can't think of stuff that fits Tessa or Maryse that they would do. Obviously the prank they just pulled wasn't exactly fit to their character, but I needed them to do something. And Lego pranks are just pure evil! But hopefully this chapter was good. I hope you enjoyed it!