I don't own city of bones, I'm only rewriting it with Ash in it, I own Ash, the demon and nobody else-I'madivergentshadowhunter

Chapter 4: The Alley

***************************Jace's P.O.V**********************

"Knock, Knock, Knock, Knock, Knock, Knock, Knock, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, BAM!BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!"

"Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get up! Jace! Get u-"

"Ash! It's 6 A.M!" he shouted at the door

"Well get over it! Would you rather I wake you up at 4!" She said quietly. "Bye; I gotta go wake up Isabelle and Max, I already woke up Alec."

"Tell them I say 'Run!', Ok?"

He didn't hear her say anything else.

She'd done this almost every day since she'd gotten to the institute (except for a few times, when she'd stayed up till 4 am studying for different potions exams); she'd wake up at 5 or 6 and wake everybody else up at 7 or 8, except for Maryse and Robert.

Today Ash had chalked some of her long, very-curly, dark brown, untamable hair bright teal and put it up in a braided bun; and as always, some of it was hanging lose at the sides of her face. Today her finger nails were all miss-matched and crazy. She had lots of freckles.

"What tea d'you guys want?" She asked, pouring boiling water from the kettle into the teapot. Her Dark brown eyes wide

Nobody answered.

"Wow, the response is overwhelming, we're gonna need three pot's for everyone!" she said sarcastically; she used sarcasm a lot.

"Peppermint it is!" With fake enthusiasm.

Jace watched as Ash spooned sugar into her tea with the tiny spoon; she was now on her fifth spoonful,

"We need a bigger spoon, this thing is pathetic." She said for the tenth time, waving the puny spoon in front of her.

"I told you, Isabelle; we're going to have to get her a three foot long spoon for her with a scoop a foot wide." Said Alec

She finally dropped the spoon (she was now on her tenth spoonful) and just poured in a third of the sugar straight from the sugar bowl.

"It's that small because the rest of us only use about three spoonfuls, you use five-hundred." Laughed Jace.

"And yours tastes like bitter water!" She retorted, "The same goes for your coffee!"

***********************Ash's P.O.V**************************

Her room had orange, yellow, red, and pink striped walls. An orange rug and a multi-arm, multi-color lamp. An MP3 player sat in a dock on the red bedside table (which had a pink and orange zig-zaggy pattern painted on the top of it). The bed sheets had a red and orange swirly pattern on them. Her lime-green violin case sat in a corner next to a folder bulging with sheet music and a fold-up music stand.

Her phone was sitting on the bedside table; it was an old model, nothing fancy.

She walked over to her closet; its doors were white with rainbow polka dots. She opened it up and pulled out a black jacket, a pair of tennis shoes, and a few sheaths; they were going on a demon hunt.

She met Alec, Isabelle, and Jace in the weapons room.

"Hey, Izzy, 'think could you help me with this?"

"Sure, what you need?"

"I need help getting a soundless rune on my leg," she said pointing to a spot on her right calf, "because for some reason humans just can't bend like that!"

"Ok. Wow! Ash, what happened to your leg?" Asked Isabelle,

"Oh, it's always been like that." She said, coming up with a quick but believable lie.

"Ash, I know it hasn't, so don't even try."

"It's a long story; I'll tell you when we get back."

Isabelle bent down and pressed the stele onto Ash's skin, she felt the fire of the stele, the kind she'd learned to love. It felt safe to her.

Max came into the room,

"Does anybody know where Church is?" He said "I'm trying to find Hodge."

"Check to see if he's camped out at the old mouse hole in the kitchen; he seems to think they've moved back in. Hodge is probably in the library." Ash said.

"Thanks. Hey, what happened to your legs?"

"Um, I'll tell you when we get back, kay?"

"Yeah, sure. Wait; are you guys going on a demon hunt?" He asked, his eyes wide. "Can I come?"

"Max, you know Maryse would skin us alive if we brought you; sorry." She said

"But-"

"Max, we can't bring you, sorry; but we can't."

"Fine," he said, "I'll go find Church, I guess."

Ash grabbed a seraph blade off of its holder,

"Nope, that one's mine." Said Jace, taking the blade from her,

"Not anymore!" she said taking it back.

They fought over the cone shaped thing that would become a blade if you said the blade's name. Soon he had her in a headlock.

"Mine, told you." He said

"Nope. Mine." She said, she broke free of his grip, dropped down onto her knee and with her free leg kicked his feet out from under him, he landed on his back. She took the cone from him.

"Well played, Ash." He said

She held out her hand, which he took; and helped him up.

The air was hot and humid, though it was long after dark. They had already seen and killed a few demons; five, maybe six. But there was little demonic activity. Ash bent down and dumped a small container of iron filings onto the alley way floor. They spiked up and started moving down the alley.

"They're moving!" said Alec

"Thank you Captain Obvious." Ash said, chasing the filings.

She looked up and what she saw sent a chill down her spine; a skeleton, nailed to the wall by its hands, but what had really chilled her to the bone was that it was charred and black. In the same way her parent's had been.

The others had now caught up; they too saw the charred remains of the body.

Ash looked down; the filings had spiked up again and were moving down the alley quickly. She motioned for the others to follow her. They silently and swiftly went down the alley. Then she saw it; two blood red pupiless eyes. She froze. The others stopped as well. It took off at a surprising speed down the alley; Ash took off after it,

"Ash!" she heard Isabelle shout behind her; she kept running, she couldn't lose him, not now. Now Jace was running after her, she could hear his light steps with short pauses in between. She ran and ran; the demon's black bones and pale skin now clearly visible; it was hovering rather than running. Then something unexpected happened: it stopped, the demon had stopped. She took the seraph out of her belt, "Barachiel." she whispered, she flipped it in her hand and swung the blade. It cut into the demon's side breaking off one of the demon's black ribs.

****************************Jace's P.O.V**********************************************************************

He came around the corner; Ash was standing still in front of the demon. There was no fear in her face, just bitter anger. She swung a seraph blade at the demon's side, breaking one of it's ribs. Alec and Isabelle came around the corner. Alec had his bow drawn and Isabelle had her whip out. He took out two seraph blades, "Sandalphon, Peniel." He whispered to the blades. Then the demon spoke in a voice that was as cold as the arctic wind, taking in deep rattling breaths.

"Ashtrid Nightstone, daughter of Alairis Alderhallow and Adolfus Nightstone." The demon said, "I am Baliyerus. Demon of Fire and Death.

I made up the demon's name and the demon, But the angel names are from TMI. i'll post again soon. IADS (abbreviation of imdivergentshadowhunter )