Chapter 5: Baliyerus

"Do not speak their names." Ash said, and in a wave of anger she swung the blade at the demon once more. But as the blade was going through it, it vanished into a swirl of smoke. What Jace saw next was something he'd never thought he'd see; Ash kicked the wall behind her with her heel then collapsed onto the ground and buried her face in her hands. He walked over to her and crouched down, "Ash," he said, "You ok?"

"What do you think!?" she snapped at him, "The demon who murdered my parents just got away. So yeah, Jace; I'm just great."

"Whoa, Ash; I'm sorry, I'll leave you alone, Ok?" he said.

"Look, Jace; I'm sorry," she said, "I've been looking for him for four years and now I'm right back where I started. He's gone."

"Ash, you aren't all the way back where you started; you know his name now. Believe me; I know what it's like to come so close to killing the demon that took away your family. Baltherod was the demon who killed my father; it took me five years to track him down and kill him."

"Let's just go to the institute." She said, crossing her arms and looking at the ground, obviously thinking about something else.

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

"I don't like walking around this old and empty house.

So hold my hand I'll walk with you my dear.

The stairs creak as you sleep, it's keeping me awake.

It's the house telling you to close your eyes.

Some days I can't even trust myself.

It's killing me to see you this way.

'Cause though the truth may vary

this ship will carry our bodies' safe to shore-"

"Ash!" Jace yelled through the door, "Stop singing long enough for me to tell you this message from Isabelle: we're going to go to Taki's for dinner, so get ready. Plus one from me: you are killing my ears!" he said.

"Oh come on!" She said, "My singing is not that bad!"(Which was true, her singing was actually really good.)

She stuck her head out the door, rubbing sleep out of her eyes, "when are we going?"

*************************Jace's P.O.V*********************************************************************** She looked terrible; her brown eyes, usually bright and wide open were now dull and the veins in her eyes were showing and her eye lids were drooping. There were dark circles under her eyes and her hair was a mess. He looked into her room. There were stacks of books on demons and demonology everywhere, note paper too.

Ash ran her fingers through her hair to tame it, (it didn't work).

"Ash, What are you doing?" he said.

"I'm looking for Baliyerus." She said in a tone that said 'duh!'

"Did you even sleep last night?"

"For about an hour, yeah."

"An hour; Ash, I know you want to find him but you can't stay up all night looking through half the books in the library."

"Let's go, I'm hungry." She said, slipping on her black combat boots and lacing them up. Ash picked up a stack of books and started towards the door, but he blocked the door.

"Jace, get out of the way! I need to go get some new books; these aren't giving me anything." She said, her brown eyes now open all the way."

"No." he said shortly

Anger rushed into her eyes, but vanished quickly; instead there was a look in her eyes that he recognized from when she would solve a problem. She slid the books between his legs and launched her foot at his thy, her foot connected hard with his leg. He jumped to the side to dodge her next kick, but it seemed that was what she'd planned; she ducked through the doorway, grabbed as many books as she could and ran down the hall towards the library.

He got back to the kitchen where Isabelle was now digging a yogurt out of the fridge and Alec was flipping through a strange book without any actual words in it, flipping it upside down and turning his head sideways trying to decipher it, he recognized the handwriting in the book,

"Isn't that book Ash's?" he asked, Alec turned,

"Yeah. But really, I don't think it matters; I can't read it." He said, raising his eyebrows.

"Speaking of Ash, she's obsessing over Baliyerus." Jace said, "She's moved half the library into her room."

"She'll get over it; you obsessed about tracking down Baltherod for the first few weeks." Said Isabelle

"Yeah, she's right, Jace;" said Alec, "Just give her a few weeks, she'll be fine." He went back to the journal, "God, how does she read this?" he threw it across the room, the book hit Church who meowed loudly (he was camped out at the mouse hole again) "Oops, sorry Church."

Jace picked up the book and held it upside down, "I tried that." Said Alec.

Suddenly Ash rounded the corner into the kitchen, now looking fully awake, she also had an excited look on her face. "I found him!" She said as soon as she got around the corner. She was practically jumping up and down.

"You sure that's him?" asked Isabelle.

"No, I just ran all the way here from the library for no reason; what do you think?!" She looked over to Alec, "Is that my journal?! Give me that!" she yanked it out of his hands,

"I don't think it matters that I was looking at it because I can't read it." He said.

"Good."

"So you found what's-his-name?" asked Isabelle.

"Baliyerus. And yes, I found him."

"Well… who is he exactly?" Jace said

"Baliyerus is the demon of Fire and Death, he has the ability to jump worlds including: the Living Plane, the Astral Plane, Limbo, the Shadow World, the Underworld, the Demonic Wasteland, the World of the Living and the World of the Dead.

Baliyerus Is a Greater Demon of- Wait, there was more; i-it's gone!"

"Let me see that." Jace said, taking it out of her hands. The page was now blank. Instead a fiery writing took the print's place on the page, it said; I WILL FIND YOU..

"Creepy…" Isabelle said looking over his and Ash's shoulders.

"Hell yeah it's creepy!" said Ash, "And now the only new thing I know is that he's a Greater demon, which I could of guessed."

"And that he can set your book on fire!" said Alec over Jace, Ash and Isabelle's shoulders, Jace looked down and dropped the book on the table; it imploded unto it's self.

"Creepier." Said Isabelle.

Sorry if this chapter sucked. :( Next chapter will be better!- IADS