Chapter 7
(Note~ I am not racist, but the content of this chapter may be offensive to some, I realize it isn't a nice thing to say, but I saw the line in a movie, and thought it would be the perfect assy answer that Jace would give, once again, I apologize if this offends you.)
The sun was setting by the time everyone had gathered what could be salvaged from the boat, and Clary noticed that Magnus was acting odd. He was muttering and casting fearful glances into the forest. Whatever was there, it seemed Magnus knew about it, Alec didn't notice Magnus's discomfort, and Clary felt that there was something that both of them weren't telling the rest of the group.
Because the forest was unknown to them, they decided to camp out on the beach, building a fire with driftwood, and Clary was thankful for Magnus's magic. It was a sombre mood, sitting around the fire and not speaking, but the whole thing was interrupted by a rock flying out of the forest and hitting Simon in the head.
Jace of course, found this hilarious.
"Wow, even the forest doesn't like you." Jace laughed, Magnus put a hand to his mouth to hide his laughter and failed, and pretty much everyone, Clary included, was laughing at the fact that Simon was hit in the head by a flying rock. Simon looked embarrassed, but picked up the rock.
"Hey, there's a message on it!" Simon said, looking down at the smooth-surfaced rock and rubbing his head where he was hit. The laughter stopped and Magnus looked shocked.
"Well, spit it out." Izzy snapped. Clary looked around the fire-lit beach, towards the thickly-canopied forest and wondered who could have thrown the rock.
"'I will come out if you promise not to kill me' that's all it says." Simon read out.
There was a long silence.
"That depends on whether they're going to hurt us." Alec broke in to the silence. As if on cue, another rock flew out and hit Alec in the head, and everyone had to contain their laughter at Alec's disgruntled face.
"I'm starting to like this mysterious rock-thrower." Jace commented. A grin on his features, Clary couldn't help but notice that it lit up his eyes when he grinned. Alec glared at him but read what was written on the rock.
"'I will not hurt you if you will not hurt me.'" Alec read, he looked up. "Why would we hurt you?" he called out to the forest.
Another rock flew out and rolled to Jace. Jace raised an eyebrow and picked up the rock
"'Because I am one in which you hunt' oh, it's a demon." Jace said, looking at the rock and then lifting his face to the others around the fire.
"That explains the Sensor." Isabelle said, mostly to herself. Another rock came out of the forest and landed at Jace's feet.
"See? They don't hit me in the head." Jace smirked and picked up the rock.
"You're a pain." Maia said, glaring at Jace, who just smirked more.
"'Who sent you here?' Yeah, well, his name's Fuck you." Jace said, looking in the direction of the dark and dim forest, a rock flew out of the forest and hit Jace in the head, he glared at the rock and picked it up, causing everyone else to burst into laughter.
"So, what were you saying about not getting hit in the head?" Jordan asked, a smirk on his face, Simon laughed. Jace rolled his eyes.
"So our mystery demon has your sense of humour, I'm beginning to hate him already." Jace said flatly before looking at the rock, "'Oh really?' Yeah, he's Asian." Jace responded, and Magnus punched him in the arm in annoyance, "I guess that's why it's called the punch-line." Jace said, referring to Magnus's punch a few seconds earlier, Magnus glared but was silent.
They waited for another rock to come out of the forest but it didn't, apparently the demon had left.
"You scared him off with your bad jokes." Simon said to Jace. As if to contradict Simon, another rock came out of the forest and hit Simon in the arm,
"No I didn't." Jace said smugly when Simon picked up the rock. Simon sighed.
"It just says that the demon is female." Simon pointed out,
"Nice to know, but I doubt none of us are going to get any sleep now." Clary said, looking back at the forest, a pair of amber eyes gleamed back at her, and Clary was frozen on the spot. The image from Ithuriel came back to her, and his words, 'Trust in what comes. They mean no harm. They will help you. On the path you follow.'
"I'll keep watch, Clary, what are you looking at? Clary?" Alec said, poking Clary on the arm. Clary blinked and turned to the group, she then glanced back at the forest, but the eyes were gone.
"Um, I think the demon doesn't mean us harm, it's just curious." Clary said, looking up at the others,
There was a pause.
"Demons always mean harm Clary." Jace pointed out dryly.
"Well, yeah, but I saw it's eyes, it had the same eyes from the images that Ithuriel sent me, the amber eyes like yours Jace." Clary explained, looking back in hope the demon was still there, but it wasn't.
"So your saying Ithuriel told you we'd meet a demon, and you didn't tell us?!" Isabelle said, starting off disbelieving, but finishing in a yell.
"I didn't know it meant a demon, Ithuriel said, 'Trust in what comes. They mean no harm. They will help you. On the path you follow.'" Clary said in a rush, no one knew what to say after that, but a rock that rolled out of the forest confirmed Clary's beliefs. Simon picked it up and started to read what the rock said.
"'The girl is right, I mean you no harm, and I will help you to leave this island, for it holds dangers you could not imagine.'" Simon read, this was not looking very good.