Okay, so i was going to wait for twenty reviewa, but i'm too impatient. Eff this.
Chapter 12
To say Simon was shocked was an understatement when Jace and Clary returned with Lerial, walking behind them peacefully. In that instant, Jordan half-morphed, and Maia growled, Izzy whipped out a seraph blade and Alec took out his bow and arrows, Magnus sighed and Simon stood frozen as Lerial looked around.
"Thanks for the welcoming committee." She said with a smirk. Jace glared at her, and She put her hands up in mock defeat.
"You captured it?" Izzy asked, lowering her seraph blade.
"More like I agreed to come, my powers are far beyond any of what you can accomplish." Lerial said haughtily.
"Magnus is the High Warlock of Brooklyn." Alec said, sounding proud of his boyfriend.
"And I am his cousin, who just happens to be the child of Azazel and Lilith." Lerial said dryly.
There was a long silence.
"Lilith was cursed, she can't have kids." Simon pointed out, glad that he had kept some piece of knowledge about Lilith.
"Let me rephrase that, my dad was Azazel, and my mom was a human being possessed by Lilith because she was descended from the devil." Lerial said, sitting down on a log.
"So you're….." Izzy trailed off, and the wind whipping through the strangely-colored and shaped trees.
"A freak." Lerial muttered, "No I do not work for Sebastian, yes he is my half-brother, no I have no intention of killing any of you, nor taking any of you to Sebastian, is that all the questions you were about to ask?"
"More or less." Magnus said weakly.
"NINJA!" came Chloe's yell, a black cupcake with a icing-eyes and sword hit the ground and stayed there until Chloe descended from her phoenix form. Lerial slapped her own forehead. And Chloe grinned.
"Take no notice of her, she's crazy." Lerial muttered,
"Is that a cupcake?" Magnus asked, leaning down to look at it.
"My ninja cupcake!" Chloe yelled and picked up the black cupcake and glared at Magnus rabidly.
"I'm going to pretend that never happened." Izzy said weakly.
"Who's going to pretend what never happened?" A girl's voice asked, and they turned to see Roxy standing there with a dead bird in her hands.
"Oh good, now I won't be the only one they WTF at." Lerial said with a laugh. Chloe grinned and hugged the cupcake, and Roxy just raised an eyebrow. Clary was silent, so was everyone else.
"Awkward…" Roxy sang.
"Hey guys, is this a party? Oh, what's with the awkward silence? Oh, crap, I'll see ya later." Clary turned to see Jacob at the edge of the clearing, he was standing there with a weird-ed out expression on his face.
Lerial laughed, "Way to break the tension brother," she said with a wry smile. Magnus gasped, and Jacob turned over to him.
"Magnus? Magnus! My poker buddy!" Jacob said, grinning, Magnus let out a weak smile and Alec looked hurt.
"Poker buddy?" Izzy asked dryly. Magnus looked sheepish, and Jacob waved, and Simon glanced at Jace and Clary to see Jace giving Lerial the evil eye.
"Well, I'll check portaling." Magnus said with a too-enthusiastic expression, he seemed eager to get away from the tension that had formed in the clearing.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Came a deep voice, Lerial closed her eyes and smirked.
"Drakiel, and what do we owe the pleasure?" Lerial said, smiling at the ground, a boy in black armour with maroon-black hair, scars on his hands and face, and the same amber eyes as Lerial and Jace. The newcomer shot a sour look at Lerial, who had looked up and was smirking.
"Am I not allowed to visit Nightshade's island? But alas, that is not my business," Drakiel commented dryly, he sounded Spanish, but the silvery-red runes on his skin that Clary had just noticed marked him as a demon.
"It's a you." Chloe said, walking over and poking Drakiel, he shot a look at Lerial, who had become very interested in her fingernails.
"Nice to see you too Chloe, look, Lerial? We got problems." Drakiel's voice had risen a pitch, and Lerial looked up at him doubtfully.
"Spill, what happened, was there a problem with the Doors?" Roxy asked, Lerial was silent, and Simon felt himself growing ever more confused.
"Doors?" Izzy and Maia said at the same time, Jordan and Alec exchanged looks, and Jace narrowed his eyes.
"What? No, the Doors are fine, it's Sebastian, he's gone nuts." Drakiel said, fear showing in his eyes. Clary's eyes widened, and Jace swore,
"Looks like you guys are on the dark side." Izzy said dangerously, slipping out a seraph blade.
"Hardly, I want nothing to do with that mother-fu-bleeper." Lerial stuttered slightly.
"Yeah well, he didn't take your news lightly." Drakiel said narrowing his eyes on Lerial. Lerial looked up, a nonchalant expression on her face.
"So? The island is protected, despite what the Mundies did to it in the turn of the century, Sebastian won't get past the force-field." Roxy broke in,
"What did the Mundies do?" Clary asked. Lerial exchanged a knowing look with Drakiel, and Chloe spat on the ground, Jacob looked away, and Roxy sighed,
"You don't want to know," Roxy's violet eyes were tired, and it suggested that something terrible had happened, and none of this rag-tag band were about to tell Clary and the others.
"Back to the reason I'm here, look, it's not really the island he wants, it's the inhabitants." Drakiel broke in, changing the subject.
"The fuck? What did we do to him?" Lerial growled, her eyes flashing with a black fire.
"That's the point, look, a faerie in rival to power with the Seelie Queen, a Warlock of Azazel, the princess of the Phoenixes, and the daughter of Lilith and Azazel, as well as a bunch of mutated animals with superpowers is bound to cause one heckuva powerful beacon, he told me to come and get you guys." Drakiel said, his eyes growing impatient, his fists clenching and unclenching. Lerial looked over, the now-setting sun casting odd shadows on her features.
"Told, huh? I thought I noticed some new scars." Lerial shot at Drakiel, who visibly flinched.
"Wait, is that true? The whole beacon thing?" Izzy said, the conversation had started to take a turn for the worst.
"Unfortunately, yes, luckily the force-field will hold as long as the four of us are alive." Roxy said, gesturing to herself, Lerial, Jacob, and Chloe.
"We have to remain mysterious…" Chloe said, with a mock suspenseful look on her face, her hands up slightly, like she was preparing to fight
"Mysterious, you? Hardly, my cousin is mysterious, that fucking bastard." Lerial said, starting off dryly, but ending with spitting on the ground, Chloe laughed, and a few others from both groups chuckled.
"Nice, but night is falling, and unless you want to encounter something horrible, you'd better find shelter." Drakiel said amusedly.
"Whatevs. You guys better come to the Home Tree, you'll be safe there, and we can all make a plan." Roxy said, glancing around, but Jacob and Lerial were already gone, and Chloe was holding a cupcake.
"Better do it soon, the Nightcrawlers aren't the only bad thing out here at night." Drakiel said, and his words left a chill on everyone's spines.