Yay, chapter 19, I finally got this one out, by the way, Chloe was sitting next to me as I wrote this and saying weird things, I may or may not have gotten distracted on it. XD

Well, here you go!

Chapter 19

Simon walked down to the Spirit River and saw Magnus and Jacob standing there, Isabelle sighed, and Simon turned to see that she was looking at Magnus with an unreadable expression.

"Okay, where're the other Shadowy-hunters?" Chloe asked, just as Jordan and Maia joined them by the bank, both of them looked quite guilty.

"I saw Alec talking to Drakiel on the cliff, no idea where Jace and Clary are though," Jordan said, gesturing with his thumb behind him to the cliff that held the waterfall that fed the Spirit River.

"They're probably having sex in the meeting room, even though I told them not to." Roxy muttered, coming up behind them and folding her arms in impatience, her transparent wings fluttered slightly and shook golden dust on the ground.

"I didn't know faerie dust was real." Maia commented. Roxy raised an eyebrow

"Yeah, yeah, just call me Tinkerbell." She said with a rueful smile. Simon was staring at Roxy,

"Did you just say—?" Simon couldn't finish his sentence.

"What? I'm not really Tinkerbell; she lives in Ferryport Landing with the rest of the Everafters." Roxy said, looking at Simon.

"No! Not that, I mean Jace and Clary."

"Oh, Jacob found them discussing the lack of condoms on the island, so he went to get me, honestly, if you're going to make out please do it in your own rooms and not in the communal meeting room, unless the thrill of people knowing what you're doing turns you on, in that case I'll be far, far away." Roxy said while raising an eyebrow.

"We were not discussing condoms." came Clary's annoyed tone. Simon and the others turned to see her and Jace, they were barefoot and the cuffs of their pants were soaking.

"Somebody went for a splash at the beach I see." Isabelle commented.

"Your point being?" Jace asked; the arrogance in his voice full force. Isabelle rolled her eyes.

"Okay, is everybody here?" Chloe asked, glancing around. Simon was about to speak up about Alec but then a voice called out.

"Now we are." Drakiel walked over with Alec, both of their faces were carefully unreadable.

"I'm going to choose to ignore the implications of this situation." Jacob said, glancing from one to the other, Alec raised an eyebrow and Drakiel simply walked over to Chloe.

"Yay, we're all here so now, we're heading up to the forge in Icaria Volcano! Since you guys have been training for the past few days, I've had time to craft some epic weapons for all of you!" Chloe said, excitement clearly showing in her eyes, it was quite obvious that this was her passion. She lifting her hand and pointing to the Olympus-like mountain Simon had seen before. She then turned and started walking towards it, well, not exactly towards it, but towards the Spirit Waterfall.

"It looks pretty far." Magnus commented. Roxy and Jacob exchanged amused glances and Drakiel smirked. Chloe turned around.

"You really think we're going to make you guys walk? How evil do you think we are?" Chloe asked, sarcasm dripping from her voice.

"Are all phoenixes this bipolar?" Alec asked no one in particular. Roxy chuckled and nodded in Alec's direction, silently answering his question. Chloe gave both of them the middle finger and turned back around; she let out a shrill whistle.

Simon was about to ask what she was calling, but the answer came in a howl and short high-pitched yips from behind the waterfall. To everyone's amazement, large dog-like shapes jumped out from behind the waterfall and ran towards them.

"Hellhounds." Alec said in awe and minor suspicion. It was true, the creatures looked like dogs, but they were the size of horses with oil-slick black-brown fur and snapping jaws with lethal teeth that left some kind of neon-blue slobber. In build they looked like a cross between a wolf and a Doberman, and each had leathery bat-like wings coming from their shoulder blades. Their eyes were black with sideways red slits for pupils and their ears were tipped with red, so were their paws, like they had just come off a battlefield and had waded through a pool of blood.

Each had one distinguishing feature that marked them as different, one had a slightly floppy ear, and another one had a wicked scar running over its left eye. Some others had different patterns on their fur and wings, such as stripes, spots or even leopard like dapples.

One of the Hellhounds,( the one with the floppy ear) came up to Chloe and licked her face, leaving her head covered in neon blue goo. Roxy laughed and Chloe sighed and patted the Hellhound's head. She had to stand on her tip-toes in order to reach the head.

"This is Stephano, he slobbers a lot, don't worry, it's not toxic, even though it looks like it." Chloe said, smiling and trying to wipe the goo off of her head. Stephano sat down with a thud and wagged his tail.

"I didn't expect them to be so…hyper." Jace commented, looking around, all the Hellhounds were either jumping on each other and nipping playfully at each other or rolling on the ground.

"Oh, they're still puppies, only six months old actually." Roxy said, grinning and patting one of them. All of the sudden the one with the scar started howling, a long wailing howl of grief.

"What is it doing?" Isabelle asked, covering her ears, Drakiel walked over to the Hellhound, who was sitting on a large rock jutting out of the riverbank.

"That's Jaffa, he's Lerial's. She used to sit there a lot, I think Jaffa knows that she's gone." Drakiel commented, placing his hand on Jaffa's side.

"These things are puppies?" Jordan asked, looking up at one of the Hellhounds that was now sniffing the top of his head.

"Yeah, Drakiel brought them up when they were born, they were so tiny!" Chloe said, making a cup with her hands that couldn't have been more than fifteen centimetres in diameter.

"Say what?" Clary managed to say, Simon felt exactly the same.

"Yeah, the damn things grow pretty fast, they're supposed to be really scary and threatening." Chloe responded.

"Scary? Threatening? What're they going to do, lick you to death?" Jace said with a smirk.

"They weren't raised like normal Hellhounds, so yeah; they'll lick you to death." Roxy broke in and jumped on one of the Hellhound's back.