Just a warning, creepy shit goes down in this chapter.

oh, and I have a cold, so my voice sounds like Rainbow Dash on drugs,

Don't ask.

Chapter 21

"That's a big door, nice pictures though." Magnus commented. Chloe grinned in response.

"They're kinda like hieroglyphics, telling stories of the past and battles that were fought by my kind." Chloe explained. She walked forward and placed her hand on the door and starting talking in a language that sounded like whooshing wind and shrieks of predatory birds. After she finished, the door made a loud thunk sound and slowly opened inwards.

Behind the door shined a light, and Clary had to close her eyes, but when the light faded, she opened her eyes and gaped at what she saw.

In front of them, through the door was a corridor with lava waterfalls falling from places on the side and into a river below the corridor, the wall was decorated with torches with glowing rocks and the whole thing was colored in fiery hues that warmed the air even more than the heat from the lava below.

As well, the second Chloe stepped in, her short shorts and the T-shirt she wore seemed to disappear in a fiery flash and instead she now wore a ceremonial dress made of flowing red, orange, and yellow silk decorated by maroon beads and flame-colored feathers, her short hair was now shiny and seemed to reflect the flame and lava colors off it. Her yellow-green eyes were now a brilliant orange with greenish hues and when she turned, there were tattoos not unsimilar to the runes that were in the Gray Book on her face.

"Wow." Simon summed up everyone's thoughts into one word. Chloe grinned, and raised her hands up, a glowing amber flame appeared in them and she held it up as she walked down the corridor.

Not really knowing what to do, Clary and the rest followed her. Chloe led them down past countless doors and dumbwaiters until they reached a large staircase and Chloe turned around.

"All right, this staircase leads to my weapons-making room, it's protected by powerful magic, so ignore any creepy shit or terrifying images you might see on the way up. So don't worry if people disappear on you, because it will happen, as long as you keep heading up the stairs at a constant pace, you'll be fine." Chloe explained.

"Where'd you get that spell?" Magnus asked, curious.

"Some demon of fear, I forget his name, now let's move!" Chloe announced, and started walking up the stairs; she disappeared around the bend of the stairs.

There was silence, and Drakiel stepped forward and started climbing the stairs, he disappeared as well, and Jace continued after him, Clary followed and she heard the footsteps of everyone else following them up the stairs.

As Clary walked up she saw shapes moving around, like ghostly essences following her up. Then she froze.

Sebastian was standing on the stairs, leaning against the wall near one of the torches.

"Hello sister." He said with a grin, Clary froze. She was unable to say anything and Sebastian started prowling forward towards her.

"Sebastian." Clary breathed. He grinned, and Clary remembered Chloe's warning.

'It's protected by powerful magic, so ignore any creepy shit or terrifying images you might see on the way up.'

Clary paused, was Sebastian a terrifying image and nothing more? He closed in on her and placed his hand on her frozen cheek, he certainly felt real, even the smell of him, just like she remembered from Paris,

Run, run! She told her feet, but she couldn't move, and then she turned and saw a shape on the floor.

Jace's dead body, blood covering his golden-white hair and his amber eyes wide open in pain and shock.

No, Jace couldn't die. That thought was enough to make her move, running and taking the stairs two at a time, she heard Sebastian's laughter behind her and she kept running, while running she saw Luke with red eyes and an evil smile as he held Jocelyn's dead body limp in his hands, her blood coating the steps and making it slippery and sticky.

All of the ones she loved, Simon, Izzy, Alec, Magnus, all dead as she ran up, not stopping, tears streaming down her face. Then the screams came, echoing screams that were inside her mind and tearing apart her insides.

Sebastian appeared again and reached for her, but she pushed herself once more and fell. When she looked up, Jace was staring down at her and she was on the ground, he looked minorly shocked himself, and Drakiel was muttering under his breath to Chloe who looked apologetic a few meters away.

"That was horrible." Clary whispered, and Jace picked her up and held her close. Simon came up after, followed by Isabelle, and both of them seemed scared and relieved when they reached the top.

Following them were Jordan and Maia, who were holding each other, Maia's eyes glistened with unshed tears, and Jordan started murmuring to her that everything was all right. Magnus came after, and so did Alec, everyone was safe.

They were safe physically, but Clary knew what she had seen would haunt her. Just as Roxy and Jacob appeared, the door to the dreaded staircase closed with a bang, and the only light left was the pale ghostly light from the torches on the wall.

"What in the name of the Angel was that crap?" Isabelle said, her voice becoming harder with every word that she spoke.

"Phoenixes were given special spells to guard their treasures, even now, it is said that they are the ones to forge Heaven's weapons, and they need powerful magic to guard it from outsiders." Magnus explained, shaking his head, probably to ward off the images he had seen. Clary idly wondered what Magnus had seen.

"What if you hadn't warned us about it?" Simon questioned, putting his hands in the pockets of his jeans.

"Your psyche would be damaged by your greatest fears manifesting themselves and you would probably run back down the stairs and far away, that's kinda the point of the spell; to make sure no one except the ones I want some in here." Chloe explained, for once, her face was completely serious.

"Enough of that, the weapons room is right this way, correct?" Drakiel asked, his eyes were haunted, and curiosity filled Clary as she wondered what he had seen too.

"It is, come Shadowy-hunters and company! Let's go!" Chloe said, her face breaking into a smile.

"Bipolar." Alec muttered.