Yes, this was posted later that I wanted, but I've been going through some crazy stuff lately and just didn't feel like writing.

Also, I'll have you know that I suffer from IPS, (Irregular Posting Syndrome) so that is why I can't make a schedule for chapters because god knows it wouldn't work.

*Timor jumps to the keyboard*

Hello and welcome thy friends to this new chapter of our adventures- *Shoos Timor away*

He gets annoying fast, -_-'

Chapter 27

"You bet it, but you're gonna have to ride double, though, I couldn't get all of them to come." Roxy said, "Chloe and me will fly on our own, so one person will ride single."

Clary looked over at everyone, and the reaction she saw was definitely better than the one that had come when the idea of the Hellhounds was offered.

And so it was arranged, with little complaint, as Gryphons were seen as majestic kings of birds and beasts, and best of all, they weren't overly-hyper slobbery dog-demons. Clary and Jace chose a Gryphon who seemed smaller than the others, Roxy told them that it was a female, and that Gryphon males and females looked alike, it was only the size that differed. Alec and Isabelle rode together, Maia and Jordan, and Magnus and Jacob, and Simon was left on his own.

Jace made some joke about loners, and Simon made a face that made Clary laugh.

Soon they were up in the air, and Clary looked down at the island, now that she had a birds-eye view, she saw that it was quite huge, how the hell had they put a glamour over the entire thing?

"Hey, Skyah, can you ask the Gryphon what her name is?" Clary called out to Skyah who was soaring on her pale-blue wings next to them, Timor was a few meters behind them. Skyah snorted.

Ask her yourself, Gryphons are Night Crawlers, they can speak like I do.

You can ask me yourself.

Two voices came, the first was obviously Skyah's, but the tone and inflection of the second one were different, and Clary looked down at the Gryphon she was riding.

"Um, okay, what's your name?" Clary asked, Jace chuckled slightly from where he was sitting behind her.

Bellum is my name.

Clary looked down at the Gryphon, Bellum, where had she heard that before?

"War, it is Latin for war." Jace said, seemingly reading her mind. Clary turned her head enough to see the side of Jace's.

"War…just like what's coming." Clary whispered.

I was unaware that my name would cause such discord, pray tell, what is this coming battle you speak of?

Bellum's voice came and infiltrated their ears, and Clary was surprised, she thought that all of the Night Crawlers would know after the ROUSes.

"A war is coming, between good and evil, and I don't think anything can stop it." Jace said, then, from the corner of Clary's eye, she saw a fiery bird come up close to them, Chloe.

"Hey Bellum! Down when you get to the port!" Chloe called, Bellum let out an answering shriek. Clary didn't have time to ask what the port was because Bellum tucked her wings to her sides and dove down; all the other Gryphons did the same, as did Roxy with her fae-wings and Chloe as a fire bird.

Soon Clary was traveling faster than she ever had in her life; she couldn't even imagine how fast Bellum was going.

In a flash Bellum was on the ground, and so were the others, and from the shocked look on everyone's faces, the speed had been a surprise to them as well. Clary looked around and saw shocked faces on all of her friends, all, but one.

"Warp speed! Hell yeah!" Simon yelled, just as a familiar fiery shape crashed and made small BOOM as she hit the ground. Jacob burst out laughing.

"Sorry Chloe, you can't do warp speed." Jacob said in between bouts of laughter, Roxy landed next to the two-meter wide crater where Chloe had crashed.

"Damn you." Chloe muttered, climbing out of the crater, there was laughter at her predicament while people started dismounting from the Gryphons.

"So, where exactly are we?" Isabelle asked, looking around at their surroundings, they were in an alcove of trees that led out to a beach, but huge rocks were piled in the water and a large cave loomed to the right of the beach. It looked dark and imposing, but the beach itself was the white sands-crystal-blue waters of the rest of the island's coast.

Draco Clan territory, and Nyryn, it intersects on this beach.

One of the Gryphons' voices rang inside their minds. It wasn't Bellum, no this one sounded deeper and more commanding than Bellum.

"Astor is right; this is where the traces were found?" Roxy said, looking from the Gryphons to Timor and Skyah.

Yes, even after so many decades this poison has not been removed from the Island.

Skyah's disgusted thoughts filled their minds. Then there was a cross between a growl and a shriek that sounded, and a large scaly shape appeared in the sky.

"Drakes," Jacob said matter-of-factly, Clary looked up, the shape was lizard-like with a long tail and bat-like wings, and it was pale scaly green in color with a yellowish underbelly. Dragons, and as more shapes appeared in the sky, Skyah hissed and Timor growled.

The dragon circled around Clary couldn't help but stare in awe at the large fiery lizard. Chloe made a snorting noise and folded her arms, Clary turned to Roxy about to ask what Chloe's problem with dragons was, but Roxy seemingly read her mind,

"Phoenixes and Dragons compete as creatures of fire; she acts the same around salamanders and any other fire elemental." Roxy explained, looking at Chloe with an unreadable expression.

"Why isn't it landing?" Jacob wondered aloud. Roy shrugged in response and Skyah let out a menacing growl.

Thy scaly lizards shall be taunting us, flying only just behind our border!

Timor's voice came, indignant and loud in their minds. Chloe perked up at this.

"Damn wyrms, they always think they have the world in their claws." Chloe muttered, sending the dragon circling above the death glare. She looked happy to have something to blame on the fiery creatures above them.

All of the sudden one of the dragons circling higher up started diving down, and it continued until it was about ten meters above the ground, then it came to a halt mid-air which shouldn't have been possible according to physics.

It flapped its wings once more and landed on the beach, this dragon was black with glowing red eyes and red designs on its claws, head, tail and belly. A familiar dark shape was sitting on its back.

"Drakiel?" Magnus asked in disbelief, Drakiel simply smiled.