Hello. Here is your next chapter. I'm really sorry it's so short… But, you know, it's great anyways! Enjoy on, lovelies.
Disclaimer: I don't own MI, Cassie Clare does.
CHAPTER 3: LIFE AS WE KNOW IT
Clary's POV.
After I had finally gotten my bacon, I ran up to the training room, and threw some Seraph Blades at a dummy. The blades sliced the dummy every time I threw them. Over the years, I must say I have trained very hard at becoming the best Shadowhunter I could be. If I do say so myself, I think that I've achieved that goal of badassness.
"Stop, Clary! You're going to shred him to pieces!" someone yelled behind me, and I spun, quickly taking on my defense position. I was just about to hurl a blade toward the voice when a figure stepped out of the doorway. Seeing Riley there, a slight smirk on his face, I relaxed a little bit, throwing my last blade right between the dummy's eyes. "That's what will happen to you if you scare me like that again," I playfully threatened, picking up the shredded and unusable dummy and chucking into the nearest dumpster.
When I turned back to Riley, the smirk hadn't left. "Okay, don't skewer me. I just came up here to tell you that there's a resident meeting going on right now. You are a resident, and Avery made it crystal clear that if you didn't show up, she would drag you down there herself. Just thought you should know," he said, grabbing my arm and pulling me downstairs to the living room.
I plopped down onto the couch and sighed. What could possibly be so bad that I absolutely HAD to attend this meeting? I hope no one was sick or injured. I heard yelling coming from outside in the hall, when the door burst open, and a bored looking MacKenzie slouched in, followed by a very distraught Carson. "Why would you do that to me? I was politely trying to wake you up, and you tie me up and stuff a rag into my mouth! You see these?" Carson yelled, stretching her arm out for Kenz to see, "These are rope burns! You tied the ropes so tight I have bruises! FREAKING BRUISES!"
Kenz sat down next to me, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, politely," she scoffed. "You wouldn't shut up, so I did something that would make you," she said, but Carson went on like Kenz hadn't said anything. She was screaming about her burns, yelling things like, "DANG IT, MACKENZIE ALLYSON PETERSON! THESE HURT!" and countless unmentionables. Kenz just plainly ignored her, and when Carson finally decided to give up, she practically threw herself on the couch next to Kenz. "Does anyone know what this stupid meeting is about? Why am I here?" she complained.
"Well, no one knows exactly why we were put on this Earth, but if your religious, I guess you could say that God put us all here for a reason. But mostly, you got here by your mother and I-" Trent began, entering the room, followed by Avery, Riley, and Caden. The three of us stuffed our fingers in our ears and screeched, "La, la, la, la, la!" Avery laughed, and they each took a seat.
I looked over at Caden, and he winked back at me. I whipped my eyes from his, staring at anything but him. I could hear the smile in his voice when he said, "What, Clary? Do I make you embarrassed?" I glared at the wall, still refusing to look at him. "Pssh, no! Why would I be embarrassed by you?" He laughed, "Oh, really? Your face is turning as red as your hair." I felt my face get hot at his observation, so I turned my attention to Avery.
"So, what is this about?" I asked, leaning into Kenz's shoulder. "Well," Avery replied, "the Clave has contacted us with a word of an uprising in none other than New York City. And us, being the next neighboring Institute, have been called to go and work with the New York City Institute to fight the demons. I we decided that we want Clary to go and talk to the Institute residents about this cooperation, because since she is from New York City, she's probably familiar with them, right Clary?"
At first I was too stunned to speak. But when I finally regained composure, I stood up and screamed, "WHAT?"
Hey guys. I'm really sorry it's so short, but I didn't want too much information in here… She's headed back to New York. What could go wrong? Please review. A new chapter will come soon.