Chapter 1
I hadn't asked for this life, it was my birthright, the reason of my existence. I guess a summary is in order here. Ever since I had turned the age of 4, I was constantly being reminded of the life I had been born into. My mother, Jocelyn Fairchild, had given birth to me at the young age of 23. But it was not unusual to be settled down this early, in my world.
We aren't expected to live for too long. You see, we are a breed called Shadowhunters. We try and dedicate our lives to ridding the world of demons. You can say that we are half angel, a breed unknown to the mundane world. We are bound to the Law of Accords, which also state the importance of us having ties with the Downworld. It isn't quite bad, if you ask me. It's just the knowledge that your loved ones may never make it back home after battle.
"Simon!' My best girl friend of 17 years, Isabelle Lightwood squealed.
"Yes, M'Lady?" Replied my other scrawny, dorky best friend with a nerdy grin.
I rolled my eyes at them as Izzy went over to him and they started their creepy flirting. You see, we all thought that Isabelle and Simon would be absolutely perfect for each other, If they just found the guts to ask each other out.
I giggled at Simon's failed attempts to flirt seductively, as I made my way to Sit between Alec and Jace on the couch. Alex was currently snuggling into Magnus, his boyfriend. I adored their relationship. Magnus was the flamboyant type of guy, while Alec was the type of broody, quiet person. I lived Magnus for bringing Alec out of his shell.
"Yo, Lightwood. What you up to?" I turned to the only available person in the room.
"Clary, I swear if I have to listen to Simon and Isabelle for any time longer, I will puke all over you." He replied, faking sickness.
"We don't want that, do we? Let's get out of here. Come on." I held out my hand for him, standing up.
"Sounds good. Taki's?" He asked, taking my hand.
"Taki's" I smile.
It wasn't a long way to Taki's, but with our Shadowhunter speed, we had reached in just about five minutes.
Yes, Shadowhunters.
Izzy, Alec, Jace and I are all Shadowhunters. Our parents had been extremely close friends ever since Shadowhunter training, when they lived in the Shadowhunter hometown, Idris. So obviously, It was only natural that their children be inseperable.
Our friendship was beautiful and we were the closest of friends till the age of 7. Not that we aren't now, but when I was 7 years old, our next door neighbour had shifted out of her apartment, and Simon had moved in there with his family.
He had bonded well with our group over that summer, and us 5 were the best of friends ever since.
Last summer, when we had gone to Idris for our vacation, with simon, of course. (Simon knew everything there was about our world) We had gone for a crazy party at a warlock's place. *Cue introduction of Magnus.*
This party had Simon changed into rat, and kidnapped (Or Ratnapped?) by the Vampires at the party.
The battle of Vampires against Shadowhunters was an intense, neck-to-neck one, until the Werewolfes showed up.
Turns out, simon had bitten a vampire while still in his rat form. Slowly, the change started and he had turned into a Vampire himself.
How can he walk in daylight, you ask?
Well, he had had an unexpectedly bad day when he had come over to the Institute, which was kept by Maryse and Robert Lightwood. His untimely need for blood had turned into one of the best things that could have happened to him. He had bitten Jace by mistake, which led to his unusual powers.
Before long, the group saw Magnus and Alec getting closer to each other, and before they knew it, their suspicions of Alec being gay were confirmed. Not that they loved him any less.