A Hidden World

Chapter 11

The Medallion

Magnus

The forsakens were closing the distance between us and we needed to get to Clary quickly. I could see that Jace was torn in half. He wanted to go to Clary but also wanted to stay with us. He didn't want to leave us, neither wanted to leave Clary. He looked me with eyes pleading to do something.

Jace had changed the last days. Around Clary at least, because when she wasn't around he was his usual arrogant self. He looked at Clary like she was his personal sun. I could tell, he was in love but he didn't know it yet. Nor did Clary.

I looked at Jace and pictured myself at his position. Me standing there, surrounded by forsakens and Alec in the burning house.

I nodded to him and told him to stay there and deal with the forsakens and I would go for Clary. He just nodded and I started running towards the house, not before looking at Alec who was fighting now besides Jace.

I run for the door preparing my spells to put down the fire. The fire was coming from a window on the main floor and went all the way up till the roof. The door though was in a different kind of fire. The door was covered by a blue ocean of sparks. This was a magic fire.

My simple spells wouldn't do anything to this fire and I didn't have time for a stronger one. I circled the house hoping that there is going to be another entrance but couldn't find one except from the basement door.

It was hidden behind some bushes and I would have easily missed it if there wasn't that silver glimpse. It was Dorothea's medallion on the door's handle. It was a round silver medallion with a big red crystal on the center of it. I had seen once a medallion similar to this one and whenever I asked her where she had found it, she would always answer with a question, never answering me. I took it and shoved it in my pocket.

The door was practically on the ground so I had to pull up the doors to open. I found stairs going downwards facing the darkness.

I went downstairs to find a dark empty room. I snapped my fingers and light came through them. Now I needed something to pass the light on. I found a broken chair so I took one piece of wood and lighted it up.

I looked for the door not wanting to waste any time looking around but I could see the dust that surrounded everything in the basement. This room wasn't in use for years.

There was a door across the room where I just came through. I went for it when I voice stopped me.

"Magnus. It's been years."

"I would say at least one hundred years." I said to the voice staying where I was.

"Always with an answer, as I remember you." The voice laughed softly.

"Where is she?"

"Who?" He said with an innocent voice.

"You know who." I said to him, trying to get to the door that was locked. "The door is locked." I could try to unlock the door with one of my spells but it was locked with a rune, shadowhunters use.

"Ah, the small redhead." He kept going. "Don't worry; she is safe from the fire."

"Where is she?" I started to look around me. The fire wasn't near the basement and it seemed a good idea for him to bring her here.

I knew that in the room was his spirit not his actually body. He couldn't use his full powers but I couldn't be sure. Not after what he had done to himself.

I searched again looking more carefully around me. There were old dusted furniture and lots of books. There was also a glass case where small dead creatures led across the shelves. I shivered at the memories.

I took my gaze away from it only to notice a familiar redhead girl. She was lying unconscious at the corner behind the sofa. I barely saw her.

I came closer to her, trying to wake her up. I didn't have time to wake her so I used a spell to elevate her. I could see the smoke coming under the locked door and headed quickly outside.

"We will meet again Magnus. Next time you will be able to see me." His voice soft now as it disappeared.

I run outside to find Jace getting ready to come in.

"What happed? Magnus? What's wrong with her?" Jace told me, panic in his voice. He grabbed her in his two hands lifting her up from the ground where I had placed her.

"Step back. I need to open a Portal to get us out of here." I stepped a few feet away from them trying to concentrate on making a Portal. Alec was next to me. I was feeling a little better to see that he wasn't hurt.

"We can't leave yet. We need to find Simon first."

"Screw him. We need to get Clary home. Now!" Jace replied to Alec.

"What? How did you manage to lose the human?" I asked them. They turned to look Isabelle.

"Hey! It wasn't my fault! He was right behind me. I was fighting with one of the forsakens and when I finished it I turned to see that Simon was gone."

"We don't have time. I don't know what happened to Clary and I need to get her somewhere safe in order to fix her." I said to her frustrated. I looked at Jace, hoping he will come up with an idea but he was stroking Clary's bright hair, watching her with worried eyes. "Look, if he left then he is on his own. We will try to find him tomorrow during the sun. And I doubt that he was taken or something. He is probably scared and run off thinking that he was better away from us."

They seemed to like the plan so they just nodded and we went through the Portal.