SHADOWHUNTERS: THE LEGACY

FRUIT OF THE POISONED TREE

"Jocelyn!" Clary and Magnus immediately ran to Luke's aid as he gasped awake.

"Here, let me take your pain away" Magnus attempted to use his magic, but was stopped by Luke.

"No. Don't" he put his hand up to stop him.

"Agitation only makes the venom work faster"

"I have to tell her..."

"Save your strength" Clary told the man who was practically her father figure.

"No. You need to know. No, please" Luke pleased.

"Magnus, do it. Just do it"

"You need to tell her. All of it. Promise me" Luke grunted in pain.

Magnus immediately nodded, then snapped his fingers then scanned his hand down Luke's body.

"The poisons spreading, your suitors better hurry"

"What did Luke mean? Tell me what? What's so important that Luke had to risk his life?" Clary asked.

"Everything your mother hoped to hide from you" Magnus sighed.

A sketch book suddenly appeared in front of Clary, which made the red hair confused."What's this for?"

"When you were younger, I'd watch you sketching..." Magnus says."It was your bliss. You're gonna need some bliss"

Clary sighed as she looked down at the sketch book in her hands."Back then, there wasn't a day I didn't draw. It was like breathing. Now, I look at this blank page and I barely even know what to do. I feel like my art, my memories, my life. It all vanished with that memory demon"

"Your art, everything you are...it's still there. You're the woman you're mother knew you could be"

"Yeah, the one she tried to keep me from being" I scoffed.

"That's why you need to know how you got here" Magnus says.

"Will it help me find my mother?" Magnus shrugged.

"Maybe. That's the only reason I can think of why look with be so adamant" Magnus said as he stirred something inside a pot.

"I'm ready" Clary said.

And with that, the story started to unfold.

"When I first heard about your father around the first time he and Jocelyn first got together, long before the uprising of the circle, Valentine had elevated the Morgenstern name to be synonymous with virtue, and your mother was at his side. But by the time my people came to know him... barely two years later, his name ahd become synonymous to devastation. Your mother told me it was then she saw the signs"

He told her all about Valentine killing man warlocks.

"How could that not matter to him? He's a monster!"

"He was obsessed with enduring purity of blood, convinced that the impurities were a threat to peace"

She scoffed."He's the one threatening the peace between shadowhunters and downworlders. He's mad!" she pointed out.

"Mad men rarely make sense. Mostly, they just hate. And he hated the downworlders, for the gifts we possessed that he cannot have. He hated us enough to kill us all" Magnus sighed.

"Eversince my mother was kidnapped and the shadow world invaded my life, so many Downworlders have helped me, not ever thinking about what it might cost them. How could Valentine not see any good in them?!"