Ignorance is Bliss: A Mortal Instruments Fanfic

Chapter 1

Chapter 1:

Clary POV

It's crazy how easily you can forget how unsafe our world really is, but you learn to live with it.

Walking home from the institute I'm definitely sore from how hard Jace worked me. On top of that I can only expect my mother's lecture on how I'm past my curfew, how I shouldn't have been introduced to this world, blah blah blah. Don't get me wrong I love my mother but she just likes to test how far that unconditional love stretches on nights like these.

Walking up the steps to my house I can already tell something is off. The door is cracked open and I can hear a mumbling voice on the other side, not to mention my sensor going off in my pocket. I consider calling Jace but if it's something superficial it wouldn't be worth the call this late at night, I decide against it.

With a seraph blade in hand I walk up the step and stop as I'm right outside the door.

"Sanvi" I whisper to my blade, the energy immediately coursing through my body as it lights up.

I kick the door open with probably way too much force and take immediately drop my blade as I take in the scene before me.

In the middle of my living room lies my mother bleeding profusely from her chest, her dull green eyes are staring blankly at nothing in particular. At the sight I feel my heart contract painfully and a small whimper escapes my lips.

Luke looks up from where he is kneeling over my mom, he look distraught and grief stricken and angry. His eyes are blazing and there are trails of tears flowing down his cheeks, his ears are furry as though he is trying to stop himself from turning werewolf.

I run over to my fallen mother until what feels like a boulder shove me into the wall.

Stupid Clary. You forgot to scan the room.

I have no time to react to the pain in my side before I see the demon that knocked me into the wall strike it's spiky hand down. I roll, narrowly missing being impaled and grab my seraph blade as it comes barreling toward me right into my weapon.

As the thing screams in agony it alerts two more who were lurking inside of my kitchen. I don't have time to take out my seraph blade from the demon folding in on itself so I instead jump onto my kitchen counter and grab the first thing my hands latch onto, a spoon, great.

I throw the spoon at the other demon, which only seems to anger it more, it swipes blindly at me, catching my arm once with its long nails. Both demons grab angrily at me and with Luke being no help at the moment I leap onto the counter across from me to reach a kitchen knife and use it to impale the first demon through the top of the head. It screams before knocking into the second demon, which gives me a chance to turn on the stove and push the second demon into the flame.

As both demons disappear I breathe heavily from the battle and scan for anymore. When the coast is clear I scramble to find my phone in the living room where I left Luke and my mother.

"Luke." I say, tears in my eyes "What happened?"

He looks up at me, his eyes hysterical, before letting out an inhuman howl that finishes his transformation into a wolf. When he looks at me through his wolf eyes he snarls, not recognizing who I am for the first time, I feel my heart breaking once again.

"Leave!" I yell at him, having to fight my stepfather is the last thing I want to do right now.

He cocks his head at me, bearing his teeth; Luke must've been so distraught over my mom that this caused him to change.

"GO!" I scream, throwing my knife at him with deathly accuracy. When he gets out of the way from it, he runs through our glass back door to god knows where.