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Chapter 17

Clary

"Clary watch out!" Jace called from behind her.

The red-head whipped around, and saw that a middle aged man with black hair and blue eyes, like Alec's, was running towards her with a seraph blade drawn. He had marks all over his body. When he got close to the group, and stopped.

"I'm not here to harm you. I'm simply here to say hi to my friends." said the mysterious Shadowhunter. He was looking at Tessa, Jem, and Magnus, who were staring at him, horrified.

"Will?" choked out Tessa.

So this was Will Herondale, Tessa's ex-husband, and Jace's great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Clary was wondered if she missed a few greats. But what was he doing in Edom?

"That's not Will, that's a demon!" called Lilly.

Clary was confused, but began peeling away the magic of the Sight, and saw that it was indeed an Eidolon demon. Isabelle, Kyle, and Vanessa seemed to understand, because the pulled out their weapons, Izzy with her long, silvery-gold whip, and the twins with their seraph blades. Clary pulled hers out as well. She gave the seraph blade a name, and watched as a glass blade shot out of the handle.

Out of Jem, Tessa, and Magnus, Magnus was the first that got over the little "Will Trance", as Clary put it. He looked worriedly over at Jace, who had his eyes on the Eidolon demon like he was always trained to do, then Magnus looked over at Tessa and Jem. Clary heard Magnus whisper in Tessa's ear that it was a demon, and that she needs to snap out of it, but Tessa seemed to not understand.

She walked over to the demon, and stopped when she was about five feet away. "Will? Is that really you?"

"Yes. It's me Tess." said the demon.

"Oh my god, Will, I've missed you so much." Tessa started for Will, but Jem and Magnus was pulling her back.

"It's not him Tessa, you have to snap out of it. Peel off the sight." said Jem.

Tessa looked at her husband with rage, but it quickly softened to concern. She looked back towards the Eidolon demon. Tessa let out a loud gasp, then backed away. "Why-why did you do that to me?"

The demon smiled, well, what Clary thought was a smile, then charged towards the group of Shadowhunters.

It went for Clary first, who quickly dove to the right, out of it's way. When she got up, she saw that her friends were fighting it. The demon was doing surprisingly well. Everyone was surrounding it, in a circle, except for Tessa, Jem, and Magnus, who were a little ways away, comforting Tessa. The demon was in the middle. It had an arm, or what Clary could make of an arm, around Jace's neck.

"If any of you come any closer, I will cut his neck." said the demon.

"JACE!" Clary yelled, and ran to Isabelle's side.

Throughout the whole trip, not a single demon bothered them, except for the ones in the beginning who had given them the weird dreams. Clary had thought that Lilith had called them back, but it seemed like she actually hadn't.

"What do you want you bastard." yelled Isabelle.

"I just want, to speak to my daughter."

Everyone looked around in confusion. Clary looked over and saw that the Eidolon was eyeing Tessa. Of course, it made sense, Clary thought. Tessa was a warlock. But normally, demons didn't contact their warlock child. At least, not such a common demon as the Eidolon demon.

Tessa had gotten up, and walked up to her demon father. "What do you want?" she asked, sharply.

"I just wanted to check up on you. See how you are doing."