Twisted

Chapter Three: Siren

IZZY

"But why would we go that way?" I asked Alec, my stubborn brother. "We should split up, you and Jace take back and me and Clary take front." I suggested this pairing because Clary and Jace didn't seem to be the best of friends at the moment. I glanced back behind me, Jace stood there, as still as a statue, his jaw clenched and face pale but his eyes were sadder than I've ever seen them, sadder than when Clary left. Heat flushed through my face, I blinked once then shot my eyes towards Clary. She looked pissed.
I had a gnawing feeling that Clary caused what I saw before me, and that made me pissed. I started towards them, but was interrupted by a shrill, but it was not a mundane shrill. Looking for the source I spotted something, lunging at Jace.

"Behind you!" I yelled at Jace, and before I knew it he had pulled out his sphere blade. I saw it's glorious gaze of bright light as it plunged into the center of the figure.

"There's more of them." I remember someone shouting, but we had already regrouped and stood shoulder to shoulder, forming a circle, backs facing each other. Anyone ever taught by a good Shadowhunter knew this tactic. 'No one gets into the circle, no one leaves it and rule number one about the circle: Never break it.' My mom would always say that to all four of us, when we were 14 and still had scheduled training sessions.
I looked down at the dead thing by Jace's feet. Scorpios demon. Typical.

"They're swarming," Jace said.

"Swarming?" I questioned.

"Yes, swarming..." Scorpios usually do their own thing, you never find more than one together. Now they're swarming?

Something's off.

Another screech shot up, and one by one more joined in until it all seemed like the rattling of a rattlesnake, thrumming and sensationally overwhelming. Already having my whip at ready I shot my head around, I couldn't see another one anywhere but the humming continually got louder and I wanted to cover my ears. Pounding, pounding, pounding.
My body seamed to shake in rhythm with the eery chiming. Then, in a blur, I saw each of my friends jump into what seemed liked growing shadows, surrounding me. I fell to my knees, giving in, and pressed my hands to my ears. The sound didn't mute, not even a little. My friends left me, eaten by the darkness. The shrills, in my head, pounding.
All at once I was inclosed into nothingness.

CLARY

It started with a low hiss, a throaty sound. It slowly got louder and louder. A screech turned into a shrill, then shrills, then a constant humming rattle. The wind nocked out of my chest as I rolled back onto my heels then hit the ground. But as I hit the surface it separated around me. Water seeped into my clothes, chilling me to the bone. Droplets of water flew up above me at an abnormal pace then froze, centimeters away from my face.
I lifted my arm to touch one, as soon as I did it bursted and disappeared, all of them did. I rolled over and looked into the water. Deep dark blue. It reminded me of- Lake Lyn. I sat up and looked off at the shore, but it wasn't there. The lake went on forever. A figure developed at my feet. It was Eric, a Shadowhunter I had a fling with in Idris. In front of me now he was like a ghost, translucent. He was smirking at me, like I was a squished bug under his boot or a lost child he could care less for. Then he turned and walked away. I watched as he went, farther and farther, getting smaller and smaller before he disappeared beyond the horizon, a thin line of white-gold light. Then appeared Jonah, another guy I was with, he did the same as Eric. Then it was every guy I was ever with, over and over, walking and walking until they disappeared. I wanted to look away but I couldn't, I couldn't move.
Then finally, there was Jace. But he wasn't just smirking, he as laughing at me. His eye's were filled with sorrow and pity but he was laughing. Then he turned and walked.

JACE

Soon after the sound started, Izzy dropped to the floor, doubling over herself, screaming. I ran to her and tried to calm her down but she was dazed. Then Clary dropped onto her back, she too screaming and nonmoving laying half on the sidewalk half on the grass, staring blankly at the vast blue color of the sky.
Then the noise got to me, eerily nailing into my ears like nails down a chalkboard, unexplainable pain drumming in my head.
I fell to floor, everything swinging around me.
The first thing to appear in the dark was Clary. Then the training room appeared around us, were dressed in our normal black training clothes, Clary holding up her fists, she looked a lot younger, like when we were 15. Then I realized, this was the memory. The day before she left the day I asked her-
We finished training and decided to eat lunch in the green house up stairs.
"Hey Jace?" She asked, taking a bite of a strawberry.

"Yeah?" I cut into my apple with my knife, I offered her a slice, but she took my apple instead and bit into it, juice running down her chin, and giggled.

"You think I should get a tattoo? A ninja turtle on my shoulder." Clary had a interest in mundane things, her current obsession, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

"Sure." I answered. She nodded her head and kept eating. Every now and then we'd have a random conversation and laugh until she snorted, making us laugh harder.

"Hey, Clary?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever thought about a parabatai?"

"I guess."

"Do you want to be mine?"

She looked at me, shocked. "Jace..."
She looked down at her hands and bit her lip, "I... I'm- wow, umm...I'm flattered but... no."

When I woke up the next day, she was gone. Not a word or note or call. Nothing.
The last thing I ever heard her say was no.

The room and Clary disappeared.

ALEC

My sister, parabatai and Clary, fell to the ground around me, screaming. Stunned, I fell to the ground with them, calling the institute.

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Alright, well, yeah. I meant to have published this earlier, but I had writers block, and not a lot of free time.
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