Bloodshed || Shadowhunters

The Ritual

"They found us, " Nyx said with a clenched jaw, "we have to go, it's not safe here."

Jace and Isabelle started to walk away, Alec shortly following after finding the circle runes on the dead shadowhunter's necks. However, Clary started to lag behind, causing Nyx to grab her arm and forcefully drag her out of the club because Clary was too much in shock to walk properly and too slow for Nyx's liking.

"Clary?" Jace questioned when he looked back," Clary, we have to move," he said with a sigh of irritation.

"I'm catching my breath, " the younger redhead snapped as Isabelle began to help her.

"You know what? This is great, " Alec scoffed in anger and bitterness, "not only did Magnus not get the girl's memories back, but he took the necklace."

"Alec, the girl's name is Clary and I highly suggest you keep your voice down," Jace replied to his parabatai with gritted teeth, hoping that Alec would get the message of 'back the hell off!'.

"Why? Are you afraid I'm gonna upset her? We risked our lives again and again for this girl and where has it gotten us? Nowhere," Alec snapped back, anger marking his sharp features. "We're no closer to finding the Mortal Cup and not to mention, we lost the institute's necklace."

Clary glared at the older Lightwood who seemed to have so much hate for her because they had risked their lives for her and got nowhere near their main priority, which is finding the Cup, and not to mention, the amount of Clave rules they were breaking all because the redhead.

"Hey, I am right here and I don't care about your damn jewelry. I'm sorry you're gonna look bad in front of your bosses, okay? But my mother is still missing and last chance at finding her just disappeared into thin air," Clary retorted with anger, recalling what had happened back at the Club with Magnus Bane.

Nyx rolled her eyes at how helpless her sister sounded right now. It was pathetic.

"Clary, it's going to fine," Jace tried to reassure her but she wasn't having it.

"No. No it's not! People are dying because of me, and Magnus? Magnus will never come out of hiding while Valentine is still after him. We're never gonna find him and I will- I will never get my memories back," Clary exclaimed, throwing some- a button- to the floor, which Jace had quickly caught, a grin forming on his face.

"You give up way too easily."

Ain't that right.

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Seeing as the whole group forgot Nyx's presence, once again, Nyx took it upon herself to separate herself from her sister and the three shadowhunters to quickly find Magnus's hideout, which turned out to be a warehouse. The reason she knew where Magnus is was because while Nyx went to grab her dagger from the fallen circle member, she discreetly slipped a tiny tracker into Magnus's pocket without him noticing. Now, as Jace and Alec did the whole parabatai tracking thing, Nyx was checking her phone to see a bright red dot pulse in a location not too far from the club they were in.

As Nyx was entering the warehouse, she got this weird feeling, like something was wrong. She was right once again. She grabbed her sword and got ready in case anyone wanted to fight her. She checked her phone once again and saw that the Warlock's lair was just behind the fence. Nyx knew that Magnus wouldn't be living in such environment judging by his way to dressing, she could tell that this warehouse was disguised with glamour, warlock glamour to be exact.

His protective wards must be down, Nyx thought as she wondered why it has been this easy to get into Magnus's lair. She then cursed under her breath as she came to a realization: Valentine found Magnus.