The Monsters Twins

Reina: Chapter 5

"-they're Jonathan's children magnus!" Clary shouted from another room. "My family! I have to protect them."

"I understand that Clary but doesn't it concern you that they have this power?" Magnus asked in a calm voice. "The only demon I've ever known to have a power like that is a greater demon, he's.... very strong. And very evil! What if this has something to do with him?"

I opened my eyes to see I was in a bed in what I assumed was magnus' home. Grayson was in another bed across the room from me. Sleeping like a rock. The room was dark, the only light coming from a crack under the door. I could see the shadows of Clary and magnus right outside the door. Quietly I slipped out of the bed and tip toed over to the door so I could listen in on them.

"Their mom only let me and Jace see them on one condition, that neither of us asked any questions about their powers." She sighed. "I agreed, we didn't ask any questions. If you want to know you are going to have to ask them."

"I can tell you magnus." I said as I stepped out of the room, closing the door behind me. "What do you want to know?"

Magnus looked from me to Clary. She nodded at him telling him he could ask me. "Everything. How did you and your brother get these powers? Does your mother have the same ones? Did Jonathan, Um your father, did he know? And most importantly, does this have anything to do with a greater demon?"

"Ok if we are gonna do this could I get some water please?" I asked as I took a seat on the plush couch next to Clary.

"Of course." Magnus snapped his fingers and a cold water appeared in my hands.

His apartment was luxurious, something straight out of a movie. Nice couches and love seats. Gorgeous curtains hung from the Windows and a beautiful chandelier in the center of the main room. Judging by the hallway I could tell there were more rooms that I hadn't seen yet.

"Okay." I said after taking a few gulps of the water. "We were born with these powers. Yes, my mother has the same ones. Um... my father he knew once he met her. He actually tried to kill her in the beginning. My mom had been snooping around in circle business so Valentine sent my dad to kill her. Little did he or anyone else know, my mother wasn't going down easy. That night she discovered her powers and saved herself from death.

"I  knew that somethings my father did were terrible but not everything. He loved my mother, he just couldn't show it the way he should have. He kidnapped her once she passed out, the flames were too much for her the first time she encountered them. He took her to a warlock that said he could help her find out what she was. He did eventually but she found out first.

"She did a little research herself of fire demons and discovered one that perfectly matched what she was looking for. So yes magnus it does involve a greater demon. But you know as well as I do that saying his name summons him so I won't say it."

He gasped. "I knew it, no other demon has a power like that. How, if you don't mind my asking, how did your mother obtain this power?"

"My 'grandfather' the demon, tricked my mother's mother into thinking he was just a mundane. They... were together and, then my mother was born. My grandmother did everything she could to hide my mother from him, and it all worked up until a few years after she died. Then the effects wore off and she discovered her power. After that she and my father hunted for answers and in them she found her old best friend. Sebastian Verlac."

Clary Jace and magnus all gasped at this. This was the first time any of them were hearing this part of the story.

"Jonathan killed him," I went on," for part of valentine's plan to steal the mortal instruments. You guys know that. He left my mom, she had to hide from him so she ran back to her old childhood home and found out she was pregnant with us. Then she and Wanda took care in getting ready for us. The day we were born, before she actually gave birth, dad showed up and they argued, the arguing cause her water to break due to the amounts of stress. He was there the whole time she was in labor and she forgave him for what he had done. He was there only for a week or so then he left. That was when he died. Then Clary and Jace came , deliver the news and they discovered our little family. Which they have been apart of ever since."

I looked at them to find magnus staring at me. Jace and Clary nodded, knowing their part in the story.

"Have you ever... spoken to your grandfather?" Magnus asked.

"No. Valentine was dead before we were born." I said in a confused tone.

"I mean the other one Reina." He said in a stern tone.

"Yes." I looked down into my lap when I answered.

"When?!?" He stood up.

"Just once when we were ten and discovered our powers. Mom wanted to make sure we could control them. Then she made us swear not to contact him unless it was a dire emergency." I assured him.

"Oh, I guess that's okay then. This is amazing. Your family is an anomaly. But a good one. With that kind of control you guys could take over the shadow world." He laughed nervously and looked at me. "But ... don't."

"I don't plan on it magnus. I just want to find my mother."

"Now that I may be able to help with. I'd just need something of hers to use to track with." He looked at me obviously hoping I had something.

"Everything of hers was at the house." Clary explained to magnus. "We can go back tomorrow if you want Reina."

"Ok." I nodded to myself as I looked at the water bottle in my hands. "What time is it?" I asked them.

"Around midnight." Clary and Jace said at the same time.

"You go go back to sleep if you want to." Magnus said as he motioned to the door I came out of. "You've had a rough day."

"Alright." I sat the water bottle on the coffee table as I stood and left the room. "Goodnight." I closed the door and collapsed onto the bed drifting off back to sleep.