The Other Morgenstern

(City Of Lost Souls) Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Infernal Cup

The moment Skylar and Sebastian stepped outside, the sound of an explosion caught Sebastian's attention. He glanced back and froze, before grabbing Skylar by the arm and squeezing it tightly. "What..have you done?" He asked, his anger was clearly visible.

"Thanks to Clarissa and I, we can create runes and with that. I destroyed your little apartment with a rune she never finished drawing." Skylar said with an innocent smile, she pulled her arm away from his grasp as he stepped forward ready to hurt her for real. "I wouldn't do that, even if Jace is under your control. He's still Jace in a way, and wouldn't be to happy to see me covered in bruises and blood." Sebastian pushed her forward and rolled his eyes.

"There are worse things than death." He snarled and kept walking behind her.

"I know, we lived it. Well you lived it more than I did because you wouldn't let father hurt me...unless you weren't there...now that's a different story." Skylar said, she could hear Sebastian fell silent as they walked towards Jace who was speaking to a crowd of shadowhunters.

"You are the ones who will be saved, a thousand years ago the Angel gave us his blood, to makeus special, to make us warriors. But it was not enough. A thousand years have passed,and still we hide in the shadows. We protect mundanes we do not love from forces ofwhich they remain ignorant, and an ancient, ossified Law prevents us from revealingourselves as their saviors. We die in our hundreds, unthanked, unmourned but by our ownkind, and without recourse to the Angel who created us. Yes. I dare to say it. The Angel who created us will not aid us, and we are alone. More alone even than the mundanes, for as one of their great scientistsonce said, they are like children playing with pebbles on the seashore, while all aroundthem the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered. But we know the truth. We are the saviors of this earth, and we should be ruling it." Jace spoke, Skylar watched as a number of shadowhunters whispered to each other and stared at Skylar."And now I'll let you hear the rest of it from Jonathan, whose dream this is.." He stepped back as Sebastian stepped forward to speak.

Jace held Skylar's hand and glanced at her smiling. "That was nice." Skylar muttered getting his attention. "Very convincing."

"You think? I was going to start off 'Friends, Romans, evildoers...' but I didn't thinkthey'd see the humor." Jace said with a shrug, Skylar nodded and smiled a bit.

"I would have preferred that...then I would have been convinced." Skylar whispered before looking directly at him. "Jace, this isn't you. Any of this, you wouldn't really want this..try to remember who you are, JaceLightwood. You have to remember that I love you and you love me. And you would never want this." Jace inhaled sharply before looking at her with an odd look in his eyes.

"I do love you, Skye. But you said you understood. Thisis it. The culmination of everything we've worked toward." Jace said in a whisper before Sebastian had captured their attention once again. Everything happened so fast in Skylar's eyes, Lilith's return and her quest to become stronger than ever before but it all slowed down when her eyes fell on the first victim of the Infernal Cup. She jerked forward but Jace quickly grabbed her and held her back knowing what she was going to do if she got close enough. Amatis's transformation, her eyes had turned black like Sebastian's and was stronger than before.

"What have you done...." She whispered under her breath and sucked in air. The crowd of shadowhunters all suddenly stepped forward, all eager to become a new race of nephilim. Her eyes widened when heard a cry, an arrow in one of the shadowhunters throat. "Alec." She turned her head around and saw him there, she suddenly felt relieved that he was there...and so were the others who came into view. "Guys! I'm here!" She yelled at the top of her lungs trying to get their attention.

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"Do you see her?" Clary asked as she held her blade tightly, Jocelyn waited for Simon to respond who kept looking around and nodded.

"Yeah, I see her. Jace is holding her back....she's watching us." Simon said before looking over at Isabelle who's whip was now out and her eyes were now filled with rage and fury. She was more than prepared for this fight and couldn't wait to see that bastard once again and this time she planned on making him pay.

"Simon, you use the sword on Sebastian...and if you can't find a way to give it to Skye. She'll happily do it." Isabelle said, Simon nodded and looked at the sword in his hand before looking up at the sky, all he saw was a bit of light and thunder. The others saw it to and raised an eyebrow..wondering what it was. Clary exhaled in relief and looked back down not wanting to be distracted by anything else at the moment.

"That's a sign. We need to do this now." Clary said, the others nodded and got ready. They knew what they had to do, they needed to make a path for Simon to get to Sebastian and ending him without hurting Jace and possibly getting rid of the dark nephilim. "Are we ready?" The red head asked, they all nodded....and this was it...the war began.