The Mundane Shadowhunters

Chapter One

(Athenas POV)

Standing in the framed window of this empty mundane classroom, the midday sun bathing me in light, as I look down and see the whiz of the cars on the street below, the shadows of students and teachers in the court yard and my stele twirling effortlessly between my slender artists fingers, itching to place an unseen rune onto my body and escape this hell. A tall blonde woman the same age as me wearing a green blouse black jeans and black pumps enters the classroom, here blue eyes scowling as she snatches my stele from my fingers and pushes it into my back pack. McKenzie Lily Rosewood everybody, my parabatai, though the mundanes of this school know her only as Kenzie Rose. People look at us and cannot understand how we are friends. Her girly demeanour and brightly coloured persona, Kenzie's inviting act and might I add popularity. then there's me, my black clothing and leather boots, my black hair and not so inviting smile, I wear my runes proudly where she covers them daily unless for a hunt. But goodness if I couldn't imagine my world without her, and I dread the day I know is coming where she tells me she wants to leave the clave and then I can never see her again because I will always choose to be what I am first, I am a Nephilim.

"what?" I ask my parabati throwing my backpack over my shoulder

"Athena, you know the rules, our Shadowhunter stuff stays away from the mundanes" I look around with a sarcastic look on my face and equal amount of sarcasm in my voice

"in case you haven't noticed, there not around at the moment"

"can you at least try to act like them, for a moment please? After everything we've been through, and this is our mission"

A week after Kenz and I became parabati, we were put on this "mission" to live in the mundane world, do mundane things but also be a Shadowhunter. We all know this was punishments for our parent's actions, thankfully our punishment wasn't as severe as her parents or crystal her sister. My parents willingly turned endarkened by Sebastian Morgenstern and were killed in the war, her parents however worked for Valentine Morgenstern, Sebastian's father. They left his side in the final battle before his demise but were punished non-the less, they were de-runed and kicked from the clave to live as mundanes and only mundanes. Kenzie has adjusted over the years to living this life, honestly to well, some days I cannot tell if she's Shadowhunter at all. I however have not, during the day I attend this tedious classes but of night I'm hunting and killing whatever demon I can get my hands on and on the weekends, I'm studying demonology, languages and the downworld. To party Kenzie goes to clubs and mundane parties, I go to the darker side of town, downworlder bars, vampire dens, werewolf parties. The institute still sends orders to Kenz and I thankfully, but it has been 3 long years since I have stepped foot back onto those hallowed grounds.

"mission from the institute, a pack of Raum demons spotted down by the east side of the river, I accepted it, get your gear and weapons and well meet down by the gazebo on the south side of the river after sundown..." she cuts me off by placing her hand over my mouth.

"I can't tonight... Eddie asked me on a date"

"oh, of course. It's okay I got it"

"Athena, they're Raum demons they have some form of intelligence, you shouldn't accept this mission alone" I'm heading towards the door with my mischievous smile plastered on my face

"oh, I'll be fine, I'm a blackwater after all, I'll just dazzle them with my charm and bat my emerald eyes at them and they will just roll over and die." I duck out of the classroom as the lunch bell rings and into the hall immensely filled with mundies. Kenz exist behind me holding a ruby red apple in hand, offering it to me.

"join us for lunch today A please" I sigh taken the apple in hand and following her to the excruciatingly white cafeteria, we place ourselves at a table with four other people. Eddie, a tall slender slightly tanned skin boy with pushed back black hair, green eyes; a dull sort of green though like a dull marshy swamp. His blue flannel sleeve slightly in his food which seems to the cafeterias finest sludge. A tall blonde girl with brown eyes and a startling blue shirt covered in pineapples is leaning on a brown-haired boy with matching brown eyes, they seem to be caught up in some lovey dovey conversation, but that is Jessica and Alex. And finally sitting slightly away from the mundies is a girl, almost a spitting image of my parabatai, her blue eyes however are cast with a hateful glare at me, that's crystal, McKenzie's younger sister. In this light you can hardly see the faint pin thick lines of her removed runes. Her black clothing looking like Shadowhunter gear and her food, a simple bag of chips. I sit beside my best friend and she places her blonde head onto my shoulder as I proceed to slice my apple into sections with my hand-crafted pocket knife, the angelic rune carved into the black hilt.

After an exceedingly long afternoon, my body is itching for a fight. I return to the house of the Rosewoods which has become my home these past few years. Entering my dark neat bedroom, books line each wall and weapons are hung in various sections of the room. I shrug my clothing off changing into my black gear, strapping countless seraph blades to myself and adjusting the buckles of my combat boots, then proceed to press the stele onto my body as it burns black intricate twirling marks into my parchment skin. Kenz enters my room without even knocking, she is dressed in a white dress with matching white pumps. Strange to this day to see her wear such ceremonial colours in her day to day life, as the nursery rhyme says, 'black is for hunting threw the night, for death and mourning the colours white'

"who died?" I ask burning the unseen rune onto my hip, causing me to become invisible to all those without the sight, example, Mundanes.

"Ha Ha very funny Athena "she turns to face me "please be careful tonight, you haven't faced a Raum demon alone ever and last time..."

"then come with me Kenz, whither thou goest, I will go"

"don't quote the parabatai oath to me missy and I would but I've already cancelled on Eddie way too many times, like last time with the ravener and I mean do I have to mention the kuri incident"

"fine bye Kenzie "as I exit the room I mutter under my breath the rest of the parabatai oath "where thou diest, I will die: the angel do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me"

Darkness falls over the world into a sleepless silence as the shadows stirs and images of monsters appear from darkness. A buzzing starts in my pocket, thanks sensor for detecting what I'm clearly looking at. I turn my sensor off pulling out two seraph blades from there holsters as I walk towards the foul demons, the size of a man its white scaled skin and bulging black pupil less eyes, a grotesque circular mouth. And there arms long dangerous tentacles with red suckers each a circle of poisonous needle like teeth.

"Sanvi" the seraph blade in my left hands springs to action and the light of the blade makes a Raum jump back slightly "Sansavi" the blade in my right-hand springs to life as I do the same. Lurching forward I bring my blade into the belly of a Raum its tentacle swinging wildly and I dodge it nearly colliding with it at one points I kick off its scaled body ripping the blade up tearing the monster in half as it convulses and turns to ichor disappearing back to its realm, swinging around I head towards two oncoming Raums and roll between them both turning quickly and slicing them at their legs, they fall to the ground and I walk between their bodies brining my blades down upon them, ichor goes everywhere. I notice 3 more coming at me from dead ahead and two for either side, I sigh throwing Sanvi at the one on the left, it collides with its head and ichor erupts. "Malik " springs to life and I throw Sansavi at the other demon, hitting it where the heart should be then running over bringing Malik down through its thick neck.

"Nakir" I move towards the three on coming demons their tentacles attacking from every side of me dodging where I can and attacking if possible I take one down, but one knocks Malik from my hand and another wraps its tentacle arm around my ankle, my thick pants saving me from its lethal suckers. It pulls me to the ground knocking the wind from my lungs and Nakir falls from my grasp and a tentacle comes smashing down beside me. I struggle to grasp a new seraph blade from my holsters, dodging another strike of the demons. My leg still entangled into one monsters arm. There was a bright flash of light and the Raum demon standing over my body bursts into a fountain of ichor, bathing me in black burning blood. a seraph blade protrudes from the demon whom is holding onto my leg, disheveling and disappearing back to its realm and what is left is a tall blonde almost white-haired boy with brilliant blue eyes and a seraph blade in one hand the other extended to me.