Yours truly [Dark Artifices].

Idris.

Devon:

"I still can't believe you thought Ty and I were dating" Carmen Rosewood commented amusedly, as she and Kit were waiting for the parbatai ritual to begin.

"Well, can you fault me? The perfect girl waltz in and soon Ty, the antisocial and awkward boy, talks about her all the time!" Kit huffed, fed up with being teased about the topic.

"I don't know if perfect, but I do understand Ty in many aspects. You might not notice it but people are also always singing praises to Ty about being the genius Blackthorn. The youngest in joining the Scholomance, top of the class, the little brother of a tactical genius as Julian Blackthorn. But those who really get to know him, see the struggle he truly is in. Ty and I simply click, we understand each other" Carmen told him, shocking the blond one into silence "I wanted to meet you ever since I heard Ty's drunken confession. You do not treat him as delicate or something to be worshiped, but as a human... I would really like that too"

"Well, we do have a whole summer in our hands. We can get to know each other... who knows maybe we click too as I did with Ty. Surely not as a couple but maybe as parbatai" Kit said, almost shyly, smiling slightly at her.

Carmen returned the smile, wishing for that to be true too. Their conversation was cut short when the ritual began.

Outsides of Alicante:

This is not how Carmen wanted to spend her summer vacations. A month ago she was watching her friend being parbatai bonded to the ghost of her twin sister and being courted by a very cute and snarky shadowhunter. Not to mention she had started to bond with Kit Herondale, practice with him and even go demon hunting. He was the perfect teammate and an excellent parbatai candidate. But of course Alexander Lightwood had to send a missive tellings us about his plan to get Idris back and wanted as many shadowhunters as possible to enlist for the mission. Of course, her father had demanded if she was still safe and sound in the Scholomance. Seeing as Ty, Kit and Arthur were enlisting she lied to her dad and enlisted with them.

Alec has done a great job gaining the favor of eighty percent of our investors, especially since all the downloaders are in our side, as well as the Silent Brothers and the Sisters. The Cohort must be going through a horrible situation, no weapons, no hearings other than runes, no hunting, lack of food as Idris is not known for having the most varied cultivation fields. So, attacking them now when they are the weakest is the best choice, rather than after when they find a way to fix the mess they've created. However, they can't sweep in an kill every resistance. After Valentine, Sebastian and the Cohort there is a lack of Nepehline. Yes, thanks to recruiting system being headed by Simon Lovelace, future Lightwood, they've started to repopulate the lines. But most of the Cohort are young men and women who have been influenced by the wrong people like with the Circle, if they were given the chance to reform by the right adult figures they could become great shadowhunters.

The Counsul, both Nepheline and Downloaders, made the decision that every adult over thirty in Alicante will be executed at sight for arming a coup d'état and harming another Nepheline, a great infraction to their most sacred law. Not that anyone else knew about that other than them. The rest will be sent to Institutes to be reformed, with a plan created by Maryce Lightwood who had gone through by something similar, and will always remained exiled from Idris, their kids shall be granted permission to enter in desired.

Not to mention that recuperating Idris is of great importance for the Mirror, in case anything like the blight ever happens again. And for the houses and tombs for the shadowhunter families. As well as, it is the Nepheline's home ground.

The plan was formed when Magnus, Ragnor, Catarina and Tessa found out a way to put a curse on every Cohort member, making it impossible to hurt themselves. The plan was to get in through the Bone City's entrance, which wall will come down with the help of said children of Lilith, and cast the spell into the clouds which later would make it rain and affect anyone who touches it. While the rebellion waits in the hallways of the Bone City, glamoured with magic, every member of the Cohort would be cursed. The next move was to sweep in, once the curse in the water can't affect anyone new, and capture every single member.

So, that's what Ty's gang was doing. Waiting by the entrance to Idris with the rest of the army formed and led by Alexander Gideon Lightwood, with Julian Blackthorn as his right hand (he had proven himself worthy on their last big battle)- Jace and Emma right besides them. Well, Ty, Kit, Liv and Arthur were waiting, Carmen was hiding under a black hood from her family. Being from a prided warrior family of course they had all enlisted, leaving her mother in charge of the Institute until they all return.

"Car is it really right to enlist to war without telling your family? You are underage" Arthur whispered worriedly.

"They never let me do anything Art!" Carmen whispered/hissed back "I might end up being a thirty years old woman who had never gone to battle because her daddy was too afraid to let her fight! Not to mention I can't let my future parbatai go to war on his own" she bumped fists with Kit, when he raised his fist towards her.

"That's right Art" Kit teased, grinning "You have to calm down and let her make her own decisions, she is a big girl!"

"By the Angel, you two are going to be the death of me" Arthur murmured, looking pained. Ty placed a hand on his shoulder, showing silent support by the pain they share.

The signal was given and everyone rushed to their feet, the fight was about to begin.

The battle was brutal, even with the curse in place every single member resisted to their capture. Not to mention that most of the older adults died while "trying to hurt the army members". But at the end the battle was won and Idris recuperated.

"Give me five for a job well done!" Kit raised his hand.

"You and your mundane habits" Carmen smiled amusedly, but still met his raised hand "Where are you going Ty?" she asked cuddling into Arthur's chest.

"To see my my brother" he answered, standing up "They might need our help. I did tell me that once the battle is over they were going to bring more people in to help clean the place and take the captives"

"Then we are going with you" Kit said decisively.

"You've heard the man, let's get going!" Arthur exclaimed, pushing Carmen up.

However, they did not expect to find Rafael and Max Lightwood-Bane with the whole legendary gang. Emma and Julian hanging awkwardly close by but giving them space to have their own private moment. The battle might be over but this place was still dangerous to bring two little kids over, what was Maryce Lightwood thinking?

"What is going on?" Kit asked Julian and Emma.

Jules was about to answer when he noticed the blond's arm around his little brother's arms. Everyone noticed the dark look taking possession of his facial expression. Kit flinched and rapidly took his arms off his boyfriend. Emma simply raised an eyebrow and answered.

"Rafael had a panic attack, the only ones capable of calming him down are his dad and papa" she then added "Poor thing, he went through so much while living in the streets"

But Carmen was already not paying attention to anyone else but that little boy crying his eyes out. That boy that looked just like his uncle-in-law...