"Where's Magnus?" Jace asked as he rushed into the room.

"Meeting with the other Warlocks?" Alec replied, standing up. "What's going on?"

"There's going to be an attack against them,"Jace explained as he, Alec, Clary, and Isabelle

rushed to the weapons room.

"Do you know where the meeting is at?" Clary asked Alec as she strapped herself with her

weapons.

Alec, with his bow strapped on, paced nervously as he tried to get Magnus on the phone. He

cursed as he got Magnus's voicemail again. "Magnus isn't answering. Lets go!" He replied as he

ran, leading them out of the Institute.

The trip took 20 minutes and when they got to the location they could hear a fight going on. The

shadowhunters rushed in. They could see dead circle members and dead warlocks on the

ground. They saw warlock children huddled in the corner of the warehouse, crying.

"Split up," Jace said as a circle member saw the new arrivals and decided to attack.

Alec let arrow after arrow fly. "Magnus!" He shouted as he let another arrow fly, hitting a circle

member that was slowly creeping up behind the High Warlock.

Magnus turned around just as the circle member dropped with an arrow in his chest. "Thanks,

darling."

The fight went on and soon the Warlocks had the upper hand. Slowly the circle members

numbers went down as one after another dropped either by the hands of a warlock or by a

shadowhunter.

Alec turned towards the children as he heard someone make a terrified noise and saw a circle

member making his way towards the sobbing children. He stealthily made his way towards the

frightened kids. He was blocked by a wall as the circle member grabbed the kids by their hair

and dragged them to be seen by everyone. He broked something that sounded like glass on the

ground as he shouted, "Hey!"

He got everyone's attention as he dragged the kids in the front of him.

"Let them go!" A warlock shouted. Alec assumed that it was the children's parent.

The circle member smirked. "What are you going to do if I don't?"

"I'm going to kill you," was the growled response.

"I'd like to see you try."

The warlock ran towards the circle member but was thrown back by an invisible wall.

Magnus glared at the circle member as he helped the fallen warlock up. "What do you want?"

"It's simple really," the man started. "We want you to join us."

"Like hell we would do that," another warlock snarled.

"Join or die." was the reply they got along with twin cries from the children as the man yanked

their hair, hard.

"Leave them alone!" Magnus shouted as the man kept yanking at the kids hair making them sob

more.

Everyone but the circle member saw as Alec inched his way to circle member unseen.

"We'll never join you," Magnus said as he tried to keep the circle members attention on them.

The circle member gave an evil smile. "Well then,"he said as he forced the kids to their knee

and raised his seraph blade. "Watch them die."

Alec ran then, swooping in and covered the kids as the blade came down, making a long gash

across his back. He let out a pained noise as he dropped to the ground. The kids ran trying to

hide behind the wall.

"Alec!" Isabelle shouted as she ran towards her brother but getting thrown back just like the

warlock had earlier.

"You're going to die," Magnus growled, letting his glamour from his eyes that were brown bleed

away, leaving him with his cat eyes.

"Slowly and painfully," was added with a snarl from Jace.

The man laughed. "Will you be able to save him in time though?" He asked, pulling out a green

crystal. "That blade had demon poison on it. Should slowly torture him until he dies a very

painfull death."

Jace tried to push against the wall and try to break through, when he heard Alec trying to but

failing with holding back his pained hisses, but he couldn't. Nothing was working.

"Do you see this?" The man asked as he played with the green object. "As long as this little

crystal is intact, you won't be coming anywhere near me. Meaning you won't be coming

anywhere near your little friend here, too."

Magnus kept trying to tear down the wall but nothing was working.

"Oops," the man said as another failed attempt was made. "Better hurry. Doesn't look like he will

be able to hold on much longer. Seeing as he was stabbed, too."

That caused people to pause and look up if they weren't already and watched as the man

turned Alec on his back. He then straddled Alec. He ignored the angry shouts from the

Shadowhunters and Warlocks, and held a dagger above his head and brought it down.

Alec let out a pained scream as he was stabbed in the middle of his chest with the blade. The

circle member above him had a satisfied smile on his face as he twisted the dagger.

Jace collapsed, screaming as he clutched his parabati rune. "Alec!"

"I'm going to kill you!" Isabelle shouted, crying as she banged her fists against the wall.

Magnus let out a growl as his eyes changed from cat like to completely black. He kept sending

big pulses of magic towards the barrier that separated him and his boyfriend and his prey that

he would enjoy hurting. He felt the walls beginning to crack and he smiled a predatory smile to

the circle member.

The circle member felt the wall starting to fall and with one last suicide mission, went after the

warlock children again.

Magnus kept sending his magic to the wall, weakening it. He saw what everyone else saw. They

watched as Alec shakily reach his bow, draw an arrow back, and with all the concentration he

had left, let an arrow fly, hitting his target. The circle member fell, with an arrow to his head and

as he fell, the crystal fell with him and rolled towards Alec. Alec grabbed it, looked up at Magnus

and shattered it on the ground.

Alec's vision started to blur as he was helped to lay back down. Magnus's worried face was

above him as he was shouted at by his boyfriend. He couldn't hear what was being said.

All he could hear was a ringing in his head. He couldn't move his body. The pain that he felt earlier

started to dull.

He tried to talk. To tell them that it was okay. It didn't hurt anymore. He must have said something because when he looked up into the eyes of Magnus. He saw the

fear and the tears. He saw the blue light that always accompanied Magnus's magic cast a glow

across Magnus's face, making the glitter that was left on his face sparkle.

The ringing in his head continued but he faintly heard his name being called. It didn't sound like

anyone he knew. He wanted to answer but the darkness overtook him and he felt nothing after

that.