Chapter 5

Clary POV

It was a day like most others the only difference was I was at the New York Institute. I woke up like usually at dawn and was full of energy. I bounced down to the kitchen and began looking around for food when I found nothing already made I decided to finally put the cooking classes I was forced to take to use. Pancakes or Waffles. Pancakes or Waffles, why was it so hard to choose. So when I heard someone shuffling into the kitchen I smiled. I raised my head to find Alec.

"Hey, Alec, Pancakes or Waffles?"

"Pancakes definitely Pancakes," he cackled.

"Is there something I'm missing," I said slowly.

"In about an hour Izzy and Jace are going to come downstairs, they both love Pancakes so naturally they are gonna race to get Pancakes one time Jace knocked me out because I looked at his Pancake the wrong way, so I'm gonna set up a trap then you and me can eat both of their Pancakes while they are hanging from the ceiling or something." I was giggling by the time it was done.

"Deal but I'll make extra and leave them in the kitchen so they'll have to find a way down to eat the Pancakes, I can even make the trap invisible" I finished. After me and Alec finished our evil them I turned around and began making Pancakes. When it dawned on me.

"Alec?"

"Yes…" he responded.

"Why are Izzy and Jace gonna take around an hour I thought Shadowhunters have to wake up at dawn?"

"Oh Izzy and Jace spend forever in the mirror, honestly it's disgusting," he said while fingering the bow I gave him yesterday.

I chuckled and continued making my Pancake masterpiece. In the end, I made 18. Since I and Alec would each eat 6 it was only fair that Jace and Izzy got around 3 each.

I turned and saw Alec setting up an ingenious trap with a snap of my fingers the already hard to see rope became invisible.

"We should probably call them down for breakfast," I said with a smirk.

"Oh yes we should," he responded with an equally evil grin.

"Oh Jace, Izzy we have Pancakes for breakfast," Alec sang. Within seconds I heard doors slam open and the sound of feet running from upstairs. Then I heard shouting,

"They are mine,"

"Back of you oversized asshole,"

"Hey, you can't do that,"

When they finally came into view I saw Izzy sliding down the banister with Jace thundering alongside her. When the stairwell came to an end they began sprinting towards the kitchen pushing and tripping each other me and Alec stood there amused and begun laughing when the trap we set was put to good use. They were dangling by their feet with their hands bound together, they then began mumbling curses. Feeling pity for my fellow girl I cut her loose while drawing a silence rune on Jace smirking Izzy and I walked into the Kitchen.

"Why'd you free Iz," Alec asked confused.

"To make Jace even madder," I said laughing at Jace's face which by the way was turning purple due to his anger he seemed like he was yelling profanities yet my silencing room prevented his for doing that.

"What's that I can't hear you," Izzy sang. Chuckling we all left Jace hanging there while we went to the dining table that was set with four plates each with 3 pancakes each. We tore into our food like savages that went days without food. Within minutes we each inhaled 3 pancakes like our lives depended on it. Then Alec and I simultaneously grinned evilly.

"Hey Clary I'm still kind of hungry are there any more pancakes?"

"Oh I am so sorry Alec, I only made twelve but if you are really hungry I'm sure Jace will let you have some of his pancakes I mean they haven't been touched," I drawled. Izzy's face lit up with glee:

"Oh Jace," she trilled, "can we have your pancakes." Jace shook his head frantically while he thrashed around desperately trying to free himself.

"I'll take that as a yes," Alec cackled and gave each of us a pancake from Jace's place he even handed the plate to Izzy who licked the syrup off it. When I turned to face Jace there were tears running down his face well up his face, since he was upside down. We gobbled down our food before I threw a knife over my shoulder and Jace came tumbling down. I know my aim is amazing. He came charging over, then collapsed on the ground when he saw there was nothing left to eat.

"There are four left in the kitchen," I chuckled. When he heard this he gathered me into his arms and hugged me so tight I couldn't breathe.

"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you," Then he charged into the kitchen poured syrup over the pancakes and ate like his life depended on it while moaning occasionally. Chuckling I began navigating the labyrinth that they call a home lucky for me my memory was phenomenal I had a photographic memory. So even though the institute was a maze I found my room and let's be honest I'm an Angel what can I not do?

It was 11:30 and boy I was pumped, pulling on my training gear and adding even more weapons to my belt, I was ready to beat some ass.

Yes, yes I said more weapons did you honestly think that I Clarissa would go anywhere without a weapon. If Ithuriel saw me without more than 5 weapons he would kill me and than bring me back to life because I'm his daughter and then there is the fact that Angels are immortal.

After pulling my hair back into a tight french braid that reached the middle of my back. And skipped out of my room and wandered around till I found the training room. When I arrived (five minutes early) Jace was already training with Alec and Izzy.

"Jace were you so worried that you need to get some extra training done," I teased.

"No princess unlike you I was born ready," he shot back.

"You know Jace you're so fake barbie is jealous," I smirked. He snarled while Izzy and Alec were on the side sounding like commentators in a sporting event.

"Ohhhhh,"

"Take that,"

"You just got burned," were some of the things I heard.

"Enough chit-chat, let's get this started," he drawled while pulling out a seraph blade. I took out a metal rod and slammed it onto the ground in a flash of light I held a spear with designs of war and victory carved with great detail. Bending my knees and pointing my spear forward I waited.