𝑶𝑭 𝑩𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑫 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑩𝑬𝑻𝑹𝑨𝒀𝑨𝑳

ᏘᏊᏘKᏋ, ᏘRIᎦᏋ ᎧR ᏰᏋ FᎧRᏋᏤᏋR FᏘLLᏋᏁ

Jonathan growled and moved to attack her, but she evaded and instead kicked him in the stomach, then him in the face.

Grabbing two of her throwing knives, she stabbed them into his shoulders, then stabbed two more into his back, making him yell out in pain and stagger away from her.

She swiftly turned and drew a rune on the steel doors, which blasted one side, throwing her out into the hallway, near the arch Clary was under.

Just then, Jace and Alec rounded the corner with some guards, blades in hand. They rushed to help her get up. Behind her, Jonathan pulled the knives from his shoulders and with demonic speed, fled the Institute.

"Where's Jonathan?" Alec asked.

"Probably long gone." Alyssa said, with a slight groan from being thrown on the ground with nothing to break her fall.

"He got away somehow." Clary said, walking back to them after trying to follow Jonathan.

"Are you okay, baby?" Jace asked his wife, looking her over.

"Yeah, the security door isn't though. I had to use a blasting rune to get out since Jonathan destroyed the button." Alyssa replied, brushing herself off.

"We'll worry about that later. What matters is that you're alright." Alec said.

"Did you get the Mirror?" Clary asked.

"Yeah, I got it." Alyssa took the mirror from her thigh holster.

"Hold on, did you two plan this?" Alec asked.

"Technically it was the three of us, as in me, Jace, and Clary, but yes, we did, more or less. Once I got that text from your phone about Max, I knew the bastard was going after the Mirror. So I came to join Clary here, and we thought of something. Although the last part wasn't part of the plan. We didn't count on Jonathan activating the security doors, so I had to improvise a little."

"And now I'm going to make sure that no one is ever going to use it to destroy the Downworld." Clary said, taking the Mirror from Alyssa. She took out her stele and began drawing a rune on the Mirror.

"What are you doing?" Jace asked.

"Nullifying its powers, like I did with the Soul-Sword."

"No wait, Clary, don't..." Alyssa trailed off as the Mirror suddenly became dust in Clary's hand.

"What just happened?" The redhead said, eyes wide in shock, a look that was mirrored on Jace's and Alec's faces. Alyssa just closed her eyes and sighed.

The Office

Izzy was seated in a chair while Clary, Jace, Alyssa, and Alec were all standing around the office. Clary was leaning against a chest of drawers, while Jace and Alyssa were leaning against the desk. Alec was standing beside Izzy.

"Saving me from Azazel, it must have all been part of Jonathan's plan." Izzy said guiltily. "I was the one who brought him to the Institute."

"Don't." Alec said to his sister, placing his hand on her shoulder. "We're all responsible for this."

"Alyssa isn't. From the minute she met him, she never trusted him." Izzy said. "This was what you were talking about when you said you couldn't tell me yet, that I wouldn't believe you."

"Don't beat yourself up, Izzy. He had everyone fooled, even his own cousin." Alyssa said softly.

"At least now, we know that Valentine can never get the Mirror to raise the Angel." Clary said.

"Yeah, about that, don't be so sure." Alyssa said, bursting Clary's bubble. Jace nodded in agreement.

"What?"

"Look, even with our pure angel blood, doesn't it seem strange that Clary's runes would be powerful enough to destroy a Mortal Instrument? And why didn't it destroy the Sword?" Jace mused.

"That's because that wasn't the Mortal Mirror, darling." Alyssa said, causing all of them to look at her with questioning looks.

"Then why would Jocelyn give it to the warlocks for protection?" Jace asked.

"Because she thought it was. But it was nothing more than a make-up mirror that was made to be a misdirect." Alyssa replied to him.

"To distract people from finding the real one." Izzy realized, catching on to what the hybrid was saying.

"Exactly." Just then Antonio entered the room, holding a sketchbook. He gave it to Alyssa and went to stand by Clary. "Thanks, Tony."

"Don't know why you wanted me to get it though." Antonio said to her. Clary moved from where she was and walked towards a painting of Lake Lyn.

"Uh, the legend says that the Mirror's not meant to be easily found. That the Angels hold the key." Jace said.

"And as we've learned, angels don't always mean what they say literally, and neither do some of the legends. Most of them are metaphors." Alyssa said, flipping through the sketchbook until she came across one drawing.

"The water. It's a reflection." Clary suddenly said, turning away from the painting back to the group.

"What water? What are you talking about?" Jace asked.

"I think I know what she's talking about. Look at this." Alyssa said, giving the sketchbook to Izzy. Jace, Alec, and Antonio all gathered closer to see what she was showing Izzy. "I drew that just before Alec went into that coma trying to find Jace."

"That was months ago, and all we see here is a drawing of the Mortal Cup and the Mortal Sword above what looks like a lake that's near a forest." Alec said.

"Hold on, that's not just any lake." Antonio said, looking up at all of them. "That's Lake Lyn."

"How can you tell?" Izzy asked.

"That's Brocelind Forest." Antonio replied, pointing to the forest Alec mentioned. "I remember how the trees looked when we accidentally went there to get to the cabin. And the trees in this drawing look exactly like those I saw there."

"Uh-huh." Alyssa nodded at him. "Clary didn't destroy that Mirror." She informed them.

"She's right," Clary jumped in. "These visions I've been having, they're a message from the Angel."

"I don't think the angels that the legend spoke of are actually angels. I think it was talking about those with pure angel blood, ergo, the three of us." Alyssa continued, gesturing to herself, Clary, and Jace. Antonio realized what she was trying to say.

"Wait, are you saying that..."

"Yes, Tony," Alyssa said. "The Mirror is Lake Lyn."