Trinity Awakening (8 page)

They had all come to a stop in front of a very expensive looking apartment building, there was a short stumpy
doorman wearing a burgundy suit with a matching hat. Morthos approached the man.
             
"We are here to see Micah Govad, please tell him it is regarding the Ora!" The doorman looked at the interesting collection of people wanting to see one of his buildings most prominent tenants.

             
"Please wait in the foyer while I contact Mr. Govad for you." He opened the door for them all to enter, even though you could see he was a little suspicious. After a few minutes he came back to Morthos. "Mr. Govad will be down to see you in a few moments." The doorman went back outside the entrance to his position. 

             
"The last time there were three different races of Elementals in the same place was 500 years ago." Nina said with some excitement in her voice. She had made herself comfortable on the foyer sofa and was putting her feet up on the coffee table when the doors to the foyer lift opened and a tall muscular man in his late 30's stepped out. He was very handsome Trinny thought to
herself
, and was about the same age that her dad would have been. He had a smooth
bald head
, and his skin was almost black, his eyes were the darkest chocolate brown,
such warm eyes
, Trinny thought. He wore black business suit pants, a dark blue business shirt without a tie and a long black winter coat that looked very expensive.  His face was very serious as he laid eyes on Aarion. He looked around at the group of six young people who looked like they had taken up residence in his buildings foyer. Stopping at Trinny his eyes softened, he had a somber smile on his face as he spoke.

             
"Trinity Gaia, you are your fathers daughter, but you have your mothers beauty!" Trinny felt her face turning it's usual beetroot at a compliment, she also noticed that Aarion was looking at her, almost like he was seeing her with new
eyes, it made her heart flutter and she found herself looking down at her feet. "We've meet before Trinny, your father visited me a few years ago, you and your mother came with him,
you
may not remember me."

Trinny looked at him.

             
"That's right, you were my dads old college friend."

             
"Well, not college friends, but yes we were friends. I'm Micah."  Micah smiled at her warmly, and then directed his gaze at Aarion. "Lets walk, there's a park across the street where it's quieter and you can explain why you're here." Aarion agreed and Micah led the way out of the building and across the street. He walked for a few minutes through the park until he could tell there was no one around then turned to face the young group. "Why are you here? What is wrong with the Ora? And why have you brought two Elementals with you? Especially one who doesn't even know her true power yet?"

Aarion spent the next few minutes filling Micah in on the situation with the Ora and how he needed three elementals. Micah took a deep breath and gave a tired smile. He looked at Trinny. "Your father always knew this would happen, he told me that this day would come, I wish he were here, he is the only one who would have known exactly what to do."

Trinny looked puzzled.

             
"Why would my dad know what to do?"

Micah looked at Trinny for a few moments before he spoke.

             
"Because of who he is...was." 

             
"I don't understand, who was he, was he some sort of prince, Nina was saying that the gem stones are only for royal blood lines, was he a descendant of a royal family?" She so wanted to uncover this secret life her father had led.

             
"He was a prince. You are a princess!"

             
"Yeah, that one will take a while to sink in." Trinny was not coping well with the sound of this new title; she felt she was the most unlikely person to have ended up being some princess. 

             
Micah spoke up again.

             
"It's more than that Trinny, your blood has not been tainted through the centuries,
you
have pure royal blood, through and through. You have power beyond what you or we can even imagine, you can do more than what your father could ever do, that's why your father hid you away, he didn't tell you about any of this because he was protecting you." Aarion and Morthos looked at each other and then to Micah, but it was Garus who spoke up first.

             
"What are you saying?"

Micah went to answer, but his head suddenly tilted up, his expression looked dark and the leaves started to swirl around his feet. 

             
"What it is?" Morthos asked in a whispered tone.

             
"There's danger here, we must go. What was your plan to get us out?" 

             
"We need to get to the alleyway where the portal opened, it isn't far." Aarion lead the way and Emma grabbed Trinny by the hand, she was not going to let her friend go. As they moved quickly toward the entrance of the park, they could see dark figures moving with speed through the trees on either side of them. 

             
"What are they?" Nina cried out. 

             
"Wolves!" Micah replied.

             
"But they're on two legs, wolves walk on four like dogs." There was a suppressed fear in Nina’s voice.

             
"Lycanthrope, half men, half wolves, servants of the Dark Empress." As Micah said the words, Trinny and Emma
let out a scream, a large dark figure leapt out from a tree they were passing and took a swipe at the two of them. But faster than Trinny and Emma could have ever imagined, there was Morthos, he had moved in front of them both and taken the force of the hit. He was thrown to the ground next to them. Aarion drew a sword from behind his back; Trinny wondered how she had never noticed that he could have been wearing something like that. He leaped at the werewolf, slashing at its chest. It let out a piercing howl of pain, Aarion slashed again at the beast, severing its arm from its body. The wolf fell to the ground just as Morthos was getting up looking a little dazed. There were now at least a dozen of the creatures surrounding the group. They were all tall, but hunched over slightly with very bent knees; if they had been standing straight they could have been nearly eight feet high. They had human physiques, but with more muscle in the legs and chest areas which were sparsely covered in a course black hair.  Trinny could see that their skin was layered in dirt, and a wet dog odor was filling the air. Their faces were a combination of human and wolf, long snout noses and pointy ears that curled over at the tips. They had pronounced foreheads and huge sharp teeth that shone brightly in the moonlight, a deep growling resonated loudly from the backs of their throats and their snarling lips dripped with thick drool.

             
"Get back to back." Micah called out. Everyone formed a circle with his or her backs to each other, Aarion had given his sword to Garus, and Morthos also had one. 

             
"Have you got another one of those, I would appreciate one right now?" Emma's look was dead serious.

             
"No, but even if I did, little girls shouldn't play with sharp objects." Morthos smart remark did not fair well with Emma.

             
"Good thing you don't, as the Werewolves would be the least of your troubles." Emma gave Morthos a look that could have killed had she really had a sword in her hand, and even though they were surrounded by a pack of snarling monsters, he could not help but let out an amused laugh.

Nina’s hands were in flames and Aarion's seemed to be glowing, a ball of pure light was forming in each of his palms. Emma watched as wind started to whip around, there were leaves and sticks just barely missing their faces. They looked up and could see something that appeared to be like a tornado forming around them, Trinny glanced at Micah who was standing on her left. His hands were held high and his eyes seemed as if the wind was being reflected behind the iris, like clouds moving fast on a stormy day. She knew then that it was he causing the mini tornado they were now in the center of. There were now larger pieces of debris that were circling and the Werewolves seemed confused by it. One of the Wolves came closer to see if he could break through but found himself swept up into the whirling wind. Suddenly a bright red light burst through the tornadoes side.
             

             
"No!" Cried Micah, but it was to late. Nina had thrown a ball of fire toward the wolves and it had broken the wall of wind that had formed. Sticks, stones, the curious Werewolf, even a park bench dropped to the ground as the tornado lost its power. 

             
"What's happening?" Trinny yelled. 

             
"The flame broke the protection before it was fully formed, I don't have time to form another one." Micah started to throw his arms out, one at a time, with each movement there was a gust of powerful wind that would knock down one of the wolves, but they were strong and would get right back up. Aarion had formed orbs of light the sizes of
basketballs that he was throwing at the course haired creatures. With each hit, the wolves would be blinded for a few moments. A massive black and gray wolf charged at Aarion, Trinny watched in amazement as he took one of the bright orbs and stretched it out until it formed a shield. Trinny could see through the bright armor, it had the look of moving water across the surface like her pendant. The wolf bounced off the shield like a ball hitting a brick wall. Garus and Morthos were both attacking the beasts with swords and Nina was torturing one of them with fierce flames at the mere flick of her wrist.

             
"You dirty, ugly dog, keep your filthy paws off me. See how you like this!" Nina singed off more of the wolves hair and seemed to be enjoying it. The circle had broken a little and Micah didn't see the wolf that came from behind, he was knocked off his feet and Trinny heard him hit his head hard, he was out cold. 

             
"I have to do something." She said to Emma. "But I don't know what to do."

             
"Well your powers better kick in soon or we'll be dinner." Emma kicked out at a wolf as it neared her, it yelped in pain and crumpled over.” ‘
Go for where it hurts most'
my dad would always tell me, he'd be so proud right now." Emma was looking very pleased with herself. But her expression changed very quickly the moment her friend was pulled from her by a huge Lycanthrope with black eyes and the fiercest of growls. Trinny was kicking and punching out at the beast holding her tightly, she could feel its claws digging into her skin around her waist where it held her. Emma picked up a large stick and was hitting the wolf on the back, it lashed out at her and she flew back into a tree, landing crumpled on the ground.

             
"Emma!" Trinny screamed out. She could see Emma moving slowing and relief flooded her mind, but the tension quickly grew again as she was reminded of her situation with a sharp dig of claws in her skin. Just as suddenly as she had been picked up and tossed around, Trinny found
herself
on the ground, her chest in pain from having the wind knocked out of her. She looked up to see Aarion clinging to the Werewolves back and shooting bolts of light at its head. The Wolf tried to get Aarion off by throwing himself from side to side, but with one last hit to the head the wolf fell hard on the concrete path, blood spilled from it's mouth and ears, Trinny knew it was dead and that Aarion had once again saved her life, but she could not help but feel pity for the creature, especially as she saw it's body change from a hideous beast to a man that could not have been more than 25 years old. 

             
"Trinny, are you alright?" Aarion pulled her up to his side and held her up to steady her.

             
"All good, just a bit winded. Is Emma okay?"

             
"She's fine, Morthos is with her." There was a loud howl, to which all the wolves instantly stopped attacking, they gathered up their wounded and dead and ran into the blackness of the park. 

             
"What happened?" Nina looked confused. "It's like they gave up." 

             
"Are you sure you are alright, you're not hurt?" Aarion asked again as he gently squeezed Trinny's arm.

             
"I'm fine." She smiled. 

             
"Me too, thanks for asking." Emma smirked at Aarion then whispered into Trinny's ear. "He is soooo into you.” Trinny gave Emma a relieved hug and looked around to see if everyone else was okay.

             
"Where's Micah?" Trinny asked with worry in her voice. She saw Garus suddenly come running from the direction the wolves left; Trinny hadn't even noticed he had gone. 

             
"They got Micah, I couldn't catch them." Aarion looked devastated at the news Garus brought.