Free Trinity Awakening by K.L. Morton

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