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.
"They must be taking him to the Dark Empress, how can we save the Ora with only two elementals?"
"We have to try." Trinny heard Emma’s voice take on it's 'fighting for a cause' mode, just like the time she had raised $3000 for Green Peace to help save the whales. Trinny turned to Emma with her head down.
"I couldn't do anything Em, I'm meant to be this all powerful being and just couldn't help. Maybe they're wrong about me." Trinny was so discouraged, not only could she not help fight, but the man who could have told her about her father and helped her to understand who she was, was now missing, she couldn't even look anyone in the eye. Emma put her arm through Trinny's and turned to her friend, her voice fortified.
"Ever since I met you Trinny, I knew you were special, and I knew I had to be part of your life. I could never understand why most people kept their distance from you, I always thought it was because the girls were jealous of your looks and the guys were just plain intimidated by you. Now I understand it was because you're not really of this world, you never really fit in because you were never meant to. Now is your chance to find out who you really are, to see where you come from, how your life should have been. Your powers will come. If I know anything about you Trinny, it's that you never fail at anything, you may have fallen a few times, but you always get up, and you always succeed." Trinny felt a cool hand under her chin lifting her head gently, she looked up expecting to see Emma’s face, but found herself looking into a pair of emerald green eyes.
"Don't lose heart, the time will come very soon when you'll come face to face with your destiny, and you will know what to do." Aarion's voice was soft but strong all at the same time, she was mesmerized by it, and she felt her heart skip a beat. Emma’s mouth seemed to drop open a little as she watched the connection that was forming right in front of her eyes. Aarion broke his stare and went straight back to leader mode. "We have to leave, they may be reforming themselves and could be back to try and take another elemental. We need to get to the portal and get back to Taeith, my father will know what to do."
CHAPTER SIX
'There are times when I cannot believe I am separate from this earth, when I could swear the wind blows through me as it does the woven needles of the pine tree by the creek, when I feel my feet planted deep in the earth with the roots of trees and wildflowers, drawing essence.' - Cathy Johnson
Trinny couldn't believe her eyes when she came out of the