The Half-Bloods

So...hum. Summary. Let's see if I remember this from third grade.

The main characters [currently] are Ayla, a werewolf-hybrid who has psychic abilities; Noor, "calm", "wise", and "pale" and the son of a unicorn who was turned into a human; Agana, a vampire-hybrid with unknown heritage; Chayton, a falcon who was turned into a human and an incredibly skilled fighter; Bellona, a beautiful crystalline goddess who has a mysterious tie to Agana; and Erebos, an entirely evil and soulless being who is set out to kill the half-bloods and also feels drawn to Ayla.

The story starts off with Ayla fleeing Erebos, who she's lived with for several months without knowing who he is and has begun to foster feelings for. After she finds him standing over a dead body, she flees into the night and finds herself in the half-blood capitol of Ventustaden (City of Wind). She is knocked out and when she wakes up, finds herself in the company of Noor, an extremely pale man of about twenty who grew up in the city. By this point you know that Ayla is a werewolf-hybrid whose mother abandoned her at age four and father (the werewolf) is simply not there, that she was raised for ten years by a werewolf names Salys, that when Salys was killed by hunters she set out to find them and track them down which she did for years before she met Erebos, who convinced her to give it up and live with him, and that she is between 17 and 20. She also meets Agana and Chayton, the head-preistess and general of the half-blood army respectively. Agana, Chayton, and Noor all refuse to believe Erebos has returned, having defeated him and confined him to a magical prison called the Enelsi years before. Noor tells her the story about the soldier who sacrificed himself to create the Enelsi as opposed to kill Erebos, which is at this point in the story inconsequental.

Ayla decides to stay in Ventustaden and train as a soldier, whilst learning about a history of the half-bloods that Salys never taught her. In the meantime she becomes close friends with Noor and Agana, fairy-human sisters named Aine and Tien, and another unicorn-human named Aislin that she thinks Noor has a crush on. She also begins to crush on Chayton, who's bitter, solitary personality keeps her at a distance.

However, Erebos is still rising, and the half-bloods know he's raising an army of the undead to defeat them once more. While Chayton gathers an army to fight back, Noor, Ayla, Agana, Aine, and Tien set off to follow a lead that Bellona, their main goddess (who is legended to have created the half-bloods in the first place), can help them win the war.

The journey to her palace is extremely perilous, since Erebos seems to have a fixation on turning Ayla to his side at any cost. When finally the group is overpowered by a band of demons and Tien is killed, the rest of them are rescued by the dragon-human twins Drakon and Fraenir. The twins agree to travel with them for the rest of the trip.

Agana tells Ayla stories of her childhood all throughout the journey, and shares with her the inner pain she feels at being abandoned. Here Ayla can relate, for she was as well abandoned.

Ayla frequently has visions of the future, which she can't explain because she doesn't know her mother was a psychic. They mostly consist of Noor dead, Erebos burning a town down, and a crystal tree that makes utterly no sense.

Her feelings for Chayton are also growing, which Noor doesn't approve of at all. He warns her that Chayton doesn't love anyone, but she doesn't listen and continues to think about him constantly.

Finally their journey takes them through a half-blood village that is the same one Ayla saw burning, and here they meet the elf and elf-human Siofa and Aluino. They stay her for two days before Erebos finds them and attacks, effectively destroying the town. As they flee, Ayla turns back and sees the same image she saw in her visions, which leads her to believe she can see the future.

After days of traveling non-stop, within a mile of the palace, Noor vanishes. Ayla is devestated, naturally, but the others insist they move on, and in the night they reach the palace. Here they find Noor, who was brought there by Bellona.

Within the night, they find out that Bellona is Agana's mother, and Noor confesses his love for Ayla, who returns it readily. Bellona agrees to help them, mostly for Agana's benefit, but at the last minute Erebos shows up and attacks the castle. Since he's the son of a god, he puts a curse on Bellona that confines her and her powers to her castle, which means the others are on their own. Also, in an attempt to kidnap Ayla, he is thwarted by Noor and the collision of both of their power causes Ayla to lose her memory.

End of book 1.