Chronicles of Aphel: The Shadows Beneath

After losing his family, Alex Century was forced into a strange new world, a world filled with magic and mystical creatures, where he discovers his origins and his family's killer. But when he finally finds a new home in the school for magic, he must join with a princess, a trickster and the rest of his new friends to protect it at all costs, or risk losing everyone's souls to the darkness that lurks below.