She walked past the ruins of Bloor's academy, staring up at the only standing structure of the whole, old castle: The Bloor's west wing. It was good that the school had burnt down fifteen years before, because now this endowed girl would never have to attend the retched school. She was lucky that she got to live with her aunt, morn over her recently dead father and attend public school. The only bad thing was that she wasn't exactly well known there. Not only was she quiet and withdrawn from everyone else, but she was endowed and a strange power ran through her veins. Everyone knew this when they hadn't even seen her endowment in action. She didn't want them to.

She headed down the streets of the Cathedral and into her aunts bookshop.

"Hello, Emma," Her aunt Julia greeted her.

"Hello, Auntie." Emma joined her aunt behind the counter.

Julia smiled down at her wonderful niece. She was pleased to have the 13 year old girl living with her.

Emma Tolly enjoyed her aunt's book shop. She loved how it was quiet, like a library, and it was never crowded. Sometimes this made her feel lonely, though.

If Bloor's Academy had taken in endowed children, there had to be a good number of them in the city, yet Emma had never met any of them.

"Emma, darling, it's a glorious Saturday afternoon. Go outside. Call some of your friends from school and go to the park or something," Julia advised.

"What friends, Auntie? All of the kids at school think I'm some freak because I can change into a bird." Emma told her.

"Oh, Emma," Julia sighed, "You are not a freak. Don't listen to those kids. There are plenty of people like you in the city." She told her niece, memories from when Emma was only a small child brewing in her brain. The Bloor's where endowed, and they had wanted Emma so badly. Luckily, Lyell Bone had saved Emma. Lyell had an endowed child of his own, named Charlie Bone, who was friends who were also endowed that he had met at the Pet's Café, a wonderful place that gave everyone a slight head ache due to the noise. If only Emma knew.

Just at that moment, a group of kids stepped in, followed by Paton Yewbeam.

"Hello, Julia." Paton nodded at her. The two had met briefly when Emma was a small child, "I'm here in search of a book and my nephew and his friends wanted to check out your book store."

"Oh, then I'll help you, Mr. Yewbeam. Emma, entertain those kids." Julia ordered. She knew very well that these kids were Charlie Bone and his friends.

Emma nodded and walked over to them. "Hello," She said quietly.

Only two people turned to her from the display in the window, one was a girl at about Emma's height with bright pink hair and a bubbly look on her face. The other was a tall boy with blond hair that was spiked, but didn't look like it contained any gel at all. How weird.

"Hi," The girl smiled. "I'm Olivia Vertigo,"

Emma smiled at Olivia, "I'm Emma Tolly," She said, catching the attention of a boy with some of the messiest hair she had ever seen.

"I'm Tancred Torsson," the blond boy told her. Emma found herself unable to look away from his perfection. He was incredibly handsome.

After she noted she was staring at him and thought he was staring at her, she turned away towards the messy haired boy.

"I'm Charlie Bone," He told her.

Bone. Where had Emma heard that last name before?

There were two other people with them: A tall, African-American boy and a gangly, brown haired boy.

"I'm Lysander Sage," The African-American boy smiled at Emma, then glanced at Tancred, who was still looking at her.

"I'm Gabriel Silk," The last boy introduced.

"It's nice to meet you all," Emma nodded.

A breeze suddenly flew through the shop and Emma looked around. "Did I forget to close a window or something?" She wondered.

Everyone laughed slightly.

"Emma, that was Tancred," Lysander told her, "He's a storm bringer. Sometimes he tends to cause winds to blow around."

Emma gaped at them. Endowed children? So she wasn't alone at all.

"Okay, children," Paton swept back through the store with his eyes covered, "We have to go now."

Everyone but Tancred and Olivia left.

"Here's my phone number, Emma," Olivia wrote something down on a piece of paper and handed it to Emma. "Call me tonight, okay?"

Olivia skipped out leaving Tancred and Emma alone.

"It was very nice meeting you," Tancred told her.

Emma blushed, "Thank you, it was nice to meet you, too."

Tancred grinned at her, "I hope to see you around. Will you meet us at the Pet's Café tomorrow? We'd love to have you there."

Emma nodded. "I'll be there, Tancred."

"Great," Tancred sighed with relief, then blushed, "Well, I have to go. I'll see you tomorrow, Emma. When you call Olivia tonight, she'll give you directions to the Pet's Café,"

Emma watched the blond boy leave in fascination. Was it just her imagination or did it seem like Tancred liked her?

sorry if this sounds a bit rushed, but i just had to get Emma to meet the other endowed, or at least, most of them. i have everything set up different than the books, so i will explain more in the next chapter and slow it down a little, and, of course, add a TancredEmma moment. This story should be fairly long because it will not only focus on TancredEmma, it will also focus on the secrets off Bloor's Academy, like why it burned down,the evil bloors, etc.

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