Embers POV

I walked out of my room and down the stairs. My "Mom" was standing in the middle of the living room. She is not my real mom thought. My real one is a Windigo and my father was a human who now lives im Missouri. My foster mom's name is Dana.

"What's for breakfast," I asked her. She walked closer and studied my face. her face scrunched up.

" You have to cover the mark of the windigo up or people will notice it and be scared of you." My foster mom said. I turned my face away from her and walked away. 

" No, I don't need it covered up. I don't care if they are scared of me. They should be, I am one of the most powerful beings alive." I yelled forcing back the urge to let my true form out. She shook her head then tossed me a large stick of deer jerky. I grabbed it and ran out of the door to our house. When I was fully out I let my wings out and leaped in the air. My huge jet black wings carry me to school. When I got there I retracted my wings back. I walked into the school and looked for my best friend Kyliegh. She also was a windigo child, just more human than the monster. Her windigo name was Sapphire. I used my sense and found her. She was standing at the bottom of the stairs. I ran over and gave her the Windigo greeting. She bowed her head and I bowed mine back. 

" How was your weekend Sapphire. Mine was crazy also I got to see the tribe again."  I told my best friend. She perked up at the sound of the tribe. She was also taken away from them.

" It was good. So when you met the tribe did you see Wish?" Sapphire asked me. Her eyes glittering cause she also admired the tall handsome windigo child. 

" Yes, I did and he said that he misses us and wants us to return," I told her. She smiled and her mark started to glow. The bell rang that tells us that class is going to start. We ran up the stairs.  I grabbed my stuff out of my locker then went to my first-hour class. I sat down in my seat, which is in the back row. One of my friends who is human was in her seat. Her name is Cynthia.

" Hey, Cynthia how are you doin today. " I asked her. She looked at me then her eyes got wide as she looked at my forehead.

" You didn't cover up your mark. Why? Do you know what can happen." Cynthia said in a hushed whisper. I sighed before speaking.

" Cause I don't care what they do or say. I am a Windigo child and proud of it. I don't care if they stare and scream, I will laugh at them." I told Cynthia. She nodded then got up and sharpened her pencil. I grabbed my phone and opened my chats up. The first notification was a text from Wish. It said, " Hey, it's me Wish how are you doing I really miss you and Sapphire". I decided to answer back with," I'm doing good and I miss you too". After that, I put it back in my pocket. The teacher Mrs. Stret, was the math teacher and probably my least fave teacher out of all of them.  She walked to the front of the room and started to write down things on the board. The rest of the class walked in and sat down in their seats.

" Alright class it is time to start. Today we will be learning about integers and equations.  I will be handing out the worksheets for both topics. We will be starting with the integers." Mrs. Stret told the class. When she was done handing out the papers, we started.  Mrs. Stret wrote down two numbers, one with a negative sign in front and one without.

" Who knows what an integer is and which one is which." She asked us. I raised my hand and she pointed at me.

" An integer is either a negative or positive number and the number that has a negative sign in front is a negative," I told her. She nodded her head.

" That is right, okay so who wants to do the first one." She asked. I started to let my mind wander and before I knew it, the bell had rung. I walked out of the room with the rest of the class. The next class I had is the band. I ran back down the stairs and into a smaller room. When I opened the door the sounds of multiple types of woodwind, brass and percussion instruments.  I went over to the door with the blue sign on it. I grabbed my large black Baritone Saxophone case and got it out. My book and sheet music were already at my assigned spot. I sat down and put my neck strap on. The board said that we were starting with our fundamentals sheet.  The band director Mrs. Van Holstein stepped onto the podium and the whole band class became silent.

" Thank you class for becoming silent so fast. Alright, we will start with number 1. Rember holds till the cut-off. Instruments up, good position. Trumpet players, your bell vertical from the ground. " Mrs. Van Holstein told us. She raised her batton and we all played the whole note together. The note I played was my G. She cut us off. Then she started us back up for number 2. 

END OF CHAPTER 1