A/N: Please remember that this story was one of my first. It needs a lot of love and care to bring it up to the level I work on now. I still enjoy the idea, but the writing is not fabulous. I hope you do like it, but please, don't critique on the poor writing—I know it needs to be updated.

But anyway, please ENJOY!

Chapter 1-The Oracle

Miakode means power of the moon. When it is changed to Miakoda, it becomes she who posses the power of the moon. In my tribe, the moon is a great source of strength. That belief is even stronger in my family. My parents met under a full moon, they were married under a full moon, I was born under a full moon, and my younger brother died beneath the full moon. My parents always prayed to Pah, the moon god. Since I was their first-born child, and I was born under the moon, they decided that I must contain the moon's power. I was named Miakoda, she who posses the power of the moon.

For my tribe, names mean everything. Throughout a person's life, they must try to live up to their names. My name is hard to live up to. The moon is a source of strength, bravery, power, and sacrifice. My parents always believed I could fulfill my name, but I never did. My whole life, my name has been a label. People hear it and expect me to be wonderful and great. The moon is a wonderful thing, just not when people expect you to be like it.

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Every generation contains a child who will perform a wonderful deed for the tribe. Once every child in a generation comes of age, a meeting is held. The priestesses attends and tell us what great duty will be given to the tribe through our generation. Today is that meeting.

My mother dresses me in my best leather and sends me off the walk to the elder's meeting place. Around me, I see other girls and boys walking to the same place. Everybody is together with siblings or friends walking, talking, and singing.

I look down at my feet and walk quickly. I have no one to walk with, not even a brother or sister. The kids around me laugh and dance and show off their best leather or turtle shells.

We reach the meeting place and sit around the priestess who sits on a log in the middle of the circle.

As soon as the elders walk into view, everyone quiets down and watches. The elders make a speech about what our meeting is about. The elders sit around the outer edge of out circle, and the priestess begins. She carefully lays out different bones and woods on the ground around her in a pattern. She pulls out small leather pouch that clicks and clacks when she shakes it.

She pulls out six stones and tosses them into her maze of sticks and bones. She watches as the stones fall and starts humming. When she has finished her song, all the kids stand up to look at her work.

The priestess calls out her deep booming voice, "Pah has been watching this generation. The power of the moon saturates this oracle. My elements have told me that a young girl will give the greatest duty to this tribe. She will save many of our people and their sons and daughters. This generation, and this girl will be remembered throughout history as the daughter of the moon."

With that, she collects her bones and sits.

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As we walk out of the meeting place, the elders watch us leave.

At my hut my mother asks me to tell her everything the priestess said. I dreamily repeat the oracle to my mother.

I asked her what the greatest duty was, but she didn't know. The greatest duty could be anything done that protects the tribe.

How I wish I was that girl. I'd never fit in with any of my people, ever. If I was this girl, I'd have a way to prove myself to everyone.

I'd finally have a way to live up to my name.