Daughter of the Moon

Where it began

(The Shawman^)

Somewhere, in a place where fantasies are stored, a teenage girl was getting ready for one of the biggest events her tribe held. But little did her or anybody else know that this day would end up changing her entire life forever. 

     But let's not get ahead of ourselves. lets start from the beginning shall we. Hi, my name is Nokomis, it means "daughter of the moon", and this is my story.

In my tribe we "come of age" at 15 and have this big ceremony where we discover our spirit animals to celebrate it. Now my ceremony doesn't start till dark so well start with what happened during that day.

I woke that morning to my best friend that was acting like an overly excited puppy.

"NOKO NOKO NOKO. COME ON COME ON GET UP GET UP LET'S GOOOO!!!!!!!"

She yelled at me.

"GAAAAH!!!!!" I screamed as i fell out of bed with a big thump.

I sat up with a pout as she started laughing at me.

"Hahahahaha! Oh noko you should see your face right now this is priceless" she said as she continued to laugh.

You see i had drool marks on my face as well as several other marks from where what i was laying on had left an imprint on my face. And when you add in my messy clothes and giant mop of dirty blonde colored hair that would reach mid calf if it was brushed it was.....well, you get the idea right? Anyway.

Sighing i got up and began my daily routine which consisted of bathing, brushing my hair and putting clothes on. And just to do it i like to look at all of my tribal tattoos. I have quite a few, i mean there are definitely others who have more but for my age i have a lot. 

I have tribal patterning down my chin that trails down my throat to my collar bone where it splits off to my shoulders where my sleeves of my tribal markings are, i also have these marks on my legs, they start at my ankles and go up to just below my knee before stopping.

Once my routine is finished im dragged away by my best friend. "Niko, where are we going", i whined.

"To get food what else" she replied with an eye roll as my eyes instantly light up and now fully awake i begin to drag her so we get there faster.

"So um, what do you think you'll get?" Niko asked me with a face full of food. I snorted, holding in a laugh at the way her face looked and swallowed before responding "i don't know niko, but ill be happy with whatever i get because its part of who i am" i giggled as she started mumbling stuff with food still in her mouth.

"hey what do you think i should wear?" i asked her but immediately regretted it as soon as i saw the wicked cheshire grin on her face with her wavy brown hair that framed her face and covered her eyes. I gulped and shivered as i quickly started to run away only to be tackled to the ground seconds later.

(Time skip to ceremony)

After hours of tortu- i mean getting ready, it was finally time for me to enter the shamans circle. I ended up not completely hating what Niko had me wear. I had a black sleeveless form fitting top with some teal markings on it along with black short shorts, teal and black wrist and ankle bangles and my hair put up into a high ponytail that made it so it only reached my knees and it would frame my face. As i reached the shaman all the noise stopped. not a sound was made as i stood with the shaman next to the fire, the elders ,my family, best friend and everyone else wait to see what animal's spirit rests in my soul.

The shaman begins her ritual, saying chants and throwing different things into the fire here and there. Once she is done i give her my hand so she may continue.

She takes my hand and makes a cut across my palm, then folds it into a fist as i hold it over the fire to let my blood drip into the flames.

Once she is satisfied with the amount ive given im given cloth to wrap my hand while she puts out the fire resulting in a giant cloud of smoke.

We wait a few moments before anything happens and when it does we are left stunned.

At first its all normal as the clear image of a running wolf forms in the smoke,at this my family and the elders look pleased. But then the image starts to shift and it then shows the form of a tiger leaving everyone confused as to why 1) i have two spirit animals and 2) why one of them is not native to us.

Then the images shifts again to show them both. They start running straight towards each other and collide in the middle with a puff of smoke that when cleared up left what looked to be a hybrid of the two.

It had the body of a wolf but was a great deal bigger than the tiger, it was and orangish brown with dark brownish black stripes. It was absolutely beautiful.

But when it disappear and i look around me it seemed i was the only one that thought so.

I saw many things on peoples faces. Fear, confusion, hatred, disgust, disappointment, and hurt.

But the looks that scared me the most was the looks that the elders and the shaman were giving me. The elders looked at me with a mix of looks that said i was a deer in a lions den and like they were just attacked by a skunk. 

But the look on the shawmens face that begged me to run for my life is what scared me the most. But then everything suddenly went black and i was left in the darkness of nothing.