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Jewel Maidens - Chapter 7 - Willow the Skater Girl

Willow Mills was born to a Maori father and an Australian mother and has a younger sister named Darla, although her father wanted a son; thankfully growing up in Richmond Common, Willow wanted nothing to do with anything feminine much to her mother's disappointment, in fact throughout out her childhood, her natural curiosity for mechanics combined with an absurdly high IQ of 205 meant she was building full skateboards and bikes by the age of six, at ten years old she met Dave Dreamer and joined the Dreamers, although she reluctantly went to St Grace Girls Academy for her secondary school years, she was still able to keep up a masculine enough appearance right up to sixteen, although most people figured out Willow's gender already, Cerulean Wizard even giving her an ultimatum by saying, "we won't kick you out but if it becomes too difficult to hide, you owe it to us to come clean"
That day would never come.
Despite years of delinquent behavior, her idea of just perfecting all her tests and ignoring lessons just to get by backfired when the BWI took her in for her college years, it was shortly after the Dreamers defeated the Montfort beast, her jewel awakened inside her giving her sharp Topaz eyes, she was a Jewel Maiden, and the BWI wanted to help her mature it.
Despite not wanting to go, her mother made a deal with her, "attend the BWI college and you can have the freedom to choose to be anything you want" Willow wanted to be a mechanic but it meant two years of torture in some hoity-toity Princess Academy.
The experience wasn't so bad, she met her only female friend in the equally smart Tabitha Travers and graduated as a full Jewel Maiden complete with debutante ball. "THOSE PICTURES MUST NEVER BEEN SEEN!" Willow never wants the Dreamers to see her like that.
A few years training under the legendary racer "The Silence", Willow along with Tabitha joined the Sonic Youth race team as it's chief mechanic, sporting a Maori tattoo as is tradition in her family of the Swallow, said to be her reincarnation in the next life.
She long held a fear that she would inherit her mother's impressive figure, a long running joke in the neighborhood was that Willow had the hottest mother, which Willow didn't like, not because of embarrassment but she would potentially turn into that, thankfully her sister inherited those genes instead.
"Dave? Dave! My eyes are up here" Willow shouts clicking her fingers.
Dave shook his head.
"I think you need to understand what really happens on the Metro" Willow jumped in her car and had Dave follow.

Jewel Maidens - Chapter 6 - The Dreamers

"This race will take a while so let's chat a bit" Jansen throwing Dave a soda.
Dave Dreamer was no doubt a very talented driver but his tendency to get himself into strange situations didn't exactly give him the best reputation; he lacks the popularity of drivers like Music Monk and Cerulean Wizard but he's the only male driver to defeat a Metro Queen, defeating the Goddess of Victory Ramona Helkin, which got him invited into her team.
"Except getting that much attention from arguably the hottest milf in Bayside will make you a target" Jansen pointed out.
"The Helkins have hundreds of cars that I can drive any time, why leave that comfort?" Dave asked.
"That's the thing Dreamer, you've been cruising on easy mode while the rest of us work for our cars, although I agree that arguing with Ramona is nigh impossible" Jansen knew Ramona's reputation.
"Believe me I've tried but she's just too persuasive, I also suspect she wants me to marry her daughter but me and Zoe don't get along" Dave explained.
After another drink, Jansen asked another question.
"Weren't you part of the Dreamers? What happened to that group?"
"Those were the good ol days, going on adventures, fighting the Montfort beast, we were supposed to all enter the Metro together but we disbanded the team after graduation" Dave reminisced.
Dave remembered that one of the Dreamers went to a different school named Willow.
"Well you can always start your independence by hiring a mechanic, most if not all the top racers have one" Jansen says bringing up a list.
If by mere coincidence or sheer dumb luck, Willow was the first name on the list, part of the Sonic Youth racing team.
Dave still had Willow's number and sent a request.
"Wow, Dave Dreamer? Been a while, sure I can be your mechanic, I'm not far from your location, give me ten minutes" text replied.
"This is going to great, Willow made some of the best skater and bike kit going, without his custom builds, we would've lost against the Montfort Beast, now he's a mechanic, were going to be unstoppable" Dave watched a white custom Honda Civic turn up but then a look of shock and awe when stepping out was a hot woman.
After an awkward pause.
"Willow, how long have you been a woman?" Dave asked
"Since the day I was born. WAIT YOU DIDN'T KNOW!?!?" Willow shouted
Jansen slipped away from the awkward reunion and drove off.
Dave was frantically typing on Whatsapp.

Dave Dreamer: Guys! Willow is a girl!
Cerulean Wizard: Yeah we already know
Blood Raven: lol
Ascension Zero: I thought it was obvious
Jester of Malice: Her voice never broke and she was too scrawny to be male
Hidden Ace: She went to an all girls school
A Partridge: I should've been there to see the look on your face
Jimbo Nix: Also Willow is kind of a girls name
Silent Viking: .............
JonJ: There are other women besides your mum you know

"I'm guessing from your frantic texting that you're the only one who didn't know, this will take a while to explain" Willow sat on her car with a soda.

Jewel Maidens - Chapter 5 - Metro Night

At one of the many stops on the Metro Highway, Zoe was ready for a race, although she doesn't know who to expect, joining her was Ayami's tow driver Jansen and Dave Dreamer, a regular racer with a habit of attracting trouble.
"So Ayami sent you instead of coming herself?" Zoe asked Jansen.
"Someone has to recover you, and that Camaro you're using is one of Ayami's cars, why is Dave Dreamer here?" Jansen asks.
"He saw some new fast food joint and decided to chase it, but he racked up another ticket from his stalker" Zoe more stressed than Dave by that statement.
Zoe scrolled through the map of potential racers, they were looking for a Mazda RX-8 driver with a driving style said to be the most elegant on the Metro, nothing matched that description yet although there was still time until midnight when she is said to appear.
In the meantime a loud Mitsubishi was entering the stop, it was a racer known as Eight ball.
"It's my lucky night, Zoe the Hellcat Helkin" spoke a girl with a Seoul dialect.
"I'm not in the mood Eight ball, I'm waiting for a different driver" Zoe replied.
"Why wait when I can race you now" the girl activated the headlights, Zoe reluctantly accepted and took off after the Mitsubishi driver.
Jansen took out a tracker and looked at the battle footage.
"Who's the Korean girl?" Dave asked.
"You're on the Helkin team and you don't know who Eight Ball is?" Jansen shouted but Dave just left a blank stare, Jansen reluctantly explained.
The Helkin clan is a massive family from Greece, said to be descendants of Zeus himself, they are blessed with perfect Adonis like bodies for men and amazon like bodies in women, but an enraged Hera placed a curse on each Helkin member as revenge for Zeus' constant adultery, they will only get these perfect bodies if they fall in love with their true partner, and they won't know until they meet them, it's not uncommon for a Helkin line to end because of this. Zoe's mother Ramona met her husband in school, much like Zoe, she was also bullied by cheerleaders, a particularly violent encounter was stopped when a short chubby teen defended Ramona from the cheerleaders, who then helped take care of her in the nurses office, the teen said he wanted to become a doctor and couldn't stand needless violence and suffering, Ramona fell in love and kissed him and transformed into the amazoness she still is today, she would also marry her precious doctor and have three sons and one daughter together, when it's pointed out that they don't match, she will always defend her husband as a true man.
Her sons, all Adonis built hunks, also found their true loves in the most unlikely people, Zoe hasn't found hers yet, as for eight ball, known by her real name Su-Jin Kim, has Helkin blood in her and resents the main family for it, Ramona is too difficult to defeat, known as the Goddess of Victory, she's one of the four Metro Queens along with Silver Swallow, The Silence and Blazing Rose, but thinks Zoe would be an easy target to soften the pain.
"So Zoe and Su-Jin are both going to become" Dave drew an hourglass with his hands.
Jansen bemoaned the simple answer, even if it was correct.

Jewel Maidens - Chapter 4 - Hellcat

Ayami closed the front door behind her.
"Don't make a scene and stand up, my son is already asking questions I don't want to answer more" Ayami said angrily.
Later on, both women sat in the paddock cafe and had a more calm conversation.
"You're Ramona's daughter? I half expected a Helkin girl to be more well endowed" Ayami said. The Helkin family were one of the most powerful families in Bayside, easily recognised by the Adonis like men and the Aphrodite blessed women, Zoe was tall for a woman, typically a Helkin girl would be close to 6ft tall, but she lacked the Jessica Rabbit like proportions, Ayami thought it didn't seem right until she saw Zoe's rose tattoo on her right shoulder, Ayami's eyes glowed as she stared at it "that explains it" she thought to herself.
"I was shot in school" Zoe interrupted
"I know, the Bayside football shooting" Ayami was aware of the incident.
A cheerleader was drugged up and sent on a rampage that killed several college football players and also went after Zoe, it was an attempt to assassinate the Helkin children but ultimately failed when a track runner stopped the attacker, but the damage was done, Zoe lost her scholarship for pro racing and was forced to pay everything off with a degrading delivery job, she tried a Metro career but her constant angry driving earned her the name Hellcat and was quickly put in her place by Kara Shindo who despises nepotism.
"I'm going to give you two runs, one on this race track and the other on the Metro, I'll choose the car, but don't get any ideas of taking my title, you have to live with whatever others call you, if you want to change it, then do something that earns it" Ayami demanded.
After a short trip and some preparation, Zoe started on Ayami's private race track and set numerous lap times.
Ayami who was watching with her engineer did see some potential.
"What are we looking at Gaston?" Ayami asked.
"All those pro skills are on display, no doubts about that but they're a bit rough around the edges, because of her injury, it's almost like she's holding back on a much smoother style, almost like she can dance with her car" Gaston explained.
"I'll setup a Metro run for the Haruna highway for after midnight, it's a work night so I know she'll be on there that time" Ayami remarked.

Jewel Maidens - Chapter 3 - Ice Rose

Outside a Chuck E Cheese, a delivery girl arrives to drop off supplies, catching her eye was the sight of Hayabusa sat at a bar as another girl sits next to her, both women have a black glove on opposite hands, Hayabusa standing out like a sore thumb with her black leather cat suit and red leather jacket while the lady next to her looks like a mother with her cream sweater and sensible lounge pants.
"Couldn't you have picked a more quiet place? I've already been mistaken for a cosplayer" Hayabusa scowled.
"Would it kill you to wear something other than fetish grade leather, I only picked this place because I couldn't find a babysitter and my son wanted pizza" the mother replied.
After an awkward silence, Hayabusa started talking.
"What made you decide this?" Hayabusa asked
The other girl's drink was giving off steam before it calmed down, the delivery girl noticed this.
"Ayami" Hayabusa scowled as her own drink froze up.
"My son is starting to ask questions and in the future, I'd rather he didn't follow my path, the most obvious question is this" Ayami removes her glove to reveal a mechanical hand, Hayabusa didn't flinch but the delivery girl watching was shocked realising that it's the real Blazing Rose.
Hayabusa removed her glove to reveal her own mechanical hand.
"You have the memories of your previous incarnations, in fact you kept restarting the timeline until you got what you wanted even if it meant locking me out and creating a new Nasu" Hayabusa put her glove back on.
"Yet I'm still destined for pain, at least in this timeline I have a choice and no one is pushing for me to come back" Ayami but her glove back on.
"This Metro challenge will determine who controls it once and for all, even if it's in the hands of people like Senki, Kara, Misao the Helkins or even Maria, I'd like to avoid the wars of the past, I'd rather not be forced out of retirement to fix it anymore, and if it does, you're welcome to stop it" Ayami signals her son to leave.
Hayabusa was relieved to finally leave, still wondering how any civilised person can like mascots, death staring the mascot as she leaves.
After Ayami leaves, the delivery girl follows her, a call on her phone shouts out the name Zoe as she turns it off, it was a long drive but Zoe was determined to see Blazing Rose.
Her journey ends at a block of apartments next to a mountain race track, this was the Gear Club, a private club for high ranking racers, a cousin of Zoe's is a member.
Zoe eventually got to Ayami's apartment and went down on her knees and when Ayami answered.
"Please Blazing Rose, teach me how to race!"