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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!"

Jewel Maidens - Chapter 2 - Sister-in-law

Having grown up with Nasu, Mikoto has been friends with her for as long as she can remember, she never really thought much about Kaito, she got on fine with him but she never saw anything else until the night she nearly lost her life.
Growing up in the company of two of the most decorated street racers on the highways, Nasu's parents were a target for control of the entire metro line.
Nasu and Mikoto were part of a junior metro team in their late teens when they came under attack from rival teams, but it would all come to a climax. Mikoto was dating Shu at the time, Nasu was caught up in a rival clash on the metro when she found about a plot to destroy the base, Mikoto was on her way there with Shu, but the bomb malfunctioned, as it did, Shu revealed that he was an enemy and tried to shoot Mikoto only for Kaito to take the bullet, an enraged Nasu tried to kill Shu only for an assassin to steal the kill, known infamously as Death's Right Hand, she calmed Nasu enough to treat Kaito to save him, feeling guilty for letting Kaito get injured, Mikoto took responsibility in nursing him back to health, the two would fall in love after the team disbanded following the Black Horse incident on the Highways and would marry three months later.
The building of the Haruna shrine gave Mikoto a new purpose as she awakened her gem the amethyst.
Racer to receptionist would seem like a down grade, but she admits herself that she's terrible with cars preferring bikes especially Vespas.
One thing is still unclear from that day, who is Death's Right Hand?
She wears black leather with a large red leather jacket, she has a scar across her face, an eye patch over her left eye and her right hand is mechanical, she wields a well worn out warhammer as a weapon with a hidden blade in the hilt along with an icy aura that follows her about, but one thing that did freak out Mikoto was that she had the same purple ribbon as her right down to the kanji that spelt Mikoto's name.
"Mikoto, you day dreaming?" Nasu asked.
"Thinking about that day, who is Death's Right Hand?" Mikoto asked.
Nasu remembering the event also remembered what the assassin said to her.
"Don't make the same mistake again!" Was what she said to her as she slain Shu.
Nasu found it too traumatic to continue the team and disbanded, especially after the Black Horse incident which saw her car totalled by Kara Shindo.
"Mom never hired any assassin during the war for the Metro line, Kara as usual won't talk and I can't pay Misao's fee" Nasu said.
"Only thing I know from the casinos is that she will answer to the name Hayabusa and that she knows Blazing Rose" Kaito name dropping the name of the Metro line's last resort who annihilated the Black Horse leader Maria Rossi and prevented her from taking the Metro.
There is talk of a Metro line tournament with Blazing Rose in line to race for the final time against the winner but with Nasu's car still not ready, it looks like the racing path may be a dead end.