Author's Note: I am not an editor or a pro writer. I will write this the best I can and edit it the best I can. I also do not own Uma Musume, for it is owned by Cygames. Watch the animes, and read the mangas for they are pretty good. Finally, please enjoy.
Steel Valkyrie POV:
It was a beautiful yet meaningless day, another day without real competition and victory. I was patiently waiting for the leadership of the team to decide our future like a drug addict waiting for his dealer's supply to finally arrive. I'm obsessed with competition and I'm addicted to victory. It used to be my only distraction from my hell of a life back on earth. You see I grew up in a very conservative and religious sports family, in a very conservative community, as a woman in a man's body.
I had to live in secret as I knew how my family, friends, and loved ones would react. I even began disguising myself by throwing myself into sports, and mixed martial arts. Still, I was more into racing than any other sports and loved triathlons as they allowed me to race in multiple ways. I loved competing and winning, as it kept me distracted from romance, sexuality, and gender identity.
When I wasn't competing I was training, doing community activities such as dancing and singing, studying, or even learning new sports to play with my friends.
Thanks to that everyone believed I was a manly competitive freak of nature, so I became a superstar willing to face anyone. I was very much using my addiction to victory to run away from my social identity problems. I ran away from hanging out with friends, but was always there for them, and even when people tried to set me up on dates I was also gay and transgendered so I made excuses to ruin it, or avoid it completely.
After years of dominance in the scene, even as I got older, my health began to decline, and even when I did everything to stay healthy, I was eventually forced to retire. I did everything to distract myself from my addiction and from facing who I truly am, I completed my education, I did business until I became very wealthy, but I was missing the thrill of athletic competition.
That's when I awoke in this world, at first everyone seemed to be intimidated by me, but after a while, they began acting as themselves around me. Some like Lily won't stop challenging me, which helps with my victory addiction, because none of them can beat me. Still, it's got nothing on those big victories surrounded by roaring crowds, and all this talk about winning is making my current situation more ironic. Why you ask, because I look like Haru Urara, the one made inspired by the race horse that never won and has a 0 - 113 in official races, and only winning a race for retired horses. Now I see myself as starting at -113 instead of zero like everyone else, and I have to make up for it, so my goal is to reach 0 on wins.
With my goal for the future decided, and my teammates knowing and supporting me, I couldn't wait to race again. Love my teammates especially back then when my gender identity was something I was still afraid of people finding out about. All of us were being transformed and telling each other about ourselves, when it was my turn Mama immediately noticed I was hiding something that I was wary of telling everyone about. Still Vic, Rose, GW, and Gray encouraged me, and with a bit of courage and a lot of fear, I told them I was a woman in a man's body before we all arrived here. They were shocked at first, and I was scared they wouldn't accept me, but then KiWi began laughing loudly breaking the awkward silence by saying very loudly," HAHAHA, SO THIS SITUATION MUST BE A DREAM COME TRUE FOR YOU, HUH, YOU LUCKY BITCH."
Everyone began laughing after and so was I in relief. They all began telling me that some of them, Norn, Gray, BlaD, and Sweets, were either bisexual. A lot of the group were now technically lesbians because they changed gender, but didn't change what gender they were attracted to, which was almost everyone, except GW and Mama who were straight because they were women in their past lives, but already raised and supported their own LGBTQ+ kids. I now knew I was now surrounded by the right group of accepting and open-minded people to be with, especially with me spotting the romantic interests happening in the team. Rose and Sweets, ImP and Lily, even I see a love-hate relationship forming between Rain and Gray.
With my team accepting me as I am, I felt like I should be helping them improve their abilities, and how they could be winning. I helped Vic and Norn with their adaptability, and GW and Rose with adapting to different terrain. Then I helped KiWi and Spice with their endurance and stamina, and gave Sweets and Rain strategies on how to use their toughness to win. BlaD and Mama with speed and stamina training, then expanded Gray's and Jo's knowledge and strategies. Finally, I began to train with ImP and Lily to help them with all their skills.
I even let them challenge me all they want, and do tests on me to improve our knowledge and abilities as well. Lily told me how she currently ranked the team, and I agreed from what I heard, as she based it on performance and considered the personalities of each person as well. Still, it can change if they were using strategies and some people unleashed their full potential, like Jo and GW. That's when we got called into a meeting for the team's future, which I've been waiting for. We all got cleaned up and arrived at the meeting.
There we were introduced to freestyle running, and the giant worldwide league it had, and I was excited. It had relays, sprints, marathons, regular races, obstacle races which mixed hurdles with obstacle courses, that added sabotage and trickery. Then mix races that combined or changed races to make the sport more unpredictable. I loved every part of it. Soon the team began to search for a team and organization for a while, but switched to getting an agent and an agency to do that for the team.
Still, the demands are kind of a lot of I have to admit, it had to give us strategic and training freedom, because we're all experienced athletes that know what we're doing. We had to have creative freedom on our team for the performance aspect, as well as the team's themes and perception moving forward. We also wanted to be paid handsomely, and have a lot of funding for the team. Which is why when we decided to at minimum share control, and accept advice from others, I was all for it. I was fine with expert advice on things I don't know and more creativity, as long as it's positive and beneficial, heck I didn't get so dominant on my own, I had a lot of people in my life helping along the way.
We soon located an agency, albeit a small one, that would agree to help us, if the head agent could see how good we are. We soon went to the tryouts and after Rose got us registered and approved to use the public track in this large town's public park the day before, we began the tryouts as soon as the agent arrived. She got here with a professional attitude, ready to do her job, and even if she wasn't an Uma Musume you could tell she has experience with athletes. I was also told she looked like Seeking the Pearl, but that didn't matter, because it was showtime. Looking at her reaction after, she was impressed, as our performance was great, with Gray and Jo highlighting our strong points during each of our performances.
She soon introduced herself as Ayana Hiraga to the rest of us, and with the help of the team's leadership, we got properly signed to her agency. We soon moved to her agency's city by train with us getting an Air B&B for the next few weeks until Ayana finds us a team. Still, at the moment we were busy with our lessons, which were very educational and very much taken advantage of by us, as we drained all the knowledge and resources from every one of those teachers before they had to move on. We soon adjusted our training, knowledge, and diets to fit with what we had learned, and soon we all began improving by leaps and bounds. Soon though good news arrived, the day a team or organization was located by Ayana for us to work for, and from what I hear from leadership, it seems too good to be true.
Still, I have a good feeling about this one, and my instincts are never wrong, but I'll wait for them to see the situation before telling them.