Author's Note: I am not an editor or a professional writer. I will write this and edit it the best I can. I also do not own Uma Musume, which is owned by Cygames. Watch the animes and read the mangas, for they are pretty good. Finally, please enjoy.
Black Diamond POV
Rock and Roll is one of my two passions right now, the other is sprint running. Nothing like the adrenaline you get going as fast as possible in a track race, other than rocking out loudly on your sweet electric guitar, obviously. Born in an athletics-based family, with my mom in marathons, dad in track and field, and siblings in other sports. I soon followed in their footsteps and have been in athletics since I was young, and I was very talented receiving my poppa's speed, with my momma's stamina. Still, we believe there's nothing worse than being screwed thanks to stupidity, so they made sure my studies were on point.
Thanks to my strict studies I learned not only a lot about track and field, and marathons I learned about many physical sports along with my siblings. I learned martial arts, ball sports, swimming sports, winter sports, and even gymnastics. I even knew how to do a little free running and parkour, with some extreme sports. Still, my main course was always track running, and during practice, I met a guy who liked to play music while he trained in the gym. He looked like no one else in the gym with long hair, piercings, tattoos, and he dressed stylishly all the time.
I was attracted to him, and that was the day I realized I was bisexual, I soon introduced myself, and we hit it off, as he was gay, and he was only 2 years older than me. Once we began dating he introduced me to the music scene, and I soon fell in love with the scene, and rock and roll. I soon fell into it studying music, and learning instruments, while listening to the suggestions of my new friends I had made in the scene. I still practiced hard, and my parents didn't care I was bi, because they only cared about our family continuing our sports tradition. That's why they hated me studying music seriously, as they saw it as a waste of time, and disapproved of it interrupting my running practice.
It was a sad time, as after dating for two years, we broke up after his band got more popular, and I went to college, as we both got way busier. Still, he left me with the love of rock and roll, the mastery of multiple instruments, and the ability to produce and write my own songs. Still with me becoming bigger in the track scene, I soon almost entirely left the music scene behind, as I had no one who supported my love for music anymore. I won championships and honors in the fastest distances, I was happy, but unfulfilled. Then during my last year in college, I met her, a dance major who loved music, we met at a party, and soon got together.
I began to learn dancing from her, as I wanted to spend more time with her, but soon she reignited my love for music, and rock and roll after listening and dancing to the same lame ass pop songs over and over again. Goddammit, that was torture, we got into an argument about it which led to her saying," If you think you can make better songs than the top celebrities, why don't you?" That's what I did in a fit of spite and rage I created my first song with the guitar I had put away since my last breakup and soon released it online, sharing it with everyone I know, and telling everyone why I made it. What I did not expect was for that song to go viral, and explode in popularity. My agent, and everyone I knew was blowing up my phone as I was raking in millions of dollars in cash and views for my new song.
It was great until thanks to this incident, my parents cut off my allowance and contact with me, my girlfriend broke up with me, and the news began to question my dedication to the sport. I was cast into a dark place, because of all these events happening at once. That's when my roommate, came to our dorm room and told me," Control what you can, I know the world must be a dark one right now, but it will always be if you do nothing. You have a rare opportunity to take advantage of your recent success, you bragged about how you love rock and running, now schedule your life to take advantage of it. The press thinks you're not taking the sport seriously, win and prove them wrong, your parents disapprove of your love for music, succeed in the scene and they'll be begging to come back.
Now if you still don't feel like doing it, I called your buddies to drag you out of this dorm to help you tackle your new heartbreak and help you take advantage of your newfound success." That's when my friends came, and peeled me off my bed, and took me out to a place where I could cry. Those assholes took me hiking to a fucking mountain, and I hate the fact that the trip fucking worked, as it helped me process through my emotions and get me my resolve back. I love those idiots, and soon they helped me schedule my life of physical training and performance practice, race competitions, music production, all my education and studies, and finally my recording sessions and release schedule. I began paying them as without them I wouldn't have succeeded so much.
I won awards and championships, succeeded in both, attracting fans to crossover to see me, but time takes a toll, and once I retired I was considered a hall of famer by the fans in track running. I soon fell into music production, creating music for myself and others. I have had songs around the world since I learned multiple languages as a kid. I even conquered the charts for multiple categories, nations, and audiences. My life was a success, and I got old, and was about to enjoy my retirement, doing many things in life, but then I woke up in the world of Uma Musume.
Where I soon learned a lot of the music in this world except for idol music has never risen up to what they could be or have hit walls, because key figures in the industry didn't exist or were influenced by the world and became part of the idol industry creating songs for idol Uma Musume. I hated the music in this world, and I spoke to the team about my discovery. All of them agreed I should both copy songs from our world and create original songs for the team, as they agreed to us being performers as well as athletes. That's when I decided I was going to take this team and make them all into superstars, I'll even write non-rock songs for them, as they gave me the opportunity and support for this project. This was now my team, and soon I asked everyone their favorite genres, and songs were to accommodate them to what songs I would write and produce.
Boy, do they have different tastes, ImP likes Punk Rock, especially by some band called the Broken Broncos. Spice likes hip hop especially the ones where the rapper doesn't try to sing when they know they can't. Norn likes R&B and in her words doesn't trap herself in favorites, while Lily likes Alternative Rock, with her too focused on training to care which is her favorite. Then GW loves Eastern Classical music, which I need to study, because I knew nothing about it, and Steel likes Heavy Metal also not having any favorites. Jo likes Electronic music, and Gray shyly admitted she liked K-pop with both of them not having a favorite, because they're obsessed with their favorite genre like I was, which I respect the bros for.
Then I learned Mama likes Blues which is funny thanks to her name, just like how Steel likes Heavy Metal. KiWi loves Dubstep and I finally realized how crazy she is. Rain likes Funk music, and Rose likes Jazz, and it fits based on their personalities. Sweets liked American Country Music and Vic likes Western Classical, and they were so intense about it, I knew they weren't lying. I told them I liked rock, and they acted like it was the understatement of the century.
I began testing everyone's dancing, singing, instrumental, and rapping abilities. Every person who used to be a guy, even steel can still hit low notes like they were still guys. GW, Rose, Steel, Rain, Norn, Sweets, and surprisingly Gray and Jo were great dancers. KiWi, ImP, Jo, Rose, Steel, myself, Mama, and Spice can play some type of instrument. Finally Spice, Jo, and Gray can rap, and surprisingly Lily and Vic suck performance-wise, even though they're very strong runners.
Both soon began taking the performance side seriously as both have their own immense sense of pride. Both helped by me, the rest of the team, local lessons found by Gray, and even from our teachers hired by Ayana. They soon got really good seeing they had a lot of potential at the beginning, but they've both still currently behind everybody else. In thanks they both worked me hard through training as they didn't seem to appreciate my strict lessons. Soon I found out our phones contained our playlists and songs we had in our past lives, but it seems only people in the team can hear them.
No one in this world that's not like us can hear this music, so I began copying each song down note by note, lyric by lyric. It was a slow continuous process that's still ongoing even to this day as I was also making original songs. I was the composer, but shared songwriting duties with Gray as he was surprisingly decent, as well as leaving the choreography for our dances to GW and Norn who are really amazing and creative when crafting choreographies. A bunch of fun facts about the team, Norn is a great designer from clothes to graphics, Mama is good at cinematography, KiWi in animation, Sweets in directing, and Lily in hosting.
Our team is jam-packed with versatile and talented individuals. Like Vic is great at management not just leadership, and Rain is a great dietician making sure we have proper diets to give us energy and keep us in shape. With the large amount of rappers, musicians, and dancers on the team I was never lacking any inspiration and insights. It's great we got creative freedom, even if we have to share it, in our contracts, because we're about to blow the roof off this world.