The Heart of Gears

Chapter IX

as we were flying, I hear my mother's voice ask me "do. You hate me?" "Hate you? For what?" "Leaving you and your dad.." "no. You risked your life to save me, but. Why'd you had to sacrifice yourself for me? Couldn't you use your powers?" "Once a goddess becomes a mother, the gifts are passed down, but not our family's power. That stays with us and is hereditary. A trait passed down over time. Since you were born, my gifts were passed down. So.. I put my rifle up on the wall, and retired my title of protecting you to Scott. Yet. We both failed you, my daughter. I'm sorry.." "mother.." I looked at her, she was looking down in sorrow and sadness. "I.. I don't regret it.." she looks at me "I don't regret it at all. You brought me closer to Scott than ever before, yes, we both died. But it's our faults that make us human. Even if we aren't." I hear Amy laugh. "You sound like an old bi-" I tilt my head slightly as I look down I see her falling, I close my wings and dive down, I grab her gently with my claw and open my wings up and flap them. I grin with a smile as I continue to fly faster towards Clockwork, I can hear her screaming. "land! Laaand!!!" I land in the cave of an iceberg with my mother going ahead of me. I let go of Amy, as she summons a large piece of armor appears in front of me. "Get in." she says in a pissed tone, as I get in, the armor fits me as the screen in front of me turns on. "Enhanced Goddess Type Japanese dragon Armor Mark IV activated." I hear the sound of loud roaring jets on behind me..

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We fly over to the bottom of Clockwork, As I look in front of me and was greeted with the whole army of Clockwork, with over 1 million soldiers and 1 thousand tanks. "This is this the best you can do?!" Shouted Amy, as more tanks appeared out of the thousands. "You had to ask didn't you Amy." I close my wings and land on my feet, feeling the cold snow. "Let us pass-" "will not allow that." Said my mother's voice behind me, I turned around and see my mother above me flying, she closes her wings and dives down towards me. I quickly dodge then looked at her, her eyes were glowing extremely red. "I will not let a goddess be with such a pitiful human." her voice sounded twisted and distorted, as her glowing red eyes was glitching rapidly with black clouds of smoke covering her everywhere but her neck. "stop it! Y..you won't control me-" "oh really? Then you should've died, you weak pesky goddess!" she looks up at me. "And you should've told her the darkness you entered." As her wings electrified, she groans and cries out in pain "Mom!" As she stops crying out in pain and collapsed in the snow. She got up and flew towards me, opening her mouth she chops down biting my left wing, as I feel the metal of my armor crunch down and be impaled by her teeth, I cry out in pain. "Mother it's me, Christine! your daughter-" she stops biting me and with her tail slashes my armor. "You have to kill her Christine!" "I can't kill her Amy." "It's either you or her!" I dodge an attack from her, quickly I open my wings and flew upwards, I dove down and opening my mouth I bite her from the side. She roars in pain and anger, as she turns her neck around to bite me I stop bitting her, dodging her attack. "Give me a second, I made a few modifications to this armor awhile back!" I hear the sound of metal being pushed and locked in place to the right of me, I look to the right of my wing and see the tip of a railgun cannon. "You're ready to go!" I swiftly plant the railgun into her side. I'm so sorry..mother. I shed a tear as I activated the railgun to fire, it fired and my mother collapsed laying on the snow with her glowing eyes were gone and was panting heavily, I walk over to her and go in front of her. "C..Christine. I.. I am sorry I never told you." "Told me what?" "Y..you have another sister.. a.. half sister.. her name. Is Amy.." "w..what?" Amy said in reply. "B..but, that's impossible. I.. I hated you!" "I.. I'm sorry. I gave birth to you two.. I.. I.. Love you two.. I love you. All....." as she stopped breathing, I looked at her then lowered my head to her's and begun crying. As I began to remember a memory of her...

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I was walking down a path with her to the beach with my dad behind her, "come on guys!" As I rushed down to the beach, "Christine don't run-" as I tripped and fell on the sand. I began to cry, I look up and see a boy in front of me. The boy extends his hand out and helps me up, "what's your name?" "Christine." "Name's Scott. Scott Sentra." As the boy's family called him over, he walks over as I stood up and sat down, looking out at the ocean. I look to my left to see my mother sitting beside me. She wasn't mechanized at all, she had skin, a light skin tone with black hair and green eyes. "You know.. You've got to learn to love yourself." I look around me, as we were at a large park on a bench, I look around from where I sat, as I see the clockworks capital castle. "Yeah, I know." "Scott really loves you, Christine. He's not joking either. As a mother, I know your hardship. You've gone through depression, but. I want you to try.. try to open up. There are a lot of people who care about you, but you must understand that not everyone hates you. I.. had a sister." "What happened?" "She laid down her life for me. And left me without someone watching over me." I looked at her "how'd you meet dad?" She chuckles "I told you it a thousand times honey." "Please. Pretty please??" "All right, all right. It was a Saturday night at Clockwork, I was surrounded with my longsword drawn who wanted to take me, a fifteen-year-old girl. As the man in front of me was beheaded from a sword, the other men who also tried to take me dropped down dead and beheaded too. As the only man who stood was none other than your father. I was questionable about him, but.. as I got older, and we practiced our swordsmanship, he confessed that he loved me. I laughed and told him it's impossible. Then, he leaned in and kissed me. That was when I fell in love with him.. I hope you, Christine, know that Scott really likes you, he does. You have two options, accept him, or refuse him and regret it.."

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As I shed a tear remembering that memory, as I began to cry. "Unknown creature! Stand down or we will fire!" "Christine-" I looked up and stopped crying, instead I looked at them with anger and hatred. "You. You all changed my mother. CHANGED ME!" I began to feel a dark and mystic power go over me, as the soldiers ran back to the Clockwork walls in fear. The tanks began firing at me but only ricocheting my armor or denting it, not penetrating it. "Christine clam down!" I run over to the tanks and begin my rampage, biting into the tanks with my largemouth and destroying the tanks. As the helicopters flew down I roar loudly and opened my wings up and flew to the helicopters and scratched their tails off with my claws. As I let out a defiant and loud roar. You all wanted me to be a super soldier.. a machine.. now.. you've created me. Your. I get to the top and look at the city, the civilians looked scared as I roared defiantly and in anger. MONSTER.