A Cog Soldier's Daughter

by Genesis Vakarian

Alright folks, this is my second Gears Of War Story and well, this is centering around Marcus and his daughter, Jadyn. Set after Gears Of War 3 this story entails love, trust and growing up without her mother showing her the way. Jadyn must learn how to trust her own beating heart to show her the way. And yet, she sees and speaks to the dead like the tv show Ghost Whisperer.

25. Chapter 25

As Jadyn packed lightly, she felt like she was missing either her bandanna or her mother's COG Tags and well, it was both. As she collected both items, she knew that there was going to be hell to pay.

"But," she said more or less to herself,"Dad has to give me the chances of learning to fly with these wings of mine and get out and do things for the cog and the stranded."

As she headed out, she began singing a song called ignition to herself."Start it up/Turn it on/We can ride this storm/A grip of hope in our hands/For the coming dawn/Up to our necks in complexities/Causing us to pause/As we collect our thoughts/So don't blink if you wanna come cross the border/Take a look around or come test the water/We won't stop till we see the morning/So welcome to the quiet before the storm hits/Turn on, turn on the ignition everybody/Come on, come on, the ignition/{x3}/ Comatose/Half hearted/Room temperature's fine/Sleep walking, no dream seems to be filling our minds/Earth shaking/We be quaking like a wake up bomb/This ain't no trouble overseas/No Vietnam/So don't blink if you wanna come cross the border/Take a look around or come test the water/We won't stop till we see the morning/So welcome to the quiet before the storm hits/{Take it up a notch, Come on, come on, turn it up a notch}/ Turn on the ignition/Everybody/Come on, come on turn on the ignition/{x3}/ You're sleepwalking/I'm sleepwalking/ You're sleepwalking/I'm still talking/Come spark the parts in me/That all but died/Jump start my heart and wake the sleeper inside/Hold up the flag cause it's ride or die/Hold up the flag cause it's ride or die."

Because nightfall fell earlier then usual, Jadyn found a place to sleep of sorts and keep herself safe from whatever packets of remaining kryll in an old abandoned house with ll the fucking lights on and she settled into a corner well lit and where she can see all the doors and the hole where she entered as well. Without being caught unawares by anyone out there looking for an easy target.

And she has always opted to be up high to make flying after she gets up the next morning easier for her as well. As she placed her wings around her torso and upper legs, Jadyn shifted she felt like she was safe for the moment, and not only that, but she is always going to be trusting herself for everything that she does on her own. Including trading with the various groups of stranded as well.