Dear Tala

Disclaimer: I do not own beyblade or any of its characters, just my Oc's and the plot. Jess owns herself, btw and Zoë owns herself…the Twin Terrors also own themselves, umm…if any more occur, I'll tell ya! Don't sue me!

Chapter 1 – Greetings Earthling

To say it began with a diary, sounds pretty silly, doesn't it? But it's true. About the diary, I mean. If the diary had never been written, I wouldn't need to be writing this, and would be writing more worth-while stories.

So this is the part where I set the scene for you, right? Right.

Jess and Katt were the best of friends – typical story, right? Wrong. They each went to different schools. Katt's school was mixed, but Jess's was all-girls. They were still best mates, though.

Each girl had their own little group of friends at school. The two groups didn't really mix, but neither were they the worst of enemies. They were content to know that the other group existed, but none were too worried about the other.

And, hey! Both Katt and Jess wrote for as well! They mostly wrote beyblade fics, but would do some others occasionally.

Each girl wrote a diary. Katt had started it all off, and then persuaded Jess to try it too.

Tala Ivanov frowned. He had opened his "magic notebook" as he called it, only to find that nothing new had appeared – yet. Within a few more seconds words started to sink through from the other side – a black page.

He had discovered about a year ago, that his notebook was a sort of portal, if you will. He received the diary entries of a young girl, who signed each entry as Katt. He had no idea who she was, but was quite interested about reading what she had to say.

He knew that Kai had the same from a girl called Jess, too. It sounded like they were the best of friends, since the other was commonly mentioned in the entries.

Each girl wrote specifically to them too, but seemed to be unaware that the boys actually got their messages. Kai and Tala were still too wary to write back, yet.

Katt smiled to herself as she took her black diary off of the nightstand. She opened it calmly, pausing when she saw writing that certainly wasn't her own. She gasped as she found it be an entry: an entry that was appearing from the other side of the page.

But Katt knew that the page was blank. She looked back at the message again, and shakily drew her finger under the words as she read them in a whisper.

'Dear Katt,

I have no idea who you are, but I want to know why you write your diary to me, and why I receive your messages in my notebook. If this is joke, please stop. If you have no idea I ever got those messages…well then I am sorry.

Your life sounds interesting and fun. Very different from my own. Your friend Jess sounds like the girl my friend Kai gets diary entries from. Does she know he gets the messages too?

The reason me and Kai haven't written back to you before now, is because we didn't know what would happen. We don't know why we get your messages, but to be honest I sort of like it. You are like an unknown penpal to me.

If you can, please write back. If you have no idea what this is, then again, I am sorry. Please forgive me.

…As you say, lots of love,

Tala

…Xoxo'

Katt stared at the message a few more seconds, before slamming the diary shut again. She put it back on the nightstand, and turned out the light at once.

Katt hummed quietly to herself as she walked down the hallway. She grinned to herself, and broke out into a quiet song.

She pushed open the heavy oak door to her bedroom, and froze.

'Who are you!' she half-yelled half-screamed. The redheaded stranger whipped round to face her, and froze as well.

Katt forced herself to take a deep breath, and squeezed her eyes tight. She prayed it was all a bad dream.

But when her eyes opened again, the boy was still there.

'Are you okay?' he asked her quietly. Katt stepped back away from him. Her back pressed against the doorframe. The boy stepped back from her again. Katt's eyes widened suddenly.

'M-My diary! You looked in my diary!'

The boy glanced back at the black book lying on the bed and frowned.

'That's yours? You are Katt?' he asked. Katt took in another deep breath and nodded.

'Who are you and what are you doing here?' she asked. The boy shrugged.

'My name is Tala, and I just came out of that diary.' He told her calmly.

'That's not possible.' Katt argued; her voice hollow.

The boy shrugged again.

'Tell that to the book.' He joked.

Jess frowned as she opened her own diary.

Like Katt, though she wasn't to know the same had happened to her, a message was appearing from the other side of the page.

'Dear Jess,

I'm going to be honest and tell you that I have no idea who you are. I don't know if you know this, but all you entries appear in my notebook…I've never thought to write back before, though.

I guess I should have been more considerate about that, huh? If you don't know who I am, and have never written to me before, then I'm sorry to have bothered you. If this is Jess, though, then…hi…? I'm sorry I read your diary, even if all the entries were addressed to me…why did you do that anyway?

My friend Tala gets messages from a girl called Katt, the same way I get your messages…this wouldn't be the same Katt that you speak of so often, would it? It would be funny if it was, huh? Or, maybe not…I'm not too sure anymore.

If you are able to, please write back. If this isn't yours, and you are not Jess, friend of Katt who writes her diary to Kai, then ignore this. Think of it as a bad prank, if you want.

Goodbye Jess (if this is even you who is reading this message, that is.) from,

Kai'

Jess gazed down at the message, before reacting the same way as Katt, and slamming the book shut. She cocked a brow at the irony that she saw.

'Well, guess we got our out-of-the-ordinary, Katt.' She muttered. She smirked to herself, rolled over, switched out the light, and drifted off to sleep.

The next day, Jess was running late…how…normal.

She let out a yelp as the doorbell rang again.

'I'm coming! I'm coming!' she called, as she tried to hop towards the door, while pulling on a shoe at the same time.

She opened the door to see a smiling face.

'Late again, Jesse?' the girl teased. Jess's face fell angrily.

'Gimmi one minute, Zoë – hey, is that my boot?' Jess turned away in pursuit of her boot, which was barely sticking out from under a pile of shoes.

'Aha! One down, two to go!' Jess cried triumphantly, waving the boot in the air. Zoë frowned.

'You have grown an extra foot? Jess you only need two!' she laughed. Jess grinned as the boot now hung limply by her side.

'Yeah, but I'm still looking for my other trainer, remember?' she pointed out. Zoë laughed even harder at that, and was soon rolling around on the floor.

'I'll come back tomorrow, then!' Zoë giggled. Jess threw a random shoe at her friend, making Zoë squeal.

'Oi!' she protested, 'I don't want one of your brothers' smelly shoes in my face, thank you very much!' Jess laughed openly at her expression, and was still laughing when the door shut behind an ever-giggling Zoë.

Jess frowned as a large banging sound came from upstairs. She made her way back up the stairs again; boot at the ready in case of an emergency.

'Hello?'

Jess gasped as she laid eyes on the figure that lay behind the door to her room. The boot fell to the floor. She started to tremble.

'Jess?'

'Y-Yes, wh-who a-are – wait, Kai!' she gasped again as realisation hit her full-force. She stumbled backwards, wincing as she tripped and fell back into the doorframe.

The slate-haired teen nodded, and rushed to help her up again. She gasped through clenched teeth as he put a hand on her back to help her along. She sprang forward, and his hand shrank back again.

'I-I'm sorry.' Jess whispered, as she turned to him again. Kai smiled slightly, and took her hand. He led her over, where they sat side-by-side on her bed.

'So…How did you get here, Kai?' Jess asked at last.

'All I remember is a weird blue light coming from my notebook, me opening it, and then I was falling out of your diary – which was hovering in mid-air. It hit me on the head when it fell.' Kai smirked at the end, and Jess found herself giggling.

'Okay…I have got to call Katt about this!' Jess decided. She raced to grab a handbag, and immediately started rummaging through it.

'Katt? The one you wrote about? The one that writes to Tala?' Kai asked as Jess punched a number into her mobile. Jess nodded and then paled.

'What if the same thing happened to them too!' she gasped. Kai went even paler.

'Hey Katt, we have a major problem here.' Jess started.

'Well gee, Jess, could ya slow down so I can hear this terrible problem?' answered Katt waspily. Kai chuckled at the stressed voice that answered.

'Whatever. Kai…from Beyblade…just came out of my di-a-ry. THAT SLOW ENOUGH FOR YA!'

'Oww! My ears! My delicate, delicate, are-now-in-pain ears! WHADDA YA TRYIN' TA DO, DEAFEN ME!'

'No, I just want your help here. Now please help!' Jess screeched.

'Okay, okay…Tala came out of my diary too…weird, since last night I got a reply from him…' Jess frowned as Katt trailed off thoughtfully.

'And yeah, Tala, I got your message…seriously, I'm a penpal to you? You never wrote back except that one time…'

Jess laughed. 'Okay Katt, let's meet with the two boys at the litch gate in fifteen minutes…we'll need to sort some things out.' Katt replied with an affirmative, and the two girls ended the call from either end.

'Let's go.' They each said to the particular boy that was in front of them.

Katt was pulling Tala along, as she glanced around her warily. She was headed towards an old gate, but Tala supposed that was 'the litch gate'.

'Okay, Jess and Kai should be here soon…' Katt looked around impatiently. 'Argh! This is her cue, does she not know that?' she muttered to herself angrily. Tala smirked.

'So what were these things that you and Jess will need to sort out?' he asked her. He jumped up to sit on the gate, watching as Katt took a couple of tries before joining him.

'Well, me and Jess go to different schools, you see…we're both in the last week of our holidays, though, so we need to get you into one of the schools. You'll be enrolled into my school, though, because Jess' is an all-girls one.' She explained. Tala nodded.

'You're not telling me something.' He pointed out bluntly. Katt sighed.

'Umm, the thing is…oh! Hey Jess! Umm, nice to meet you Kai.' She greeted jumping down to stand a few inches below Jess.

Kai and Tala grinned to each other when their eyes met. Tala jumped down as well, and Kai dug his hands in is pockets as a sign of a Kai-style greeting.

'So about these things to be sorted.' Kai prompted. Katt and Jess quickly explained about the schools, and Tala smirked pointedly at Katt.

'What were you going to say before, Katt?' asked Tala, one eyebrow raised.

'Well, you see, you and Kai are both, well…hot.' She told them. Jess nodded.

'Totally. Girls will be drooling over you…but I guess that must have happened in your world, huh?' she joked. Both boys nodded.

'Wait, our world? What's our world? And what did you mean when you said "from Beyblade"?' snapped Kai. Jess and Katt cringed.

'Umm, your two characters from a TV show called "Beyblade" – so is the rest of your world.' Jess told them. Katt nodded, her eyes closed in anticipation of their reactions.

'So somebody just thought us and our friends up?' asked Tala, his face, voice and eyes all rid of emotion. The two girls nodded.

'But hey! Maybe we can bring them out too!' Jess said brightly. Katt nodded.

'Yeah! Since we have no idea on how to get you back in!' she added, equally bright.

'Are you a natural blonde, or something?' asked Kai incredulously. Katt scowled at him, and jumped back up to sit on the gate again.

'Okay, so we need to think of a cover for them.' Jess added.

'Orphans from an orphanage in Russia. We were your penpals, and we're here because we were exiled for our safety. No other orphanage will take us. Will your parents go along with that?' asked Tala.

'Probably. My Dad has the brain of a pudding.' Katt said calmly. Jess nodded.

'Yeah, and my Mum is too busy with work, and my Dad is too busy trying to contain the Twin Terrors.' She agreed.

'We'd best go tell yours first, eh Jess?' Katt said, glancing up at her comrade. Jess nodded and Katt jumped back down to the ground again.

'Umm, what's the Twin Terrors?' asked Kai.

'Jess has younger twin brothers, their names are Connor and Callum. Actually aren't they meant to be inside for all of today…and isn't that them?' Katt pointed out. Jess broke into an undeniably evil grin.

'Aha! Tala, Kai, Katt, please help me catch them.' she said. Katt grinned as well, and raced after Jess.

Kai and Tala glanced at each other, before chasing after the girls.

Each one had caught one of the two boys by the backs of the necks of their shirts. Both boys were struggling, squirming and cursing at the girls. Tala held out a hand to take the boy Katt held. She gladly handed him over.

'Follow us.' Katt ordered, walking away calmly. The others followed her.

Jess opened the door, and they stepped into the hall. Kai closed the door, and the twins were put down again. Tala dropped Connor onto the floor.

'Hey!' both boys scrambled to their feet again. They glared at Jess and Katt.

'Oh Dad!' Jess called, 'weren't the twins meant to stay inside today? Me, Katt and a couple of friends found them outside!'

The twins paled and started back upstairs. They were stopped when a man in his forties came down, blocking their exit.

'Ahh!' the two boys yelled, racing back down again. Jess and Katt stepped forward.

'Hey Dad! Have a good day?' asked Jess brightly. The man shook his head and scowled at the twins.

'You two! I told you to stay in today! No TV until the start of school!' he yelled. The two boys gasped, whined, and eventually gave up and walked away, defeated.

'Umm, Dad? I kinda have a favour to ask…' Jess started to explain the alibi for Tala and Kai.

'So you want one of those boys to live here?' her father asked. Jess and Katt nodded.

'Okay.'

'Thanks!'

'Yeah, this is cool!' Katt agreed.

'Okay, so which of them will be staying here?' he asked. Kai raised a hand. The man nodded.

'So long as you do as much as you can to keep the twins under wraps, okay?' he said sternly. Kai nodded uncertainly, before watching the man head back upstairs again.

Katt chuckled. 'Don't worry, he says that to everyone. Basically, you get rewarded when you tell on the Twin Terrors.' She translated. Tala grinned.

'Do you have any brothers or sisters?' he asked. Katt shook her head.

'Unless you count Katie – she's a mate from school. Totally brain-dead, she's like a sister to me.' Katt explained.

'Let's go, Katt.' Jess called.

They all trailed out of the door, where they headed back to Katt's. Katt gulped as she drew a key from her pocket.

'Be afraid – be very afraid.' She muttered as she turned the key in the lock.

'Hey Daddy! Can I ask you something?' she called brightly. There came no answer. Her face fell.

'Stay here.' She said sadly, before running down the hall. Tala and Kai glanced at Jess, who had her head hung.

'Katt's dad doesn't really pay attention to her. She mostly comes round my house, actually. Her only family that is nearby is her dad, and he doesn't do that much. He's pretty rich, though.' Jess explained.

'Dad says it's cool for you to stay here, Tala.' Katt said as she came back. 'Except you need to pay for your meals. Psh, I'll just spend half when I eat out. One extra okay at your house, Jess?' she asked. Jess grinned and nodded.

'My family is your family, you know that Katt!' she said, pulling her friend into a hug. Katt grinned half-heartedly.

'Yeah, sure!' she replied, 'now get off me before I choke!'

'We nick his money to fund our work – and our shopping sprees!' Jess finished her explanation to the two Russian boys. Katt frowned.

'What have you been telling them?' she asked.

'About your dad's attitude and how you mostly come round my house, why?' Jess asked. Katt shook her head.

'Keep it quiet you two, okay? I'm not proud of my family – well, my biological family, anyway.' She said. They both nodded, and Katt broke out into a smile again.

'C'mon, we'll go shopping!' she said brightly. Jess grinned and nodded. Katt ran back inside to come back with a well-worn wallet. She grinned evilly.

'All the money we'll need – where to, Jess?' she asked.

'Gloucester. (For those that don't know, it's pronounced Glos-ter) We'll take the bus. C'mon!' she called. The two girls started to run down the street happily. Tala and Kai watched them for a few seconds, before following.

'We're in England?' asked Tala when they reached the empty bus-stop. Jess and Katt nodded.

'Yeah. Why?' asked Jess. Katt slumped back against the wall as she sat on the small seat. Jess joining her on one side, Tala on her other, and Kai next to Jess.

'Hmm, over £200 in here – hey Jess, whadda ya say we have some fun at Pilgrims?' Katt asked with a cheeky grin. Jess nodded.

'This is gonna be brill, right you two?' she asked, looking to Kai. Katt looked to Tala.

'So long as you're sure your Dad won't kill me.' Tala joked. Katt grinned wider.

'Don't worry. I know how to deal with him.' She assured him.

'I was only joking.' Tala told her. Katt sighed.

'Yeah well, be thankful I wasn't.'

Hooray! This was my most random fic yet! Any questions, ask me about it. Naioka1992 - xoxo