Disclaimer: I do not own beyblades.

A/N Okay before we all get started on this fic I would like to say a huge thanks to a good friend of mine Swaypippin who has been my proof reader and editor for this fic.

Big Cheers ; )

Chapter 1

It was dark, but not dark enough. Flood lights swept the ground looking for the four figures hidden from sight. The four held each others hands forming an unbreakable link because there was no way anyone was going to be left behind. An alarm sounded making the two girls in the group shudder in fear of what the consequences would be if they were caught. There was the sound of savage dogs barking, that was it there was no more hiding. It was time to run.

The two older boys nodded in the dark, knowing exactly what the other was thinking. The smaller girls let out a yelp as they were pulled from their hiding place but they knew they had no choice and anyway they trusted these two males with their lives so if they wanted to run, then run they would.

The barking grew louder as the vicious dogs grew closer, snapping at their heals. "JUMP!" one of the boy yelled as they reached the fence.

Their hands separated as they clung onto the fence out of reach of the dogs. The four scaled the fence and though they sustained injuries on the razor wire at the top they fell to the ground on the other side relatively unharmed. Once everyone was on their feet they fled into the forest that surrounded the facility. Curses were heard above the howling of the disappointed dogs as the men shook the chain link fence with fury.

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Twelve years later

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Kai stared up at the cloudless sky thinking about the night that he, Lillie, Tala and Jerry had gained their freedom or escaped, as others would put it. It was funny, though he often thought of the night Twelve years ago he very seldom cast his thoughts to Tala and Jerry. He had his own life now, he and Tala had kept in touch over the years with letters, just the basic really- change of address and what not. The last he had heard of Tala, he had just won a local Beyblade tournament in Russia. Kai himself had won all that Australia had to offer but that didn't worry him, next year he would defend his title and so on and so forth. Kai smiled secretively to himself as he though of the turn Lillie had put on last year just before the tournament. She had said that the only reason Kai wouldn't let her enter was because he didn't want to be beaten by a girl and least of all her. But that wasn't true. Kai knew Lillie was a very good blader and that she would have a very good chance of winning, well making the finals at least cause there was no way she could beat him. No the reason she wasn't aloud to compete was for her own good. One Hiwatari popping up on the radar gave Biovolt reason to put out feelers but two, well in Kai's mind it wasn't worth the risk. If anything happened to Lillie he would be devastated. It was for her own protection.

Tala did the same thing with Jerry and he also had the same problem but it was their job to protect their little sisters and protect them they would. Come hell or high water.

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Tyson sighed, looking across at Ray and Max he felt desperately lonely even though his best friends were in the room. None of them had heard from Kai in over three years and though it was silly to still miss someone that long after they disappeared, someone who was a pain in his butt, he still did. There was something about Kai that drew people to him even though he loathed the attention.

The office that surrounded the three boys was incredibly boring, grey walls and matching carpet. Mr D had called them in for a meeting but as yet hadn't turned up, he was at least half an hour late and Tyson didn't have very long attention span so he was ready to bounce of the walls or fall asleep, he hadn't decided yet. In his minds eye he could see Kai's figure leaning against the wall in the corner looking severe and bored.

The door burst open causing two of the three boys to jump out of their skins, there was a shout from outside in the hall that sounded vaguely familiar but yet couldn't be placed before an adorable redhead came into the room looking around happily. A moment later Mr. D entered the room closely followed by Tala. To say that the boys were surprised by the new unexpected additions would be an understatement, Tyson jumped out of his seat, Ray's jaw dropped and Max fell off his chair landing on the floor with a thud.

"Tala?" Tyson did some shouting of his own. They hadn't seen Tala in two years, not since they faced of against one another in a tournament in Russia. Tala nodded in greeting before he took a seat beside the desk. Until now none of the boys had paid any attention to the girl apart from when she had burst into the room but now all attention turned to the girl with blood red hair and ocean blue eyes just like Talas'.

"Jer (Say Jair) sit down we have business to attend to." Jerry looked around at all the faces staring at her before she pulled a seat across the room so she could sit next to her brother. It was funny, she had heard so much about these guys but they didn't look all that special to her. She had heard that Kai had been with these guys but didn't appear to be with them right now.

"Tal where's Kai?" there was a disappointed look on the girls face, Max, Ray and Tyson gaped at her, probably wondering how she knew Kai she thought.

"Not here Jer." Well that now explained why she had been so eager to get into to the room, she hadn't seen him for twelve years but she had heard of him and had all the magazines that featured anything about him but as far as the world was concerned Kai was an only child just like Tala. Jerry did know about Lillie and the two did exchange letters more often that Tala and Kai did but there was never any mention of the girl. Tala had always suspected that his little sister had a slight crush on Kai today just proved it.

"You know Kai?" Ray asked interested shifting in his chair, he was wondering when Mr. D was going to tell them what was going on.

"Kind of, Tala knows him better." Tala sighed at his sisters' comment, she was just going to get him into a game of twenty question. A growl emitted from the back of his throat and Jerry promptly shut up. Sitting in her seat Jerry turned towards Mr. D waiting for him to start talking.

"Well I guess that means we're in Tala's bad books." Tyson muttered. Jerry turned to give him a death glair. "Oh yeah, she knows Kai alright." Max laughed.

"Well are you finished now?" The old man sat behind his desk playing with his bowlers' hat looking slightly impatient.

"Sorry Mr. D, please start." Tala gave the old man a tired smile.

"Okay boys and young lady. It has been brought to my attention that Biovolt has been substantially more active over the past few months and it is worrying especially when there is a new tournament in two months time. Now Tala has been receiving information from inside and has passed this information on to me. It is no longer safe for them to stay in Russia that is why they are here now, they will be staying with you until I arrange alternative accommodation for the two of them. Do you have any problems with this arrangement or any questions?" Mr. D had put his hat down now and was all business.

"What is Biovolt up to this time?" Ray was well and truly sick of the antics of Biovolt, as far as he was concerned they had occupied enough of his time already.

"From what my contacts have told me Biovolt have been developing and testing a hybrid form of bitbeast as well as altering the genetic structure of the blader and intend on entering a new team into the next tournament." Tala finished.

"Any more Questions?" Mr. D was pleased to see things were winding up.

"Yeah just one." Tyson cut in, eyeing the girl sitting across from him. It was an endearing sight to behold, the smaller redhead had her hair in two pig tail plats giving off a cute innocent glow which the clothes nly re-enforce. Jer, or who ever the hell she was, sat before them in a light blue T-shirt with a animated yellow duck on the front, a frilly knee length, pink skirt and white sandals with a small heal. "Who is she?"

Jerry opened her mouth to answer but was cut off by Tala. "She's out of bounds, even think of touching her and I will put you in so much pain you will wish you were dead. Come on Jer, we're going." The girl stood and obeying her brothers' instruction left the room shortly followed by Tala who closed the door behind himself.

Mr. D let out one of his chuckles. "That was Tala's younger sister Jerry, she is the same age as you and as you can see has a very protective older brother who loves her dearly."

"Tala has a sister?" Max looked all agog. Ray just shook his head, he had figured out who Jerry was early on in the peace. "What, didn't you pick up on the family resemblance?"

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"Well that was entirely shitty! I wanted to see Lillie." Jerry was slightly bereft at how the meeting had gone, she had been expecting more.

"Watch your language, look nothing is going to happen for a while and after all this is over I will take you to see Lillie." It was amazing to see how the big bad Tala melted when he was around his little sister though she didn't really have any idea who Tala portrayed himself as to the rest of the world. All she cared about was that he was the best big brother in the world.

"Do you know where she is?" Jerry was determined not to mention Kai, she had let her thought slip out earlier and she had no intention of making that mistake again.

"Of course I know where Lillie is, she's with Kai, where else would she be?" sometime his sisters' naivety annoyed him but then it was also endearing so it didn't leave him with a leg to stand on. "Don't you write to her all the time?" They had come to a park and an ice-cream vender was peddling his goods.

"Only email, I don't have a clue where she actually is." Jerry made a B-line towards the ice-cream vendor.

Once Jerry had her ice-cream and Tala had a bottle of Coke the two wondered the park content in each others company. Neither was looking forward to sharing accommodation with other people, they were used to it being just the two of them.

"Tala do you think we will ever see Bryan, Ian, and Spencer ever again?" Jerry wondered of the path to sink down beneath a Maple tree.

"Sure we will, they're too good for Biovolt not to enter them in this coming tournament so we will see them in a couple of months. Anyway the freaks will be entered under another name and Biovolt will still have to have a front team." Jerry didn't know that Bryan, Spencer and Ian had been his informants' and it was better off that way. The fewer people who knew the safer they would all be. Tala had followed her to her spot under the tree and sat down beside her stretching his long jean clad legs out in front of him, relaxing slightly in the dappled sunlight.

"That's good, I just wish we could see Lillie and Kai again. I don't even know what Lillie looks like anymore." the sadness in his sisters' voice touched Tala's usually cold heart, well cold apart from when it came to Jerry and his friends.

"OH My God! Look its Tala Valkov!" There were scream from a bunch of girls as they all turned and began to run towards them.

"We better go." Tala jumped to his feet pulling Jerry with him and out of the park.

"Wow they breed more persistent fan girls over here ha?" Jerry was ready to collapse, they had been running for ages and they were still being followed.

"Tala over here!" a shout called out to them. Looking about they saw Ray standing outside a Beyblade store. Ray stood back to let them in. Jerry collapsed on the cool floor breathing hard.

"Thanks man." Tala gave Ray a pat on the back.

"No prob I saw you running up the street followed by them." Ray gestured to the plate glass front of the shop, the view of the street was now blocked by at least fifty screaming fan girls. There were shouts of 'Oh my god Ray is in there' and stuff like that.

Jerry sat up once she had caught her breath and looked around the large room. "Wow this place is really cool!" There was a cheerful laugh from behind them, turning Jerry came face to face with Max.

"Glad you like it, this is my dads shop." Rubbing the back of his head Max extended his hand. "We didn't get a chance to meet properly before. I'm Max Tate."

Jerry took the proffered hand. "Hi, Jerry Valkov." Letting go of Max's hand Jerry began to roam the room looking at all the different stock.

"What's all the ruckus about." Tyson stopped when he saw the storefront. "Ah man, how is my pizza going get here now?"

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