Dear Tala
Disclaimer: See chapters 1+ - ps: I own half of the Morgan triplets, and The Wicked Witch of Dingl owns the other half, okay? Okay.
Chapter 4 – Colourful
The next morning, Jess, Katt and Ici were amazed to find that the night before wasn't an over-exaggerated dream or hallucination. Katt sighed heavily.
'Well, at least we're triplets now. Hmm, I wonder what happened to the Twin Terrors, Jess.' She mused thoughtfully, one eyebrow raised in amusement.
Jess shrugged. 'Who cares? I'm not being told that they exist, so I'm guessing that they don't.' she then went back the examining her nails and hair with some interest.
'Umm, you know in the show, most of the characters beybladed and had bitbeasts?' asked Ici slowly. The girls turned to face him, and nodded.
'Well I think I have one. No! Two! I found a talking laptop under my bed. Like Kenny's, I think…' he trailed off as he turned the previously mentioned laptop upside down.
'I have a bitbeast too. His name's Scorpius.' Katt agreed cheerfully. Jess nodded as well.
'Mine's a boy too. He's called Sagittario. He says he's a centaur with a bow of fire. He doesn't shut up.' She ended with a scowl, while Katt and Ici were laughing.
'We each had a bag of stuff under our beds.' Ici pointed out, pulling out his own bag. Jess and Katt simultaneously reached under their respective beds, pulling out the bags too.
They each had a tonne of electronic equipment. Jess and Katt immediately started looking through the beyblade parts they had each been given in a black briefcase. They worked together to build up three blades. Ici's laptop bitbeast, Aquarius was also chipping in every so often, and Scorpius, Sagittario and Ici's other bitbeast, Virgo added in as well.
'Hey,' Jess said about an hour through the silence that had fallen over the three. Her siblings looked up at her with mild interest and surprise.
'You wanna go shopping later? For a new look?' she asked. Katt grinned, and Ici smirked.
'Sure.'
'Why not? I got nothing better ta do.'
'Cool.'
There was a paused silence, before all three went back to fixing their blades.
Jess's blade was black with flames round the edge of it. It was entirely black on top, with Sagittario sat on top like the proud king he was.
Katt's blade was black as well, with pale-milky-blue streams of ice whipping across it like vines. Scorpius was crouched readily in his bitchip, sat on top like Sagittario.
Ici's blade was also black. Green smoke drifted up it from the bottom, gathering in a rough circle around Virgo, where she stood menacingly in her bitchip.
Later on, when the blades and launchers were fixed, they took the two girls' briefcases and Ici's laptop down to a training room to try them out.
While Ici worked on his physical strength, Jess and Katt tried out the blades. They then also went on to work on their launches specifically.
Ici then did laps round the room, while Jess and Katt made a few modifications to their launchers, leaving Ici's blade and launcher untouched, though. Then they tried their blades out again.
Two hours later, they got changed and went shopping. Katt managed to sweet talk the man at the bank into getting some money out of Boris's account. Jess covered her, and Ici did a search on their new family tree.
'Hey girls! Look what I found!' he called from where he sat behind a computer in an internet café.
'It turns out that we grew up in the abbey as well, which explains how come we know how to fight. Also, we aren't very well-known beybladers, though our father's been trying to get us into it for years. Our mother is pretty much unknown, and for some reason we've always been kept away from the Hiwataris. Hmm, that's weird, there's nothing else on this site about the Hiwataris…' Ici trailed off with a puzzled frown.
'Do a search on them, Ea.' Katt suggested. Ici nodded and began to type again.
'AHA! Oh no…' Ici frowned again, though this time out of worry. He bit his lip as he read what came on-screen.
'What?' asked Jess, bending down with Katt to read over his shoulder.
'It says here that the eldest living Hiwatari left is…Voltaire Hiwatari! Kai's grandfather! Oh yeah! It also says that Kai is the youngest living…and that they're the only two Hiwataris known to be still alive.' Ici trailed off to glance up at Jess.
'So…our father isn't gonna be pleased when he finds out that we met Kai, Tala and the others, then?' was all she could manage out. Katt shook her head.
'Who cares what he thinks? It also said on the other page that we were known to be a rebellious troublesome trio for our dearest father.' She grinned devilishly. 'Now there's one thing I'd like to live up to!'
'We'll talk about this later, when it's just us, okay?' Jess said. The other two nodded.
'Until then, let's go shopping!' Ici suggested. Jess and Katt grinned, and pulled their brother away from the computer.
Kai and the Demolition Boys eventually found the Morgan Triplets in the hotel's café. They grinned and waved to them. The three stood up and walked over.
Ian's, Kai's and Tala's jaws dropped when they saw Jess and Katt.
Jess had pulled her striped hair up into bunches, and had invested in some new clothes. She wore loose, faded jeans and a sunny yellow shirt that had some buttons undone, showing off her cleavage slightly. A green Jade necklace hung round her neck and stopped just inside the dip of her breasts.
Katt's hair was left loose, falling freely to her waist. She wore a black and milky-light-blue kimono, with a yellow band round the middle, and a blue chord to hold it together (like Yumi of Code: Lyoko with light blue and black instead of red and black, okay?). She had pale blue tights, which were mostly covered by black, heeled boots that went up to just past her knees. She moved easily in them.
Ici Morgan had short brown hair, very different from his sisters' more…enthusiastic styles. He kept his hair short and simple, not bothering over it too much. In his arms was his laptop. He wore dark green cargo pants and a plain grey t-shirt over it. A long green jacket was over this, but it was only slightly lighter than his pants.
'Hey.' Jess greeted.
'Wow.' Kai told her, looking her up and down several times. Jess blushed and smirked. She waved her hand in front of his face to bring him back to his senses. He blushed slightly when he realised he had been staring.
'Hello. Hello? Hello! Earth to Tala!' Katt pretty much yelled. Tala jumped as he was brought back to the present. He blushed as well. Katt smirked teasingly at him.
'Tala and Ka-att sitting in a tree: K-I-S-S-I-N-G-!' Jess and Katt both hit Ici over the head angrily, while Kai and Tala did the same to Ian, only harder.
'Shut it, you two!' Katt growled. Ian and Ici glanced at each other, before cowering under Jess's basilisk-death-glare.
'So, whadda ya wanna do?' asked Bryan. Jess and Katt glanced at each other, and then down at Ici.
'Well, we fixed our beyblades up this morning – wanna help us test them out properly?' Jess asked. The boys glanced at each other, and then nodded.
The triplets broke out into grins, and pulled their blades and launchers from their pockets.
Spencer let out a low whistle. 'Did you custom-make these this morning?' he asked. All three nodded.
'We had help from our bitbeasts, though.' Ici added quickly. Ian frowned.
'You have bitbeasts?'
'They're Boris's kids, I'm not really surprised.' Bryan pointed out to the smaller blader. He nodded in dawning comprehension.
'They look good to me. Let's have a beybattle, then.' Spencer said, handing the triplets back their blades and launchers.
'Okay, Bryan, Tala and Kai vs. the Morgan Triplets!' Ian yelled, imitating Jazzman badly.
'3…2…1…! Let it riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!' he yelled.
'Let it rip!' the bladers echoed as they released their blades into the plain dish before them.
"Okay, let's take it easy and get our bearings first, okay?" Ici suggested in his mind to his sisters. They both nodded to him, and Tala, Bryan and Kai frowned at their strange behaviour.
'I thought that.' Ici told them verbally. They nodded again.
"Yeah but we both still heard you…and it wasn't Scorpius who told me." Katt replied, also in thought. Her blade dodged to the side to avoid Falborg.
"Okay you two, I'll take Kai. We seem about equal. Ici, can you take Tala? Katt, I think Bryan's targeted you. Best to go along with that." Jess ordered. On either side of her, Katt and Ici nodded.
'Right.' They both said.
"Mistress! Call me out with Virgo and Sagittario!" Katt frowned as Scorpius's voice echoed through her mind.
'Scorpius! Hands of Water!' Katt found herself ordering. A white light streamed from her bitchip, and Scorpius rose out of it. Katt grinned.
Two exact copies of her blade appeared on either side of the original blade. The three went round in a circle to confuse the others.
Katt somehow knew which one was the right one, though.
'Sagittario! Fountains of Fire!' Jess cried. Kai grinned at her.
'Dranzer! Blazing Gigs!' he countered. Soon, the other four were pushed to the edges as the two fire beasts battled it out.
'Jess…!' Katt gasped, fanning herself with her hand. 'It's so hot! My blade's gonna melt! And so will yours at this rate!' Ici shook his head.
'The bitbeasts can make their blades immune to their attacks, and in this case, all fire attacks. Only the bitbeasts and the bladers will get hurt out of those two. However, our beyblades are at risk of this heat.' He explained wisely. Katt nodded.
'Oi! You two! Turn down the heat, would ya! We came here to test our beyblades, not to melt the fucking things!' She yelled. Jess smirked, and started to dodge Kai's attacks instead.
Katt sighed in relief, and just managed to dodge Falborg again. She braced herself, as her blade smashed into his.
'Virgo! Castles of Air!' Ici called. Instinctively, everyone went silent until the attack was over. Wolborg had stopped spinning.
Virgo managed to toss the blade out to Tala again, where it landed at his feet. He picked it up, and walked to the side with Spencer and Ian.
Meanwhile, Jess and Katt had swapped, so Katt was taking Kai. She was dodging him when he attacked, and hitting him from behind when he tried to turn round to attack again. That was when he was most-vulnerable for her attack.
'Grr…Dranzer! Finish her off! Flame Sabre!' he yelled. Katt barred her arms across her face, as Sagittario shot in front of Scorpius to take the blast instead.
Kai's, Tala's, Bryan's, Spencer's and Ian's jaws all dropped when the smoke cleared, showing that, in fact, Kai's blade seemed to have been the only one to have taken any damage, since it was lying at Kai's feet.
Scorpius dodged round from behind Sagittario to knock out Falborg while Bryan was distracted. She smiled sweetly at him as he looked from the blade lying still at his feet, to his conqueror.
'Umm, yeah!' Ian said vaguely. 'And the Morgan Triplets win!'
'Wow. That was…unexpected.' Spencer said carefully. Jess and Katt walked over to the others who were gathered in a group.
'Yeah. Even we were expecting to loose.' Jess admitted. Katt looked at her sister.
'Really? I was just wondering when Scorpius would shut up all the way through it…he still hasn't shut up 'n' all…' she said angrily. She groaned and held her head in her hands.
'What's wrong with you?' asked Ian, looking up at her. Katt groaned again.
'Great. Just great. Now that bloody scorpion won't stop singing! He's not even a good singer…'
'What's he singing?' Jess asked attentively. Katt lifted her head from her hands just enough to look at her sister.
'I Know A Song That'll Get On Your Nerves.'
Ici winced. 'I pity you, Katt. Try blocking him out.' He suggested. Katt nodded. She groaned again.
'Apparently I'm really going to need to practise that.' She muttered, walking out of the practise room.
'So who's gonna go follow her, then?' asked Jess and Ici in unison. Tala looked to the others, all of whom were looking to him, and sighed.
'Fine,' he relented at last, 'I'll go after her. Katt! Wait up!' he called, running out after her.
Katt sighed as she collapsed onto her bed. She smiled into the pillow, looking up when she heard somebody cough. She turned just a little bit pink.
'Oh. Hi Tala.' She greeted, rolling over to lie on her side so he could sit down. He sat next to her on the bed, and stared at her. Katt rolled her eyes.
'Not this again. TALA!' she yelled, laughing as she did so.
'Wha-Oh! Right, sorry.' He said sheepishly. Katt frowned.
'Why do keep staring at me, anyway?' she asked him innocently. She smirked when he looked away in embarrassment.
'Because you look so different.' he told her in a rush. Katt smiled and shook her head.
'That's true, but you said it too fast: you're lying.' She announced. Tala's mouth fell open in astonishment.
'How did you…? Oh, never mind.' He muttered, smirking. Katt smirked back. 'It's because of what I wrote to you.' He admitted. Katt thought back, her eyes widening. Tala smirked.
'What?' asked Katt snappily.
'You look…cute, like that.' He chuckled. Katt blushed a little, and let her head fall and rest on his shoulder. She smiled contentedly. Tala pouted unhappily.
'What? I don't get anything?' he asked her. Katt opened her eyes and looked up at him.
'Hmm, well, it depends what you want, doesn't it?' she teased playfully. Tala smirked back, slowly sneaking a forgotten arm round her waist.
'How about…' Tala trailed off suggestively. Katt smirked wider.
'What? Can't think of anything?' she asked him innocently. Tala growled and used the arm around her waist to pull her closer. She grabbed him for support, and Tala took the opportunity to gather her into is arms. Katt blinked up at him in surprise.
'Huh?' she wondered. Tala laughed openly at her expression, and smirked when she scowled up at him.
'Now you look even cuter.' He told her with a grin. Katt blushed and tried to get up again. Tala tried to pull her back into him again, until after a few minutes he gave up out of exhaustion.
Katt smirked triumphantly at him, and rested her chin on his shoulder from behind him.
'I think this is the upside to being cute – you can't bear to beat me!' she whispered in his ear. Tala smirked back at her.
Jess and Kai walked side by side along the street, ignoring some of the jealous looks they were getting. They were holding hands, but deliberately not making eye-contact. They each looked anywhere but at the other.
Jess finally spoke. 'Look, crazy as this sounds, I'm really glad I got to know you, and that me, Katt and Ici are here…in your world.' She said at last. Kai goggled at her, and then regained his composure.
He smiled. 'Me too. I really like you Jess…really like you.'
Jess smiled wider still, watching him lean in towards her from where he now sat next to her in the booth of a restaurant.
Her eyes closed, just before he captured her in a gentle but firm kiss. She smiled, amazed to feel him smile back. He broke the kiss, and they stared into each other's eyes.
Maroon met pure-black…and liked it.
Up in Katt's room, Tala surprised her, by closing the gap as well. She sighed peacefully and contentedly as they broke off to gaze into each other's eyes.
Icy blue met jet-black...it worked well.
A young girl looked round, surprised as she felt someone tap her on the shoulder. She gasped, as did the five other girls she was with, when she saw the young boy before her.
Boy, was he ever hot.
He smiled warmly at her, looking through the others as if they were not there.
'Hi, my name is Ici Morgan…I'm new here, would you mind showing me around, if you're not busy, that is. I can pay, if we need to.' He told her politely.
Mathilda's eyes lit up and she nodded, getting up from her seat calmly, as if hot guys like him asked her to "show them around" all the time.
She wished they did that all the time!
She giggled quietly to herself as she heard Ming-Ming fuming, Hilary gaping, Mariah whistling like a boiled kettle (and probably as red as one, too!), Julia gasping like a goldfish, and Emily starting sentences, then cutting herself off, often before even the first word was sounded.
'Bu-Bu-Bu…wha…huh!' Emily cried the last word, making Ici grin as well. Mathilda smiled at him, her heart fluttering as he smiled back.
'I meant what I said…could you show me around…what's your name?' he asked, faltering for the first time.
Mathilda swallowed the lump in her throat, this guy wasn't going to laugh at her and walk away.
'Mathilda.'
'Hmm, Mathilda…I think that's a pretty name.' he told her with a wry smile. Mathilda grinned joyfully.
Ici motioned ahead of them. 'Shall we go on?' he prompted calmly, sporting another charming smile. Mathilda swallowed again and nodded. They started forward.
'Let's…Ici.'
Ici glanced at Mathilda, accidentally making eye-contact with her. It stuck.
Slowly but surely, their faces inched closer, until Ici put on a small burst, capturing her lips with a gentle and surprisingly shy kiss. Mathilda's eyes widened at first, but she soon began to return it.
They broke apart slowly, their eyes meeting again. They both smiled now, fully meaning it, knowing it would all be okay.
Blackest of black had just met Pink…everything was going to be okay.
…Wasn't it?
Well, I just turned that into a very fluffy ending there – Aww! (also, YAY ME! I FINISHED THE FIC!)
Anywho, please review, thanks for reading, naioka1992 - xoxo