Ch.1

Tennis's Gift

Sorry I haven't written anything for Hamtaro in a while, I've been busy with my Redwall and Ed, Edd n' Eddy fics. My Ed, Edd n' Eddy fic is done now, so here's my first chapter for my latest Hamtaro fic! Please R&R!


Boss blushed as he saw Bijou from across the clubhouse. She was just standing around, all alone.

"Alright Boss, you can do this" he thought. "All ya gotta do is go up to the girl you love and ask her out, no pressure! What am I sayin'? There's a lot of pressure! What if she rejects me? No! That's not happenin'! I know she'll say yes!"

Boss took a deep breath and exhaled. "Here goes nothin'." His legs trembled with anxiety as he approached the French hamster. "Oh, h-hey Bijou."

"Bonjour Boss!" she exclaimed. "How are you?"

"You're fine, I-I mean I'm fine!" Boss stuttered. "Um, I was, uh, just wonderin' if…"

Stan swung the door open to the clubhouse as he walked over to the table. "Yo ham hams! Check out what I've got!" All the ham hams, including Bijou, hurried over to the table.

"I hate you Stan!" Boss muttered under his breath as he headed over to the table.

"Whatcha got their Stan?" Hamtaro asked eagerly.

Stan held up a small, brass key for the rest of the ham hams to see. "Anyone wanna guess what this key's for?" All the ham hams began to blurt out anything they could think of.

"A treasure chest?"

"An underground labyrinth?"

"A hidden food storage?"

"The meaning of life?"

"Your jail cell?"

"Nope, you're all wrong" said Stan. "And who said 'my jail cell'?"

Sandy put on an innocent expression. "It wasn't me!"

"Whatever, I'll just tell you guys" said Stan. "It's a key to a condo up at Mt. Avalanche!" The ham hams cheered aloud with excitement. Mt. Avalanche was a mountain inhabited by hamsters and was always covered in snow.

"I can't believe you got us all a condo at Mt. Avalanche!" exclaimed Bijou. "Thank you so much Stan!"

"Stan, I'm gonna kill you!" thought Boss.

Stan beamed with pride. "No problem Bijou girl, but I can't take all the credit for this."

"Oh? Why's that?" asked Maxwell.

"This is someone else's key" confessed Stan.

Sandy whipped out her trusty pink ribbon, snagged her brother's tail, and dragged him over to her.

"You stole that key?" she shouted as she stepped on Stan's head. Boss was really enjoying the sight of Sandy beating the crud out of Stan.

"Tennis gave me the key!" blurted Stan. "Now will ya get offa me already?" Sandy obeyed, releasing the ribbon around his tail and stepping off his head.

Stan got up and dusted himself off before explaining himself. "Okay, so I was on my way here when I bump into Sparkle and Tennis. They said they'd give me the key if I did them a favor."

"So, what do ya have to do for 'em?" asked Panda.

Sparkle and Tennis burst through the clubhouse door and seized Stan by the arms.

"Come on! Let's go already!" said Tennis.

"Yeah! Someone needs to be there to carry all of our bags!" added Sparkle as she and her friend began to Stan away.

"Wait a sec!" exclaimed Cappy. "How are we supposed to the mountain?"

"Don't worry" said Tennis as she winked at him. "Everything's been taken care of! Just be here at 7:00 AM tomorrow, 'kay?"

"Come along, mall-slave" said Sparkle eagerly as she tugged harder on Stan's arm."

"Bring your snowboards!" shouted Stan as Sparkle and Tennis dragged him out of the clubhouse.


Early the following morning, the ham hams stood outside the clubhouse.

"This better not be some sort of prank" Howdy grumbled. "'Cause that wouldn't be funny at all, an' I know what's funny!"

"Pigs will fly before you know what funny is" muttered Dexter.

"Hey Bijou, do you think Tennis is coming?" asked Pashmina. "We never got to talk to her much when we first met her."

"If Tennis iz coming, then zat means Sparkle will be coming" noted Bijou. "And zat iz zee last zing I want!"

"Okyoo!" Penelope exclaimed in agreement.

"Hey guys, what's that?" asked Oxnard as he pointed to three black limos speeding toward the clubhouse.

The limos came to screeching halt, send snow into the crowd of ham hams. Tennis and Sparkle stepped out of the first limo.

"Your chariot has arrived!" exclaimed Tennis as she shut the door.

"I'm going to scream my head off!" thought Bijou as she saw Sparkle shut the door to the limo.

"Yeah, just throw your bags and snowboards in the trunk" added Sparkle.

"Which car are we supposed to go in?" asked Hamtaro.

"How about all the girls come with us" Tennis suggested. "The rest of the guys can go in the other two limos."

Sparkle pulled Tennis to the side. "You're inviting Frenchie into my limo?"

"Okay, she doesn't have to ride with us" said Tennis. "She can fit into one of the guy limos. "She'll probably go with Hamtaro. Maybe there won't be enough room so she'll have to sit on his lap!"

Sparkle put her arm around Bijou and led her off to the girl's limo. "You're sitting right next to me, 'kay?"

Tennis smiled as Sparkle led the French hamster to the limo. "She's so easy at times!"


Soon, all the ham hams were off to Mt. Avalanche. All the limos were equipped with flat screen TV's, snacks, a mini fridge, a CD player with individual headphones, and pillows.

Bijou wasn't too happy with the seating arrangements in the girl's limo. "Um, out of curiosity, how long is zee trip zere?"

"It's about a four and a half hour drive" answered Tennis. "So, what should we do first?"

"I know!" exclaimed Sparkle. "Let's listen to my new CD!"

"Um, actually, I'm kinda in a movie mood" confessed Tennis. "How 'bout you girls?" The rest of the ham hams nodded in agreement.

"Okay" said Sparkle. "I'll go grab the DVD's."

Tennis leaned in toward Bijou. "If I listen to another one of her songs, I might kill myself!"


Hamtaro, Boss, Oxnard, Maxwell, and Stan were in the limo behind the girls. Oxnard was chowing down, Maxwell was reading a book on the history of snowboarding, Stan was listening to music, Hamtaro was looking outside the window, watching everything go by as they drove past it, and Boss just sat in deep thought.

"Mt. Avalanche's the perfect place to tell Bijou how I feel" he thought. "I can see it now! Bijou and I'll share a blanket, sipping hot cocoa by the fire as we watch the sunset after spending the day on the slopes!"

"I can't wait!" said Boss as he imagined the scene in his head.

"Me either!" exclaimed Hamtaro. "I wanna try snowboarding!"


In the last car were Howdy, Dexter, Panda, and Cappy.

Go Howdy, go!" cheered Panda as Howdy chugged a whole bottle of soda.

"Chug, chug, chug, chug!" exclaimed Cappy.

Howdy swallowed the last bit of soda, carelessly tossed the bottle aside, and let out a large belch. "Ahhhh that was a good one!"

"Howdy, that's disgusting!" said Dexter.

"Well do ya have any suggestions what we should do for four and a half hours?" asked Howdy.

Dexter looked at the empty bottle and smiled. "Who's up for some truth or dare?"


The limos came to a stop as they arrived in front of a large lodge made out of logs. They were finally at Mt. Avalanche.

The ham hams got out of the car and began to stretch themselves before heading inside.

Dexter, Howdy, and Cappy finally got out of the limo they were in. Dexter's face was completely covered in make-up, Howdy was wearing Cappy's cap as a face mask, and Cappy wore Howdy's apron as a face mask.

"What the heck were you guys up to?" asked Tennis. "And where's Panda?"

"Can someone help me out here?" cried Panda. The voice was coming from inside the limo. Tennis peeked inside to find Panda stuck to the ceiling of the limo with layers of duct tape.

"How long have you been up their?" asked Tennis. Panda was about to answer when the tape finally loosened, sending him crashing to the floor of the limo.

Dexter looked at his watch. "Two hours, thirty seven minutes, and fifty six seconds!"

"Awesome!" exclaimed Cappy and Howdy as they high-fived each other.

"How the heck did Tennis convince me to bring these guys with me?" Sparkle muttered to herself.


That's it for ch.1! I promise some snowboarding in ch.2. Please R&R!