Panda sighed as he walked towards the Clubhouse, it had been a month and a half since Stan and Kari had shown up at the Clubhouse. Some of the Ham-Hams were worried, some were getting suspicious and saying things like "The aliens took them!" and the girls had their own secret suspicion that Panda shared, and dreaded. Sandy insisted that they should leave them alone, and that they'd come back when they were ready. The rumors continued. Of course they would.
Other than that, everything was dandy. Next week they were even going to go to Acorn Mountain.
"Eek!" a somewhat familiar voice shrieked.
Panda's ear twitched. It was his imagination.
"Help me!" The voice cried again.
He continued. 'My past is haunting me.' He decided.
"Meow!"
That made him jump. A cat? Well then it wasn't his imagination.
More pleas for help.
Panda perked his ears. The voice was coming from a nearby alley.
He ran towards the voice, dreading he'd be to late to save his friend. (Any guess's who it is? Well your wrong! It isn't Kari!)
He spun around the corner, just to crash into the hindquarters of a cat.
"Ew, Gross!" He spat.
He didn't bother to see if his suspicion was right about who it was, the cat was already licking his lips, probably thinking it had gotten two easy meals.
"Panda?" He heard the other hamster say softly.
He ignored it and leapt at the cat, biting its leg.
The cat let out a yowl of pain and shook its leg vainly.
The other hamster caught on and leapt at the other leg.
The cat hissed and shook both its front paws, only to fall flat on its face.
Panda let go of the fluff-ball. "Run!" He panted, grabbing the other hamsters paw, and running out of the alley.
The other hamster giggled, "I can run without you holding my paw, Panda. I'm not two!"
Panda blushed and let go. "Come on, I know where we can hide, incase that mangy furball comes after us."
"That's not very nice, Panda, they need to eat to live. And unfortunately, we're what it eats. Imagine if those sunflower seeds were alive. You used to scarf 'em down, chubby!"
Panda slowed down, glancing behind them. "I think its gone." He panted.
The other hamster eyeballed him. "Exercise more, chubby! If your tired after that run, yeesh!"
Panda sat down, "I exercise! You used to never run!" he declared, sticking his tongue out.
He finally got a good look at the other hamster. She was white with a yellow belly, and a small green band was holding up a ponytail at the top of her head. Her ears were brown, and the fur coming out of the ponytail was a mix of brown, yellow and white.
"You look a lot older than you did when we were kids, Chestnut."
Chestnut raised an eyebrow. "Should I slap you?"
Panda sweat-dropped. "Not like that!"
Chestnut smiled, "I know! Now lets go to that place you said we could hide."
Panda glanced at her, "Why, I just sat down."
She pointed behind them, "The cats coming."
Panda whipped around, and she was right, the cat was running after them now. "Every ham for themselves!" he yelled behind him as he took off in the direction of the Clubhouse.
He heard what sounded like a, "Hey!" behind him, and suddenly, Chestnut was ahead of him.
"Exercise, chubby!" she called.
Panda veered to the right, and Chestnut, confused as she was, did the same, while the cat didn't, and crashed into a tree.
Panda heard Chestnut laughing behind him, when he stopped in front of the big tree that contained the Clubhouse. He opened the door, and being polite, let Chestnut go first.
She gave a wide smile, "Your politer to! Boy, we've both changed."
Panda smiled, back, and opened the next door. But his smile faded as he entered. There was sobbing from the middle of the crowd of ham-hams.
Panda rushed forward, temporarily forgetting about his old friend, and pushed through the crowd, determined to find out what happened.
When he reached the middle, he gasped with shock. Kari was curled in a sobbing ball on the floor, unable to speak because of everyone else's chattering. Three bundles were beside her, probably oblivious to what was happening.
Panda whipped around, fur standing up, "Be quiet!" he spat.
Everyone stopped and stared at him. Slowly Sandy looked down at Kari, and uttered the dreaded words: "What happened? Where's Stan?"
Panda then noticed Stan's absence. (A/N. What a surprise he didn't notice before! Eye roll*)
Kari cried harder, "S-Stan! H-he-he g-g-got hit b-by a-a m-m-min-mini ca-car! (A Skateboard.)" She broke off into more sobs.
Sandy froze, shocked, "W-where is he?" she stuttered.
"A ambulence came and took him a-away." Kari sniffed.
Maxwell gasped, and many of the Ham-Hams looked at him confused. "Did you ask which nurse would be taking care of him?" he asked, eyes wide.
Kari stopped crying. "I didn't think of that…" she gasped.
"We gotta go! Now!" Sandy said, bolting out the Clubhouse door, Kari right behind her.
The rest of the Ham-Hams filed out after them, not noticing a confused Chestnut beside the door. Bijou, who was second last to leave, stopped and looked at her for a moment, confusion glittering in her green eyes. (I saw a picture where Bijou's eyes were green, no complaints!) Then she smiled at Chestnut and continued out to catch up with Hamtaro, who was busily chatting with Oxnard.
Panda, who was the last to leave, stopped and explained what had happened, and Flora and all that. Chestnut tilted her head at the end. "So… you still like her?" she asked.
Panda blushed, "Of course not! Well as a friend yes, but not 'like like'. C'mon were going to miss them if we don't leave soon!"
So what's going to happen? Find out next time I update. Which could be in a month for all I know. I'm booked. Behind at school, my b-day is the 17th, my party is the 15th, and frankly, I'm not inspired as much as I was before. I am inspired, and I have a plot line, unlike most of my stories. But I'm in the middle of writing an actual series, and an actual novel. So it could be awhile. I planned this to be up A-LONG time ago :C Sorry.
Chestnut and Pandas story is:
Chestnut and Panda shared a cage at the pet store, along with Panda's sister, Koala.
Chestnut and Koala were best friends, but Koala got bought, leaving Panda and Chestnut to get to know each other. Chestnut grew a crush on Panda, and when he was bought, was devastated. But after a long amount of time, she was bought, and she then figured out how to open her cage, thus escaping, for the first time, which was this chapter.
Hope you enjoy!
~ Cinderpaw11 ~