author's note: hamha! chapter 7 is here! so please, sit back, read and enjoy. and please, don't ever forget, REVIEW!! now, on with the show!


-chapter 7-

"so sleepy..can't stay awake..." Hamtaro mumbled, he shut his eyes momentarily. but opened them suddenly, as a raindrop landed on his head, even through the hat, it was still damp.

"we can't fall asleep..we're almost there..." he thought, the lights of a city came closer, and he began to nod off again, for it was once again night time. and once again, raining as they left the french countryside, in pursuit of Maxwell, who was said to be in London with his owner, Yumi.

"Hamtaro, please don't fall asleep. you are our guide, since jingle is sleeping." Bijou said, she had stayed up to help hamtaro steer Herbert through the rain, since Jingle was catching up on some much needed shut eye, along with Sandy,Stan, Lannie, Flora, Cloey and Lacitos.

"yeah i know bijou, but it's rainy, and dark..." Hamtaro mumbled.

"you must keep going, if we are to reach london by day break." Bijou said, she was sitting behind him, watching ahead of them, and giving Hamtaro sunflower tea and seeds so he would stay awake. but no avail, not yet.

"are you Tired hamtaro? i can wake jingle up so you can sleep." Bijou said, she was worried hamtaro might fall asleep and steer them off the path.

"no bijou, i can handle it, we're almost there..." Hamtaro said, he yawned and closed his eyes for a moment.

Bijou doubted that he would stay awake, but shrugged and sighed

"if you insist." she said hesitantly.

she sighed and looked to the sky "i wonder when day break will come, i can't stay awake much longer.." she thought, yawning. without any moment to think, bijou, curled up and fell asleep.

hamtaro remained awake. and struggled to stay awake,

meanwhile...on the other side of the road...

"urgh...what..happened?" a black and white hamster asked, he stood up, and looked around, into the pitch black darkness. nothing, and noone.

the hamster and another one, and aqua colored one, had fallen out of the sky, looking for shelter in the rainstorm.

the black one, was somewhat skinny, and had a ruby that glowed a dim light in the darkness around his neck, the light mixed with a dim aqua colored light, emitted from the other hamster's necklace. these two hamsters, were shadow and mermaid.

"i have no idea..." Mermaid murmurred, she slowly stood up, and pawed her gem, the crystal seashell.

"well, whatever, where are we?" Shadow asked looking around, the ruby emitted enough light for him to see mermaid, and something big and pink, with two hamsters around, coming out of the darkness..two familiar hamsters, one orange and white, and one..white with blue ribbons.

who else? but Hamtaro and Bijou?

mermaid too, saw them and smiled when she did so.

"it's them..bijou, and hamtaro." she murmurred. she smiled

shadow looked over "what? them?"

"yes! now help me get their attention!" mermaid commanded.

shadow, cold and dizzy nodded and flew up in the air a little.

the ruby glowed brighter, and got their attention, while the dim glow of mermaid's charm also helped hamtaro, and bijou see them.

Hamtaro was about to nod off again, when he saw the ruby, and the crystal seashell in the darkness.

"is that...Mermaid and shadow?!" he thought, hamtaro's eyes opened and he sat up smiling

"Mermaid! shadow! over here!" Hamtaro called out, he smiled and waved his paws up in the air.

mermaid turned to shadow and smiled. "he sees us!" Mermaid said, she ran up to herbert and smiled up at hamtaro, shadow followed behind, floating above the wet and muddy ground.

"Hamtaro! let us up! please!" Mermaid begged, flying through the rain.

hamtaro stopped herbert and smiled. "mermaid! shadow! hamha! what are you two doing here?"

"nevermind that, just let us up, shadow's kind of sick, and it's really cold." mermaid said she shivered a little.

"alright, get on," Hamtaro said he reached out a paw to mermaid and shadow, and the two willingly climbed up.

"thank you hamtaro, you are still the same generous hamster i knew on the island." Mermaid said smiling.

"you're welcome,so how did you two end up in london? and..on a rainy night..together?" Hamtaro asked

"we were both looking for shelter to get out of the rain, and we both fell out of the sky...lightning struck us," Mermaid said

shadow slowly nodded and sat down behind mermaid.

"oh, are you alright?" Hamtaro asked worriedly.

"fine, just sleepy is all." Mermaid replied, she yawned.

"yeah well...go ahead and get some sleep...we're going to london in the morning." Hamtaro said.

"london? oh my! why?" Mermaid asked

"to find maxwell, and pashmina." hamtaro said,

shadow gasped. "Maxwell? and pashmina?"

"yes, why?" hamtaro asked

"oh..no reason." shadow said, he silently sunk lower, to avoid sight.

"well, i'm about tired..goodnight." Mermaid said smiling, she saw the other sleeping hamsters who were warm under the neckercheif and hat.

hamtaro smiled "alright, goodnight mermaid." Hamtaro said, he yawned and started to nod off again.

shadow smiled "um, i need to sleep too, so i'll see you in the morning." shadow said, he quickly fluttered down, and tucked himself into the neckercheif.

hamtaro sighed, and yawned again, nodding off at last..and getting some much deserved shut-eye..

london, early day break...

"wake up hamtaro, we are here." Bijou said to hamtaro, she had woken up earlier and helped the other hams steer herbert through the rain.

hamtaro's brwon eyes opened and he sat up, seeing that he was no longer on herbert, and inside someone's carrier...maxwell's carrier, in the bookshop.

"so glad to see you awake, long time no see hamtaro." maxwell greeted, cheerily.

hamtaro looked around and saw most of the hamsters they had found so far, at his side, smiling.

sandy by maxwell, stan by flora and lannie,mermaid by shadow,shadow by sandy, lacitos by bijou, cloey by lannie, and jingle by..pashmina.

"Hamha, what happened?" he asked sitting up and rubbing his head.

"you fell asleep, and fell of herbert in the middle of the night, and we carried you here, are you alright hamtaro?" Bijou asked, worriedly.

"yeah, fine, my head hurst alot though..." Hamtaro mumbled unhappily.

bijou smiled "i'm glad." she said, hugging him,

"um, me too bijou."

"well, now that hamtaro is up, shall we go? we still have alot of ham hams to find." Pashmina said she sighed

"uh yeah, let's get going." Hamtaro said, he stood up and ran across the carrier and to the cage. the bookshop was empty.

"so how do we get out maxwelll? the doors look shut and locked." Hamtaro said

"yeah, how max?" Sandy asked she walked up to him.

"simple, through that crack in the wall." Maxwell pointed out.

"great, that's why we can always rely on you max!" Hamtaro said smiling

"yeah." maxwell said, he then leaped out of the cage and onto the floor.

"hurry, i see people coming!" maxwell said, urgently,

and with that, the ham hams leaped from the desk, to the floor, and ran after maxwell to the crack, and out.

once outside, they shivered a little, and they heard a happy giggle, that sounded like...penelope!

"is that?" hamtaro asked looking around the other hams turned and saw penelope, and pashmina, happily running towards her best friend.

"penelope!" pashmina exclaimed she smiled at the baby ham ham, in the yellow blanket who was playing with a snowflake, and a shiny ring on the ground.

"penelope!" pashmina said happily. she ran towards her best friend but stopped when a crow swooped down, and saw the ring, and penelope. pashmina gasped.

"oh no! penelope!" pashmina exclaimed, as the crow swooped down, and picked up the ring, and penelope who was clinging to it for dear life as she was lifted off the ground.

"Okyuu!" Penelope exclaimed, she flailed one of her paws wildly, at pashmina, as if to say "help me"

"hams! someone has to save penelope! please! mermaid, shadow!" pashmina exclaimed, she turned around and tears were rolling down her cheeks, she was worried about penelope.

"oh! right!" mermaid said, and without hesitation, took to the sky, shadow slowly followed her, and the two flew up to the crow.

the two hamsters hesitated a bit, but quickly decided to blind the crow with their gems.

shadow's ruby, and mermaid's seashell glowed, and the crow squawked in anger, and flapped it's wings wildly.

huge breeze developed and almost knocked mermaid, and shadow out of the air.

"Okyuu!" penelope cried, as the crow flapped it's wings more wildly, and as it di, penelope's grip slipped and she fell.

"oh! Penelope!" Pashmina exclaimed. "Shadow! mermaid! save penelope!!" Pashmina shouted,

mermaid nodded to shadow and nervously flew over to penelope, grabbing her paw. shadow did the same, and before long they were safe on the ground.

"okyoo!" penelope exclaimed, once her feet touched the ground, she ran to pashmina, and clung to her tightly.

mermaid. and shadow landed on the ground and walked over to the others, smiling.

"you two did great, rescuing penelope from that big old crow." Bijou said smiling at mermaid and shadow.

"uh yeah, thanks bijou." shadow said, he looked at mermaid and blushed.

"yeah, thanks." mermaid said, she smiled.

hamtaro grinned. "well, i think we've had quite enough adventure in london..shall we move on?"

bijou nodded, along with most of the others. "uh huh!" some of them chorused together.

"alrighty then! lead the way jingle my ham!" Hamtaro said,

jingle nodded and played a chord, "is it really that time already? our nesting must move farhter onwards to find the golden grains of truth, and the rainbow at the end of the road." jingle said. playing his signature chord, and started off, towards herbert, who fast asleep on a pile of newspapers in the alley, ontop of him, was a white bird, and a gray hamster with an eye patch.

and who else could it have been, but sabu? and Fransiouse?

"is that...Sabu?" hamtaro wondered, as he looked at the white dove, and the hamster. yes it was them, it had to be.

"hey! sabu! wake up!" Hamtaro called out,

at that moment the rugged feild hamster's eyes flew open, and the dove chirped.

"yeah, hey hamtaro! what's been happening? i haven't seen you in nights! and days! what's going on?" Sabu asked, cheerily.

"um,nothing, i'm ona quest with some of my friend the ham hams, to find our other friends..what are you doing here?" Hamtaro asked

"oh nothing, helping out a fellow feild ham, and his neice." Sabu said smiling

"a feild ham and his neice? who?" Hamtaro asked, he knew who it might be, boss and raine. well, that was his first thought anyway.

"i'll get them up, hey boss! raine! get up i think a friend of yours is here to see you." Sabu said,

from beyond herbert's ear, a rugged and beaten up looking boss, with his hat stirred and saw hamtaro. "Hamtaro! you're here! with bijou! and stan and sandy, and pashmina and maxwell! and lannie!" Boss exclaimed. he was happy to see alot of the ham hams together again.

"hey uncle, what is all of that loud noise?" a female hamster asked, she looked somewhat like boss, and her ribbon looked like his hat. this hamster, was boss's seldom seen neice, Raine.

"oh nothing raine, go back to sleep." Boss said, quietly, before turning to the other hamsters.

"hams! what are you all doing here?" Boss asked, he jumped down, and slid down herbert's back, landing on the cemement ground.

"lookin for the ham hams, we were all seperated, so now i'm going with them to find the rest. speaking of which, have you seen any more?" Hamtaro asked.

boss shook his head but then nodded. "oh yeah! i saw jade and lightfoot! but they seemed to be in such a hurry, and he was with cappy, and world war II." Boss said

"really? where?" Hamtaro asked

"in the alley, last night, and i saw rainbow somewhere near sparkle and glitter's concert last night...but she left in a hurry." Boss said "she didn't even say hello." he sighed.

"oh well, anymore?" Hamtaro asked.

"uh yeah, dexter and howdy...and i think that's it." Boss replied,

"oh well where?" he asked he was excited, he wanted to find more ham hams, and he wanted to go back to the clubhouse, and live in the house with laura, and have adventures in tokyo. all of this traveling was fun, but hamtaro was homesick.

and he missed laura. he had left without saying goodbye, and knew she might be worried.

and he figured maria, and kana, and june and kylie and all of the humans might be worried as well, but right now, it didn't matter much.

"i can take you to cappy, jade and lightfoot..if you want to." boss said, he smiled at jingle "if raine and i can come with you, and if sabu wil let us use fransiouse.."

sabu grinned "sure boss old pal. anything." Sabu said, he smiled at raine and boss.

"great, alright then!" boss said he grinned and grabbed raine's paw, leading her up to fransiouse.

sabu climbed on infront, to steer his friend, while the others and jingle climbed back on herbert, and started off, as boss flew above them, leading them,

Lannie scoffed, "i can fly us there, it'll be faster." Lannie insisted, shadow and cloey looked at her

"i wouldn't risk it lannie, you know we wouldn't want to loose our leader." Cloey said, she sighed.

lannie sighed. "sure, i bet dodger-san or panda would agree with me." Lannie said

"not hardly." a burly gray and brown hamster with a ripped neckercheif chimed in,

Lannie blinked. it was dodger! but where had he come from?

"Dodger-san!" Lannie exclaimed smiling

"lannie-san."

lannie smiled at dodger "where did you come from? the sky?" Lannie asked

"you might say that," Dodger said. he sighed and flopped down on herbert, exhausted.

Hamtaro looked over from the sky to dodger and lannie. and smiled at bijou.

"another couple, untouchable by spat." he said grinning

"yes." bijou said smiling she blushed.

the memory of running around ham ham land after spat with hamtar fixing love came to mind. and the couple of pepper and oxnard, lannie and dodger..and the firnedship of pashmina and penelope. such a happy memory...

"ha ha! pfft! now you cannot tell which dodger is real! now you will never have love again! muhahaha pfft!" spat said, before flying off.

"oh no, hamtaro this is bad." bijou said,

"yeah i know..but i think lannie knows which one is real and which one isn't." Hamtaro said reassuringly.

lannie meanwhile, stood infront of a fake dodger and the real dodger,

"alrighty, i'm gonan ask 3 questions only the real dodger can anwser.alrighty, question 1, who is my best friend?" Lannie asked

the fake dodger studdered "um...you?"

dodger, the real one sighed "panda, me, and cloey."

lannie smiled at dodger, "yes! one point for you!..next question..."

"who do i love?"

the fake dodger studdered again "stan?"

lannie grinned "that i will never tell, but it's wrong never the less."

"one more wrong anwser and you're gonna be swimming with the fishies..heh heh." lannie said grinning. she tugged on the rope and the door opened beneath the fake dodger he tried really hard to stay up.

"you have been warned, now last question." lannie said, a serious look was on her face, her sinister grin, was gone.

"who do you love?"

dodger smiled at lannie "you lannie, kite sky." he said smiling

the fake dodger grinned, and tried really hard to imitate dodger, but could not.

"i love you, laynnie-sand?" he said uncertainly.

at this, lannie started to laugh "ha ha, ha ha ha no." and grabbed the rope to the trap door, she held it tightly in her little paw. "now..i must decide.." she turned to them,a sinister grin on her face.

"i've had fun boys, but one of you has to go swimming.." she grinned and pointed to dodger and the fake dodger "eeny meeny miney mo, it is you who must go."

she stopped and pointed to dodger, she smiled "not you dodger-san." she then pointed to the fake one and tugged the rope really hard, and he fell in, the door shut and lannie padlocked it.

dodger smiled at lannie "lannie-san,"

"dodger, you know i knew only you could anwser those questions didn't you?"

"yeah," dodger shrugged.

lannie smiled "dodger-san."

bijou and hamtaro smiled happily. "we have done our job yes?"

"yeah bijou."

"well i think lannie's questionaire helped out alot don't you think so?" Hamtaro asked

bijou smiled "yes thank goodness for her quick and quirkyness." Bijou said she smiled at hamtaro

the couple smiled and blushed but then looked to the sky again, as fransiouse landed on the ground, infront of a cat, and two hamsters, howdy and dexter.

"oh my! it's howdy and dexter!" bijou exclaimed, pointing to the ground.

"right bijou! we have to do something! or that mean cat is gonna get them." hamtaro said

"but what can we do? that cat is really big!" Bijou said, worriedly.

"leave it to me bijou! alright hams! let's go!" Hamtaro said, he and some of the others slid down behind herbert, and stood, stan tugged hard on herbert's tail, and he squealed in anger, and charged towards the cat, and the two hamsters,

"well it's been nice knowing you howdy." Dexter said sadly, he gulped

"yeah, nice." Howdy said he gulped as well "and poor pashy and penelope..."

"yeah..." dexter sighed

the cat grinned, and lunged forwards as the pig approached, but soon retreated, and ran towards the hamsters.

"AAH! HELP!" Howdy and dexter screamed running as fast as they could away from the cat,

"they need help!" mermaid said, and dove down to pick one of them up off the gorund, shadow did the same.

in the process, shadow and mermaid dipped down infront of herbert and rescued dexter and howdy. hamtaro was infront, driving herbert towards the cat and away.

"grab my paw!" Mermaid and shadow said to dexter and howdy

howdy and dexter quickly complied and were soon resting comfortably on herbert's back.

"phew, what a day." Dexter sighed "yeah, what a li'l ol day." howdy said he sighed.

when herbert finnally calmed down, he stopped and sat down, eating a corn cob.

"well what a heroic rescue." bijou said smiling she grinned at mermaid and shadow

she smiled at hamtaro "they would make a cute couple yes?" she said grinning

hamtaro looked at mermaid and shadow and smiled "i have to agree with you bijou." he whispered back, smiling.

"yeah two in one day! first penelope from a crow, and now howdy and dexter from a cat! you two are awesome!" Hamtaro said smiling

"uh, just in the right spot at the right time i suppose..." Mermaid said she shrugged and blushed.

"yeah, right." shadow said he turned and saw dodger. he smiled

"hey dodge,"

dodger smiled

"wow, i'm tired, too much adventure." Hamtaro said sighing,

"yeah way too much." mermaid said nodding

maxwell grinned "i'm tired from just watching you guys, anyway are you guys moving on so soon? or are you going to stay in london and look for cappy and rainbow?" Maxwell asked

"uh, well...we were going to move on...but, hamtaro what do you want to do? it's getting dark." bijou said she turned her attention to the sky.

"gee guess you're right bijou, alright i voite we stay if cappy and rainbow or jade and lightfoot are here we should look for them." Hamtaro said

"right, and i'm like so tired..i've had to watch stan all day." Sandy commented yawning

"yeah i could go for a good long sleep in a bed made of alfalfa and inside a warm and snug carrier." Cloey said

boss, jingle, and raine nodded.

"alright then, it unanimous, let's stay here for one night." Hamtaro said

"alrighty then, may i offer you stay in my cage at the bookshop? it's nice and warm and very big." Maxwell said smiling

"sure alright, come on hams. we're having a ham sleep over at maxwell's." Hamtaro said smiling

the others smiled and yawned, too tired from all of the traveling, and adventure they had endured.

"alright, let me lead the way, and herbert and fransiouse can stay in a box in the front, my owners will never know." Maxwell said, smiling

"sounds great, i bet herbert could use some rest as well, and fransiouse too." boss said

maxwell smiled, but then took off towards the bookshop, and went inside.

once inside he lead herbert and fransiouse through the door, and into the boxes.

then maxwell retreated to his cage, and let the other hamsters inside.

"here we are, please make yourselves at home." Maxwell said smiling

"sure, will do maxwell!" Hamtaro said, and set off for a bedroom, being that the cage was very much like the clubhouse.

maxwell retreated to his library and left the ham hams alone.

"well this place looks cozy," Cloey commented she smiled.

"yeah, nice and comfy cozy," Lannie said yawning.

"well i'm gonna hit the hay, so i'll see you in the morning lannie-san." dodger said, and then went off to find a bedroom.

pashmina, bijou, sandy, lacitos, flora, raine, and penelope were gathered in a room with a vanity, cleaning themselves up a little bit.

pashmina put on her scarf after she had washed and dried it in the stream, bijou had put on new clean ribbons, since her current ones were dusty and wet, and stained due to all of the rain and dust and mud. lacitos had also put on new ribobns, flora had put on a new clip and straightened her hat, penelope had put on a clean yellow blanket, with pashmina's help, and sandy had tied a new ribbon on her tail.

the girls emerged and split up to go to bed, "goodnight," they all chorused and went into seperate rooms.

on the floor, howdy and dexter were playing cards, they both looked up and smiled

"good night pashy!" howdy chorused

"sleep tight pashmina, sweet dreams." Dexter said smiling

pashmina sighed and rolled her eyes, but smiled at them "goodnight you two," and lead penelope into a bedroom.

and with that, they were gone.

"so who's still awake?" Hamtaro asked, a few remaining hamsters,

"um, well cloey, maxwell, moi, you...howdy and dexter, and that's it." Lannie said, she shurgged and yawned,

"well, i'm going to bed, goodnight!" Hamtaro said, and scurried off to a room, and shut the door.

cloey yawned as well, "i'm going too, night lannie." she said, and walked off.

lannie shrugged "night clo," she yawned once more, and decided it was about time for her to get some much needed sleep as well.

once the whole cage was quiet, and almost everyone was asleep, hamtaro curled up in the bed in the bedroom, he was comfortable for the first time in a while. it felt good to be asleep on alfalfa and under a soft felt blanket, it was like magic to be warm in a bed again.

hamtaro however wasn't happy, he was worried about laura, who he knew would miss him.

"i shouldn't have just left like that," Hamtaro thought

"i hope she's not too worried about me," he said

he then, closed his brown eyes and snuggled deeper into the alfalfa and felt and fell asleep, vividly dreaming of home...

in toyko...midnight...

"Laura pumpkin! help me with this heavy box!" mr.Haruna said, as the haruna family was unloading furniture at their old house, kana iwata was also there and helping. they had returned a few hours earlier.

"so laura, have you seen the news latley?" Kana asked

Laura shook her head "no, why? something happen?" she asked Kana, she was abit worried.

"yeah, come see!" Kana exclaimed, and pulled laura inside her house.

kana turned on the tv and the news came on,

"several counts of hamsters dissapearing has popped up all over the world. one in particular is one named hamtaro, his owner laura haruna, reported him missing friday morning, nothing has come in yet."

Laura froze "Hamtaro?!"

"yeah, maria's bijou, and kylie and june's hamsters are gone too, and my little oxnard! i'm so worried laura!" Kana exclaimed

"oh kana! i knew something was wrong when he didn't come out to play! oh kana! we have to do something!" Laura exclaimed

"don't worry laura, i'm sure he just escaped his cage for a little play time. oxnard does that to me all the time." Kana said

"oh i hope so." Laura said,

"don't worry laura, once it's morning i'll help you look for him, okay?" Kana asked

"alright, thanks Kana."


author's note: hamha! another chapter said and done! alright, next time!!

hamtaro: hamha! it's hamtaro here!

laura: and laura!

hamtaro: our quest is almost over! now with more hamsters we'll be home in no time! and i hope we can still use the clubhouse.

laura: i hope so hamtaro! i miss you!

hamtaro: i miss you too laura! but don't worry! we'll be home soon! i promise.

both: next time: the last of hams! the return trip home! see ya then!

me: alrighty! we're done! so, until next time!

and thanks again so much to my super awesome hamigos for letting me use some of their hamsters in this chapter and other chapters! anyway, keep reading my loyal fans, and NEVER EVER FORGET! R-E-V-E-I-W!