Disclaimer: I STILL don't own Hamtaro! But I do own Sapphire! And Kamiko! Don't know her? Too bad! Read, she's in this chapter! Also, I HATE Laura, so I'm going to make something bad happened to her! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Laura's Rival

Laura was already at school while the Ham-Hams were out figuring out everything about the girl ham, Pashmina's feelings for Stan, and if Boss recovered from Bijou's reaction. They had a new student in class today, Laura thought she looked really nice. (Then again, Laura thinks everyone is nice-.-.) Above everything else, she was REALLY pretty. She had auburn hair down to her shoulders, a pink tank top with spaghetti straps, and a short denim skirt. Laura caught a quick glance at Travis, like she always does, and she saw that he was blushing at her! Laura got red in the face, not from blushing, but with anger. She felt so jealous. "Class," stated Mr. Yoshi. "This is Kamiko Komitsuma, she will be joining us this year, and comes from the town of Tokumiyana." "Yeah!" said Kamiko excitedly. "It's a small town, a couple a hours away from Tokyo. It's in a forest area, and it's very pretty!" At first there was silence. Laura didn't want to welcome her, as she was afraid she might steal Travis away. And speaking of Travis, he stood up and started clapping, just like he did with Laura! Then soon, everyone started clapping. Even Kana, but Laura gave her a dirty look and sat down. "Cheer up Laura!" comforted Kana. "You've seen the way Travis acts towards you, like when he helped you in the race when you sprained your ankle. He has to like you back!" "Yeah, I guess your right Kana!" replied Laura, too cocky for her own good. But to her horror, she sat right next to Travis. "So," started Travis. "Tell me about yourself." "Well," Kamiko began. "I have a cat, his name is Melvin, and a hamster named Sapphire." "You have a hamster?" it was June and Kylie. "We have Hamsters too." "My is named Penelope! She has a yellow blanket over her and she's just a baby hamster." "And my is named Pashmina, and she wears a pink scarf." "Wow! That sounds cute!" complimented Kamiko. "Sapphire is a dark purple color, and she has an emerald green cape! Does anyone else have hamsters?" "We do!" Kana started. Laura tried to shush her, but failed. "My hamster is named Oxnard, he's chubby and cute and always hungry." "That's cool!" said Kamiko. " What about yours?" she was addressing Laura. Laura was very reluctant, but she just coldly replied "Hamtaro" "That's a rad name!" she seemed to try and make friends with Laura, but Laura wasn't going to buy it. She decided to keep her eye on Kamiko, and keep Travis for herself.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Panda's P.O.V~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Panda and Sapphire finally reached their destination, but they weren't alone. They actually heard screaming. "BIJOU RUN!!!" screamed Hamtaro. "WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING?!" yelled back Bijou. They sprinted past Panda and Sapphire as they were being chased down by a small cat. Not a kitten, but not grown, and it was really big to hamsters. Sapphire recognized the cat at once. "Melvin stop!" she yelled. At once, the cat stopped in his tracks. "You know this crazy cat?" asked Hamtaro. "Of course I know him, he lives with me." replied Sapphire. "His name is Melvin." The cat, more commonly known as Melvin, let a big "MEEOW!" in agreement as Hamtaro, Bijou, and Panda ran a couple of yards away. "Don't worry," started Sapphire. "He'll only attack hamsters if I tell him too, he's really smart." Melvin let out another "MEEOW!" that made the others jump. Sapphire let out a sigh, and ran past the bush. Panda got enough courage to pass the cat and follow her. Once he reached were she was, he gazed in awe. It was a giant mural, the one Hamtaro and Bijou saw earlier, just before the cat attacked. "Do you like it?" she asked. " I made it." "You painted it?" questioned Panda. "It's amazing." "Do you really think so?" "Yeah." " I needed your opinion because I know you're very creative and artistic. I know you want to become a carpenter and I know you'd be honest with me. That's why I lured Penelope into the pond." "Oh that's..YOU WHAT?!" Panda didn't know what he was hearing. " so you lured Penelope into the water?" Sapphire looked down and slowly nodded. "Why?" "Because I knew that you'd wonder who I was, so that you'd come and find me and look at my picture. It tells the story about a prin.." "I don't care what it's about!" screamed Panda. Sapphire looked really hurt. " You still shouldn't go and endanger hamsters lives like that! Was the cat your idea of the plan?" "No." she said slowly. "The cat was a surprise, I didn't anticipate." "Obviously not!" yelled Panda again. He had never been so mad in his young life. She had endangered his friend's life just to show him a picture. He was about to yell at her again, but she was gone. Without a trace. Then Panda calmed down and now he was worried. "What have I done?" he asked quietly to himself. "I have to find her!" And with that, he ran off.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Laura's P.O.V~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Things that day didn't get much better for Laura, Kamiko was taking up a lot of spotlight, and the more time she spent with Travis, the more jealous she became. The only thing they seemed to have in common was the fact that they loved hamsters. ".and you fold this last piece here, and.done!" said Kamiko. She was folding a piece of paper into a wired origami thingy. "You just write fortunes in these flaps, have someone guess the number, and that's there fortune." "Wow!" said June. "Where did you learn to do that?" "My mom." she replied. "She has a knack for origami, she studied it when she was my age. She can make practically anything, I can almost too." "That's really cool." added Travis. "Maybe you can show me your work, I can teach you soccer tricks like I promised." "It's a date." she replied. Laura was stunned by this remark. She then realized all the stupid things she said in the past to Travis when he made a flirty remark.

************************Flashback: The Sports Festival***********************

As soon as Laura and Kana finished the races at the sports festival, Travis came running up to Laura, he wanted to congratulate her on finishing, even though she lost. Laura saw him coming up to her and Kana and she blushed. " Hey! Great job Laura!" he said. "Maybe we can train together sometime!" "Uh yeah, you wish!" she replied.



*******************************End Flashback***************************** What was she thinking? She should have said, "sure!" or "how bout next Saturday?" Little crack head. She later heard from Kylie that Travis had just asked her out. On the first day of school! Laura couldn't stand it and ran into the girls' bathroom, crying.



~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sapphire's P.O.V~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

She didn't want to hurt anyone. And, unbeknownst to anyone else, she has heard of Panda because she has connections. Sapphire's owner is Mimi's second cousin's best friend. She has seen Panda before when she snuck into her owner's purse. It was as you can say, love at first sight. Two creative hamsters, an artist, and a carpenter, Panda's hammer, Sapphire's cape. She just had to meet him, and the incident with Penelope wasn't entirely on purpose. She wasn't expecting to find Cappy's cap and fall into the pond. All she wanted to do was lure Penelope out and convince her to pretend to get lost, for love. Penelope did agree, however, she found Cappy's cap and got curious, so fell in the pond. She couldn't face Panda again, she knows what she did was a stupid attempt, but I guess love makes you do crazy things. Sapphire had run quite a ways until she heard some noise from up ahead. She sneaked quietly to check it out, this place seemed to have a lot of acorns; just then she saw 2 hamsters. "Pashmina baby," started Stan. "I know I seem to flirt with all the ladies, but I have always cared for you." Pashmina didn't know what to say. She had dreamed of this moment ever since she laid eyes him, but know that it's happening, it seems kinda weird. "Stan," she started. "I've always dreamed you'd be my boy- ham, but now.it just seems, I don't know." Stan knew what she was going through. He slowly began having feelings for her too. He's known for a long time that she liked him, and he liked her; yet it did seem weird..WAIT!!! They were being watched.. "SAPPHIRE!!!" It was Panda. She turned around and saw him running towards her. At that very moment, Stan and Pashmina turned around, jumped out from behind the bush, and they along with Panda surrounded her. She had nowhere to run, to hide, she was trapped and had lots of explaining to do.



WHOA!! Sorry that took sooooooooooooooooooooo long. I was on vacation in Las Vegas, so I didn't have time to write it. The next chapters will take longer to publish, cuz I haven't wrote any other stories. I'm going to write a Zoids:Chaotic Century fic, but I'm waiting until I see the whole series first. Plus school will keep me busy. Anywho, please R&R! it will get better! I promise