Disclaimer: I don't own Hamtaro. I do own Lunette and Snuff, and I own a
pair of sandals.
A/N: It's time again. Sorry for the wait, but my other story hit a snafu and it took me awhile to finish. But enough on that.
(: Telepathy :)
Innocent Kiss Chapter four: On magic and music
"It is! Jingle what are you doing here?" Hamtaro asked. Jingle was a wandering poet and musician. The hamster had peach fur down his back, a dark brown Mohawk, a white underbelly and wore a red guitar strapped to his back.
"I am where I am, and I never know where I'm going, Hamtossle," The rhyming rodent said as he finished rounding the corner of the building.
"It's Hamtaro!" The orange and white hamster exclaimed, slightly exasperated.
"I see you altered your name again. But wouldn't be easier if you let yourself roam free?" He said.
"Heke?" Hamtaro responded confused.
"Look, do you know a way inside?" Travis asked. The peach hamster didn't answer right away. He first strummed his guitar and thought.
"The way and the wave, the wind blows through the cave," he said turning and slowing walking back in the direction he came in.
"What does that mean?" Laura asked confused. She looked around at the others, whose faces mirrored her own confusion.
"Perhaps we should just follow him. He might show us a way in," Panda said. The others nodded and they chased the poetic hamster. Following him, they arrived at the back of the building.
"Why didn't I think of that? This place has an emergency room!" Laura exclaimed. The ham-hams where standing in front of a pair of large double doors.
Boss examined the doors then said, "If we all push together we can open the door." Everyone lined up, and on the count of three pushed with all of his or her strength. At first nothing happened, then the door slowly moved forward. When it had opened wide enough, everyone rushed though. Boss, the last one through, almost got stuck in the door. When everyone was safely inside, the Ham-hams had time to look around. They were in a large empty waiting room. Seats lined three of the four walls. Tables were scattered here and there, with magazines placed on top. Leading to the back rooms was another set of double doors. The ham-hams noticed that the room was luckily empty. Scampering across the tile floor they made it to the doors with no problem.
"OK everyone, there are a bunch of rooms back there. It will take too much time to search them one by one. so let's split up," Travis suggested.
"That's a good idea kid. Everyone find a partner, we'll do this in groups of two," Boss said placing both paws on his shovel. "So choose a someone as I point to you." He randomly pointed at Panda first.
"I choose Hamtaro," He said. Bijou quietly pouted near the back as Hamtaro walked next to him. Next he pointed to Stan.
"Sandy, Bossman," Stan said suavely. Sandy glanced over to Maxwell then shrugged. She moved over to her twin brother's side. Deter and Howdy breathed a sigh of relief at Stan's choice. They thought he might have asked Pashmina to join him. Next to chose was Bijou.
(If I cannot spend time with Hamtaro, then I will spend sometime with my best friend,) "I chose Pashmina," she said softly. Boss sighed, and then pointed to Laura.
"Travis!" she squeaked out. Apparently she was still unsure of her situation. Travis gazed at her evenly, then strolled over.
"Ok Maxwell you're next." Boss said. The book-loving hamster looked at his remaining choices, Boss, Cappy, Penelope, Howdy or Dexter.
(Wait, what happened to Jingle? He must have wandered off again. Oh well. Here goes.) "Penelope do you want to come with me?" He asked the youngest ham-ham. She cheerfully hopped over to his side and smiled up at him.
"Now let's see, Cappy you're next," Boss said. As soon as he got the words out of his mouth, Cappy shouted out.
"Boss! I want you to join me!" He then looked down and laughed nervously at his own enthusiasm.
"Well I guess you and Howdy are partners by default," Boss said to Dexter.
"What!" They both exclaimed. "Me work with him? Never!" But their cries fell on deaf ears as everyone had gathered around Travis. The new ham-ham gave a brief description of Lunette, and they all split up with their respective partners.
"Ok Ham-hams we will meet up here in and hour," Boss said as they parted.
Hamtaro and Panda ended up in the storage closet. The two hamsters looked around the place in awe, wondering what all of the things were used for.
"Follow me!" Hamtaro exclaimed as he climbed up the side of a counter.
"Hamtaro, I think we should be careful and not touch anything," Panda cautiously said as joined him.
"Oh Panda, where's you sense of adventure? I mean look at all of this stuff!" He said as he moved over to a container of gaze. The orange and white rodent jumped up and looked in to the glass container. "Hey, you have got to see this." Panda jumped up and looked in as well.
"Hey I bet we could use some of this as padding," He mused thoughtfully. A container of long cotton swabs caught his eyes. He jumped down, almost tipping the container over in his haste to get to the other one. "I can think of a thousand uses for these. Lend me a paw here!" Hamtaro shrugged and joined him in scavenging supplies. Penelope and Maxwell had found the ER and Maxwell was trying to remember if had seen anything like it in a book.
"Penelope, don't wander off. Sandy and Pashmina would kill me if something happened to you." He said distractedly. Of course Penelope wasn't listening. She was already climbing an adjustable table. "Penelope?" Maxwell asked when he noticed she hadn't responded. The tall brown and white hamster panicked for a moment when he finally spotted her. He rushed over and called up to her, "Penelope, would you get down from there, it's not safe!"
She looked down at him and gave him a cheerful cry, before slowly making her way back down. About mid way down she missed a paw hold and slipped. Maxwell put his book on his back and dashed up to help her. He was just in time to save her from falling.
"This is way should wait before you run off, Penelope. But I'm glad your ok!" He exclaimed not to unkindly. With his help they managed to reach the top of the bed. (I don't see any cages. Maybe we got the wrong room.) He thought. "Penelope I think we should look somewhere else."
"Ookyoo," she said sadly. Both Hamsters made there way back down and continued their search. Bijou and Pashmina weren't having any more luck in their explorations. Both Ham girls had reached the front lobby and they were a bit intimidated by the large, dark empty room.
"Maybe she isn't here?" Pashmina suggested concerned.
"Maybe. but we have to check anyway. I mean it wouldn't be fair to the others if we didn't do our part, no?" The pig-tailed hamster answered.
"When you're right, you're right Bijou," she said walking into the room. Dark objects loomed over both of them, and the shadows danced under the shifting light from outside of the blind covered windows. "Still, it is kind of spooky in here." She tightened her scarf and walked a little closer to her friend.
"Perhaps a bit of light will well help," Bijou said pointing to lamp that was sitting on a small table. She scurried up to the light source and shortly the room was lit. When the shadows were chased away the room was actually quite homey. The room was painted in soft pastels and was rather relaxing, till you thought about its purpose. However the light also showed them that the hamster they were looking for wasn't present.
"Well it looks like we have to search somewhere else," Pashmina said. "But maybe we should paint the clubhouse like this."
Bijou giggled then responded, "I agree. So I guess something good can come out of what may look like a bad situation?" Pashmina nodded and the two friends left discussing décor. In another dark room, Sandy was confronting her brother Stan about what he wanted.
"Ok Bro, spill. I'm sure that you asked me along for some reason," She said to his back. He was being unusually quiet as they searched.
"Did you notice those two?" He suddenly asked.
"You mean Travis and Laura?" She asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, those two," Stan replied. He glanced around to take note of where he and his twin sister were located. The tiger striped hamsters were in the garage of the hospital and both of them had stopped underneath a mini-van. "Did you notice the way they kept glancing at each other? I 'know' the totally dig each other," he said with a smirk.
"Stan, are you planning some mischief? Because if you are. I want in," Sandy said with a mischievous smile.
"Well I have a few ideas on how we can hook them up, but I need you help," he said in a conspiratorial whisper. She leaned in closer as he quietly filled her in. While the other ham-hams had avoided any contact with the staff, Boss and Cappy weren't so lucky. Both of the hat-wearing hamsters found themselves hiding in the records room. Boss gestured for Cappy to follow him, and then he dashed toward a desk in the middle of the room. Cappy checked, and noticed that the night secretary wasn't facing in his direction. He quickly scampered and stopped behind Boss who was watching from around a table leg.
-Hif-Hif- "Harrumph. I don't smell a single hamster," Boss said.
"Do you think that Travis made a mistake?" Cappy asked.
"No I don't think he did. we might have just made a wrong turn," he suggested scratching his head. The large black and white hamster readjusted his hard hat, shouldered his shovel and headed for the next hiding place. Cappy looked around then followed his hero. Just as they left the desk, the women turned and place some papers on it. Both hamsters didn't see the near miss however. Now out of all of the ham-hams, Howdy and Dexter were the luckiest. Of course they didn't see it that way. They both happened to stumble upon the recovery room, which was filled with sleeping pets. The cages were sturdy and the animals inside couldn't get out, which was good for both of the hamsters, as some of the patents wouldn't have minded having them for a late night snack. Also, due to an earlier argument, they weren't speaking to each other, so they didn't wake any of the slumbering animals up. They quietly searched the room and found the object of their search. Lunette was fast asleep, but woke up when she heard Dexter quietly call her name. She trained her pink eyes on them as she woke up with a soft yawn.
"Who are you?" she sleepily asked.
"Good evening. I'm Dexter, and this is Howdy. Might we ask if you happen to be named Lunette?" He politely asked.
"Newsflash, if she woke up because you said her name, then we have the right hamster," Howdy commented.
"I know that! But we should ask anyway to be sure!" Dexter exclaimed.
"Hold on you two! If you make too much noise you'll wake the other patents. Now why are you looking for me?" Lunette broke in.
"Well it's not us, but a boy name Travis. Your owner right?" Howdy said.
"Travis? He's here? Could you take me to meet him?" She asked. "You can undo the gate from out there." It took them a moment for them to find out how to open the latch, but they succeed. Lunette paced out, and together they headed for the meeting place. Maxwell and Penelope were waiting on them, and the rest showed up in short order. The last to show up were Travis and Laura, and when they others asked where they were they explained that they had checked out all of the examining rooms. Lunette looked at each of the ham-hams curiously as the introduced themselves. Her gaze stopped when she noticed Travis standing before her. "You came early!" She cheerfully exclaimed running over to him. "Wait, why are you a hamster again?"
"I'm not sure, and that's why I need your help," He asked her. The assembly moved to one of the empty examining rooms. Travis and Laura explained what happened since she left them. She thought for a moment then spoke.
"Well in your case Travis, you changed yourself. See magic is triggered by emotion. To access your talent, you have to tap into one strong emotion. Pride, courage, despair, hope, love, anger, and even fear can all be used. When you use that emotion the power rises to the surface. Then its up to your mind on how you use it. When you tried to change yourself and failed, the frustration activated you magic. And since the last thing you wanted to do was to change, it happened after you wanted it to. I suggest you determine what you want your trigger to be before another accident happens."
"So can you change me back?" Laura asked timidly.
The grey and white hamster examined her. "I don't know. Unlike Travis I wasn't there to run interference, so I might not be able to do it alone."
"So you mean I'm stuck this way forever?" She asked frightened.
"Not necessarily. Travis could you come here for a moment," Lunette answered. He plodded over and she took his paw. She looked deeply at it, and then smiled. "It can be done! But first, I need a volunteer." All of the Ham-hams exchanged dubious looks, but before anyone could react, the sound of a guitar surprised them. Jingle walked up behind the waiting group.
"The night is fair, and so is the air. And I find myself wondering, just what is over here? Greetings, and what are all of you doing here?" He said in his musical voice.
"Thank you! You will do nicely!" Lunette exclaimed dashing over to him. She dragged Travis over as well. "Travis, we're going to do some harmonious magic here. I need you to put one paw on this guy's arm, and I'll do the same for the other. Then we'll link our thoughts, and he should float off the ground."
"Really!" Everyone exclaimed. The fedora-wearing hamster nodded with a smile.
"How is supposed to link thoughts with ya?" Boss asked curiously.
"He." She started to answer, but suddenly stopped when she finally really noticed Boss. A blush stole across her face, and then she quickly blurted the rest out. ".Just needs to relax and I'll handle the rest!" Jingle attempted to walk away, but she grabbed his arm with an iron grip. Still blushing she reached out and grabbed Travis's paw. "Now grab hold and relax!" Travis shrugged, grabbed Jingle's other arm and then thought of his last math lesson. The memory of the lecture almost put him to sleep. But before that could happen, he felt the familiar warmth that indicated the use of magic. He opened his drooping eyes wide and glanced down at his paws. A halo of white light surrounded both of them.
(Wow!) He thought as the white light spread across Jingle who was looking very confused.
(: It's pretty cool isn't it? :) Lunette said in his mind. (: Now sit back and pay attention to what I do! :) Travis nodded and focused on Lunette's thoughts. "Words don't need to be said, but they can help to control your thoughts." Travis felt her thoughts focus on making Jingle weightless and fly high as the blue sky. He saw Jingle's red guitar float slowly up in the air. Just as Travis felt the spell was about to set on Jingle, he felt Lunette's mind wander for a second. There was a weak flash, and instead of Jingle floating to the blue sky, his fur just turned blue. All present started at Lunette, who blushed again. "Whoops! My mind wandered!" She waved a paw in Jingle's direction, and his fur returned back to its normal colors. "As you can see, what ever a mage or sorcerer does, they themselves can always easily undo it. However it's hard to undo what another magic user has done unless you happen to be present at the spell's casting."
"So you mean." Travis murmured. He waved a paw in Jingle's direction and the hamster turned blue again. Jingle looked as his new fur color, blinked, and then shrugged.
"It occurs to me that I appear to be going though a blue phase," He said as turned to walk away. Travis changed him back as he took his leave.
"So that's it. Hey, I think I can change myself back!" Travis exclaimed.
"So what was the emotion you used to do that?" Sandy slyly asked.
"I don't want to say, it's embarrassing," Travis coughed out.
"Now that you got the hang of it, let's change you friend," Lunette said. Travis nodded. Both of them approached Laura who backed up a step, nervous.
"Um. are you sure about this?" She asked.
"Don't worry! Everything is under control!" Lunette said.
"Well, will you be able to make my clothing come back as well?" Laura asked. Travis stopped, and then mentally cursed.
"Lunette, wait! She's right! We can't change her back now! We'll have to wait until the morning," He said.
"Heke?" Lunette said momentarily confused. Then she got what he was saying and nodded in understanding. "Well we can try later, but the longer we wait the more it will take out of both of us. If that is you decision, I'll wait for you to fetch me tomorrow morning!" She waved at them all and sped off. The ham-hams watched her go.
"Well now what?" Panda asked.
"Well, I'll go home, and call Laura's parents saying that she is with me. Then I can get her clothing tomorrow, and we can do the change thing," Travis said.
"That sounds like a plan," Maxwell musingly.
"Then I suggest we go home then," Pashmina said. "It's getting late!" With that the Ham-hams left the way they came, and dispersed. Hamtaro gave his friend a good luck hug and wished her well till the morning.
So that left both Travis and Laura, who both walked back to his house in silence.
A/N: It's time again. Sorry for the wait, but my other story hit a snafu and it took me awhile to finish. But enough on that.
(: Telepathy :)
Innocent Kiss Chapter four: On magic and music
"It is! Jingle what are you doing here?" Hamtaro asked. Jingle was a wandering poet and musician. The hamster had peach fur down his back, a dark brown Mohawk, a white underbelly and wore a red guitar strapped to his back.
"I am where I am, and I never know where I'm going, Hamtossle," The rhyming rodent said as he finished rounding the corner of the building.
"It's Hamtaro!" The orange and white hamster exclaimed, slightly exasperated.
"I see you altered your name again. But wouldn't be easier if you let yourself roam free?" He said.
"Heke?" Hamtaro responded confused.
"Look, do you know a way inside?" Travis asked. The peach hamster didn't answer right away. He first strummed his guitar and thought.
"The way and the wave, the wind blows through the cave," he said turning and slowing walking back in the direction he came in.
"What does that mean?" Laura asked confused. She looked around at the others, whose faces mirrored her own confusion.
"Perhaps we should just follow him. He might show us a way in," Panda said. The others nodded and they chased the poetic hamster. Following him, they arrived at the back of the building.
"Why didn't I think of that? This place has an emergency room!" Laura exclaimed. The ham-hams where standing in front of a pair of large double doors.
Boss examined the doors then said, "If we all push together we can open the door." Everyone lined up, and on the count of three pushed with all of his or her strength. At first nothing happened, then the door slowly moved forward. When it had opened wide enough, everyone rushed though. Boss, the last one through, almost got stuck in the door. When everyone was safely inside, the Ham-hams had time to look around. They were in a large empty waiting room. Seats lined three of the four walls. Tables were scattered here and there, with magazines placed on top. Leading to the back rooms was another set of double doors. The ham-hams noticed that the room was luckily empty. Scampering across the tile floor they made it to the doors with no problem.
"OK everyone, there are a bunch of rooms back there. It will take too much time to search them one by one. so let's split up," Travis suggested.
"That's a good idea kid. Everyone find a partner, we'll do this in groups of two," Boss said placing both paws on his shovel. "So choose a someone as I point to you." He randomly pointed at Panda first.
"I choose Hamtaro," He said. Bijou quietly pouted near the back as Hamtaro walked next to him. Next he pointed to Stan.
"Sandy, Bossman," Stan said suavely. Sandy glanced over to Maxwell then shrugged. She moved over to her twin brother's side. Deter and Howdy breathed a sigh of relief at Stan's choice. They thought he might have asked Pashmina to join him. Next to chose was Bijou.
(If I cannot spend time with Hamtaro, then I will spend sometime with my best friend,) "I chose Pashmina," she said softly. Boss sighed, and then pointed to Laura.
"Travis!" she squeaked out. Apparently she was still unsure of her situation. Travis gazed at her evenly, then strolled over.
"Ok Maxwell you're next." Boss said. The book-loving hamster looked at his remaining choices, Boss, Cappy, Penelope, Howdy or Dexter.
(Wait, what happened to Jingle? He must have wandered off again. Oh well. Here goes.) "Penelope do you want to come with me?" He asked the youngest ham-ham. She cheerfully hopped over to his side and smiled up at him.
"Now let's see, Cappy you're next," Boss said. As soon as he got the words out of his mouth, Cappy shouted out.
"Boss! I want you to join me!" He then looked down and laughed nervously at his own enthusiasm.
"Well I guess you and Howdy are partners by default," Boss said to Dexter.
"What!" They both exclaimed. "Me work with him? Never!" But their cries fell on deaf ears as everyone had gathered around Travis. The new ham-ham gave a brief description of Lunette, and they all split up with their respective partners.
"Ok Ham-hams we will meet up here in and hour," Boss said as they parted.
Hamtaro and Panda ended up in the storage closet. The two hamsters looked around the place in awe, wondering what all of the things were used for.
"Follow me!" Hamtaro exclaimed as he climbed up the side of a counter.
"Hamtaro, I think we should be careful and not touch anything," Panda cautiously said as joined him.
"Oh Panda, where's you sense of adventure? I mean look at all of this stuff!" He said as he moved over to a container of gaze. The orange and white rodent jumped up and looked in to the glass container. "Hey, you have got to see this." Panda jumped up and looked in as well.
"Hey I bet we could use some of this as padding," He mused thoughtfully. A container of long cotton swabs caught his eyes. He jumped down, almost tipping the container over in his haste to get to the other one. "I can think of a thousand uses for these. Lend me a paw here!" Hamtaro shrugged and joined him in scavenging supplies. Penelope and Maxwell had found the ER and Maxwell was trying to remember if had seen anything like it in a book.
"Penelope, don't wander off. Sandy and Pashmina would kill me if something happened to you." He said distractedly. Of course Penelope wasn't listening. She was already climbing an adjustable table. "Penelope?" Maxwell asked when he noticed she hadn't responded. The tall brown and white hamster panicked for a moment when he finally spotted her. He rushed over and called up to her, "Penelope, would you get down from there, it's not safe!"
She looked down at him and gave him a cheerful cry, before slowly making her way back down. About mid way down she missed a paw hold and slipped. Maxwell put his book on his back and dashed up to help her. He was just in time to save her from falling.
"This is way should wait before you run off, Penelope. But I'm glad your ok!" He exclaimed not to unkindly. With his help they managed to reach the top of the bed. (I don't see any cages. Maybe we got the wrong room.) He thought. "Penelope I think we should look somewhere else."
"Ookyoo," she said sadly. Both Hamsters made there way back down and continued their search. Bijou and Pashmina weren't having any more luck in their explorations. Both Ham girls had reached the front lobby and they were a bit intimidated by the large, dark empty room.
"Maybe she isn't here?" Pashmina suggested concerned.
"Maybe. but we have to check anyway. I mean it wouldn't be fair to the others if we didn't do our part, no?" The pig-tailed hamster answered.
"When you're right, you're right Bijou," she said walking into the room. Dark objects loomed over both of them, and the shadows danced under the shifting light from outside of the blind covered windows. "Still, it is kind of spooky in here." She tightened her scarf and walked a little closer to her friend.
"Perhaps a bit of light will well help," Bijou said pointing to lamp that was sitting on a small table. She scurried up to the light source and shortly the room was lit. When the shadows were chased away the room was actually quite homey. The room was painted in soft pastels and was rather relaxing, till you thought about its purpose. However the light also showed them that the hamster they were looking for wasn't present.
"Well it looks like we have to search somewhere else," Pashmina said. "But maybe we should paint the clubhouse like this."
Bijou giggled then responded, "I agree. So I guess something good can come out of what may look like a bad situation?" Pashmina nodded and the two friends left discussing décor. In another dark room, Sandy was confronting her brother Stan about what he wanted.
"Ok Bro, spill. I'm sure that you asked me along for some reason," She said to his back. He was being unusually quiet as they searched.
"Did you notice those two?" He suddenly asked.
"You mean Travis and Laura?" She asked thoughtfully.
"Yes, those two," Stan replied. He glanced around to take note of where he and his twin sister were located. The tiger striped hamsters were in the garage of the hospital and both of them had stopped underneath a mini-van. "Did you notice the way they kept glancing at each other? I 'know' the totally dig each other," he said with a smirk.
"Stan, are you planning some mischief? Because if you are. I want in," Sandy said with a mischievous smile.
"Well I have a few ideas on how we can hook them up, but I need you help," he said in a conspiratorial whisper. She leaned in closer as he quietly filled her in. While the other ham-hams had avoided any contact with the staff, Boss and Cappy weren't so lucky. Both of the hat-wearing hamsters found themselves hiding in the records room. Boss gestured for Cappy to follow him, and then he dashed toward a desk in the middle of the room. Cappy checked, and noticed that the night secretary wasn't facing in his direction. He quickly scampered and stopped behind Boss who was watching from around a table leg.
-Hif-Hif- "Harrumph. I don't smell a single hamster," Boss said.
"Do you think that Travis made a mistake?" Cappy asked.
"No I don't think he did. we might have just made a wrong turn," he suggested scratching his head. The large black and white hamster readjusted his hard hat, shouldered his shovel and headed for the next hiding place. Cappy looked around then followed his hero. Just as they left the desk, the women turned and place some papers on it. Both hamsters didn't see the near miss however. Now out of all of the ham-hams, Howdy and Dexter were the luckiest. Of course they didn't see it that way. They both happened to stumble upon the recovery room, which was filled with sleeping pets. The cages were sturdy and the animals inside couldn't get out, which was good for both of the hamsters, as some of the patents wouldn't have minded having them for a late night snack. Also, due to an earlier argument, they weren't speaking to each other, so they didn't wake any of the slumbering animals up. They quietly searched the room and found the object of their search. Lunette was fast asleep, but woke up when she heard Dexter quietly call her name. She trained her pink eyes on them as she woke up with a soft yawn.
"Who are you?" she sleepily asked.
"Good evening. I'm Dexter, and this is Howdy. Might we ask if you happen to be named Lunette?" He politely asked.
"Newsflash, if she woke up because you said her name, then we have the right hamster," Howdy commented.
"I know that! But we should ask anyway to be sure!" Dexter exclaimed.
"Hold on you two! If you make too much noise you'll wake the other patents. Now why are you looking for me?" Lunette broke in.
"Well it's not us, but a boy name Travis. Your owner right?" Howdy said.
"Travis? He's here? Could you take me to meet him?" She asked. "You can undo the gate from out there." It took them a moment for them to find out how to open the latch, but they succeed. Lunette paced out, and together they headed for the meeting place. Maxwell and Penelope were waiting on them, and the rest showed up in short order. The last to show up were Travis and Laura, and when they others asked where they were they explained that they had checked out all of the examining rooms. Lunette looked at each of the ham-hams curiously as the introduced themselves. Her gaze stopped when she noticed Travis standing before her. "You came early!" She cheerfully exclaimed running over to him. "Wait, why are you a hamster again?"
"I'm not sure, and that's why I need your help," He asked her. The assembly moved to one of the empty examining rooms. Travis and Laura explained what happened since she left them. She thought for a moment then spoke.
"Well in your case Travis, you changed yourself. See magic is triggered by emotion. To access your talent, you have to tap into one strong emotion. Pride, courage, despair, hope, love, anger, and even fear can all be used. When you use that emotion the power rises to the surface. Then its up to your mind on how you use it. When you tried to change yourself and failed, the frustration activated you magic. And since the last thing you wanted to do was to change, it happened after you wanted it to. I suggest you determine what you want your trigger to be before another accident happens."
"So can you change me back?" Laura asked timidly.
The grey and white hamster examined her. "I don't know. Unlike Travis I wasn't there to run interference, so I might not be able to do it alone."
"So you mean I'm stuck this way forever?" She asked frightened.
"Not necessarily. Travis could you come here for a moment," Lunette answered. He plodded over and she took his paw. She looked deeply at it, and then smiled. "It can be done! But first, I need a volunteer." All of the Ham-hams exchanged dubious looks, but before anyone could react, the sound of a guitar surprised them. Jingle walked up behind the waiting group.
"The night is fair, and so is the air. And I find myself wondering, just what is over here? Greetings, and what are all of you doing here?" He said in his musical voice.
"Thank you! You will do nicely!" Lunette exclaimed dashing over to him. She dragged Travis over as well. "Travis, we're going to do some harmonious magic here. I need you to put one paw on this guy's arm, and I'll do the same for the other. Then we'll link our thoughts, and he should float off the ground."
"Really!" Everyone exclaimed. The fedora-wearing hamster nodded with a smile.
"How is supposed to link thoughts with ya?" Boss asked curiously.
"He." She started to answer, but suddenly stopped when she finally really noticed Boss. A blush stole across her face, and then she quickly blurted the rest out. ".Just needs to relax and I'll handle the rest!" Jingle attempted to walk away, but she grabbed his arm with an iron grip. Still blushing she reached out and grabbed Travis's paw. "Now grab hold and relax!" Travis shrugged, grabbed Jingle's other arm and then thought of his last math lesson. The memory of the lecture almost put him to sleep. But before that could happen, he felt the familiar warmth that indicated the use of magic. He opened his drooping eyes wide and glanced down at his paws. A halo of white light surrounded both of them.
(Wow!) He thought as the white light spread across Jingle who was looking very confused.
(: It's pretty cool isn't it? :) Lunette said in his mind. (: Now sit back and pay attention to what I do! :) Travis nodded and focused on Lunette's thoughts. "Words don't need to be said, but they can help to control your thoughts." Travis felt her thoughts focus on making Jingle weightless and fly high as the blue sky. He saw Jingle's red guitar float slowly up in the air. Just as Travis felt the spell was about to set on Jingle, he felt Lunette's mind wander for a second. There was a weak flash, and instead of Jingle floating to the blue sky, his fur just turned blue. All present started at Lunette, who blushed again. "Whoops! My mind wandered!" She waved a paw in Jingle's direction, and his fur returned back to its normal colors. "As you can see, what ever a mage or sorcerer does, they themselves can always easily undo it. However it's hard to undo what another magic user has done unless you happen to be present at the spell's casting."
"So you mean." Travis murmured. He waved a paw in Jingle's direction and the hamster turned blue again. Jingle looked as his new fur color, blinked, and then shrugged.
"It occurs to me that I appear to be going though a blue phase," He said as turned to walk away. Travis changed him back as he took his leave.
"So that's it. Hey, I think I can change myself back!" Travis exclaimed.
"So what was the emotion you used to do that?" Sandy slyly asked.
"I don't want to say, it's embarrassing," Travis coughed out.
"Now that you got the hang of it, let's change you friend," Lunette said. Travis nodded. Both of them approached Laura who backed up a step, nervous.
"Um. are you sure about this?" She asked.
"Don't worry! Everything is under control!" Lunette said.
"Well, will you be able to make my clothing come back as well?" Laura asked. Travis stopped, and then mentally cursed.
"Lunette, wait! She's right! We can't change her back now! We'll have to wait until the morning," He said.
"Heke?" Lunette said momentarily confused. Then she got what he was saying and nodded in understanding. "Well we can try later, but the longer we wait the more it will take out of both of us. If that is you decision, I'll wait for you to fetch me tomorrow morning!" She waved at them all and sped off. The ham-hams watched her go.
"Well now what?" Panda asked.
"Well, I'll go home, and call Laura's parents saying that she is with me. Then I can get her clothing tomorrow, and we can do the change thing," Travis said.
"That sounds like a plan," Maxwell musingly.
"Then I suggest we go home then," Pashmina said. "It's getting late!" With that the Ham-hams left the way they came, and dispersed. Hamtaro gave his friend a good luck hug and wished her well till the morning.
So that left both Travis and Laura, who both walked back to his house in silence.
