Konnichiwa minna-san! Moon Angel signin' in! I'm almost done with revising this story. Nothing else really to say. After this story will probably come "Ham-Ham" Survivor. And if you like this story, read my other "Ham-Ham's Sing Your Favorite Songs". Thanks!

Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro. Ritsuko Kawai does.

Claimer: I do own Ginger.

Dedication: To all my friends and the people who reviewed, because if it wasn't for you guys, I wouldn't be on this site.

~*Chapter 8*~
~*The Flyer at the Beach Part 2*~

~Let's start off from the ending of last chapter, okay?

Howdy glanced back over to the area where Ginger was sitting. There she was, still sitting there.

Then she got up. She seemed to shake her head and walk farther out into the ocean. A huge wave then came, completely covering her.

After the wave descended, Howdy violently shook his head. Ginger was not anywhere in sight.

He couldn't believe his eyes. There was no way he just saw Ginger getting pulled by the current. Or is there?

Dexter saw how pale Howdy was and walked over to him. "You okay?" He asked with a slight bit of concern in his voice.

Howdy didn't reply. He just sat there staring at the ocean, hoping that any minute, Ginger would appear again. But it seemed like that wasn't going to happen any time soon.

Bijou noticed that he was just sitting there, so she asked him, "Looking for dolphins?"

"No. Looking for Ginger," his voice was shaky as he replied.

"She's not out there?" Hamtaro walked over.

"N-no," he replied. Something then hit him. Hamsters can't swim. Humans LEARN how to swim. Ginger hasn't learned yet.

Something else hit him. If he was going to eventually tell Ginger that he was crazy about her, he might as well do it in a heroic type of rescue.

"Where are you going?! Don't you want to get the lifeguard?!" Maxwell shouted as Howdy placed his feet in the icy cold water.

"Get the lifeguard if I don't come back," he shouted back, and decided to dive in.

Stan watched as Howdy attempted to swim out farther. "I think we should get the lifeguard now."

Sandy once again picked up the beach ball and threw it at her stubborn brother. But this time he blocked it. She then whispered under her breath, "Lucky save."

Howdy tried everything to keep his head above water. He remembered the lessons that he was given the day when Stan and Pashmina went to the grocery store.

The waves were definitely getting bigger. They were about 6 feet in height. The current kept trying to pull him back, but he wouldn't let it.

He then remembered what he was supposed to be doing. Find Ginger. 'Oh great she could be anywhere!' He thought. He decided he might as well start with the obvious places. Underwater. But he didn't have a pair of goggles. He looked back to shore where he saw Penny randomly throwing things on the ground, including a bucket, some shovels, sandcastle shaper, and a pair of goggles.

Howdy figured he could swim back to shore and get back into the water in about 2 minutes. Easy right?

He was about 4 feet from the shore when a huge wave, maybe 8 feet, crashed onto him and dragged him underwater. The wave caused him to violently spin in circles. It also seemed like his trunks were falling off... But that's another story.

The wave quickly ceased and he managed to get his head above water. So that plan wasn't going to work. But he had to think of something. Fast.

Howdy continuously bobbed above the water any time the waves came. And then it came. The mother of all really weird beaches. At the least, a 12 footer. He gasped and swam closer and closer to the wave so he could dive through it. Lucky for him, the wave decided that it was going to make Howdy's day a living hell. It crashed right on top of him, forcing him underwater.

KLUNK! He suddenly bumped heads with something. Not taking any chances, he forced himself to swim back up. The view from the ocean all of a sudden seemed farther away. Really, he was still around the same spot he began. He spit out the excess water he had in his mouth and managed to make his way up to shore.

"Hey Penny, can I take these?" he asked her. She nodded and went back to building her sandcastle. She then looked up again and yelled at him, "HEY! YOU TOOK THE PRETTY GREEN ONES!"

Howdy ignored Penny's scold and put on the goggles. He then dove back into the ocean. He felt all hard surfaces he could find, and looked around for any clues of where Ginger would be.

He walked back over to his spot, trying not to get hit by any waves, and adjusted the goggles. He was just about to dive under again when he felt something soft hit his ankle. He tried not to scream, because he thought it could be a stingray or a shark or a crab or anything else that lives in the ocean.

He took a deep breath and slowly sank underwater as another huge wave came by. He could feel the force from it, for he was being pulled back to shore. But he didn't let himself. All he knew was, that if Ginger was underwater for that long, she could be...

'NO!' he mentally scolded himself for thinking something like that. He looked around and felt along the soft thing that touched him. It was definitely a body. He picked it up and brought it above water.

"Ginger!" Howdy cried as he saw her face. He wanted to rejoice so much more, but she was pale and wasn't moving. He supported her onto him and placed her head on his chest, right around where his heart is.

He managed to make his way back to shore. Bijou and Hamtaro noticed this and they laid out a beach blanket for him to drop Ginger on. Bijou told Maxwell and Oxnard to go do something helpful. So Maxwell got his reference book out and looked more up on why their humans know they're back and Oxnard went over to play with Penny. REALLY helpful eh?

Howdy breathlessly placed Ginger on the blanket, and then collapsed himself. He took off the 'pretty green goggles' and threw them back over to Penny. He then sat back up again and looked at Ginger. Her light blonde hair covered her face as well as her body seemed to go from tan to pale. Basically, she looked awful.

"Is she going to be all right?" Pashmina took off her sunglasses and looked at her.

"I don't know," he replied, still staring at her.

"I'm calling 911!" Sandy picked up her cell phone and turned it on.

"Wait!" Stan told her as Sandy turned her cell phone off. He then punched Ginger's stomach, and she began to cough out all of the water.

"Who ever did that is going to die," her voice crackled.

"But I saved your life," Stan said in a heroic type of voice.

"I'll give you that."

Boss rolled his eyes, "Stan, you got her to breathe again, while Howdy went out into the ocean and rescued her."

Ginger flung her head around to look at her savior. She couldn't believe it. Howdy of all people came and rescued HER. She wouldn't have been surprised if Stan did rescue her. She coughed fiercely and looked to the ground.

Hamtaro could sense what was coming from Howdy. He decided to direct the group in Penny's way. "Let's go see what the little one is up to." The group began to chatter as if nothing happened and walked over to Penny.

Ginger was beginning to regain her skin color. Howdy cleared his throat and took a deep breath.

"It looks like you're going to say something," she pointed out, still regaining her voice.

"Yes, well," Howdy blushed lightly.

"You're shy. Why is that? Did you think that I wouldn't want you to save me," she put in a small lie.

He looked back over at where everybody else was. It looked like they were attempting to eaves drop. "Let's sit at the edge of the water if we're going to talk."

Ginger tightened up. She now officially hated water. "Why?"

He grabbed her hand and stood up. "The others are trying to get something out of us."

She giggled and followed him to the breakwater. Holding his hand all of a sudden felt different then it did before. Not like she wanted to chop off his head, but more like she wanted to saw his body in two with a chainsaw.

They both sat down. Ginger looked at his face. She had a feeling what he was going to ask. "Look. I purposely didn't get hit by the wave. I wanted to go out a little further to see the dolphins. After the first few steps I was hit by a wave and I couldn't swim above water."

"How did you..." Howdy was baffled at the way she knew what he was going to say.

"Call it my uncanny talent," she flashed a smile.

"Can you guess what I'm going to ask next?" he asked her.

"Search me."

"Will you come back with us?" he asked her, his face showing concern for her safety. "If you don't come back with us, who knows what might happen."

"Don't worry, I've thought about it. I'm coming back," she replied with a smile.

Howdy put his arm around Ginger and looked at her. She looked normal now. She gripped his hand gently and asked, "You're doing this because..."

He turned crimson and was just about to tell her when, "ALRIGHT YOU TWO! BACK IN THE CAR!" Boss honked the car horn. Ginger ignored the fact that Howdy didn't answer her question. She was just happy that she knew someone cared.

~*Back at the Hotel*~

Everyone was dressed back into their normal clothes. They were all staring at Maxwell for his word on how they would get back to being hamsters. He stared at his reference book for what seemed like hours, even through the car drive back.

"Did you find ANYTHING yet?" Boss asked impatiently.

"Took the words right out of my mouth," Dexter lounged on an armchair.

"We have to find that gem that turned us into humans," he came to a conclusion.

"You mean it took you 3 hours just to find that?!" Ginger fell back on a bed.

"I was looking at other stuff," he replied innocently.

"You're lucky I'm tired out or I would question you further," Boss said falling asleep.

~*Moon Angel's Notes*~

Only two more chapters left. You want to see it fast than I'll need a lot of reviews. If not, than expect chapter 9 up in about a week or more. *Evil cackle* Ja ne! Moon Angel signin' off!