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

Claimer: I do own Ginger.

Dedication: I want to dedicate this chapter/story to my cats Peeps and Squeaks for not attacking the rabid woodchuck in our garage and getting rabies. Oh, and to my dad for killing that same rabid woodchuck so it wouldn't jump out at us and kill us. ^^

~*Chapter 9*~
~*Just One Last Day*~

The room was quiet. It was 6:30am and the sun was starting to arise. Penny, of course, was the first one awake. She looked around at the 'adult' Ham- Ham's and sighed. She knew it. They were going back to hamsters. She heard them talking scarcely about it one night, and they seemed to stop when she entered the room.

"You up already Penny?" Bijou asked her, rubbing her eyes.

"I couldn't sleep last night. I know we're going back," she replied quietly.

"Oh? Well you understand why right?" she whispered.

Penny nodded, got up, and went toward the kitchen. Well, more like bar/kitchen. Bijou followed behind her and grabbed out two bowls and a box of cereal.

"How do we go back Bijou?" she asked all of a sudden.

"Well, Dexter, Maxwell, and Boss have agreed to stay behind we go out today and look for that teeny tiny gem that turned us into humans," she replied.

"No girls are staying behind?"

"Sandy and Pashmina *were* thinking of helping."

"Ready for the big day?" Hamtaro walked over and gave Bijou a kiss on the cheek. "I've decided to help look for the gem."

"I had a feeling you wanted to," she pecked him back.

"EWIE! Kissy kiss somewhere else!" Penny tried to shove them out of the room. The couple laughed at seeing her attempt to get them out of the room, and continued with breakfast.

~*Later that Day*~

They decided early on in the morning that they would check out of the hotel. Howdy and Oxnard managed to pay up, and they were to be out by 12pm. But they had no stuff to bring out, so they left at about 11:15am.

It had been agreed that Hamtaro, Boss, Maxwell, Sandy, Stan, Pashmina, and Dexter would go to the park where they found the gem. The rest would go look around at town, maybe go to the mall, or even find their owners walking around.

The girls and the boys had different interests obviously, so they went in two directions. The girls headed for the clothes shops, while the boys just strolled along using a very weird gait.

~*With the Girls*~

It seemed like one of their Ham-Ham adventures. Just walking in and out of every store. They spotted people that they thought they knew, and tried to name them.

"Oh look! There's... There's..." Ginger once pointed out. The figure that she thought she recognized walked by as she said, "I don't know. Who?"

"LOOKIE! ICE CREAM!" Penny shouted with glee as she tugged on Bijou's skirt. "Can I have some ice cream Bijou?"

"Sorry Penny. I lent all my money to Oxnard," Bijou replied, petting the little girl's head.

Penny turned to Ginger and asked, "Can I have some ice cream Ginger?"

"Okay, okay. But only since it's our last day of being humans," she remembered to whisper to her. They walked over to the ice cream stand and bought three single scoop cones.

"Here 'ya go Bijou!" Ginger handed a cone to her as Penny happily licked away at her own.

"Thank you," she grabbed the cone, licked it, and asked, "Are there any stores in particular you guys wanted to see?"

"Yeah. I wanted to see if they had a skateboard shop," Ginger replied.

"Silly! There's no shop like that in here!" Penny said pointing to a directory. "See! It says there are no skateboard shops!"

"In that case I guess we should find Howdy and Oxnard," she turned Bijou as she licked some more of her ice cream.

"Yeah," she nudged Ginger as she said, "Bet Howdy missed you!"

"What are you getting at?" Ginger said dumbfounded.

Bijou grinned as she raced ahead to find the boys. Ginger on the other hand, was just standing there clueless. Penny threw out her cone and caught up with Bijou.

~*All Caught Up With The Boys*~

Howdy sat on a bench and repeatedly rubbed his forehead with his hand. He never experienced a headache like this before. Oxnard stared at him and finally sat down next to him.

"Do you think they found the gem yet?" he abruptly asked Howdy.

"I can't think much of anything right now," he replied as he felt the pain subside. "How about you?"

"Not sure. It all depends if they're *really*looking," he pulled out a couple of sunflower seeds and munched on them.

"Oh they're looking all right!" Bijou walked up in front of them. "You ready to see what they found?"

"Okay." Howdy stood up and looked around. "Where's Ginger?"

"I'm right here!" she walked over to where Bijou and Penny were standing.

"Well we'd better get going! Boss and the others are going to wonder what happened to us!" Oxnard suggested.

~*Back By The Tallest Tree*~

"Another rock?!" Sandy tossed over another little pebble. "That's the 12th one!"

"Not like any of us are having better luck," Maxwell said, plucking at the grass.

Pashmina collapsed on the ground and told them, "If we give up now it only means our owners will have a better chance of replacing us with gerbils or guinea pigs, or something."

"True. Very true," Stan picked at the clovers.

"HEY GUYS!" Ginger's voice rang through the air as they walked over to them.

"Any luck?" Bijou asked, exhausted.

"We've found nothing but pebbles," Hamtaro replied, flinging another one into the lake.

"Well we'll HELP!" Penny said as she got on her hands and knees and crawled around. About an hour later, there still no gem.

"Hey Hamtaro, do you remember exactly HOW this gem looked?" Dexter asked him.

"Yeah! It was like a reddish-pink and seemed to glow," he replied as he took a breather.

"Oops..." Penny said as she sat up.

"Oops what?" Boss asked her.

"I just threw a tiny pink thing into the pond," she replied.

"Oh Penny!" Sandy sighed, trying not to frighten the child.

"I-I-I'm sorry!" she began to cry a little and then stopped. "I'll go in after it *SNIFF* if I have to."

"NO!" they all shouted in unison.

Maxwell got out a magnifying glass he brought with him and looked into the water. He saw a tiny red-pink pebble at the bottom of the small pond. He reached his arm under and pulled it out. Everyone began to chatter as he showed around the small gem.

Ginger looked up to the sky and said, "Well, it's time to go back you guys."

They all nodded, turned toward the gem and chanted, "O MIGHTY GEM WE COME TO YOU WITH OUR FONDEST WISH! PLEASE TURN US INTO THE BEINGS WE WERE BEFORE!"

~*Moon Angel's Notes*~

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