The Mystery of Snoozer
Chapter 1: The Arrival of Moonbeam
"Zuzuzuzu." said Hamtaro as he slept soundly in his cage until he was awoken by a knock on Laura's bedroom door.
"Laura, get up dear." said Marion, Laura's mother. Laura made no response as she continued to sleep in her bed. Marion opened the door and noticed her daughter sleeping in her bed. "Laura, you're supposed to be awake by now." Laura finally opened her eyes and said groggily, "But mom, it's the spring break. There is no need to get up so early."
"True," admitted Marion, "but you said that you would get up early so you can clean up for Jake's visit." This news snapped Laura out of her sleep.
"Oh yeah, I forgot." said Laura as she jumped out of bed. This also reminded Hamtaro of Jake's visit. Jake is Laura's cousin. He's two years younger than Laura and it had been three years since they have seen each other. Jake was going to spend much of his spring vacation here and Laura and her parents were going to clean up this morning. Hamtaro was rather thrilled about the visit since he had never seen Jake before but he has seen his picture. After a hasty breakfast, Laura began cleaning up the house preparing for Jake's arrival. There wasn't much left to clean since they did much of it last night but Marion tends to be a neat freak whenever guests are arriving.
At around nine o'clock, while the family prepared for Jake's arrival, not far away was an eight year old walking across the side walk looking for the address written on a sheet of paper which he held in his hand. He was some what exhausted by the weight of the suit cases and carrier he was carrying but he is stronger than he looks so he was capable of pressing onward. With a sigh of relief, he finally found the house he was looking for. He came to the house and knocked on the door. Marion Haruna answered the door.
"Oh Jake, I didn't expect you to arrive so soon." she said. Jake wore a white T-shirt and dark blue shorts. He had the same colored eyes and hair as Laura except his hair was shorter. Judging from the sweat from Jake's forehead, Marion realized that he must have lugged all that luggage by himself.
"Did you walk all the way here?" asked Marion.
"Yes aunt Marion, I walked all the way from the train station." said Jake.
"Why didn't you call us? We could have picked you up." said Marion
"I know but I didn't have any change for a phone call and after such a long train ride, I wanted to stretch my legs." said Jake. Laura came into the hallway, with Hamtaro on her shoulder, when she heard Jake's voice.
"Hey Jake. Long time no see." she said. Jake noticed the orange and white hamster that was on Laura's shoulder. He gave his suit cases to Marion but he didn't give her the carrier.
"Hey, is that Hamtaro?" asked Jake.
"Yep, that's him." said Laura. Jake stroked the hamster's head. Jake had never seen Laura's hamster and he was thrilled to meet him.
"You know Laura, I was so impressed by all those letters you wrote to me about Hamtaro that I also got a hamster too." said Jake. Jake lifted the carrier up to Laura's face. Laura looked down at the small hamster in the cage. "Her name is Moonbeam." Laura smiled in admiration for the hamster. Moonbeam was completely dark gray and she was the same height as Hamtaro. Moonbeam was sound asleep in her cage, however.
"Why don't you put her in the guest room where you will be sleeping." suggested Laura.
"Good idea Laura and why don't you and your parents take me on a tour of your town." said Jake. Jake, accompanied by Marion with the suit cases, went up stairs to the guest room to drop off Jake's luggage and Moonbeam. Laura went over to her room and placed Hamtaro in his cage.
"Now be a good little boy and stay in there while we show Jake around town." said Laura to Hamtaro. "See you this evening little guy." When Laura left, Hamtaro squeezed his way out of his cage and went to the window to watch Laura and family get into the car. Once Hamtaro was sure that they were gone, he ran over to the guest room to see Moonbeam.
The guest room didn't look like much and it was a part of the house that Hamtaro rarely gone to see. None the less, Hamtaro was capable of working his way through the obstacles in the room and locate Moonbeam's cage which is located on a night stand nearby. Once Hamtaro reached Moonbeam's cage, Moonbeam began to stir. She opened her eyes and the first thing she saw was Hamtaro.
"Hello, you must be Hamtaro." said Moonbeam.
"Why yes, how did you know?" said Hamtaro.
"Jake has been talking about you a lot on the train ride over here."
"Oh. Well, our humans just left so why don't I show you around the neighborhood."
"I would like that." Moonbeam squeezed out of her cage and she followed Hamtaro through the hole in Laura's room and down the drain pipe. "Wheee." yelled Moonbeam as she slid down the pipe. The two flew out of the end of the pipe and they landed gently on something brown and furry.
"Morning Brandy." said Hamtaro. Brandy just yawned in response.
"Is he always this lazy?" asked Moonbeam.
"Pretty much but when he needs to run he sure can run." answered Hamtaro. The two went down the hole leading to the Clubhouse repeating "Ticky-Ticky" as they walked.
The two were surprised upon entering the Clubhouse when they discovered all the activity that was in the Clubhouse.
"What's going on?" asked Hamtaro.
"Where doing another clean up of the Clubhouse." said Pashmina as she sweeped the floor. "Oh, I see you brought a visitor." The Ham-Hams just stopped as they realized the visitor Hamtaro had brought. Before Hamtaro could introduce everyone to Moonbeam, Stan wasted no time in introducing himself in his usual way.
"Hello gorgeous, where have ya been all my life?" said Stan as he held Moonbeam's paws. "My name is Stan and what is yours beautiful." Moonbeam began to blush.
"My names Moonbeam." she said
"Well that's a pretty name." said Stan. "Maybe you could live up to your name and take a walk with me under a full moon. The only thing more beautiful than the stars and the moon would be you."
"Stop it, Stan, you're making me blush." said Moonbeam as she giggled over the idea of having such complements from a total stranger. Suddenly, a pink ribbon grabbed Stan by the tail like a whip and Sandy began to drag Stan away from Moonbeam as if he was caught by a lasso.
"Now that's enough, Stan." said Sandy. Stan just groaned.
"Well Moonbeam, what brings you to this town?" asked Howdy.
"My human is a cousin of Laura and me and my human have just come over here for a visit." said Moonbeam. "I'm going to be here for the majority of the week."
"Well sorry we had to be cleaning the Clubhouse today." said Howdy.
"Well, I won't mind helping." said Moonbeam.
"But what about the tour of town?' asked Hamtaro.
"Well, we can do that later, besides, this is a good way to get to know the Ham-Hams." said Moonbeam.
"Okay, you have a good point." said Hamtaro. The two began to pitch in and help with the clean up. Moonbeam began to pick up some loose pieces of hay that was around Snoozer. She thought it was strange that this ham-ham would be sleeping like this and not helping.
"Shouldn't we wake him up?" asked Moonbeam.
"Try as you might but he never wakes up." said Dexter.
"Never wakes up?" asked Moonbeam.
"Ya, he has been asleep since we first found him which is why we named him 'Snoozer." said Boss. Moonbeam just stared at Snoozer thinking to herself how familiar Snoozer's face looked. She didn't know why but some how, Snoozer's face looked familiar as if she had seen it in another point in the past. Moonbeam shrugged off the thought and went back to cleaning.