(A/N: My updates are probably going to be more frequent because I am getting ready for college and I am going to be busy with a lot of work.)

Hamtaro Adventure Series- Virtual Adventure

Ch 3.

The next day Laura took Hamtaro to school with her. She showed her virtual pet to all of her friends and explained the problem.

"That's too bad Laura." Kana consoled her. "If that ever happened to Oxnard I don't know what I would do."

"Are you doing ok?" Travis asked.

Normally Laura would be happy that Travis was noticing her, but this time she was too worried about Hamtaro to notice Travis.

Class started and Laura put Hamtaro in her backpack for safe keeping. The day went by and everything seemed to go fine until after P.E. Laura checked her backpack but was unable to locate Hamtaro. Now she was really worried. She couldn't imagine what would happen if she was never able to find Hamtaro. Laura immediately went to the lost and found to see if anyone had found Hamtaro and brought him there. No luck. Laura was getting really upset. Kana found Laura in the hallway outside of her class crying. Laura's face was red and fresh tears were running down her cheeks.

"What am I going o do Kana? I lost Hamtaro."

"It's ok Laura. I'm sure that somebody has found him and is going to return him to you."

Hearing that cheered Laura up a little, but not enough to make her stop crying.

Meanwhile the Ham-Hams were searching for Hamtaro. They knew about Hamtaro getting turned into a virtual pet and how he is unable to come to the clubhouse in this condition. Since they had no luck finding Hamtaro at his house, they figured that Laura had brought him with her to school. They looked all over the school for Laura, finally finding her in the hall room with Kana. They overheard everything that Laura had said. Gasps of fear overcame all of the Ham-Hams. Worried for their friend's safety the quickly split up into groups and searched all over the campus for Hamtaro.

After an hour of searching with no luck, the Ham-Hams began fearing that they would never see their cheerful friend again. This made all of them sad. Just then they spotted someone's walking by. Unknown to this person, on his backpack, was Hamtaro, who was an unwilling passenger. The hamsters quickly gave chase and waited for the opportunity to rescue their friend. The opportunity came as the person went into his next class. He set down his backpack at took his place at his desk, waiting for the teacher's instructions. The Ham-hams took this opportunity to grab Hamtaro's virtual device and take it back to Laura.

"Don't worry Hamtaro." Boss assured him. "We'll have you back in Laura's hand in no time."

Hamtaro was glad that he would be able to see his owner again.

Laura was listening to one of Mr. Yoshi's lectures again. She couldn't concentrate though. She was too upset after losing her best friend.

At that time Boss, and the other Ham-hams had gotten to Laura's class and were in the process of putting Hamtaro back in Laura's backpack.

Mr. Yoshi had told the class to take out a pencil. That's when Laura noticed that one of the pockets of her backpack was open. When she looked in it she couldn't believe what she saw. There was Hamtaro safe and sound inside his handheld gadget. Laura was so surprised and overjoyed that she screamed right in the middle of class.

"Is there something wrong Laura?" Mr. Yoshi asked Laura rather annoyed that she interrupted his class.

"I'm sorry Mr. Yoshi." She said apologetically.

Laura later explained to Kana what had happened.

"He must have been in there the whole time and you probably just forgot."

"Guess your right." Laura agreed.

Later that night Laura went to sleep with Hamtaro close to her.