Love Lasts Forever

Chapter 12: The Half Mile

Previously on Love Lasts Forever: Hamtaro, Spat, Bijou, Boss, and Daisy started off for the mountain path to the Temple of Heaven. As they walk, they hide when the evil Glacier disturbs the peaceful path. After talking to a hamster that was hiding among the rocks, Glacier turns into Kamikuro and flies off down the mountain with the other hamster following. Hamtaro and his friends keep their pace, until they reach a fork in the road with a small creature sitting at the intersection of the paths. Hamtaro solves his riddle, and they go to the left. This time, Hamtaro and his gang will follow the creature's directions, and try their best to stay off the dirt road....Before Glacier comes.......

The path to the left wasn't as beautiful as the first straight one. It was full of plants that were dead or dying, and crows who were too scared of someone or something to hunt on Hamtaro and the others. It was pretty cold, even when the sun shone directly on the path. On the side of the paved road was a dirt road, the one that the mouse told them to stay away from. Hamtaro saw a whole bunch of fruit trees with red apples down the path, but he heeded the mouse's warning. Bijou saw a whole bunch of blue flowers below those trees, but she followed Hamtaro. Boss could see dropped supplies that they would need, but he ignored them anyway. Then, there was one thing that everyone saw that the couldn't resist. Especially Daisy.

There, sitting under a tree and reading a book, was Prince Bo. They couldn't believe it. He was pain-free, and he was calm. He got up and ram toward everybody else. "Guys?!" Hamtaro was stunned. Then, Daisy ran up to him and said, "I-I can't believe you're alive!" Bo smiled, and Hamtaro said, "Did you meet that mouse back there?" Bo kept his smile and said, "Yeah. He told me that the dirt path was the good choice, and the paved path is bad. Did he tell you the opposite?" Hamtaro nodded.

Bo started walking down the dirt path, and Hamtaro and the group hesitated for a moment. Then, Daisy said, "If the Prince goes, we can go." Daisy followed Bo, then Hamtaro and the others followed. Soon, they got to a brighter path, and it was just like the one they had started at. Everyone felt happy here, but then Spat said, "You know how Bo is all the way in the back?" Hamtaro nodded. Then, Spat said, "When we go by, the birds chirp. When Bo goes by, the birds don't chirp." Hamtaro just realized it. Spat nodded. "It's him."

Hamtaro and Spat walked to the back of the line. "Bo?" Bo looked at them for a moment and said, "Yeah, what's up?" Hamtaro looked at him for a moment, and then Spat nabbed Bo by the back of his neck and held him against a tree! Daisy said, "STOP! What are you doing?!" Spat said, "Daisy, get back!" Hamtaro held the weapon he always carried( the staff embalmed with rainbow gems), with the point at Bo's throat. "You're NOT Bo, are you, GLACIER?!" Bo just smiled and laughed an evil laugh.

Then, he said, "You found me out Hamtaro! Now, it's my turn! Let me show you a new little something I learned!" Hamtaro watched as he knew that Glacier would turn into Kamikuro, but Hamtaro went pale as it turned into something else. As it grew, it said, "With my brother's death, I gained his transformation essence! Now I turn into: Inferno, the Fiery Dragon!" He was humongous. He was pitch black with a mane of fire down his 50 foot neck and down his back to the tip of his tail, where there was a giant flame the size of 10 hamsters like Hamtaro put together. His eyes were as red as blood, full of hatred and a burning desire to kill.

Hamtaro didn't know what he could do. Then, Boss and Spat came over and Boss said, "We have to fight or else we'll all die." Hamtaro nodded. They walked to different places around the dragon, while it looked at them evilly. Then, it tried to blow a shot of fire at Boss, but he ran out of it's way. Spat tried to keep Inferno's attention. The dragon was focused on him, but he also looked at the others. Then, while the dragon was focused on Spat, Hamtaro and Boss gave him a slash in each side! The dragon hissed in pain, and it whacked both Boss and Hamtaro to the side! Hamtaro looked at the dragon, and tried to get up because it was about to get Boss! Hamtaro couldn't walk very fast because he was hurt, and then he thought about the leftover blinding powder from Harmony! He quickly pulled out the sack and shouted, "Boss! Catch this, take some of the powder out and blow it at him!

Hamtaro threw it, and Boss caught it! Boss followed Hamtaro's directions and blew the powder in he dragons face! Then, something strange happened! The powder blew off of Boss' paw and it magically became a type of powerful water! The dragon let off a ton of steam and hissed violently. He then flew away and hissed, "Until we meet again," and he flew off. Then, Hamtaro stunbled over and helped Boss to his feet, and went over to Spat. "Are you okay?" Spat held his bandaged arm for a moment, and then said, "I'm okay, but then again I could be worse because of my arm." He hesitated and Boss helped him up. Daisy and Bijou came over and Bijou said, "Do you think we should keep moving?" Hamtaro nodded. "You're right. He might try to come back. I'll save the rest of this powder for later."

They kept going until they found a humongous tree, in which there were knotholes and places under the roots big enough for them to sleep comfortably in. It was getting dark and this tree was a safe place, so they decided to spend the night in the tree's hollow spots. Bijou and Daisy slept in the knothole that was behind a few leafy branches for good hiding. Boss slept in another knothole right above where the roots were. Well, he was going to sleep there before Spat discovered a path under the roots that led to a hidden knothole inside the tree. They also found that the wood inside the tree was soft enough to chew through, so they chewed a path between the girls' room and the boy's room just incase Inferno came back. They slept comfortably the whole night through, and the next morning, they ate brekfast and headed off. About a minute later, they saw a sign that said, You are now a half mile closer to the Temple of Heaven.

Next time on Love Lasts Forever: The group is really close to the temple now. Glacier is still healing, and thinking to himself about what he'll do now. Then he figures out the answer, and the new problem for the gang is not as easy as they think....