This chapter will be shocking and sad. But.. you should read it to know the rest of the plot. But I'm not forcing you.
It has long been Bijou's disappearence. Now the Ham-hams have giving up looking for her that they phoned the police station, then they made missing-ham posters to put all over Ham-Ham Town.
"Oh, Bijou... where could you be?" Hamtaro asked himself very worried.
Meanwhile at the palace which Bijou now lives in with Prince Tajiri. Bijou had just finished combing her hair and has left her room. Before she went down the stairs she heard and saw Prince Tajiri talking to someone holding an ax while wearing a mask on his face. She hid to spy on them.
"So, you want me to send Shadow to go and hunt down for this "one that is filled with pure-blood?" asked the masked ham-ham.
"Yes, he comes from the world where the recarnation of Princess Bijou used to live." Tajiri said has he gave him a photo.
"I shall go see Shadow and ask for his help. I will behead this hamster and take his blood to save our land." the masked ham said as he left.
Bijou wondered about what hamster they're talking about so she walked downstairs. Tajiri quickly noticed her.
"Oh, Princess Bijou." he said.
"Who is this 'one that is filled with pure-blood'?" asked Bijou.
He gave her a photo of that hamster. So much shock came over Bijou's face. The hamster in the photo was Hamtaro. Bijou felt sick, she felt like she was about to faint.
"Why do you want to kill Hamtaro?" she asked with much anger.
"Yes, his name is Hamtaro. The one and only Hamtaro. Do you know him, Princess Bijou?" Tajiri asked.
"Why do you want to kill him?" Bijou asked again.
"Princess Bijou, let me explain." He started. "Our world here will be hit by an earthquake by 3 more days. Hamtaro's blood is the most purest blood in our world and his world. We can make a spell with his blood, that makes a strong barrier around our world, protecting us from the earthquake. We only need his blood to make the spell."
"Is there another way to stop the spell?" she asked.
"I'm sorry, but there isn't." Tajiri sadly said. "But I've got a surprise for you."
"What is it?" Bijou asked.
"600 years ago..." Tajiri started. "I asked the real Princess Bijou to marry me. She accepted, and I still have the ring. We never had a chance to marry her since she was cursed. But, the recarnation of her and me are meant to be togather."
"So?" asked Bijou.
"We'll be getting married tomarrow." Tajiri asked with a smile on his face and then he walked outside.
"Oh no, I don't love Tajiri." Bijou thought as she walked into the book room.
There she looked for a book there. A book about incarnations. She found one and read it. It said that a recarnation may or may not have the same body, but it'll always have the soul of the real hamster in the new body.
"So... I have the soul of the real Bijou?" Bijou asked herself. She countiued reading.
"The soul can give the new hamster anything that it has. Example: Giving her or his lover to be the lover of the new body."
"Hmmm... but like I said before, I don't love Tajiri." Bijou said to herself, but she countiued to read.
"Some hamsters make think that a recarnation has a certain thing they want the recarnation to have when really they're wrong."
"Oh I see..." said Bijou. "Tajiri thinks I love him because of the real Bijou's soul in me. When really, I don't. I must discover what the one thing the real Bijou gave me."
Bijou put the book away and left. Then she started to frown walking back to her room.
"It wouldn't matter anyway, I can't stop Tajiri's and my wedding. Let alone stop the killing of Hamtaro." Bijou thought. Finally, she cried up to her room.
She cried and cried. She was more sad about the killing of Hamtaro then the wedding. It was true, Bijou was truely in love with Hamtaro.
Meanwhile, in an old dusty shed, the masked hamster walked inside and talked to this "Shadow" hamster.
"What do you want?" asked Shadow.
"Well.. I have two questions." started the masked hamster. "You were told never to tell Bijou everything so soon, or else she'll be in sorrow. Was it because, iff you told her that we had to kill Hamtaro, she'll be sad?"
"Yes, now tell me the other question, NOW!" Shadow demanded.
"I can't enter Hamtaro's world, you can through. Can you send Hamtaro here?" asked the masked ham-ham.
"I will do as you wish. I shall come for him at nightfall." Shadow said evily.
To be countiued.
Note: Shadow is the hamster who gave Bijou all those weird dreams. And the world Bijou is in, is also called "The World Beyond". Remember?