Chapter 11
Everyone froze as the footsteps got closer to the door. Right when they were directly in front of the doorway, they stopped. Nothing happened for what seemed like hours, but all of a sudden a huge force pounded the door, breaking loose a few splinters of wood. It continued, and the swiping of claws and slamming pressure was heard -and felt- in the room.
"Aaaagggghhhh! It must be the werewolf! Quick, everyone put something in front of the door to block it!" Boss commanded. They each scrambled to a part of the room to find something to block the door with. Stan and Sandy carried an endtable and placed it by the door, then Boss pushed a large dresser by it. Hamtaro came by with a chair, but right after he had put it there the werewolf burst open the door, causing the dresser to fall - right on top of Hamtaro.
"Hamtaro! You okay?" Oxnard yelled to him. A series of grunts proved that he was at least still alive, but he couldn't hardly breathe under the weight of it.
"We'll get him out, but we've got bigger problems right now!" Sandy said, looking up at the wolf who was now standing right over her. "Way bigger."
"Sandy! Get out of there!" Stan screamed at her. The werewolf opened his mouth, exposing every razor-sharp tooth to Sandy. It crouched back, ready to strike at any moment. The beast lurched forward, but before it could bite her, Stan jumped at her and knocked her to the side. The top of the werewolf's muzzle hit Stan, sending him flying into the air. But before he fell back down to his probable death, he grabbed a ceiling rafter and hung on for dear life.
The werewolf soon lost interest in him and turned its attention to Hamtaro and Boss, who were helping Hamtaro out from under the dresser. Boss saw it and quickly sprung away sprung away, but Oxnard continued to attend to Hamtaro.
Oxnard noticed that Boss had left him. "Hey, I'm gonna need some help here-"
The wolf grabbed Oxnard with its paws. With a sharp movement, it ripped its claws across his body, leaving huge gashes and taking out fur with it. Again, the werewolf latched its claws to Oxnard. It continued to rip out fur, then skin, and finally layers of underlying flesh. The beast had literally torn him to pieces.
Oxnard's bloody corpse fell to the ground. The remainder of the ham-hams stared on in horror, and as if to add insult to injury, the werewolf ripped off a piece of meat from what was felt of Oxnard and tossed it into its mouth.
Hamtaro was still stuck under the dresser, and could breathe a little better because Boss and Oxnard had released some pressure from it. He looked down at the opening, and saw something thick and red seep in towards him. He took one sniff, and immediately knew what it was from earlier that night.
The werewolf turned towards the rest of the group. They backed towards the wall, praying that they wouldn't be ripped to shreds by this beast. As it moved closer, it saw Stan slipping off of the rafter. It turned its attention to him, and Stan swallowed hard as he figured he was done for. His last finger let go of the board, and he dropped down towards the werewolf. Instead of doing the same thing to Stan as it did Penelope, it took its paw and batted him off to side. He hit the wall with great force, and slumped to the floor.
Sandy was terrified. "Stan, noooooo!"
The wolf slowly walked up to Stan, looking ready to kill him if he wasn't already dead. He opened his eyes, and became aware of the fact that the werewolf would probably tear him up any moment. He raised his arms above his head to block the blow, but before it hit him, the werewolf was suddenly knocked to the side. Stan glanced over to his right, and on top of the beast was Hamtaro. He had escaped from underneath the heavy dresser, and had shoved the werewolf away to save Stan.
"Stan, everyone! You need to get out of here!" Hamtaro yelled.
Boss looked at Hamtaro like he was insane. "Hamtaro, you'll never beat it by yourself-"
"Just go!" He shouted back. "I'll take care of it!" Not wanting to argue, they picked up Stan and left the room, leaving Hamtaro with the werewolf.
In the hallway, it came to them that if the werewolf was with Hamtaro, it may be their only chance to get the silver pin. "You know," Maxwell said, "if the werewolf is in that room with Hamtaro, now would be the perfect chance to get that needle."
"Great idea," Boss replied. "Let's go and get that pin before the werewolf gets to us."
Back in the room, Hamtaro struggled with the wolf. It was having difficulty getting up with Hamtaro laying on it. He bit and scratched at the werewolf, but his efforts of hurting it were doing very little. Getting peeved, the wolf tried to snap at Hamtaro. Its neck couldn't reach and Hamtaro continued his assault on the beast.
The werewolf stuck its paws on the ground, and finally got enough balance to lift itself back up to its feet. Hamtaro could no longer hold on to the wolf's fur and dropped to the floor. He looked directly up at the werewolf, and from the expression on its face, could tell that he was done for.
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The four that were left had just entered the storage room upstairs when they heard a pained scream come from downstairs. In their heads, they knew it could only be one person: Hamtaro.
"No! Not Hamtaro! I told him it was a bad idea, but did he listen? NO!" Boss whined.
"Hamtaro was, like, the leader around here. He . . . w-was . . .s-s-s . . .," Sandy turned away and cried on Stan's shoulder. He glanced over at her, then placed his arm around her to comfort her. Boss turned his head to the ceiling, closed his eyes, and just stood there blankly. Maxwell was sitting on the floor, sadness overcoming him.
"I'll miss Hamtaro. It won't be the same here without him," he said.
"It won't the same without everyone," Stan complained.
"I say it won't be the same here, period. If we make it though this, we'll have to relocate the clubhouse. I won't ever come back here, not after what has happened," Boss said.
"Why . . . why did this have to happen to us?" Maxwell said.
"Maybe it was fated," Boss said. He paused for a few moments. "Oh yeah, do you guys know where that pin is?"
"Oh, that's right. We came up here to get the needle. I believe it's on the far end of the room," Maxwell said. They got up and started to walk in that direction, but noticed a trail of blood leading off into the dark.
"What the . . .?" Stan began.
"Who's could this be? Let's follow it," Maxwell said. The hamsters walked along the path of blood deeper into the dark room. It seemed to stop at a point, and they couldn't tell what it was at first, but when they got a bit closer it was obvious.
"Hey, that lookswwwWWAAAHHH!" Boss let out a startled scream. There, in the corner, was Bijou. She looked normal everywhere except for her side, where the werewolf had bitten off a giant chunk of her abdomen. She lay propped up against the wall, and there was no way she could still be alive by the look of her injury.
"Oh, my poor Bijou! What a terrible way to die! No one deserved this!" Boss dropped to his knees and buried his face in his paws. "That wolf is going to pay . . .," he said, teeth clenched. Sandy looked at the horrific scene for a few seconds, then turned away, disgusted by the gruesome sight.
Maxwell saw a small glitter in the corner of his eye, and when he looked over, he saw what they had been looking for the whole time. The needle.
"Look! Look what I found!" he shouted in joy. The needle was made of silver, which was the only thing that they could use to kill the werewolf. He picked it up, and examined it just to make sure that it was really made of silver, and it was. He grinned, and showed the other three hams.
A smirk appeared over Boss' face. "Good. That werewolf isn't going to get away with what it's done to us . . ."
The only thing that they needed to do now was seek out the wolf and stab it, for this would get rid of it for good. But little did they know, it would take a bit more than just that.
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Also, after I have posted the last chapter, I will also put up a special "Chapter 14" with a bunch of fun facts about the process of writing this fanfic, and even some information about a future Hamtaro fanfic that will be posted up on later this summer!