CHAPTER THREE

"Ookwee!" Penelope cried out.

"Wow… I guess she wasn't kidding…" Boss said.

"You'll see," Pashmina said, "There won't be any more killing. I just know it. Sandy was the killer and we're safe now!" she said cheerfully.

"I don't know…" Cappy said, troubled by so many deaths recently.

"S- S- S" Stan mumbled.

"Stan, she was the killer, "She might have even killed you," Oxnard told him.

"S- S- S-" he wouldn't listen. He sat down and bowed his head, silent tears leaking out of his eyes.

"Stan?..." Panda went over to him and sat down next to him, worry in his eyes.

"Oooooo…" Dexter said, "One of us is going to die next."

"The killer is dead, though," Pashmina pointed out to Dexter, "One of us isn't going to die 'cuz the killer is already dead."

"Snoozer…" Stan said, "Snoozer might be the killer. Kill Snoozer," he got up and grabbed his pocket knife (though hamsters don't have pockets he still has one) off a desk and headed towards Snoozer.

"Stan, no!" Boss cried out.

Stan didn't even look back. He just stared intently on Snoozer.

"I know…" Snoozer said in his sleep.

"What does he know?" inquired Howdy.

Stan held his knife up high.

"No!" Boss cried, running towards him.

Stan pointed the knife at Boss and the oncoming Oxnard. They backed up and watched him in horror.

"Don't do this Stan," Pashmina told him, "You don't mean this. You don't really want to kill Snoozer."

"Yes I do…" Stan said slowly. He looked at them, his eyes looked mad, tortured, depressed, troubled, and blood-thirsty all at once, "I can't die as a killing hamster," he told them, "I want to go to heaven to be with my sister."

"Yes, that's it," Oxnard told him, "Don't kill Snoozer.

"Oh, of course I'm killing him. I'll just die first," Stan told them.

"What!" Howdy cried out, running towards Stan, soon retreating so that Stan wouldn't stab him.

"You don't know what you're doing," Dexter told him.

Stan went into the kitchen and came back with a huge knife.

"No…" Pashmina whispered.

"Ookwee!..." Penelope cried out, horrified.

Stan took his pocket knife and placed it right above Snoozer's heart. He took the giant kitchen knife and when he was rushing it towards himself to die, Snoozer said seven words that tortured everyone else:

"I know who the killer is. It's…" he drowned out with blood coming out of his chest.

Stan had killed himself and fallen, pushing the other knife into Snoozer's heart.

"No…" Howdy said, "Snoozer wasn't the killer. Neither was Sandy…"

All the hamsters looked at the terrible after-scene in agony.

That night, they buried Sandy, Hamtaro, Stan, and Snoozer and mourned for them greatly.

"I think I might be next," Dexter said to Oxnard and Howdy that night, writing out his will, "The killer may realize that I'm the smartest of all the hams left, no offense."

"None taken," they replied, simultaneously.

"The killer could be Pashmina or Penelope," Dexter told them, "Pashmina is too happy about Sandy dying and too convinced, too. Penelope is the youngest and we can't understand her. No one would suspect her. Now... who should I give my diamonds to? How about-"

BANG

The sound of an M4 being shot (yes, dirtbag, I used the M4!).

"Ah!" Oxnard cried out, falling backwards off his stool and dropping his sunflower seed, quickly picking it up.

"OH MY GOSH!' Howdy yelped, going to Dexter to inspect him.

"What was that loud noise!" Cappy cried out, running towards them, jumping in surprise when he saw Dexter dead on the floor, a puddle of blood all around him.

"We were just talking, and that gun shot him!" Oxnard cried out to him. He reached up and scratched his head, when he heard a band and a surge of pain in his arm.

"Oxnard!" Cappy cried out, running towards him.

"He hit my arm instead…" Oxnard gasped, "Instead of my head."

"Ookwee! Ookwee!" they heard from behind them. Penelope had come and was calling everyone over. Pashmina and Panda got there as fast as they could.

After a few minutes, Penelope was down on the ground, putting medicine on Oxnard's arm and giving him a sling.

"Hey, where's Boss?" Cappy asked.

Everyone noticed that Boss was missing.

Suddenly, they heard Boss' voice "Guys, where are you? I went to get strawberries. Guys?" he finally found them and stared in disbelief at Dexter and Oxnard, "No…" he muttered.

"Where were you?" Pashmina asked him.

"Ookwee!" Penelope accused, angrily.

"Guys, like I said, I was getting strawberries as a surprise to make everyone feel better!" he asseverated.

"Yeah, right," Panda commented.

"It's true! Here they are!"

"Strawberries are a minute away. I doubt it," Howdy said, emotionally.

"I couldn't find any good ones!" Boss complained.

"You're the best strawberry finder out of all the hams!" Cappy shouted.

"Fine, just blame me!" Boss argued, "I didn't do it! Your not welcome for taking the time and effort for getting you strawberries!" and he stormed off to his room, leaving everyone speechless.

They all gathered up Dexter to have another funeral, something they were too used to having.

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