Here we go, with chapter 2! Have fun! And nightmares!

Mutant Creature JouBi
Part 2

By Lord Nocato

The rest of the remaining ham-hams found the group that was with Sonya in Boss's room. They were quite surprised to see some fairy-type thing there. Everyham was silent. Spookily quiet. Abnormally hushed. They stared in awe at JouBi. They did not know what to do, what to say. So they gawked. They marveled. And it bugged the heck out of JouBi. "What, are you all just going to stand there like mongoloids?" she asked them. That snapped them out of their trance. "The ultimate evil has no time for this. All of you come quietly, and nobody gets..." she thought for a second. "Well, either way, you'll get hurt. But just make it easier for me." She eyed them.
Panda was curious. "You want us to come quietly? For what? Why would we get hurt? What do you want from us?" He looked at the demon blankly.
JouBi sighed. "Well, mister Panda, because frankly, I do not believe being eaten feels good. And I'm hungry." She smiled at him.

Anybody who was in the hall in front of Boss's door at that time would now know the definition of "trample" very well. Because when the ham-hams heard the word "hungry", they stampeded out of the room like there was no tomorrow. No ham-ham really wanted to be eaten, as you could probably guess rather easily.

The ham-hams ran through the room room, hustled through the main room, and dashed out the first exit available. When they got out of the clubhouse, they were stopped in their tracks. JouBi was already there. She shook her head. "You guys really are mongoloids. You cannot get away from me! I am all-powerful!"
Cappy glared at her. "All-powerful, huh? You don't seem so strong. You're just a big meanie!"
JouBi twitched. "What was that? Meanie? Hahaha. I'm not mean, you whelp. I'm evil." She stared at Cappy, and the ham-hams could tell that she was getting mad. Maybe this was the way to get rid of her. Maybe if they made her upset enough, she'd leave.
Panda decided to try. "Evil? You're not evil. You're just lonely," he said to her.
Dexter added, "Yes, indeed. I could be your psychiatrist! Has anyone been bullying you lately...?"
"Bullyin' her? She's probably the one bullyin' the others!" said Howdy.
"Gosh. If you wanted a friend, Sonya, I could've been pals with you!" said Hamtaro.
"Me, too. We coulda been buds, Sonya!" said Boss.
"I've read that depression can cause anger. You depressed, Sonya?" asked Maxwell. Stan said nothing. Jingle said nothing. JouBi was fuming.
"You guys shall call me JouBi! Not Sonya! That's not my name, and the dog whose name that is has had her soul completely devoured! And... and I'm NOT depressed! I don't want friends! I don't get bullied! All of you just..."
She paused, to do something. She put her hands in front of her, stretching her arms as far as they could reach. Then the ham-hams watched the frightening transformation.

JouBi had turned into a creature the size of 6 ham-hams. It was a grey-blue animal with a long, furry, snakelike body, and a head of a dog with huge, red slit-pupil eyes and pointy ears. Her jaws were carnivorous, with long white teeth, dripping with warm saliva, and an extending, sharp tongue which lolled out of her mouth, spilling drool on the grass. She had two arms like a praying mantis, jointed, with huge blades which looked particularly dangerous. Her small, weasel-like nose twitched madly as her new form glared hungrily at the ham-hams. Jingle looked at the creature, and his eyes glittered. He started to play his guitar, and made a song about the creature. JouBi howled at destroyed his guitar, taking and crushing it in her cave of a mouth. Jingle looked blandly at her, and sighed. He muttered something about how hard it is to happen upon a tiny red guitar these days. JouBi howled again, and jumped at the ham-hams. In peril, they scattered, and ran, each in separate directions. JouBi didn't follow them. Instead, she went back into the clubhouse, because there's one ham-ham she noted as missing from the group. Snoozer was still inside.

Snoozer had been sleeping ever since he was put in a transparent liquid pink box by JouBi. The liquid had tossed him to the photo room, where he still slept, soundly. JouBi entered roughly, as the larger mutated figure was having trouble moving about the clubhouse. She looked at Snoozer, who awoke, yet did not open his eyes. JouBi growled. "Snoozer, dearest. Do not move," she said. He did not move. She ate him.

JouBi left the clubhouse, and sniffed the ground where the bunch of ham-hams were before they separated. She soon caught the scent of Cappy. He started the dissing, so JouBi decided to go after him first.

Cappy was hiding in a bed of pansies, in somebody's front yard. "I sure hope these people don't have a cat..." he thought, shivering. He was totally scared; he didn't quite grasp what was happening. All he knew was that it was very bad. It got windy all of a sudden. The pansies waved above him.
"Khhiiiii..." came a silent noise from all around him. He looked around, trying to figure out where the noise was coming from.
"H-hello?" he asked nobody in particular.
"Mrowr!" came the reply. Cappy froze. His whole body was cold.
"Cat..." he whispered. The sun was setting; it was starting to get dark out.
"Mrowr..." growled the unseen cat.
Then, a huge grey-blue feline leapt from behind Cappy, and ate him, leaving behind nothing behind but a little green hat.

JouBi, now in the form of a cat, stalked back to the entrance to the clubhouse. She sniffed the ground again, and now followed the scent of Boss.

Boss was not far from the scatter-point. He had tripped, and knocked himself out. JouBi looked at her helpless victim. It seemed lame to eat him if he was not going to feel the fright; if he wasn't even gonna fight back. She passed him, following the scent of Hamtaro instead.

JouBi ended up in front of the home owned by Laura Haruna's family. She sighed. "What a wimp. He ran home to his owner! That complicates it all." She eyed the house, and Brandy, who was asleep in his doghouse. She noticed a hole on top of the roof, small enough for a hamster. "Oh, so that's his game, eh? Sneaky one, but I can see it better than a human," she said. She jumped up onto the roof, and went into Sonya form. She crawled through the hole, slunk behind the furniture in the way, and ended up in a young girl's room. She looked around. There; a hamster cage. She saw a little orange-and-white hamster inside. She smirked, and transformed into the mutant dog-snake thing. JouBi slithered up to the cage. Hamtaro's head popped up; he had been napping.

"Heke? Laura?..." he turned around. JouBi smirked, showing the salivated fangs. Using one blade-claw, she chopped the cage in half; it now was a bottom metal sheet with half-bars poking up. Not very good for keeping in a hamster. Hamtaro's eyes got big. "Whoa," he said. JouBi snatched him up in her mouth. He struggled. The teeth were sinking into his flesh. JouBi shook him vigorously, still holding tight with her frightening jaws, and then tossed Hamtaro into the air. He flew up, and gravity pulled him back down, right into the open mouth of JouBi. A crunch of crushing hamster bones sounded, then silence.

JouBi returned to Boss. He was awake now, but he didn't bother getting up. He just lay there, crying, calling himself an idiot, apologizing to Bijou.
"Pooie. C'mon, Boss, won't you even give me a chase?" asked JouBi suddenly, suprising Boss. He looked at her. She was in fairy form. He got up.
"I won't bother. Just eat me already. JUST EAT ME!" he yelled. JouBi raised a blue-grey eyebrow.
"Aww..." she said. "How boring! You're no fun." But nevertheless, she took a hand, stabbed him through the eye, and grew into human-size, to eat him.

Next, JouBi followed Stan's scent. He was sitting obediently at the bottom of a tree, not too far away. He smiled at the hamster-form of JouBi.
"I figured you'd find me," he said.
She nodded. "Of course. The ultimate evil is impossible to escape. I could very well teleport myself to anybody I want, but sniffing them out is more fun." Stan agreed.
"Are you going to eat me now? Because I told them?" he asked. JouBi could tell that he feared for his life, it was visible in his eyes.
"No," she said, simply. "You're going to chill with me, hon."

Maxwell sat sheepishly in a bookstore full of humans. It was not his owner's, but he got lost and could not find that one. "Plus," he thought, "She wouldn't dare attack me in front of a bunch of people!" A lady with dark hair entered the bookstore. She looked around, and then spotted the hamster under a table.
"Well, there you are!" she said, picking Maxwell up. He looked at her, trying to figure out where he'd seen her before. She smirked, and put him in the purse around her shoulder. He fell on top of a makeup case, most likely blush. He sat on it, and looked around inside the dimly-lit purse. He thought he saw something, but the woman then zipped the bag, and all light was gone.
"Hamha," said Stan. Maxwell was suddenly relieved.
"Stan!" he said.
"That's the name, don't wear it out!" said Stan, with usual cockiness.
"…Yeah. Stan, who's this lady?" Maxwell asked. Stan didn't answer, because then the bag was opened, the hamsters were pulled out, and the light from the man-made streetlights startled them. The woman threw the bag into the lap of a hobo on the sidewalk.
"There. Keep it, fool," she said. Maxwell looked up at the woman, curiously. She smiled at him. "I'm here to help you," she said. Maxwell glanced at Stan. Stan nodded. Maxwell nodded, too, and smiled at the woman.
The hobo blinked stupidly at the woman before rummaging through the purse, unsuccessfully seeking money.

Maxwell and Stan were dropped off at some apartment, and put in a cage. The woman said to them, "I'm going to collect all of your friends, and bring you somewhere safe." Maxwell and Stan nodded. The lady left. Stan smirked. His job was to convince the remaining ham-hams that the lady was kind and that they were safe with her.

And to tell you the truth, it worked.

Howdy, Oxnard, and Dexter were soon collected and brought to the house. JouBi, disguised as the lady, was not going to wait to find Panda and Jingle. "I'll get the other two later," she told Stan, "I am not patient. I will eat these NOW."

The lady went into the kitchen, told the hamsters she was getting them food. She came back with a bowl with lettuce, sunflower seeds, hamster treats, and acorns turned into a salad especially for hamsters. She took out the ham-hams, dropped them into the bowl, and watched them eat. Stan barely touched the food. JouBi kept refilling the bowl, she did that five times. When they were done, Maxwell, Oxnard, Dexter, and Howdy were so full that they simply lay there, unable to move. "My turn!" said JouBi. She transformed into hamster shape, and cannibalized the fat, stuffed, ham-ham meat. All except for Stan, who watched, sickly.

There were only two left.

Jingle and Panda were far from the ham-ham clubhouse doorway. They were in the next city, altogether. They were scared. Panda built defense weapons for them, out of scrap material he found lying around town. They now carried miniature swords, safety pins, needles, slingshots, boomerangs, and nun chucks; anything Panda could come up with. They seriously doubted that JouBi would ever find them again, though.

They couldn't have had been any more wrong.

JouBi was sick of walking. She was sick of flying, slithering, pouncing. She had worn herself out in every form, following Jingle and Panda's trail. Stan was pooped, he collapsed from dehydration. JouBi growled. "C'mere, Stanly," she said, holding out her hand. Stan put his paw in her fairy-hand, puzzled. Suddenly, a flash. Stan was now looking into the eyes of an officially freaked out Panda.
"KYAHHHHHHHHH!" Jingle and Panda yelled simultaneously. Quickly, JouBi morphed into demon form (the dog snake) and lunged at Panda.

Panda stabbed JouBi with his open safety pin as she came at him, and dodged. Her eyes were wide with surprise at the defense. She growled madly. Stan backed away, staying a safe distance from the brewing battle. Jingle grabbed a rusted nail and ran to JouBi, who was still paused from the first blow, and he jabbed it in her upper spine. She shrieked. She came out of her trance, and slashed angrily at Panda. His right arm landed on the grass next to him. Blood gushed like a fountain from his shoulder. Tears filled his eyes. But JouBi was not going to give him a break to get over the fact that he no longer had that arm. She slashed again. He dodged. Jingle shot a rock from afar, using a slingshot. It struck one of JouBi's huge red eyes, blinding her, and confusing her just long enough for Panda to grab a small sword he made off of the ground, and stab her through the stomach. She coughed up a puddle of blood, and went after Jingle with her teeth. He threw the slingshot at her nose, but it didn't help. She bit him, a big ol' chomp on the poetic hamster. She tossed him into a wall, and broke his leg. That ticked him off. He grabbed the big boomerang, tossed it skillfully, and tore off a majority of JouBi's left ear. She howled, and slithered away to Stan, grabbed him in her mouth, and teleported away.

Jingle limped over to Panda, and collapsed at his feet, unable to stand any longer. Panda moaned, and plopped down, too. He was feeling weak of blood loss. He lay down and said out loud what they were both thinking. "Why was Stan with her?" Jingle shrugged, and they both fell asleep, battle-worn and weary.

When they woke up, Panda's wound was scabbed over good enough that he could move, but he had still lost a lot of blood (for a hamster). Jingle couldn't move still, though. Panda made a splint, but given he had only one arm, it was not of the highest quality. It worked though, so...

Panda and Jingle set up somewhat of a camp where they were. They both agreed that they should not travel any more in the condition they were in. Panda seemed worried. "Do you think she's gonna leave us be now?" he asked Jingle. Jingle thought about it for a while.
Finally, he admitted "I do not think we have seen the last of her." They both sighed. They disliked thinking that they were going to be ambushed over and over until she finally killed them. But it seemed pretty obvious that she was not the kind of evil creature that gives up easily.

JouBi regained her senses under an old oak tree that appeared to have seen better days. She growled to herself. "How could a couple of lousy hamsters win like that? It's an outrage! Those stupid animals are gonna pay so BAD," she said. Stan didn't know what to think. The guilt of helping the evil side of the schism was swelling up in him; he knew he was betraying the ham-hams. But maybe, he thought, just maybe, he could fix up his act, and turn the betrayal JouBi's way.