The sun slowly started to raise in the huge world of the "book", which didn't seem to be like a book at all. It looked just like the Earth, as if you were inside the book's story.

Fresh dew drops slowly dripped off the ever green leafs of flowers, grass and from the pink of the cherry blossom tree's. It was Spring time in the Sunflower Kingdom.

The air was filled with a scent of sweet smelling liliacs, which have recently bloomed into a pretty violet colour. Hamsters slowly woke up from their nighttime rest, and ran outside or opened their windows. They gazed at the beautiful sight of the town, and the forever field of golden sunflowers. The sunflowers were like that every Spring-time year, thus the name of the kingdom.

And tw miles from the town, was a huge tower-like castle made of shining sliver. Who get not miss it if you looked up north from the town? It was where King Hima Ousama (King Ousama for short) and where Queen Hima Hime (Queen Hime for short) lived, with the Hima Knights, their only guard Hima Hanamaru and of course, their only daughter, Princess Bijou.

Normally, King Ousama and Queen Hime were the first one's of the royal family to wake up, but Princess Bijou woke up early in the morning. She slowly opened her eyes to find herself in same bedroom of her's, with the giant, comfy, queen-sized bed with blankets of soothing silk and cashmire. She hopped out of her bed and went to the window and opened it, she glady breathed in the fresh, morning air and watched the room below her. Her bedroom was in the highest tower, but she liked it that way.

She was very happy, but started to frown. Suddenly her bedroom door opened, it was Pashmina and Penelope her guardians. Pashmina wore a simple pink dress while Penelope wore a simple yellow dress, both of them wore silk gloves that matched their dress. Pashmina and Penelope were recently picked by a handfull of townsfolk women by Bijou, to live with her and be her own guardians. Even through Penelope is only a toddler who couldn't speak yet, she tried her best to help Bijou out.

"Sorry to bother you Princess Bijou." Pashmina said, bowing down before her. Penelope did the same. "We had a funny feeling you woke up early, so we came to ask if you'd like breakfest."

"Not right now." Bijou said, trying to smile. Pashmina could tell that something was on her mind. "Is there something the matter, Princess Bijou?" she asked. Bijou sighed and looked down the window, down there were the Hima Knights training. They all wore the same green, armor-like skirts, Maxwell the Knight-leader wore the same clothing, except he was the only one to wear a small, red 10-gallon hat with a beautiful white feather. Among the rest of the Knights were Howdy, Dexter and Stan.

Bijou sighed dreamily, but sighed again. She turned back to Pashmina and Penelope. "I have a problem..." she said. Quickly she went to her bookcase and gotten an old photo album, she flipped to a page with a photo of her when she was a mere child, playing with a handsome young golden hamster, who wore a small sliver crown on his head. "Who's that?" Pashmina asked, eying the photo.

"It's Prince Hamtaro of the Momo Kingdom." Bijou said. "I met him when we were both children. We quickly became friends... and then one day, I had fallen in love with him. But then he had to return back to his kingdom, the last time I ever saw him again. And.. I still love him, but..."

"But what?" Pashmina asked. "I'm also in love with another ham, Stan." Pashmina and Penelope were a little shocked, Stan was a hamster who often flirted with girls, espically Pashmina and Bijou. "My problem is that, I can only be with one hamster.. yet I love both very dearly." "I understand." Pashmina said, feeling a bit sorry that she couldn't give any advice to Princess Bijou.

Meanwhile, Ousama and Hime had finally woke up. Ousama was a simple, white hamster with a grey beard. He was very old, but loves his queen, his daughter, his royal subjects and his kingdom. He wore a simple red robe and a golden crown craved with a blue sunflower craving. Hime looked alot like Bijou, she had no pigtails at all, but still wore two pink ribbons on her cheeks. She had very white fur, but which couldn't hide her rosy cheeks. And much like Ousama her king, she wore a red dress and a golden crown with a red sunflower craved on it.

Both of them hopped out of their beds and yawned. Another morning and another day, more paper work... more meetings with royal subjects. Just thinking of it made them very tired, no wonder they slept in late. "I feel like... walking a stroll around the town. You?" Hime asked Ousama. "I do too, maybe Bjou would like to come too." So they both walked upstairs to go ask her.

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Ayayamu was living in a bookstore in the storybook's town, she layed down her featherpen and closed the book she wrote in, even through she was still inside the book with the Ekohams. "It's amazing, borrowing the help from the ham-hams really does help." she chuckled to herself. "That was one great chapter."