Title: Etude in E Major
Summary: One-shots, relationships of various Hamtaro characters (Total number of one-shots: 4)
Author's feelings of last section of piece: Sad and slow but ending was not satisfied
Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro nor do I own the Chopin's Etude in E Major
Large yellow petals flying everywhere…
Black sunflower seeds hiding on the face of the flowers…
The bright cloudless sky that stretched throughout the heavens…
The scenery is wonderful; it's an amazing view…
But the scenery is nothing compared to you, a beautiful ham sitting on top of the large white fence.
Drawn by your presence, I didn't notice you walking towards me. "Oxnard, let's go…" A hamster paw reached out to me. Your welcoming voice was ringing in my large ears.
I nodded and you smiled. Then we walked throughout the sunflower garden paw in paw…
Just the two of us…
Oxnard grumbled with annoyance as the sun hit him directly on his face. He woke up and rubbed his eyes as he barely walked over to his feed bowl. He started cracking open some sunflower seeds and stuffed them into his mouth when Kana's alarm clock rang loudly.
His sensitive ears perked up at the noise, hoping that Kana will hurry up and turn it off. Oxnard turned back to his breakfast, drowsily, and started eating again. When the noise was finally turned off, Oxnard walked up the edge of his cage to greet his human good morning.
"Well, good morning to you too." Kana said, petting Oxnard's head through the cage bars.
Oxnard smiled with content and ran up to the other side of his cage to look out the window. He decided that when Hamtaro starts walking past his house, he'll go out and leave also with him. While looking out the window, he saw some yellow daisies in the front yard which reminded him of the dream he had.
Oxnard smiled as he remembered Pepper. It's been a long time since he last saw her, possibly over a year. He was hoping that Kana and he would go visit the sunflower garden again soon, so that he can meet up with Pepper. They would walk throughout the garden under the blue stretched sky.
While daydreaming, Oxnard glanced over the window again, looking for Hamtaro. Oxnard's sharp eyes noticed a tiny figure running towards his view; he leaned closer to get a better view and saw a small hamster in front of his house. The hamster also looked up and waved at Oxnard.
Oxnard's squinting eyes grew wide when he realized who it was. The same hamster with braided brown fur flowing with the wind, the same hamster with her usual happy and joyful eyes, the same hamster he loved and had a dream of was right in front of his house, waving at him. "Pepper!" Oxnard yelled, dropping all of his sunflowers he had at hand. "It's really her!" He yelled, jumping up and down.
Oxnard turned his head, hoping that Kana would leave soon. He wanted to see her as soon as possible. Kana was still looking at her closet, picking out what to wear. Oxnard sighed and groaned with complaint and looked back out the window.
She was gone.
"Pepper must've gone to the clubhouse! I got to go meet her!" Oxnard hesitated. He turned around, watching Kana get ready for school. "Kana! Hurry up!"
Kana slowly took her time preening herself, looking at her reflection of the drawer mirror. Oxnard grew impatient and started gnawing on the bar of his cage. Startled by the rattling sound, Kana turned around and looked at Oxnard. "Oxnard! You're going to break your teeth by doing that!" Then she glanced over at the wall clock. "I'm late! I should've left the house twenty minutes ago!"
"There we go." Oxnard smiled, watching Kana leave. "Sorry Kana, but I really want to see Pepper." Oxnard talked to himself, lifting the cage door and leaving.
Oxnard quickly ran to the clubhouse, hoping that Pepper was there. His anxiousness and excitement grew as he reached the clubhouse, but it all vanished when he figured out that she wasn't there. Oxnard disappointedly walked away to keep searching.
"I-I'm going to tell her about what the ham-hams and I did since we last saw her…" Oxnard said happily. "Then we'll have lunch together with the seeds Kana gave me…"
Oxnard searched throughout town, keeping his little hamster eyes peeled. He searched high and low, asking creatures big and small. He thought of all the fun they're going to have; laughing with each other, playing with each other, enjoying each other's company.
"There so many things I want to do… and I'm going to make sure it's going to happen." Oxnard assured himself. "She can't be that far."
Hours passed and it started to drizzle but soon it started to rain and then pour, realizing this, Oxnard searched for shelter underneath a big bench. Oxnard knew that Pepper might've left the town by now, the day was almost over. But there was still so many things Oxnard wanted.
He wanted to hear the warm voice of Pepper…
He wanted her to be right next to him…
He wanted to spend the day with her…
"I have to keep searching, so I can finally tell her how I feel…" Oxnard told himself, sobbing quietly. He was at the brink of crying when…
"Oxnard, let's go…"
The voice of Pepper from his dream relived him. That voice told him not to give up and told him to keep trying. Oxnard gathered his last energy and enthusiasm to find her. He knew that it was dangerous for hamsters to go outside in the rain, but it should be worth it. Spending… no, seeing Pepper for one second was enough for Oxnard.
He searched high and low all over again.
He talked to every creature all over again.
He lifted his hopes up by talking to himself over and over again.
Night started to fall; the sky was painted black; the full moon lighted up the black sky and was accompanied by the bright stars. The air was moist and wet because of the afternoon rain. But it took another few hours of searching for Oxnard to finally realize it.
Disappointment and sadness ran throughout his body, to the ends of his paws and tiny feet. His heavy, sinking heart ached him; his large eyes were full of tears and slowly started to stream down his face.
He finally realized that the Pepper he saw this morning
Was just
His imagination
Thank you for reading the last one-shot (Imagination) of Etude in E Major!
And Special Thanks to Peach the Hedgehog (for grammar check and thoughts)
Well, that's the end of Etude in E Major, collection of Hamtaro one-shots! It was fun writing this and it wouldn't have been this great writing it without my reviewers and readers! I really appreciate it!
Thanks again and please review!
Just for heads up, I have a prequel coming up for 'Confirmation for Beginning or End' (second one-shot) please look forward to it!