AN: A new update! Yay! I'm so proud of myself…Anyway, I just want you guys to know that the kids in this story—since it's a parallel universe and everything—can drive if they're 11 or older. I really wish this is true in the near future, because I can drive…just not legally ;) By the way, for some odd reason, when I tried making this as a crossover with Cardcaptors/ Harry Potter/ and stuff, the system wouldn't let me make it in the main section...anyone know why?

Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro or any other brand name I used in this story. They belong entirely to their original creators. Sigh…life is so cruel.

Enjoy! :)

Chapter 1: Letters and Hosts...what?!

"Uh, why do we have to this, Madison?"

"Because they sent us letters of acknowledments to ask us to stay with them before the start of the school year, Sakura."

Madison Taylor and Sakura Avalon were in the airport terminal with Li Showron following right behind them. It was Sakura's first time going abroad somewhere else in an entirely different country (except for Hong Kong) and she didn't have anything else on her mind except the fact that it was somewhere between Spain and France. Before summer had started, Meilin had wrote to Sakura, asking her to stay with her family before the start of the school year. Of course, being Sakura she always agreed to anything that had to do with friends. Although, it was difficult for her to consent since her brother, Tory, argued about how the "brat" would be tagging along. This fact didn't seem to perturb Sakura's father at all. So, with much lecturing, Aidan Avalon had consented for Tory.

"Ohhhhhhh. Yeah!" The auburn-haired girl replied happily as she looked around the terminal for Meilin. "Say, Madison, where will you be staying?"

"With an old friend of mine..."

"Really? How come you never told me about her?" The naive girl asked with a dumbfounded expression on her face. Madison just sighed in aggrivation. Sakura was so dense she never really paid attention to what Madison said most of the time, which included telling her of her childhood friend.

"Well...I guess I never really thought about her much since the...you know, captures." She lied. Madison absolutely hated lying, but since Li was toning in on their conversation, it made it seem all the more difficult to tell the truth. Sakura seemed to accept this and continued looking around for a familiar black-haired girl. Madison could sense Li's eyes glaring right into her cranium and decided to lighten the mood. "How 'bout you, Li? Who are you staying with?"

The boy looked taken off guard and continued to glare at Madison as she smiled happily in his direction. Sakura, on the other hand, while she was keeping a close eye out for her friend, she turned to Li with an expectant look that made the guy blush insanely as Madison giggled at his antics. "Someone Meilin signed me up to stay with."

He didn't like staying with a complete stranger he didn't know. Or, for the fact that this guy he was supposed to be staying with was some sort of rich brat, which didn't really make his day. Both girls looked at him in confusion having no idea what sort of person Meilin could find to let Li Showron stay with them, let alone how could Meilin befriend someone other than Li? It didn't make any sense.

"Sakura!"

The trio whipped their heads around and had different expressions of happiness...or faces. Sakura looked happily upon Meilin; Madison looked pleased to see a familiar face again; Li just looked on in mixed emotions of pure horror and relief. Meilin Rae waved over to them, mostly Sakura, and had an apologetic look on her face as she could not weave through the massive crowds.

"See you later, you two!" Sakura replied happily as she skipped over to where Meilin was waiting as she continued to wave over to Madison and Li. The only one who seemed to acknowledge the girl's exuberant attitude was Madison; Li just grumbled as he half-heartedly waved, dissapointed that Sakura couldn't have stayed longer. But, Li seemed to realize that a familiar guardian wasn't with Sakura, as the small stuffed animal would usually make a noise at this point.

"Madison, where's Kero?"

The girl next to him glanced over, before turning her attention back to the crowds where she was looking for her host. "Kero's in Julian's house. Remember? Now that Julian knows his true form, Kero's been staying over with him whenever he wants to." Of course, it had taken longer than they thought for Julian to realize that he's been Yue all along, but at least it was just in time before the start of a new school year.

Li looked on for any signs of his host. "Oh. Right." It took them a few minutes to find their hosts, as the crowds were exceedingly large and were getting larger and larger as each minute passed. So, in order to lighten their dissapointed moods up, Li said, "Just where exactly is this new school that we're going to?"

Madison stared knowingly at him which was the very look that he hated to see from her. It seemed as though she knew everything of anything and it really creeped him out... "It's a boarding school." And before he could ask what kind of boarding school it was, a twinkling voice sounded above the uproar of the noise, surprsingly loud despite the fact that it was a light tone.

"Madison?!"

Both students turned around to find a girl of no more than their original age barrier, with long brown hair tied up in a braided ponytail and shocking--to Li anyway,--forest green eyes full of good cheer, as she was waving insanely in their direction while managing to push her way through the tremendous crowd. Madison lit up immediately and Li couldn't see any reason why she shouldn't; apparently this girl that was coming towards them acted almost like Sakura, just more mature.

"Sacilia! Is that you...?!" The raven-haired girl exclaimed as she ran towards her old childhood friend. The girl was panting after her long expedition across the crowd that was now staring at her in a funny, yet admired way. Finally gaining enough breathe within her, she stood upright and stared at Madison with a faint smile and a slightly shocked expression plastered on her smooth face.

Her voice trembled a bit as she spoke, "S-so you r-remember me? After two years, you remember me?" Madison giggled a bit as Li looked entirely confused to this situation. Taking the girl's hand in her own, Madison smiled the brightest smile Li had ever seen from her and spoke, "Of course I remember you, Sacilia Gerald. After all, who could forget your clumsy disposition?"

Normally, a comment like that from Madison would bring someone to the point of annoyance, but this girl just simply looked completely electricfied at the point that made Li jump from utter confusion. "Yay! I'm glad you remembered me after two years, Madison. I-I was sort of nervous that when you saw me, you wouldn't recognize me..."

"Oh, Sacilia. Don't you know me?"

Sacilia just nodded her head while smiling sheepishly. Li just stared on in complete dumbfoundness. What was going on? "Hold on. How do you know this girl, Taylor?" Both girls just stared at him like he grew five heads.

Madison looked nervously at Li's grumbling face and Sacilia's surprised look on her once calm and happy face... But she didn't have to explain herself since Sacilia was already proceeding to do that for her. "Excuse me, Li Showron, is it? Madison and I were best friends in Pre-School all the way to second grade before her mom had to switch companies. So, you have no right to ask her of all people since she and I emailed each other over the summer just to get you and that other girl--Sakura, right?--in the Academy."

Li was shocked. Never before had he heard it from a girl that wasn't Meilin or Sakura or Kero. He barely knew her, but for some reason he felt as though she were more powerful than him in every way. Although he couldn't make out a definite magical atmosphere around her, the aura that was eminating from her was much even greater than Clow Reed's aura himself. Just the thought made his blood run cold as he hated the thought of any one being more powerful than his descendant.

"Uh...Anyway, Li this is Sacilia Gerald. Sacilia, this is Li Showron." Madison said, looking from Sacilia's sudden calm mood back to Li's shock face. The scene was so hilarious she couldn't help but giggle a little. The look on Li's face was too priceless for she had never seen him that way before, and thankful that Sacilia was so calm showing him up about it too so as not to cause a scene in the middle of the airport terminal.

As quickly as it had come, Sacilia's frowning stopped and replacing it was her usual bright smile. Li was now glaring at her direction as she extended her hand out for a firm shake and reluctantly acknowledged the gesture. "So, Showron, I guess the first thing you should know about the traditions around here in this country is when meeting someone you barely know, it is custom for you to call him or her by their last name until properly introduced as companions..." (I know, it's similar in the Japanese custom, but note that this is a parallel universe.)

The boy simply nodded his head, still glaring at her as though she were some unknown species of bug that was just getting to show itself to society. Both girls noticed this, but denied it as pure arrogance rather than hatred. "Shall we be going?" asked Madison, anxious to leave in order to escape the terrible mood that Li was now in. Her friend seemed to realize this as she quickly gestured over to where she first came from.

"Of course! Let's go, Madison. Uh...good-bye Showron." Sacilia said dismissively as she and Madison waved farewell to the still grumbling Li Showron. And just when things couldn't get any worse for him, a voice popped out of nowhere as the girls dissapearing figures vanished.

"Um excuse me, are you Li Showron?"

~*~*~

"BIJOU!!!"

The audible yelling of Ms. Ratterson seemed interminable for the girls in the dormitory as it was nearing close to nighttime and they did not want to be victims of her ludicrous lectures. This fact especially for Miss Bijou Ribon, who at this point of time was in her dormitory, journaling at the only desk in the room as her roommates/ best friends were quietly doing their own activities. When hearing her name being yelled up from the small staircase of the extremely small boarding school, Bijou groaned in annoyance with her friends.

"What'd you do this time?" Pashmina Mafura asked as she was just starting to fall asleep for her long awaited nap. Her golden/dirty blonde hair was sprawled over her bed sheets in her bottom bunk. Sea-green eyes were staring over at the doorway where the robuncious (SP?) of their mistress could be heard as her little sister was snuggling up against her unaware of the noise from downstairs.

A flip of the covers revealed another girl, one with sandy-blonde hair and emerald green eyes that held a pure look of anger--not one for her friend at the desk, but that of the Mistress. "She probably, like, just stole one of the Mistresses journals, or like, writing tools and stuff..." (Think of the Mistress as Ms. Hannigan in Annie that's my vision of Ms. Ratterson.)

Bijou looked upset at that thought. "I did not, Sandy. You know very well zat I would never do zuch a zing..." Her French accent was unmistakable over the continious yelling.

"BIJOU!!!"

The shouting was much more fierce and another girl, one with dark brown hair and gray/blue eyes, lifted herself from the top bunk as she covered her ears. "Oi. Not to interrupt this fancy-smancy talking, but there's a loud-mouth woman downstairs that's making me death as she's awaiting for the Snowflake." Despite the frightening situation awaiting Bijou downstairs, the French girl simply giggled lightly.

"Coming, Miss Ratterson..." She yelled loud enough for her Head-Mistress to hear.

Sandy groaned, "Ever wonder why that woman became, like, the Head-Mistress to this, like, dump?" No one answered her question as they were watching their friend brave the horrible mistress that beat them harshly if they didn't do her bidding.

Reaching the middle of the staircase, Bijou could see the foot-tapping-no-good-woman-of-a-mistress glaring up at her with an annoyed expression. "Miss Ribon." She said in malice, as though the very name disgusted her. "Apparently, Miss Sanchez has mail..."

"But, Miss Ratterson. Why did you call moi instead of Sandy?" she replied, innocently as Ms. Ratterson gave her a huge envelope. The woman just stared indefinately at her as her daughter, Sparkle (yes I included her as evil. hey, we all know she is, right?), peered around the kitchen door to smirk at her enemy.

The mistress continued, "Because apparently, Ribon, your name is also in the letter addressed to you as well as those other lame girls in your dorm...Now Go!" Scurrying up the stairs for fear of another lashing, Bijou made her way towards the room. She couldn't find out any reason why she and the girls would get an envelope this large. Unless, it was from...

"So? What did she want?" Pashmina asked, for even though she would want to sleep at that point, she was really curious to see what was in Bijou's delicate hands. Holding up the envelope for her roommates to see, Bijou said, "Vell...she orginally zaid it vas for Sandy, but zhen she said it vas addrezzed to all of us."

"What?" Immediately all girls rushed forward to peer at the envelope that was for all of them. Being stuck in the awful boarding school with no chance to see their families except at Christmas and sometimes in the Summer, they had barely gotten any of the letters from their homes. So, seeing as their was a large envelope addressed to all of them and Ms. Ratterson letting them see it, made them think it was important.

Ms. S. Sanchez

Louisa Brandt's Boarding School for Young Educated girls; Dorm #5

10th Ave. Suset Dr.

St. Bernard

Scotland

"How did they know where you lived?" Margie asked the Valley girl, but before Sandy could say anything, a shadow appeared in the doorway. and wouldn't you know it was Sparkle Ratterson. (haha) The girls groaned, of all the girls in the school why was it Sparkle?

Sparkle snorted, "Well, well, well. So we got a little letter, eh? Now, seeing as I am the head of the department for Letter-Checking, I'll just take a look at that..." She proceeded to take the envelope, but Pashmina hid it behind her back.

"Why should we give it to you, Sparkle?"

"Because if you don't, I'll make sure mother lashes all of you more than twenty times!" With surprisingly fast movements, she took the envelope out of Pashmina's hand and ran out, slamming the door behind her.

All the girls looked at each other.

"Well....that was pleasent..." Margie remarked as each girl returned back to their beds, crestfallen at the fact that they were so close to reading that letter. The mood in the room, once so pleasent of good cheer, was now full of depressed, young girls.

Sandy glared at the wall. "Who does Sparkle think she is?! The, like, Queen of Sheeba?! Ugh, if I could just, like, punch Sparkle in the face and, like, somehow break her, like, nose, then I would totally do that..." This seemed to lift the mood a bit. That would be a treat to see Sparkle's bloody, broken nose from Sandy's fist...

~*~*~

Madison was in awe at the surrounding landscapes that she had once called her home, two years before she had to move. It hadn't changed, but it seemed foreign to her. She only thought it was because of the capturing of the cards, her mind wasn't back to reality yet. The city had massive towers of purely crafted crystal, marble, and granite stone of all shapes and sizes that had parks, gardens, and archs of many kinds that made Oakden possibly the most beautiful city in the world.

"So, uh, Li Showron....He seems...."

"Arrogant?" Madison suggested as the taxi driver drove (Sacilia's parents don't let her drive. :)) down the city lane. Her friend snorted in response as she nodded her head extremely wide while looking out her own window. The buildings were much taller, and there seemed to be more parks than Madison remembered...

"Yeah, but there's one thing I wanted to say to you in our last e-mail that I think you should know about..." Sacilia started, the driver switching lanes. Madison drove her gaze away from the scenery to listen intently. "I remember you say that this Sakura Avalon is the Mistress of the Clow Cards, right?"

Madison didn't know where this conversation was going. "Yes..."

"Well, you then said that Sakura was given part of Kero's magic which he got from Clow Reed. I talked about this with my father last night and well, Sakura's is not a true magician..."

Of course, Madison knew this all along for being someone that kept her own magic hidden. "I knew it...So she really isn't a member of the People of the Light." Sacilia nodded as the driver continued driving down streets.

Sacilia said, "She isn't a member of any magical council. I guess it's because her magic was given to her, and her magic's original owner was given by Clow Reed. But, seeing as magic was originally here all along since before the beginning of time, Clow Reed was never a member of the magic circle either, nor was he the most powerful magician in the world."

During that confusing sentence, Madison's head was spinning with reasoning. So, if Clow Reed wasn't the most powerful magician in the world, who was? "We're here!" Sacilia loudly exclaimed, and the driver pulled up to the sidewalk. Madison's eyes widened in familiarity as she took in her surroundings not to her liking that she had been too far long gone to remember this homy environment.

It was a huge house, exactly like a mansion, with creamy white painting and black linings around the windows, doors, and balconies. Through the iron gates, a single fountain was spewing trickles of water out of the swan's marble beak; shrubs, bushes, and flowers were laid all around the yard making it look like a dance floor of technicolor colors of different petals of magic. This was what Madison called her true home.

Sacilia, meanwhile, was paying the driver. "Uh. This is all I have..." She held out the five bucks in her open palm to the driver. He just looked at her like she was insane or something, and hit the gas making her eyes run with the fumes from the gas. Gaining back her attitude just like from the airport, she glared in the direction of the cab. "STUPID ABNOXIOUS IDIOT!!! YOU COULD'VE AT LEAST TAKEN THE MONEY!!!!"

Automatically thirty pairs of eyes from the people that were around in the neighborhood turned to the fuming girl. Realizing there was an audience she attracted, Sacilia stared nervously around her as she took shelter behind Madison, who embarrassedly laid her hands out in defense. "Um...she does that all the time when she doesn't take her meds...I think...."

This seemed to satisfy the people in their midst as they turned back to their original activities. The two girls, on the other hand, hurried their way towards the gates as quickly as they could.

"So, what is this I heard about not taking my meds?"

"Uh...hehehe....I can explain...."

"Yeah right. It's a tough crowd, Madison. I doubt anyone would care, but I do...."

~*~*~

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The banging of the door from downstairs was so loud, it woke up all of the girls in the entire Louisa Brandt's school. Bijou, Sandy, Pashmina, her little sister, Penelope, and Margie were the first ones to wake up, seeing as it was in the middle of the night on the same day that they got their letter and couldn't sleep that well. They all rushed downstairs to find an annoyed Ms. Ratterson and Sparkle about to head towards the door, but looked up at them in anger.

"What'd you idiots do this time?" Sparkle said in clear hatred as she spat at them.

The girls just glared at her. "We, like, didn't do anything Miss Snooty Pants!" Sandy retorted back at the glittering girl. BANG! BANG! The knocking was extremely loud now and girls of every age gathered around the staircases and hallways as they wondered who was making all the noise. Ms. Ratterson, a little apprenhensive, rushed to the door, however, before she could even lay a finger on the handle, the door burst open to reveal three shadows looming ginormously in the doorway.

Sparkel immediately went to the back hallway of the room and came out with a hand gun. This seemed to send most of the girls--especially the young ones--into a panic frenzy; there were screams everywhere as they scrambled farther back from the armed woman that they hated and feared at the same time.

"W-who's t-there?" She practically shouted. "I-I'm w-warning y-you... I-I'm a-a-armed...!" There seemed to be a slight pause from the two of them as their shadowy heads looked at each other.

Then--"What--? You couldn't have at least brought out Cokes and cookies? I swear, what kind of a boarding school is this? You people have no idea what it's like to be traveling all the way from Oakden to here in the middle of nowhere..." That was the huge figure on the far right. He seemed to be twirling something in his hands, much larger than Ms. Ratterson's hand gun.

The figure on the far right nodded his head. "I totally agree with you Boss-Man. The second I see my sis I'm gonna get her out of here...and what's with the gun--you thinking we're some robbers, grandma?" His voice sounded Casanova type and seemed oddly similar. Behind her, Bijou could hear Sandy and Pashmina gasp in recognition at the voice. Ms. Ratterson seemed to also realize who the figures were for she slightly lowered her gun, but it was still trained in the lower torsos of the shadows.

"Seriously, lady, you need a new location for this wack-job that you call a school that's on top of a s--" He was interrupted by the figure in the middle.

"Come on. We have to do what we came here to do." The voice sounded normal, not like the gruff voice from the right or the slightly hispanic voice on the left, but with a hint of a German accent that you could barely make out. (AN: Hahaha. He's German!!! I thought it would be interesting...) This made his other two friends step out of the doorway (outside it was pouring down rain) and all the girls could see were rain-drenched hooded-cloaked figures. Although they were covered, the students could clearly see the size differences.

One was humongous and carried a shovel. One was tall and lanky with a walking stick. One was just plain normal and held a packaged envelope in his wet hands, although it seemed dry. "Move, lady....please." The gruff guy added quickly as his partner glanced up at him with his hooded face. Ms. Ratterson looked extremely annoyed now, "I demand you three leave at once! You are breaking in and entering!"

The tall, lanky figure seemed to prickle with anger. He seemed to be holding himself back from ripping the woman's throat out. The middle figure also seemed to sense the tention. "Stop. What do you mean we're breaking in?" (AN: Ah, so naive and clueless...)

"She means, doofus, that you are illegally breaking into our school, dumbos!" Sparkle spat, while hiding behind her mother like a coward. Bijou just rolled her eyes with the rest of the girls. It was so like her to do that. The three figures just stood there with their hoods on, but their eyes were probably probing right into Sparkles face.

Finally, the figures took a step forward and un-latched their hoods and as it was falling away from their faces, Ms. Ratterson's eyes were the size of saucers and Sandy was practically pinching her own skin in happiness. They were three boys, no more than the ages of ten-and-a-half to eleven. One had shaggy brown hair that seemed to be tangled in a heap of a mess, dark brown eyes, and a yellow helmet with a green moon on the top of his head. Another had redish-whitish hair that looked as though his hair was divided into the two different colors with amber eyes that seemed almost orange. And the last one seemed to make most of the girls in the boarding school faint with gushy-ness and surprised. He looked almost like Sandy, except he was more male-looking, obviously, and seemed to have lighter green eyes and brown streaks on his sandy-blonde sideburns; yet all-in-all he was the twin of Sandy.

He spoke, "Shut up you little diva-princess. Everyone knows you have no opinion in this matter." Some girls behind her snickered and she glared at her before starting to say something to the boys before the red-headed boy said, "Alright. That's enough."

The gruff boy got the gist. "Back to whatever it was you were all doing...NOW!" His voice boomed throughout the entire house as the girls scrambled back to their rooms, not wanting to see whatever punishment they would recieve from him. Bijou and the others were just about to follow when the twin of Sandy said, "No, not you girls. You're coming with us."

Sandy seemed completely overjoyed now, as she ran down the stairs and threw her arms around him. "Oh, Stan! It's you! I've waited for, like, ever!!! Where have you been?!" She cried, switching from over-joyous to angry and then back again. His friends just chuckled at their antics, while Bijou and Margie seemed way too confused.

"Don't worry, Sands. Your big bro here had to convince our dad to let me get you and your friends." He replied, smiling sheepishly and hugging back his little twin sister affectionately. Ms. Ratterson did not like how this was ending up and almost pointed the gun directly at their heads before controlling herself from actually shooting them. Stan said, "Put that thing down Ratterson. You know if you shoot innocent children you'll here it from the Mayor himself."

This seemed to make her put the gun entirely down. "Anyway, you probably didn't get our present since someone intercepted it probably, so here..." The gruff boy automatically pulled out a slightly squashed box. She pulled it out and it showed a large chocolate cake that said Happy Birthday Sandy! From, Stan, He-Hamtaro, Jason, Sacilia, Soul, Boss, Dexter, Howdy, and Maxwell (AN: Next to Maxwell's name picture a heart. I know, it's fluffy and they're not dating yet, but it was in my friend's mind.)written in red icing.

"Aw, Stan, Hamtaro, Boss, thank you!" She hugged all three boys and it almost made Bijou want to join them. She had heard of Sandy's brother, Stan, many times before from Sandy and Pashmina, but Sandy mostly since Pashmina seemd like she didn't want to talk about him and Bijou thought of him to be a very sincere boy in a way.

The red-headed boy seemed to realize something as the foursome broke away from the hug. "Ah! So how about those Cokes and cookies? I'm starving!" Both of his friends slapped their hands on their foreheads. Before Ms. Ratterson or Sparkle could say anything, the red-headed boy proceeded down the hallway--seeming to know where he was going--and entered through the kitchen doorway. The gruff boy followed, as Stan signaled to the girls to follow while Ms. Ratterson and Sparkle were destperately trying not to lift up the gun.

Penelope, quiet for the entire moment, tugged restlesstly on Pashmina's pj's, having no clue what was going on. "Pashy? Who are they? Why are they here?" Pashmina just stared straight ahead while holding her little sister's hand. They were now in the kitchen, the very small kitchen to be exact. It was so tiny that the gruff boy, Stan, and the red-headed boy could barely sit on the chairs.

Ms. Ratterson stared coldly at them as she set her gun down. "Why are you here?"

The red-headed one spoke, "Well, let's see. We're here to see Sandy, of course, but before we explain why shouldn't we introduce ourselves, first?" Sparkle was looking at him in admiration that made Bijou want to barf out snails. He turned to the remaining girls, who slightly jumped in surprise and smiled slightly. "The name's Henry. Henry Raymond--"

"But just call him Hamtaro." The gruff boy interrupted with a smirk on his face as Henry silently glared in his direction. "No really. Please call him that. There's millions of Henrys in the school. The name's Boss Diggers by the way."

"CoughBernardcough." Hamtaro muttered so only Bijou could hear. She giggled only just. "And, well, you might already know about Stanny boy over there. He's Sandy's brother. Twin brother, obviously and the House Prefect of Amsteure." They acknowleded each other, although Pashmina was trying to hide from the elusive Stan who kept glancing over in her direction with a neutral frown.

"And of course you all know about Amsteure." All five girls nodded their heads quickly. Amsteure was known as the elite academy for educated magic-wielders in the society. Plus, the fact that it was the closest magic-teaching boarding school in modern-age Europe, it was highly recomended for students living in nearby countries to attend at.

Ms. Ratterson on the other hand, didn't seem to agree to it at all. "No, no, no, no, NO! I will not let these girls attend that God-forsaken school for weirdos." Sparkle hiffed in reply but this only seemed to trigger the growing anger boiling inside each boy's gut as they each exploded.

"You--you--you ugly woman! How can you keep these girls all locked up? Don't you realize that they might even forget the entire reason why they exist? Why they have magic? How they're able to do magic?" Boss shouted, jumping from his stance to glare at their direction.

"They probably didn't even recieve Elder Ham's letter..." Stan mumbled.

Bijou decided to speak up. "Letter? You mean ze one we recieved lazt night? Sparkle took it away from us..." Sparkle looked ready about to kill Bijou at that instant, but the French girl didn't care. Hamtaro looked ready about to kill her at any moment. He said, "You what? You snot-nosed prissy of a brat! You took away their letter? No wonder Elder Ham gave us this envelope..." (AN: Oooo. Look's like Hamtaro has more attitude than any of us thought...) He handed Bijou the envelope, thinking she was the eldest in the group, and she opened it straight away since it appeared to be the same envelope.

Ms. S. Sanchez

Louisa Brandt's Boarding School for Young Educated girls; Dorm #5

10th Ave. Suset Dr.

St. Bernard

Scotland

Well the address was the same, that was clear enough, but it seemed much bulkier than before when they had first recieved the package hours ago. Inside there was an envelope addressing all the girls by their full names.

Dear Ms. Sandra Roselia Sanchez, Ms. Bijou Anabel Ribon, Ms. Pashmina Lilias Mafura, Ms. Penelope Primrose Mafura, Ms. Margrette Nicole Thomas,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Amsteure Academy of Warriors and Mages. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment. Term begins on September 1. We await your Animalia by no later than July 31.

Yours Sincerely,

Auntie Viv

Auntie Viv

Deputy Headmistress

"These girls have powers that exceed even the twelfth years look like total losers," said Stan. "You know, the usual: water, ice, fire, psychic, ghost walker--"

"A what?" Sparkle asked, being a total snoot. Hamtaro explained, although it looked as though he didn't want to. "A person that has the ability to walk through objects; both spritual and solid." He casted a quick glance at Bijou who seemed to be beaming with delight that there weren't totally clueless boys out there that didn't know what a ghost walker was.

"I will not let any of them go." Ms. Ratterson said.

Hamtaro didn't seem to understand why she would persist so much. "How come a Mundie like you doesn't want them to go? Why should you care in the first place?" This seemed to throw off Ms. Ratterson. "What's a Mundie?" asked Sparkled once again, confused and being a total snoot.

"A normal, mortal human, geniuz." Bijou answered for her recieving glares and intrigued looks from her friends.

"Yeah, well at least my father didn't send me here just so they could have a break from me." Sparkle retorted back, and Boss looked outraged for he was staring admirely at the French girl in complete infatuation.

He lifted his shovel up and pointed it at a silver pan behind Sparkle, a brown light shot out from the tip of the shovel, hit the pan that bounced off of it and landed directly behind Sparkle making her yelp. Turning around, she uttered a terrible scream for there, on her little tushie (AN: Ok, my friend so came up with that) was a curly, pink pigtail wiggling back and forth clearly part of her behind now.

Bijou practically laughed her head off as Sparkle was looking from her tail, to the boys, to her tail, to her mom, to her tail, to the girls, and then back again to her tail, half-crying half-shouting. "YOU FARTKNOCKERS! WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY BUTT?!?!?!" Hamtaro looked half-mad half-glad, although Stan was smirking and chuckling at the fact that the princess had a tail.

Boss looked at the girls with an anxious expression on his once calm face. "Don't tell the Head-Master I did that, ok?" The girls nodded while still laughing a bit; Ms. Ratterson was losing control of the situation as her daughter was screaming her head off while running around like maniac. She finally looked at Stan, Boss, and Hamtaro helplessly as she was reaching towards the hand gun, but apparently Hamtaro stared at it with consintration so that the gun was floating magically in the air. Bijou was taken aback--not for the fact that he was holding the gun up in the air, but how he was holding the gun up in the air made her want to jump with delight. Well, at least I'm not ze only one with psychic powers, Bijou thought as she shot the shocked and scared Sparkle a knowing look.

"So, I guess you don't want a matching snout to go with your piggy tail?" Stan asked, smirking ludicrously in the mistresse's direction. This made Ms. Ratterson surrender in defeat, as she hung her head while hiding away from the looks that the boys were giving her. Basically, it was a really interesting sight to see especially with Sparkle's screaming in the background.

Hamtaro lifted himself up from his chair as Stan and Boss followed. "Well, I think it's time we head out now...Follow me!" He said smiling a little as he headed out the door with the girls following at his heals. The rest of the students were crowded around the hallway and staircase as they saw three boys and five girls marching out the front door. But, before they left, Penelope poked her little head out of the frame to smile brightly at the girls. "Don't worry! We'll come back soon!" Even though five of their friends were leaving for whatever reason, this remark from this tiny girl seemed to reasure each and every one of them that they would be able to face the fuming Ms. Ratterson and her snot-nose-brat of a daughter.

The rain had substantially subsided for a bit, so it was only drizzling by the time the group had arrived in the black, horse-drawn carriage. Going inside, it was quite comfortable despite its small size, but it made the girls feel much more comfortable than in their dorm room. While Boss and Hamtaro went to the front of the carriage, Stan proceeded to sit next to Sandy, across from Pashmina who didn't seem to like it one bit.

Once the carriage started, Margie and Penelope went into a light nap, with Margie leaning against the window and Penelope leaning against Pashmina's shoulders as her older sister was staring out her side of the window, refusing to make eye-contact with Stan. Bijou and Sandy were sitting across from each other and tried to make light conversation, but it didn't seem to lighten the tension between Stan and Pashmina.

Finally, Stan decided to speak. "So, Pashmina...you're looking...well." He grimaced slightly, as though the words he said had inflicted pain into his side. Pashmina didn't drive her gaze away from the window, but her frown turned into a little scowl and this action made Bijou cower back for she had never seen such an action from the kind, caring girl.

"You as well...Stan." Saying his name almost made Pashmina want to barf. It had been too long...far too long since the incident..."Seems you haven't....changed."

"Yeah, well, I still manage to keep my chin up."

"So I see...Any thoughts of pushing brings you up?!" Pashmina was now glaring at him in full on hate mode. Stan was returning the look and between Bijou and Sandy, let's just say that both girls didn't want any part in this argument. The French girl gave Sandy a confused look and she mouthed "Later" to her.

"Oh, come on, Mafura. You honestly think I'm going to go there?!" Stan snarled viciously at her, while trying his best to keep his voice down so as not to wake Margie or Penelope.

"Yes, Stan. I really think so...if you try hard enough."

"Well at least I don't hold a grudge for this long." Stan couldn't say anything else for Pashmina had kicked him full on in the shins, making him yelp in pain. Pashmina just smirked slightly as she turned her attention back to the rain-soaked scenery. The carriage seemed to rush faster after Stan finished his grimacing and glared in the direction of his attacker.

Sandy looked at Bijou. Bijou looked at Sandy. "Well that was awkward..." Both whispered in unison. At least the akwardness wasn't as bad as staying with Ms. Ratterson and the Evil Empress Sparkle. As they left Louisa Brandt's Boarding School for Young and Educated Girls, Sparkle's upset screaming could faintly be heard as the carriage rolled on.

"FARTKNOCKERS!!!"

AN: You know, as I was writing this, my abnoxious cousin was telling me I was a fartknocker, so I decided to put that phrase in there just for the heck of it. Anyway, do you know what will happen?

Ok. Since I'm new, I thought I should give you readers out there a little sneak peak for the next chapter, just like other authors do, right? Right, I think...I haven't been reading any Hamtaro stories yet so not sure...

"We'll bring you an Amsteure toilet seat!"

"Sky!"

"Kidding..."

"Stan...well...he...almost pushed Pashmina down a...."

I am so evil sometimes. At least that's what my cousins call me; not giving any clues to them so they don't even know about this sneak peek! Just promise you won't tell anyone otherwise I'm in terrible danger of having my head on a spike.