Chapter One

Bamy Kazuma and his best friend Rosa were baby sitting their younger siblings, K and Violet. "75446596 years ago, the sun and earth bumped together and when they separated, the stone of balance was formed. From this stone, 3 stones came, stones of essence. There was a blue stone, the essence of the soul, the red stone, the essence of the heart, and the yellow stone, the essence of the mind. The stone of balance kept balance over the light and dark in each of the qualities of the stones. From these stones came the first hamsters, Ham(M) and Star(F). But then an evil and terrible oni tried to destroy the stones and to destroy the white half of the stone of balance, thus bringing darkness in control of soul, mind, and heart. But ham and Star sang beautiful songs about trotting and friends. The beast could not take the sound of happiness and fled. Ham and Star then traveled to the east where they had their first litter of 8. There they built a shrine dedicated to balance and they raised their litter to protect the shrine. When the children were old enough, they journeyed back to the desert and built the hamu-ja kingdom, where all hamsters come from today."

"wow Bamy, that's a great story!"

"Ya!" the children cheered.

" Okay now, time for bed."

"okay" the children responded sadly.

The next morning, Bamy and Rosa woke to a furious knocking on the door.

"Ohaiyo ka?"

" Hai, Hai, Hai, Hai. You have been selected to participate in the annual Ham-Ham- Games, in the service of her royal highness Princess Bijou Ribbon!"

"Naa! Really!"

"No, I just go screaming at people at 6:00 in the morning. Here's your invitation, send it back by June 8 or your out. Good buy."

"So are you going to take it?"

"Cats yah!"