Disclaimer: I don't own Hamtaro. And I don't own the human hams completely either, because the idea of them having ears and tails as traits is from a really neat Jap. Hamtaro site I saw, so they're the idea of a Jap. artist. (Rock on!) But the story, plot, and any unfamiliar characters are mine! Heehee. : )

Author's Note (who in the right mind write's out 'author's note' anymore? It's not cool! it should be 'A/N' because that's cool...what a loser...wait...that's me! Eep!): Yo yo mah homiezzzz!! Who's down to da ground yo?! No, I'm joking. Oh Lord, please don't hurt me! Lol. Really, how is everyone? I hope you guys are all having a wonderful winter so far. Mine was cut down four days shorter to make up for school days we missed during the four hurricanes that hit Florida. Anywho, heehee. This is my Holiday fic/gift for anyone who wants one, lol. I'm making all couples (S/M YES! H/B I need to do B/B sometime soon... P/P Panda/Pashmina for those who don't know I'm not a big Pasy/Stan fan. sorry. and there's not really Penny/Cappy, but they are best of friends, so...yeah) Now...um...there's been chaos, over writing Hamtaro Human fics, where someone claimed that they owned the Human idea, and well, I don't really care, because I've been thinking of writing a human fic for the past three years that I've been a Hamtaro fan, and the traits with them having ears and tails is something i found on a Jap. website over two years ago. So I'm not stealing the idea from Celestialnight, and if you read the Disclaimer, then I'm stating that the human traits with ears and tails isn't mine either. Anyway, I haven't written fics in a while...a long while..since summer I think, but now that I'm having some free time, I'll write one. Hope you guys enjoy! And Happy Holidays!!

Holiday Cheers: Chapter I (yay! Roman Numerals! ::gets pounded with snowball...er snowboulder::)

There lived, in a small town called New Hamshire (Get it?! HAMshire? HAHAHAHA ::is hit with another inhumanly big snowball::), a number of lovely people. The atmosphere was full of joy as the holidays were closer with every coming day. The prices of everything had dropped and every night the stores became empty, and every morning, they were re-stocked. Oh yes, indeed the holidays were close.

Now in the middle of this small, yet cheerful town bustling with people, there was an apartment bulding. This apartment building was a very special, distintictive one, for everyone who lived inside was a big family. Regardless of looks, religion, or background. In the first floor, there were three apartmant rooms. In room 001 lived a very cheerful and kind boy (not hamster, boy). His name was Hamtaro. In room 002 lived the best friend of this cheerful and kind boy. his name was Oxnard. He liked to eat alot. In room 003 lived a boy of their age with the same cheerfulness in him and creativity added to it. His name was Panda. He shared his room with his small brother Cappy, who was also very creative in the sense that he was always wearing different hats.

In the second floor, there was another three rooms. Directly above Hamtaro's room was Bijou's room, number 101. The sopfisticated, and sweet French girl of this big family. She was very into high fashion and jewelery, and always looked nice. Next door to her was Sandy and Stan's room, number 102. The only twins in the family. They both had lovely hearts and good intentions, but they were both very different. Sandy was very athletic, and liked Gymanstics alot and was always daning. It's very common that you's hear her singing a song her brother taught her. But if you walked into her room late at night, you'd notice that she really like to write in her diary. Now her brother, was a deep sleeper so you wouldn't normaly catch him writing a diary, but during the day, he too would dance alot. He'd flirt alot too. Across the hallway from the twins', room, number 103, lived Pashmina, and her small sister Penelope. Pashmina was the very motherly soft hearted girl of the family. Her favorite possesion was the pink scarf she wore around her neck, very rarely would you catch her without it. She only wanted what was best for everyone, especially her younger sister Penelope, who was always happy and never let go of a certain yellow blanket.

Now the third floor was a little different, for it held four rooms, instead of three. A person might think that because of this, the rooms are smaller, but oh ho ho, how wrong that person is. See, with the way the building was constructed, the hallways in the first two floors were big, now in the third floor, they seemed smaller. But if you were to walk all the way down the hallway, passed the four rooms, you'd notice a big window, and if you opened this big window, you'd be looking straight out to Acorn Avenue, the busiest street in town, where they held the tall hundred foot Christmas tree. So there was nothing so small and cramped about this floor. So let's turn around and look into these four rooms we've passed by.

Inside room number 201 lived a very strange and exotic boy. His name was Jingle. He was creative just like Panda and Cappy, but rather then wearing different hats like Cappy, he wrote poetry. In fact, he would write so much everyday that he started speaking in poem too. He also traveled alot, so there were times when he wasn't home, but he was always here for special occasions. Across the hallways from him, in room 202, lived an intellegent boy. His hobby was to read books, and if you ever walked into his room late at night, you'd notice he not only read alot, he also dreamed alot. his name was Maxwell. Next door to Maxwell, in room 204, lived Dexter, another smart and intellegent boy. He too read alot of books, but he spent more time arguing with his neighbor across the hallway over the silliest of things. So across from him lived Howdy, in room 203, next door to Jingle. Howdy too could be very strange and exotic like Jingle, though he never wrote poetry, he wrote jokes. But he didn't write so much jokes like Jingle wrote so mch poems, that he'd talk in jokes. Oh no, he spent much time arguing with Dexter.

In the next floor, there lived the owner of the building, the one kind hearted person who allowed these people to be his family, and who gave them a home to live in while they were on their own. His name was Boss. He lived in room 301, the biggest room in the apartment building, the only one that took up about eighty per cent of the last floor. He shared it with his old friend, Snoozer, who was always sleeping, but always giving out good advice to those who needed it. Thid is where the family gathered together for all special occasions, meetings, and whenever they felt they all just needed to be together. Boss would lend his room to them all.

How lovely that today was one of those incredibly special days. Today, was Thanksgiving. So the whole family had gathered together in Boss' beautiful dining room to have the big feast. Everyone was dressed up and smiling, the food was smelling delicious, and it was just how it had been the day they first arrived.

"Oh my gosh, the food smells like, so good!" Sandy commented as Boss brought in a couple of bowls. One with mashed potatoes, the other with gravy for anyone who wanted some.

"Wait until you see how good the turkey came out!" Cappy said, as he rushed back in forth between the kitchen and dining room. Sandy smiled. No one was suppose to see the turkey until boss brought it out. Cappy and Penelope had snuck in earlier to see it. When they were caught no one was angry, everyone just laughed at how clever they'd been at being able to get in to see the turkey without getting caught first.

Hamtaro turned to Bijou, who had just sat down. "Hey Bijou, you look nice." Bijou blushed and replied with a shy "Merci." She wore a a long sparkling blue skirt and a white, long sleeved shirt. "So, how are you?"Hamtaro smiled.

"I am, how would you say, fantastique?" She said with her strong french accent. Years of living here and it was still there. "I really like zis holiday, of celebrating ze thanks we all have for eachother. Zey should do somezing similar to zis in France."

"Yeah. It is a pretty neat holiday, isn't it?" He smiled at her and she smiled back. This time he blushed.

Pashmina and Sandy sat across from Hamtaro and Bijou, having their own conversation. "Penelope was telling me this morning that her and Cappy have been working on another Thanksgiving surprise for us."

"Really? That's so neat," Sandy smiled. "I wonder what it is..." She thought of the years before, of how Cappy and Penelope sang a thank you song together, and before that, how they made a small book together and read it aloud to everyone. Then Sandy tohught of something else. "Pash...do you know when Hanukah is this year? I don't want to forget about it like I did last year. Remember how upset Boss was? We got him Christmas gifts, and he doesn't even celebrate Christmas."

"I really don't know when it is. The year before last year, Boss was okay with us not giving him gifts or anything because we didn't know much about Hanukah. It's been two years since then, we should know by now." Pashmina raised her eyebrows and looked forward. Sandy did the same.

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"Boss, how long until the turkey's ready? It's been a kazillion minutes. It should be done by now!" Penelope complained, jumping up and down, her brown ears and hair bouncing with her.

"Stop jumping so much, I'm getting dizzy." Cappy said, grabbing his head, and pulling his baseball cap over his eyes. Penelope stopped and stuck her tongue out at him. He did the same and they laughed.

"The turkey should be done a bit. You two stay here and don't touch anything. I'm going to go take the salad out. Be back in a while," boss said, grabbing the salad bowl and stepping outside.

"I'm all itchy. I don't like these long white socks," Penelope said, stompping her small feet and scratching her legs.

Cappy raised an eyebrow, "You mean tights?"

"That's what I said," Penelope told him. She sat on the ground criss cross style and just looked at Cappy with her head tilted.Cappy did the same.

"What are you doing?" He asked her.

"Looking," she replied tilting her head the other way. Cappy mimicked her.

"Looking at what?" He copied her as she brought her head up.

"Into the furture," She said giggling. She closed her eyes and dropped onto the clean cold kitchen floor, laying down and facing up.

Cappy stood and walked over to her. He looked at her strangely. "Girls are so weird," He said. Penelope stood up as they both heard a 'ding' come from the oven. "I think the turkey's ready," Cappy said.

"Yeah, let's go get Boss," Penelope said, running into the dining room, Cappy following her.

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"I can't wait for the turkey. It's going to be so good," Oxnard said, practicaly drooling just thinking about it. Hamtaro nodded in agreement. His orange ears perked up and he blushed and he felt Bijou kick his foot accidently.

"Oh, I am so sorry Hamtaro," Bijou said, blushing also.

"It's okay," Hamtaro said. They both smiled softly at eachother and turned to their regular conversations. "Is Pepper coming to visit this year?" Hamtaro asked Oxnard.

"Oh, she said she might. she's not sure yet. You and all." His blue-gray ears drooped a bit. Hamtaro tapped his shoulder.

"It's okay Oxy, she'll be able to most likely." Oxnard smiled. Then everyone looked up toward the kitchen door and saw Boss standing there with a big flat metal pan, holding the golden brown, freshly made turkey.

He slowly walked to the table and placed it in the center. "Voila! Bon apetite!" He kissed the tips of his fingers and opened his hand. Everyone laughed and he smiled.

Bijou giggled and smiled broadly, "Oui, oui, just like a real chef!"

Boss courtsied, "I'll be back in a few minutes. i'm going to go wash up." He walked out of the dining room and into his room. Everyone spoke merrily amongst themselves and started getting ready to eat.

Pashmina helped Penelope sit onto her tall chair, and Panda helped Cappy onto his also. From across Penelope and cappy, Panda smiled at Pashmina, and she smiled back, then they both sat back up.

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To be continued....

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A/N: You like? I find it very interesting. Teehee. I'm pretty excited about writing this fic. Oh, a few things to say. Um....I don't know if Jewish people really DO celebrate Thanksgiving. If they don't, I'll just say that to Boss, this is just a family gathering, rather the celebration of the Pilgrims and Indians coming together as a thanks. Sorry if maybe someone Jewish might be reading this and I offended them. I don't know much about Hanukah, but I'll do the best I can. I didn't want all the ham hams to celebrate Christmas, I wanted at least one of them to celebrate something else. And I really like boss alot, and sometimes I feel like people mistreat him, so I had to do something special for him. And this is just when the ham hams are hamsters, it IS Boss' clubhouse. It was his first, and shared it with them, and it's the same with the apartment building. So yeah. Alright, hope you guys liked it. I'll start working on chapter two. : )