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I felt the earth shake and a loud deafening roar, I thought the village was under attack again. From what had happened in the past few days was pure evil, my brain was still straining from processing it all. My heart felt heavy from the shock, I couldn't tell if I was panicking or having a heart attack. Just hearing that loud noise made me so scared than all the fear I have ever felt in my entire lifetime, I immediately assume the worse.
I got out of bed and rushed out into the night where I found all my smurfs running in the same direction, I followed them towards the extremely tall smokestack at the far end of the village, just near the large body of water. There lived a special kind of smurf, who doesn't deem himself as a smurf at all. His name was Chernov Reznov, he's at least 4 apples tall and quite skinny. His skin was grass green, and he wears what he calls M81 woodland camouflaged jacket, pants and smurf hat. He was the only young male smurf I know of who has a full head of hair, and it looks quite good.
Chernov was the most non-sociable and the most stubborn creature I've ever met, yet he is extremely intelligent and just as wise from me. He's by far mature, and only shows his true age when intoxicated with a substance. What makes him really special wasn't his talents, it's because he's half-human. His mother was a smurfette created by Gargamel's spell, she however past away from childbirth. His human father tried his best but Chernov still suffers from the loss, and so he resides here after a brief childhood.
I fear he may corrupt my little smurfs with his human traits and behavior, turns out he fears it as well. He only talks to me and Brainy, but no one else. Being part of the new "green smurf" species created by his father, he tries his best to make sure his half-brothers and sisters leave us light blue smurfs alone, but he's quite impatient at times and often blows his stack.
Despite his destructive and arrogant behavior, Chernov is usually feeling neutral as he calls it. He gets along with his peers quite well, and even has found true love. A green smurfette named Rachael stays with him at his house, and they had two little green smurflings together named Cherskey and Nelly. Rachael has blonde hair and wears green overalls and a camouflaged smurf hat, as Cherskey wears camouflaged smurf hat and pants and Nelly wheres green overalls and camuflaged smurf hat, both smurflings has brown hair like Chernov.
What I find hilarious about Rachael is that she doesn't have much in common with Chernov, for starters she's overweight. Since green smurfs have the ability to store body fat, thanks to human traits, Rachael packed it on from a healthy appetite and developed a waist twice as large as a regular smurf. Rachael seemed to be the most happiest of all the green smurfs, and since all first generation green smurfs, with the exception of Chernov, are children of Smurfette, she became close to her. Just half off all green smurfs liked her, the rest hated her for some reason.
Rachael is a tomboy, just like Sassette and all other green smurfettes. Even though she does of course feminine stuff with Smurfette, she doesn't really like girl stuff. I thought this was unusual, especially when she and many green smurfettes call me "Pappy." That's not the only thing, despite being heavy she proves to be as strong as Hefty Smurf. Maybe even stronger judging on how many times she beat him in arm wrestling, and him not beating her once. She proves a valuable asset to the village, since she scores superior in physical labor.
Her job keeps her strength up, or its due to genes as Chernov claims. Awhile not working, she was seen sleeping or eating, but is reluctant to work when the time calls for it.
Cherskey and Nelly are twins, and they get along fine with the other smurflings. Instead of helping out with the village, they were seen being educated by Chernov and Rachael for a good part of the day. Chernov values knowledge greatly, and is determined to pass his down to his smurflings. Taught them a lot of things that I don't even know, all I know is that Chernov gets a lot of his knowledge from his father. An information junkie, he studies pretty much about everything, by learning how nature works.
He knows more about the universe than Grandpa Smurf, he knows more on what its made of than me. He's quite a chemist as he calls himself, not an alchemist, just a chemist. Able to explain why any substance react and why in such a way that I feel like his student, but I must remember is that he's our protector. He had saved us from many disasters with his own hands, he even got them dirty when dealing with life-threatening situations.
This time it's different, we were dealing with our latest foe. An entity called the Dark Presence, its hard to describe what the Dark Presence is it resembles no life form in the universe. Its simply dark smoke-like clouds, these clouds don't show themselves directly but they take over anysmurf and anything in its path. Either creatures or inanimate objects, the Dark Presence possessed them to create the Taken, whose purpose is to serve and fight for the Dark Presence throughout their existence.
The Taken we were fighting for once our friends and loved ones, now their just monsters inside of husks. Sure they may retain echos of their former lives, but they are just dead nerve twitches, there is truly nothing left of them, only darkness.
The Dark Presence was after Chernov, and so focused most of its energy on him. It used him to write a story that could have ended in disaster, but Chernov got the better of the entity. Turns out, whatever Chernov writes comes true. He used that power to bring everysmurf that the Dark Presence had taken back, forcing the entity back to the drawing board. Turns out, it had been planned this from the start and now its acting immediately.
The story Chernov written protected him and all of us from the Dark Presence, unless the story says its time for one of us to die. With the story finished, we are no longer under its protection and the Dark Presence can pretty much kill us. It could have done it that night, but it didn't. Its probably because Chernov severely weakened it, but it has enough strength to perform its latest attack in which me and my smurfs are now responding to.
Everysmurf were in their pajamas as they rushed to the scene, holding candle lanterns to see where they're going. We all approach Chernov's house as we saw the Dark Presence in the form of a tornado just stroll away into the night, all the smurfs screamed from seeing the Dark Presence once again.
"Smurfs!" I ordered, "Calm yourselves!"
Rachael came running out of the mushroom house in panic, Cherskey and Nelly remained inside as Rachael held out what is called a flashlight, a small portable light source generated by stored electrical energy instead of a simple flame. "Chernov!" she cried as she looked up at the sky, "Where's Chernov?"
"He's gone!" cried Cherskey.
"We just saw the Dark Presence leave!" cried Brainy, "It must have Chernov!"
"Don't jump to conclusions Brainy!" warned Hefty, "You don't know smurf!"
Suddenly we heard a roar, then something fell out of the sky. Rachael shined her flashlight at it, it was a camouflaged smurf hat. She rushed up to it, picked it up, and examined it. "This is Chernov's ," she announced, "Its really his."
Rachael broke down in tears and ran back into her house, dropping her flashlight in the process. She didn't shut her front door, but I did hear something slammed shut. "Smurfette." I called out to her.
"Yes Papa Smurf?" she asked.
"Keep an eye on Rachael for the night," I instructed, "Do not let her leave your sight."
"Of course Papa Smurf." replied Smrufette.
Smurfette rushes into the house and shut the door, "Go back to bed smurfs," I announced, "We'll talk about this in the morning, just keep the lights on and you'll be fine."
As the smurfs depart, I approached the flashlight Rachael had dropped and picked it up. It was a metal black flashlight, it feels well built. Its light was quite bright, even though it was coming out of such a small device. I turned off the flashlight and head back to my house, once there I sat the flashlight and my candle lantern on the nightstand. I blew out the lantern's small flame and climbed back into bed, there I try my best to sleep.
When I woke up, daylight was shining through my windows. I got out of bed and got dressed, I simply pulled off the pajamas and put on my red pants. With that done, I stepped outside and discovered a crowd of smurfs in front of my house. They were at a comfortable distance, they wanted a plan from me after what happened last night.
"We're scared Papa Smurf," said one of the smurfs, "With Chernov gone..."
"We have made due without him in the past," I noted, "We've faced many threats against us before he has ever existed, and scored victory each and every smurf. Don't worry my smurfs, we'll survive this threat as well."
"You saw what the Dark Presence smurfed at us," said another smurf, "It took over everything, and turned unfortunate smurfs against us. We would have died if Chernov hadn't smurfed in to save the day."
The smurf was right, we wouldn't have survived without Chernov. The moral was so low that there was nothing more I could do, "I'm going to go check on Rachael," I finally says, "Everysmurf get to work and try to keep yourselves busy, I'll think of something for our situation."
As the smurfs depart, I head to Chernov's house to meet up with Smurfette. I saw the smokestack not smoking at all, I approached the front door and knocked on it. Smurfette answered the door, she seems glad to see me. "She's hurt," said Smurfette, "Her smurflings are becoming stressed by her condition."
"Take her kids out into the village and play with them," I said, "I'll handle Rachael myself."
"I hope you can make her feel better." said Smurfette.
Smurfette soon rounded up Cherskey and Nelly, the twins appeared to be just as sad but not as bad as Rachael. As they leave, I head inside the house and head to the back room. I knocked on the bedroom door, "Rachael?" I called out to her, "Are you there?"
"Yes." she muttered.
I opened the door and saw her tucked into the corner of the small room, still clutching Chernov's hat. The room was only lit by the small window, and so it looks quite dark. "I'm sorry Rachael," I told her, "If only we could do more."
"He was trying to protect you," said Rachael, "But he can't protect himself from you."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Think back on how hard Chernov tried to protect us," said Rachael as she looked at me in the eye, "Now imagine he's against us, you won't stand a chance. Chernov is taken, possessed, I can feel it in his hat. He's out there, but its not him anymore."
"Your becoming delusional," I claimed, "You must rest."
"A green smurf is only delusional if he or she cannot be reasoned with," snapped Rachael, "The Dark Presence is after you, and the hag will use Chernov to get to you."
I lend out my hand and Rachael took it, I helped her get back up to her feet and hugged her tightly. "At least we won't be surprised," I said, "The Dark Presence can't smurf us without us being aware its around."
"That's false security," said Rachael, "Why you think Chernov spends a good portion of the night looking after the village as you sleep?"
Her tone was getting more arrogant, "Just calm down Rachael," I insisted, "You're tired, you had a rough night, think of your smurflings."
"They're not stupid Pappy," she said, "They know what is to come, we cannot hide that fact from them."
"Just take it easy Rachael," I told her, "Chernov will tell you to rest if he's here."
"He would..." muttered Rachael, "But he's gone..."
Rachael began to cry again and I patted her on the back, "Let it out," I said as we sat down on the bed, "Just let it out."
Rachael cried on my shoulder for half an hour, I sat there thinking of everything she had said. Was the Dark Presence really after me? Am I really its next target? I don't know what to make of this, green smurfs are smarter than they appear, since they are horribly immature. "Are you okay now?" I asked.
"No," I said, "But I'll get bye fine."
"Okay Rachael." I said.
I let go of Rachael as she lays back on the bed, I got up and left her house, all in wondering what to do next.
TO BE CONTINUED...