Disclaimer: The smurfs are not of my creation, however, the Smurfettes (except Smurfette and Sassette © Peyo) are. This story is not written for profit. It is for entertaining purposes only to enjoy by fans world wide.
Brief Summery: Seventeen smurfs are traveling through time – unsure if they will find their way home. Their recent trip ends up sending them to the future. R&R Please and Thank you.
NOTE: A special hint – To avoid possible confusion, you may want to first read "The Smurfette Village", "Return to the Smurfette Village", and "How Things Smurf" before reading this one – "A Home Through Time". This will be my final smurf story, so please enjoy.
(All the Smurf characters in the Time-Traveling series are used, except Smoogle (it looked like a pink mutated rabbit). He was not my favorite character and found him irrelevant to the story. Thought you should know…)
The Time Traveling Cast:
1 Papa Smurf
2 Grandpa Smurf
3 Hefty
4 Handy
5 Brainy
6 Wild
7 Sassette
8 Smurfette
9 Greedy
10 Clumsy
11 Vanity
12 Baby
13 Grouchy
14 Snappy
15 Painter
16 Lazy
17 Jokey
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Previously on the Smurfs…
"Smurf-a-roo, whatever is in that cellar must be important." Young Snappy Smurfling muses.
The smurfs watch the smurf elder in the yellow cap open a special three layer door. He opens the first door with the palm of his hand. The next door he uses the tip of his beard to open it.
"Gosh Grandpa, is that the last one?" Clumsy Smurf asks.
"Yup, youngin', we're at the tail end of it right now." Grandpa Smurf replies as he pushes his tail in a small hole which allows the third secret door to slide upward – exposing a beautiful display of sparkling crystals.
All the smurfs 'ooh's' and 'ahh's' over the multi colors of sparkles displayed in each shinny crystal. The crystals are shaped eloquently around fifteen special scrolls rolled up and tucked carefully in certain section in the wall. In the middle sits a ruby key.
"Those are Time Scrolls, my little smurfs." Papa Smurf explains.
Ninth Season: Episode 1, "The Smurfs That Time Forgot"
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The huge T-Rex falls flat on his back. The force of the impact causes the beast to loosen his grip of the smurf elder in the bright fuzzy yellow cap. Grandpa Smurf flew through the air in the awaiting arms of Hefty, Handy, and Papa Smurf.
"Gotcha Grandpa." Hefty cheers.
"Don't worry about me, youngins…get that key." Grandpa panics as he notices the red magical ruby dangling dangerously on a fragile tree branch over a small pool of lava.
Grandpa and the others desperately reach for the key, but luck is not on their side. The branch breaks and the key falls. As it lands in the hot molten liquid the key bobs once then sinks.
"Smurfs alive, the key…it's gone." Grandpa Smurf cries.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandpa," Brainy walks up to the smurf elder carrying all the crystals that are carefully placed on a leaf. "Not to worry. We still have the magic Time Crystals and ah…"
"Y-y-you don't understand." Grandpa nervously stutters. "Without the Magic Time Key to assemble them…" He pauses, unsure how to explain it to the young smurfs.
"What Grandpa means is that we may be stranded here…forever…" Papa Smurf sighs; knowing his own words causes disappointment to his little smurfs. He sulks his shoulders forward in defeat.
"I hate, 'stranded here forever'!" Grouchy snaps, crossing his arms in protest.
Ninth Season: Episode 2, "Lost in the Ages"
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"Don't fret yet, Smurf-a-roos," Grandpa says in a positive tone. "There is still a way for us to return to the Smurf Village.
Wild Smurf watches wide eyes as Grandpa flips one of the crystals in the air and catches it with one hand.
"We can put these here crystals by hand." The Smurf Elder explains. The young smurfs all find hope and comfort in the elder's wise words.
"Grandpa's right, we can put these crystals back by hand." Papa Smurf adds. Wild Smurf kicks up one of the crystals with his foot and Papa Smurf catches it. The red-capped elder looks at it carefully then frowns. He grieves over the challenge of placing these glittering gems in the right order. "Eh, then again," He grips, "It may take a million tries before we get the right combination."
With that said the other young smurfs whine. Their hopes seem shattered. If Papa Smurf is unsure of their future then how will they ever get home?
Hearing them so put down over this situation, Papa Smurf feels he should encourage them somehow. "But don't give up hope," he tells them strongly. The others again groan in despair.
Smurfette stands firmly with her hands planted down on her hips. She gives Papa Smurf a stern look. "Ok, what's the deal here? Are we going home, or aren't we?"
Both Papa Smurf and Grandpa Smurf look at each other, perplexed. Wild Smurf, sitting between them, also appears more confused then the two elders.
Finally the smurf elders turn back to Smurfette and with a shrug they reply, "We don't know."
"You see, I never assembled a crystal puzzle like this before." The red-capped elder admits. He begins to placing the crystals in how they should be positioned. Holding one of the crystals up to the natural sun light, Papa Smurf tries to see if there is a clue on where the next piece should be placed. "But I'm certain that someday I would find the proper combination." He explains further
"But what if the puzzle isn't put together right, Papa Smurf?" Handy asks.
"Then there is no telling where we will end up," Grandpa explains.
Ninth Season: Episode 3, "Cave Smurfs"
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…And now, on with the story…
Chapter 1 – To be or not to be Home
The midday sun shines blissfully over the enchanted forest below. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a rainbow twists and turns like a tornado in the clear blue sky. Gradually it descends down towards the ground and seventeen smurfs emerge from the colourful storm. Feeling a little disoriented at first, the time traveling smurfs shake off the usual dizziness they get after their journey.
"Ooh, where are we now, Papa Smurf?" Smurfette whined as she rubs her head.
"Give me a moment, Smurfette." Papa Smurf glances around to view the area. A smile crosses his face as the landscape surrounding them appears very much familiar. "Is it possible?" He mutters to himself, not wanting to collapse his little smurf's hopes in case he is wrong. Before the red-capped elder could say anything a frantic shout bellows from behind.
"Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf, come quick!" Snappy and Sassette hollers in unison.
"What is it, my little smurflings?" Papa Smurf asks, rushing up to the two young smurfs with all the other smurfs running not far behind.
"Look Papa Smurf…it's the Great Oak!" Snappy replied excitably.
"Jumpin' Salamanders, does this mean we are home?" Little Sassette says, jumping for joy.
"Yes Sassette, I believe it does." Papa Smurf nods his head. He lets out a sigh of relief while the other smurfs cheer with excitement. Although, it has just dawned on him that the weather is no longer winter. When they left there was a lot of snow on the ground, but now it appears to have all melted away. It is at least springtime now. They are indeed home, but when in time have they arrived?
"Come on youngins; let's get back to the village. I'm sure the others will be real glad to see us." Grandpa Smurf begins to lead the smurfs down the path that will lead them straight to the Smurf Village. The others eagerly follow - anticipating what the reactions of their fellow smurfs would have.
It's hard to tell but it feels as if the smurfs had been traveling through time for years. They wondered how much the village has changed since they left. Down the meadow, and past Farmer Smurf's garden the smurfs are too anxious to get home finally that they fail to see the change to the once live garden of vegetables to a field of nothing but weeds. It isn't till they actually reach the village that the smurfs discover the traumatic truth. They all stop in a screeching halt. With a loud gasping breath and their jaws hung down. Never had they ever imagined coming home to a smurf village that has been burnt to the ground. Nothing is left standing. Where is every smurf? What could have possibly happened to cause this?
"NO!" Hefty, Brainy, and Handy cried out in stereo.
"Baffling-Badgers, Papi Smurf, who would do this to our home?" The tiny red-headed smurfette asks with tears in her eyes.
"Yeah," Snappy nods in agreement.
"Oh, boo-hoo, where is every smurf?" Smurfette wept.
"Yeah I hope they made it out ok." Handy wonders out loud.
"What do you think of this, Papa Smurf?" Grandpa Smurf inquired to their red-capped leader.
"I'm not sure, Grandpa, but what ever happened here it didn't end on a positive note."
Papa Smurf scans the ash ruins of what use to be the Smurf Village. He frowns with worry. What happened? Where are my little smurfs? The red-capped elder wondered. Has his worst nightmare come to past? Are his little smurfs doomed to extinction? What can he do now for his surviving smurfs? So many questions filled his head and he feared he won't be able to find his little smurfs they left behind during their trip through time.
The elder watches his time-traveling smurfs and wonders if they are the only smurfs remaining from what use to be over a hundred smurfs of his village. With a heavy heart it is what he fears the most. Now the question is, and possibly the most important, to find out if there are any of the other smurfs had survived and where they are now.
"Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf! Come quick!" Jokey hollers.
Papa Smurf and Grandpa Smurf rushed to see what the prankster smurf was so anxious about. Once they arrive to the scene they notice that Jokey, Greedy, and Wild are hovering over a pair of human foot prints and cat paw prints on the soft ground near the ashes of a mushroom home.
"Wild Smurf found these foot prints, Papa Smurf," Greedy declares.
"We think it might be Gargamel and Azrael." Jokey finishes.
Wild Smurf chirps, growls, and squeaks as he imitates the feline creature that had left the paw prints on the ground.
"Papa Smurf, you don't suppose that Gargamel finally won, do you?" Snappy asks with a hint of fear in his tone.
Hefty stands firm, fuming with the idea of that evil wizard destroying the village and harming his fellow smurfs. "I say we should go over to Gargamel's and give him what for!" He cries out while swinging his fists in the air.
The rest of the smurfs begin to nod their heads in agreement with the strongest smurf.
"Calm down, my little smurfs. We can't be certain that this was Gargamel's doing." Papa Smurfs tries to sound reasonable. "We will, however go to Gargamel's and see if we can possibly find a clue on what might have happened. You, you, you, and you will come with me to Gargamel's." He points to Hefty, Handy, Jokey, and Smurfette before turning to the rest of the smurfs. "The rest of you see if you can find any further clues to what might have happened here."
"Yes Papa Smurf." All the smurfs cry out.
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Papa Smurf and his four chosen smurfs march through the thick part of the forest and arrive at the dead swampy area where their arch nemesis, Gargamel, calls home. Through out their entire walk, the smurfs barely said a word, but all were thinking the same thing. How is it that the smurf village has fallen? When did Gargamel actually find their home? What has he done to the Smurfs? Are there any survivors? If so, where are they now?
With a gulp, Papa Smurf pulls back the bushel of leaves in front of him. The first sight behind the slimy bog is a pile of burnt rubble that used to be the evil wizard's home.
"I don't believe it…" Papa Smurf gasps.
"Gosh, Papa Smurf looks like what ever happened to the village happened here too." Handy Smurf concluded.
"Yes, it would seem so my little smurfs." The red-capped elder responded. Curiosity getting the better of him, Papa Smurf walks closer to the burnt rubble.
Indeed the area does look like the same arson work as what happened to the village. The question now is who would do this? Could it be Hogatha? Maybe Balthazar did it, or even Chlorhydris…? Papa Smurf is baffled with this discovery indeed. Anyone of the smurf's enemies could have done this. Chances are they didn't like Gargamel much either.
"Oooh, Papa Smurf who would be so cruel to burn down both our village and Gargamel's home?" Smurfette whined.
"Why if I ever get my hands on who ever did this I'll give them a piece of my mind!" Hefty threatened, swinging his fists in the air.
"Yeah, this is defiantly isn't funny." Jokey added.
"I'm sure we'll get to the bottom of this, my little smurfs." Papa Smurf insured them. "Now let's get back to the village and see what the others have found."
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Meanwhile the other smurfs split up into groups to better explore the village in finding more clues on what had happened. The time-traveling smurfs are still trying to figure out when this happened. Grandpa Smurf, Clumsy, Painter, and Brainy walk through the village.
"Gosh, with all the adventures we been on with these crystals, this has to be the most depressing." Clumsy whimpered, sniffing back a few tears.
"I know what you mean, Clumsy, yet, I'm still trying to figure out where all those extra burnt homes came from…" Brainy wondered, thinking back in their exploration of the village and how much bigger it seemed under the rubble.
"Your right Brainy," Grandpa Smurf nods in agreement. "If memory serves me correctly this area is supposed to be an empty field. Instead there is burnt rubble here that seems to resemble what used to be homes."
"These new homes seem to reach all the way to the beach." Vanity points out.
"Sacrebleu, what did ze smurfs do while we were away?" Painter wondered as they passed the rest of the rubble and came out to the open beach.
The beach looked no better then the village did. From one end to the other the beach was covered with burnt driftwood and torn cloth that is scattered all around.
It didn't take long for the smurfs to realize that the debris they are looking at is what used to be the S.S. Smurf. As they kept looking another confusing thing came to view. It was a wreckage of another ship. Like the S.S. Smurf, most of this new ship was purposely set to flames. Only a portion of it remains with a pink sail dangling with torn ends. On the side they could barely make out what it said – S.S. Sister Smurf.
"S.S. Sister Smurf?" Vanity said scratching his head in confusion.
"I wonder where this came from." Brainy asked.
"Not sure, young whipper-smurfer." Grandpa Smurf shrugged.
"Gosh, so much has changed; even that rock over there seems new." Clumsy added pointing at what is left of a marble sculptor. It appeared to have fallen over, maybe even pushed over. Vines have grown all around it – hiding most of its features.
"That isn't just any rock monôme," Painter corrects him. Curiously, the creative smurf walks up to the stone and starts peeling of the vines. "Zis is a sculpture of some kind." He walks over to pull off the vines. Vanity and Clumsy both help.
"Sacrebleu, I don't believe it…" Painter Smurf gasps.
"Painter, what is it?" Vanity glanced up and down the statue of a smurf. He can't help to notice the familiar features on the broken and scarred statue's face. "I don't remember you sculpting that before."
"I do not remember creating zis masterpiza, either…" Painter says, scratching his chin. He marvels at the details regardless of the damage the carved stone endured. Painter notices the position of what is left of the one of its arm. Even though the arm broke off at the elbow, Painter saw that it was holding something above its head. Beside the statue are the remains of a carved dumbbell. Where did this statue come from? He wonders.
"Wait; there is more to this statue." Grandpa Smurf addressed as he begins to tear away at more vines under the statue's foot. Beneath the vines is an engraved inscription the yellow-capped elder smurf begins to read it. Shocked with what he sees, Grandpa step back with a gasp. "No…"
"What is it, Grandpa? What does it say?" Brainy asks before the others lean over to read as well.
Of all the situations they had been through in their journey through time, nothing could have prepared them for what the inscription reads:
'Dedicated to one of the greatest smurfs of our time.'
Beneath it is a name, Hefty Smurf, and under his name are the date of his birth and the date of his death. The two dates add up to be a total of one hundred and fifty-two years between them. The smurfs cover their mouths in shock.
Finding his voice; Brainy clears his throat and says, "Well, at least we now know that this is the future and we do make it home soon…"
"Why do you say that, Brainy?" Clumsy asks.
"Well, isn't it obvious? This statue of Hefty is carved two years from now and we know that Hefty is not dead yet." The smart smurf exclaims as a matter of fact.
Somehow those words do not comfort the others. The thought of Hefty dying in two years is rather disturbing.
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When Papa Smurf and the others return they can see the rest of the smurfs are still looking around what is left of the village. The first to notice their return is Sassette. Immediately, the little red-headed chipette runs up to them.
"Galloping gophers, Papa Smurf. Did you and the other smurfs find anything at Papi Gargamel's?" She looks up at her smurf elder with hope in her eyes.
"I'm afraid all we found was Gargamel's home burnt down to rubble." Papa Smurf sighs.
"What?" The others gasped.
"I hate 'burnt down to rubble'." Grouchy grumbled, throwing down what was left of a smurf's door.
"Sure would like to know what's going on here, Papa Smurf." Snappy huffed.
"So do I, Snappy, so do I." Papa Smurf drifted off in thought for a moment as he scanned the pile of burnt remains of what used to be a proud village of smurfs. He then looks over what is left of his surviving twelve smurfs and realizes that five are not accounted for.
"Where are Grandpa Smurf, Brainy, Clumsy, Vanity, and Painter?" He asks.
"I think they headed towards to beach, Papa Smurf." Greedy explains, pointing to the direction he described.
"I wonder if they found anything that might tell us what is going on." Handy wondered.
"Well, we could go and see for ourselves." Papa Smurf suggested. The young smurfs all nodded in agreement then followed their red-capped elder to the beach.
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Grandpa, Brainy, Clumsy, Vanity, and Painter are still so fixated on the inscription of the statue that they didn't even notice Papa and the others walking up behind them.
"Did you find anything, my little smurfs?" The red-capped elder asks.
The sound of their leader caused them to tense up. They instantly turn around to face Papa and the others and at the same time they deliberately block the broken statue.
"Pa-pa-pa-papa Smurf," Brainy stutters. "We didn't hear you coming. Oh look, and there's Hefty too. Smurfs it's Hefty." At the same time the nervous smurfs smile first at Papa Smurf then at Hefty.
"Gosh, it's great seeing you alive Hefty and not dead or anything." Clumsy adds before Brainy jabs him sharply with his elbow.
Confused, Hefty and Papa Smurf glance at each other then back at the suspicious acting smurfs.
"Are you smurfs feeling alright?" Hefty asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Ohh, what did you smurfs find over there?" Smurfette asks when she notices Painter and Vanity covering as much of the statue as possible with their bodies.
"Huh? We didn't find anything but what was once the S.S. Smurf." Vanity answers her nervously and addressing the wreckage all over the shore.
"Oui," Painter added. "And ze remains of another ship over there." He points further the shore.
"S.S. Sister Smurf?" Sassette reads the words on the remains of the other ship. "Where did that come from?"
"I don't know, Sassette." Papa Smurf answered with a puzzled look on his face. "This only raises more questions indeed."
"Kind of like this statue behind Grandpa and the others, Papa Smurf?" Snappy calls out.
"Wh-what statue are you talking about, Snappy?" Brainy lied. He tries to appear innocent as if he had not seen the object behind him before.
Snappy Smurfling stares up at the bespectacled smurf. He's sure Brainy only acts like this if he's trying to hide something. Even Grandpa Smurf appears to be trying to hide this strange fallen statue behind them as well as Vanity, Painter, and Clumsy. Each of the five smurfs shifts their stance slightly in hopes that the other smurfs won't see this statue.
"I believe Snappy was talking about that statue lying there behind you, Brainy." Papa Smurf pointed out.
At the same time Grandpa Smurf, Brainy, Painter, and Vanity all pretend that they hadn't noticed the statue till now. As usual Clumsy just seemed confused.
"Oh, this statue," Brainy exclaimed, pretending to be surprised. "Have you seen this statue before, Grandpa? Vanity? Painter?" They all instantly shrug as to give the impression they didn't know of any statue before.
"But Brainy, we were just talking about this statue before the others showed up." Clumsy blabbed. Unfortunately, the others couldn't shut him up quick enough. Now Papa and the other smurfs are really suspicious. Annoyed, Hefty steps up and pushes Brainy, Vanity, and Painter out of way so that he can see what they were trying to hide.
"That's enough you crazy smurfs. What's so special about this statue that has you all acting so – " Hefty stops in mid sentence as soon as he recognizes the face on the statue. As he scrolls down to what is left of the statue he notices a very disturbing inscription. Confused he turns around to face the other smurfs.
"Is this some kind of practical joke?" He asks – his face looking rather pale.
"Believe me, young wiper-smurfer, I wish it was." Grandpa Smurf says with a hint of sadness and regret.
"Let me see," Papa Smurf steps up to get a closer look, as well as the rest of the smurfs. Needless to say none of them are amused at what they see before them. "It can't be." The red-capped elder muttered to himself.
"I believe that this statue proves we have arrived sometime in the future Papa Smurf." Brainy finally says after every smurf looks at the statue.
"Oooh, this can't be the future for Hefty it just can't!" Smurfette whines.
By now the other smurfs are thinking the same thing. Each of them gave a worried look at Hefty. At first the strong smurf is too stunned to move or even speak. He then starts to make fists with his hands as he sneers angrily at the statue.
"Well I don't plan on letting this control my life! So you all can stop looking at me like that. Besides I'm not a goner yet!" He states bravely.
For a moment Papa Smurf is lost in his own thoughts. The village, Gargamel's castle, and now this statue of Hefty Smurf – this proves his fears do come true. What happened to the village and his little smurfs? Is there anything he can do to prevent this from happening? There has to be something he can do, but first he needs to assemble the crystals properly and get back to their right time.
With a heavy sigh, Papa Smurf brings himself back to the present. He takes moment to gather his emotions before speaking. "Well, smurfs from what we've all seen so far is very disturbing indeed. But we must remember that the future is never really written." He says trying to sound convincing. "Seeing this statue only proves that we do make it back home. As soon as we get home we'll have to find a way to prevent any of this from happening."
"Yes Papa Smurf," all the smurfs except Hefty reply in unison.
Hefty, fixated on the statue again, wonders if this really is his future. Does he really die in two years? How will his fate be met? Can there really be something to prevent his life to end this early? This is the first time Hefty has ever thought this way about his future. Hefty lets out a heavy sigh as it sinks in – he is going to die. No, he refuses allow this to be true. He puffs out his chest and makes a brave face. It's like what Papa Smurf just said – the future is not written yet. He watches his fellow smurfs turn to walk back to what was left of the village before following them.
Hours past and the smurfs prepare themselves for another journey through time. Handy, Smurfette, Grandpa Smurf, Brainy, Snappy, and Sassette made another desperate attempt to find clues on what happened. Yet all they found was more ashes and rubble. Whoever did this went out of their way to get rid of all evidence the smurfs existed here. They walk by a rock where Hefty is sitting quietly by himself. He rests his head heavily in his hands as he stares blankly at the ground. It's not everyday you find out that will smurf at a young age.
"Oh, poor Hefty," Smurfette cried. "There has to be something we can do for him."
"There is," Handy says. "We must try to find out what happened and save him before he, um, you know." His heart felt as if someone just jabbed it with a sharp object. He hates the idea of losing his best friend.
"I agree," Brainy nods. "It's like Papa Smurf always said – the future has not been written yet and Papa Smurf knows that do make it home and Papa Smurf…"
"Smurf up Brainy!" Snappy grumbles.
"I suggest we go check out the smurf dam again, young wiper-smurfers." Grandpa Smurf suggests. "Maybe there is something there we've missed."
Movement catches Hefty's attention. He raises his head to see Grandpa and the other smurfs heading towards the smurf dam. It doesn't take a genius to know that everysmurf has been acting different towards him since they all seen that statue. How Hefty wishes that the tribute statue was never found. A part of him worries about this destiny and the other part believes that he still has control over his own future.
He decides to jump off the rock to go sit with Papa Smurf.
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An hour later, all the smurfs gathered around their red-capped elder as he started to place the crystals together in what he hopes to be the right arrangement to get him and his little smurfs home. Papa Smurf glances up to see all of his little smurfs watching him in anticipation.
He now worried about them more now then ever. With a little luck this last crystal can get them home at the right time. As soon as they do get home they must find a way to prevent this future from happening, especially the death of Hefty. Sadly, everything is destroyed and not matter how much to smurfs tried to find something to tell them anything all they found was ashes.
"Ok, my little smurfs, here is the last crystal." Papa says. "Cross your fingers…"
Papa Smurf places the last crystal in position of the puzzle. Instantly a rainbow twister appears. It levitates the smurfs into it's' funnel – carrying the smurfs to another time.