Papa Smurf and Papa Jaune talked late into the night. They bounced ideas off each other about how to defeat Gargamel's magic and maybe find a spell to turn him into something else that could do no harm such as a toad or even a worm.

But each time they came to the same conclusion that it would not work for long and the enraged wizard would come back again and again and be even more dangerous.

"Papa Smurf, you know that there is only one thing that can be done. You told me yourself two years ago, " said Papa Jaune looking into the blue eyes of the forest Smurf.

"What do you mean I told you? This is the first time that I've visited here. I only knew about your existence from other forest dwellers who had visited your lands," replied Papa Smurf with a puzzled look on his face.

Papa Jaune moved along the table they were sitting at to be closer to Papa and he started to tell the story of how many moons ago he had been walking alone along the beach at low tide and he had gone to the tidal pools to see what he could find to eat when all of a sudden one of the larger pools started to bubble and boil and a blue glow started to appear.

Before his very eyes a blue Smurf came out of the pool on a jet of seawater and landed on top of him. All his breath was knocked out and whilst he was trying to get up and struggling to regain his breath he noticed that this strange blue Smurf had a long white beard down to his knees and seemed to be very old. He wore a red hat and red pants.

Papa Jaune thought this Smurf was not very well camouflaged. How on earth did it manage to survive to such a great age?

The blue Smurf introduced himself as Papa Smurf and said that he came from far in the future and that he had time travelled to help his fellow Smurfs in the past.

He had seen the future and only he and a couple of other Smurfs were all that were left of their once numerous blue tribe in the Enchanted Forest. This elderly Smurf gave Papa Jaune a cloth containing something heavy.

The yellow Smurf carefully unwrapped the package and revealed a piece of black metal in the shape of an 'L' . It looked strange to Papa Jaune and Papa Smurf explained that in a couple of years his village will be visited by a younger version of himself and he 'Papa Jaune' must give this gun as it was called to the visitors as it was their only hope against a great and terrible wizard.

"My Smurf! Was it really me?" gasped Papa Smurf after hearing the tale. "Yes, you were very clear about who you were and what we must do to keep the weapon safe and away from others until the time came to use it. It seems the time is now?" replied the yellow Smurf leader. He then got up and motioned for Papa Smurf to follow him.

They climbed a couple of ladders in the corner of the room and entered another hollowed out rock through the floor which seemed to be a storage area of some kind. metal bars covered up half of the space and everything was in darkness. Papa Jaune went to a small cabinet next to the entrance trapdoor and took out a candle, lit it with a match. He then took some keys out of his belt and moved towards the barred area.

"You also gave us instructions to make more of this 'gun' and you brought along some metal ingots and gunpowder for us to manufacture them. This is the result," said the yellow Smurf with a look of pride on his face.

Papa Smurf looked up and in the candlelight he could see row upon row of gleaming black metal guns covering the whole back wall of the hollow rock.

These Smurfs had an arsenal of weapons!

"Oh Smurf me, things must have got bad for me to even contemplate using guns on an evil Human such as Gargamel." whispered Papa to himself whilst holding a hand over his mouth in shock.

To be continued...