BAH SMURFBUG PART TWO By Swarlock

He was miles from anywhere and away from his own bed. Grouchy was just as miserable as any smurf could be under the circumstances. Truth be told he always loved Christmas even it was a lot of work sometimes. That's the part he hated more than anything else.

From the day he was smurfed Grouchy never had a really good Christmas that satisfied him. He remembered when he was a baby smurf he never liked having any of the noisy toys such as the drum that Baby Harmony always played in the beginning before he switched to his trumpet. Then years later as a young smurfling the other smurfs were trying to teach him how to skate on ice only to fall into a patch of thin ice in the process. He hadn't learned how to swim yet.

But there was one good memory that stood out that made him smile with amusement for a little while. It was the time when a thief stole a rich man's gold coins and humans had to track him down. That incident happened because of a toy maker named Gustave whose wife Elise got very sick because her belief in Christmas wishes was fading. The details to him were rather sketchy at best. But he and the other Smurfs came to their rescue as "Christmas Elves.
And that miracle was important enough to remember.

Grouchy suddenly remembered another memory. About the time when they helped two lost children after their Grandfather's sleigh had toppled over when savage wolves attacked it on behalf of a minion who would later be revealed to be serving a darker power than Gargamel himself. By the time it was all over every smurf understood what Christmas really meant and it was by the grace of a higher entity and Harmony's horn blowing that the village was restored as it was before.

Then there was Baby's First Christmas in which Mr Nicholas was under Chlohydris' evil spell turning him sour on the yuletide season until the little squeezer turned him joyful again. Three good memories that made him happy.

The smile of those memories soon dissapeared as the snow began whipping madly as he ran for shelter among the tall buildings in front of him.

"I HATE sudden snowstorms!!!" he bellowed to no one.

To be continued...