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For now, the Smurflings were safe. But that doesn't guaranteed full emotional security for some Smurflings, Sassette broke down in tears as Slouchy tried to comfort her. "Smurfette," she sobbed, "He killed her in cold blood."
"I don't think that was Handy anymore Sassette," said Nat, "There's nothing left of him."
Snappy took a look at the first page of the manuscript, it was the title, "Children Of The Elder Smurfs," said Snappy, "By Anonymous."
"Anonymous," laughed Slouchy, "Whoever wrote it didn't want to be identified."
"Yeah," said Snappy as he flipped to the next page and read it, "It says here that the protagonists was attacked by an ax murderer in the dead of night."
"We were attacked by Handy," said Sassette, "He killed Smurfette with an ax."
"Oh its happening again," said Slouchy, the feeling sinking in as he places his hands on his cheeks, "Its happening again, isn't it?"
Snappy looked over at Chernov's desk and saw a small box of batteries, he rushed over to the desk and pulled up a chair for him to climb on. Once he in an elevated position, he was able to grab the batteries with ease. The batteries were marked blue, indicating that they're lithium. Green means they're rechargeable. If they're red, that means they're ordinary single use batteries.
Getting out the flashlight, Snappy removed its head and dumped out the used batteries into a nearby trash bin. He opened the cardboard box and pulled out 2 lithium batteries and placed them into his flashlight, he screws the flashlight's head back on before flicking its switch. The flashlight gave off a bright beam of light, more powerful than before.
He was just about to get down from the chair when he noticed another manuscript page, sitting on the center of the desk. Snappy picked it up and got down from the chair, "Hey smurfs," said Snappy, "I found another manuscript page."
"Another one?" asked Slouchy.
"Yeah." said Snappy before reading it out loud:
The Taken stood before the Smurflings, it was hard to focus on them. The Darkness that controls them covers them with dark shadows, protecting them from all harm. Their purpose of existence was to serve the Dark Presence that possessed them, nothing left from their former lives but dead nerve twitches, mere echos of a once living thing. When Snappy shined a flashlight on a Taken to get a better view of its face, the light seemed to shine brighter.
"Is there anymore flashlights around here?" asked Slouchy.
"Look around," said Snappy as he tucks the manuscript page into his pants, "Their might be some."
The Smurflings began to search the house for the flashlights, Snappy managed to find a backpack that fits his small frame. He took the backpack and dropped the batteries into it, he took an empty folder from a filing cabinet and placed the manuscript pages there. Then he placed the pages into the backpack before putting it on.
"I found some flashlights," said Sassette, "But they don't have any batteries in them."
"Where did you find them?" asked Nat.
"Tucked away in a corner underneath the wall counter," said Sassette, "These look brand new."
Sassette held a small box filled with flashlights, they were indeed brand new, never before used until tonight. Nat and Slouchy grabbed a flashlight as Snappy got the batteries out of his backpack, he handed two batteries each to Slouchy, Nat, and Sassette as they filled their flashlights with the batteries. Snappy grabbed a couple of extra flashlights, filled them with fresh batteries, then placed them into his backpack.
"So what's the plan?" asked Sassette.
"I don't know," said Snappy, "We stay here until morning I guess."
The electronic lightbulb that lit the entire room began to flicker, suddenly something caused the entire house to shift from its foundation. "I say we head for the Green Smurf Colony," said Snappy, "They'll know what to do."
"How are we going to go there anyway?" asked Sassette, "We can't get there on foot, we're going to need Feathers to get there."
"I haven't seen Feathers anywhere," said Nat, "I think there's a smurfvee right outside the village though."
"That's Chernov's," said Slouchy, "He could have taken it, since he's not here in all."
"He could have not," said Snappy, "A plan is better than no plan, its clearly not safe to stay-" The bulb pops, bursting into a million little pieces, "Here..."
The Smurflings turned on their flashlights, all four beams easily lit up the room. Not enough to be safe but just enough to see. Snappy rushed back to Chernov's desk and opened up a drawer, he reached inside and pulled out a revolver. "Are you serious?" asked Nat.
Papa Smurf wouldn't let them have firearms, Chernov and Brainy were clear on that. But now they weren't here, and nothing was going to stop them. "Does it look like we have a choice?" asked Snappy.
"Do you even know how to use that?" asked Slouchy.
"Yes," said Snappy, "But I'd never fired a gun outside of a shooting range before."
Snappy grabbed a box of ammunition for the handgun and dropped it into his backpack, he checked to see if it was loaded, sure enough it was. "Is there anymore guns?" asked Snappy.
"I think that's the only one," said Slouchy as he looked underneath the couch, revealing an empty space that guns were used to be stored in, "I think Chernov took it all."
"We'll have to make do with this one then," said Snappy, "Get's get outta here guys."
The Smurfings opened the front door and saw the ax Handy embedded to it, the handle was broken of at the neck. It laid nearby just at the foot of the door, Sassette closed the door behind her as the Smurflings head off into the night. Deep down, they knew they were on their own. No adult was going to help and protect them this time, they must take the brunt of the situation on their own.
The plan they had wasn't clear, the smurfs always go to the Colony when overrunned by something. The green smurfs had no problem with this, they seem to like having the smurfs over at their place for any reason. Wherever Chernov was, it's clear that he wasn't here. He could have taken the smurfs over to the Colony, just so happened to have forgotten the Smurflings. That was the kind of hope the Smurflings were running on, and it was running out.
After turning the corner, 4 black figures showed up out of nowhere, brandishing hatchets and sickles and large sticks. It was the Taken, just like the manuscript page Snappy found described. Shadowy darkness was covering their bodies like a cloud of smoke, so much so that it was hard to see their face. When the Smurflings got a closer look, they realized they were smurfs.
"The smurfberries seems ripe this year." one of them said in a demonic voice.
Snappy shined his flashlight into the face of one of the Taken, the light burns the darkness that protected it. The burning sounded like a table saw roaring at maximum RPM, started low at first before becoming really loud. When it got to the point where it was really loud, the cocoon flashed and vanished. The Taken was now unprotected. Now there was no doubt that this was indeed a smurf. Its eyes were liquid darkness, the iris' however were blood red.
Scared out of his mind, Snappy began firing away at the unprotected Taken as the Smurflings held the others back with their flashlights. Each time Snappy shot the Taken, the bullet's kinetic energy gave off puffs of white light where the bullet struck the Taken. After a few more shots, the Taken explodes into white and yellow sparkles as it collapsed to the ground, the static light quickly fades and the body was gone.
By the time the other Smurflings managed to remove the armor off of the rest of the Taken, Snappy gunned them down with his remaining bullets and they explode in a display of fireworks. "They vanished," said Sassette in surprise, "Nothing left of them, no trace at all. Even their weapons are gone!"
For a moment, Snappy felt like he was going to throw up. He gulped as he reloads the revolver, "I wonder how are we going to explain what happened tonight," he said, "I say we keep silent and play dumb, let the green smurfs figure it out on their own."
"Smart idea," said Slouchy, "If we make it to the Colony alive."
An ax flew above the Smurflings' heads and lodged itself into the wall of a mushroom house, they all turned towards the direction where it came from and saw 3 more Taken coming straight after them. They were yelling out of place speech, pure gibberish that is not understandable. The Smurflings aimed their flashlights at the Taken, they held their arms over their face as they were driven back, one of which was pinned down. When their darkness shield was removed, Snappy gunned them all down.
It didn't took much bullets to wipe them off the face of the earth, they gave off an explosion of lights that look like dandelions before vanishing completely. "As easy that everything seem," said Snappy, "We're going to need more conventional weapons if we are going to survive."
"Door of it's hinges?" wailed Handy's voice through the air, "Let meee... FIXED THAT!"
"We have to get to the smurfvee!" said Slouchy.
The Smurflings started running as the shadows around them began to move and the wind picking up, "If you uussse... the right BOLTS," continued Handy, "Then you shouldn't have... any PROBLEMS! Using the wrong screws and nails... can smurf severe DAMAGE to the frame, it cost resources to... REPLACE IT ALLLL!"
The Smurflings ran faster, passing several mushroom houses as the winds and shadows move even faster, in sync with each other. "The Smurf Village is made up of MUSHROOM homes, so any human BEING passing by will... think that they're SIMPLY poisonous SHROOMS. The houses are round and the roofs... well coned so that IT IS RESISTANT to the elements!"
Now the Smurflings were running as fast as they can, the shadows beginning to block out the light of the moon. Just when they past near a mushroom house, it burst open and a Taken armed with a nail board came running out of it. "Wanna hear my horn?" it blurted out in a demonic voice, the quote indicating that the smurf was Harmony.
The Smurflings held Harmony back with their flashlights, he was forced back into his house as his shadowy armor burned away. Snappy then moves in to gun him down with the revolver, he killed him with one shot to the head. As Harmony's body disappears, the Smurflings quickly moved on to the edge of the Smurf Village. Sure enough there was the smurfvee, sitting underneath an electronic overhead outdoor lamp with a small solar panel attached to the side, bathing the smurfvee with a safe haven of light.
"I guess Chernov hadn't taken the smurfvee after all." said Slouchy.
Just before they reached the smurfvee, they saw Handy standing on top of a mushroom house. He jumped down and held up a lead pipe, "If your pipes are clogged," said Handy, "It's going to take more than a... PLUNGER to remove the cork from the pipe, you have to go down there and GET YOURRR HANDSS... dirty!"
Handy charged at Slouchy and slammed the lead pipe against his arm, he yelped as he shined the flashlight straight into Handy's eyes. Handy made a monstrous groan as he was stunned by the light, after a quick moment he returned his attention to Slouchy. "Are you okay Slouchy?" asked Sassette.
"He gave me the smurf arm," cried Slouchy, "But I'm fine, I'm just trying to hold back my tears is all."
"Repair all the CRACKS in the facade of your... house," said Handy, "It can become a MAJOR... problem if NEGLECTED!"
Handy's protective darkness could no longer withstand the flashlight's beams no longer, it flashed off Handy's body within a millisecond. Even though he was no longer protected by the Dark Presence, he still posed as a thread. He was just about to come after Sassette when Snappy gunned him down, it took a few shots to make Handy burst into light before vanishing, lead pipe and all.
Snappy was contentiously firing dry rounds at Handy until he vanished completely, shocked from the ambush he had endured. Sassette have to grab Snappy's arm just to get him to snap out of it, he looked straight into her eyes and stopped pulling the trigger like a mad man. It took him a moment to respond, "Thanks," he said as Sassette let's go of his arm, "Its just that Slouchy was hurt by Handy from being hit by the pipe."
"Nothing's broken," said Slouchy, "Can we just get into the smurfvee?"
"Of course." said Snappy.
The Smurflings ran to the smurfvee and managed to head into the safe haven of light it was sheltering in, Snappy opened the driver side door and the rest of the smurflings climbed into the cab. Once all the smurflings were in, Snappy hopped in and closed the door before locking all the doors in the cab with a flick of a switch. Once safe, the Smurflings took a moment to recover from the horror they faced along the way here.
Snappy looked up at the ceiling of the smurfvee and saw that the internal lights were on, more than enough light they need to be safe. Slouchy pulled off his shirt and examined where Handy had hit him, there was a massive bruise right around the shoulder and armpit. It looked quite bad, but at least the looks wasn't as bad as the physical pain.
"Oh Slouchy." said Sassette with pity in her voice.
"It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would be," said Slouchy as he put his shirt back on, "I would have just shrugged it off if it took even longer to get to safety."
"I wonder what is powering this light." said Nat as he looked out the window."
"Its battery operated," said Sassette, "Powered by the sun, did you see the solar panel attached to the lamp anyway?"
"No." said Snappy.
Snappy sat there as he stared at the dashboard, staring at the digital gauges that uses the metric system to measure whatever. He adjust the seat and mirrors before putting on his seatbelt, "Do you even know how to drive?" asked Nat.
"No," said Snappy, "But I know a lot about the electronics and switches of the smurfvee, Cherskey taught me a lot about it."
Snappy saw the power button on the side of the steering column, when he pressed it the engine roared to life and the lights on the dashboard came on. "And the most important commodity for our situation," said Snappy as he turned on the headlights, "Lights."
He flipped another switched and turned the roof lights on, extending the range on how far they are able to see out in night. Snappy shift the gear into drive and took a deep breath, "Here we go." said Snappy.
Snappy presses the gas pedal with his foot and drove the smurfvee away. As the Smurflings leave the safety of the overhead lamp, its lightbulb flickered and exploded in a shower of sparks.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Rachael saw the malevolent spirit coming, the unnatural earthquake made her spring into action. Chernov saw it too, they began to prepare for an evacuation. Before the couple depart, they gave each other a kiss for good luck. As Chernov prepares for battle, Rachael rushed over to Smurfette's house and gotten a hold of Baby Smurf without Smurfette's knowledge. When the Dark Presence attacked, Rachael ran off into the night with the infant as Chernov fought to the bitter end.
Cherskey and Nelly, the children of Chernov and Rachael, were now on their own. Before hand, Chernov taught them how to survive, how to catch their own food, how to improvise useless junk to make tools. By the time the twins were by themselves, they need their parents no more.
