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The Smurflings load up the smurfvee with supplies from the treehouse as Cherskey and Nelly keep watch for more Taken, the trunk had more than enough equipment that it became full by the time they finished packing. Once done, Cherskey switched off the lights before he and Nelly joined the Smurflings in the smurfvee. Since it was cramped, the twins had to squeeze themselves a spot between Nat and Slouchy.

Nelly discreetly placed her arm around Slouchy's shoulders and pulled him closer to her, he didn't know what to do in this kind of situation where the girl was invading the personal space of the boy. "You had a cute tail," Nelly said softly, "Its a shame something happened to it."

"Um, thanks." said Slouchy with uncertainty and doubt.

"She just want someone to cuddle with Slouchy," warned Cherskey, "So don't listen to her."

Nelly took her fist and smashed it against Cherskey's groin, he grunted from the blow as his gonads cry in pain. In response, Cherskey hit Nelly back in the stomach, causing her to feel a similar painful stimulis. Nelly lets go of Slouchy and she and Cherskey began rustling with each other, as many siblings their age occasionally do.

"What are they doing?" whispered Sassette.

"I don't know," said Snappy, "Must be a green smurf thing."

Eventually they calmed down and wrapped their arms around each other with affection, "I love you." said Nelly.

"I love you too sissy." said Cherskey.

"Are you two smurfs done?" asked Snappy as he looked at them through the rear-view mirror.

"Yes." said the twins in unison.

Snappy started up the engine and the Smurflings drove off. It took awhile for Snappy to find the smurf trail leading to both the colony and their village, once he found it Snappy drove down the road towards the Green Smurf Colony. Along the way, the Smurflings encountered a couple of Taken standing in the middle of the road. The headlights of the smurfvee burned off the Taken's dark shrouds off their bodies, "Run them over," advised Cherskey, "Just like before."

Reluctantly, Snappy floored the gas pedal and the smurfvee picked up speed. Sassette tried not to scream as the Taken was ran over with a single blow from the vehicle, they burst into light upon impact before vanishing in yellow sparkles. The Smurflings didn't feel the smurfvee jolt much when they ran them over, that was how powerful the smurfvee was when it came head on towards them.

"Thataway to do it!" cheered Nelly, "Nothing left of them now!"

"Yup," said Snappy in dismay, "Nothing left..."

"Whats wrong Snappy?" asked Nelly.

"Its just," said Snappy, trying to put his thoughts together, "Its just that these Taken were once the smurfs we knew and love, now they're gone, nothing left of them execpt empty husks filled with darkness and dead-nerve twitches."

"Don't view them who they once were," advised Cherskey, "View them what they are now, the Dark Presence has the advantage of using your own loved ones against you."

"Isn't that ironic," said Nelly, "Lets see those pages Cherskey, I wanna see if there's more to our situation that might be useful."

Cherskey opened his backpack and pulled out tattered manuscript pages they had collected. Some of the pages were smeared with nutrient-rich mud, the rest of them were crumpled from handling or were smoothed out after being crumpled. "When we reach safety," said Cherskey, "I'm going to clean off these pages and iron them to remove most of the wrinkles, making them more presentable again."

"We gotta protect the pages," said Nelly, "Every single one of them."

"The pages we gathered is in my backpack," said Snappy, "In the folder, the manuscript pages are there."

Cherskey picked up Snappy's backpack and opened it, "It looks like your pages were fresh out of the typewriter," he contemplated as he pulled them all out, "We've been finding ours in the mud or stuffed into crap. Oh look, you have the cover. Children Of The Elder Smurfs, seems to be an appropriate title for having smurflings as protagonists, don't you agree?"

"Yes," said Nat, "I agree."

The twins examined each manuscript page for the rest of the way to the colony, Snappy turned on the radio and heard Rick's voice on it, he was doing one of his news times again. "Your host Richard Reznov here," said Rick, "I know I haven't been on for awhile but I had personal stuff to take care of, I apologize for my absence so I'm going to make this quick. Chernov, Rachael, and their two children are missing."

"Only my mom is missing." grumbled Rick.

"As you may know, the Smurf Village had been attacked by some malevolent force," continued Rick, "There were a lot of blood, but not a single body had been found. Our beloved biological mother was..." he paused for a moment to give it suspense, "Sadly confirmed fallen, the only survivors of that attack were four smurflings who had happened to risk their lives to reach the safety of our colony. They spoke of the forest waking up and attacked all the smurfs, this force that attacked the village was described as shadows of darkness. It seems that the Dark Presence has woken up, again."

"The Smurflings had gathered a crap load of supplies lately, mostly flashlights and guns. They recently drove out of here in a hurry, they're up to something, whatever that is might decide the future of our colony. With our military leader, Chernov, out of the picture, we're going to have to handle this on our own. Due to the threat of an attack at night, the DEFCON level has been set from 5 to 3. This Dark Presence can only be harmed with light so make sure you have a powerful flashlight with fresh batteries on hand and a gun, it is recommended that you sleep with the lights on tonight. This is Richard Reznov, and signing out."

Snappy turned off the radio as they approached the Green Smurf Colony, he slowed down as he drove into the colony and back to the Command Center. "The Green Smurf Colony," said Cherskey, "Were me and Nelly were conceived."

"What?" asked Sassette.

"You don't wanna know." said Nelly.

The Smurflings parked the smurfvee next to the Command Center and got out, they grabbed their backpacks as Cherskey tucked the manuscript pages back into the folder, "Thanks again for the rescue guys," he said, "Now I'll have to come up with a story for Rick when he ask where I've been during this time."

"Your welcome Cherskey." said Snappy.

"And I never get a say?" asked Nelly.

"You too Nelly." said Snappy.

When the Smurflings went inside the Command Center, they discovered that it was empty. Odd, Rick made his radio announcement earlier. Snappy was still stemming from the fact that he told the green smurfs from what happened to Smurfette, when word spreads something is going to give. Right now, the Smurflings only cared about rest. Cherskey on the other hand was willing to fix the manuscript pages, so he got out the ironing board tucked away behind the CRT computers and plugged in an electric iron.

He took only the ruined pages and scrape most of the mud off of them, then he ironed the pages one by one. The rest of the smurflings took time to relax as they sat on the floor against the wall, Nelly slept on Rick and Dashie's cot where she managed to get some needed sleep. "You should get some sleep Cherskey," said Snappy, "You look really tired."

"I've been tired since the damn ghost showed up," grumbled Cherskey, "Me and Nelly were tired, a rude awakening in that fateful night combined with the loss of our dad didn't sit well for us. I've been having mood swings awhile Nelly was having emotional breakdowns, we were paranoid from the thought that if we sleep we get killed. We have major problems when sleeping with the light on, it keeps us awake."

Cherskey finished ironing the last page and examined it for wrinkles, seeing that he got most of it out he placed it back into the folder of manuscript pages and closed it up. "The better condition of these pages," said Cherskey, "The better the chance we'll might have this nightmare well documented."

He handed the manuscript back to Snappy, "I trust you with it," said Cherskey, "Even if there's a chance its my father's work, your the self-proclaimed leader of the Smurflings so you'll be the first to go into certain situations."

"Thanks," said Snappy as he puts the manuscript back into his backpack, "I appreciate it."

Cherskey walked over to Nelly and laid down beside her, he wrapped his arms around her waist as if she was a stuffed animal, he does his best to fall asleep. The other smurflings watched as Cherskey and Nelly shifts around in the cot for half an hour before their snorings signalled they had fell asleep. "How about that," said Snappy, "They snore still."

They recall the times that the twins slept in their club house with them, their snoring kept them up all night each time they sleep with them. The Smurflings never usually complain, but it usually got in Snappy's nerves. Nelly snores the loudest, when synched with Cherskey's snoring it was too much of a nuisance to bare.

"Why do they snore?" complained Sassette, "Ughh."

A loud bang occurred outside, waking the twins from their slumber, Nelly yelped from being startled by the noise as Cherskey shift around in confusion, his mind in a fog of dream fragments. "What was that!" Nelly screamed in sheer shock.

"It sounded like a gunshot," stirred Cherskey, who was now coming to his senses, "Oh, this is what we need, something to wake us all up right after we managed to finally sleep for once!"

The Smurflings began to hear activity and voices coming from outside, strange, there wasn't suppose to be anything happening late at night. "What's going on?" asked Slouchy.

"I don't know," said Cherskey as he got up to his feet and helped up Nelly, "But it ain't good, I can feel it."

Snappy puts on his backpack awhile the twins put on theirs, the other smurflings grumbled and got ready. If the Dark Presence were to be attacking at this hour, they cannot to go out without the needed commodities. Once the Smurflings were ready, they head outside to see what was really happening. They saw several smurfvees blocking the roads with armed green smurfs taking cover behind them. Other green smurfs were also armed and were pointing their rifles at the Smurflings, they trained a searchlight at them due to the immense darkness of the night.

"Not good." said Cherskey, the feeling of being imprisoned sinking in.

Dashie came walking up madly as she pointed a pistol at the Smurflings, they can smell the odor of alcohol coming off of her body, even though she wasn't within reach of the Smurflings yet. "You brats get your hands where I can see them!" she ordered as she pulled the primer of her gun back, "You're under arrest for Smurfette's murder! You make any sudden moves and I'll pup you full of lead and use you as a paperweight, you hear me Lil' Einsteins!"

From the corner of Snappy's eye, he saw another of the flashbange grenades came flying into view. It was thrown from behind him instead from the sky, it landed next to Dashie without her noticing. The grenade went off, stunning Dashie visually and auditory. Awhile she was distracted, Snappy made a break for it, all the other Smurflings saw him took off and quickly followed him. Dashie quickly saw them escaping, and in turn began shooting at them.

The bullets came nowhere close of the Smurflings, but it did hit one of the tires of their smurfvee, deflating it. With their vehicle disabled, the Smurflings were forced to escape on foot, not an easy task when dealing with a species who loves chasing their pray.

"Shoot them you bastards!" cursed Dashie on the top of her lungs, "Don't let them get away!"

"They're just kids Dashie!" a green smurf cried with sympathy, "Those green smurflings with them are Chernov's kids for crying out loud!"

"I don't give a damn!" snarled Dashie, "Shoot the motherf#ckers, kill them if you have too!"

The Smurflings ran off into the woods as many flashlight beams were pointed near them, searching for them. For once in the nightmare, they must avoid the light or be caught in it.

"Who threw that flashbang grenade?" asked Nelly.

"Me," said Cherskey, cracking a smile of pride, "I never liked that bitch anyway."

The twins high-five in congratulation, that's all they had time for as the green smurfs were literally right behind their tails.

TO BE CONTINUED...

The Dark Smurfette thought that using sexual themes would maintain control of Chernov, keep him in her grasp. It made sense to her, Chernov was quite young, testosterone levels should be high for his age. She learned the hard way however as Chernov was in no mood for any kind of sexual moves, it only enraged him, made him more resistant under her spell. He's still willing to type for her, to write the story it wanted. Little does she know, she was using a double-edged sword.