FWAPP! Something hit Faith in the side of the neck, and she sat up straight. Her sister and the others were in the middle of the Bunkhouse, pillow fighting, and Mercy had been knocked off into the floor.

"What is this?" Faith grumbled. "A war between the kids?"

"Boys versus girls." Nikki replied, grabbing a random cushion in her teeth and jerking her head to one side.

"Well, it looks as if you're short one. The boys are-" Faith grunted, pulling a blanket over the boys' faces to daze them. "Beating the Smurf out of you." Leaping off of her bunk from the top, she knocked Nat in the spine with a pillow, then pulled back to get Sorcerer.

"Nice comeback, li'l sis." Mercy got beside Faith, the four girls lining up around the boys.

"Oh, look. They're scared." Nikki teased. Slouchy, however, wasn't as surprised as the rest of the boys. He flung his pillow around with both hands until it slipped out of the case, hitting Sassette and Nikki in the face and sending them into two different bunks.

"Scratch that-they're still smurfing us." Nikki moaned, laying flat on her back.

"Who's scared now?" Snappy laughed. Nikki sat up slowly, eyeing her friend and then jumping to tackle him. In moments, all four boys were pinned, Sorcerer failing to struggle out of Sassette's grip.

"You are." Nikki stuck out her tongue, then let Snappy up.

"Yeah right. That was cheating-you smurfed yourself to smurf someone out of the game." Sorcerer wriggled out from under Sassette, pointing out that the rules were more important than winning.

"Rules, rules. You sound like Brainy." Nikki grumbled.

"He had a good teacher." Snappy agreed.

"Rude." Faith growled, standing between the three. "You're all rude."

"Me?!" Nikki squeaked.

"You woke me up, you're fighting over a silly game, and now you dare say you're not rude?!" Faith replied, her voice pitching even higher than Nikki's.

"Well…he started it." Nikki said. Sorcerer gave her an evil look. "Besides, we were just getting warmed up. Dontcha know what t'day is?"

"Friday." Faith started to clean up the feathers all over the Bunkhouse floor.

"Mother's day!" Nikki snapped.

"Well, there ain't no mothers 'round here, Nik." Mercy replied.

"Exactly. There aren't any. So, we're gonna make some. Nanny is already technically a mother-to Papa Smurf-so that leaves Vexy and Smurfette." Nikki told them.

"I call Vexy. She's kind of a mother to me." Sorcerer said. "I'd already claimed her a long time before you three got here, anyways." He pointed out to the older girls.

"And we'll take Smurfette." Mercy put an arm around Faith's shoulder.

"Mind if I claim Vexy, too, Socie?" Nikki asked. The youngest Smurfling's eyes gleamed.

"If you can catch me before I get to their house!" Before she could reply, Sorcerer left Nikki blinking at the empty space where he had been.

"I don't have this scratch on my hand for nothin'!" Nikki called, haring after him. Snappy shook his head.

"I'll stick with Smurfette. If she's not surprised that all three of us wanna 'dopt 'er." He told the other girls. Sassette nodded in agreement.

"Make that four."

Nat and Slouchy glanced at each other and raced after the two speedsters, calling for Nikki to wait up.

"Well…uh-you really want that? I mean, what am I supposed to Smurf with three girls and a boy?" Smurfette had been slightly hesitant to consider, but the four eventually convince her just as quickly as Nikki, Nat, Slouchy and Sorcerer had Vexy.

"Smurf yeah. You know I was headed for that, Socie." Vexy ruffled Sorcerer's hat until it was flipped backwards. "All four of you."

The grown Smurfettes had a surprise in store for them. After the Smurflings had convinced all three to come to the centre square of the village, they managed to get enough Smurfs to kick in and turn the square into an outside ballroom with four tables. When Nanny saw it, she gasped. So did Papa, who had "escorted" his mother to the banquet. Smurfette squealed, and Vexy just stood there and stared.

"C'mon. Sit down. This is just for the three of you." Nikki announced. "Even though you've only been our mothers for a day, Smurfette, Vexy, you deserve to be here simply because you accepted our invitations of being who you are. Nanny, you're here because of how you've tried your best to care for your son-Papa."

"And each of you can be yourself without being afraid," Mercy pointed out. "We love you for who you are, and who you've chosen to be. Whether that place is grandmother or newly adopted mother, you fit the mold perfectly."

"Because you don't have to be perfect to be a perfect parent." Faith added.

"Well, my little Smurflings." Papa chuckled. "You must have been working on that speech for a while. I sure couldn't have smurfed it off the top of my head."

"Well, neither could I. But we did." Nikki replied

"Amazing. Simply amazing." Papa said. "But they are right, Nanny. You should be proud of what you've tried doing. Whether you succeeded or not."

"And we all know she has." Sassette added.

"Thank you, kids. All of you. At least now I feel like I'm not just a face in a crowd." Vexy told them.

"You never were to me." Sorcerer said.

Mehh...I got bored. And yes, Nikki has super speed...she's talking about the lightning bolt in that one part.