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Banjo placed Kazooie back into his backpack and he and Chernov walked towards the Smurf Village, for Kazooie she felt that everything she went through was worth it, sort of. Her wings had been clipped, her leg was broken, and went through an imaginary and real-life nightmare. Each one that could be fatal, though she wondered to herself why did she even make the trip in the first place.

Hadn't Banjo lost the map, they might had found their way to the Smurf Village at the moment they got here. Kazooie realized that her behavior might had ruined the adventure, these kind of smurfs wouldn't be to tolerate to her. She would've made more enemies than friends. But being at the Green Smurf Colony tested her, it pretty much told her that if she goes down there's someone there to help her.

Chernov, even though he hadn't helped her much in person, made sure of that. He was just like Kazooie in many ways, the two match in anger but not on insults. Kazooie never thought she would get this much help about her in the first place, and never she seen such sympathy for her than anyone else. She liked him because of that.

"Okay," said Chernov, "We're just about there."

Banjo pushed aside some branches and the Smurf Village came into view, it was just like the pictures Kazooie had seen, mushroom buildings and such. The familiar blue smurfs soon came around, a bit shocked, they were cautious at their visitors.

"Who the smurf is that?" one of them asked.

"A bear and a bird," said the smurf with glasses, "I don't recall seeing such animals smurfing around here."

"Who you're calling animal Brainy?" asked Kazooie.

"Uh... she talks! Oh smurf, I'm sorry! I didn't know!"

Papa Smurf, wearing red with the white beard, came around and saw what Chernov dragged along. "Visitors I presume?" he asked.

"Yup," said Chernov, "They had a little trouble getting here, the bird wound up in the Colony and the bear wondered the forest and into Gargamel's honey comb. They're Banjo and Kazooie, heroes in their own town.

"My word," said Papa Smurf, "Welcome to our village."

"Oh Papa Smurf." said Chernov.

"Yeah?"

Chernov picked up Lizzy from Banjo's backpack and handed her to the village leader, "Take care of her please," he said, "Azrael wasn't to gentle with her."

Once in Papa Smurf's arms, Lizzy stirred and opened her eyes, "Hey handsome," she said in a charming tone, "You want me to give you a BJ?"

Chernov laughed hard as he made his landing, the wings and thrusters of his jet pack sucked right into his backpack, deactivating it. "Lizzy," said Chernov, "Really?"

"I was only kidding." she replied.

Kazooie laughed as so as a few other smurfs, even though they don't get the joke itself. Papa Smurf just stood there with his eyes nearly crossing, completely clueless at what went down. "Um, I'll see what I can do for her Chernov," he said, "Don't you worry."

. . .

Kazooie went through the album as she sat on the bed, looking at pictures taken by Chernov awhile at the Smurf Village. It showed her being friends with many of the smurfs, and Banjo sleeping underneath a tree. In one photo, Kazooie snapped at Brainy and gave him a wedgie. Getting home was surprisingly easier than getting back, but it was a great time she had in awhile.

Her broken leg was perched on a pillow, it was healing quite nicely. Though it would be a few months before she could walk on it again, Kazooie personally thought it would be much longer than that. Despite the recovery time, it would be awhile before Kazooie would go on another adventure again.

Banjo was nearby making food on the new induction cook top, he had a frying pan with some cooking oil inside. He planned to be frying hamburgers on it, Kazooie knew he had heated the cooking oil too much, she could hear it pop away before Banjo added the hamburgers. Kazooie sat aside the photo album and picked up the stack of mail on the nightstand and went through each envelope, they were mostly bills and insurance, little letters at all. Probably everyone has e-mail now, letters were becoming obsolete fast. So much for the post office.

Kazooie managed to find one letter, it was green and a bit large. The return address was labeled "Chernov Reznov / Green Smurf Colony / Brussels, Belgium", Kazooie doubted the Smurf Village and Green Smurf Colony were near Belgium but nonetheless she got word of them after three weeks. The letter was addressed to her, she opened it up the envelope and pulled out the letter.

The letter was a bit big for the green smurfs, it was made for 2 meter tall humanoids. The letter was all typed out in courier new format, and there was a cursive signature at the bottom. Kazooie began to read the letter quietly to herself:

Dear Kazooie,

Lizzy is doing alright over here, and Chad's face is almost healed. Ever since you left, me and my girlfriend were thinking about you everyday. The Green Smurf Colony wanted to immortalized you in a bronze statue and erected one at the place were Chad sealed you in at your first few days. Again, I'm sorry for the broken leg, I wish I could do more to help. Lizzy missed you a lot, she cried herself to sleep at the night I wrote this letter to you. We'll miss you Kazooie, we'll do whatever to keep some contact with you.

Signed,

Chernov Reznov, Commander of the Green Smurf Colony

Looks like they finally put in an official title for Chernov's status, Kazooie wondered who thought of it. As she sat down the letter, a blast of heat went past her feathers. She looked up and saw Banjo screaming as the cooking grease caught fire, as he went and grabbed the old fire extinguisher Kazooie grabbed the phone and dialed Bottles' number, "Bottles," said Kazooie, "This is Kazooie, can you bring in a fire extinguisher and a pressure hose? Banjo is burning down the house, again."

THE END!