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Everything was rewinding. All the images were going too fast to see but you knew it was rewinding. All the colors were giving Thia a headache. Everything seemed to collapse on her, then they came to a jarring halt.
The world was spinning around her. She quickly pinned that on dizziness. She just let herself fall on the grassy ground.
"I feel woozy…" Thia mumbled. There was a general moan from everyone else, telling her she wasn't alone. Thia gave a shake to her head and steadied her vision.
"Did we lose anyone?" Thia asked.
"Why am I blue?" someone asked. It sounded like Brainy. Thia turned her gaze to him to find he was confusedly looking at himself. He had turned into a smurf again.
"Well… the good news is you got your body back." Thia said, trying not to laugh at how confused he looked. Brainy glared at her.
"You have a lot of explaining to do," he said, crossing his arms.
"YOUR BACK!" someone shouted. Brainy was suddenly knocked over by and over-enthusiastic hug from Clumsy. Brainy looked at Clumsy like he was insane.
"Do you mind telling me who you are?" Brainy asked. Clumsy's face fell and he released him.
"You still don't remember?" he asked.
"I think the portal rewound our bodies in the process of rewinding time. Though nothing in our heads was affected, our bodies were. The good news is he doesn't have cancer anymore…" Thia said.
"Wait, what was that about cancer?" Brainy asked.
"Papa Smurf is awake!" someone suddenly shouted. Thia started at the suddenness of it all.
"Great, someone else I probably should remember but don't." Brainy said sarcastically.
"Just come with me. Maybe Papa Smurf will know something to help your memory." Thia sighed. All three of them scurried to where the voice came from. It happened to be Handy who said it. All the smurfs were kneeling by Papa Smurf and Papa Smurf just sat up and looked a bit disorientated.
"You okay? Those scientists did a number on you…" Thia said. Under her breath she started muttering descriptions of the scientists in, to put it mildly, colorful language.
"I'm fine, just tired." Papa Smurf said. He looked up.
"Brainy? How did you…" he trailed off. All the smurfs looked at the now-smurf Brainy.
"How… what… huh?" one of the smurfs said. Brainy sighed tiredly.
"Would someone PLEASE tell me who the blue people are?" he asked. There was a long and awkward pause.
"Er… Brainy? These guys are your family. They are smurfs. You are a smurf. That is the way things always were." Thia said when she realized it was too painful for any of the smurfs to talk. Brainy crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow.
"I'm having a hard time deciding. Which one is insane, you or me?" he asked Thia. Thia avoided looking at the eyes of any of the smurfs. Their silence was enough to tell her how distraught they must be.
"Neither of us is insane. They are your family. For some reason you lost your memory of them." Thia said. Brainy sighed and rubbed his temples.
"Okay… let's say I'll accept this as real and not some sort of hallucination. Why have I never heard of smurfs? Why wouldn't I remember even when faced with them? And how, dare I ask, did I get such severe memory loss that I would forget my supposed family?" he asked. Thia inwardly flinched at his disbelieving tone and words.
"Magic." A rough voice suddenly said. Everyone looked up to see a demon leering down at them with slightly bloodshot purple eyes. It was Tanthar.
"Come again?" Brainy asked, apparently resigning himself to the sheer unreality of the 'hallucinations'.
"Magic did it. My spell." Tanthar clarified. Papa Smurf stood up and eyed the demon warily.
"Why are you telling us this?" he asked. The demon watched the smurf indifferently.
"Those humans were going to kill me. You saved me. If I tell you what happened and undo what I did, I spite the humans and repay you. I hit two birds with one stone." Tanthar said, examining his nails.
"You can start with telling us what those scientists were doing with us." Thia said, crossing her arms.
"They were a part of a corrupt organization. Smurf magic is mostly made up of nature. If they twisted nature around to start spreading a man-made and deadly disease with no cure around anywhere they wanted, they would become really powerful really fast. They were hoping to gain world domination with it. Of course only high ranking scientists knew the whole story about what they were doing to you; like the scientist with the red hair." Tanthar said. The smurf's eyes widened at the prospect of what the scientists were planning to do with their magic. Thia nodded sadly.
"A lot of people would be willing to murder any number of people if they could get that much power. How do you give Brainy his memory back?" Thia asked. The demon flicked his fingers in a peculiar fashion and a glowing rune appeared on Brainy's forehead.
"What the…" Brainy trailed off. Tanthar snapped the rune towards him, and it floated off Brainy's forehead and into the demon's hand. Brainy cried out in pain and his legs crumpled underneath him.
"Brainy!" Clumsy exclaimed. Papa Smurf, Thia, and Clumsy crouched next to Brainy.
"Are you alright?" Thia asked. Brainy seemed disorientated. He rubbed his temples and closed his eyes.
"Geez, that spell just smurfed me up a really un-smurfy headache." Brainy muttered.
"HE'S BACK!" Clumsy shouted and tackled Brainy with an enthusiastic hug.
"Yes I am! I can't breath! Gack!" Brainy made a choking sound and he turned a light shade of purple.
"So that is what color they turn when there're choked!" Thia laughed. Brainy glared at her.
"Help… me…" he managed through the suffocating hug. Everyone except Clumsy, (who was too busy smiling as all get out), Brainy, and Tanthar collapsed in a fit of laughter. Thia felt like she would burst with hysterics. Tanthar rolled his eyes.
"Well, I'll leave now." The demon said. He disappeared in a flash of light, but everyone was too busy laughing to notice. Finally, Clumsy released the gasping Brainy and just sat by his friend and smiled.
"Do you remember everything, Brainy?" Papa Smurf asked once the laughter subsided.
"Yes Papa Smurf. I'm sorry for acting the way I did." Brainy said, looking slightly shame-faced. Papa Smurf just chuckled.
"It's fine. You weren't yourself," he said. Brainy seemed to brighten and he looked at Thia.
"Are you going to be staying?" he asked. Thia smiled.
"I will if you all will have me." Thia said. All the smurfs smiled.
"That is a smurftastic idea!" Smurfette said. Thia smiled widely.
"You never struck me as someone who would grow fond of someone so fast." Brainy said.
"What can I say? You're a likeable person." Thia said, hitting the tip of his cap so the brim fell over his eyes.
"Hey!" he said, adjusting his cap. Thia started laughing out loud, and soon Brainy's scowl was replaced by a smile. Thia looked at all the smurfs with a big smile on her face. Take a good look around Thia; this is your new family.
A/N
Finally it is finished! I hope you liked it, and a special thanks to my beta reader and enthusiastic reviewer wallmoose! Yay! I hope you all enjoyed it!