Me:(bangs my head on the desk) Why? Why? Why? Why?
Johan: What's the matter M'lady?
Me:(resting my head on the table) I made the biggest mistake of my life
Papa: Come now it can't be that bad
Jo: Yeah what happened?
Me: I showed Peewit youtube!
Johan: Is that what he's been rattling on about?
Me: It gets worse
Jo:(big eyes) Livy what did you do?
Me:(mumbles)
Papa: Smurf again?
Me:(mumbles a little louder)
Johan: We still can't understand you
Me: HE DISCOVERED BRITENY SPEARS!
Jo: WHAT!
Peewit:(walks into the room singing very loudly) Hit me baby one more time!
All:(cover our ears)
Jo: What have you done! (to me)
Johan:(still covering his ears as Peewit continues to sing) I thought you liked her?
Me: Not Peewit's version!
Peewit: I'm not that innocent
Jo: OMG!
Papa:(covering his ears as Peewit's singing grows louder) My little smurfs Johan and Peewit and I belong to Peyo
Jo:(cringing) I belong to CartoonCaster21
Me: And I own myself
Johan:(still covering his ears) Start the story!
Peewit: Hit me baby one more time
Johan: NOW PLEASE!
Johan followed Brownie as the brown mare raced through the forest. He didn't know where the horse was taking him but he knew that she knew where Livy had been taken. He wasn't sure how he knew exactly but something inside him was telling him.
A hand went up to his chest and he pulled out Livy's locket. He closed his fist around the prescious memento, promising his beloved wherever she was that he was on the way. He flicked Bayard's reins again and the horse started to go faster.
At long last though, the two horses and one rider came upon a castle.
"Is this the place Brownie?" Johan asked turning to look at the mare. Brownie nodded. Johan got off Bayard and made his way to the castle, looking for a way inside. After making sure no one was around he made his move and started to climb up the side of the castle and then climbed in through the window.
The squire looked around and being as quiet as a church mouse listening and searching for any sign of Livy. Then he heard it
"Oh help! Please someone help me!"
"Livy!"
Johan drew his sword and followed Livy's voice until he entered the room he was certain it had come from. Only instead of Livy it was an ugly old woman with a large pointy nose and red curly hair.
"Gotcha Lover Boy!" Hogatha said, only it wasn't her voice that she said it in, it was Livy's! Hogatha shot a blast of green magic from her hand and before Johan had time to duck he was hit.
Johan dropped his sword and was thrown back against the wall. He felt a pounding pain in his head and his body twisted and convulsed violently. Once the magic stopped Johan groaned and rubbed his head with a wing...Wait a wing?
Johan glanced over and saw his reflection in an empty beaker and what he saw made him jump back in surprise. Starring back at him was a canary!
"What did you do to me you witch?" Johan demanded hopping to his feet "And better still, what have you done with Livy?"
"Isn't it obvious? I stole her voice and turned you into a canary." Hogatha explained her hands on her hips.
"You did what! You will pay for this you scoundrel!" Johan declared. Not thinking he tried to pick up his sword in his talons but of coarse it was to heavy. Hogatha busted out in laughter at the bird squire's attempts. Normally Johan loved hearing Livy's laugh, but not when it came out of someone else's mouth.
"What are you going to do bird boy? Peck me to death? Your in no condition to fight me."
Johan didn't know what to do. What could he do? He was a bird, and a small type of bird at that, plus Livy was still who knows where in this acurssed castle.
"Alright. Enough fun, time to get down to business." Hogatha stuck two finger in her mouth and gave a shrill whistle. "HAROLD! Say Bye Bye Birdie." Hogatha said turning to Johan. A giant vulture flew into the room and hovered next to Hogatha.
"Get him Harold!" Hogatha ordered pointing a finger at the canary.
"Squawk!"
Harold flapped his wings and charged after Johan.
"Uh oh!" Johan chirped as he flapped his own wings and then took off with Harold hot on his tail feathers.
The vulture chased Johan all around the castle. Lucky for Johan because of his small stature he could easily squeeze between small tight spaces but Harold always seemed to find another way to cut Johan off and the chase would continue.
"I can't keep this up forever." Johan panted as he flew. "Unless..."
Johan made a sharp turn down a corner and came to a dead end. Hector squawked and charged at Johan who was currently hovering right in front of a wall.
"Wait for it." Johan said quietly as Harold came closer.
"Wait for it." Harold was not less than four feet from Johan.
"NOW!" Johan shouted as he moved out of the way at the last second. Harold couldn't stop in time and smashed beak first into the wall. The vulture slid down the wall and collapsed on the floor.
Johan let out a sigh of relief. "At least he's taken care of for awhile. I've got to find Livy but I can't help her like this. I've got to get help." And with that the little canary flew out the first window he found and headed back to the castle as fast as his wings could take him.
"Gee Barbra you should get out in the sun a little more often."
"Yeah your looking rather pale."
"YOU TWO ARE THE ONE'S WHO ARE GOING TO BE PALE AFTER I GET AHOLD OF YOU! COME HERE YOU HOOLIGANS!" A flour and pie filling coated Dame Barbra screamed as she chased Jo and Peewit around the courtyard. The two prankster teens cackled as they ran from the furious governess.
"Peewit in here!" Jo whispered, one hand on the stable doors and motioning for the jester to hurry with the other. Peewit ran and skidded a little as he halted himself. Jo opened the door and then both teens ran inside.
"I have you now you little ruffians!" Dame Barbra said as she threw open the stable doors with a "bang".
"Where are you you little rascals?" the governess demanded searching for any sign of movement with hawk eyes, but she only saw the horses (and goat) that occupied their stables.
"Fine stay in the barn! You two were obviously raised in one! But you'll have to come out sooner or later and when you do, I'll get you! I swear it!" The governess swore as she stormed out of the stables and slammed the doors so hard the whole stable shook on it's foundation.
A few minutes passed before a cerulean blue eye peeked out from underneath the hay up in the hayloft.
"She's gone."
"You did great Jo! Simply brilliant!" Peewit complimented as he climbed out from behind a hay bale.
"Thank you," Jo said fully sitting up now, dusting the hay off her back. "That's not my best work, but not to bad if I do say so myself."
Peewit snickered.
"Besides I couldn't have done it if you hadn't given her that exploding pie first.
"It's a classic." Peewit smirked.
"Smurf is me! What did you two smurf to Dame Barbra this time?"
Jo and Peewit turned towards the window and saw a white crane sitting on the sill. The crane lowered her head allowing the two smurfs she was carrying to slide down her neck. Papa and Smurfette to be prescise.
"You saw that?" Jo asked with a laugh
"Well we saw Dame Barbra chasing you two." Smurfette answered.
"Don't you two ever get tired of pulling pranks on her?" Papa asked.
"Of coarse not!" Jo and Peewit said in unison. "It's fun!"
"What are you two doing here anyway?" Peewit asked.
"Smurfette and I came to invite you, Jo, Johan and Livy to a smurf picnic were smurfing tomorrow evening." Papa explained.
"A picnic!" Peewit asked his eyes growing big. His mouth was already starting to water as he just thought of all the food that would be there.
"We'd love to go Papa Smurf." Jo said. "We'll tell Livy and Johan when they get back."
"Jo! Peewit!"
"That sounded like Johan." Peewit said recognizing the voice of his best friend.
"But they ain't supposed to be back till dinner time." Jo said confused. Feathers moved from the windowsill completely into the hayloft and then a little yellow canary with red legs, blue feathers on his back and a black tuft of feathers on his head landed in the window.
"Oh thank goodness I found you! We must hurry!" the canary said.
"Johan?" everyone exclaimed in unison as they recognized the voice coming out of the birds beak.
"Yes it's me." Johan sighed.
"Ooh! Your so cute!" Jo cooed as she grabbed the canary.
"What happened to you Johan?" Papa Smurf asked.
"Livy and I were riding through the forest and she fell off of Brownie and landed in a rather large mud puddle. She took Brownie down to the stream to wash off the mud and somehow she was kidnapped."
"Kidnapped!" everyone exclaimed in unison.
"When they didn't return, I followed the stream until I found Brownie tied to a tree. After I freed her she lead me and Bayard to a castle. I snuck in and I heard Livy calling for help. I followed her voice but..."
"But what?" Smurfette asked.
"When I found the source of the voice it wasn't Livy. It was an evil witch who had stolen her voice and then she turned me into a bird and sicked her vulture on me."
"Did you say vulture?" Papa asked raising his eyebrows.
"Oh Papa Smurf you don't think...?" Smurfette trailed off.
"Think what? What's going on?" Jo demanded.
"What exactly did this witch look like Johan?" Papa asked turning to the squire turned bird. Once Johan explained her appearance Smurfette and Papa both let out a cry of "HOGATHA!"
"Oh no! Not Hogatha! Anything but her!...Who's Hogatha?" Peewit asked.
"She's a mean horrible nasty witch who's always looking for ways to make herself more beautiful." Smurfette explained seething.
Papa nodded in agreement. "Hogatha is a very vain witch and is not afraid to smurf someone else's beauty so she could have it for herself."
"She even tried to smurf my hair multiple times." Smurfette added placing a hand on her long golden locks.
"But if she's after looks then why did she steal Livy's voice?" Jo questioned.
Papa put a hand to his chin, ruffling his snow white beard as he thought out loud. "Hogatha must have overheard Livy singing and desired it for her own. She once kidnapped Harmony because he was a good singer because of an enchanted collar I put on him."
"Well I can't blame her there. Harmony and I both have beautiful voices." Peewit boasted while everyone else rolled their eyes.
"What do we do?" Jo asked.
"We must go and save her that's what!" Johan declared.
"But how? What if Hogatha smurfs you into birds too?" Smurfette asked. Everyone was silent as they tried to formulate a plan.
"I've got it!" Papa Smurf exclaimed suddenly. "Hogatha is vain and she's also greedy. So nothing will stop her from trying to acquire a second beautiful voice."
"Oh no! No way! Nope! Nuh uh! Absolutely not! I refuse to put my voice at risk like that!" Peewit said right away earning him death glares from Johan and Jo.
"Eh...Actually Peewit I was refering to Jo." Papa explained sheepishly.
"Why me?" Jo asked surprised.
"Because aside from Livy-"
"Ahem?"
"And Peewit you are the smurfiest singer out of the four of you." Smurfette explained.
"...If it will help save Livy then I'll do it." Jo declared.
"Smurfy!" Papa cheered. "Um but there's a catch."
"There's always a catch." Jo grumbled under her breath "What is it?"
Papa motioned for Jo to lean down so he could whisper in her ear. Once he explained the plan Jo's eyes grew big and she shot back up.
"No way! Nope! Nuh uh! No! No! No! Absolutely not! No way no how! Not gonna happen. I refuse! No!"
"I hate all of you." Jo grumbled an hour or so later as the teens, bird, and two smurfs hid in the bushes by Hogatha's castle.
"Oh but you look so smurfy Jo." Smurfette reassured. Jo just scowled deeper. As a matter of fact the look on Jo's face would put Grouchy's signature scowl to shame.
"I still don't see why the dress was necessary." Jo whined.
"Please Jo. Think about Livy." Johan begged. Jo looked at the little canary and sighed. "Fine. For Livy."
Meanwhile inside the castle Hogatha had just walked into the room where she was keeping Livy prisoner.
"Oh I just love my new voice! It makes me sound so youthful. So beautiful. Don't you agree dearie?" the witch mocked. Livy glowered at Hogatha and turned her head away so she wouldn't have to look at her.
"Oh what's the matter? You waiting for your little friends to show up?" Hogatha mocked. Livy still refused to move. "Well it doesn't matter. With my magic I can easily over power anyone who dares to cross my path."
Livy tightened her grip on her arms, her nails digging into her skin through her sleeves but she still refused to make eye contact with the witch. Hogatha narrowed her eyes.
"Answer me girl or else I'll...What's that?"
Both females cocked their heads as they heard what sounded like guitar music drift in through the window. The music was soon accompanied by singing.
Absolutely nobody knows me better
No one that can make me feel so good
How did we stay so long together?
When everybody
Everybody said we never would
And just when I
I start to think they're right
The love has died
There you go making my heart beat again
Heart beat again
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in
Right back in right back in
And I know
I'm never letting this go
I'm stuck on you
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
Hogatha walked over to the window and looked out and saw where the music was coming from. She saw a girl with short raven black colored hair, wearing a white and blue colored dress with a matching blue head band, sitting on a large rock and playing a guitar. (Thanks to Peewit)
Even though Livy couldn't see out the window from her cage she stiffened because she recognized the voice. Jo's voice.
Some days I don't feel like trying
Some days you know I just wanna give up
When it doesn't matter who's right
Fight about it all night
Had enough
You give me that look
I'm sorry baby lets make up
You do that thing that makes me laugh
And just like that
There you go making my heart beat again
Heart beat again
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in
Right back in
Right back in
And I know
I'm never letting this go
I'm stuck on you
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby were stuck like glue
"Well what do we have hear? Looks like you won't be the only one who's voice I'll steal today dearie." Hogatha cackled as she left the room. Livy's eye's grew big and she grabbed onto the bars of her cage but Hogatha was already gone. Plus Jo wouldn't be able to hear her from where she was at. Livy pulled her knees up to her chest and buried her face in her knees. Oh what was she going to do?
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
You almost stay out
Too stuck together
Form the a-t-l
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Feeling kinda sick
Just a spoonful of sugar
Make it better real quick
I say
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
What'cha gonna do with that?
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Come on over here with that
Sugar sticky sweet stuff
Come on give me that stuff
Everybody want some
Melodies that get stuck
Up in your head
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Up in your head
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Up in your head
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Up in your head
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me together
Say it's all I wanna do
I said
There you go making my heart beat again
Heart beat again
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time?
There you go pulling me right back in
Right back in
Right back in
And I know
I'm never letting this go
There you go making my heart beat again
Heart beat again
Heart beat again
There you go making me feel like a kid
Won't you do it and do it one time
There you go pulling me right back in
Right back in
Right back in
And I know
I'm never letting this go
I'm stuck on you
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby
Were stuck like glue
Whoa-oh Whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby
Were stuck like glue
Whoa-oh whoa-oh
Stuck like glue
You and me baby
Were stuck like glue
As Jo sang and Hogatha exited her castle and approached the girl, she failed to notice the pint sized jester, two smurfs and multi-colored canary sneak past her and then enter her home.
"Alright so where's Livy?" Peewit whispered as after they made it inside.
"I'm not sure. Hogatha got to me before I could find her." Johan explained.
"We'll find her Johan." Smurfette reassured.
"Everysmurf stay together. We don't want to get separated." Papa instructed.
Everyone nodded once and began their search for the missing girl, keeping an eye out for Harold and/or Hogatha at the same time.
Meanwhile Livy was still locked in the cage. She wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and it was then, and only then did she finally notice that her locket was missing.
"Oh no! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!" Livy thought as a hand went to her bare neck. She frantically looked around the cage floor even though she knew it wasn't there. Tears threatened to spill over her eyes again. She felt naked with out her locket. Yes she had had it taken away before by villains but this was different. When the villains took it she knew where it was. Now she had no idea where she could have lost it.
She sat back down and felt like she was about to start hyperventilating.
"This is not happening. Not my locket. Dear Lord please not my locket." She begged in her head. "My voice was bad enough. Not my locket. Not Mom's locket."
Livy let out a sound that sounded like a combination between a sob and a gasp as she tried to take a few deep breaths so as not to completely lose it.
Peewit stopped when he heard the noise and looked into the room where the noise had come from.
"Livy! Johan! Smurfs! I found her!" Peewit hollered.
Livy jumped at the unexpected sound of Peewit's voice and smiled as she stood up, temporarily forgetting about the locket.
"Oh thank heavens!" Livy heard Johan say but instead of Johan, a little yellow black and blue feathered canary with red legs flew in from around the room.
"Oh M'lady! Thank goodness your alright!"
"Johan?" Livy asked in disbelief. She gasped and covered her mouth with both her hands but it was to late both boys and smurfs froze and stared at the girl.
"W-What happened to your voice?" Peewit snickered trying and failing to hold back his laughter.
"(snort snort) What happened to me? What happened to Johan?" Livy asked reaching a hand through the bars, allowing the squire turned bird to land in it.
"I um...had a little run in with Hogatha earlier today. But that's not important-"
"Not important (snort snort) Your a freaking bird!"
"And your snorting!" Peewit couldn't hold it back anymore and allowed himself to laugh. Livy growled and slipped off one of her shoes and threw it through the bars, hitting Peewit abside the head.
"Ow!"
"And I got another one where that came from (snort snort)"
"Come on, we've got to get you out of this cage and find a way to switch you and Hogatha's voices back." Johan said as he flew from Livy's hand and over to the lock. Johan tilted his head this way and that and somehow managed to fit his beak into the lock, cracking it open. Livy gently pushed on the door and it swung open.
"Alright we got you out of that cage. Now what?"
Johan pulled his beak out of the lock "I believe I saw Hogatha's potion lab when I was here earlier. Perhaps we should check there first to see if we can work up an antidote."
"(snort snort) What about Jo?" Livy asked
"She's outside and keeping Hogatha distracted." Smurfette explained.
"Come! I'm not sure how much longer Jo can smurf." Papa said. "Lead the way Johan."
Johan flew ahead and lead the his friends to the potion room. The shelves were lined with various bottles what held so many different ingredients. A large black cauldron sat in the corner and various spell books lay strewn about.
Everyone immediately got to work flipping through the books and Livy was grateful that Papa Smurf was there. Though she had grown in her knowledge in magic she was still rusty. Plus worrying for Jo outside and the fact that her love was now a bird didn't help matters either. Add that her voice had been replaced with Hogatha's and you got a slightly frazzled Livy, but she managed to keep her concentration as she flipped through the book.
Crash!
Everyone turned and saw a surprised Peewit standing in front of a shattered vial that lay on the floor.
"It was an accident!" Peewit defended.
"You being born was an accident you little midget!"
Everyone turned and saw a smirking Hogatha standing in the doorway.
"Hey! (snort snort) Don't talk that way to him!" Livy said balling her fists.
"Hogatha I demand that you give back Livy's voice and return Johan to normal this instant!"Papa ordered.
"Never!" Hogatha said as her hands started to glow and she shot a blast of magic at them. Livy, Papa and Smurfette jumped out of the way and the next few minutes were pure chaos as everyone kept dodging the magic blasts.
Johan let out a particularly loud chirp as a stray magic blast singed of the tips of his tail feathers, but he was otherwise unharmed.
"These meddlers are to evasive." Hogatha thought as Peewit ducked another blast. "I can't do this myself."
Hogatha stopped shooting blasts long enough to stick two fingers in her mouth and let out a shrill whistle. "HAROLD!"
"Squawk!"
"Oh no! Not again!" Johan mumbled.
Suddenly the giant vulture flew into the room and started to chase the teens and smurfs.
Harold had chased Papa and Smurfette into a corner. Peewit was the only one who had saw this though because Johan and Livy were busy ducking the magic blasts that Hogatha was throwing their way. Suddenly Peewit got an idea and reached into his pocket.
Just as Harold was about to grab the smurfs in his talons-
"Mmm, I just LOVE roasted bird!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked and saw Peewit smirking at Harold as he munched on a chicken leg.
"SQUAWK!" Harold screeched as he flew out of the room as fast as he could.
"Never underestimate the power of chicken." Peewit smirked. "What?" he asked as he noticed everyone was still staring at him like he had three heads.
"Peewit, where on earth did you get that chicken leg?" Johan asked starting to turn a little green. This must have been very uncomfortable for him, now being a bird and all.
"It was in my pocket." Peewit stated simply.
"You carry roasted chicken legs in your pocket?" Hogatha asked.
"No, sometimes I carry ham."
"(snort snort) That's just nasty." Livy said.
"That cannot be sanitary." Smurfette mumbled.
Peewit just shrugged and ate the last bit of meat before tossing the bone to the side.
Anyway," Hogatha started "Getting back to the matter at hand" she said as her hands started to glow yet again when suddenly
"HIYA!"
A figure of blue white and black came out from nowhere and tackled the witch to the ground.
"JO!"
"Can't let you all have all the fun now can I?" Jo smirked shaking her hair out of her face.
"Jo(snort snort)are you actually wearing a dress?" Livy asked shocked.
"Not my idea! I was forced!" Jo snarled as she shot a death glare at Johan, Peewit Papa and Smurfette. "Wait a minute,did you just snort."
"Don't ask. Just don't ask." Livy said blushing from embarrassment.
"Why you horrible little wench! You'll pay for that!" Hogatha swore standing to her feet and glaring at Jo.
"And you'll pay for stealing my bestie's voice and turning Johan into a bird!" Jo snapped.
Before any one had a chance to do anything Hogatha shot a magic blast out of her hand. Jo tried to run but the blasts followed her and eventually caught the black haired girl, trapping her in a giant bubble prison.
"Jo!" Everyone gasped again.
Jo pushed and kicked from the inside of the bubble but it wouldn't pop. "Bubbles are meant to bring joy! Not to be used for evil!"
"You horrible witch!" Livy yelled at Hogatha as she and the others tried to attack Hogatha.
"Stop right there or else I'll make your little friend here disappear forever!" Hogatha threatened standing close to the bubble. Her words caused everyone to stop dead in there tracks.
"You can't do that!" Peewit said shooting a worried glance at the scared girl inside the bubble.
"I can and I will you little pipsqueak." Hogatha snapped with a crazed look in her eyes. "Unless of coarse you surrender."
Everyone just stood there afraid to make any sudden movement.
"No guys! Don't listen to her! Forget about me-"
"Oh be quiet!" Hogatha interrupted as she prepared to pop the bubble which would cause Jo to disappear.
"NO!" in a moment of sheer anger and desperation Livy reacted on instinct and tackled Hogatha away from the bubble and her friends.
"Ooh! Why you little-" Hogatha growled as she held up her hand to blast the girl...but nothing happened.
"What the?" Hogatha kept trying to shoot but nothing would happen. It was then that she looked down and realized to her horror that her own locket was missing.
"My locket! Where's my locket?" Hogatha asked searching for her magic locket. She spotted it out of the corner of her eye, but so did Livy. Both of them lunged for the locket but Livy got to it first since she was closer.
"JOHAN CATCH!" Livy called as she threw the locket. It flew through the air and Johan caught it by the chain in his talons. "I've got it!"
"Give that back to me you horrid beast!" Hogatha cried as she lunged at the bird. Johan flew up a little higher then tossed the locket to Peewit.
"I don't want it!" Peewit cried as Hogatha now charged at him. The jester tossed the locket to the side where Papa caught it and then he threw it to Smurfette who tossed it back to Livy.
Livy fumbled with the locket and almost dropped it on the floor but managed to grab it at the last second before it hit the ground.
"Be careful with that! If that locket is destroyed I'll disappear with it!" Hogatha blurted out without thinking about what she was saying.
Livy froze and something snapped in her head.
"I'll do it! (snort snort) I'm gonna do it!"
"What! No please! Have mercy!"
"Mercy?... Mercy! Did you have mercy on me when you stole my voice (snort snort) Did you have mercy on Johan when you turned him into a bird or on Jo when you trapped her in that bubble!" Livy asked her voice getting louder as the anger welled up with in her.
W-well-I-uh-I-" Hogatha stammered.
"NO YOU DIDN'T! You kidnap me when I'm minding my own business (snort) switch our voices! Turn my boyfriend into a bird and threaten to make my best friend disappear! Why in the heck do you think I should give you any type of mercy!"
By now Hogatha was on her knees begging and blubbering as Livy held the locket loosely in her hand by the chain, ready to drop it in an instant.
"M'lady stop!" Johan begged as he flew over. "Please Livy this isn't you."
"Why should I?" Livy asked turning her head to look at the squire turned canary. "Why should I not do it after all that she's done to us? (snort) To you! Johan look at yourself! Look at Jo! Listen to me! (snort) I can't say one sentence (snort) without snorting! And how about how she threatened to make Jo disappear forever? And you! How are you gonna be a knight when you can't even pick up a sword?(snort) Why should I show her any mercy?"
"Because if you don't then you wouldn't be any better than she is."
Those words cut Livy deeper than the sharpest sword ever could. Her scowl softened and she looked at the locket still dangling in her fingers. She saw her reflection in a nearby puddle of a spilled potion. This wasn't her. She's not the crazed maniac that she saw in the puddle. Her hand started to shake as she came to terms with this.
In the moments hesitation Hogatha leaped and snatched the locket from the girls grasp, but slipped in a different puddle of a spilled over potion. Hogatha held her arms out to balance herself but it was useless and she slipped and landed hard on her behind, which caused the locket to be airbourne.
Everything seemed to go in slow motion as the locket flew through the air and landed on the ground, shattering into a thousand pieces.
"NOO!" Hogatha yelled as she started to disappear. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS! YOU'LL ALL PAY FOR THIS! ESPECIALLY YOU GIRL! I'LL BE BACK! I'LL BE-" but the fat witch was cut off as a blinding light illumanated from her body and she disappeared.
The bubble that Jo had been trapped in suddenly popped and the young girl fell on the floor while at the same time a small yellow ball of light started to form from the pieces of the shattered locket and the echo of Livy's singing voice could be heard as it floated over to her. The little ball floated up and through her throat and as the light went out Livy sang the final notes in her own voice.
"Livy?"
"I'M NOT SNORTING ANYMORE!" Livy cheered in her own voice.
Everyone else cheered as well and hugged and jumped up and down, but their celebration was short lived as they noticed that Johan was still a bird.
"W-why didn't he turn back Papa Smurf?" Livy asked getting a sick feeling in her stomach.
"I...I don't know Livy." Papa confessed.
"Maybe it's a delayed reaction?" Jo suggested.
"Yeah that's it! It's probably that." Peewit agreed. Everyone waited but still nothing happened.
"Oh Johan, I'm so sorry." Smurfette apologized as she petted the bird.
"It's not your fault Smurfette." Johan said sadly.
"It's mine." Livy sobbed holding back her tears. "This is all my fault. If I hadn't have gotten kidnapped in the first place..." Livy trailed off as she sat down on the floor.
"No! No M'lady! Don't say such things." Johan said flying over to his beloved. He landed in her hand and nuzzled his soft feathered head against her cheek. "Don't cry please. I hate it when you cry. I hate seeing you upset."
Livy said nothing but placed her other hand on top of the bird in an attempt to hug him as she finally allowed the tears to flow. A stray tear fell and landed on top of Johan's head. Only slightly annoyed at now being wet, he tried to brush it off with his wing but something happened.
The little multi-colored canary started to glow slightly and Livy felt something heavy land in her lap. Livy looked up and gasped as she looked into Johan's deep chocolate brown eyes.
"Your back!" Livy cheered as she tackled the squire off her and to the ground in a hug. Once more the whole castle was filled with cheers and hugs.
"Well this day certainly didn't go the way we thought it would." Johan said as everyone was walking out of the castle and back to their animals.
"I'm just glad that everything is back to normal." Livy sighed as she rested her head on Johan's shoulder.
"Not just yet." Jo said as she rummaged through Skippy's saddle bags. "Ah ha!" Jo exclaimed as she pulled out her regular clothes.
"You actually brought your clothes?" Peewit asked.
"Hey, I ain't gonna be in this dress any longer than I have to okay?" Jo answered as she left to go change behind a tree.
"Same old Jo." Livy laughed shaking her head at her friend but her smile fell as she noticed that her locket was still gone. She put a hand to her bare neck and bit her tongue. She was not gonna start crying again. She wasn't gonna dampen the now happy mood.
"Oh! I have almost forgotten." Johan suddenly exclaimed snapping Livy out of her thoughts. He reached a hand into his shirt and pulled out-
"My locket!" Livy exclaimed jumping. "Where did you find it?"
"In the woods on the ground. It must have fallen off at some point when Hogatha kidnapped you."
Livy could do nothing but smile. Johan unclipped the locket from around his neck and moved behind Livy. "Move your hair."
Livy grabbed her hair like she was gonna put it in a ponytail and held it up as Johan placed the locket on her neck.
"There."
Livy let go of her hair and turned around to face the squire. Johan cupped her cheek in his hand and lightly kissed her. Once done, Livy wrapped her arms around Johan's waist and he did the same to her.
"I love you Johan."
"And I you M'lady...And I you."
"Okay I'm dressed." Jo declared as she came out from behind the tree dressed in her regular clothes and holding the dress in a wrinkly ball.
"I smurf Smurfette and I better be smurfing too." Papa said standing next to Feathers.
"Good-bye Smurfs, and thank you for everything." Johan said as he climbed onto Bayard.
"That's what friends are for Johan."
"See you four at the picnic tomorrow." Smurfette said.
They all bid each other farewell and Feathers took to the sky while the teens took off riding on the ground.
After they had been flying for a few minutes Smurfette finally got the chance to as a question that had been bugging her.
"Papa Smurf?"
"Yes Smurfette"
"I've been wondering something."
"What would that be?"
"How did Johan change back to a human?"
Papa chuckled a little before her replied "Only a magic so powerful and pure could have broken the spell."
"What would that be?" Smurfette asked. The two smurfs looked down and waved to the teens as they passed them.
"The power of love Smufette. The power of love."
I don't know about you guys but this is my favorite chapter in the story so far. ^_^ (so far) xD
So the song is "Stuck like Glue" by Sugarland. I was actually listening to it as I was writing this chapter and it just kinda stuck. XD
Oh and I know it wasn't a collar that Papa placed on Harmony that made him a good singer but I can't remember what it's called. (sweatdrop) My bad!
Special thanks once again to my good friend Witty for helping me with this chapter and the previous one.
Now if you excuse me I got to run because Peewit has moved on from Britney to Ke$ha
Peewit: Tick tock on the clock but the party don't stop no oh whoa oh oh, oh whoa oh oh!
Me Jo Johan and Papa: AAAAHHHH! (we run for the hills)
Don't forget to review and stay smurfy ;) Bye bye!