Chapter 25

Gargamel returned back to his hovel with his catch of the day and after placing the Smurf in a cage. "Oh Azrael we're going to eating good tonight." the happy wizard grinned.

"Meow!" Azrael meowed licking his lips

Jokey quickly examined the cage he was place in only to discover that Gargamel had changed from his usual wood and steel to just steel, which meant different locks. The Smurf sighed as he sat himself down in the corner of the cage "How could I have been so stupid?" he asked himself "I should have known that Prankster was not smurfing the truth."

In the distance Gargamel danced around his hovel grabbing ingredients for his Smurf Stew. "I finally figured out that if I wait for the other Smurfs to come save this miserable one..I will lose, so I shall cook this one up first."

Back at the Smurf Village Smurfette and the other girls had returned "So do you think Papa will let us have a Fashion Show?" Playful asked with a smile.

"Well hopefully," Smurfette smiled back "because it would be really smurfy."

"I here ya sister," Cutie giggled

"Let's go ask him," Giggles suggested as they made their way threw the village.

"Hello girls!" Hefty called jogging right towards them.

"Hi Hefty," they all smiled and giggled back which distracting him long enough to make him alomst trip and fall.

"Oh Hefty be careful," Smurfette said

Hefty blushed slightly because that's the last thing he would need is to trip and fall in front of five girls so they could all laugh at him.

The Smurfettes all went to talk to Papa Smurf and with great success to, "Why I don't see the harm in it." he said giving them a smile.

"Oh thank you Papa Smurf!" Smurfette cheered before giving the elder Smurf a great big Smurf hug.

"My pleasure," he replied.

With the Fashion Show question out of the way Giggles excused herself from the others so she could go spend some alone time with her special Smurf Grouchy.

"Hi ya Grouchy," she giggled when she spotted him just outside of the village.

"I hate hi ya," he complained before looking around to make sure no smurf was looking and then he planted a large kiss on her cheek "accept when you say hi ya."

She smiled and kissed him back "Come on Grouchy you said you were going to take me to the Glowing Flowers." Grouchy took her by the hand and off the two went.

Cutie had also made her great escape to go meet up with Clumsy, she had promised him that she would go rock hunting with him.

"Gosh Cutie!" he exclaimed "I didn't think you were gonna come."

She smiled and replied "Clumsy I wouldn't miss this for the world." Clumsy blushed a tiny bit as they to walked off together.

Berry was going to go hang out with Vanity because the two decided each other a mud facial, so they could always smurf their bests.

Smurfette had plans as well with Sir Smurfy, he was taking her for a long romantic stroll in the forest and then the next night she was spending it with Hefty. Playful on the other hand had to plans what so ever. "Maybe I could go pull some pranks on some smurfs?" she thought to herself "NAH!"

"Maybe Jokey will know what fun things we could do?" she asked herself as she made her way over to her friend's house but she got there nobody was home. "Oh well," she sighed "I'm sure he'll be back soon."

A few few hours passed and Papa Smurf exited his lab "Has any smurf seen Jokey lately?"

That question caught Playful's ear right away "Why? What's smurfing on?"

"Well I sent him to gather roots for me hours ago and he should have been back by now," Papa Smurf explained.

Playful began to worry what if something bad happened to him? Or What if god forbid Icky somehow managed to return? These questions ran through her mind over and over. Prankster stood back as he kept his straight face knowing what had happened to the mentioned Smurf, he even stood back in a distance and watched as the evil wizard carried the Smurf away.

"Quickly my little Smurfs we must find him, before it gets to dark" Papa Smurf demanded.

"Let's split up," Hefty suggested

"Yeah that way we cover more ground," Handy added

"Hurry we haven't got much time," Papa said before calling Feathers over and climbing onto her back.

"Jumpin' Jack Rabbits Pappy!" Sassette exclaimed as she and the other Smurflings rushed over to him "Can we come?"

"I'm sorry my little Smurflings it's to dangerous, you must stay here."

"With who?" Snappy asked crossing his arms together

"With Painter and Farmer," he replied

"Awww!" the Smurflings all sighed "we never get to go."

"Now..now my little Smurflings," Papa said calmly "we will return very soon."

"Yeah but we still can't go," Snappy replied rolling his eyes as he and the others walked back to their house.

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Gargamel was still dancing around his hovel to his horrible singing "Oh I'm going to have some tastey Smurf Stew..."

Meanwhile somewhere outside some Smurfs were search high and low for their missing fellow Smurf..."JOKEY!" they called out "JOKEY WHERE ARE YOU!"

Pranster walked behind them with a small smirked on his face, deep down he wanted to just burst out laughing but he did not want to draw any attention to himself.

"Oh Jokey," Playful sighed "I wish I knew where you were."

"Ah, the pot is ready Azrael!" Gargamel exclaimed rubbing his hands together before unlocking the cage grabbing the tiny Smurf that was inside.

As soon as Gargamel had the Smurf in his clutches he heard Smurfs shouting out what was most likely the Smurf he had name..."JOKEY!"

Jokey tried to shout out but nothing came out but he had already known that nothing ould come out. Gargamel took noticed of this and that gave him a wicked idea, he waited until the voices got closer then he grabbed his cat and hid in the closet.

"Jokey?" Handy asked climbing up to the window "Are you in there?"

Playful climbed up beside him "Is he there?" she asked

"I don't smurf him," he sighed "but the good news it doesn't seem like Gargamel is here either."

Inside the closet Gargamel listened for his que when it would be safe to return out, it killed him not to go out but he could not risk losing the Smurf he already had. Jokey tried to squirm out of the wizards grip but when Gargamel felt this his grip went tighter around the Smurf. The grip was so tight around Jokey he could hardly breath, once Gargamel knew it was safe to leave the closet he did. His grip was still very tight around the Smurf so that left Jokey no choice of what had did next.

"OUCH!" Gargamel shouted dropping the Smurf "That rotten Smurf bit me."

Jokey hit the ground and quickly got to his feet and mad his break towards the widow but Azrael leaped in front of him and completely blocking his way. Azrael brought his paw up and was about to strike when Playful grabbed Jokey from the side and ran under the closest thing..a bookcase. Jokey had never been so happy to see her that he hugged but that sweet moment was over in a second when Azrael's paw skimmed the edge of the bookcase.

Gargamel tried to move the bookcase but it was too heavy to move for one person, Playful and Jokey waited for the perfect moment to escape. Just as Gargamel cause the the bookcase to move oh so slightly, they ran for it.

"AFTER THEM AZRAEL!" he shouted

With Azrael right on their heels they failed to pay any attention to where they were going and without knowing it stumbled upon a high drop with fast moving water.

"Jokey what are we going to do?" Playful asked hugging on to his arm.

Jokey just shook his head and pointed to his mouth, "You can't talk?" she asked

He shook his head (no)..

"Oh I see," she nodded.

"MEOW!" Azrael screeched running towards them...

With nowhere else to run the two braced themselves for his impact...The cat leaped but fell short cause a lot of dirt to go flying everywhere, Playful cried out as dirt flew in to her eyes causing her to lose her footing and fall. Jokey tried grab her hand before she fell but the force cause both of t hem to fall...

"Arzael you fool," Gragamel hissed "you let them fall."

Jokey and Playful fought to keep their heads above the water as the it rushed all around them and over them... Up ahead a waterfall was fast approaching and they were heading right towards it.. They managed keep their heads above the water long enough to see what was coming...

Sometime later Jokey woke up laying in very shallow water, he sat up to look around and saw Playful not that far away but she wasn't moving.

"Playful?" he thought slowly making his way over to her, he touched her and still nothing...

"Oh no!" he exclaimed in his head when he saw she wasn't breathing...His heart was breaking as he stared down at her before remembering what Papa Smurf taught them about checking pulse. He took her hand into his and checked, to his relief she had one but it was very faint and the only way to help her was to do mouth to mouth...

He placed his lips to hers and blew breath in to her then pushed onto her chest...he kept repeating this until...She coughed up the water and started to cry...He pulled her into a hug and she laid her head on his chest to cry on...

He wanted to tell her that everything was okay but he couldn't so he just sat there with her in his close embrace. "Jokey I'm so scared," she sobbed hugging tighter onto him "I almost died."

Jokey wiped her tears and brought her face up to look at him to kiss her forehead...just to let her know that she was safe with him and he would never let anything happen to her...

She smiled and kissed him back on his cheek "Now what are we going to do?"

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