Chapter 2: Smurf Ho
AN HOUR LATER
Both the S.S Smurf and the S.S. Sister Smurf now have all their cargo loaded up, and are ready to set sail. But first the S.S Sister Smurf needs a proper send off. Gradually all the Smurfs and Smurfettes found a spot to sit so they would be able to get a good view of the special stand built for the Captain's announcement.
"Smurfette, I can't wait to introduce you to my wardrobe. No offense darling, but this white garment you are wearing is so last decade." Valvette told the blond smurfette as they started walking off the S.S. Sister Smurf.
"Really?" Smurfette replied dumbfounded. She looked down at her traditional style dress and wondered. It's true that she hasn't worn many styles since the day Papa Smurf broke the curse of her being under Gargamel's control. She then looked up and admired Valvette's pretty purple dress with pink frills. The more she is thought about this trip the more she is looking forward to it. With Valvette's help, Smurfette could finally feel like a real smurfette.
"Smurfs, and heh, heh, smurfettes." Handy Smurf called out for everyone's attention. "We are now about to begin the S.S Sister Smurf's ceremonial send off. So please could you all gather around now."
"Wow, this is my very first time of being apart of a ceremonial send off for a sail ship. What a scoop for the other smurfettes back home." Tattlerette cooed as she started writing down as much details as possible on her note pad.
"I hate ceremonial send offs." Grouchy Smurf grumbled beside her.
"Boy, aren't you a blue pickle of fun." The redheaded smurfette retorted sarcastically. She looked over her shoulder to see a smurf wearing scowl look on his face. Tattlerette sticks her nose up at him in a snobbish way. She then takes her pencil in her right hand and begins to writes on her pad of paper. "If you don't mind, please take your negativity else where. I need to focus so I can write everything down."
"I hate that you write everything down." Grouchy complained louder.
"Excuse me. But it's important that I take note of everything that happens so that my readers will know how this historical event took place. My Daily Newspaper is the most valuable piece of reading material back home. And this event will defiantly make headlines."
"I hate headlines." Grouchy grunted, crossing his arms in a huff.
Tattlerette, finding Grouchy Smurf to be very irritating, puts her pencil down in the same hand with her note pad. "You know Grouchy Smurf, why don't you 'hate' this?" With that, Tattlerette pushes Grouchy with her free hand off the dock and into the water below.
"Hey!" He yelled just before splashing into the water. Lucky for him, he fell into the shallow end. After spitting out water from his mouth, Grouchy looked up at Tattlerette and glared hard at her.
"Heh, heh. Now that's a ceremonial send off." She chuckled as she flung her bright red ponytail hair back. Now she was able to resume writing notes on her pad without anymore annoying distractions.
Nursette walked onto the dock, and stopped when she spotted a smurf standing with his eyes slowly closing and reopening. It appears that he is dozing off, but why? This started to concern the blond smurfette. She tapped the shoulder of the closest smurf in order to grab his attention.
"Um. Is that smurf ok?" She asked pointing to the sleepy smurf that is now leaning up against another smurf for support.
"Oh yeah. That's just Lazy." Farmer Smurf pointed out. He is recognized with the hoe he is leaning against. "Don't worry, he always does that."
"I have never seen a anyone sleep standing up before. That is amazing." Nursette said astoundingly.
"I recon that sort of thing doesn't happen much in your village." Farmer asked the blond smurfette.
"No. As far as I know, all the smurfettes stay awake during the day." Nursette pauses for a moment to think. "Well, there is one smurfette back home that is a bit on the lazy side. Her name is Inertette. Or unless the other smurfettes are ill. Then that is a different story."
Farmer couldn't help but to chuckle at the innocent remark Nursette had made. He looked forward in going on the trip to visit the smurfettes' village.
Papa Smurf came down to the shore and stood near the dock to wait for Dreamy Smurf. He was off to get his captain's hat before joining him in making the introductory speech for the S.S. Sister Smurf. The smurf elder looked down at the special bottle of smurfberry juice and smiled in anticipation for this exciting send off. As he was waiting, Papa Smurf spots Grouchy Smurf walking up towards him. The first thing he noticed was the grumpy smurf was soaked from head to toe. Papa Smurf raised his eyebrow in suspicion knowing all too well that Grouchy doesn't like swimming. In fact, he fears going past his knees.
"Grouchy? Why are you all wet?" Papa Smurf asked.
"Lets just say I HATE redheads, Papa Smurf." Grouchy announced in a fuming tone.
Papa Smurf opened his mouth in order to pursue this conversation when he heard Dreamy calling out to him.
"I'm ready now, Papa Smurf." He cried while adjusting his captain's hat on his head.
"We will talk about this later, Grouchy." Papa Smurf told the Grouchy before following Dreamy down to the dock.
Grouchy Smurf muttered under his breath something about hating 'talking about this later' before sitting down on a large rock in the sunny section on the beach. This way he may dry off quicker. Again he looks up at the dock and spotted Tattlerette, still writing notes down on her pad of paper. He lets out a loud grunt before resting his head in his hands.
Dreamy Smurf, with his captain's hat on his head, walked past the path of smurfs on the dock with Papa Smurf beside him. He remembered the last time he wore his captain's hat and frowned slightly over the failed search party the day after the fateful storm. Dreamy smiled once more as soon as he saw Hefty standing beside Toughette and Mama Smurf near the ceremonial stand in front of the S.S. Sister Smurf. To his surprise, both Hefty and Toughette began to solute the captain of the ship. To Dreamy this was a dream come true. He smiled all the way up the steps, turned, and greeted the crowd with enthusiasm.
Papa Smurf followed him carrying a bottle of special smurfberry juice. He too had a smile on his face. The trip they were about to embark would be most interesting. Papa Smurf couldn't help but to think that if Hefty hadn't been swept away during that bad storm then the smurfs may have never known that there was indeed a whole village of smurfettes that existed. Nothing in the world made him happier then to see his little smurf return home safely. Papa Smurf smiled broadly as he walked past Hefty, whom still stood in a saluting position. The smurf elder motioned Mama Smurf to come up to the stand with him. At first she appeared unsure by Papa Smurf's request, but she was quick to accept his hand and head up the stairs to stand beside Dreamy Smurf.
"It is said, to smurf a great achievement it must first start with a dream." Dreamy Smurf began addressing the crowd. "The S.S. Smurf started out nothing more then a dream to explore the open sea. Thanks to every smurf in this village, that dream became a reality. Ever since then the S.S. Smurf had been the most useful thing we smurfs had built. Now we intend to continue the tradition with the S.S. Sister Smurf. Consider this as a gift from us smurfs to you, the smurfettes." He finishes proudly addressing Mama Smurf beside him.
"This is indeed a most generous gift, smurfs!" Mama Smurf stated with a curtsy.
"It is the least we could do for bring Hefty back to us." Papa smurf again reminded.
"Oh, it was nothing." Valvette waved off, standing at the other end of the stand with Smurfette. She instantly took the credit for the heroic deed. Smurfette stifles a giggle with her hand, while Toughette shakes her head and crosses her arms in irritation.
"Yeah right." The tough smurfette muttered. Toughette nearly jumped when a hand rested on her shoulder. She turned to see Hefty smiling at her knowingly. After reading the soft expression in his eyes, she smiles back at him.
Dreamy Smurf then took the bottle from Papa Smurf and handed it to Mama Smurf. "Mama Smurf, would you care to do the honor in christening the S.S. Sister Smurf?" He asked the smurfette elder.
"Why thank you, Dreamy Smurf." She replied while accepting the bottle.
"Remember to smurf it real hard, Mama Smurf." Hefty called out.
"Thank you Hefty. I'll be sure to do that." Mama Smurf nodded at him. With that said, the smurfette Wiccan pulled her arm back with the bottle firmly in her hand. She then gave it a good thrust forward and let go of it just before the bottle smashes against the ship. The crowd of smurfs and smurfettes cheer with excitement.
"Ooo, our very own ship. This is indeed a very smurfy day." Valvette cooed.
"I'm still not getting on that ship with those…flowers." Toughette snarled hoarsely jerking her thumb up at the white sail with pink flowers sewn on it.
"That's ok Toughette, you can ride with me on the S.S. Smurf." Hefty whispered into her ear.
"Thanks Hefty, that sounds very smurfy." She said with a smile.
Hefty held out his hand for Toughette to accept. As she gently placed her hand into his, he grabs it and tugs her closer to him. With one quick motion, Hefty was able to lift her in a damsel-in-distress manner.
"Hefty, put me down." Toughette spoke with a smile, and yet a sternness in her tone.
"And what would you do if I refuse?" Hefty asked with a mischievous grin.
"Lets just say, if you don't, I'll just embarrass you in front of your fellow smurfs…again." She told him through her smile, and yet her seriousness was recognized through the tone in her voice.
"Oh well. It was worth a shot." The strong smurf said regrettably as he let her down gently.
"Hmm, maybe another time." Toughette offered, suddenly feeling guilty for denying him the honor of carrying her onto the ship.
"Promise?"
"Um, sure."
With that said, Hefty took Toughette's hand into his and together they head for the S.S. Smurf.
"Awe, aren't they a smurfy couple." Smurfette swooned over the romantic sight between the young couple.
"Oh yeah. They are like two little smurf peas in a pod." Valvette added rolling her eyes skyward.
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THREE DAYS LATER…Handy proudly stood admiring how the S.S. Sister Smurf was handling her first journey out on the sea. He rather enjoyed playing captain for a while, since Dreamy was on the S.S. Smurf with the other smurfs and smurfettes. Over on his right, stood Mama Smurf. She quietly observed the smurfs and her young smurfettes mingling with each other aboard the ship.
Smurfette sat happily as her hair was being brushed out and done up nicely by Valvette. Up in the crow's nest Vanity kept his eye out for land, and of course sneaking a look at his reflection in the mirror. He started admiring how his complexion looked in the sunlight.
Gingerette had just come topside with freshly baked muffins and started handing them out to everyone. She first walked over to Cowgirl and Farmer Smurf, whom were passing gardening tips to each other. Mama Smurf's forehead wrinkled with concern as Gingerette's attempted to get Brainette to eat something had once again failed.
Handy just happened to notice Mama Smurf's worried look and turned towards the bow where he saw that Brainette is now again leaning over the side railing. He cringed slightly before drawing his attention back to Mama Smurf.
"Don't worry, I'm sure we will be approaching land soon." He assured her.
"Thank you, Handy Smurf. I'm sure Brainette will be looking forward to that moment." Mama Smurf replied with her eyes still looking worried over Brainette's condition.
"Perhaps for further trips, we should invent a potion that will temporarily fix her nausea? What do you think, Mama Smurf?" Nursette suggested walking up on Handy's left.
"That's a smurfy idea, Nursette." Mama Smurf nodded her approval before drawing her attention, back out onto the deck below.
Handy looked over to Nursette, then to the wheel, then back to Nursette. "Say, Nursette, would you like to try steering for while?" He asked her.
"Oh no. I couldn't." The blond smurfette nervously tried to back away. "What I mean to say is, you're doing a smurftacular job. I would just mess it up probably."
"Are you sure? I bet you would make a fine captain." Handy said to her in a flattering way.
"But Handy, my skills are in medicine, not technology. I believe that is your department." Nursette smiled bashfully as she started to play with her long braided hair.
"It'll be alright Nursette. I'll be right beside you if anything goes wrong." Handy again tries convincing her one last time.
Nursette looks over to Mama Smurf to see what she has to say about all of this. Mama Smurf nods, letting her know it'll be ok to try the steering wheel. With that extra confidence from Mama Smurf, Nursette took a step up towards Handy.
"Alright," she said, "but you promise to step in if anything goes wrong?"
"Of course." Handy says with confidence. "Ok, place your hands at ten O'clock and two O'clock on the wheel. That way you will be able to steer with more control."
Carefully Nursette does as instructed before Handy releases his grip from the wheel, allowing her to have full control over the wheel. "Whoa. This is kind of fun." She grinned, feeling the powerful motion from the wheel.
"See, I knew you could do it." Handy stated positively. He took a step back to admire how good she looked steering the ship.
"Could do what?" Gingerette asked as she got to the top step onto the Captain's Deck of the ship.
"Look Gingerette. I'm a nurse and a captain now." Nursette giggled.
"Very good." Gingerette giggled back. "I brought some freshly baked muffins. Any of you hungry?"
"That sounds smurfingly wonderful, thanks Gingerette." Mama Smurf smiled as she reached for a muffin off the serving tray the redhead smurfette was holding.
"Thanks." Handy said as he too accepted a muffin from the smurfette chef.
"Uh, um," Nursette nervously looked at the tray of muffins and at the steering wheel, unsure which she should rather have.
Sensing Nursette's confusion, Handy reached for the steering wheel with his free hand. "I've got it." He told her.
"Thanks Handy." Nursette said gratefully. "And thank you, Gingerette." She nodded to her redheaded sister before taking a muffin from the tray.
"SMURF HO!" Vanity suddenly called out from the crow's nest.
"Smurf ho?" Brainette says looking up from over the railing.
"I believe that is sailor talk for approaching land." Farmer explained to the brunette.
"Yes, Farmer, I can see that. Thanks." Brainette looked over to the smurf and attempted to smile. "And believe me, those are the smurfest words I could ever hear."
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MEANWHILE ON THE S.S. SMURFPoet Smurf looked out in the crow's nest to keep an eye out for land, while at the same time he got an inspiration to write a poem about this journey. On the deck below, Tattlerette focused on writing down the details of the journey to the Smurf Village. Off in the corner of the ship, Greedy Smurf took this opportunity to finish off Brainy's portion of the lunch that was served earlier.
Out of the blue a trumpet sound was heard, and for once it actually sounded in tune. Every smurf and smurfette looked over to where the sound originated from and was shocked to see it actually came from Harmony Smurf.
"Bravo, Harmony!" Melody cheered. "You played that note beautifully. It took you three days to learn it, but non the less, you played it like a pro."
"Thanks to your coaching, Melody." Harmony grinned.
"Gee, it looks like some smurfs and smurfettes are getting along really well." Toughette commented.
"Yeah." Hefty agreed. He then flung his arm around Toughette and pulled her gently closer to him. "But not as well as we get along."
"True." The golden-haired smurfette grined. "I almost wish that this trip would never end."
"I understand. And like we both said before. We will make the best of it while we can." Hefty lifted her chin up so that they can see eye to eye. "I haven't gone back home yet, Toughette."
"I know. It's just…" Toughette was cut off when Hefty placed his index finger on top of her lips.
"Shh, lets just enjoy this moment." He hushed her before bring his face closer to hers.
"Alright," she muttered as she closed her eyes.
Both of their lips were about to touch when a loud groan followed by regurgitating noise came from the smurf beside them.
"Yuck! Gross!" Toughette complained in discussed.
"Oh way to kill the mood, Brainy." Hefty spat, throwing his hands up in the air.
"I don't know what's making me sicker; the motion of the ship, or you two making lovey-dovey eyes at each other." Brainy groaned.
"Watch it Brainy, or I just may throw you over that railing so you can join that lunch you just threw up." Toughette warned the smarty smurf.
"I believe that was breakfast. I didn't eat lunch." Brainy corrected her.
"It doesn't matter, Brainy. One more crack like that, and you will be swimming to the Smurfette Village." Hefty growled.
"Come on Hefty, lets go sit at the other end of the ship. The view is better over there." Toughette said taking Hefty's hand, and guided him away from Brainy.
Captain Dreamy Smurf couldn't help but to chuckle over the scene between Hefty, Toughette, and Brainy. Being that he stood behind the steering wheel up on the Captain's Deck, he had the best spot over looking the lower deck of the ship.
"What's so funny, Captain Dreamy?" Papa Smurf asked, pulling his attention away from the map in his hands.
"Oh, just finding the event on the lower deck amusing, Papa Smurf." Dreamy explained to his elder.
"SMURF HO!" Poet Smurf called out from up in the crow's nest.
"Ah, right on schedule." Papa Smurf grinned. "I'll go down and prepare the others for docking." He adds while rolling the map up neatly.
"Alright, Papa Smurf."