Chapter 3: All A Shore
Three smurfettes sat on the beach just outside of the smurfette village. Each of them took this moment as they enjoyed the rays from the early afternoon sun. They gossip amongst themselves on how their day has been so far. One of them looked up and saw that two smurf-sized ships heading towards their shore.
"Whoa!" The smurfette dressed in black and covered in soot cried out.
"What do you see Sweepette?" A smurfette with braided amber hair followed her sister's gaze out to the sea. "Wow, look at that." She gasped.
"That one sail looks rather smurfy with the flowers on it." Cooed a brunette smurfette sitting beside her.
The other two smurfettes nod in agreement.
Another smurfette walked up from behind the three smurfettes. She stood for a moment scratching at her bleach-blond head as she too noticed the two ships ascending closer to shore.
"Wonder where those ships came from? I wish Mama Smurf was here to tell us what those ships are and where they came from. Have you ever thought of when Mama and the others would return?" Gosipette started saying. She squinted her eyes to narrow her vision aboard one of the ships. It is unclear, but it does look like some of the smurfettes, including Mama Smurf waving to them on the shore. "Say, you don't suppose that could be Mama Smurf and the others on one of those ships? I -"
"I hope so, Gosipette." The amber haired smurfette quickly said, cutting her gabby sister off.
Sweepette spun her head over to her sisters, making her laced jet black hair pigtail pom-pom sway. "Looks like they are heading straight for our dock on the east side of the beach. We need to go tell the other smurfettes. Come on, let's go!" She said excitably.
The four smurfettes ran off the beach without further delay.
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MEANWHILE ON THE S.S. SMURF"Ah, home away from home." Hefty sighed as he looked upon the familiar sights of the smurfette village.
"Yeah. I never thought I would miss this place so much." Toughette admitted. "It's good to be back." She looked up at Hefty with a bright smile, but it quickly turned into a frown. "It's just too bad you won't be staying."
"Well, I'll visit often. Not only that, but you guys have your own ship now too, so you can also come visit me and the other smurfs." Hefty attempted to sound positive, but realized he failed when Toughette turned away from him with a pouty look on her face.
"It's just won't be the same." She whined.
Hefty again let out another sigh, only this time he shared in with Toughette's sadness. He decided to put his arm around his girlfriend's shoulder in hopes that this would help her feel a bit more supported.
Papa Smurf walked by and noticed the young couple staring out at the approaching land with long faces. He felt they should be happier for some reason. The smurf elder rubbed his white-bearded chin and pondered on what could be on their minds.
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MOMENTS LATER…Most of the smurfettes by now have heard the word of two unknown ships sailing up towards their dock. Soon the whole shore became crowded with blue smurfettes in pink dresses, each one with a curious and bewildered look on their faces. Some brave smurfettes even walked up onto the dock as the S.S. Sister Ship slowly came to a docking position. To the smurfettes delight they saw Cowgirl poking her head over the railing.
"Hey, sisters! Catch!" She called out to the smurfettes on the dock just before tossing them a rope.
"What do you want us to do with this Cowgirl?" A raven-haired smurfette in lavender over alls asked after catching the rope.
"Holy crow's feet, girl. I'm I to do all the thinking for ya? Tie it to the dock so this ship won't float away." Cowgirl cried out.
"Oh." The raven-haired smurfette, along with two other smurfettes did as instructed and tied the rope onto one of the beams of the dock tightly.
As soon as the ramp from the ship touched the dock, Gosipette took this opportunity to run up it and board the ship. She stoped in her tracks when she is greeted by the ship's crew.
"Wow, more smurfs. Welcome to the Smurfette Village, hope you enjoy your stay. Where are the others? Oh, never mind. I see they are on the other ship that is docking. I'll probably catch up with them later." She turned from other ship to notice Vanity Smurf walking up to her. "Hey! What a smurfy hat you got on. Love the flower you've stuck in it. Reminds me of Floraette's Garden. Say, there's Mama Smurf. Gotta smurf. Again, enjoy your stay!" Gosipette spat out in one breath at the same time shaking Smurfette, Farmer, Handy, and Vanity's hand, before skipping off.
"What was that?" Vanity finally spoke. He couldn't help to stare at the gabby smurfette as she now started to talk to Mama Smurf and Brainette.
"Yeah, it sounded like a hurricane just flew past here." Farmer added.
"That was Gosipette. Don't worry. No one really understands her. Come on, let's introduce you to the others." Cowgirl chuckled as she leads everyone off the ship.
Mama Smurf helped Brainette up from the floor of the ship. Brainette found out along the journey that any type of movement was not good for her, so she tried to sit in one spot in order to reduce the feeling of her queasy stomach. Even now, that the ship is docked, Brainette was still feeling seasick.
"It's ok Brainette. We are home now. As soon as we get to my house, I'll whip you up some medicine tea to help the nausea to settle down." Mama Smurf said soothingly.
Brainette responded by nodding her head slightly.
"Mama Smurf! Mama Smurf!" Gosipette cried out as she ran up to the two smurfettes.
"Can this wait Gosipette? I need to help Brainette to shore." Mama Smurf told the bleach-blond smurfette.
"But Mama Smurf, so much has happened since you and the others left. First Craftette and Astrologette argued on how we are going to put together the decorations for the fall celebrations. Craftette wanted to use the autumn leaves to place on display, while Astrologette wanted to do an astrology theme. I of course said that they should wait for you to come home before making such decisions. Next Babette, for some unanswered reason, wouldn't stop crying. We all tried everything to calm her down. We sang, told stories, and yet nothing would get her to stop crying. That's when the tremors started. And boy there were some real doozies."
"Tremors?" Mama Smurf cut her off.
"Yeah. You know, the ground shakes and so does everyone else." Gosipette explaind while at the same time demonstrating what a smurfette looked like when everything shook.
"Oh, please don't do that." Brainette begged. She felt more seasick just by looking at Gosipette shake herself.
"Gee Brainette. What's the matter with you?" Asked Gosipette. She looked at her troubled sister with concern. "You remind me of the time -"
"Gosipette," Mama Smurf held her free hand up to cut off the talkative smurfette. "She's not feeling well." Mama Smurf explains for Brainette. "Perhaps you could assist me in bringing her to my lab."
"Oh, sure thing, Mama Smurf." Nodded Gosipette. The bleach blond smurfette bounced the other side of Brainette and brought her sick sister's arm over her shoulder.
"Now tell me more about these tremors. When did they start?" Mama Asked, taking a step back in the topic of discussion.
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The S.S. Smurf just finished docking and its crew was now descending off the ship. The last to walk down the ramp were Captain Dreamy and Papa Smurf. They were instantly delighted when a small group of smurfettes greeted them. Each one shook their hand and introduced themselves to the smurfs pleasantly.
"And here in the lavender over-alls, is Floraette." Cowgirl introduced the smurfette with raven hair.
"Nice to meet you all." Floraette waved bashfully. She looked up at Vanity's hat and smiled. "By the way, nice flower you got there. If I'm not mistaken that is a carnation. A very lovely choice for this time of year."
"Why thank you. However did you know?" Vanity said flatteringly as he admired himself in the reflection of his mirror.
"Flowers are my specialty that is why they call me Floraette." She chuckled.
"Oh, you must come to the Smurf Village sometime and give me some pointers on how I can improve my flower garden." Cooed Smurfette.
"I'd love too." Floraette smiled.
After a few hugs have been exchanged everyone was guided back to the smurfette village.
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MOMENTS LATER, IN MAMA SMURF'S HOME…"Here Brainy, I couldn't help noticing you too are feeling a tad seasick from our journey." Mama Smurf acknowledged in a nurturing manner. She handed him a cup of special herb medicine tea. "Drink this. It'll settle your stomach down."
"Thanks." Brainy accepted the hot beverage, and began blowing on it in order to cool it down before sipping it.
Mama Smurf smiled when she saw that Brainy was starting to look better after a couple of sips from her tea. Satisfied to know that her medicine helped, she turned to Papa Smurf.
"Papa Smurf I was wondering if you would be interested in coming with me while I go visit a friend." She asks him.
"Sure. That sounds smurfy." Papa Smurf responded with a nod.
"Good. I shall like to leave as soon as possible." Mama Smurf announced as she hurried to grab a few things from her herb table and placed them carefully into her carry pouch.
"What's the hurry if you don't mind me asking?" Papa Smurf questioned.
"Well, two reasons. One I promised my friend I'd come by as soon as I got back. And two, there are a few concerns I wish to ask her about."
"Oh?" Papa Smurf appeared slightly puzzled over Mama Smurfs hurried attitude suddenly. He had been so far in his wondering thoughts that he didn't realize that the elderly red-capped female was already at the door and heading out. She stopped to look back at him.
"Aren't you coming, Papa Smurf?" She asked him.
"Er, right." Papa Smurf said, shaking himself back to reality.
"Have fun, Papa Smurf." Hefty chimed with his arm around Toughette.
"Be good, young ones. We shan't be gone long." Mama Smurf warned before heading out the door.
"We will." Many of the surrounding smurfettes chorused.
The smurfs and smurfettes watched as the elders walk off before turning to each other and starting a conversation. Hefty beamed a grin at Toughette.
"I guess we can take this opportunity to show the smurfs around the village." He said.
"I got a better idea," she responded, as she removed his hand from her shoulder carefully. "Why don't you show the smurfs around the village, while I go and wash my hair."
"Boy, for a tom-smurf you sure like to wash your hair a lot." Hefty grumbled heavily.
"Give me a break Hefty. I haven't washed my hair in three days since we went sailing on that ship. And besides, I was planning on wearing that fancy blue dress that I wore during the Blue Moon Ball. You know, just to do something special for our last day together." Toughette flirted with him by batting her eyes playfully at him.
"Really?" The strong smurf said. His eyes widen in anticipation.
"Yup. But it wouldn't be worth it if my hair is a mess, if you know what I mean."
"Well, by all means, go wash your hair then." Hefty said as he gave her a little push towards the door. Toughette couldn't help but to giggle on how easy it is to please him.
"What a smurftacular idea!" Valvette crowed. "Come Smurfette, you have to indulge yourself in the experience of being in our Smurfette Spa."
"Ooo, that sounds so smurfy." Smurfette cooed excitably.
"A spa? Oh I could defiantly go for something like that right about now." Vanity hinted to the smurfettes as he once again admired his complexion in his hand held mirror.
"Naw-ah, smurfettes only. Sorry Vanity." Valvette sang as she shook her finger in a lecturing manner at him. Both her and Smurfette start walking out the door, giggling amongst themselves.
"Awe, that's not fair." Vanity pouted as he watched more smurfettes follow them out the door, also echoing the idea of going to the spa.
Hefty stifled a chuckle behind his hand. "Gee Vanity, if it means so much to you I'll ask Mama Smurf if you could go in the spa for a few minutes later tonight when she returns." He offers.
"Oh that would be smurfy Hefty. Thank you!" Vanity smiled gratefully at Hefty.
"Ah." Brainy sounded satisfied as he finished the tea and placed the cup onto the table beside him.
"Feeling better, Brainy?" Poet Smurf asked.
"Yes, much better. That tea really works." Brainy answered rubbing his stomach happily.
"Mama Smurf is very good when it comes to medicines. Her medicine can also strengthen bones too." Hefty said as he lightly tapped his once injured ribs on his left side.
"That's great, Hefty. But didn't you say something about a tour of the village?" Handy Smurf hinted.
"Oh right. You wanna come, Brainette?" Hefty asked noticing that smartest smurfette was the only smurfette left sitting with the smurfs.
"I was actually thinking of going to join my smurfette sisters in the spa, but thanks anyway." Brainette replied in her usual monotone voice. She places her cup on the table then got up off her seat and headed out the door.
"Boy, she lacks a personality." Brainy absently muttered once the brunette smurfette left the room.
"She's not that bad once you get to know her, Brainy." Hefty said. "Speaking of which, there's so much to show all of you. Come on!" He added with pride as he lead the rest of the smurfs out the door.