Chapter 6: The Tour
"Here is the home I stayed in for the last two years." Hefty explained to his fellow smurfs once they came up to a mushroom house painted white with a blue and white polka-dots on the roof. He opened the door in order to give them a proper tour of the interior.
"What's that strange smell?" Greedy asked as he walked in. He scrunched his nose up, as he tried to decide if he likes the smell or hates it.
"Oh, that is just incense. And," Hefty paused to sniff the air, "a bit of sage."
"Gee, Hefty. We didn't realize you are into that sort of thing." Handy chuckled. "Guess living with a whole village of smurfettes really did have an effect on you." The other smurfs stifled their giggles without success.
"Actually, I'm not." Hefty grumbled. "One of the smurfettes must have came in this morning and smudged this room."
"Smudged?" Harmony asked, scratching his head curiously.
"It's a Wiccan thing. Don't ask." Hefty waved off. He certainly was not in the mood to try and explain something he barely knows anything about.
"Oh." Nodded the smurf musician.
"Anyway, it beats having to come home and seeing my home all boarded up." The strong smurf added. He emphasized by crossing his arms and staring down at Handy with an irritated look.
"You're not going to let that go, are you?" Handy asked with a guilty expression.
"Nope." Hefty replied with a smirk.
"So what else is there to see, Hefty?" Farmer Smurf spoke up.
"What isn't there to see? Come on, I'll show you around the village." Hefty herded the smurfs out of his house.
As the smurfs followed Hefty, this gave them the opportunity to look around in all directions and take in the scenery. They were captivated with the entire setup of the whole village. Almost every corner stood one or more smurfettes mingling, and going about with their chores. Every so often they would look up at the nine smurfs that wandered by. It didn't take much for the smurfs to notice the smurfettes giggling and batting their eyes at them. Each smurf beamed with pride on how much recognition they were receiving from the residence of this village. The only one smurf that didn't seem to care much for this attention was Hefty. Mostly of the fact he had been used to it by now.
"Wow Hefty. I'm surprised that you would ever want to return home. Just look at this place." Brainy finally spoke.
"Brainy!" Dreamy hissed. Somehow he felt that what Brainy said was inappropriate.
"No, it's ok Dreamy. The fact is, even though I will miss this place I am also relieved that I'll be going back home to the Smurf Village." Hefty said.
"How so?" Poet asked.
"Well just look around you, smurfs." Hefty stopped and threw his arms in the air.
"Gee, a whole village surrounded by smurfettes. How horrible for you." Vanity teased before eyeing himself in his handheld mirror. The other smurfs laughed.
"It's not that." Hefty let out a frustrated huff. "Look at the houses."
"They're pink." Poet Smurf deduced as he looked around. "Well, most of them anyway."
"Exactly! If I see one more pink house I think I'll just smurf!" Hefty exaggerated before turning around to carry on with his tour.
The other smurfs simply gave each other a perplexed look, shrugged, and continued to follow the strong smurf through the village.
"Alright, over there is Gingerette's house." Hefty paused to sniff the air. "Smells like she is already baking up a storm."
"Mmm, I wonder if she wouldn't mind passing out a few samples." Greedy wondered as he licked his lips in anticipation.
"Maybe later she might," Hefty shrugged. "And over there, where you hear that beautiful piano music is Melody's home." He continued. "Everyday she practices at least one or two of her instruments. Then after she will practice singing a few songs."
"I must admit. Her playing is very smurfy." Harmony said while holding his trumpet up to his face as if he wanted to play too.
"Yeah, and if you want to continue on this tour you won't play your trumpet, Harmony." Hefty warned. As they continued down the path, Hefty pointed over to the left. "Over there is Nursette's clinic. We'll go there later."
Just then the smurfs heard a female scream coming from above. As they looked up, a blond smurfette with short pigtails, and bangs that drape over her eyes slid off the roof of the house beside them. Brainy just happened to be in the right spot in order to catch her before she landed hard onto the ground.
"Nice catch Brainy." Harmony applauded.
"Oh, hi." The smurfette giggled with embarrassment. "I'm sorry about this. I can be such a klutz sometimes."
"I see." Brainy raised his eyebrow at how familiar she seemed to a particular smurf back home.
"Uh, smurfs this is Klutzette." Hefty started to introduce.
"Why did that not surprise me?" Chuckled Brainy as he started to let Klutzette down.
"Klutzette this is Dreamy, Handy, Greedy, Farmer, Harmony, Vanity, Poet, and the smurf who caught you is Brainy."
"Hi." She bashfully waves at each of the smurfs.
"Klutzette, do I dare ask how and why you smurfed from the roof?" Hefty asked with a sigh.
"Well, it's rather embarrassing. I was trying to fix my bedroom curtains when I slipped off my stool and fell out of the window." The small blond smurfette explained. "By the way, thanks again for catching me." She smiled up at Brainy.
"Don't mention it, really." Brainy replied, rubbing his sore arms. The unexpected reaction of someone dropping on him made it feel like he just caught a tone of bricks. "Might I suggest you stay away from windows for a while."
"Thanks for the advice, Brainy. I should get back to cleaning my room though. Nice meeting all of you, bye." Klutzette waved at the smurfs before making her way back into her house.
The sound of an infant crying brought the smurfs attention to another section of the village. They followed Hefty to where the noise was coming from. Just as Hefty came around the corner of one of the smurfette houses a foot wearing a pink ballet slipper reached upward, nearly hitting him in the face.
"Oh. Sorry Hefty. I didn't see you coming." A blond smurfette in a pink tutu said with a bashful smile.
"That's ok, Ballette." Hefty said waving his hand off to one side. His attention immediately went down to where a tiny baby smurfette sat, crying at the top of her lungs.
"What's the matter with Babette? Why is she crying like that?" He asked.
"I'm not sure. She's been acting up shortly after you and the other smurfettes went to find your village. Speaking of which," Ballette looked over Hefty's shoulder to see the other smurfs. She smiled and waved at them. "Hi there." She said in a flirting way.
"Hi." Poet said in a soft dreamy state, while the others simply just waved back.
"Ah, she probably just misses me." Hefty chuckled as he picked up little Babette and gave her a bit, but gentle hug. The baby smurfette sniffles a little before smiling up at him through her tears.
"I wish that was the problem." Ballette groaned, rolling her eyes out of exhaust. "I've tried everything to calm her down, even tried dancing for her. That is when you came by, Hefty."
"Well, she seems to be calm now." Hefty commented as he wipes a stray tear off Babette's cheek.
"She does, doesn't she?" Ballette cooed. She leaned on Hefty's shoulder to see Babette relaxed and feeling safe in the strong smurf's arms. "Er, Hefty? You wouldn't mind looking after her for a while, would you?"
"Er, I guess. Why? What's up?" Hefty asked the smurfette dancer.
"Oh, nothing too serious. I just need to go finish a few of my chores, but couldn't with Babette crying all the time." Ballette explained. "Anyway, I won't be long, I promise. It was nice meeting you all." She announced before she ran off gracefully.
"She's got the longest smurf legs I have ever seen." Poet softly mentioned with his eyes still fixed on Ballette.
"Yeah, wait till you see her dance." Hefty chuckled.
"I bet she is like poetry in motion." The bard smurf swooned.
"Er, right. Moving on." Hefty lead the smurfs further down the village with Babette snuggled in his arms.
"It's too bad our experience with the spa was cut short, but still I believe we have achieved quite a bit in one afternoon." Valvette's voice was heard coming around the corner.
The smurfs stopped to see the beautiful brunette smurfette exiting her home, while at the same time talking to someone that was still inside.
"Hey Valvette, whatcha doing?" Hefty called out to her.
"Oh good, you're just in time for the unveiling." Valvette said, barely containing her excitement.
"Unveiling? Of what?" Asked the strong smurf. Babette stretched out her little jaw into a yawn. She looked around before snuggling up against Hefty's chest once more.
"I do believe I did it again. The fashion genius that I am, of course." Valvette took pride with her achievements even before showing them off to the smurfs.
"Any idea on what she is talking about?" Handy questioned in a whisper to Hefty.
"Handy. You're asking the wrong smurf." Hefty shook his head.
"I'm going to ignore that remark," Valvette glared at Hefty for a brief moment before she raised her hands up with a proud smile once more. "Now, introducing the new and improved… Smurfette! Yeaaa!" She cheered gleefully. Smurfette stepped out through the open door, revealing a whole new outfit much similar to Valvette but in pink with lavender frills on the puffy sleeves and bottom of her skirt. Her blond hair is fashionably braided and draped over one shoulder. She was even wearing make up with pink eye shadow and pink lipstick.
"Hi there, boys. What do you think?" Smurfette said in a soft sexy voice.
"Whoa!" All the smurfs chorused at once.
"You look very smurfy, Smurfette." Dreamy finally comments after finding his voice.
"Why thank you, Dreamy." Smurfette cooed.
"See. I told you they'd love it." Valvette proudly smiled. Smurfette nodded back at her.
"Far be it from me to upstage an 'unveiling', but…here I am." Another familiar female called out from behind. The smurfs turned and did a double take. There stood in their midst, a smurfette with long golden hair in a baby blue stylish dress that reached to the ground.
"Is that Toughette?" Brainy asked in disbelief.
"It sure is." Hefty responded with a dreamy look in his eye.
"Love that dress." Vanity commented as Toughette walked passed him.
"Thanks. It's actually the only one I have." Admitted the strong smurfette.
"Borrowed." Valvette reminded her sternly. "And I still expect that back, you know."
"Whatever." Toughette shrugged. She turned to Hefty and grinned satisfyingly over the sight of him staring at her like a lost puppy dog. "Well, what do you think?" She asked him, addressing her 'pretty' look.
"I think…Handy better hold Babette for a while." Hefty quickly said before handing the baby smurfette to his best friend.
"Hey!" Complained the carpenter smurf. He would have preferred that Hefty would ask before just throwing the baby into his arms.
Hefty bent forward, grabbed Toughette's hand, and kissed it before asking, "would you like to join us on the rest of the tour?"
"Sure, why not. I don't have anything else planned this afternoon." Toughette shrugged in a flirty way.
"Awe, how romantic." Smurfette cooed.
"Er, you two want to join us?" Hefty asked both Smurfette and Valvette, more so to be polite then anything.
"Smurfs, smurfs, smurfs." Sighed Valvette. She shook her index finger at them in a lecturing manner. "Smurfette gets to hang with you all the time. For once in her life give her the chance to actually hang around with other smurfettes. Speaking of which, come Smurfette there is much more to show you." The smurfette in the purple dress looped her arm around Smurfette's and guided her away.
"Later smurfs." Giggled Smurfette.
"Boy, aren't they special." Toughette commented sarcastically. Hefty stifles a chuckle over her cleaver wit.
Brainy shook his head just before something caught his eye. He peered over to see Brainette hammering some kind of sign into the ground. "Say, what is Brainette doing over there?" He wondered out loud.
Stricken with curiosity, the tour group walked up to the smart smurfette just as she finished hammering the sign into the ground. When Brainette moved to one side, the smurfs could now actually read what the sign said.
"Closed?" Toughette cried in shock. "Brainette, why are you closing the spa?"
"Yeah, what gives? I was going to ask Mama Smurf if Vanity could use the spa later." Hefty asked in a concern tone.
"Yeah," whined Vanity.
"That would not be advisable." Brainette responded calmly at the same time pushing her glasses up against her face.
"Why not?" Dreamy asked.
"Because, there is something not quite right with the spring water. I will have to discuss the matter further with Mama Smurf either when she gets back, or first thing tomorrow morning. Until then, no one is allowed in. Understood?" The smart smurfette ordered in a very serious tone.
"No. I don't understand. I was just there not too long ago, and everything seemed fine." Toughette complained.
"Well, shortly after you left we started to notice that something strange was happening with the water." Brainette explained. "By the way, nice dress." She added, noticing Toughette's looks without even changing much of her expression or tone.
"Uh, yeah. Thanks." Toughette stammered. "What do you mean by 'something strange'? Brainette, you are not making any sense." Toughette threw her arms in the air, as she demanded to know the truth.
"Fine. If you must know the pool is getting hotter by the second with no sign of cooling back down to its normal temperature. The other smurfettes and I managed to get out of the water just before it began to boil. This happened just moments after you left, Toughette. That is why I am putting this sign up for no one to use the spa until Mama Smurf and I can go in and do some tests." Brainette explained.
"Wow, that sounds serious." Handy gasped.
"ARG! MY GARDEN!" A distressed female voice suddenly cried out.
Again all the smurfs, along with Toughette and Brainette, ran to investigate the crisis. They arrived at the vegetable garden to see Cowgirl looking like she is about attack Floraette.
"How could you let this happen to my prized vegetables, Floraette?" Cowgirl screeched.
"What are you talking about? I watered them! Just how you wanted me too." Floraette screamed back in defiance.
"You must be jokin' me, girl, because my garden did not look like this before I left." Cowgirl cried out - fuming with anger.
"Hay! What's with the hostility here?" Farmer Smurf called out.
"Yeah. What happened?" Harmony asked.
"Floraette killed my garden! That is what happened here!" Cowgirl accused angrily.
"I did not!" Floraette snapped defensibly. "If there is one thing I do know that is how to take care of a garden, you half-wit!"
"Oh that does it! It's go time!" Growled Cowgirl as she started rolling up her long pink sleeve shirt.
"Smurfettes, cool it! If I weren't wearing a dress right now, I'd knock you both down on your tails!" Toughette spoke firmly, as she jumped in between the two angry smurfettes.
"Toughette has a point. Now settle down!" Hefty demanded as he too got in between Cowgirl and Floraette. He turned to his fellow smurfs and asked, "Farmer, maybe you can see what happened to the garden."
"Way ahead of you, Hefty." Farmer stated as he started investigating the dead vegetables. He leaned over a couple of the withered leaves of some of the planted lettuces, and ponders over their condition. After examining them with his touch, he finds out what didn't kill the plants.
"Well, I recon it's not that they weren't watered." He announced. "I believe something else killed your garden, Cowgirl."
"See, I told you it wasn't my fault." Spat Floraette.
"Ok, if it wasn't the careless acts of Floraette, then what happened to them?" Cowgirl huffed.
Suddenly a scent caught Brainette's nose. She began to sniff the air in order to get a better of an understanding of what the odor could be and where it was coming from. "Do you smell that?" She asked out loud.
Everyone began to mimic Brainette and started sniffing the air to catch the same odor she smelt.
"Yeah, I do smell it. I just can't place it, but I know I smelt it before." Handy nodded.
"I think it's coming from over there." Brainette guesses by pointing to a dead looking bush beside the garden. She walked up to it and pulled back some of the brown withered leaves. She is stunned to see some kind of steam spewing up from the ground.
"Gas?" Handy spoke from over Brainette's shoulder.
Curiously Brainette moved her hand up towards the steamy gas, and quickly pulled back once she realized the temperature of it. "Hot gas! In fact this whole soiled area is feeling quite warm." She confirmed by also touching the ground around her.
"What the smurf is going on around here!" Cowgirl demanded.
"Well, as soon as Mama Smurf gets back, we-" Brainette was suddenly cut off by a bunch of smurfettes screaming back in the village. "Now what?" She growled before running in the direction of the screaming.
"Trolls? By the looks there are at least six of them." Floraette cried out as soon as she saw the intruders.
"How did they ever find our village?" Toughette demanded.
"I don't know, but we better do something to get them out now. Come on smurfs!" Hefty ordered before he rushed off to battle the trolls.
"Hey! I still have Babette here!" Handy called out to his best friend, but he was to far ahead to hear him. Desperate, Handy turns to the closest smurfette. "Here look after her, while I help the other smurfs." He said handing the baby smurfette to Floraette.
"Yeah, you look after her better then you did with my garden. Ya hear?" Cowgirl warned. Floraette shot a glare at the reddish-brown haired smurfette as she watched her run off to join in the fight.
"It's amazing what one can find just by taking a different walking path. Right Snargle?" One troll asked another.
"You got that right, Ngourt." The other troll responded.
"The troll king will be pleased if we can get him a few of this fine blue beauties back to the caves." The third troll said with an evil grin.
"Good idea. Fan out trolls and grab as many of these smurfettes as you can carry." Ngourt ordered. The other five trolls did as commanded and start to run after some of the closest smurfettes.
The first smurfette one troll grabs was Ballette. Poet saw this act and ran up as fast as his little legs could carry him. "Unhand her, you roughen." Poet Smurf spoke in the most demanding voice he could muster.
"Out of the way! We are only interested in the pretty ones." The troll snapped, pushing Poet off his feet. Poet felt helpless as he watched the troll run off with Ballette over his shoulder.
"Ow! Let me go!" Gingerette Screamed as one of the trolls started dragging her by the arm.
"You heard the smurfette! Let her go!" Greedy demanded, just before picking up a freshly baked pie that had been sitting on Gingerette's windowsill. He threw it into the troll's face. The hot juicy berries inside the pie began to burn the troll's face. As he reacted quickly to the hot pie juice he let go of the redhead smurfette and ran off screaming in agony.
"As much as I hate to see good food wasted I thank you for saving me." Gingerette said gratefully.
"Awe, shucks. It was nothing." Greedy blushed.
Another troll grabbed Nursette and Melody. He threw them both over his shoulders as he ran towards to forest. Harmony jumped in front of the troll and quickly started to play his trumpet. The off-key noise became so loud and irritating that both smurfettes covered their ears in order to block the sound. The troll, himself, even found the noise too much too handle. He tried to cover his ears too, but soon realized that he couldn't carry the smurfettes and block his hearing at the same time.
"Hey ugly!" Hefty called out to him.
"Over here!" Handy also hollered after.
The troll turned to face the smurfs that spoke to him, and as he did, both Hefty and Handy punched him square in the nose. A little dazed, the troll released the smurfettes without realizing he is doing so. Hefty grabs Melody before she hit the ground, and Handy caught Nursette. The troll shook the cobwebs out when he heard Harmony still playing his trumpet. He couldn't take it anymore. The troll ran off as fast he could, away from the smurfs. Before Hefty and Handy could chase after him they heard Smurfette screaming at the other end of the village.
"Help!" Screeched Smurfette as a troll picked her and Valvette up. "Oh, somebody help us!"
"Let us go you filthy, stinky slug!" Valvette crowed, kicking and flinging her fists up against the troll's body with little reaction from the troll.
The troll ran off with the two smurfettes before the smurfs could catch up to him.
"Boy, what a time to be smurfing around in a dress." Toughette mutters as she stumbled through the screaming crowd of smurfettes. She stopped when one of the trolls jumped out in front of her.
"Well, aren't you all fancy with that dress and all." Ngourt snarled.
Toughette snarled back before getting into a fighting stance. But she didn't get a chance to defend herself, because another troll snuck up behind her and whacked a thick club down on the back of her head. Toughette blacked out before she could even realize what had happened. Ngourt caught her as she fell forward and threw her over his shoulder. The other trolls ran up to their leader with the other three smurfettes they managed to capture. Before the smurfs and smurfettes could jump them to rescue their comrades, Ngourt held up three little balls. He quickly slammed them hard onto the ground and a cloud of smoke flew out from them which enabled the trolls to escape into the woods unseen by the smurfs and smurfettes.
"TOUGHETTE!" Hefty cried out, but it was too late. The captured smurfettes and the trolls have disappeared.