Clumsy and Pansy, meanwhile, talked to Papa Smurf about letting the Pussywillow Pixies move in with them in the forest. Papa Smurf saw nothing wrong with this, especially since doing so would protect the pixies from the wartmongers forever, but knew that it was really up to Elderberry.
"Elderberry, Clumsy and Pansy were talking to me about you and the other pixies moving into our forest now that we have the protection spell surrounding us." Papa Smurf said.
"Well...it is a sweet idea, clever even, but our home is in Pussywillow Hallow." Elderberry said regretfully. "And it would be hard to move away from all our pussywillows."
"I understand." Papa Smurf said solemnly.
He then left to tell Clumsy and Pansy what Elderberry said. Afterward Papa Smurf then left to rejoin the party.
"I guess after the celebration is over we'll have to say goodbye." Clumsy said sadly.
"I'll see about that." Pansy said determinedly, flying over to Elderberry.
"Elderberry, please, moving here would be safest for us." Pansy pleaded. "You know as well as I do that the wartmongers are getting even more desperate."
"I know, but we were meant to live among pussywillows." Elderberry said gently.
"What about Marina? It's obvious she's meant to be with Handy Smurf more than she's meant to live in the ocean." Pansy pointed out.
Elderberry smiled.
"You're in love with Clumsy, aren't you?" She said knowingly.
Pansy first opened her mouth to deny it, but then closed her mouth and hung her head with a blush.
"I-I am." Pansy admitted.
"I understand dear, but we can't be separated from our pussywillows for very long." Elderberry said sympathetically.
"Well...maybe we can move some pussywillows here." Pansy suggested.
Elderberry was stunned, this was Pansy's first wise suggestion!
"Pansy, that's-that's brilliant!" Elderberry smiled. "Of course, I'm sure the pussywillows can grow here as well as they do at Pussywillow Hollow. Wait here, I'm going to go see what the other pixies think."
Pansy called Clumsy over and told him what was going on. Clumsy smiled, maybe he and Pansy could be together after all.
The other pixies didn't need much convincing about moving themselves and some pussywillows into the Smurfs' forest. They were too tired of hiding and flying away from the wartmongers to protest about leaving their home. They were surprised when they found out that moving the pussywillows was Pansy's idea though.
After Papa Smurf heard about the idea, he recruited some Smurfs to accompany the pixies to Pussywillow Hollow to help carry the seeds and cuttings. Peewit, who wanted some more action, went along too. Boggy, Sassette's wartmonger friend, didn't go due to the risk of the wartmongers seeing him helping the Smurfs and pixies.
Making it to Pussywillow Hallow and getting the seeds and cuttings went smoothly, but the trouble started when they started carrying the seeds and cuttings back: the wartmongers saw them!
"Smurfs and pixies! Let's get them!" Sludge ordered.
"Yeah! Yeah yeah yeah!" Slop agreed.
"Run everyone!" Papa Smurf ordered.
"Fly my little pixies, fly!" Elderberry said as she rose into the air.
Most of the pixies successfully made it beside Elderberry, but Pansy bumped into a leaf and fell!
"I gotcha Pansy, I gotcha!" Clumsy said, holding out his arms.
Unexpectedly, Clumsy caught Pansy without tripping!
"Will the surprises never end?" Brainy said, stunned.
Slime almost caught up with Clumsy and Pansy, but Peewit, who was hiding among the trees, stuck out his foot at the right moment. Slime tripped, and so did Sludge and Slop.
"Leave them alone you toady mud balls!" Peewit glared before running after the Smurfs and pixies.
"Sludge, what was that?" Slime asked.
"It must've been a human, they're the only ones who can be that big and ugly." Sludge guessed.
"Ugly?" Peewit overheard, insulted. "Just for that, how about a little wartmonger bowling?"
Peewit rolled a rock towards the wartmongers.
"Yow! Run for it!" Sludge said as the three of them scattered.
Despite almost becoming toady pancakes, the wartmongers still chased after the Smurfs and pixies. The chased continued through the Smurfs' forest, and soon Gargamel, Azrael, and Scruples joined the chase! They had been out trying to locate Smurfs through their sense of hearing and saw them, Peewit, and the pixies running deeper into the forest.
"Say, who are you?" Sludge asked, noticing Gargamel.
"I'm Gargamel, the world's greatest wizard and the Smurfs' worst nightmare!" Gargamel boasted. "Who are you?"
"I'm Sludge the brave, a wartmonger, and we're the pixies' worst nightmare."
"In that case you can have the pixies if you'll let me have the Smurfs. I have no use for pixies anyway."
"Deal."
Fortunately, Peewit, the Smurfs, and the pixies made it through the edge of the protection spell. Gargamel, Azrael, Scruples, and the wartmongers obviously weren't so lucky, they ran right into it as if it were a wall! They then fell off and landed on their backs onto the ground.
"What the slime?" Sludge groaned.
"Yes Sludge?" Slime asked, dazed.
"Not you, you idiot!"
"It's a protection spell, and as long as you're our enemies you can never get through or locate our village." Brainy gloated; for once, the other Smurfs weren't annoyed by his gloating.
"Bye-bye Gargy." Hefty teased.
"Don't call me that!" Gargamel snapped, recovering from hitting the edge of the spell.
"So long wartmongers, get yourself someone else to enslave." Acorn smirked smugly.
"King Bullrush is not going to be pleased to hear about this." Slime pointed out.
"Yeah-I mean no." Slop agreed.
"Well it's not your fault, if Gargamel here hadn't been boasting about his locator spell we would've found the Smurfs hours ago!" Scruples frowned.
"Yeah." Azrael meowed in agreement.
"How was I supposed to know the Smurfs had spies?" Gargamel snapped.
"Well we all know the forest animals are on the Smurfs' side!" Scruples snapped back.
Gargamel could only give a groan of frustration.
Sludge, Slop, and Slime, when they got back to King Bullrush, did have to endure his fury. Fortunately for them, they were not punished. King Bullrush, even though he considered the other wartmongers to be idiots, knew that they had no power over magic.