Hello hello hello! I'm sorry, I meant to have this posted up two days ago but on Thursday night, for some reason, the story I thought I typed up didn't save and I had to start all over again. Then I meant to put it up yesterday, but there was a family emergency. So, I got it up today and I promise that later today, most likely tonight, I'll put up the bloopers and the first chapter of the next story. Anyway, I hope you guys are here for the last chapter of the whole story, 'Absence Makes the Heart Grow Smurfier'! It's a good one! Just before we get started, there are two characters I had failed to mention from the last chapter, plus a last minute voice addition for our other Creatugo OC. So, here they are:
Noctuma (if you don't remember, this is Benny's Creatugo OC from a few chapters ago) will be voiced by Tom Kane.
Skitter Smurf will be voiced by Eddie Murphy (Mushu from Mulan)
Rascalette Smurfette will be voiced by Neve Campbell (Kiara from The Lion King II: Simba's Pride)
Back to the reviews...Ah! Here we are.
FrittzyCrazy- That's very nice of you to say. But if you think you're on the edge of your seat now, just wait until you read the ending of this story. Then I bet you guys will be asking a whole bunch of questions.
flowerpower71- It seems like a long cast list now but you know some of them already, like Favian, Hazel and the Creatugo OCs made by you, Sapphire777, and Benny. And really, there's no point in adding Smurfs or Smurfettes if you're not gonna add a lot of them. So minus them plus the two new Smurfs, we have a total of...whoa. 39 OCs. And that's not even all of them yet. And yeah, I've actually been working on this for a few weeks but it wasn't hard find voice actors/actresses. What was hard was naming the Smurfs and Smurfettes, but I managed. And technically, I'm sorry to say that since this is kind of an important chapter, the bloopers and deleted scenes won't be appearing until the next chapter because I have a lot of them. I have most of them written up, but I want to write up the first chapter of the next story so they can be posted on the same day. Sorry, I'm rambling. I'm gonna move on now.
Benny- Nonsense! Any review I get from you is a good one! Don't second-guess yourself. You know what? You made my day when you were the first to comment on Crafty messing with Don Smurfo! He really is a dog, though, I have to agree.
Crafty: Yeah. He is one. But that doesn't mean we don't get along.
Apparently Patrick was very blind not to see the romance. Anybody who meets them should be able to tell immediately. And it's no problem at all for a late review. I'm glad someone finally commented on that. (smiles cheekily) And I'm happy to tell you that you're...not psychic this time. Not even close to the truth.
Zinka17- Once you start reading the story, it's really not that hard to remember. Yeah, the Ice Age and Kung Fu Panda movies are my favorite movies. And, well, you'll just have to find out in the next story about Misty and Xavier.
Chloe- Yay! You're gonna be home just in time for the next story! I can't wait!
Sapphire777- Yes, I actually do like your idea with Xavier and Misty. So much that, in fact, I've developed another CreatugoXCreatugo pairing for the next story. But you'll have to wait to see it.
I'm going to tell you this now that those Smurfs and Smurfettes at the bottom of the cast list are very very special characters. As for a continuation for the Crafty Smurfette Series, I do have one story I'm going to do after that story definitely. But I can't post a plot because that would involve giving away the ending of the next story and I want it to be a surprise. Sorry.
Congratulations by the way of choosing your love. You have to tell me how he won your heart and how the Smurf Crafty got there because I remember you saying that Crafty wasn't in the village when Gutsy and Sweepy were fighting over you.
Spring-Heel-Jacq- I'm not sure just how I'm going to fit any other OCs into my story but I promise I'll have a look at yours and see where I can fit them in. Don't you worry one bit. I'll do my best but, let's get this done and over with.
I own only Crafty, Xavier, Hummer, Toddlette, Meena, Fencette, Almia and Ipati.
Crafty: flowerpower71 owns Livy and Nanu. Sapphire777 owns Misty and CartoonCaster21 owns Jo. Oh, and Benny owns Noctuma, too.
And the Smurfs belong to Peyo! The Smurfs movie belongs to Sony Animation Studios. Enjoy the last chapter!
"Now I don't want you to worry, Papa," Gargmel said, tightening the restraints on the elder Smurfs wrist. Thanks to the essence from Papa's beard that he had taken, Gargamel had managed to create a whole assembly line just to extract the essence out of each and every Smurf he could get his hands on. He sneered as he continued, "That what doesn't kill you only makes me stronger."
Papa looked up at him defiantly, but was secretly happy. He was happy to know that even though he would perish, his children would return home safe and sound.
"YO!" They heard Grouchy's voice echo throughout the castle. Gargamel perked up in excitement whereas Papa lit up in horror and tugged at his restraints. "Gargamel! Come out and play!"
"Ooh. I think our tiny little guests have finally arrived," Gargamel laughed in anticipation.
"No!" Papa growled, continuing to pull at his restraints to free himself.
"Ah well," Gargamel said ignoring the Smurf's struggles. He grabbed onto a switch and yanked it down. "Enjoy the ride, Papa!"
The line started to move Papa down slowly as Gargamel went to leave the room, most likely to capture the Smurfs remaining. The evil wizard finished, "And remember, keep your hands and feet inside the cart at all times."
"No! No!" Papa shouted. A metallic clamp shut on his body and it seemed to warm up his body to a dangerous temperature, making him sweat out the essence his body had to give. "Smurfs! RUN!"
"Oh, Smurfs," Gargamel sang to himself, exiting out of the castle to find the Smurfs.
Suddenly, whistling in the sound of the familiar Smurfs tune caught his attention, his head turning up to where the sound had come from. Grouchy Smurf was on the tallest point of the castle with a perfect view of the washed-out wizard.
Grouchy glared down at him, a shield and weapon in both hands as he growled out, "You have our Papa. Prepare to get smurfed!"
"Yeah!" Clumsy added, standing only yards away from Grouchy with the same weapons in hand. "What he said!"
"Adorable. Two little Smurfs come to save their beloved Papa," Gargamel taunted with a menacing smile.
"Hey, Gargamelo!" Don Smurfo called out, drawing the wizard's attention to the roof of another building he and Brainy were on. Alomar stood behind them both, talons scraping into the roof with excitement for a fight.
"Make that four little Smurfs!" Brainy said, lighting a firework which shot up into the air, letting out red sparks in the air. Almost as if it were setting off a signal. "And we went home and got a few friends!"
La la la la la la la la la la la
This was the rough chanting as one by one, Smurfs started appearing onto the stone fence and on the roofs and even on the ground. All were surrounding the castle with various weapons, each of them sending a vicious glare at Gargamel.
La la la la la la la la la la la CLANK CLANK!
The clanks came from the pounding of their weapons onto the cement, each of them ready to fight for the freedom of their father. Each time they chanted their song, it seemed to become faster and louder than the last time.
"My my my! I think the whole village must be here," Gargamel noted.
"Whatever will I do...with all of this essence?" He smirked, pointing his wand up, ready to capture them all.
"On me, boys!" Hefty cried out. He grabbed Crazy from behind squeezed him while he held him up, making the eccentric Smurf give out his alarm to start the battle.
"Fire!" Handy commanded, the Smurfs releasing their catapults filled with various small objects like golf balls and walnuts.
"Let's get this hoedown started!" Farmer cried, throwing his fork down like a spear at Gargamel along with other Smurfs.
"There comes a time when every Smurf must stand up-"
"Watch it, you little hoodlums!" Gargamel snarled as he was continuously bombarded with various objects. Clumsy cried out and threw down his weapon, each Smurf taking their turn after him to take aim and hit their target.
"-for what is good and cute and blue in the world. And on this brisk New York night, that time is now."
"Hey! Seriously?" Grouchy snapped at Narrator.
"Sorry, it's kind of what I do?" Narrator shrugged, then looked back down to the fight.
"Eat yolk, Gargamel!" Jokey cried, chucking a raw egg right at the warlock with a catapult. Hearing the Smurf's yell, Gargamel turned, only to get a face full of yolk and loud laughter from the prankster Smurf.
"C'mon, Patrick and Xavier! You can do it!" Smurfette encouraged the two pushing down on a crowbar with all of their strength. They had found a wide drain pipe able to fit the Smurfette down.
"Come on, you stupid lid!" Xavier growled. "Budge!"
"Okay, here we go!" Patrick grunted as they finally made a hole big enough for Smurfette to fit in.
"Go, go, go!" Patrick urged Smurfette. She nodded and climbed down the hole. He added as she got further down the drain, "Hurry! They can't hold out for long!"
"I'll go join the fight. They could use a helping paw," Xavier took off for the battlefield where the Smurfs were fighting.
"Wretched Smurfs!" Gargamel exclaimed angrily, waving his wand up to cast a spell.
"You know, one bad apple," Handy said, he and Dreamy carrying what looked like an apple with multiple sewing needles poking out of the skin into a sling shot. Placing it inside, Handy gave the command to fire and shouted, "can ruin your whole day!"
"Alakaz-AAAAAH!" Gargamel yelled in pain when the spiky apple made contact.
"Full Smurf ahead!" Gutsy called out as he, Crafty and Monty approached the war zone.
"Good!" Crafty patted Monty's head and shouted, "All right, Monty! Let's give'em the signal!"
Monty used his talons to grab a water balloon from the plastic bag and with all his strength, he threw it at quite a distance until it finally flew over the heads of Don Smurfo and Alomar.
"The signal!" Don Smurfo hopped on top of his golden steed and silently commanded him to take off.
He then let out a high-pitched whistle as Alomar flew up in a straight line. In an instant, Hummer, Almia and Meena followed the male golden eagle and flew high into the air. Before long, they stopped, tucked in their wings and let gravity shoot them down at the evil warlock, cutting through the air like arrows freshly fired from a bow.
At the sound of rushing wind, Gargamel looked up only to shriek and duck down with his arms over his head. The four birds lifted up and flew off, circling the air and waiting to see if they were needed again. Gargamel opened one eye, seeing that he wasn't harmed, and stood back up again, ready to cast a spell at last.
From the roof, Grouchy and Clumsy pushed a box forward with Angelou lipstick cases, letting the cases fall out onto the cement under Gargamel's feet.
"Hey, Gargamel!" Brainy called, shoving a souvenir Empire State Building into a Nerf gun. "Here's a souvenir from the Big Apple!"
He pulled the trigger and the miniature building shot at the washed-out wizard, hitting him in the backside, to be precise. Gargamel yelled out and stumbled forward, trying not to trip over the lipstick cases.
"Smashing," Vanity nodded with a smile, admiring his reflection.
"Out of the frying pan," Baker Smurf started, he and Chef pushing a frying pan attached to a rope.
"And into the-" Chef added, before they finally shoved the frying pan off of the edge of the roof.
Unfortunately, the rope made a small circle around Vanity's ankle which yanked him down with a horrified cry as he fell with the frying pan.
"Fire!" Chefy and Baker cheered, smacking their utensils, a wooden spoon and rolling pin, together.
"I'M TOO BEAUTIFUL TO DIE!" Vanity shrieked as he flew down with the frying pan.
Gargamel turned at the sound and barely had time to process a single thought before the pan slammed right in his face, knocking him onto the ground on his back. The Smurfs burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter at how well it worked. Gargamel shook himself out of his daze when he noticed his nose had been bent drastically. He held it with both of his hands and snapped it right back into place.
"Charge!" Hefty ordered, leaping off of the stone fence with the Smurfs following behind.
"Get him!"
"Grab the wand!" Brainy shouted.
"Goin' in!"
Gargamel's face was suddenly attacked with water and splattering blows. He wiped the water off of his face and looked up to see Monty, dropping the plastic bag that had once held many water balloons.
"Bull's eye!" Crafty shouted, laughing.
Gutsy pulled up next, barely holding back his excitement. He grabbed onto the string attached to the bowling ball, "Ha ha! Bombs away! I'm goin' fer a strike!"
The second he pulled the string, the blue bowling ball dropped down like an actual bomb heading for its target. It fell and fell right at him until he sneered at it and pointed his wand up.
"ALAKAZAM!" The same blue energy in the shape of lightning struck up at the bowling ball, shattering it to smithereens.
"Aw, crikey!" Gutsy cursed.
Gargamel got to his feet and started shooting at the two Smurfs in the sky.
At the Angelou campaign launch, as if the sight of the blue moon wasn't jaw dropping enough, somebody had found another wonder.
"Look!" A woman gasped, pointing to the sky across the city. "It's the blue eagle!"
Everyone turned to look out, and they too saw a magnificent blue eagle flying over central park, blue lighting striking from underneath it. The guests at the campaign applauded even louder than when the blue moon first showed up. The eagle dove back down and out of sight.
"The lightning was a nice touch."
"LOOK OUT, GUTSY!"
"Crafty, watch out!"
Over and over again, Crafty and Gutsy dodged the blasts of blue light. However, it was getting harder and harder as they were wearing themselves out. Even so, the Smurfs kept crying out to them to watch out and to keep dodging.
"Oh, ya blinkin' flip!" Gutsy just barely dodged a blast.
The next shot that Gargamel fired, unfortunately, hit the back propeller of Gutsy's means of flight. He yelled as he tried to become airborne again, but ended up doing a spinning nosedive towards the ground farther away from the current battlefield. Hummer squeaked and dove after the Scottish Smurf, Meena, Alomar and Almia following close behind.
"GUTSY!" Crafty screamed, yanking on Monty's feathers to make him fly faster.
He squawked and flapped his wings, hoping to get to him in case he was hurt. He screeched in fright when blue lightning blocked his path and made a sharp turn to circle back around and try again. Unfortunately, Gargamel fired another bolt of blue lightning and struck Monty's right wing, shattering it clean off of his body.
"No. NO!" Crafty tried to make Monty swoop back up, but he was too dazed to respond to her.
Before long, he crashed to the ground, tumbling and flipping and even throwing Crafty off of his back. She slammed into the stone fence and fell onto the hard cement, not making a single move. Actually, she didn't look like she was moving at all, not even to breathe.
"Crafty?" Snappy poked his head from around the corner along with the other Smurflings and Wild. They rushed out and circled her, hoping that whatever had happened to her...well, didn't actually happen.
"Play time is over!" Gargamel yelled at them all, who were frozen in place from shock and fear. "Behold the awesome power of me!"
With that he shot blue lightning out of his wand straight into the air, which roared like thunder to all that were nearby. The energy from the blast of blue light started forming into a sort of funnel shape, like a tornado.
Gargamel then started to spin the energy around and around making the wind blow at the Smurfs with an unbearable force. So much that it started to spin the Smurfs all around the battlefield as well. The Smurflings and Wild huddled together, intending on keeping them and Crafty on the ground and away from Gargamel. They waited for the force of the wind to blow at them, but it never came as any more than a light breeze.
Xavier stood over them, his feet molded into the ground as he covered them from blowing away. He lifted his head and snatched Monty by his good wing with his jaws.
Gargamel shot another bolt of electricity out and upward, the energy trapping Brainy in its grip and pulling him back to Gargamel no matter how much he struggled. Seeing the action, though it was unorthodox, it gave Monty an idea. He used his detachable talons and shot both of his feet out, grabbing and pulling back Jokey and Dreamy Smurf and tossing them under Xavier with the others.
"Good. Keep that up, Monty!" Xavier said through his teeth.
Monty nodded and continued his work, managing to grab Chef, Harmony, Tracker, Miner, Lazy and Scaredy, but none else.
"I've got you Greedy!" Farmer shouted reaching out for the pudgy Smurf.
"Ah, my cupcake!" Greedy cried as the cupcake in his hand flew back and hit Farmer right in the eye.
Monty eyed the two Smurfs and launched his foot, only for Gargamel's power to capture them first, resulting in Monty's talons grabbing onto the corner of the stone fence.
"H-Huh?" Crafty shook her head, coming to from her fall, but quickly hissed at the pain in her head. She rubbed the bump that was more than likely forming on her head. "Wh-What happened?"
"Crafty! Are you all right?"
She nodded and began to take deep breaths to keep her pain under control. The sound of Grouchy's yelling caught her attention and she looked up to see Gargamel throwing him in his brown sack. It pained her to not be able to help any of the Smurfs that Gargamel was trying to take.
"GARGAMEL!" Her eyes snapped open at Papa's familiar voice, though it was alien to hear it filled with anger that intense.
Gargamel turned around in an instant, another spell cast from his wand, at first making a clinking sound and then a painful yell. Coming from Papa.
"Not so fast, goody blue-shoes!" Gargamel snickered, pulling the red clad Smurf, who was struggling violently in the grip of the spell, closer to him. Xavier dropped Monty for the spell that caused the wind had stopped, probably because Gargamel was giving Papa his full attention.
"P-Papa!" Crafty called out, trying to rush herself to help the elder Smurf in any way she could. Dreamy and Jokey grabbed her and pulled her back.
"Now, it's time to break their little blue wills," Gargamel sneered. Papa struggled and squirmed in the spell's grip as Gargamel held him out for his children to see, "Are watching closely, Smurfs?"
"No!"
"Papa!"
Papa tried even harder to break the spell holding him in place at the terrified cries of his Smurfs. Gargamel informed them menacingly, "Your beloved Papa is about to meet his little blue end."
Gargamel laughed as he tossed Papa high in the air, the Smurfs gasping in horror at the sight.
"Oh no! PAPA!" Clumsy yelled.
As Papa came down and Gargamel prepared a dangerous spell to be rid of him, Patrick rounded the corner. His eyes widened as Papa came closer and closer to the ground and his demise. He ran and caught Papa in his hands and jumped behind the stone fence that was conveniently behind them just as the burst of blue electricity hit its target.
"No! NO!" Gargamel bellowed, shooting at the fence and blowing it to smithereens. Upon seeing Patrick, he growled out, "You again! Goodbye. I'm really..."
Just as he lifted his wand, the sound of helicopter blades slicing the air sounded to all the Smurfs. Some looked up and gasped with happiness at the sight. Somehow, some way, Gutsy had managed to get his means of flight fixed and airborne again and was ready for a fight. Behind him were the hero Smurf and Smurfette with their golden eagles, Meena and Hummer, waiting for an opportunity to help.
"This ends here! This ends now!" He growled, lowering his altitude to get a good shot at this target.
"...going to enjoy this-" Gargamel was about to wave his wand when Gutsy swooped down and snatched it right out of his grip.
"Gotcha!" Gutsy cheered hovering up out of Gargamel's reach. "Freedom!"
"Son of a Smurf!" Gargamel shouted with anger, stomping his foot on the ground.
"Ha ha!" Gutsy mocked, flying off with the wand still in his hand.
"Yeah! Go Gutsy! Whoo!" Clumsy cheered for his Scottish brother. The others cried out in happiness that they now had the upper hand.
That's my Smurf, Crafty smiled and the thought was almost enough to make her forget her pain.
Gutsy flew up and away from Gargamel, but moved the wand so that the end was so close to his flyer that it got caught in the blades, making it spark and clink, and also making him loose his grip on the wand. He tried to make a grab for it, but the clanking also messed up his flight pattern.
"Oh no!" He hissed, trying to get his machine back under his control. "Crikey!"
It was horrifying to all the Smurfs that the chance they had over Gargamel was now gone. The wand flew down towards the ground with Gargamel ready to grab it back.
"I...I've got it!" Clumsy yelled running after the wand. Unfortunately, even if he didn't see them, the looks on the Smurf's faces were not exactly encouraging or hopeful.
"Oh, dear," Papa whispered.
"Clumsy," Smurfette sadly murmured.
"So this is how it ends," Hefty shook his head.
"Our goose is cooked," Handy stated mournfully.
Gargamel got into a position to wait for the wand to fall back into his possession.
"Oh this is not going to be good," Grouchy winced as he and the other Smurfs crawled out of the brown bag. Upon seeing the current situation, their spirits weren't lifted any more then the others. Well, most of the others.
"C'mon, Clumsy! Get the wand!" Sassette called out.
"Smurf'em what you're made of, Clumsy!" Crafty threw her fist up, only to stumble back and fall into Xavier's leg.
"I got it! I got it!" Clumsy jumped off the edge of the roof and after the wand.
It was like time had slowed down drastically, everyone in complete shock and fear of what will come to be.
"The vision's never been wrong," Papa whispered, shaking his head and closing his eyes.
Clumsy made a grab for the wand, but only smacked it away. He tried again, but only managed to slap it further away from himself. Fortunately, it smacked the wand way out of Gargamel's reach.
"I...I-OOF!" Clumsy grunted, rolling to the ground with the wand in his arms. He looked at the wand in amazement and cheered, "I got it!"
The look of complete surprise could not be more apparent on the faces of the Smurfs, which quickly turned into looks of pride and utter joy as they let out cheers and applause for the klutzy Smurf.
Gargamel cringed in anger, but said with a forced smile, "Give me my wand. Give me back my wand!"
He charged at Clumsy as he stood up, but Clumsy stumbled and somehow activated the wand. The blue lightning shot at the evil wizard, making him scream as he was thrown...well, far away where they couldn't see him anymore. It was quiet for only a minute before the celebrating began.
"Clumsy!" The Smurfs cried out rushing to the Smurf. Clumsy dropped the wand as he was crowded with praise by his brothers. He was lifted in the air by Gutsy, Grouchy, and Miner and tossed up and down, every Smurf chanting, "Clumsy! Clumsy! Clumsy!"
"Patrick," Grace gasped coming around the corner. The two shared a hug and Grace didn't need to know how the battle went from all of the cheering and smiles. They both looked down at the Smurfs and Grace congratulated, "Clumsy. You're a hero."
"I-I'm a hero?" Clumsy asked, the tossing finally stopped and they went to set him down. When she nodded yes at him, Clumsy exclaimed throwing his arms back in happiness, "I'm a hero!"
"OOOF!" Gutsy and Grouchy hit the ground hard as Clumsy accidentally hit them both in the face.
"Oh, so sorry, guys!" Clumsy apologized, shrinking down slightly in embarrassment. "Definitely killed the moment."
Xavier walked Crafty over to the group, and more specifically, closer to Gutsy. He sat up and shook his head, trying to shake off the hit from Clumsy. He may not look it, but Clumsy knew how to throw a punch even if he didn't want to.
"Aw, did Gutsy get smurfed in the nose?" Crafty cooed, letting go of Xavier's fur and settling herself on the ground next to the Scottish Smurf. "Here. This will help."
She lovingly kissed him on his sore nose and cuddled into him, "There. All better?"
"Hmm, not really. But this might," Gutsy purred, his hand pressing on the back of her head and claiming her lips with his. Crafty smiled and pressed herself closer to him as he did her.
"Uggh," Xavier blushed putting a paw in front of his eyes.
"Oh, Clumsy," Meena smiled, nudging the Smurf with her beak. "You were magnificent."
"Clumsy, you little mook, you!" Hefty laughed, giving his younger brother a playful punch on the arm.
"Shh. It's Papa," Brainy said as the very Smurf approached Clumsy with a smile filled with pride and happiness. Crafty and Gutsy pulled away and watched curiously at what would happen next.
"I owe you an apology, Clumsy," Papa started, tears threatening to fall from his misty blue eyes. "I believed more in a vision, than I did in you. I'm so proud of you, Clumsy."
Papa took Clumsy in a warm hug as Clumsy replied, "Thanks, Papa."
Grouchy sniffled, "I promised myself I wouldn't cry."
Papa looked down at the wand and picked it up, "And now to get rid of this!"
With that, Papa brought the wand down on his knee hard, much to the shock of the other Smurfs, and threw it far out into the small lake just near the castle.
"Awesome," Xavier stated. Then boringly asked, "Can we go home now?"
"To the portal, everyone!" Brainy said leading the Smurfs over to where the portal was, each of them going through and returning home. "There's no time to spare!"
"Smurf y'all later!" Handy waved to the humans while jumping into the portal.
"Bye," Grace waved.
Next, Gutsy, Crafty, Grouchy and Brainy approached the portal, the four hopping onto the last rock before Brainy said, "You know, I'm not one for long goodbyes, but I did smurf together a few words I'd like to say."
Brainy pulled out a piece of parchment as he ended his sentence, almost ready to read it off. The three shook their heads and nodded to each other. Crafty took the paper out of his hands and the two Smurfs kicked him in the smurf, not very hard, just enough to get him into the portal.
"Ha ha! Bye!" Brainy waved before disappearing into the portal. Crafty tossed in the parchment, which went in with him like a vacuum.
"I hated this," Grouchy frowned, crossing his arms. The smiled a little as he said, "So much less than I expected."
"Bye, Grouchy," Patrick laughed.
"Don't get me wrong! I still hated it! Just less!" Grouchy's voice echoed before he disappeared onto the portal.
"I'll not soon forget this place," Gutsy started. Then he turned and lifted his kilt, revealing a white pair of 'I Heart New York' boxers. "'specially not with these!"
"Yeah. We're all gonna get a good reminder every time you show your smurf," Crafty put her hand up to the side of her eyes to shield them from the sight.
"Aw, c'mon, lassie! Ye know ye like it," Gutsy grinned, shaking his smurf playfully.
"Put that away or you're going the same way Brainy did!" Crafty said with purple blush.
The Smurfs snickered and covered their mouths, trying not to let out too much laughter. Even Patrick and Grace smiled and shook their heads in amusement. Gutsy raised a rusty eyebrow at her, smiling mischievously. Turning sharply, he scooped her up into his arms, making her yelp and cling to him by instinct.
"You jerk!" Crafty shouted, hitting his shoulder. "Just for that, I'm taking your hat when we get home."
She smiled and waved at the humans, "Scotsmen. They're never patient with their women. It was nice to meet you!"
"Bye, Crafty! Bye, Gutsy! Good luck to you guys!" Grace waved.
Crafty smirked and saluted, "I'll say the same to you two!"
"He he. Tallyho!" Gutsy laughed, jumping backwards with his fiance in his arms and into the portal.
"I shall be back, Broadway," Vanity bid a dramatic farewell, then jumped into the portal. "Tootles!"
"Hey, girlfriend," Grace smiled as she knelt down next to Smurfette who was climbing on the rocks to the portal with the others.
Smurfette stopped and smiled back, "Wow. I've never had a girlfriend before. I'll never forget you."
"Aw, Smurfette," Grace held up her hand to her. "High four."
Smurfette placed her hand on Grace's, "High four, Grace."
"Hey, Smurfette," Clumsy greeted as he came onto the same rock as Smurfette. Smurfette smiled and patted his shoulder before going forward with the others.
"And you. You, the little hero, come here," Grace cupped Clumsy into her hands and held him close.
"Hero? Oh, stop," Clumsy sheepishly waved his hand. Then he seemed to change his mind, "Well, actually, you mind saying it one more time? It's kinda got a nice ring to it."
Grace's smile widened and she brought him up, giving him a kiss on the side of his head.
"Well, Master Winslow, thank you," said Papa with Grandpa beside him on a high rock. "You saved me."
"So long," Hefty waved before jumping into the portal.
Papa chuckled, "You saved our whole family."
"Actually I think it was the other way around," Patrick smiled.
"Well, we should get going. We've got a Smurf village to rebuild. Your village has given me some ideas."
"I'll say," Grandpa agreed. "I've got a few ideas myself."
Patrick opened his arms to them, "Come here."
And he took them both into a hug, them returning it with as much warmth. They savored the love and warmth of the hug for another moment or two longer before letting go.
Patrick looked down at them thoughtfully before saying, "Goodbye, Papa. Goodbye, Grandpa."
"Goodbye, Papa," Papa smiled up at him.
"And don't you worry," Grandpa chuckled. "If you raise that little fella the way I think you are, you'll be a Grandpa in no time."
Grace hugged Patrick close as the two Smurfs made their way to the only two Smurfs that had not left in the portal, Clumsy and Smurfette.
"Let's go home," Papa said clasping Grandpa and Smurfette's hand, Clumsy grabbing onto Grandpa's. With one final glance back at their human friends, the jumped into the portal to head home. Not surprising in the least, Clumsy's hand slipped from Grandpa and he started spinning uncontrollably in the portal.
"And so, the Smurfs left the city of New York," Narrator Smurf concluded walking among the damp rocks near the portal. "And I think they left it a little sweeter, a little wiser, a little...smurfier. And as that portal began to close for the last time-"
"Hey!" Grouchy snapped poking out of the portal that was starting to close. "Seriously, stop!"
He snatched Narrator by his sleeve and pulled him in, with Narrator yelling out, "Bye New York!"
"Oh, it's so good to be home!" Xavier cried out in ecstasy, walking alongside the Smurfs at a slow pace to their home.
It had already been a hard day for them and now that they were back in their own forest, they were in no real rush to get home.
Papa cleared his throat and asked Crafty, "Ah, Crafty. I recall that a baby Smurfette was given to you while we were gone. May I see her?"
"Uh, sure," Crafty shrugged. "But I thought Grandpa had her."
"I did," Grandpa replied. "But I gave her to Brainy to take back here."
"And then I gave her to Hefty."
"I gave her to Meena to take her somewhere safe."
All eyes went to the phoenix, who merely shrugged her shoulders and said, "Oh, I left her in Peewit's care."
"PEEWIT?!" The Smurfs chorused.
"Girl, are you trying to kill her?!" Crafty yelled. She held a hand up as she explained, "Don't smurf me wrong, Peewit's a good guy. But really, he's not that good that you'd leave him alone with an infant unsupervised!"
"It was last moment!" Meena put up her wings in defense. "And I was told by Hefty to gather the Smurfs as soon as possible. What choice did I have?"
"Point taken," Grandpa rubbed his beard. "Well, that's no problem. We can look for him and get her back. I mean, what harm could a Peewit and a Toddlette cause alone for two and a half hours?"
"For some reason that doesn't reassure me at all," Crafty shook her head. "Which reminds me."
Crafty swiped at Gutsy's hat and held it tightly in her hands, giving out a triumphant, "Ha!"
Gutsy smirked and reached into his kilt, bringing out another Smurf hat, blue puffball and all. He placed it on his head, shooting back a mocking, "Ha!"
"Not bad, Blue Kilt. Not bad at all," Crafty smiled, sincerely impressed. Then she smirked, "But you need to be more clever than that."
She grabbed his spare hat and ran off into the forest. Gutsy let out a frustrated groan, but any Smurf looking at his glistening eyes could tell he never got tired of the challenge. He took off after her through the bushes leaving the others behind.
"They. Are never going to stop doing that, are they?" Xavier asked.
"I would bet on that," Wooly chuckled.
"You know!" Crafty yelled to Gutsy, who was quickly pursuing her. "I was hoping for a move like that, but I didn't expect you to make it this soon. I was expecting it in like another four or five years!"
"Well, I'm not as gullible as ye might think, lassie!" Gutsy laughed.
"Yeah, but you're still very gullible!" Crafty giggled before yelping as her foot caught on something and fell flat into the dirt.
"Lassie!" Gutsy gasped kneeling next to her and helping her up to her feet. "Are ye alright?"
"Yeah. Yeah, I just tripped. I'm fine," Crafty winced as she felt just a small jolt of pain in her right ankle.
Her eyebrows furrowed as she looked at the ground, or more specifically, what was on the ground. She reached down and picked up a glimmering white feather. It shimmered even with hardly any light and though it was on the ground, it seemed to hold all perfection and not covered in even a speck of dirt. It was strange, but it just seemed so significant to her. She couldn't explain it, but it was no ordinary feather.
"Uh, lassie? Dat's a beautiful feather, but I don' think dat's what made ye trip," Gutsy stated, his eyes wide as he looked not at her, but behind the both of them.
Crafty raised an eyebrow and stowed the feather away in her cloak as she turned around. Her eyes went wide immediately with mixed emotions, not to mention that an unbelievably cold shiver kept racking at her spine at what she was saying.
What she had tripped over was the tail of the infamous Ipati. His battle scars given to him only a few days ago were still apparent, but now he had many new, many harsh looking scars and cuts all over his body. He looked as if he had just gotten out of a fight with twenty mongooses and another cobra. From his middle up to his head, his milky underbelly was shown and so was his hood, showing even more scratches from a recent battle. His eyes were shut and his forked tongue hung out of his open mouth.
"Whoa," Gutsy whistled. "He must've messed wit' de wrong creature to get a beatin' like dat."
"Gutsy. We need to go, now. Like right now!" Crafty fearfully pulled on his arm to get them away.
"Hold on, lassie!" Gutsy chuckled, holding his ground to prevent them from leaving. "What're ye afraid of? Dat snake doesn' even know us."
Crafty looked at him dead in the eyes, her own filled with fear and doubt. Gutsy looked back and forth between Crafty and the cobra. It took a good two minutes for him to put two and two together.
He suddenly blocked her with his arms out, not taking an eye off of Ipati's unmoving body.
"Lassie! When did he get here?!" He whispered loudly.
"The same day you guys vanished," Crafty winced, knowing what was about to come.
"What? An' ye didn't even tell me? What were ye thinkin'!" Gutsy snapped.
Unknown to them, Ipati's eyes suddenly snapped open. His slitted pupils moved to see the two Smurfs, who failed to notice he was awake. He narrowed his eyes as he began to coil his tail stealthily around Gutsy's ankle.
"Look, we were in another world with barely any possible way to get home! There was no time to talk about it! I was actually going to tell you when we got back to the village, but...well...you know!"
"It doesn't matter anymore! Let's just get out of here before he wakes up," Gutsy frowned and looked down, but immediately was lifted into the air and slammed into a tree a few feet away.
"Gutsy!" Crafty gasped rushing over to her mate. She skidded to a stop and froze when Ipati blocked her way swiftly, hissing at her lowly with his fangs erect and his hood shaking.
She shook as she stepped back slowly, trying not to provoke a chase. His lavender eyes started to glow and she immediately shielded her own, not wanting another hypnosis session from him. She had to find a way to get to Gutsy without having to make her eyes vulnerable to Ipati.
Ipati suddenly stopped hissing and closed his mouth, turning his head to glare at the Scottish Smurf yanking at his tail.
"Ye think yer so tough!?" Gutsy growled viciously. "Why don' ye take me on then! Come on! See if ye can get me!"
For once, even if he had done it with no Smurf knowing it before, Ipati hesitated striking at him. Then he narrowed his eyes and hissed, lunging at the ground where Gutsy stood.
Gutsy jumped back, making Ipati strike at the dirt forcefully, even digging his snout in the ground a bit. He balled his fingers int a fist and threw a painful swing at Ipati's snout. The cobra recoiled hastily with a hiss, using his tail to grab his now sore nose.
"Ye even think about comin' near me lassie one more time an' yer gettin' more then dat! Now get!" Gutsy snarled taking multiple, intimidating steps towards the snake.
Ipati backed away and sent him a glare along with an ominous hiss, but complied and slithered away through the bushes. Neither of the Smurfs moved an inch from their spot for a good moment or two. When they knew for sure that he was gone, the two sighed heavily in relief.
Gutsy breathed heavily, turning to Crafty asking, "Are ye alright?"
"Yeah," Crafty nodded, breathing just as raggedly. "I'm fine. A little shook up, but fine."
"Good," Gutsy took in a deep breath. Then he snapped, "Why didn't ye tell me he was here!"
"I told you already! It didn't seem important at the time!" Crafty retorted, seeming to recover also from her tired state.
"When it's a threat on yer life, it is important!" Gutsy exclaimed.
"He wasn't even trying to threaten my life! He was trying to smurfnap me!" Crafty explained. That was probably not the best thing she could've said to him in his angry state of mind.
"He what!? Why didn' ye tell me that!"
"I told you that I went through a lot since you were gone! You have to figure that seeing him would explain a lot!" Crafty growled.
"I don' think ye understand, lassie! How did he even get te you? Somesmurf should've been around te protect ye," Gutsy said. That was a big mistake.
"What did you just say," Crafty said calmly, but her voice dripped with venomous anger. "You think I can't protect myself?!"
"I never said dat-"
"Hold on!" Crafty put her hand up to stop him. "I cannot believe you actually implied that I couldn't defend myself. How dare you say that!"
"Now hold on!" Gutsy narrowed his eyes angrily. "I never implied or said anything like dat. You did."
"Oh, so it's my fault now?"
"NO!"
The two were cut off as an arrow struck at them, covering them in red mist and stopping the violence dead in its tracks. The two instantly relaxed and had dopey smiles on their faces. Crafty stepped to Gutsy and wrapped her arms around his shoulders, cuddling her face into the crook of his neck.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier," Crafty whispered. "I was just so happy to see you again. And especially when you asked me to marry you, nothing seemed important anymore."
Gutsy let out a rumbling chuckle as he wrapped his strong arms around her waist, "Aye. I understand. And I'm sorry too. Ye know I'd never call ye weak or defenseless in any way. Yer de complete opposite: Strong, beautiful, smart, not te mention one smurfy attitude. Can't find dat in many women, now can ye?"
Crafty giggled with a blush, "I could say the same for you, Blue Kilt. You were so brave and strong standing up to Ipati like that. I don't think even Hefty could pull something like that off just to protect me."
She smiled and ran a finger down his side-burned cheek. His chest rumbled and he pulled her closer, pressing his lips to hers. The two were locked in that passionate embrace for a good five minutes before they parted, panting as heavily as they did after finally getting rid of the cobra.
"I love you. So very much," Crafty sighed, pressing her forehead to his.
"Aye. And I, you," Gutsy smiled. "Let's get outta here. I'm beat."
"Me too," She yawned. She smirked and slapped his hat back onto his head, patting it lightly. "That really was a clever idea."
The two smiled lovingly at each other before walking off, hand in hand, to the Smurf village where the rest of their friends and family would be waiting for them.
"He he he!" Cupid laughed standing on a high tree branch, twirling a love arrow in his hand. "I love getting an arrow at those two! I told them that I would have the solution to their problems!"
"Dooh! I hate those Smurfs!" Gargamel pouted, sitting at the edge of Belvedere Castle in Central Park. It was a mystery to him and Azrael how they were going to get home with no way back now that the portal was gone.
Azrael rolled his eyes and laid down on the stone floor. His ears suddenly perked and he looked behind him. He yowled as he say a large, purple claw-like hand forming from the floor.
Gargamel waved his hand angrily at the cat, "Quiet you! I'm trying to think!"
The hand went to grab at the cat, but Azrael jumped back and clung to Gargamel's robe.
"What are you doing, you senseless flea ball!" Gargamel snapped around and his eyes widened at the hand. "What in the name of the Gods is that!"
The hand made another grab and finally succeeded at getting them. The two struggled with all of their might, but could not break free as they were pulled further into the ground until all they could see was darkness. There was a bright light and the two shielded their eyes and shook from what fear there was to come.
"Would you stop your sniveling, you coward!" A familiar voice angrily hissed at him.
"Balthazar?" Gargamel asked in a shaky voice as he opened his eyes.
"How smart of you to guess," Balthazar growled, obviously being sarcastic as he sat in a dark orange chair that looked much like a throne.
Gargamel and Azrael looked around, noticing that Hogatha and Clorohydris were present as well, each sitting in a chair looking to be a throne and each with a different color. However, they also noticed the presence of a fourth being, sitting in the middle, his throne being bigger and fancier then the others present. The being was cloaked in a dark green, though the two saw dark orange toe claws showing from the bottom of his robe. Not to mention the scaly, clawed fingers of his hands that stuck out of the long green sleeves.
"Wh-What is going on here? Where are we?" Gargamel asked shakily.
"You are here because I brought you here," The figure explained in a dark, calm voice. "I am told that you are a failure and a buffoon by my associates," he gestured with a clawed hand to the present witches and warlock. "But, you are the one who has come closest to...acquiring the one I have been seeking for years now."
"And wh-who would that be?"
The being stood and lifted the hood of his cloak to reveal that he looked to be much like a dragon, only more human like. He stood taller then a normal human, but not by much. Perhaps a good foot or two taller than Gargamel. His snout was pointed and the spines on the back of his head were pointed upward, his dark orange skin covering his whole body, not another color covering him. What would startle anyone, however, were his eyes. They were blacker than midnight, blacker than coal, blacker then even the darkest of caves.
"The Smurfette called Crafty. I have missed the company of my dear friend and I wish to have her back. And you're going to help me make it happen."