I'm very pleased with how well everyone took to the Halloween special for the disclaimer. There have been a few questions I would like to answer from the last chapter on 'Nightmare in Smurf Village' so I'll be doing both the last chapter from that story plus the fifth chapter from this one, okay? Okay. Let's get this going!
flowerpower71- It wouldn't have been a true big sister/little sister moment without that question :D I had a hard time picking a Halloween song to put in, until I saw 'Hocus Pocus' on Disney and got the idea to play the song. And please! Crafty has done way more things that you guys don't know about to make Gutsy act like that (nothing to make this story M rated, if you know what I mean, but still). As for the other story, we all did know that Peewit would need someone to save him, and it was so obvious that it was Crafty who was going to do it. I hope you guys did enjoy it for this time of the year. I'm gonna make a Christmas one, too. Only nosmurf will turn into monsters. And it will be winter. And it will be happier.
Benny- The paint did wash off of Xavier's fur, but in this chapter, something is going to appear on Xavier's fur that will never come out. Don't feel offended that Scaredy ran away. Everyone's scary to him. And as a matter of fact, Crafty did get her ring back, though it did take a long time to find with them not remembering much from being weresmurfs. Gutsy went a bit overprotective on Crafty when he threatened to kill Peewit. A good Halloween fic, if I do say so myself.
SmallSunshine- Scaredy, as a matter of fact, is going to make it up to Affectionette in this chapter and you'll see how in this chapter. Thank you again for the cookies!
Zinka17- Well, if she ever saw them kissing, I would definitely see why she would say something like that. And don't worry, the bad guys aren't going to be making a move for quite a while. It didn't occur for Crafty to find her ring until she noticed it was missing from her finger. After all that happened, she forgot and with the trauma Gutsy suffered from being a weresmurf, I'm sure he didn't even realize he attacked her ring.
Chloe- I love your costume and Painter's, too! They're so smurfy!
Sapphire777- Yes. I got every single panel you sent for your story. I have to say it was very romantic with you and Sweepy dancing together. I have to admit it, though, I have absolutely no idea what song that was. You looked absosmurfily gorgeous, girl! I'll also be sure to pass on the message to Xavier. And don't worry, Scaredy is actually going to give her a chance in a big way.
Hmm. As for the debate of Smurfs and Smurfettes being able to reproduce on their own, I have to say I'm neutral on it for right now. I mean, does the possibility that they can exist, I have to say yes. I mean, they're living humanoid creatures, meaning that they're a lot like humans. We can reproduce, so I think it's possible they can. But do I think it's completely true, I don't think I've seen enough evidence that they can or even would. They are magical creatures and even magic can create life, so that might be how they reproduce is by their magic. Like I said, I'm very neutral on that subject.
I'm sorry also, but if Sweepy said that you did and you're blushing like that, I can't say that he's wrong. I think you might be lying (smirks). Don't worry, though. You have a beautiful voice. Don't sell yourself short, girl! Believe me, guys might tell you that just to get on your good side (which I'm not saying Sweepy is doing), but when your good girlfriends agree, it has to be true.
Well, time for the disclaimer yet again. This chapter might actually be the first of the longer chapters that are going to be in the story. Anywho, I own Crafty, the Creatugos, Hummer, Monty, Meena, the Smurfettes, Almia, Fencette, and Zorathix (shudders). Believe me guys, I know a dark secret about this guy and it ain't a pretty one. It's just plain disturbing.
Livy and Nanu are owned by flowerpower71, Jo belongs to CartoonCaster21, Misty belongs to Sapphire777, and Benny owns Noctuma.
Finally, the villans, Johan, Peewit, and the Smurfs belong to Peyo. Enjoy this smurfy and embarrassing chapter!
"Oh, wow," Explorette awed at the sight she and her other three sisters were looking at. "I could really get use to smurfing this every day."
"All right, Smurfs! Heave!" Hefty commanded the small group of Smurfs, all of them lifting mallets and pounding stakes into the ground.
It was the time of year where the Springtime Ball would soon be upon them and the decorations were more than ready to be put up, but that wasn't what they were intrigued at.
Hefty, Handy, Wooly, and Miner perspired under the afternoon sun, occasionally stopping their hammering to wipe the sweat off of their brows before starting again.
Aurora, lying on her side as she observed the hard working Smurfs, tilting her head, "I don't get it. What's so great about that?"
"I don't know," Wittette replied, not taking her eyes off of them. "But for some reason, it feels right."
Aurora raised a nonexistent eyebrow, and then turned her head elsewhere. She saw Crafty strolling through the village, snacking on a smurfberry as she did so. A basked made entirely of bark was strapped across her shoulders.
"Hey, Crafty!" Crafty turned her head towards the emperor penguin. Aurora waved a flipper to have her come over which she did so. She then gestured with a flipper to Explorette, Wittette, and Charmette, "Care to explain what's wrong with them?"
Crafty looked to her sisters, then to where they were staring at. She nodded as she swallowed the smurfberry in her mouth and said, "It's just puppy love. I had it when I first got here, up until my second week. It doesn't bother me anymore."
"Bother?" Explorette exclaimed, looking at her. She frantically gestured to the Smurfs, "You get to look at them every day of your smurf! How does it bother you?!"
"Ah, I said it didn't bother me," Crafty pointed out. "Besides, it wouldn't matter. I'm spoken for. Well, that wooden shield on Monty isn't going to fix itself. Smurf you guys later!"
Crafty waved to them as she walked away from the group of four.
"Kay, have fun," Wittette waved her hand dismissively, not looking away along with the other two Smurfettes.
A moment passed, and then another until the four females blinked their eyes wide open.
"YOU'RE WHAT NOW?!" They screamed, making the working Smurfs stop and look to them in confusion. They took off before they could ask any questions in the direction of the inventor Smurfette.
Aurora quickly got on her belly and pushed herself, her abdomen creating the ice under her as she slid over the mushrooms in the village.
"Hold on there, girl!" She used the ice to slide to her feet in front of Crafty. The ice she created quickly melted away as she stood off of it.
"Whoa!" Crafty looked back, then to the emperor penguin again. "How'd you do that?"
"You're spoken for? You're gone for seven years and you find a village of Smurfs, and now you're with one of them?! Why is this not the first thing you've told us?!" She asked, grabbing the Smurfette in her flippers and shaking her violently.
"I doooon't knoooooww!" Crafty shakily answered. "Pleeease stoooop shaaaking meeee!"
Aurora stopped her shaking but narrowed her eyes at the Smurfette as she kept her in her flippers. The other three Smurfettes stopped around them as Aurora set Crafty down, "Girl, I need details and go very very slowly!"
"What do you want to know?" Crafty shrugged.
"Is he totally gorgeous?" Explorette asked enthusiastically.
"That may be a matter of opinion, but I have to say totally," Crafty said simply.
"Is he muscular and strong?" Charmette inquired dreamily.
"One of the strongest next to Hefty."
"Is he tough? I want to see if I can intimidate him," Wittette crossed her arms.
Crafty scoffed, "Good luck with that. He has to be the toughest Smurf in the village."
"One more question," Aurora started. "Why are we here when you should be introducing us to him? Come on! Where is he?"
"What's the rush? Why do you want to meet him so badly?" Crafty asked with a chuckle.
"Uh, because we have to examine him, that's why!" Aurora crossed her flippers.
"Examine him?" Crafty raised an eyebrow. "You want to examine my fiancé."
"Fiancé?! What other secrets have you been keeping from us!" Aurora yelled, slapping her flippers to her head.
"Uh…smurfing into that later, why do we need to 'examine' him?" Charmette asked the penguin.
"Because, Charmette, we have to make sure he's good enough for her! Shesh! I know best friends are supposed to do this, but I thought this was like a sister's main job! Come on, people! Work with me!"
"Uh…Good enough for me?" Crafty carefully asked. "Don't you think I can smurf for myself if a Smurf's good enough for me or not?"
"Aw sweetie, of course you can," Aurora patted Crafty's head, messing up her hat slightly. "But you're too blinded by love to really know that for sure. That's what we're here for."
Crafty blinked, fixing her hat, "I'm touched you care so much, but you still can't meet him."
"Aw, come on!" Aurora protested. "I promise I won't hurt him…much."
"That's one reason, but the other reason is that he's not here. He's on a camping trip with some friends," Crafty said, taking a stroll away and to find Monty.
"Oh, so he's a wilderness kind of guy, eh?" Explorette playfully elbowed the inventor Smurfette as she caught up with her.
"When will he be getting back?" Wittette asked. "I don't like waiting."
Crafty chuckled, "You sound just like a Smurf I know. He should be back in a few days. The day of the Springtime Ball, actually."
"Oh, so that's what those guys are smurfing for," Explorette nodded.
"Mhmm," Crafty nodded, whistling loud into the forest. "Monty! Come'ere, Monty!"
The mechanical blue eagle suddenly dove through the treetops and down to Crafty, stumbling just a little bit on his landing. He clicked excitedly and nuzzled his mother with great affection. Crafty smiled and patted his beak.
"Alright, let's see what the damage is," Crafty said, Monty's feathers turning over to reveal his wooden defenses. Only a few scratches were present. "Good. Good. All that needs to be smurfed is some buffing out."
Crafty set down her basket and reached inside, bringing out a large piece of sandpaper. As she started to grind against the first wooden plate, Monty's claws dug into the ground as he whirled in content.
Crafty raised an eyebrow as she noticed the four females had failed to leave her presence.
"Really? You guys don't have anything better to do than to watch me?"
"Uh, yeah. We do," Wittette retorted. "We just aren't leaving until you tell us what you want to know."
"I can't tell you guys anything until you smurf some questions for me to answer," Crafty sighed, not stopping the buffing of Monty's scratches.
"Alright, let's see..." Explorette tapped her fingers together, trying to think of a question. "Where did you guys meet?"
"Out in the forest," Crafty stopped for a moment, using an arm to gesture around them, then continued buffing out the scratches. "I was looking for smurfberries to eat, so was he with a group of Smurfs, we literally met face to face, then I smurfed him with a tree branch."
"A tree branch?" They echoed.
"Yeah. He chased me around the forest, then I saw a tree branch, pulled it back, and smacked him right on the forehead."
It was only silent for a moment before all four of them burst out laughing, Wittette and Aurora falling to the ground and holding onto their gut as they continued their hysterical episode. While Explorette was still laughing just as hard, Charmette was the only one who at least attempted to keep her snickering to a minimum.
"You know, I have a question," Aurora got up, slowly ceasing her laughing as she wiped a tear with a flipper. "How have you not died of lack of social interaction with other girls?"
"What about Smurfette and Sassette?" Charmette asked.
"Yeah, but somethin' tells me that those aren't the kind of girls Crafty would interact with often," Wittette said.
Crafty finally finished and put the sandpaper away and turned to them, "Would you like to find out?"
"This is so totally awesome!" Explorette shouted, hanging onto Monty's talons as he flew over the tall trees of the forest. "Why haven't you ever done this with us before?!"
"I wouldn't know," Crafty shouted back from her place on Monty's neck. "My mind's still on a bit of a memory block."
"Who cares?!" Wittette laughed, sitting between Crafty and Charmette and throwing her arms in the air. "I am enjoying this and don't anysmurf try to stop me!"
"You can say that again!" Aurora slid on her belly, which still created ice even high enough to match Monty's flight height. Occasionally, she would jump off, making the old path melt and create a new one.
"Where are we going, anyway?" Charmette asked loudly.
"We're here!" Crafty pointed down to a modest cottage that belonged to Homnibus and the one they were visiting, Meena. "Monty! Get these Smurfettes down safely!"
"Us? What about you?" Explorette yelled up to her.
"Smurf you guys at the bottom!" Crafty saluted before pushing herself off of Monty, letting herself free fall towards the cottage. Crafty barely flinched as she heard the fearful cries of the Smurfettes and the sight of the ground coming closer and closer to her. A few yards towards the ground, Crafty swiftly grabbed the rim of her hat and yanked it up, the hat quickly expanding making a Smurf hat hang glider.
The speed of her fall dropped dramatically as she glided through the air and, like she wanted, through the window of Homnibus' cottage. What she didn't account for was there being an obstacle in the way.
"Hey!" Jo cried out, feeling the Smurfette crash into the side of her head. She turned her head and said, "Oh, hey Crafty."
"Hello, Jo," Crafty squirmed as she crawled up Jo's shoulder. "Hi, Livy."
"Hey," Livy waved, sitting in a chair across from the window. "That was...quite an entrance you made."
"I know! Wasn't it awesome?!" Crafty laughed. "What are you guys doing here, anyway?"
"Um...about that. Has anyone, I don't know, turned blue from staying with you guys for a long time?" Livy asked unsure.
Crafty furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head, "Not that I smurf of. Why?"
The front door of Homnibus's home, and in stormed in a not-so-happy Aurora with Charmette, Explorette, and Wittette following close behind.
"You!" Aurora pointed a flipper at Crafty. "You-You never do that ever again! Do you hear me?! If you even think about-"
Aurora suddenly froze as she just then noticed that the two human girls were staring at her. Her smurfy blue eyes shifted between the two before a nervous smile crossed her beak.
"Uh...hi," she shyly waved a flipper at them.
"You heard that too, right Livy?" Jo asked, not taking her eyes of the penguin. "And you're seeing what I'm seeing?"
"Yeah! Talking penguin! That is so cool!" Livy smiled widely.
"Jo, Livy. These are my sisters and smurflinghood friend. Smurflinghood friend and sisters, these two plus another are the reason I have had my social interaction with girls," Crafty casually introduced.
Timidly, the three Smurfettes circled around Aurora and showed themselves.
"Sisters?" Jo asked, turning her head to Crafty.
"Yup," She answered, leaning against Jo's head.
"Smurflinghood friend?" Livy inquired.
"That's what I smurfed," Crafty nodded.
"That is so cool! I'm Livy!" Livy held out a hand for any of them, though they did seem pretty hesitant.
"Uh...Aurora," the emperor penguin placed her flipper in her hand, allowing it to be shaken. "The Smurflinghood friend."
"So that makes you three Crafty's sisters," Livy pointed out, gesturing to the Smurfettes.
"What was your first clue?" Wittette seemed to recompose herself and cross her arms.
"I like her, already," Jo smirked.
"Wittette!" Charmette roughly elbowed the red head in the side. She looked up at the humans with no fear and kindness, "Please excuse her. She has a habit of having a smart remark for just about everything. I am Charmette."
"And I'm Explorette," The black-haired Smurfette introduced herself.
"So, this whole turning blue thing...Did something happen?" Crafty asked the two girls.
"Well, we were going for a ride in the woods. Then we found Xavier and...well..." Livy was interrupted as Homnibus came into the room.
"Is something wrong? I heard the door slam open," He said.
"Nothing's wrong, Homnibus," Jo pointed to Aurora. "But look! We got another Creatugo in the family now!"
"Another Creatugo, you say?" Homnibus smiled down at the penguin. "A pleasure to meet you. Now, as for Xavier, he doesn't seem to be sick."
"Is something wrong with Xavier?" Crafty asked concerned.
"Oh, no! At least, I don't think so," Homnibus explained. "Xavier! Come here! We have company."
"No way! I'm not going out there looking like this!" They heard the badger yell back from the other room.
"Come on, Xavier!" Livy said. "It's not even that noticeable!"
They all heard a gruff grunt and claws scraping against the wooden floor of the other room. The door creaked open slightly and the dark brown badger stepped into the room.
Instantly, the jaws of the four Smurfettes dropped dramatically as did the widening of their eyes. Xavier was still the same badger: dark brown fur, sharp black claws, and light blue eyes. Only, the white stripe that ran down the center of his face was no longer white. Instead, it was a smurfy blue, like his eyes.
"Any of you laugh, and you're going to be six feet under the ground faster than you scream," He growled out.
Aurora scoffed, "That's nothing! I've lived with these guys since I hatched from my egg and this is what I got from it."
Aurora lifted up her flippers, the underside of them also having smurfy blue feathers. Not only that, but the sides of her white-feathered belly also had a tint of blue the same shade as her eyes.
Affectionette strolled through the village, exploring anything and everything in the village. She was greeted kindly by many of the Smurfs, each getting a name and she introducing herself to them even if they already knew her name.
She took in a deep breath and let it out, sitting herself on a bench, enjoying the fresh air in the village. It was an amazing place to be in, especially with so many friendly Smurfs to talk to.
A light tapping on her shoulder made her stop and turn to the source of the tapping. She smiled widely as Scaredy shot his hand back quickly, as if touching her burned his skin.
"Oh! Hello, Scaredy!" Affectionette scooted over and patted the spot next to her, inviting the frightened Smurf to sit next to her. Scaredy slowly and timidly sat on the bench, fiddling with his hands nervously.
"S-so, Af-Affectionette," Scaredy gulped. "I'm s-sorry I r-r-ran away like th-that before. I was just so su-surprised."
"It's okay, really," Affectionette reassured. "My Mama always did tell me I smurf on a little too strong for everyone's liking. If it helps, you're not the first to be so scared like that."
"I-I'm not?" Scaredy turned to her with hopeful eyes.
"Of course not!" Affectionette smiled and put her hand on Scaredy's. "This one time, there was this Creatugo that was an opossum named Marina. I went to introduce myself and when I did, she played dead for almost two whole hours!"
Affectionette giggled merrily at the memory. Scaredy let a small smile cross his face and he did giggle as well, though it was mostly quiet.
"So don't worry. I don't blame you for being startled, but I really didn't mean to scare you like that," she smiled assuredly.
Scaredy looked at his lap, a light purple blush tinting his cheeks, "W-well...I'm sorry for being so r-rude. And...I w-want to make it up to you."
"Oh, you do?" Affectionette tilted her head. "You don't have to do that."
"But I want to!' Scaredy insisted. He took his hand back from Affectionette's grip and fiddled with it again. "Well...next week we're having our a-annual Sp-Springtime Ball. I-I was wo-wondering if...if maybe..."
"Yeah?" The blonde Smurfette urged.
"Maybe...W-would you like to go...w-with m-me?" He finished, involuntarily wincing as he waited for a response.
"Well aren't you just the sweetest little Smurf," Affectionette smiled sweetly as she cupped Scaredy's face and turned it to face her. "I would love to go to the ball with you! We'll have such a smurfy time!"
Affectionette leaned in and kissed both of his cheeks before getting up off of the bench. She enthusiastically gushed, "I so can't wait! It will be so much fun!"
With that, she dashed through the village, hoping to find her sisters to share the news with. Scaredy still sat on the bench, his eyes wide with wonder and the purple blush on his cheeks even darker than before. He slumped onto the seating of the bench, his eyes drooped and the small smile on his face widening as he let out a dreamy sigh.
You saw it here, folks! The first of many Smurf couples in this story and it is Affectionette and Scaredy! Congratulations to the two lovebirds! Benny, you were the first to guess this couple so you get the free wish. For the rest of you, you guessed it right, but failed to guess it first. Better luck next time! Until then, this is Frosty! Over and out!