Hello hello! If you guys didn't know already, the OCs for 'Crafty Encounters' are now posted on DeviantArt if you wanna check them out. They're not my best, but they're not my worse and I know I'll do better. I'm currently working on the drawings for 'Cupid's Arrow' including a drawing of Crafty in her dress at the Springtime Ball, so that should be interesting. Let's get to the reviews.

Zinka17- As a matter of fact, two Smurflings are going to be paired up, though their 'getting together' isn't going to be like the adult Smurfs' pairing. Especially since Snappy is all 'EWWW!' on the whole 'love' concept. I watched 'Despicable Me' and just thought of Oddette doing it to somebody. Gutsy just seemed like a perfect candidate to do so. Wasn't she just adorable?

flowerpower71- I'm surprised you guys didn't figure out that Wild and Feralette would be a couple when I posted her name on the cast list in the last story. Just the name 'Feral'ette, what does that tell you? All that aside, they'll be getting along much better from now on. Don't Grouchy and Wittette just get along swimmingly?

Grouchy &Wittette: NO WE DON'T!

Speaking couples, we have one appearing in this chapter! Not one you have not already seen, though.

SmallSunshine- I'm not sure how they'll warm up to each other, but I'm sure they'll find a way to do so. I hope you liked the little hate contest I put in for Wittette and Grouchy. Which Wittette won, but the way. I frankly don't blame Crafty for being angry. I mean, if Gutsy were flirting with Pridette thinking she was Crafty and Crafty was watching, she would beat the living smurf out of him. No doubt about it. Nat happens to thank you for the hug and wants to give one back!

FrittzyCrazy- Aww. Oddette really appreciated the hug, Frittzy! And she wants to say something.

Oddette: Thank you, thank you so very much! I like getting hugs!

Isn't she just the cutest?

Chloe- Thanks for the cookies! Glad you're enjoying the story so far!

Benny- Believe me, there are more obvious pairings on that cast list that you guys have still not caught onto yet. That's all I'm going to say about that. Nothing says 'I missed you' like a thrown volley ball in the stomach. Gutsy and Crafty get very competitive when it comes to volleyball. It's fun for them to play, but just like collecting smurfberries, playing with them is dangerous business. Don't feel bad about not thinking that. I'm sure you're not the only one. I don't think, though, that Noctuma was trying to get in good with Gutsy, though. I'm sure he cares, but he doesn't show it. You've got it right. Only Crafty is allowed to wail on Gutsy. End of argument. Right, Crafty?

Crafty: (crosses her arms) Only to prove that I am the dominant of the relationship.

Gutsy: (shakes his head and chuckles) Sure ye are, lassie. Sure ye are.

Crafty: (takes a threatening step towards Gutsy) You wanna go? I'll take you on right now!

Gutsy: (steps back and puts his hands up) I'm good! Yer dominant! I get it!

Candy Girl- I don't think that would be such a good idea to do that to him. I think Wittette will already do that enough to him.

Sapphire777- Okay, so it looks like nearly everyone is in agreement that one of the Smurfettes would eventually ask that question to Gutsy. I happen to be Scottish with a little bit of Irish, myself, and am actually doing a lot of research about my heritage. It's very fascinating. (smiles) I get it. Love/Hate relationship. Definitely got something there between Grouchy and Wittette.

Grouchy & Wittette: NO THERE ISN'T! (both glaring at each other) STOP COPYING ME!

By the way, I think you mean 'Vixie' the fox. And I'll see what I can do. I'll let you know when she's finished and posted up, but it probably wont' be for a while. I'm doing my OCs in order of appearance, remember? Anyway, I have to say that of all the pairings I'm doing, Sweepy's has to be one of the most unique I'm doing. The most unique of all won't be until way later in the story.

I own Crafty, the Smurfettes, Creatugos, Hummer, Meena, Angel, and Benevolent.

Crafty: Livy and Nanu is owned by flowerpower71.

Grouchy: Jo belongs to CartoonCaster21.

Gutsy: Benny owns Noctuma (mutters quietly) de numptie. An' Sapphire777 owns Misty.

Wittette: Smurfs belong to Peyo. Blah blah blah. Can we just get to the story, already?

"So, whatta you guys do for fun?" Martialette asked the boy Smurflings. All six Smurflings were in their mushroom, either sitting on a bed or lying on their stomachs on the floor.

"We do lots of stuff," Nat started. "We play in the forest, Grandpa smurfs us stories, and we even play with Puppy, too. Especially with Crafty's Smurf Cannon."

"A cannon?" Martialette and Oddette echoed, Oddette sounding curious and Martialette sounding mischievous.

"Yeah! We'd put a ball in there and it would go so far and Puppy would fetch it no matter how far it went!" Snappy said.

"Has any Smurf been launched out of it?" Martialette asked, a wicked idea forming in her mind.

"Only one," Slouchy said, sending a smug grin at Snappy.

"Oh for the love of smurf! It was one time and it was a total accident!" Snappy snapped.

"Yeah, but it still happened!"

"What happened, exactly?" Oddette asked tilting her head.

"Crafty was fixing something inside the cannon and Snappy smurfed her from it," Slouchy said with a sly smile. Snappy blew out a breath of air through his nose, huffing at the hunched Smurfling.

"Pffft!" Martialette covered her mouth with a hand to hold back her snickers. "That's a first. One of her inventions turning on her. I'm so not smurfing this over her!"

"Hey, if anysmurf, you should hold it over Snappy for being so dumb to lean on the trigger," Nat teased.

"Aw, smurf up!" Snappy humphed, crossing his arms and scowling.

Oddette giggled at his reaction, finding it cute and funny all at the same time. Then she asked, "How long has Crafty been with Gutsy?"

"For about six years now," Sassette replied.

Martialette arched both of her eyebrows, "They smurfed together only a year after staying with you guys?!"

"Uh huh. We think longer, though. They seemed to really smurf each other not too long after Crafty came here," Slouchy said.

"What else has Crafty made in the village? I never get to see what she's made," Oddette asked, putting her head in her hands.

"Um...She made the cannon, some baskets, Monty, Almia, Fencette, the village defense system-"

"Hold up there!" Martialette put up a hand to stop the slouching Smurf. "What did you just say?"

"The village defense system?" Slouchy asked.

"Before that," Oddette said.

"Baskets?"

"NO! In the middle!" Martialette growled irritably.

"Almia and Fencette?" Sassette replied.

"Yes, yes! What in the smurf is an 'Almia' and 'Fencette'?" Martialette inquired.

"Well, they're-" Slouchy started only to have Snappy slap a hand over his mouth.

"Why tell them when we can show them?"

Nat shrugged, "All right. I'll go get a book-"

"No. Let's take a look at the new book," Snappy smirked.

"But the new book is with Crafty in her mushroom. She said she was giving Fencette and Don Smurfo a makeover and wanted it to be a surprise," Sassette said excitedly.

"Then we're just going to have to get it out of her mushroom," Snappy looked to his brothers, who were smiling as they knew what he meant.

"I must say, Crafty," Charmette said, holding Toddlette in her arms as she gazed around the living room of her mushroom. "You have a lovely mushroom."

"Thanks," Crafty smiled, holding Baby in her own arms. "It has a lot of charm to it."

"You know, I never said this before, but your hair looks so smurfy in a braid," Affectionette gushed. "Why do you have it up like that?"

Baby took the liberty of answering her question by grabbing onto Crafty's brid and yanking down hard, making her jerk her head down. Crafty smiled as she looked to her sisters, saying, "Does that smurf your question? Baby was a hair yanker when I first got here and he just loves mine."

Baby giggled and yanked on the braid again. Toddlette laughed and clapped her hands, amused at the game Baby was able to play.

"CRAFTY! Get your smurf up here NOW!" Pridette's voice yelled down from Crafty's bedroom.

Crafty flinched and rushed up the steps, Affectionette and Charmette running right behind her. When they entered, Pridette was in front of Crafty's wardrobe, tapping her dark pink heel on the wooden floor.

"What What's wrong?" Crafty asked.

"Tell me something. What is in this closet," Pridette jabbed a thumb at the wardrobe behind her. "that just isn't right?"

Crafty slowly shrugged, "Clothes?"

Pridette frowned at her, "Yes. But what kind of clothes are in there. Go ahead, take a look."

Affectionette stepped forward and peered into the wardrobe, muttering, "Nothing unusual. I see some Smurf hats, some overalls, and...Oh. My. Smurf! This has to be without a doubt the most smurfy dress I have ever seen!"

Affectionette stepped back as she held Crafty's dark blue, strapless dress with a light blue strap around the waist. The one given to her from their adventure in New York City. It was still as smurfy and new as if she had only gotten it a week ago.

"Oh yeah," Crafty nodded. "I forgot that was in there. I don't really wear dresses often, but I do it on occasion."

"You?" Charmette arched both of her black eyebrows upward. "You wear dresses?"

Crafty shrugged, "Is this really such a big shock?"

"Yes, it is!" Pridette stressed. "You said yourself you would rather have rotten smurfberries shoved down your throat than be seen in a dress."

"When have I ever said that?" Crafty raised an eyebrow at her.

"You've said that plenty of times. The plenty of times you were actually around, anyway," Pridette muttered bitterly, turning on her heel and walking down the stairs in an eerily calm fashion.

An awkward silence filled the room, though that didn't seem to falter Affectionette as she still kept her eyes over the dress in her arms. Crafty chuckled at seeing this and said, "You know, the ball's tonight. If you want to wear that dress, I'm not stopping you."

"But...But Crafty!" Affectionette gasped. "It's such a beautiful dress! How are3 you not wearing it to the ball?!"

"I have another dress in mind to wear for tonight," Crafty smiled fondly as she pulled out the silver dress. The first dress she had ever worn in her entire life. She scrunched her face in thought, "You know, the ball's only in a few hours. We should probably start getting ready. What say we do each others hair and things?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Affectionette cheered wrapping an arm around Crafty's shoulders.

Charmette smiled, "Of course. It will be much smurfy fun."

"And here are the shoes for the dress," Crafty handed a pair of dark blue short heels to Affectionette, who was already in her dress.

"Oh, thank you so much for letting me wear this, Crafty!" She smiled widely as she sat on Crafty's bed, slipping her feet into the heels. "You look so smurfy in that dress! I'm glad you picked that dress over this one."

"I planned on wearing this one nearly every year, anyway," Crafty explained, snapping on the silver flower cufflinks onto her wrists. "It has pleasant memories."

"Excuse me?" Charmette inquired, braiding the silver flowers into Crafty's hair.

"Well...Let's just say that the night I wore this dress was the night I figured out a lot of things. Some of them just...really made me who I am now, that's all," Crafty murmured.

Charmette and Affectionette turned and looked at each other, not really knowing what Crafty had meant. The Smurfette continued to braid silver flowers into her hair as the room became silent as it did before.

"There," Charmette sighed, stepping back from Crafty. "All finished. Shall we get going then? The ball should be starting any moment now."

"Not yet," Crafty removed her light blue Smurf hat and set it on a hat stand, then took her silver Smurf hat and placed it on her head. "Okay. I'm good."

A knocking sound sounded from the downstairs, indicating someone was at the door.

"Oh! I hope you don't mind, Crafty," Affectionette apologized. "I told Scaredy I was getting ready here."

"Hold on there, girl," Crafty grabbed onto the blonde Smurfette's arm as she went to answer the door. "You seriously asked Scaredy to go to the ball with you?"

"No," Affectionette then smiled. "He asked me."

Crafty's eyes widened and arched her eyebrow, "Scaredy Smurf asked you to the ball?"

"Mhmm," Affectionette nodded with a smile.

"It's true," Charmette informed. "She came to all of us, practically screaming that she had an escort to the ball. She was oversmurfcited about it."

"And I still am!" Affectionette gushed. "Let's go!"

She grabbed both of her sisters' by their arms and down the stairs and to the door. She let go of their arms, which were being rubbed by their owners at the rough handling done by their sister, and dusted her dress off and opened the door. Scaredy was shaking slightly, fiddling the cuffs of his black jacket. His head snapped up when Affectionette cleared her throat, smiling at the constantly frightened Smurf.

"Hello, Scaredy. You look very handsome tonight," She complimented.

Scaredy whimpered slightly, falling backwards into Gutsy's arms unconscious, who was happening to drop by. Gutsy was dressed in a dark blue jacket like Scaredy's, and the undershirt was a blue plaid just like the kilt he sported as well.

"Lad must really like ye, lass," Gutsy said, standing Scaredy up to his feet.

"Obviously," Crafty smiled, walking out the door and wrapping her arms around Gutsy's waist. She kissed his side burned cheek as she continued, "Scaredy did ask her, after all."

"No kiddin'?" Gutsy said surprised, slapping Scaredy's cheek lightly. "Take'et from me, lass, he don' got a lot'a courage. Ye treat'im good now."

"Oh, don't worry! I will!" Affectionette smiled, taking Scaredy by his underarms and holding him up.

Scaredy winced slightly and slowly opened his eyes to only look into Affectionette's. His eyes widened dramatically and he did not move, but he did not pass out either.

"Hello again, Scaredy," Affectionette pulled him into a hug. "Sorry if I scared you again. Do you like the dress?"

Scaredy gulped audibly and only nodded. That wasn't the complete truth, though. The real truth was that he absolutely loved the dress. He had already seen the dress on Crafty, but that didn't help the shock he felt when he saw Affectionette wearing it.

"Ye look beautiful, darlin'," Gutsy smiled, putting a hand on the small of her back and pressing his nose against hers. "Ye always do."

Crafty batted her eyes and looked away, a purple blush on her cheeks as she said, "You say that like I haven't dressed like this before."

"True," he started. "Can' help et, though. It's too refreshin' te see ye like this."

"It's nice to actually smurf you in something that isn't only your kilt," Crafty teased.

"'ey!" He faked his hurt, but could not fake how playful he was really being with her. "I say we get goin'! I'm itchin' te show off me moves te ye, lassie."

"For once, I would love to see you prove me wrong when I say that you won't," Crafty ran a finger down his cheek, smirking greatly as he shuddered at her touch. She grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the direction of the square where the ball was held as usual.

"Shall we go, then?" Affectionette asked both her sister and her escort.

"I believe so," Charmette nodded.

"Y-y-yeah. L-let's go," Scaredy timidly took Affectionette's arm and intertwined it with his. She giggled at Scaredy's loving yet shy touches as she started leading him to follow Gutsy and Crafty. Charmette smiled and followed behind them at a pace matching theirs.