Back to the story! I don't own the smurfs but I do own Greta!
Hefty: Psst! Hey, what's going to happen to me and Smurfette?
Well...you'll find out! *Pushes Hefty back into Computer*
Sheesh, I knew I forgot something! Credit goes to spring-heel- Jacq for the part of using the uh, "dead" smurfs' attributes. So sorry bout that! I had thought I already gave you credit for that. My bad! Yeah, I know it went by fast. And reason why it went so fast, was because of school. I don't have much time to type, so I just did it all quickly.
Handy's' POV
It takes a while for me to realize what is actually going on. I look around. The ruins are partially torn down, unlike when we first came. I check my leg. No wound on it.
The smurfs around me begin to stir.
"Oi, whata headache!" Gutsy says as he stands up. Harmony stands up and stumbles. Dreamy gets up but sits back down. Tracker stays laying on the floor. Clumsy, back as a regular adult smurf, and dressed, just opens his eyes and grabs his head. "Ooh...my head smurfs real bad!"
I glance at Brainy. He hasn't moved a muscle. Worriedly, I run over to him. He suddenly jolts upright, on his feet, with his eyes glowing blue, just like when we first arrived. I leap backwards in surprise.
"Oh, don't worry, he's fine," Brainy says sourly, but Greta's voice comes out. "Well...congrats...I guess...for being the first one to ever get through it all. You're lucky you had a group of smurfs to get through it all, Handy."
I look at "Brainy" angrily, but say nothing. So she finally learned my name, eh?
I'm not happy that you made it out, because for sure you will go babbling on to your friends and stuff to never come here. That will lower my chances for revenge. Second of all, I'm not happy for what you did to my ruins. It will take a long time to repair..."
"Brainy" looks at the sky. "Well...a promise is a promise...what is it that you need?"
I pull out the list from my bag and read them out loud for her. They magically appear on the floor. Clumsy gathers them up.
"Well, then...farewell..." "Brainy" says in a harsh tone. I'm expecting Greta to retreat back into the ruins, but she doesn't leave from Brainy's body.
"Uh, Greta...aren't you forgetting something?" I snap at her, then point at her.
"Oh right..." she says, and Brainy's eyes stop glowing, and again he falls forward onto the sand. He opens his eyes and grabs his head. "AH! SMURFS MY HEAD HURTS!"
And that's when our brains finally realize what is going on. That I did it. I beat the final challenge. The smurfs cheer, except for Brainy, who still hasn't realized it, and they all pat me on the back. Then they throw me in the air three times, only they forget to catch me on the third throw.
"SMURFS! I can't see!" Brainy cries out.
"Oh, sorry!" I tell him, and give him back his glasses. "Thanks, they were really helpful. If you hadn't given them to me, I would have not been able to pass through the last door." Brainy puts the glasses on, and suddenly blinks. "Wait...WE'RE ALIVE?! Y-YOU DID IT HANDY!" He rushes at me, and hugs me tight.
Once he lets go, I turn to Clumsy. "If it wasn't for your lucky rock...I might not have been so lucky after all."
"Oh, gosh!" Clumsy says and puts his hands behind his back.
"Gutsy," I turn to him. "If it wasn't for your bravery, courage, and determination, I might have chickened out, and just given up."
Gutsy nods, and pats me again on the back. I turn to Dreamy. Uh, what should I say to him? He helped, but I mean, nothing really came from him. "Dreamy, uh...if it wasn't for your company that short while, I probably would have believed that no smurf wanted to help me, and I probably would have given up." Okay, that sounded lame. But Dreamy beams.
"Harmony," I say. "If it wasn't for your horn, I wouldn't have been able to break down a big rock that was blocking the way, and I wouldn't have been able to get to the end."
Harmony laughs. "Yep, No problem Handy! But I'll have to get a new one..."
"And Tracker..." I say finally, turning to him. "If it wasn't for your feather," I pull it out and give it back to him. He puts it on his hat. "...who ever wore it couldn't have tracked down the other doors."
He smiles. "But you know, the majority of it wasn't us. It was you. You knew in your heart that you had to get through, so thank you, too, for saving us."
A shadow passes over our heads. Feathers cries out in joy and swoops down to greet us. We all go to hug her.
"Hey Feathers!" We all shout. "It's good to see you again!"
She cuddles her soft face against mine. "I want to know, how it felt to be...'gone'..." I admit to the others. "But lets do that on our way back to the village. Right now we have a potion to make!" I glance at the ruins. "But lets do it some smurfs away from here."
Clumsy hands me the things. I take one last glance at the ruins. Goodbye forever, Greta. Don't worry, I'll make sure no one EVER comes back here. I smile.
You can't prevent everyone from coming here... Greta answers. So I'll get someone.
You might...but you'll never get one of us smurfs again. But thanks...for keeping your promise on giving us the things we need.
Yeah, yeah, whatever. Until never...Her voice fades, and my smile gets bigger. "Lets' go!" I tell the others, and we run until we reach grass, Feathers closely behind. I set the stuff on the grass. "Brainy, you remember that thing Papa Smurf wants you to recite?" I ask hopefully. He smiles smugly.
"Yes, I do! I knew I had it stored somewhere in my highly intellectual brain. And after searching through it for so long, I finally managed to open up the locked cabinet of the file where-"
"I get it, you remember!" I say. "Okay, Harmony, take out all the ingredients for the potion. Brainy, start a fire with your glasses on that pile of wood, and when you're done, make the potion, but I'll read some instructions that came with the letter."
Brainy nods and begins with the fire. Harmony takes out all the things from the bag. "The rest of you smurfs, stand back a little."
They obey. Brainy has the fire ready. Harmony places a cauldron on the fire. I take out the instructions. "Okay, Brainy, first goes the mushroom. Split it into little pieces, and drop them in." I hear the pieces hit the bottom of the cauldron softly. The air smells like cooked mushroom. "Now add the tree sap. Stir it with a spoon for 15 seconds, and let is bubble a bit."
A huge bubble from the cauldron bursts, showering me with sap. I didn't even think that tree sap could bubble when heated! This must be special sap or something.
"Okay now, add the ice flower!" I tell Brainy. He adds it in. The potion bubbles a bit more.
"Time for the things we got right now...Okay, so add the mystic water." The smell of water fills the air. "Stir it for a while, and wait for it to bubble strongly. Once it does, add the spider silk and the snail juice at the same time. Then add the fly essence." I glance at the potion. It's now a dark gray. A horrible smell fills the air.
"Then add the bear hair and smurfberry leaves at the same time also." A powerful smell of smurfberries fills the atmosphere. It makes my mouth water. "Now wait for one minute...and add the gray special rock powder."
Brainy grabs the flask with the powder, but before he pours it in, he stares at it. He blinks, and tears begin to form in his eyes.
"Brainy, are you okay?!"I ask, concerned. He doesn't reply. He keeps staring at the powder.
"Uh, Brainy?" Clumsy asks, and approaches his best friend. He puts a hand on Brainy's shoulder. Brainy doesn't twitch.
The potion begins to bubble violently, and over flow.
"BRAINY!" Gutsy shouts and yanks the powder out of his hands. He pours in the powder and the potion calms down.
I glance back at Brainy. His hand is still in the same position as when he was holding the flask. But tears are streaming down his eyes. Gutsy shakes him hard.
"LAD! WHAT'S WRONG?!" He shouts. Brainy shakes his head hard.
"I-I c-can't believe it...I-I just can't...I-I-I Could have...I c-could have..."
"Brainy!" Harmony takes off the intellects glasses, to see if he would notice that he can't see, and come back to his senses, but no use. Tracker tickles Brainy with his feather. Brainy doesn't laugh. He stays staring at his hand. But his breathing gets faster.
"NO! THAT TIME! I-I COULD HAVE...I-I COULD HAVE! I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST-! I-I ALMOST-!"
Now I understand what he's talking about. He's talking about the past, when he almost made himself explode. The rock powder must have reminded him of the exploding powder.
"Brainy! That didn't happen, so don't remember the past! It's all over now!" I shout at him. He doesn't seem to hear me. He keeps shaking his head.
"It happened...it did...but if it wasn't for...Oh smurfs...I-I...I...I"
Brainy buries his face in his hands and sobs hard. Clumsy puts an arm around his shoulder. I rub my cheek. Of all moments, why did he have to remember this now?
"Brainy..." I say. "It's over. That happened a long time ago. Smurf it out of your head."
"P-Papa told me to do that..." Brainy mumbles, without taking his hands away from his face. "B-but I can't take that memory away. I feel awful that I was going to do that. I-It's just not me."
"Lad. Let that go, like Papa told ya to. Why do ya wanna cling onta a bad memory? And if it comes back, just ignore it."
"'Member, Brainy, what matters is that you're still here, with us!" Clumsy exclaims. "'nd that we're all together!We've told ya that so many times!"
It's true. We've told him this a lot of times two weeks ago, And he still can't get over it. I know, It's hard, but sooner or later, it has to go away. We try to comfort him, to make him stop crying, for like about ten minutes. I rub my forehead.
"Brainy," I say again, finally having lost patience. "Look, I really need you to stop crying, and please say that thing, whatever you need to say for the potion to work!" Okay, that sounded a bit more like a snap. Brainy's sobs die down a little. He looks at me with watery eyes.. He sniffs, and he nods. "Y-you're right. I'm sorry. It's just that the realization of what I almost did barely came to me. I-I don't know why, but... Smurfs, I'm such a smurfling!"
Brainy sighs, wipes his eyes, and clears his throat. His arms go in the air, and he recites:
A dragons tail, and a bat's wing.
To lose a life, is a horrible thing.
Make this potion work, when it's cooled down
and save the life, of the being who's down.
The potion glows a bright yellow. Then the light dies down. Brainy smiles, and we all cheer. I pour the potion into a flask, and put it in my bag.
"Time to go, smurfs!" I say, getting on Feathers's back. "Feather's, smurf us back to the smurf Village as fast as you can!" Time to save Hefty. I just hope we're not too late...
OoO
Smurfettes POV
I...I can't feel my hands anymore...I feel myself going numb...but I can't stop shaking. So cold...so...cold...I can feel my face sweating...so much, that I'm leaving a puddle on the floor.
Papa Smurf hasn't come back to check on me and Hefty anymore. I wonder why...he just left me here on the floor...But I know, the last time he saw me...it wasn't good.
I...don't think...the smurfs will come back on time to save me. I just hope they save Hefty. They have to save him. But for me...if they don't arrive now...this is the end...I can feel my life slipping away so quickly.
With all my might, I concentrate on turning my head to look at Hefty. He's still sleeping peacefully. His chest rising and falling with every breath. There's something...I...want to do...before...
Using all the strength I have, I command my arms to lift me up. They obey. I try to stand up on my legs, but they wobble, and collapse. So I drag myself to Hefty's bed. With every drag, I feel a powerful wave of energy leave my body.
My throat feels so dry, and my head hurts. My whole body aches. I'm just glad that Hefty isn't awake, so he wouldn't be suffering like I am...
Using my arms, I Grab the mattress, and force myself to stand up on my knees, and I stare at Hefty's face. So smooth. No dryness like mine. But he's pale, and sweaty, like me.
My finger goes to caress is cheek. I want to cry so badly. But I promised Hefty, that I wouldn't. Anyways, my body doesn't seem to want to function that way.
I make Hefty's face turn to face me. I trace his facial features. His lips twitch a bit, but nothing else. My lip trembles. I touch his cute nose, and outline his lips with my finger. Oh Hefty...why didn't I tell you earlier. So much time to have told you, but I never did, for fear...
I take a deep breath, and kiss Hefty in the lips. Something I have been wanting to do for so long. But not this way. There's no time to wait for later.
I feel his face heat warm my face up more. I grip the mattress tighter, feeling my grip begin to slip. I wish Hefty would wake up, and kiss me back, for the last time.
I feel Hefty breathe out through his nose—one final breath—and he ceases to breathe. My eyes squeeze shut. My grip begins to weaken. I hear the door behind me open. I hear Papa Smurf's voice say something, but my ears cease to function. My hand lets go of the mattress. I take one final breath. I feel myself fall backwards, away from Hefty, and-
…...THUD!
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"And that's how it felt like," Dreamy concludes.
"So...all this time, you could all see what I was doing?" I ask amazed. "And you smurfs say that when you were all gone...you felt, relaxed, and stuff?"
"Yep, but we would be stuck in the ruins forever if it wasn't for you," Tracker tells me. I smile.
"Smurf village, straight ahead!" Dreamy shouts. WE hold on tight to Feathers as she descends in front of Hefty's house, still wrapped up, and contagious. Papa Smurf comes out, with a weird looking suit. When he sees us, he stays frozen in shock. Brainy slides off Feathers first.
"Papa Smurf! We're back!" Brainy exclaims and hugs our leader. "I did—I-I mean, we all did it! But I made the potion, with Handy's help, and I recited what you told me to recite! And the potion's done Papa Smurf!"
"My smurfs! Y-you're all alright!" Papa exclaims, and he begins to cry with joy. We rush over to him, and give him a smurfy hug.
"I-I'm sorry to have sent you smurfs on such a unsmurfy journey. I-I didn't know, about that place, until I read it in a book. If I would have read that earlier, I wouldn't have sent you all to such a place. I thought I-I would never see you smurfs again..."
"But we're here now, Papa!" Brainy says. "Handy helped through the final challenge and stuff. And Handy has the potion! Now we can save Hefty and Smurfette!"
Papa Smurf says nothing. He looks at the floor. Brainy's smile slowly fades. "W-what...what is it?"
"Y-you smurfs are a little too late...Hefty and Smurfette a-are g-gone...about Seven minutes ago..."
We gasp. But I gasp the loudest. My heart sinks. No...no...this can't be...not my best friend...no...
The world around me seems to grow bigger, and I stand alone. "W-what?!" I ask again, hoping I heard wrong.
"They're gone, Handy. I-I'm so sorry..." Papa Smurf says, and he cries.
"This is my fault..." Brainy whispers. "If I hadn't...If I...WE COU:D HAVE MADE IT ON TIME!...SMURFS I HATE MYSELF!" Brainy shouts and Bangs his head hard against Painter's house. His glasses smurf off his face. He slides to the floor, and hugs his knees. He bawls. Clumsy goes and sits next to him, and they cry together.
The other smurfs begin to cry too. I just stand there. This can't be true. No, this can't be true! This is a lie. It has to be! But when Papa Smurf cries, it's never a lie.
It's not Brainy's fault. It's my fault. If I had finished the final challenge faster, we would have come back on time to save Hefty and Smurfette! I fall on my knees and bawl the hardest and loudest. Smurfs come out of their houses to see what is smurfing on.
I can't believe it, that my best friend, is actually gone...I'm sorry Hefty...I'm sorry Smurfette...that I was just a little too late...
Hefty: (sobbing) Why would you do that to me?!
Hey, its part of my story!
Hefty: And why do you refer so much back to your other story?! And why is this chapter so quick and short?
Because I do! And because I have so much to do today, that's why.
Hefty: I'm not talking to you anymore! (goes back in the screen)
Fine, fine! Be that way! Okay people, review please!
Hefty: (pops back out) what's gonna happen next?
I thought you weren't talking to me anymore?
Hefty:...Well I changed my mind! And boy, are the readers gonna hate you!
SHUT IT! *Shoves Hefty into screen again and turns off the computer* There!
Hefty:I'M STILL HERE!