Chapter 2: Shattered Mirrors

Papa Smurf had little left to do then to close the eyes of his little Smurf forever.

"I just don't understand.. This has never happened before.. To any Smurf ever.. What's worse is.. Now the dance of a hundred Smurf's is an impossible performance!" Papa Smurf says as he lays Vanity on a slab.

"Harmony!" Papa Smurf yells,

"Yes Papa Smurf?" Harmony answers immediately from outside the window of Papa Smurf's hut.

"Sound the alarm! This is urgent I want every Smurf to hear your sound!" Papa Smurf Orders.

"As loud as I can?! You mean it!?" Harmony's face lights up with joy as he proudly blasts his trumpet so the noise travels through the sounds of thunder and rain. It wasn't long before 98 Smurf's were uncomfortably crowded into Papa Smurf's Lab, all of them wet, some confused, and some in shock, Hefty and Doctor carry Dreamy in on a stretcher so that he to can hear what Papa Smurf has to say despite his shortened lifespan and fatal injuries. The sound of nearly a hundred voices talking at once about drove Papa Smurf mad, although he will never be able to get use to the fact that one of those voices was forever silenced from the ear piercing Pandemonium of many confused and grieving Smurfs.

" Silence!" Papa Smurf orders, as Brainy struts his way up to Papa Smurf as though he was some sort of authority figure and waves his finger at the crowd saying: "yes yes silence everysmurf for as I always say waiting and listening helps a Smurf learn and-" Brainy's lecture was cut short when he was forcefully tossed out of the village where he landed on his head in the mud.

"Ahem.. Anyway I am afraid this is the worst news I have ever Smurfed before.. But for those of you who are unaware.. Vanity was struck by lighting and killed on impact moments ago.."

Immediately the whole lab busted with the sound of many confused and shocked Smurfs. "Dead? It can't be! Not Vanity!" Farmer shouted.

"AHYUK YUK YUK! Is this a joke Papa Smurf?" Jokey asks.

"No joke jokey! Now Smurf up and show some respect!" Papa Smurf's voice roared with bitter anger towards Jokey's innocent assumption.

"Now listen up! The dance of a hundred Smurfs is now impossible to perform! With Vanity's unfortunate departure there is not enough of us to perform the ritual.. Which means by dawn of the morrow this entire village will have been long since destroyed by heavy gusts of wind! We need to take caution my little Smurfs! Harvest the crops! Gather your possessions and meet me by the Great Oak by midnight! I am sorry to say that any Smurf unaccounted for whatever reason may be by midnight is considered dead! And WILL be left behind! We have got to evacuate the village at once!"

Papa Smurf's speech struck the ears of every Smurf in the form of panic in which Smurfs were running about the streets all of them screaming and shouting at one another as they run as fast as they can for their possessions before the storm wipes the village off the map. Handy stays by Dreamy's side, a cloud of guilt above his head.

"I really… truly am sorry Dreamy old pal.." Handy says with grief.

Dreamy opens his good eye and stares a moment at his fellow Smurf.

" Don't worry Handy.. *cough* … This is the end of Smurfkind.. I have seen the future.. And it is not… to Smurfy…" Dreamy explains.

"The end? Wh- what do you mean by the end?" Handy asks in shock.

" Now that the dance is no longer possible.. The Great Smurf will unleash his wrath.." Dreamy says.

"G-great Sm-Smurf?" Handy replies, "Y-yes.. He is the divine Smurf.. I saw him in a dream *cough*… he will surely Smurf us all Go Handy.. Save yourself.. Soon the village will fall.. and from then on.. Every Smurf for himself" Dreamy says weakly.

"Nonsense Dreamy! A Smurfy Smurf never Smurfs a Smurf behind! I have an idea… to make you better.. So you can Smurf longer.. I just need my toolbox! I be back in a Smurf!" At that Handy rushed out of Papa Smurfs Lab and ran down the street as fast as he could. He ran past the well in the center of town and heard snoring.

" Lazy you nincomsmurf! Get up and move the whole towns about to blow!" Handy yells as he runs past and pulls the lever on the well causing the bucket to ascend and sure enough there was Lazy.

" A wha? Oh sure.. As soon as I finish my nap" Lazy begins to fall asleep when Hefty rushes by and grabs him by the arm, dragging him down the street as he runs.

"Lazy you really are a sight for soresmurf!" Hefty yells.

"I hate soresmurfs!" Grouchy yells in the distant.

"This is not very funny!" Jokey yells, as he grabs his book and his "surprise" and heads for the oak. Greedy would be seen scooping all of his "goodies" into a large sack and then proceed to drag it along the muddy streets. Clumsy was running down the street carrying his rocks when he trips over Greedy's large sack and lands flat on his face.

"Well gosh! Sorry Greedy" Clumsy said, as he lifted himself off the ground and began running again, leaving the majority of his rocks behind.

"Come on fly! We gotta go!" Sloppy says, as he runs to the oak carrying his favorite garbage and a pouch of rotten Smurfberries, fly following shortly behind.

By this time Brainy had made it back to the village and noticed the chaos.

" What is everysmurf rushing around for?!.. If you look up to the sky you can see that the sun is just barely past the middle of the sky!" Brainy explained .

"For once he is right! Nothing to rush about we've plenty of time!" Tracker pointed out.

The village seems to have exited the state of panic for the most part after Tracker arrived on the scene.

"We will be roughing it up in the woods for some time now.. It's best to travel lightly! Especially YOU Greedy!" Tracker says, as he approaches Greedy and confiscates his sack and slaps a carrot into his hand, which Greedy rudely refused.

"Without further Ado everysmurf calmly take a few precious items and head for the oak as Papa Smurf said.." Tracker orders.

It is not everyday Tracker is around to spend time with his fellow Smurfs. As no doubt the reader knows Tracker is heavily skilled in knowledge of the outdoors and so Smurfs look to him in this dire time naturally, despite doubting him in the past. Dreamy lays in wait of his eminent death, the pain being almost to much to bear.. Vanity was lost.. And Dreamy assumes himself as the next.

"If only I had trusted them enough to warn them.. But they never listen to me…" Dreamy thinks.

Dreamy shuts his good eye as Handy barges through the door with his tools.

" I have a Smurfy idea Dreamy! Wait and see!" Handy excitedly yells, as he goes through his tools.

"Aye! What ye be doin?! Get yer tools and go!" Doctor Smurf says, as he enters from another room with Dreamy's painkillers.

"Doctor hear me out I have the perfect idea! Here come with me" Handy says, as he leads Doctor into the other room.

Papa Smurf had no choice but to lay Vanity to rest by himself. The other Smurfs agreed they would have a service at a better date in his honor.

"Ah Vanity.. " Papa Smurf says, " though you could have smurfed far longer then you did.. It would seem fate saved you from a world in shambles.. Look at us now.. Running amuck in a panic.. It is like we are mirrors… Shattered mirrors…" Papa Smurf placed the final rock upon Vanity's final resting place.. And turned to face a world in chaos.