Smurfocalypse Chapter 18: The Black-Hearted p2

It seemed to be check mate for Hefty and his knights as he surrendered to the demon army with no more stamina left in the ranks to spare after hours of fighting. Hefty stared hatefully into the dark red, bloody eye sockets of the foul smelling demon in front of him, who dared to not only oppose him, but defeat him as well. The creature stared back at Hefty, a look of taut and triumph on it's face. Hefty dropped his sword, it clanged as it hit the ground, shortly after, the sound of the other weapons of the brave Smurfs in armor were heard as well. The creature threw back its head and laughed evilly, something about this particular demon seemed different, the most shocking thing? It spoke Smurf. It was strange enough it spoke at all but the fact it spoke Smurf was terrifying to Hefty, but he dare not show his fear, a glare of hatred is maintained.

"Don't you see?! It is useless! This was bound to happen!" The creature says.

"Why do you want Lazy, huh?! Why?! Of all of us why him!?" Hefty asks.

The entity was not about to spill any secrets it might possess to Hefty. Instead it threatened him with the worse case scenario.

"If you refuse to Smurf me Lazy, I will kill them all as you watch helplessly!" it hissed.

Hefty had no other choice, there was no reasoning with it, clearly it would not leave peacefully without a Smurf. Hefty came up with a plan.

"Look.. I'm not sure why you want Lazy.. But trust me when I say he Smurfs up to his name! You could take me instead! Surely I would be of more use!" Hefty says.

"How noble of you… Its disgusting! Look! I wont tell you again! Reveal to me the location of Lazy Smurf or pay WITH your Smurf!" The entity said impatiently.

Hefty's plan crashed and burned and he was presented with no other choice, either he would forfeit the life of Lazy Smurf, or Papa Smurf would return to find the mangled remains of perhaps the most important Smurfs left.

"He is sleeping over there behind that tree.." Hefty said, pointing to the pine tree behind one of the decoy tents.

"There now was that so Smurfin hard?!" The demon yelled as it ran on all fours to the tree.

There was a deadly silence in the air for a moment. Suddenly, the silence was broken by a growling sound followed by Lazy's screams and then a huge smacking noise followed by evil laughter. Hefty closed his eyes and clenched his fist so tightly his nails went into the skin of his palm. Hefty was truly pissed, and was not about to let this slide. He planned to lead a full scale charge into the chasm early the next morning and completely clean out any sense of life that was not Smurf or animal. That is, until the entity returned to the camp, entering threw the brush and appearing just behind the medical tent, carrying Lazy under his arm. At this point, Hefty had picked up his sword and had his back to the tent when he heard something that made his blood freeze in his veins.

"Kill them.." The entity ordered.

The forces aimed their weapons at the unarmed Smurf Knights and pursued them as Hefty whirled around and ran as fast as he could across camp to the medical tent.

"Grr.. Bastards!" Hefty shouted.

The forces were ready for slaughter, a group of them surrounded Gutsy and charged, ready to strike and under such a short notice he was somewhat unprepared. He drew his knife which he had concealed in his boot and charged the group recklessly, just as the spear of the closest demon was about to strike Gutsy slid across the ground and right under the feet of the demon, the muddy terrain had saved his life. Gutsy returned to his feet and tackled the demon to the ground, grabbing its spear and ending it's life with it's own weapon. While he was off guard an arrow had pierced his armor and struck his forearm, he shouted in pain and yanked it out, he then threw the spear with all his might and struck the shooter in the forehead so hard the demon flew several feet backward and landed flat on it's ass dead as a door knob. Miraculously, the knights were holding their own, but at the same time were suffering injuries that would require immediate medical attention, Tuffy was just barely getting by when a sword blow to the helmet knocked out cold, fortunately the helmet just barely sustained the attack and since he looked dead he was no longer pursued. Because it was obvious he survived this sprung no shock into the hearts of the other knights as they desperately fought to protect both themselves and the medical tent. A rather buff demon plowed Sweepy to the ground and stomped over him as it ran into the medical tent, much to Timber's horror as he watched from across camp. Shortly after the blood curdling scream of a Smurf was heard, it was Sickly. The demon had run inside and almost immediately found where he was hiding and shoved it's powerful claws into Sickly's chest. Killing him instantly. The demon turned and ran for the stretchers when Wooly came tearing through the tent's wall and threw himself into the massive demon, mounting it like a horse and then brutally strangling it to death, in the act of Wooly's slow disposal of the demon, it had destroyed the majority of the medical tent which collapsed around them as the final demons were disposed of, the weaker ones escaped into the woods shortly after the last of the larger demons were killed, fleeing like cowards, little did they know that if they had stayed united they would have won.

The chaos came to an end. But not without its casualties, Sickly Smurf was dead, Lazy was captured, and no Smurf could seem to find Hefty either. The camp was complete disaster, the few tents that remained standing were far to damaged to be of use and the ground was littered with the dead. Tuffy was still out cold, Gutsy was badly wounded, Farmer suffered a blow to chest and had several broken ribs due to his plate armor denting inward and smashing his chest. Sweepy was in pretty bad shape but Doctor suspected he would pull through after further examination. Clockwork was badly damaged to the point where he was immobile, explaining how he was unable to continue helping, but his heart of gold was intact and his vital signs functioned. Try as they might, no Smurf could see any clue as to where Hefty had gone. They searched through the sea of dead bodies and no body was recovered. His armor and weapons were nowhere to be found, Timber last saw him charge towards the medical tent out of the corner of his eye. There was nothing left to do but bury the fallen and treat the injured. Without Hefty, they were somewhat lost, Timber, Gutsy, and Wooly were the least injured among the knights and therefore helped Doctor get the injured with the other injured therefore they were altogether and could be watched together as well. Later that evening, the 4 of them gathered towards the hill that overlooked the field surrounding Gargamel's house and the woods where they once lived, and they buried Miner and Sickly, marking their graves with stones so they would not be forgotten, the markers would overlook the scenery beyond the hill for all eternity.

And so the sun sets on this fateful day that claimed the life of Sickly Smurf. Night falls and the moon assumes it's rightful place amongst the stars. Somewhere far away from what use to be camp, a certain captain moves silently through the forest. His pride wounded and his heart broken. He searches for vengeance alone…

"Sweepy has broken an arm and a leg, and suffered a concussion, but other then that he will live to Smurf another day". Doctor says, as he reaches into his bag and retrieves bandages.

"Ok Gutsy.. Lets get that arm properly bandaged.." Doctor says.

"Whats wrong with how I did it?" Gutsy asks.

"Well, it's still Bleeding duh! Get over here.." Doctor says, grabbing Gutsy by the nose and pulling him down to the ground where Doctor was kneeling.

Doctor grabs Gutsy's arm and presses the bandage against the wound hard as to stop the bleeding, which for the most part was completely stopped by Gutsy's attempt at first aid, however, as with any arrow wound it is crucial that it is bandaged properly in a way that does not contaminate the wound with dirt or any foreign substance, in this case the worst possible substance would be demon blood which of course could cause serious illness involving blood when two completely different blood types are mixed.

"Ouch! Aye, watch it." Gutsy says.

"Oh, stop acting like a baby.." Doctor says, finishing up bandaging the wound.

"So what now?.." Timber asks.

"We wait out the night here and keep a Smurf out for Hefty." Gutsy says.

"You mean you just want to stay here?! Have you gone Smurfy?!" Wooly says.

"There are to many of us injured to leave here.. My patients must not be moved especially not Handy, Clumsy, Sweepy, and Farmer." Doctor says.

"Its crucial that we wait here.. Tomorrow we begin a search for Hefty bright and early.. As for protection, we will hide amongst the dead so we look Smurfed." Gutsy says.

"You mean we got to sleep on the blood soaked ground next to a corpse?" Timber says.

"That's right.. So make yourself look as dead as possible." Gutsy says.

"But that's just disgusting.." Doctor says.

"That's an order!" Gutsy says.

And with that they found a place to play dead for the night and for the first time in a long time, The Smurfs enjoyed a good night's rest. But out in the woods, far from camp, Hefty lurks, on a personal mission of vengeance and rescue. it's a reckless move, one false move and Hefty could be killed, but it is a knights duty to protect the innocent. Hefty's struggle continues as he attempts a one Smurf assault into the chasm in the next chapter of Smurfocalypse.