Legend of Smurfy Hollow (Hero Stories)/Part 1

One night in the forest, Clumsy, Wonder and the Smurflings were sitting around a campfire roasting smurfberries.

"We're sorry we crashed the cart, Smurfs! We swear we saw something smurfing straight at us!" the Smurflings said in unison.

"It was only the road, Smurflings!" Hefty said as he inspected the wheel.

"Hey, Hefty! How's it looking?" Clumsy asked.

"Looking good," Hefty said as he picked up the cart, "Nice size, excellent definition," he said while looking at his muscle.

"He wasn't talking about your muscle, Hefty!" Wonder said, "He's talking about the wheel,"

"Oh! Well that's busted," Hefty said, as he threw away the broken wheel.

"We're all gonna die!" Slouchy shouted out.

"Maybe! Or we can camp out here and head back home in the morning," Hefty said as he sat down.

"So how are going to pass the time?" Snappy asked.

"Hey! Why don't we tell ghost stories," Clumsy suggested.

"That's a smurfy idea!" Nat said.

"I don't really like ghost stories," Sassette whispered to Wonder.

"Don't worry, Sassette!" Wonder whispered back, "I'll be here with you,"

"Are you out of your mind? You want to tell me a ghost story?" Slouchy asked, not noticing that his smurfberry was over the fire, which soon exploded causing him to jump into Hefty's arms.

"Hey! How you doing?" Hefty asked, as he put Slouchy back on his feet.

"Come on, Slouchy! You know ghosts aren't real," Clumsy said.

"OR ARE THEY?" a voice boomed around them.

Sassette got close to Wonder, as the other 3 got close to Hefty.

"Who said that?" Clumsy shouted.

"Yeah! Who's there?" Hefty shouted.

"It's a ghost!" Slouchy shouted, before a familiar Smurf appeared.

"No! I'm not a ghost," Hero said.

"Will you stop scaring me like that, Hero? You know I hate being scared," Wonder said, as she gave him a slight punch to the shoulder.

"Come on, Wonder! It was only for fun," Hero said.

"Hey! It's Hero!" Hefty said, "How you doing?"

"I'm doing quite well, thank you, and if it's a ghost story you seek, this smurf knows one, that's smurfsulutely true," Hero said.

The other Smurfs gasped, until they could hear the sound of a shaking cup.

"It's... It's just the nerves," Slouchy said, before Hefty took the cup from him.

"The story takes place beyond the old covered bridge, where no Smurf in their right mind would dare to enter, and where an avengeful, restless spirit is trapped forever," Hero said as he began his story.

"You mean the Headless Smurfman? I mean, the Smurfless Headman?" Slouchy asked.

"Yes! The Headless Horseman," Hero said.

"Excuse me, Hero! But, the Headless Horseman? That ain't real, no disrespect," Hefty said.

"Oh, but it is, Hefty!" Hero said, "There're some Smurfs who have actually seen him,"

"Who?" all the other Smurfs asked together.

"You mean you don't know? the Legend of Smurfy Hollow! " Hero said.

...

As Hero began his story, the other Smurfs could see their fellow Smurfs decorating the village, some carrying pumpkins, dunking for smurfberries and carving pumpkins, the red autumn leaves covered the ground.

"The story begins, the year of the Golden Harvest! The Smurfs were celebrating the arrival of autumn, with games, music and dance.

"Gather round, Smurfs!" Papa Smurf called out, as he gathered his little Smurfs around a stage, "It's time for the event you've all been waiting for..."

"The fashion show?" Vanity asked excitedly, until a goat took a bite of his hat, "Hey! Stop foraging through my harvest hat!"

"No, Vanity!" Papa Smurf said, "It's time for the Smurfberry Hunt!"

Smurfette soon appeared on stage, "The rules are the same as every year, the Smurf who brings back the most smurfberries before sundown wins," she said.

Brainy was standing next for Fergus with a smirk on his face.

"Sorry! I didn't catch what she said, I'm having trouble hearing her over the clanging of these victory medals that I'm wearing from the past 9 years of Smurfberry hunt," Brainy boasted.

"Yeah, joke it up, laddie! Because this is the year that I'm going to win," Fergus said.

"Haha! And... Ha! That's the sound of me scoffing at the very notion of that impossability," Brainy said, as he began to walk towards the front.

"Looks like you all will be treated to a new Brainy victory dance this year, as I am officially retiring the smurfamotion," Brainy said. Most of the other Smurfs began to congratulate him.

"Thank you, you're too kind," Brainy told them.

"What a showoff!" Fergus fumed, "It just dosen't make any sense, winning all these years, I'm bigger, stronger, braver and I don't wear any pants to slow me down, there's something wrong in the state of densmurf and I'm going to get to the bottom of it,"

"Let the games begin!" Papa Smurf announced at last.

As all the Smurfs picked up their buckets and ran off, Brainy, casually, picked up 5 buckets, while having trouble holding them, he walked off into the forest.

All the Smurfs began to pick the smurfberries from nearby bushes and they headed deeper into the forest.

Nikolai and Dempsey approached the old covered bridge.

"Hold on, comrade!" Nikolai said, "That, there is the old covered bridge that leads to Smurfy Hollow, where the Headless Horseman smurfs,"

"Yeah! You're right, we better keep smurfing," Dempsey said, as they headed off in another direction.

Brainy appeared and headed towards the bridge, what he didn't know was that Fergus had followed him.

Before Brainy got to the bridge, he checked his surroundings and then proceeded to head across the bridge. "Smurfy Hollow?" Fergus said, "I hate the spooky stuff,"

"Come on, Fergus! You're a brave Smurfman for smurf's sake," he said, trying to sound brave. He looked up and seen many bats hanging from the ceiling of the bridge roof.

"Oh, why did it have to be bats?" he asked himself, before he stepped on a creaky wooden plank, which awakened the bats causing him to run to the other end.

He soon found Brainy again and proceeded to follow him, by using the trees as cover. He could soon hear Brainy humming happily, so he ran into a bush and peered through and his eyes went open with disbelief.

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