Relatively Smurfing/Part 2

Narrator's first story began sometime about a year before Empath returned home for good. As Empath watched, a small balding man carrying a bindle stick was walking around a road and saw a person hacking away at tall grasses with a scythe up ahead. He decided that he would stop and ask that person directions.

"Excuse me, good fellow, do you know where Master Gargamel resides?" the small balding man asked.

The man with the scythe looked rather fearful when he saw the balding man with the bindle stick. "He...he lives past the forest...just beyond the small bridge...he...he's a sorcerer," the man said as he dropped his scythe and ran away.

"Oh, don't be afraid...I'm a sorcerer, too," the man with the bindle stick said. But he noticed that the man with the scythe was too frightened to listen, so he simply sighed and moved on, following the directions.

Up ahead, Brainy was taking the Smurflings through the forest to teach them an important lesson. "Humans can be very dangerous beings to smurf with because they are taller than us," he told them as they were walking down the road. "That's part of why Papa Smurf wants you to smurf away from them as much as possible. The other reason is that he doesn't want many humans to know that Smurfs actually exist."

"Does that mean we can't have Pappy Gargamel following us to the village?" Sassette asked.

"You are so dimwitted to think that Gargamel is even your father in the first place," Snappy said. "All he did was create the formula that created you, that's all."

"Gargamel is not someone that we can trust with any knowledge about us, Sassette," Brainy said. "All he wants is to smurf us into gold, to eat us, or to destroy us. The same can be smurfed for his evil godfather Lord Balthazar, who are two of the humans that Papa Smurf has warned us to smurf away from."

"Boy, listening to Brainy smurf on about what humans to avoid is really smurfing me hot under the collar," Snappy said.

"You smurfed it, Snap," Slouchy said. "In fact, this whole day is smurfing really hot without Brainy making it much worse."

"Hey, look, there's a bridge up ahead," Nat said as he pointed it out. "Maybe we can all go smurfing together in the water to cool ourselves off."

"Last one there is a rotten Smurfling," Snappy said as the four Smurflings raced off ahead of Brainy to go jumping off the bridge and straight into the water to go swimming.

"Papa Smurf said that we shouldn't smurf into the water here, because humans are likely to smurf into us," Brainy said to the Smurflings as soon as he caught up to them.

"Oh, don't be such a smurf in the mud, Brainy," Snappy said.

"Come on in and enjoy yourself," Sassette invited.

"Yeah, Papa Smurf will never have to know about this," Nat said.

"Well, that's where you're wrong, my little Smurflings," Brainy said as he stood on the side of the bridge and scolded the Smurflings. "As Papa Smurf's assistant, I'm going to let him know exactly what you're smurfing here and..."

"Excuse me, my little friends," a voice broke in, "but is this the bridge I must cross to get to the home of Master Gargamel?"

Brainy and the Smurflings turned to see a small balding man resembling Gargamel standing there with his bindle stick near the bridge. Brainy became so fearful that he jumped off the bridge and hid himself underneath it.

"I just want directions; don't be afraid," the man with the bindle stick said.

"Uh...beyond the bridge, you just smurf straight along the path to Pappy Gargamel's house," Sassette answered.

"Thanks," the man with the bindle stick said before he moved on. Funny way of talking, but those elves are very polite, he thought to himself.

"Why did you tell him where Gargamel's house is, Sassette?" Slouchy asked after the man had moved on.

"I don't know, Slouchy," Sassette said. "I just thought he was a kind old uncle who was related to Pappy Gargamel or something."

"Anyone who looks like Gargamel is definitely trouble for us, Sassy," Nat said.

"I would have to agree with the other Smurflings, Sassette," Brainy said. "As soon as we smurf out of the water, we're smurfing straight back to the village."

"But I want to see this man for myself and smurf out whether he's related to Pappy Gargamel," Sassette whined.

"Gargamel is not your pappy, Sassette, and though I hate to smurf this, I think Brainy's got the right idea for once," Snappy said.

"Well, you can smurf back to the village if you're so afraid, but I'm going to smurf after the man to see for myself," Sassette said as soon as she got out of the water.

"Sassette, wait for us," Slouchy cried out as Brainy and the three boy Smurfs followed after her.

To be expanded on.