Days Of Future Smurfed/Part 4

Polaris noticed that Great-Grandfather Smurf started to break down into tears. "Great-Grandfather...you're becoming sad over the memory of that loss," Polaris said. "Perhaps we should wait until later to continue the story."

"No...let me collect myself first," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "It's important for me to tell you everything about that day before I lose all my strength." Polaris sat and watched as Great-Grandfather struggled to maintain what emotions he had left. "Forgive me for that outburst, for it has been years since I last remembered your Great-Grandmother Smurfette still being among the living."

"This one knows how important she was in your life, Great-Grandfather," Polaris said. "You have often spoken about her kindness and her gentleness around you, and how she empathized with you being an outsider who was trying to live like a Smurf."

"I didn't deserve anyone as sweet and caring as Smurfette to come into my life like she did a thousand years ago on this day, Polaris," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "I truly didn't know how to act around her, which made the first few days of being around her so difficult, but she never left my mind or my heart ever since that day. She was so young and yet so mature for someone who only lived for a few years as a former instrument of evil smurfed by an evil wizard."

"Gargamel," Polaris said, knowing who Great-Grandfather Smurf was talking about. "This one wonders if he has any descendants in the modern world we live in and what they're doing."

"I couldn't imagine who would love Gargamel enough to give him the privilege of being the forefather of what generations of offspring would follow in his footsmurfs, Polaris," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "All we know is that the ruins of what used to be Gargamel's old rundown hovel have been pillaged in recent years, no doubt with somebody trying to smurf their hands on that Great Book Of Spells for whatever purpose it might smurf them."

"If only there were enough of us to stop such a pillaging of ruins that should never be disturbed by anyone," Polaris said. "This one fears that it will not bode well for those who will be affected by whoever's currently using that book."

"Indeed it will not, Polaris," Great-Grandfather Smurf said with a heavy sigh. "But we can't change the past until the rest of my story is through, and then you'll see for yourself why the story I'm smurfing you is important." -