A Vision Of The Blue Moon/Part 2

At that moment, Empath had just entered the tavern. "Salutations, my fellows," Empath greeted. "This smurf is just checking up to see how things in the village are going along, including Baby Smurf."

"Smurf o' the morning to you, my fellow Empath," Tapper said. "The little darling hasn't been much of any problem with me. He seems to be content smurfing his time playing around with a glass of water, trying to smurf it into different colors."

"You're not expecting him to change water into wine anytime soon, this smurf hopes?" Empath said.

Tapper chuckled. "No, not anytime soon, if ever, Empath. That little miracle is something that I would expect the Almighty to perform if we should have a wedding where there isn't any wine for us to smurf for whatever reason."

"Tapper was beginning to tell the story of how Baby Smurf first came into the village some years ago, fellow Empath," Polaris said. "His story began with the Blue Moon Festival where the Smurfs saw a vision of Baby Smurf in the sky."

"A vision of Baby Smurf," Empath said. "This smurf would have wanted to be here for the event to see it firsthand, not to mention the blue smurfberries that sprouted on that special day."

"That reminds me, Empath, that I have smurfed up a special bottle of blue smurfberry wine from my friend Vino that I meant for you to smurf when you returned home for good," Tapper said. "I'll make sure that you'll have it before the day is smurfed."

"If only this smurf could share it with Polaris, but this smurf knows that he's allergic to anything with sugar in it," Empath said.

"This one understands the sentiment, Empath," Polaris said. "Anyway, what would suffice this one is to know what had happened after the Smurfs had seen the vision in the sky."

"Well, according to Tracker, we had smurfed a bit of a shower over the Smurf Forest during the night, and it was through the shower that a stork came smurfing through the sky toward our village and delivered a basket to our doorstep...namely Harmony's doorstep, mind you," Tapper said.

"And this basket would contain Baby Smurf, as you Smurfs would find out that morning," Empath guessed.

"That's the smurf of it, Empath, but let me smurf you through the details of everything that smurfed on that morning," Tapper said. - As Tapper continued his story, Empath and Polaris saw that Harmony was the first to step out of his house in the village that morning, picking up the trumpet he had placed outside his door. "Another smurfy morning," he said with a yawn. "It's time for me to play my Serenade To The Sun."

But as he started to play his horn, he noticed the basket that was also sitting outside his door. "What's this?" he said with a gasp as he carefully picked up the basket. "Hopefully not another one of Jokey's surprises...though it's certainly different than his usual..."

Suddenly he could hear rattling coming from inside the basket. "That's not one of Jokey's surprises," Harmony said as he placed the basket down on the ground and stepped back from it.

Soon Hefty appeared outside Harmony's door as he was doing his morning jog with Duncan and Tuffy. "Hi there, Harmony," Hefty greeted. "What do you have there in the basket?"

"I don't know, Hefty," Harmony said. "It was just smurfed on my doorstep this morning. I could hear something rattling inside it."

"Something rattling inside a basket?" Duncan said, eyeing it suspiciously. "I would say Papa Smurf would need to know about this right away before there's a chance of whatever's inside it smurfing anyone."

Soon some other Smurfs were gathering around Harmony's house, looking at the basket he had found. They were also curious to know what's inside the basket.

"I'm not afraid to smurf a look, Gutsy," Hefty said, but as he lifted up a blanket to take a look at what's inside the basket, they could hear a loud rattling coming from within.

The other Smurfs became fearful of the sound. "Soup du jour!" Painter exclaimed. "That surely sounds like a...like a..."

"A SNAKE!" the other Smurfs said together.

"Quick, somebody, get rid of the snake!" Brainy shouted.

"Here, Painter, you get rid of it," Hefty said, tossing the basket to Painter, who then tossed it to Greedy, who then tossed it to Brainy, who then tossed it to Clumsy just as he was coming their way to see what all the Smurfs were gathered around for.

"Quick, Clumsy, get rid of it!" Brainy shouted as he handed the basket to Clumsy.

"Get rid of it?" Clumsy asked, curious of what he was given.

"YES, GET RID OF IT!" most of the other Smurfs shouted.

"No, Clumsy, wait for Papa Smurf to get here," Duncan countered.

But Clumsy went ahead with throwing the basket away to get rid of it, only for it to land in Papa Smurf's hands just as he arrived on the scene with Smurfette, talking about the beautiful flowers she found that morning. "Why, thank you, Clumsy," Papa Smurf said as soon as he caught it.

"Don't open it, Papa Smurf...it's a snake!" Brainy cried out.

"A snake?!?" Clumsy said, sounding surprised. "Golly, why didn't somebody tell me what was in the basket?"

"Somebody smurfed it to me on my doorstep this morning, Papa Smurf," Harmony said. "I thought it was one of Jokey's surprises."

"Now why would I leave a snake in a basket for somebody as a surprise...not that I wouldn't think that it would be funny?" Jokey asked with a snicker.

Brainy snorted. "It figures that only you would find something that scary to be funny, Jokey Smurf!"

Papa Smurf put his ear to the basket to see if he could hear anything, but strangely the basket was silent. "Well, my little Smurfs, there's only one way to solve the mystery of what's in the basket," he said as he set the basket down to lift up the blanket covering its contents.

Most of the other Smurfs looked in fear as Papa Smurf lifted up the blanket, while Brainy closed his eyes, not wanting to see what might attack the village leader.

"Great Smurfs Of Fire!" Papa Smurf exclaimed as he saw what was under the covers. "It's a baby...a baby Smurf!"

"A baby Smurf?!?" most of the other Smurfs said together in surprise.

Papa Smurf peeled the covers away to show his little Smurfs the baby Smurf he had found. And sure enough, there it was...an infant that looked like he was no more than a day old, holding a baby rattle and smiling.

To be expanded on.