Days Of Future Smurfed/Part 3

"So how often did you have these flashes into the future...what would be our history, Great-Grandfather?" Polaris asked.

"It's hard to really say, Polaris," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "I could remember it happen a few more times before I was through smurfing all the memories that were given to me into that amulet, and then that was the end. These jumps into the future were to specific points, as if these moments in my life and the lives of my fellow Smurfs would be significant. They were mostly smurfed by losses, which is all I can tell you."

"It must have been strange for you to feel like you've been pulled into your future with each of these flashes and yet still remain in the present, Great-Grandfather," Polaris said.

"It wasn't something that I would ever want to experience again, Polaris, but those flashes were necessary if there was something in that future...our history...that was important for me to know at the time," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "Still, it made your great-grandmother and great-granduncle rather worried about me."

"This one can understand to some degree, Great-Grandfather," Polaris said. "It was not easy for you to carry a thousand year's worth of future memories in your head and not have it affect you in some way."

"That's par for the course when you're able to see into the future, though for a young whippersmurfer like me at the time, it was a frightening prospect that did not make me feel very happy...just important in some way," Great-Grandfather Smurf said. "Anyway, your great-grandmother and great-granduncle went to see Papa Smurf after that latest flash into the future where I saw him die." - As Polaris listened to Great-Grandfather Smurf's story, he saw Smurfette and Brainy go talk to Papa Smurf about Empath's latest vision.

"He says that your death is going to happen 165 years from now, Papa Smurf, though we don't know all the details of how it's going to happen," Brainy said.

"Hmmm, I see," Papa Smurf said, stroking his beard. "And what are you expecting me to smurf about it?"

"We don't know, Papa Smurf," Smurfette said. "Maybe you should have yourself examined by Dabbler Smurf to make sure that you're not going to smurf down with something."

Papa Smurf laughed. "Brainy, Smurfette, you're worrying too much about something that's going to smurf years to develop into what Empath may be seeing."

"But shouldn't you be the least concerned about what may happen to your health, Papa Smurf?" Brainy asked. "I for one would certainly not want to lose you because of all the wisdom you have yet to smurf me."

"165 years from now is still a long way off, Brainy...maybe not so much for me because I have lived for much longer than you and I happen to see time pass a bit different as an older Smurf, but still you can't expect for me to just suddenly worry about such a fate when only Empath knows how it's going to happen," Papa Smurf said.

"But if only Empath knows how it's going to happen, maybe he would know how to prevent it from happening, Papa Smurf," Smurfette said.

"If Empath feels that it's important for me to know how I'm going to die in the future, I'm sure he will be the first to let me know about it," Papa Smurf said. "Anyway, you don't need to be that concerned about me yet. I couldn't feel more healthy than I am right now, and I don't intend on smurfing anywhere for the next 150 years unless something does happen between now and then. Now you Smurfs run along and let Empath smurf what he has to smurf with the memories he is given."

"Yes, Papa Smurf," Brainy and Smurfette sighed together. -