Smurfette's Genie/Part 3

Just then Farmer and the boy Smurflings were coming in from the fields. "Well, you boys certainly do be much of a help today," Farmer said. "What say that you be smurfing out in the fields tomorrow with me?"

"Ugh! Not on your life, Farmer!" Snappy said.

"Actually, I don't mind smurfing in the soil all day," Slouchy said.

"Why isn't Sassette helping you out lately, Farmer?" Nat asked.

"Who knows what be smurfing on in a young mind like hers?" Farmer said. "She's still a girl Smurf at heart. Maybe she wants to be learning from Smurfette how a Smurfette should be smurfing her life."

"What if there was a girl Smurf for you to be interested in, Farmer?" Nat asked.

"Yeah, not if we know that such a girl Smurf exists, but let's say she may be interested in helping you smurf the fields," Slouchy said.

"It couldn't hurt you to smurf such a companion now, would it?" Snappy asked.

"That's entirely up to Mother Nature to reveal that to me, if that's what she's smurfed for my life other than being a Farmer, my young Smurflings," Farmer answered with a fond chuckle.

Just then Polaris appeared. "Fellow Farmer, this one needs to inquire about where you have been for the several hours," he said.

"What, me?" Farmer said, astounded. "Is there any trouble that I do be accused for or something?"

"Recently there was an incident involving Smurfette's house being replaced by a palace, and this one senses that there is a magical force at work," Polaris said.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Snappy objected. "You're not thinking that Gourdy has something to smurf with this, are you?"

"Farmer smurfed him home some time ago, and he hasn't been smurfed from there ever since," Nat reported.

"Maybe Gourdy just smurfed impatient waiting for Farmer, who knows," Slouchy said.

"I'm sure that's what Gourdy be smurfing when I smurfed him home, just nothing, Polaris," Farmer said. "But I would be glad to ask him if he knows anything about this."

"That would be advisable, Farmer," Polaris said. "If something is going on with Gourdy and his magical powers, we want to make sure that it stops right here and now. You should contact this one as soon as possible when you find out."

Farmer and the boy Smurflings watched as Polaris left the edge of the fields. "Well, what do you know?" Snappy said. "Perhaps Gourdy has truly gone rogue on us for not being used by Farmer for his magic."

"But why would he smurf that, Snappy?" Nat asked. "He's usually pretty faithful in obeying his master."

"Do you think that some Smurf brought another genie into the village, Farmer?" Slouchy asked.

"I do be not sure wanting to find that out, if smurfing two genies into the same location is really bad news for us as Gourdy do be saying," Farmer said. - Meanwhile, inside his house, Papa Smurf was having a private conversation with Smurfette and Sassette about the genie they found. Empath, now changed back into his regular clothes, stood by and listened.

"We just found this genie in a perfume bottle out in the forest, Pappy," Sassette said. "She said that she would give us, or rather just Smurfette, any number of wishes that she wants. Smurfette just wished for a better place for herself, and that's how her house had now smurfed into a palace."

"But that isn't exactly what I wanted, Papa Smurf," Smurfette said. "And Ghinelle did smurf that her magic powers have unpredictable side effects."

"I see," Papa Smurf said. "Apparently curiosity has smurfed the better with the two of you, and you decided to find out what was in the bottle without smurfing it to me first."

"We didn't mean to harm any Smurf, much less Empath with Smurfette's wish, Pappy," Sassette said. "We just wanted to try out another wish, and that's how Empath came to be smurfing in those servant clothes."

"This smurf understands and accepts your apologies," Empath said. "It's just that this smurf wasn't expecting for that to happen in such a matter as it did happen a short while ago."

"But now that I have a genie, Papa Smurf, can I at least keep her in my house?" Smurfette asked. "I promise that I will smurf good care of her, and I will make sure that she doesn't smurf any other problems while she's with me."

Papa Smurf stroked his beard in deep thought. Then he said, "Since I know that I can trust you with the care of such small beings, Smurfette, I will let you smurf Ghinelle in your house, as long as she smurfs put in your house and doesn't smurf out of it to cause trouble."

"Then do we get to keep Smurfette's house the way that it is now, Pappy?" Sassette asked.

"That is entirely up to Smurfette, since Ghinelle is her genie, Sassette," Papa Smurf said.

Smurfette sighed. "As much as I like smurfing in a palace, I would rather smurf my house back to the way it was before Ghinelle changed it, Sassette. We might as well smurf with the genie to get her to smurf things to the way they were."

"Well, okay, Smurfette, but that palace really looked smurfy," Sassette said.

Empath and Papa Smurf watched as Smurfette and Sassette left together. "Not that this smurf doesn't wish for Smurfette to have her own genie or anything, Papa Smurf, but this smurf does have misgivings about bringing another genie into our village," Empath said.

"Why do you smurf that, Empath?" Papa Smurf asked.

"Ghinelle did say that her magic powers have unpredictable side effects, Papa Smurf, and this smurf does believe she is telling the truth, even if we don't know how we might interpret what she is saying," Empath said.

"We just simply have to be careful and vigilant, as I hope Smurfette will be when she smurfs with her genie, Empath," Papa Smurf said. "For now, we'll let Smurfette enjoy the privilege of smurfing such a small being into her life and try not to smurf a big deal over it."

"This smurf understands and acknowledges, Papa Smurf," Empath said.

To be expanded on.