Belial (Empath stories)

Belial (pronounced bee-LYE-ahl) is a character who appears in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story "A Boy Named Nicholas". He is a servant of Lucifer who has been sent to deliver a young boy named Nicholas and prevent him from fulfilling his destiny as a toymaker known as Nicholas of the North. Belial tried to lure the child into his trap by pretending to be a person from Nicholas' village who was sent by the child's father to rescue him, but as Tapper sensed the entity's true intentions, he revealed his true form and tried to take Nicholas by force. That was when the Almighty had sent an army of angels to protect Nicholas as well as Tapper, Empath, and Duncan McSmurf from Belial. Realizing that he was outmatched, Belial surrendered his claim on the child and disappeared, leaving the three Smurfs free to deliver Nicholas safely back home to his parents.

NOTE

 * Belial may or may not be the same person as the Christmas Stranger who appeared in "The Smurfs Christmas Special".