A Valentine to Remember (The Devereaux Story)/Chapter 6

"What had just happened?!"

Brainy asked as Charming swooped down to the cheering Smurfs, celebrating their defeat against a nearby hawk, "Did Charming use witchcraft?!"

"No, dum dum," Eska crossed her arms, "Charming has found his key emotion, something to unlock his powers with!"

"Huh, interesting," Brainy thought, "I might have to do research on it."

As Brainy left, Eska joined the celebrating Smurfs and went over to Charming. He looked like he was having the time of his life.

"Oh, Charming," Mona swooned, "You were so brave! I never knew you could be like this! Thank you!" With those words, Mona kissed Charming's cheek as a token of gratitude. Charming blushed, and Mona was put down and she left without a trace. Charming pulled Eska aside, "Thank you ever so much, young maiden! Without you, Mona might not have even noticed me! And...I would have never portrayed such selflessness as I did in that moment."

"No problem, Charming," Eska beamed, "Just, don't be alarmed when she zooms back to Benny" She rolled her eyes, then a light bulb went off in her head, "Speaking of Benny, I have something to finish..." And after that, she zoomed back to her house to finish her special card for Benny. Once she was done, she was nervously waiting by the Sitting Rock to meet Benny. She watched as the stars aligned in the sky in a beautiful shape, just as Benny came over, which made her heart pound, "H-hey, Eska!"

"Uh, Benny! Hi!" Eska pulled on her shirt collar, "Uh, thisisforyouIhopeyoulike!" She handed the card to Benny and hid her face. She peeked through her fingers and watched a smile appear on his face, "Uhh....I made...card....alone...myself...!"

Benny embraced Eska, "I love it." He released her, "Infact, I have a card for you, too." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small red card. Eska's face grew the same color. She knew that red was the color of romance, so Benny giving her a card like this must mean he must really like her, "Oh, I love it! You put such thought into this card! It's...thoughtful...yea!"

Benny blushed, "Aw, well...I made it special...just for you. And so is this," Benny leaned over and gave Eska a Valentine's Day kiss on her cheek, which made Eska go as red as the card she made him, "Happy Valentine's Day, Eska."

Eska tried to say it back, but no words came out, so she just gave him two thumbs up as a way of saying "Ditto"

-

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" Cerise apologized a couple times, "Is she dead?"

Since Peewit was too upset to go over, Jackie felt her pulse, "Don't worry. You just knocked her out. Which is still bad, what shall we do?"

"Usually Julia would call the natives from her land and take her back," Peewit sighed sadly.

"I'll do it!" Savina offered, and that night, Bristlette, alive and awake, was taking back in arrest. Johan saluted to one of the soldiers and watched as they disappeared. Johan checked on Peewit, who was still by the chasm, mourning for Julia's loss.

"Uh, hey pal!" Johan greeted, "The elf guards took Bristlette away...and gave us some elven cookies! You wanna come back and try some?"

"No," Peewit denied with tears in his eyes, "You go ahead. I'm just gonna sit here...alone...on Valentine's Day."

"Oh," Johan could tell Peewit wanted to be alone, "Ok...well, I'll see you back in the forest."

After Johan had left, Peewit could feel the lump in his throat, "Oh, Julia! I wish I could've saved you! I wish that Bristlette hadn't come at all! And, now I'm all alone on Valentine's Day."

"Uh...Peewit?" A familiar voice tried to tell him.

"If I had one thing left to say to her," Peewit clutched his heart, "I just wanted to let her know that I loved her and only her. I wish I could've said it one last time!"

"Well, you can say it to me now!" The voice said again and put a hand on Peewit's shoulder. When Peewit looked up he spotted Julia smiling at her.

"JULIA!" Peewit, overjoyed, sprung up and gave her a big smooch on her lips, "Oh, you're alive! But, how'd you get back up here?!"

"I used the grappling hook I made to hook onto the nearby bridge and climbed back up." Julia explained.

"Oh, Julia," Peewit stroked her cheek and brought her close, "My sweet baby! I'm so glad you didn't die!"

Julia giggled and kissed his cheek, "No, I'm not dead." She took Peewit's hand, "Plus, I'm so glad I got to spend Valentine's Day with you."

"I feel the same way too, Jules," Peewit intertwined his fingers into hers, "Happy Valentine's Day."

-

Back at Balthazar's castle, Gargamel was sweeping up as Balthazar was carrying some equipment in.

"Ooh!" Gargamel wondered, "What's all this for?"

"These parts are for the special device for our plan when that clock turns to zero," Balthazar pointed to it, "Once it hits, these parts will assemble into the biggest, baddest, most powerful device in the world!"

"And how is that supposed to catch us some Smurfs?!" Gargamel put his hands on his hips.

Balthazar pulled him aside, "It will be for a special purpose, and that's what we need those red Smurfs for.

"Patience, Gargamel...your time will come."

The End

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