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"The Smurflings" is a story event that took place in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, combining elements of "The Smurflings", "Sassette", and "Puppy" into one single story.

Some years before Empath's final return from Psychelia, a group of young Smurflings -- Nat, Snappy, and Slouchy -- had come from Smurfling Island looking for Baby Smurf, who had left the island sometime earlier. On their way to the Smurf Village, though, they came across a runaway puppy being chased by a pack of vicious wild dogs that were sent by Lord Balthazar to hunt him down, since Balthazar knew who the puppy was and what he possessed. With the Smurflings' help, the puppy escaped his pursuers and they arrived in the village rather late when every Smurf has gone to bed. By the next morning, Papa Smurf and all the other Smurfs were alerted to the presence of not only a dog in their village, but also three young Smurflings who were hiding in a tree stump somewhere near the outer areas of the village. The Smurflings explained their reason for appearing in the Smurf Village, but said they had no intention of ever taking Baby Smurf back to Smurfling Island, since they also decided that they were going to leave Smurfling Island behind as well. Papa Smurf decided that he and his little Smurfs would give them a home, converting the tree stump into a playhouse for them to stay in.

However, no sooner did the Smurflings start to settle in that they had problems. First off, the Smurflings did not like Tailor trying to dress them up in clothes that made them look like the adult Smurfs, so they ended up making their own clothes that reflected how they actually looked on Smurfling Island. Secondly, since the Smurfstock Festival was coming and Brainy was intending on having it be a very long concert with him leading the Village Smurphony Orchestra, he took offense to the Smurflings wanting to be part of the Festival, suggesting that the Smurflings couldn't make music that was suitable for the adult Smurfs to listen to. This became the start of a long-standing clash of personalities between Brainy and the Smurflings, with Brainy seeing the Smurflings as being too immature to appreciate tradition and the Smurflings seeing Brainy as too stuffy to appreciate anything new.