Where The Wind Carries You/Part 2

"Hot acorn brew and croissants! Get your fresh hot acorn brew and croissants!" Biscotti said as he brought a cart around to serve his fellow Smurfs while they were busy with the hurricane cleanup and repair.

Empath, Polaris, and Tapper were distracted from the telling of the story to see Biscotti approaching them. "Well, my fellow Biscotti, it seems like you were up and about for business sooner than Greedy was in his kitchen," Tapper said.

"Neither of us got smurfed really bad from the storm, Tapper, but Greedy's got lunch and dinner to think about, so I might as well smurf my fellow Smurfs a coffee break to give them some energy for the rest of the morning," Biscotti said.

"This smurf appreciates your concern for the welfare of the other Smurfs, Biscotti," Empath said as he grabbed a cup of acorn brew and a croissant from the cart.

"How about you, Polaris? It's going to be a while before Greedy smurfs up your nutrient paste," Biscotti offered.

"This one is functioning normally, thank you," Polaris said. "This one is not in need for any nourishment right now."

"You sure? Because I can smurf you some bread that doesn't have any sugar in it, only the nutrients that you need to smurf you through the day," Biscotti said.

"Some other time, perhaps, this one may require such form of nourishment," Polaris said.

Biscotti sighed as he poured a cup of acorn brew for Tapper. "It's a good thing this storm wasn't like the last one that carried away the windmill, Tapper. I sure wouldn't be in your place when that happened."

"That was what I am currently telling Empath and Polaris about, Biscotti, and indeed I wouldn't want to be in that place either," Tapper said. "But you know, the Almighty sometimes smurfs us in places that we don't want to be for good reasons."

"You believe that this Almighty had a purpose for having you and five other Smurfs being carried away in a windwill to wherever it is in your story you were taken, fellow Tapper," Polaris said.

"Honestly, at the time that it happened, I wasn't sure whether He did smurf me there for His purpose or not, Polaris," Tapper said. "But smurfing back on the situation now, I could see that His hand was in everything that smurfed place, and that in time my fellow Smurfs will see for it themselves when the Almighty illumines that part of their lives to smurf His grace at work."

"This smurf would like to hear where it is that the wind carried you and the other Smurfs in the windmill during the storm, to see for myself how the Almighty might have had a hand in everything that transpired," Empath said, eager to have the story continue.

"It wasn't exactly a place that I would ever want to visit, and neither would my fellow Smurfs, Empath, but it was someplace where things would start to heat up in more than one smurf of the word," Tapper said. - As Tapper continued the story, Empath and Polaris saw the Smurfs in the windmill continue to hang on to the machine arms for dear life, fearing the worst. Empath could see that Tapper had his eyes closed the entire time and his mouth silently moving, speaking what seemed to be a prayer. Empath could understand that is what Tapper would do in such a dire situation that he and his friends would be in together.

After a while, when the shaking within the windmill ceased, Tapper opened his eyes and saw that his fellow Smurfs were still with him. "Great Smurfiny Crickets, is every Smurf all right in here?" he asked.

"I..I think so, Tapper," Smurfette said.

"Well, that was some ride," Hefty said as he let go of the arm he was holding onto and let out a sigh of relief.

"You can sure smurf that again," Smurfette said as she straightened out her hair.

"Indeed it certainly has been some ride, my dear Smurfette," Tapper said.

"I was never so scared in my whole life," Handy said.

And then they heard snoring, and they saw that Lazy was asleep on a pillow. "Apparently some have managed to smurf through this ride without any fear, my fellow Handy," Tapper said as he looked toward Lazy.

"It figures, since he's the one who smurfed us into this," Handy said with some disgust.

"Now let's see if I can smurf where we are," Brainy said as he headed for the only bolted door to remove the beam barring it. "According to my calculations and the estimated time that has elapsed since the windmill has been smurfed from the ground, my best guess is that we will be..."

But as soon as Brainy opened the door, he found himself almost falling out of the windmill. He held onto the door for dear life as he looked down and saw that they were now over the sea. "Help! Some Smurf, save me!"

Hefty reached out and pulled Brainy back inside the windmill.

"My best guess is that we are still airborne," Brainy said as he adjusted his glasses.

"But not for long, my fellow Brainy," Tapper said, looking out of one of the windows. "Look!"

"Oh no!" Smurfette said, also looking. "We're going to smurf right into the ocean."

"I sure hope you all can swim, because it's going to be long smurf home where this thing will smurf down," Hefty said.

"Not entirely true, Hefty," Brainy pointed out. "You see, there is an island that we're smurfing down toward that we'll be safe on until Papa Smurf smurfs a rescue operation for..."

"There's just one problem, Brainy...we're falling toward a volcano that is also on that island," Tapper said.

"And even worse, we're smurfing into the volcano," Handy added.

The Smurfs watched fearfully as the windmill continued its descent toward and into the volcano on the island, tearing itself apart as it fell down the chasm until it landed and broke itself completely into pieces on a ledge.

"Is every Smurf all right?" Tapper asked as five of the six Smurfs crawled from the wreckage.

"I...I think so, Tapper," Smurfette said. "Are you all right, Brainy?"

"No, I am not all right, Smurfette," Brainy said, wildly flailing his arms around. "Everything is so blurry. I must have a brain concussion or..."

"Or I must have your glasses, Brainy," Smurfette said, pulling them off her head and putting them back on Brainy's face. "There! How do you smurf now?"

"Much better now, since I can see you clearly, Smurfette," Brainy said with a chuckle.

"Oh my smurfness!" Handy exclaimed. "Not only is my windmill in pieces, but we're also inside a volcano, and from the smurfs of it, we're inside it pretty deep."

"Now that is certainly a problem, Handy," Hefty said, looking at how far up the opening of the chasm is from where they have landed.

Brainy looked and saw that Lazy was still sleeping. "Did you hear that, Lazy? Did you hear what kind of a mess you smurfed us into? I'm going to make sure that Papa Smurf hears about this...if we ever smurf out of here alive."

But Lazy just continued to sleep on, as if he didn't hear anything that Brainy said.

To be expanded on.