When I Grow Up, I Want To Be

"When I Grow Up, I Want To Be" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

Story
One day, when Psycheliana was a young Smurfling, she was talking to her fellow Smurf Miracle, who was also physically around the same age as her.

"What do you think of Uncle Brainy's school lesson about the kind of jobs that Smurfs do around the village, Liana?" Miracle asked.

"I think that he smurfs a little too much about himself, Miracle," Psycheliana said. "But then, that's what the other Uncle Smurfs always say about him anyway. I don't know how my Papa Smurf puts up with him smurfing that all the time, though."

"But every Smurf does have an important job in the village, like there's a need for a cook, a painter, or a builder," Miracle said. "One thing Brainy was hoping that I would be is an intellectual like him."

"Oh brother," Psycheliana said. "Who wants to be like him all the time?"

"I know that Uncle Brainy means well, and he's pretty smart when he applies his knowledge to something useful, like helping Grandpa Smurf out with his experiments in the laboratory," Miracle said.

"I've seen you smurfing some experiments of your own, which makes me think that you want to be just like Grandpa Smurf, don't you?" Psycheliana said.

"Grandpa Smurf is pretty awesome like that, Liana, and he says that I have a natural talent for smurfing magic, which is why he lets me smurf a look through his beginner-level magic books," Miracle said.

"I'm trying to imagine you being a magician or a sorcerer, Miracle," Psycheliana said.

"You don't think that I can be just as powerful as Grandpa Smurf?" Miracle said.

"I just have a feeling that you might end up smurfing better than him, but then that's just my minds-eye smurfing those visions of things that are yet to come," Psycheliana said.

"Well, what about you, Liana?" Miracle asked. "What are you hoping to become when you're an adult Smurf? You've got Uncle Empath's abilities, you should be able to smurf something useful with your life."

"I'm not in any hurry to grow up, Miracle," Psycheliana said. "But if I wanted to be somebody, I want to apply myself to anything that I can smurf my heart upon, which could be anything at this point."

"So you really don't know what you want to be as a grown-up?" Miracle said. "Well, you can always be my laboratory assistant if I should become a great sorcerer. What do you think of that?"

"Hmmm...I don't know if I want to be smurfing magic like you, Miracle," Psycheliana said. "But I wouldn't mind helping you with your experiments if that means we're going to be smurfing together."

"Smurfing together?" Miracle asked. "Why do you think that we're going to be married to each other someday?"

"It's just something that I sense about you and your future, Miracle," Psycheliana said. "My Papa Smurf thinks that it's a very great possibility since he's smurfed the future once in his life."

"I think you're a nice Smurfette and that you're also cute for your age, Liana," Miracle said. "I'm just not certain if that's what I would want for my future with you."

"We're still too young to really think about it, Miracle," Psycheliana said. "But I see Aunt Sassette and Uncle Snappy smurfing with each other, and they used to not like the idea that they would want to smurf together as a couple."

"Well, who can blame them for smurfing that?" Miracle said. "Anyway, I agree with you that we're still too young to be thinking about marriage or even smurfing together as a couple, so that's something that I think we can smurf without for the time being."

"That smurfs a load off my mind, Miracle...even though I still think you're rather cute as a boy Smurf," Psycheliana said.

"Oh, please," Miracle said, rolling his eyes. "If I ever hear you say that I'm a cute Smurf, I think that I'm going to smurf cooties from you."