The Very First Christmas

"The Very First Christmas" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
Empath, Smurfette, Brainy, Duncan McSmurf, and Polaris Psyche were together with Tapper in the Imaginarium around Christmas, where he wanted to show his friends something really important.

"What you are about to witness to the best of my ability of creating it, my fellow Smurfs, is the very first Christmas," Tapper said before the scene changed to a bustling city street somewhere in the ancient Middle East.

"Okay, so riddle me this: if it's supposed to be Christmas, where's the snow?" Brainy asked.

"Aye, and where's all the decorations, laddie?" Duncan added.

"Gee, it doesn't look like it's going to be Christmas wherever it is that we're in, Tapper," Smurfette said.

"That's because where we're in is an important place where Christmas all began, in the little town of Bethlehem in a place called Judea, which is best known to us as Israel," Tapper said.

"But the lack of snow does concern this smurf, Tapper, unless it's supposed to have happened at a different time of the year for that region of the world," Empath commented.

"It is believed by some that the very first Christmas wasn't in wintertime, my fellow Empath, but during one of the seven feasts of Israel, and it is during that time that we'll see two of the important characters in the story who are part of smurfing about the first Christmas," Tapper said.

"That certainly explains the presence of humans in this Imaginarium fantasy setting, although to the same scale as ourselves," Polaris Psyche said.

"So where are these two important characters in your story, Tapper?" Brainy asked.

Tapper watched and then said, "Here they are...the man with the donkey and a woman smurfing it."

The six Smurfs watched the man, the woman, and the donkey approaching them, though like everybody else in the fantasy setting, they took no notice of the Smurfs and the Psyche who were observing them.

"Here we are, my dear Mary...the little town of Bethlehem, which is the home of my father King David," the man said. "Now we just need to find a place to stay so that we can be registered."

"I hope we can find a place soon, Joseph," Mary said as she clutched her stomach. "Our child is about to be born into this world."

"I only wish that it were my child, but this is the work of the Almighty that you should bear His child before we have one of our own, Mary," Joseph said.

"Soon, my husband, soon," Mary said as she looked into his eyes with love.

To be expanded on.