Relatively Smurfing/Part 6

Empath laughed as Narrator's second story came to an end. "This smurf wished to have been there to see the look on Gargamel's face when he got a hold of the crab that pinched his finger."

"It was rather amusing to witness as the narrator, Empath," Narrator said. "Of course, we have only returned to that beach one more time to deal with Gargamel and his cousin, and that time they tried to smurf us to sleep with ice cream that had smurfing powder in it, but Sassette who was captured by the two evil humans escaped and warned us about what he was going to smurf, and so we smurfed the tables on him, burying Barbapapa in the sand and making him smurf his own ice cream."

"And what became of Gargamel when he tried to go after the Smurfs on the beach?" Empath asked.

"Gargamel got smurfed away by a fake shark that the Smurfs were chasing him with, and as he swam for safety, he got smurfed on board a Viking ship and was made to smurf as their galley slave," Narrator answered.

"This Gargamel doesn't seem to learn any lessons when it comes to dealing with the Smurfs, as neither did his cousin Barbapapa," Empath said. "This smurf can understand in part why the Smurfs are so willing to be rid of him from the forest once and for all."

"Which smurfs me to my third and final story for the night, Empath, about how Gargamel smurfed back to the land of the living with the help of his twin brother," Narrator said.

"Gargamel has a twin brother?" Empath said, sounding incredulous.

"We were amazed to discover that for ourselves when he appeared in the forest sometime after Sagratamabarb had left it, for we had thought that Gargamel had finally changed his ways and became a new smurf," Narrator said. "Anyway, here's what smurfed place in the story..." - One day a few weeks after Sagratamabarb had left the forest, Papa Smurf went out into the forest with Sassette to collect dandelion pollen for his experiments. Sassette thought that it was one of the most fun afternoons she had with Papa Smurf while doing something rather important for him, as she blew the pollen from each dandelion she picked up and Papa Smurf collected it into his bag.

Then Papa Smurf noticed all of a sudden that Sassette had a sad face. "What's wrong, my little Sassette?" he asked.

"I'm just thinking of Pappy Gargamel being in Hades, and I wish that he would smurf back from the underworld and be a happy pappy to me instead of a mean and nasty one," Sassette said.

"I feel sorry for what happened to Gargamel when he smurfed with his cousin, Sassette, but I don't think that people who smurf to Hades will ever smurf back from there to the land of the smurfing," Papa Smurf said somberly.

"But I don't understand why he's so mean and nasty to the Smurfs, and most of all to me, Pappy Smurf," Sassette said. "Did I smurf anything bad to him?"

"No, Sassette, and you mustn't blame yourself for how Gargamel acts towards any Smurf, including yourself," Papa Smurf said. "He's just a human who's allowed evil to smurf control over his life, and he's never going to treat the Smurfs with any loving care and respect until he learns for himself that evil is not the way for any living being in the world to smurf."

"What if there was a chance that he smurfed back from Hades as a changed smurf, Pappy?" Sassette asked. "Are we ever going to be able to smurf friends with him?"

Papa Smurf sighed. "If that were possible, Sassette, I'm sure that we could in time smurf friends with Gargamel."

"Excuse me, my little friends, but I seem to be lost," a familiar voice broke in. Papa Smurf and Sassette turned to see who it was that spoke, and they saw someone that seemed to be very familiar, carrying a bindle stick.

"Gargamel!" Papa Smurf exclaimed.

"Pappy Gargamel, you've returned!" Sassette cried out, sounding happy to see him again.

Papa Smurf suddenly grabbed Sassette and took her behind a pile of rocks to hide from the man who looked like Gargamel, who just simply stood there looking rather confused.

"Those little blue beings seem frightened of me," the man said as he shrugged his shoulders. "I might as well move on and see if anyone else is willing to help me."

Papa Smurf and Sassette watched from their hiding spot as the man continued to walk past them in the forest, heading in a certain direction. "Either I'm getting old, or Gargamel doesn't smurf like he's interested in smurfing after us, Sassette," Papa Smurf said.

"Maybe Pappy Gargamel did change for the better, Pappy Smurf," Sassette said.

"There's something about him that doesn't smurf right," Papa Smurf said as he looked at the man disappearing behind the trees out of sight. He sighed when he realized that he couldn't figure out what was so different about the man who looked like Gargamel. "I guess we'll have to wait and smurf what he does if we should smurf into him in the forest, Sassette. Come, let us return to the village with our dandelion pollen."

"Right away, Pappy Smurf," Sassette said as she followed Papa Smurf.

To be expanded on.