The Prisoner Of Stone/Part 3

Vanity was walking around the village with his special heart-shaped mirror that he was carrying around for Smurfy Friendship Day. "This special day calls for a special mirror for this extra-special face, don't you agree?" he said to himself as he looked at his reflection.

Then a female voice whispered his name from nearby. He looked and saw that it was Sassette, who was peering out of a bush. "Did you see the Smurflings?" she asked in a low voice as he came closer.

"Why, no, Sassette, but then with a face like mine, who has time to smurf at anything else?" Vanity said. "What seems to be the problem?"

"My fellow Smurflings seem to be lovestruck, Vanity, and I can't seem to smurf anything about it," Sassette said.

"Ah, I know the feeling all too well," Vanity said as he looked at himself in his mirror.

"I mean, I can't stop the Smurflings from smurfing all their attention upon me, and Papa Smurf won't smurf anything about it," Sassette said.

"Such a burden that we all must carry, when we smurf so much attention from how we look toward others, my little dear," Vanity said. "At the very least, you will always have someone who will love you for just the way you are, for if you can't love yourself, then who will?"

"Oh, let us smurf how many ways we love you..." the boy Smurflings sang as they soon found Sassette and gathered around her, playing their mandolins in a serenade.

Sassette screamed and raced out into the forest so that she could find some peace and quiet away from the boy Smurflings who were relentlessly pursuing her. She watched from behind a rock as the boy Smurflings went out into the forest and called out her name in their search for her. "Fleeing flounders, don't they ever give up?" she said as she ran off in another direction.

She soon found a cave that appeared to be empty, which looked like a good place for her to hide from the boy Smurflings. She went inside and sighed with some relief when she looked out and saw that the boy Smurflings were going away from her in their search. "Safe at last," she said to herself.

Then suddenly there came a cackle of evil laughter from deep within the cave that startled Sassette. She began to wonder who else might be in the cave as she bravely went further inside to see for herself. In another cavern she saw a woman with wild orange hair who had the statue of a man that she was giving all her attention to. Sassette hid herself behind a small rock and watched the scene that was taking place.

"Guess what, my darling?" the woman said as she appeared in the same room as the statue, with a serpent slithering right next to her. "It happens to be our anniversary today. It was twenty years ago when you would have married that sniveling sorceress." She threw her arms around the statue and embraced it as if it was a living person. "I had to rescue you from her, even if that meant turning you to stone forever."

Sassette gasped as she realized that the woman was a witch, and the statue was a living person. "Oh no," she said to herself. "There's got to be some way to rescue that man from her, but how?"

Then the rock she was hiding behind gave way, and Sassette soon found herself attracting the attention of the evil witch. "What's that?" she called out. "Who dares to disturb Drusilla in my private chambers? Show yourself, if you dare!"

Sassette tried to hide herself behind the rock again, but Drusilla used a magic bolt of electricity to blast the rock into smithereens, exposing the little Smurfling to her. Sassette quickly ran for her life as Drusilla's pet serpents chased after her, causing her to flee from the cave.

Soon she found herself back in the village, safe from the witch and her slithery pets. "Wait until Pappy Smurf hears about this," she said, hoping that he might get her help. But she soon stopped in her tracks when she saw who else was coming straight for her. It was the boy Smurflings, each of them bearing gifts to give to her for Smurfy Friendship Day.

"Hello, Sassette," Snappy said. "So where have you been?"

"We've been smurfing all over for you," Nat said.

"We got some gifts for you, to show how special you really are," Slouchy said.

To be expanded on.