Purple Reign Of Terror/Part 3

And so Papa Smurf spent the whole night looking through his books to find the formula that was originally used for curing the Purple Smurf disease, but unfortunately there wasn't a single record to be found anywhere, so he ended up mixing together a remedy that he hoped would be the cure. "Some hellebore seeds, a zest of lemon,...," he said as he threw in all the ingredients for the remedy.

By morning, when his remedy was complete, he called all his little Smurfs together. "Smurfs, I may have found the cure for the Purple Smurf disease, but to test it, I will need you to capture a Purple Smurf. This will be dangerous, because the Purple Smurfs are contagious. So do I have some volunteers for the task?"

A group of Smurfs all shouted that they will volunteer to capture a Purple Smurf.

"Brave Smurfs, I am proud of you," Papa Smurf said. "Go forth now, and good smurfing."

And so, armed with clubs, nets, and lassos, the Smurfs headed out into the forest to capture a Purple Smurf, with Handy and Duncan McSmurf taking the lead.

"All right, let's smurf up and search every bush," Handy said to the group after they have entered the forest together.

"Be careful and don't let your back be smurfed for a minute, because you might be the victim of a 'Gnap attack'," Duncan warned.

"A 'Gnap attack'...that's certainly a way of smurfing it," Jokey snickered.

Each of the Smurfs went off in various directions to search for a Purple Smurfs, taking heed to Duncan's warning. The last thing they need is for one of them to become a Purple Smurf without warning.

Clumsy, who was eager to try out the lasso, was looking hard for a Purple Smurf to use it on when he spotted Lazy. "Hey, I've found one," he said enthusiastically.

Clumsy whirled the loop around his head as he chased after Lazy with the lasso. But as he threw the loop, he found the rope tangling him up until he was bound up in his own lasso, unable to get himself free. And even worse, he could see Hefty as a Purple Smurf peeking his head out from behind a bush. "Help! Some Smurf! Save me!" he cried out.

Brainy heard Clumsy's cry for help and suddenly ran as quickly as he could to save Clumsy, but by the time he got there, he was too late. He saw that Clumsy's tail was throbbing with pain, and that he was turning people. "Uh, he bit me, Brainy, and I feel...I feel...," was the last thing Brainy heard Clumsy say.

Then as Clumsy as a Purple Smurf struggled to get himself free, Brainy realized that he now has himself a Purple Smurf for Papa Smurf to test his remedy on, which gave him a brilliant plan. "Oh, Smurfs, look what I have just smurfed single-handedly!" he called out.

The other Smurfs gathered around to see Brainy standing next to Clumsy, all purple and roped up. "Michty me, laddie, so you finally have the smurfs to capture one by yourself," Duncan said as he saw it for himself.

"Oh, Brainy, I didn't know that you were so brave," Smurfette said, feeling her heart swoon.

"Really, Smurfette, it was nothing," Brainy said, sounding confident.

Then Clumsy barked, "Gnap!", causing Brainy to leap right into Smurfette's arms in fear.

"All right, Smurfs, let's bring the Purple Smurf in with us to Papa," Duncan called out, as he and Handy grabbed Clumsy and carried him. - Inside Papa Smurf's laboratory, Clumsy was bound by his wrists and ankles as Papa Smurf was preparing to shoot the pellet containing the remedy into the Purple Smurf's mouth using a pellet shooter. "Okay, let's get started," he said. "Brainy, pinch his tail."

Brainy pinched Clumsy's tail, which made him yell "GNAP!" with his mouth open wide. Papa Smurf quickly blew into the pellet shooter and shot the pellet into Clumsy's mouth, which he then swallowed.

The Smurfs watched as Clumsy leaped around the laboratory, acting very strange as the remedy was beginning to have its effect, but after a while it became so tiring that it made Clumsy pass out.

"It didn't work, Papa Smurf," Smurfette commented. "He's still purple."

"It may just be a delayed reaction, Smurfette," Papa Smurf said. "Quick, untie him and put him to bed. Maybe he will feel better after a good rest."

Handy carried Clumsy over his shoulder back to his house, with Greedy following him. "Poor Smurf," Handy said. "I sure wouldn't want to be in his smurfs right now."

"You said it, Handy," Greedy said. "It's enough to ruin my appetite."

"Well, let's hope that Papa Smurf is correct about the remedy and that this is just a delayed reaction, because if it isn't...," Handy began to say.

Suddenly Clumsy woke up and bit Handy in the tail, causing him to drop him. "OUCH!" he cried out, just before he started to turn purple.

Greedy realized that Papa Smurf's remedy wasn't going to work, and that he was going to be the next victim. "No...keep away from me! Papa Smurf!" he cried out.

He ran as quickly as he could to avoid Clumsy and Handy, but he was quickly bitten and then turned into a Purple Smurf. Papa Smurf and some of the Smurfs watched fearfully as more Purple Smurfs now headed out into the forest.

"This is terrible," Papa Smurf said to himself. "I must now go find another remedy."

To be expanded on.