The Other Smurfette/Part 2

Meanwhile, unknown to either Empath or Smurfette, Hogatha's pet vulture Harold was flying around at night carrying the Seeing Eye Amulet as she was spying on the Smurfs again while she was at home in her castle.

"Ooh, those rotten little Smurfs with their blonde beauty just makes me so upset that I can't be a ravishing beauty that will attract men to me like she does to all those Smurfs," Hogatha said. "It's time that I got even with them for messing up my life and making me so miserable and ugly. But how am I going to do that?"

She continued to sit at the mirror and look at the two Smurfs kissing each other until she came up with something. "I got it. Since there's only one Smurfette for those little blue buggers to fall in love with, why not introduce a little competition between herself and somebody else that will make them desert her like yesterday's news? And what if that somebody else happens to be...me?"

She contemplated on that thought for a moment, then she got up and looked through her spellbooks for something that might do the trick. "No, no, no, I have already tried that...no, this isn't going to work...no, not that either..." Then she found exactly what she was looking for. "Ooh, now that's perfect. I just follow the ingredients, and I will be the perfect knockout that will deliver the blow to Smurfette's reign of being the village beauty queen."

She went straight to her laboratory and mixed up the ingredients as follows:

1 teaspoon chopped tail of snake A pinch of chopped feathers of toad A pot of deadly nightshade tickled on a moonless night when owls are hooting 1 teaspoon ground leg of pigeon A bucket of teeth pinched during an eclipse 2 teaspoon ground stomach of newt

"There," Hogatha said as soon as she had all her ingredients mixed together. "Now we'll just let it simmer in the cauldron over heat for a short while, and presto! Goodbye, Hogatha, hello, the other Smurfette!"

She watched and waited in eager anticipation for the mixture in the cauldon to simmer until it was ready. She then took a spoonful of the concoction and slurped it up, letting out a belch before she fell to the floor in convulsion, feeling herself changing from within. And then suddenly with a flash, she found herself in the form of a female Smurf with long black hair, a beautiful face, and a curvaceous figure that would make Smurfette envious of her appearance.

She went straight to the mirror to see herself in her new form. "Oh darling, you look so beautiful as a Smurf," Hogatha said with a snort. "I can't wait until the other Smurfs get a smurf of me, including that little blue bimbo who thinks she's the most beautiful Smurf of all." She then looked at herself and realized something. "Yes, I could stand to have a change of fashion if I want to look my best for the boys."

And as Harold flew straight into the room and landed on his perch, Hogatha used her magic powers to change herself into a stunningly beautiful dress.

"And now it's time for a bit of transportation," Hogatha said. She stuck her two fingers in her mouth and whistled. "Hey, you, bird brain, I need a ride into the Smurf Forest, and pronto!"

Harold squawked as he reluctantly leaped off his perch and flew down to let Hogatha ride on his back. He then started to fly out of the house through the window and straight over the Smurf Forest.