Power Stones (Hero Stories)

The Power Stones are a series of crystals that give Hero Smurf his Ki Powers in the HERO: The Guardian Smurf story series. They are worn around the right pant leg of his gold Smurf suit to help identify him as a hero.

History
Hero discovered the Power Stones when he was helping his fellow smurfs gather smurfberries as a young Smurfling, noticing a glowing object behind a tree. He went to go see what it was that was causing the glow, and he noticed it was seven different coloured stones. He picked one of them up to see what they were and soon all seven of them started to loop around him before his body absorbed them.

It was this that caused him to get the golden 'H' on his forehead, his special Ki powers and his ability to fly.

At first he could not control his powers, since he almost killed another smurf for calling him a power mad freak. Papa exiled him from the village, and he would not be allowed back until he learned to control his powers. He spent years trying to control it, but he was unsuccessful.

He did finally learn to control his powers when he became 150 years old, he returned to the village to tell Papa, but he found no smurf present in the village apart from Jokey who told him the others were smurf-napped by Gargamel.

He went to Gargamel's hovel to rescue his fellow smurfs and he easily defeated him and rescued his fellow smurfs. They now treat him like any other smurf despite the powers he has.

Transformations
Hero use the 7 Power Stones to achieve 4 transformations which are:

Supersmurf (requires 1 Power Stone) - his smurf hat is removed from his head and replaced with golden hair that stands on end, giving it a rising flame-like appearance, his eye colour changes to green and his body is surrounded by a pulsing flame-like aura.

Supersmurf 2 (requires 3 Power Stones) - A direct successor to the previous form, it is very similar to the original form but instead the hair becomes longer and rigid and stands up even more. The increase in energy causes the aura to change into a jagged, fierce flame-like appearance.

Supersmurf 3 (requires 5 Power Stones + lots of screaming) - The next form after the previous transformation, this form causes some stark changes in appearance, the hair from the previous transformation becomes flowing and smooth again and grow's just beyond the waist, his eyebrows vanish completely, making his forehead and eye ridges appear larger. There is a small increase with muscle mass and the tone is sharply defined. The energy increase is so great in this form that his aura pulsates at a high frequency.

Supersmurf 4 (requires all 7 Power Stones + right situation) - This transformation causes a totally different change of appearance in Hero, firstly his hair takes a different appearance and changes from gold to black, his body is covered in thin red fur, his aura loses sparks of electricity and is replaced with fire sparkles and also becoming pure fire and finally his smurf tail grows a short length.