Legend of Smurfy Hollow (Hero Stories)/Part 2

Fergus saw Brainy was in a patch of smurfberries that were growing plentifully.

"He has his own secret stash! He's been coming here every year hogging all the bounty for hismelf," Fergus said to himself.

"The very notion of a Headless Horseman! How would they navigate? He has no sensor! And if it rains, wouldn't his body fill with water? The other Smurfs don't know to think these things through," Brainy said, as he put the smurfberries into his buckets.

"Year after year he's been making a fool of me," Fergus said.

He soon saw Brainy began to dance.

"I've got an idea that's gonna put him right," Fergus said.

Sometime later, the sun was going down.

"Just one more bucket and I'm going home," Brainy said, before there was the sound of rustling leaves.

"What was that?" Brainy said as he looked around, "Huh, must have been a dead tree branch, It's quite common in windy conditions," he said, before the sound of a snapping branch was heard.

"Just... just... just relax Brainy, must be a harmless animal," Brainy said, sounding very nervous.

What he didn't know was that Fergus had made a miniature horse out of wood.

"Maybe it was a toothless field mouse, or a legless weasel," Brainy said, as Fergus moved his miniature horse into the sun's light, making it look giant on a tree close to Brainy.

"A tall zebra?" Brainy asked himself.

"Och, no! Horseman, I'm the Headless Horseman!" Fergus shouted, using a bucket to make his voice echo.

"No, no, it can't be!" Brainy said as he ran away in fear.

"He's totally buying it!" Fergus said as he watched him.

As Brainy ran through the forest, Fergus used an axe to cut the rope off a tree, which threw a pumpkin towards Brainy.

Brainy watched the pumpkin explode behind him, covering him in the juice.

"I taste pumpkin," Brainy shouted as he ran deeper into the forest.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! It's a berry bonanza!" Fergus cheered, "Whose medal will be clanking now? That's right little smurfberry, I've won fair and square, well at least, square! What's that? Brainy! Don't you worry he'll be fine,"

...

As Fergus laid amongst the smurfberries, Brainy was running through the forest before he tripped down a small ravine and lost his glasses.

"My glasses? Where's my glasses?" Brainy said, as he looked around for them. He then picked up a small frog, which frightened him. He eventually found his glasses and put them on.

"Seems my frenzied sprinting and hysterically shrieking was a trude course of action, and it definitely smurfed me to safety," Brainy said, before he found himself in a cage trap, "Oh boy, this cage has Gargamel written all over it,"

Back in the Smurf Village, Papa Smurf was ready to judge the winner.

"All right, Smurfs! The Smurfberry Hunt is officially over!" Papa Smurf said.

All the Smurfs cheered.

"Lazy, how many smurfberries did yoo get?" Papa Smurf asked.

"I have one," Lazy answered.

"Very good, that's two more than last year, and what did you get, Vanity?" Papa Smurf asked.

"Even handsomer," Vanity said, before the goat took yet another bite of his hat, "You again? Bad goat! Shoo, shoo,"

"And you, Greedy?" Papa Smurf asked.

"A lot," Greedy said, before he burped and fainted.

Papa Smurf soon spotted a Smurf carrying a massive amount of smurfberries.

"Ah, Brainy! You've outdone yourself this year," Papa Smurf said.

"Thank again, Papa!" Fergus said.

"Fergus?" Papa Smurf said in surprise.

"Yes! How do you like them smurfberries eh?" Fergus said.

All the other Smurfs were in disbelief.

"Well, this in unexpected, consmurfulations, Fergus!" Papa Smurf said, announcing Fergus as the winner.

"We have a new champion!" a Smurf called out.

"Fergus has won the Smurfberry Hunt!" another Smurf shouted out.

"That's right! And how about a victory dance," Fergus said, before he started to dance.

All the Smurfs began chanting Fergus' name.

Smurfette soon appeared with his medal.

"Congratulations, Fergus! You truly earned this years medal," she said cheerfully.

"Yeah! Course I did, Why you say like that?" Fergus asked her.

"Like what?" Smurfette asked.

"Nothing!" Fergus said nervously.

"Hey! Wait a minute," Hawkeye called out.

"What is it, Hawkeye?" Smurfette asked.

"Where's Brainy? It's not like the reigning champ to not show up, Hawkeye said.

"That's very strange indeed," Papa Smurf said.

"You don't something happened to him out in the forest, do you?" Smurfette asked.

"You think he got lost?" one Smurf asked.

"What if he fell in a ditch?" another Smurf asked.

"Maybe a legless weasel got him!" a third Smurf said.

"You know what, I... uh... think I spotted Brainy in the woods earlier... I'll go see if he needs help with his baskets, shall I, off I go, see you," Fergus said rather nervously, before running off into the forest. Smurfette was curious as to why Fergus was acting like this, so she decided to follow him.

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