The New Smurfs On The Block/Part 2

"It should figure that those little Smurflings would smurf their way into the village right under our noses while we were sleeping," Brainy said. "Anyway, I had no idea that they would also be bringing their pet with them into the village until I, Brainy Smurf, woke up that morning, feeling good about myself, knowing that I was going to smurf the adulation of the crowd listening to my conducting of the village smurphony orchestra that night, and ready to proceed with the practice sessions that would make me the star attraction of the Smurfstock Festival."

"Brainy, the star attraction," Hefty snorted. "It figures that he would smurf all the attention while the rest of the orchestra smurfs nothing for all their hard work and practice."

"This smurf would like to hear how Puppy and the Smurflings were discovered that morning, Hefty," Empath said.

And so as Brainy told that part of the story, Empath and Polaris saw that Brainy had awakened bright and early, getting himself ready for conducting the orchestra in another practice session when he heard heavy panting and breathing outside. He ignored it as best as he could until the breathing and panting became unbearable.

"All right, this is just smurfing to be too much," Brainy said as he headed for the door of his house. "Whoever you are out here smurfing all that heavy breathing, I'm going to have to ask you..."

But as Brainy opened the door and looked outside, he saw the big furry face of a dog looking straight at him. "Help!" Brainy yelled. "Papa Smurf! Papa Smurf!"

Papa Smurf heard Brainy's yelling and woke up to see him running to his door all frightened. "Brainy, calm down," Papa Smurf said. "What's smurfing on here?"

"Papa Smurf! There's a big furry creature that smurfs like a dragon outside my door this morning!" Brainy said. "It was huge! I smurf that it wants to eat me!"

"A big furry creature?" Papa Smurf wondered, and then he saw it for himself as it moved from Brainy's house over to Papa Smurf's house, causing Brainy to hide behind Papa Smurf. "Why, it's just a harmless little puppy, Brainy Smurf. There's nothing to be afraid of."

"Oh, so that's what it is," Brainy said, as he peered from behind Papa Smurf to see the puppy for himself, who looked rather friendly.

The other Smurfs got out of bed to look at their new arrival. "Michty me, where did this puppy smurf from?" Duncan asked, as he got a closer look.

"And what's it doing smurfing in our village?" Smurfette asked.

"The puppy must be lost looking for his owner, or he may be homeless," Tapper said as he also got a closer look. "In any case, we should smurf care of it until we can find out for sure who he may belong to."

Hefty saw the puppy coming closer to Baby Smurf. "Oh no! The puppy's going after Baby Smurf!" he cried out, rushing to save the infant before he imagined something terrible happening.

But as the Smurfs watched, the puppy simply gave Baby Smurf a friendly lick, which made the infant feel really happy, and also made Hefty feel embarrassed but also relieved.

"Well, my little Smurfs, until we can find out for sure whose dog this is, I feel that we should make this puppy feel at home and smurf him like he's our pet for the time being," Papa Smurf said.

"Papa Smurf! Papa Smurf!" Greedy cried out as he came out of his kitchen. "Some Smurf has stolen three of my cupcakes from the windowsill when I was smurfing! And I want to know just who it is!"

"Well, don't smurf at me, Greedy," Nabby said. "I was asleep all last night, dreaming of smurfing such a thing sometime soon."

"If you're dreaming of smurfing my goodies, that already makes you a suspect," Greedy said, looking at Nabby with a suspicious eye.

"A puppy and some missing cupcakes," Tapper said, rubbing his chin in thought. "Papa Smurf, it would seem that our friendly furry visitor didn't smurf here alone last night."

"I would have to agree with you, Tapper," Papa Smurf said. "Puppy, was there anybody with you that smurfed into the village last night that smurfed the cupcakes?"

Puppy barked out an affirmative response and then walked away from the crowd. "It seems that he wants us to follow him, Papa Smurf," Smurfette said.

"I say that we should let the puppy smurf us to the culprits so that we can smurf them out of this village along with the dog, which obviously must belong to them," Brainy said.

"We're not smurfing anybody out of this village, Brainy...not until we can find out what our visitors are smurfing here first," Papa Smurf said.

And so Puppy led them to the tree stump, where he allowed Tracker to sniff around the hole at first. "I smell three little Smurfs inside this tree, Papa Smurf, and they are no more than 50 years old, as far as I can tell," Tracker said.

"Let me handle this, Papa Smurf," Brainy said, stepping toward the hole. "All right, you little culprits, smurf out here with your hands up right now!"

"All right, all right, you don't have to smurf so bossy," a voice spoke from inside the tree stump while a few other voices yawned, sounding like they were waking up. Then the Smurfs saw three young boy Smurfs emerge from the tree stump, looking ragged and dirty in white Smurf clothes.

"Who are you, and why did you smurf into our village at night?" Papa Smurf asked.

"And why did you smurf my cupcakes, you little bandits?" Greedy added.

"We are the Smurflings that come from Smurfling Island," one of the boy Smurfs said. "My name is Natural Smurfling, but my friends call me Nat. The other two are Snappy and Slouchy. We came here looking for the Smurf Village because there was a Baby Smurf that also came from the island not so long ago and we were hoping to find it."

"Baby Smurf is right here with us, and he's not going back to Smurfling Island, not if I have something to say about it," Smurfette said, holding Baby Smurf.

"Calm down...we're not looking for the baby so we can smurf it back with us," Slouchy said. "The thing is, we also wanted to smurf away from Smurfling Island because we got tired of smurfing on the island with the Lost Smurflings."

"Smurfing Island...Lost Smurflings...can you believe that story, Papa Smurf?" Brainy said in a mocking tone. "Because I sure don't!"

"I do believe their story, Brainy, since Baby Smurf also came from that island, and I say if the Smurflings want to live with us, then we should let them smurf with us for as long as they want to," Papa Smurf said.

"The question that I want to ask is about the puppy, my fellow Smurflings," Tapper said. "Was that your dog or did he smurf with you on your way here?"

"Nat found him out in the woods being smurfed after by these big dogs, for what reason I don't know," Snappy said. "We risked our lives trying to save him, and the least thing he smurfed for us was smurf us all the way here to the village."

"A pack of big dogs smurfing after a puppy," Duncan said, rubbing his chin in thought. "If I didn't smurf any better, I'd say that this is the work of Lord Balthazar who wants something with the puppy, something that he's carrying."

"Then we'd better find out what it is and try to keep the puppy out of Balthazar's hands while we also try to find out who he belongs to," Papa Smurf said.

"In the meantime, Papa Smurf, we should also give these Smurflings a bath and some fresh clothes to wear," Brainy said. "They're starting to smell."

"I'll smurf you in charge of cleaning up the Smurflings, Brainy," Papa Smurf said. "Then I want you to smurf them to Tailor so that he can smurf them some new clothes. In the meantime, I want the rest of you Smurfs to make Puppy and the Smurflings feel right at home."

"Yes, Papa Smurf," all the Smurfs said together.

To be expanded on.