Brainy's Really Beard Story/Part 4

"And so while Papa Smurf and several of our Smurfs followed Tracker as he smurfed the hair trail through the forest, Gargamel was smurfing a hard time with Azrael playing around with a mouse he was chasing, smurfing all around on top of his beard and causing him pain. Meanwhile, I was busy smurfing through the books of Papa Smurf and the House of Archives when I finally discovered the Instead Beard Growth formula that Papa Smurf said didn't exist...mostly to keep Smurfs like me from smurfing up the formula and thus smurfing the same mistake as Gargamel," Brainy said.

And as Brainy continued his story, Psycheliana and Miracle saw Papa Smurf and several other Smurfs following Tracker as his nose was picking up the scent of the hair, which was getting stronger and stronger. It seemed like a really long trek through the forest, but eventually Tracker found the source. "Look! There it is!" he said.

The Smurfs looked, and there they saw Gargamel's house with lots of hair flowing out through its windows and chimney, and from within the pitiful cries of Gargamel calling for help.

"Sacre bleu, even for a wizard as evil as he is, my heart smurfs for him in this predicament," Painter said.

"Well, speak for yourself, because mine doesn't," Smurfette said in disgust.

"Help! Please! Someone! Anyone!" Gargamel cried out.

Papa Smurf and his group of Smurfs cautiously approached the house and saw that the main door is blocked by a thick pile of hair. "It smurfs like we'll have to smurf in through the cellar," Papa Smurf said.

While Gargamel continued to sit helplessly bound by his hair, Azrael found himself lurking near a mouse hole, waiting for the mouse to pop up in order to chase it. Inside the mouse hole, the Smurfs have gathered near, with Tracker speaking to the mouse Azrael was chasing, and the mouse answering in the affirmative.

"It is so good that you would help us by smurfing yourself in jeopardy, Mr. Mouse," Tracker said, sounding pleased.

Azrael continued to peer into the hole, waiting for the mouse to appear, when the mouse then appeared from inside a cupboard. Azrael then headed in the direction of the cupboard and went inside it, only for the Smurfs to soon close the door of the cupboard and lock Azrael inside it once he was inside.

"What's that? Who's here?" Gargamel called out. "Whoever you are, please help me, please!"

"Well, Gargamel, that's quite a beard you smurfed there," Papa Smurf said with a slight chuckle.

"Oh, Papa Smurf, thank goodness you're here," Gargamel said. "Please cut me free of this beard. The scissors are on the table."

"I don't know why we should help you for all the times you harmed us, you rotten old meanie," Smurfette said.

"I don't like M'sieu Gargamel either, Mademoiselle, but he deserves a far worse fate than this," Painter said.

"I don't care, Painter Smurf," Smurfette said.

"You wouldn't help your dear old father, even when it's I who brought you into this world?" Gargamel asked, trying to play on her sympathy.

"You were never a father to me, Gargamel!" Smurfette boldly stated.

"Whatever wrongs Gargamel has committed, he doesn't deserve to be smurfed helpless like this," Tracker said. "I think we should smurf off his beard, Papa Smurf."

"Yes! Yes! Please cut it off! Please cut it off!" Gargamel pleaded.

"I'm afraid that would be no help to you, Gargamel," Papa Smurf said, examining the beard hair. "This is a magic beard, and it would just regrow as fast as it would if I did cut it off."

"You mean...I will die here?" Gargamel asked, not liking the sound of that.

"Sacre bleu, we cannot allow this to happen, Papa Smurf," Painter said rather passionately.

"I agree, Painter," Papa Smurf said. "There is only way I know of that can free you of this magic beard, Gargamel."

"Oh, please, Papa Smurf, I will do anything...anything!" Gargamel said out of desperation.

"By the chance, do you happen to have a chili bean?" Papa Smurf asked.

"A chili bean?" Gargamel responded, sounding incredulous.

"A CHILI BEAN?!?" the other Smurfs said together.

To be expanded on.