The Discovery Of Smurfette Island/Part 6

There was lots of laughter at The Lucky Smurfette that night, as Empath told his fellow Smurfettes stories of all the things the Smurfs had done in their village, including those that Empath himself wasn't a witness to. Siobhan listened intently as she continued to serve drinks to her customers, taking note of every single detail in Empath's stories, her mind recording it all for her own private meditation.

Finally, when the stories were done, Siobhan decided to speak. "You Smurfs are such lucky lads to be able to smurf beyond your village to see all that this world has to offer, Empath. Some of us have tried to leave this island to smurf the same thing, but no matter how hard we try, we couldn't smurf beyond this barrier that smurfs around the whole island."

"Why would anyone want to smurf off this island is beyond me," Artemis said. "I feel safe and comfortable right here, smurfing all your tails in shape as we make this the smurfiest home for all Smurfettes. We surely don't need to have a male Smurf in our lives smurfing us what to do like we couldn't smurf it ourselves."

"Speak for yourself, Artemis," a ginger-haired Smurfette wearing blue overalls by the name of Gadget said. "This Handy Smurf sounds like somebody I would want to work with on a project...not that I think that he could smurf a wrench to me when it comes to smurfing up inventions."

"And this Jokey Smurf," a red-haired Smurfette in a crop top and skirt by the name of Raspberry said, "is he really that good at smurfing pranks on his fellow Smurfs when all he smurfs is the same old exploding box gag time after time?"

"You would be surprised at the things he can smurf up with, Raspberry," Empath responded.

"Well, you laddies smurf long enough with us, you may never want to smurf back home, Empath," Brenda said proudly.

"But this smurf can't stay with you, Brenda," Empath said. "You see, this smurf has a wife in my village and..."

"Hold on," Artemis said. "Did you say you have a wife?"

"That's what I distinctly heard Empath smurf just a minute ago, Artemis," Librarian said.

"So much for our fantasies, then," Gadget said, sounding a bit disappointed.

"Yeah, how can you smurf us that bit of news just when we're getting to know you a bit better?" Raspberry asked, sounding rather miffed.

"I hate Empath already being married," Broccoli said.

And soon the whole tavern was in an uproar until Siobhan rang the bell to silence everyone in the room. "Peace, my sisters, peace," she said loudly. "I know that it smurfs as a bit of disappointing news, but it's not Empath's fault that he was married before he even smurfed on our shores. In fact, I think we should happy that he has a wife that he can smurf home to."

"Well, what's this wife like, anyway?" Brenda asked, sounding curious.

"Yeah, smurf us the details of who she is," Raspberry said, eager to know for herself.

"Okay, okay, I will tell you," Empath said. "Her name is Smurfette, and she's the most beautiful and pleasant female Smurf that this smurf came to know for about ten years before we were married."

"But what's her name?" Artemis asked.

"I already said what her name is, Artemis," Empath answered. "She's called Smurfette."

"Correction, Empath, a Smurfette is what she is, Empath," Librarian said. "What we would like to know is what her actual name is, whether it is some sort of personality, occupation, or whatever that tells us anything about her."

"You nitwit," Brenda said, slapping Librarian by the side of her head. "Empath's told you already what her name is. Have you smurfed totally deaf or what?"

"Well, this Smurfette sure doesn't like much if all we know of her name is just what she is, Empath," Gadget said.

"I bet she can't smurf pranks like me, or smurf things with tools like Gadget, or smurf weights like Artemis, or smurf books like Librarian, or smurf weapons like Brenda, or any of the fun things we can smurf," Raspberry said.

"I hate this Smurfette," Broccoli said.

Siobhan sighed. "I feel bad for this Smurfette who doesn't smurf a name like we do, but I'm not going to smurf any judgment on her for what she does or doesn't smurf and simply wish the best for both her and her husband. What do you say?"

"For what it's smurf, here's to the laddie and the lassie he's married to," Brenda said, raising up her glass of ale in a salute.

"Here, here," most of the other Smurfettes said as they raised their glasses and then drank together with Brenda. - After the tavern closed, Empath and Sympathy went walking alone together through the village. Empath sensed that Sympathy didn't feel very comfortable with what he had told the other Smurfettes.

"This smurf apologizes for making you feel sad with that revelation, Sympathy," Empath said. "This smurf never intended to make you feel upset about this smurf's actual relationship."

"I just thought that there would be a chance of something between us, Empath," Sympathy said. "How could I not sense that there would be that connection between you and this Smurfette?"

"Maybe it's because your feelings for this smurf were just too strong and that you couldn't bear the thought that there would be anyone else in this smurf's life that this smurf feels so strongly for," Empath suggested.

"I have prepared myself for the moment of smurfing you in person for so many years, and I thought that we would be smurfy together," Sympathy said. "I even smurfed myself with this special suit I have made so I could feel closer to you and become more like you. Do you realize how hard it is now to feel like I have smurfed all my life for you only to find out you belong to someone else?"

"This smurf only wishes that this smurf could make you happy in the way that you were expecting this smurf to, Sympathy," Empath said. "This smurf senses that you're the type of Smurf that would smurf her own life for the life of her fellow Smurfettes and to consider their happiness to be of greater importance than your own. Papa Smurf would have been so proud of you if you were his daughter."

"But I don't smurf anything to you other than possibly being a good friend," Sympathy said, sounding like she was going to burst into tears. "Right now I wish that we had never met, that you were still adrift in the sea, and that I could be rid of this feeling that I smurf for you right now."

Empath looked at Sympathy directly in her eyes. "This smurf truly apologizes that this smurf can't be the kind of Smurf you want me to be, Sympathy. But the one thing this smurf would never take back is the moment we have right now of knowing that we exist, as two worlds smurfing together as one for the sake of helping you be free of Seraphine."

"But when we're free, that means you'll return home to your wife, and you'll forget about me and what we have smurfed together, even this very night," Sympathy said.

"This smurf will never forget about you, Sympathy, or anything that we have together as friends," Empath said as he drew Sympathy into his arms and held her close to him.

To be expanded on.