A Green Cloud Of Victory

"A Green Cloud Victory" is a mini-story that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

The Story
It was around Psycheliana's 100th birthday when the Smurf Village and Smurfette Island both received announcement that because of the research that was done to make a strain of smurfnip that was safe to use, Empath Smurf and Psycheliana Smurfette as the leaders of their respective villages had finally lifted the ban on smoking smurfnip anywhere in the villages. This made a group of Smurfs happy that they could now smoke smurfnip wherever they wanted, though still not within establishments that prohibited smoking, while at the same time it made another group of Smurfs worried about the legalization of smurfnip, despite its now being made safe.

Lazy decided to host a Smurfnip Party for the Smurfs of both villages to participate in to celebrate the victory of its legalization, which was well attended by the Smurfs who supported the legalization. "Fellow Smurfs, I just want to say it's been an honor to finally have the privilege of making smurfnip the joy that it is to smoke anywhere in the village that we want to...minus certain places like Tapper's Tavern, of course," he said during his celebration speech. "If it weren't for Dabbler's research into the herb to find a way to make it safe for us to smoke, we would never see this day come to smurf. Of course, I will miss the wonderful times of smurfing hallucinations with the smurfnip, but as long as it still makes me feel smurfy, that's one thing that I won't mind missing."

Empath as well as Papa Smurf, Smurfette, Psycheliana, Miracle, and Tapper watched from a distance the Smurfnip Party kicking into motion, with lots of music, dancing, and smoking going on that made the older Smurfs seem rather concerned.

"It saddens my spirit to know that our fellow Smurfs as well as our young ones would want to smurf their minds on such a plant that may not benefit them in the long run, Empath," Tapper said.

"This smurf knows how you feel, Tapper, but what else can this smurf do?" Empath said. "If we didn't allow for this legalization to happen with Dabbler's research proving positive, then how long can we expect to keep prohibiting Smurfs from using smurfnip for their pleasure?"

"I don't see why you're so against Smurfs wanting to use smurfnip in the first place, Uncle Tapper," Psycheliana said.

"Because I feel that they may be filling themselves with the wrong kind of spirit, my dear Liana," Tapper said. "I am called by the Almighty to smurf a pure and holy life that is free from the defilements of the world, to be sober and vigilant at all times because our adversary the devil smurfs about like a roaring lion, seeking whomever to devour."

"Yet you seem to be happy without the need for smurfing yourself with smurfnip or that sarsaparilla ale you used to smurf, Uncle Tapper," Miracle said.

"That's because I am filled with the joy of the Lord, which is my strength," Tapper said. "That doesn't mean that I won't smurf through the valley of the shadow of death, but even there I will fear no evil, for I know that the Almighty is with me, and His rod and staff are my comfort."

"But wasn't there a place in your holy book where it smurfed that the Lord's disciples were smurfed with new wine?" Smurfette asked.

"That was the day of Pentecost, my dear Smurfette, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit and were smurfing in new tongues as they were smurfed utterance," Tapper said. "The people who smurfed to Jerusalem, the Jews that were smurfed throughout the nations at the time, were stunned to smurf the wonderful works of God in their own languages, and wondered what it meant. It was the scoffers who said that the disciples were full of new wine. But Peter stood up and defended them, saying, 'These are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day', and then went on to tell them about Jesus Christ, which resulted in three thousand souls getting saved that day."

"It is a sort of irony that you as a former bartender would now be smurfing not to get drunk on wine, which your book says will lead to debauchery, but to instead be smurfed with the Holy Spirit," Empath said.

"I like to smurf myself as being like the Almighty's Son to the Samaritan woman at the well, who was smurfing for water but was more smurfing for somebody that can fill her heart with joy more than the five husbands she married could smurf her, Empath," Tapper said. "He smurfed her that whoever drinks of the water from the well will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water He smurfs them will never be thirsty, for it will smurf up into a well inside them that will smurf forth into eversmurfing life."

"And what about you, Papa Smurf?" Smurfette asked, seeing that he was just sitting there the whole time listening without anything to say.

"As much as I would want my little Smurfs to smurf a life that's free of anything that will smurf them down the wrong path, Smurfette, I have to realize when they are old enough to smurf their own decisions and be responsible for them, as you and Empath are also responsible for yours," Papa Smurf said.