Dreamy's Lost Village (Hero Stories)/Part 7

Smurfette was washed ashore in a blue lagoon. She landed face down in the sand. Scattered nearby on the shore were the other Smurfs.

Smurfette sputtered and coughed. "Guys?! You all okay?"

Brainy choked out, "Define 'okay.'"

Hero raised his head from the sand and shook the remaining sand from his face, "I'm good, Smurfette."

Wonder was trying to shake the sand that was trapped in her brown hair, "Can any Smurf smurf me a hand here?"

"Hang on, Wonder," Hero responded, as he approached her. "I'll smurf what I can."

Wonder took off her hat and flipped her hair over her face so that Hero could try. He ran his hands through it and cleaned out a reasonable amount of trapped sand.

"I've smurfed what I can, Wonder," Hero said. "You'll need a shower to smurf out whatever is left in there."

"Thanks for trying, Hero," Wonder replied.

Hefty had gotten to his feet and started calling, "Clumsy? Clumsy! Clumsy?" The others helped with the search.

They walked up and down the beach, calling his name.

"Uhhh, a little help here," a small voice called out. "I'm okay... I think."

They found Clumsy buried in the sand, being attacked by crabs, but something was still wrong. Brainy began searching the beach, muttering and flipping out before finally noticing it was floating on the water.

"My pack! My manual! No! No! No!" He shrieked, as he watched it disintegrate in his hands. Angry, he turned and faced Hefty. "This is all your fault!"

"WHAT?!" Hefty asked, hands on hips, ready to fight.

"Brainy, cut it out!" Smurfette said, intervening in the situation.

Brainy turned to face her. "Oh, I'm sorry. Correction: It's your fault too!"

"Brainy, just calm yoursmurf down," Hero butted in. "You're smurfing a big deal out of this."

"You stay out of this... murderer!" Brainy barked back, Hero's eyes widened quickly.

"Murderer?" Wonder and Smurfette asked in unison. "Hero, what's he smurfing about?"

"It's nothing important," Hero replied, sounding like he didn't want to explain.

"Oh, this is too good," Brainy said, sounding like he just lost his mind. "Allow me to explain, many years ago when we were only Smurflings. Hero nearly killed Jokey for absosmurfly no reason."

Wonder and Smurfette looked at Hero in complete shock.

"Is this true, Hero?" Wonder questioned.

"There's a perfect explanation for all this," Hero replied in his defense. "We were around 50 years of age at the time, I had just recently smurfed my special abilities. But I couldn't fully control them, and Jokey just happened to smurf a prank on me at the worst possible time. He called me a power mad freak, and I just couldn't control my actions."

"So there you smurf it!" Brainy bellowed. "We have a killer Smurf with us, and we're in this position right now because of you, Smurfette."

"Leave her outta this!" Hefty replied furiously.

"Hefty! I don't need you or anyone to fight my fights for me!" Smurfette told him adamantly.

"Oh great, so now you're mad at me too?" Hefty asked her.

Brainy again pointed angrily at Smurfette. "You're the one that got us into this whole mess in the first place!"

"Hey! I was ready to smurf this on my own," Smurfette shot back, reminding him of how she'd planned to make this journey alone from the beginning.

"Oh, well, then so much for Team Smurf!" Hefty groaned, throwing his hands up.

"I WANT TO YELL ABOUT SOMETHING!" Clumsy shouted, just to be like the others.

"Stay out of this, Clumsy!" Brainy snapped back at him.

"YELLING!" Clumsy yelled back.

"That's it, Brian Man! It's time for you to earn your manners badge!" Hefty thundered, charging towards Brainy.

"Stop it!" Smurfette intervened, trying to break them up, but Brainy lunged at Hefty. The fight had just begun between them when suddenly, dozens of arrows came raining down upon them.

to be expanded later.