Manfred (Empath stories)



Manfred is a character that is part of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series.

History
He is a sorcerer whom both Chlorhydris and Drusilla went after when they were both in sorcerer's school. However, although Manfred originally went after Drusilla, it was Chlorhydris that captured his heart, and since sorcerer's school the two humans had a relationship together, making Drusilla so jealous that she plotted to get even with Chlorhydris. On the day that Manfred and Chlorhydris would have married, Drusilla lured Manfred into a cave and turned him into stone, and then taunted Chlorhydris by saying that Manfred will never marry her. Chlorhydris waited at the church for her bridegroom to come, but unfortunately he never came, as he was trapped in Drusilla's lair for twenty years, guarded only by her pet serpents. The only thing Chlorhydris had from the relationship was a daughter named Priscilla that Manfred had fathered sometime before the wedding.

At the time of the story "The Prisoner Of Stone", Sassette encountered Drusilla and the man she had turned to stone when she was fleeing from the Smurflings after they had been struck with Cupid's love arrow. Sassette told Papa Smurf, Grandpa Smurf, and Empath about the witch and the man turned to stone, which made Papa Smurf decide that he was going to help rescue Manfred. However, after Papa Smurf, Vanity, Sassette, and Cupid were captured by Chlorhydris when they were trying to get Cupid's love arrows back when they were switched with the witch's black-heart arrows, Vanity and Tapper went with Sassette into Drusilla's lair to free Manfred with a magic depetrifying pellet given to them by Chlorhydris. Although the three Smurfs were prevented from getting near Manfred to free him with the magic pellet by the serpents, they accidentally freed Manfred by knocking the magic pellet onto him with their tails. Drusilla then tried to turn the Smurfs into stone, but Vanity accidentally deflected Drusilla's magic power back onto herself, causing her to be turned to stone instead.

While Manfred and Chlorhydris were reunited after years of being apart from each other, it would all too soon come to an end as Manfred was pierced with Chlorhydris' black-heart arrows, which caused his love for her to turn into hate. He promptly left Chlorhydris' observatory and was never seen again.