Dreamy's Lost Village (Hero Stories)/Part 8

In the depths of the Swamp of No Return, Gargamel was still struggling to get out of the swamp. He grabbed Monty by the tail, demanding, "Flap, Monty! Flap vigorously! Use your mighty condor wings to carry your master to safety!"

A piranha leaped out from the water and bit Gargamel on the butt.

"OUCH! Sweet mercy! They're bottom-feeders! Ouch! Ah! Ah!" Gargamel grabbed one of the piranhas and decided to teach it a lesson. "Devil fish!"

Azrael noticed there were Smurfs flying above them. "Meow!"

Gargamel slammed the piranha into the ground, then yelled to Azrael, "WHERE. IS. MY. LOST. SMURF. VILLAGE?!"

"Meow!" the cat answered.

Gargamel looked up. "What?" High above them, he saw Nicola and Clumsy. "Smurfs! Why won't they just die?! Monty retrieve them!" he commanded his bird. Monty flapped away to chase down Nicola and Clumsy.

Far above them, Nicola and Clumsy hadn't seen Monty yet. They were still searching for Gargamel. Suddenly, Spitfire made a jerky swoop, causing Clumsy to hold on tight. Clumsy was busy still trying to explain to Nicola about the wizard.

"Oh, he exists all right. He and his stinky cat and his doo-doo bird. They've been terrorizing us the entire journey. But he didn't like us from the start. He could never find our village," Clumsy said. "So then he made a plan to capture us all. That's when Gargamel created Smurfette. Anyways...!"

Nicola hadn't really been paying much attention to Clumsy's rambling, but that last tid-bit of information made her pause. "Hold up! Smurfette was created by this Gargamel?"

"Oh, yeah. From a lump of clay. Really cool story actually." Clumsy replied with a smile.

"I knew I didn't trust her." Nicola said with a frown.

"You'd like her if you got to know her. She's just like you but nice," Clumsy said.

"What about that other female? The brown haired one?" Nicola inquired. "Did this Gargamel create her too?"

"You mean Wonder?" Clumsy replied. "No, she was created from a magical mirror Hero had found, the mirror shows you what you'd look like if you were born the opposite gender."

Nicola just looked back at him with a raised eyebrow when suddenly Monty came flying toward them.

"Hold on! We gotta bogey coming in." Nicola ordered.

"That's no bogey! That's Gargamel's big dumb bird!" Clumsy said, panic rising inside him.

to be expanded later.