Relatively Smurfing/Part 3

Brainy and the Smurflings noticed Sassette hopping up to the window of Gargamel's house. "Sassette, what are you smurfing?" Nat asked.

"I'm going to try to talk to Pappy Gargamel and see if he can't just simply smurf along with his cousin, Nat," Sassette answered.

"Sassette, that is a very unsmurfy idea," Brainy said. "Gargamel is not somebody that we should try to smurf friends with, and believe me, we have tried smurfing friends with him before."

"Well, if he won't listen to you Smurfs, maybe he'll listen to his own daughter," Sassette said.

"Wait a minute, Sassette," Snappy said as he and the other two boy Smurflings joined her on the windowsill along with Brainy. "We'll smurf this thing together."

"I'm so going to tell Papa Smurf on you for this when we smurf back home," Brainy said.

When they looked through the window, they saw Gargamel sitting on the floor with a circle of candles around him. "Pestering pigeons, what's Pappy Gargamel doing?" Sassette asked.

"He smurfs like he's going to summon something by using dark magic," Slouchy answered.

"Dark magic?" Nat said. "That's something Papa Smurf said we should always avoid smurfing."

"Quiet down, you Smurfs, I can't hear what's smurfing on in there," Snappy said.

Gargamel then raised up his arms in the air and said, "Oh, great and all-powerful Beelzebub, I call upon you in my time of need to aid me in vanquishing my cousin Sagratamabarb's power."

With a few chants in an arcane language none of the Smurfs understood, they saw a dark cloud of smoke emerge from Gargamel's hearth along with some flames that completely consumed the wood. The flames expanded out beyond the hearth until a dark red horned figure with cloven hooves for feet appeared before the evil wizard. "Beelzebub has heard me at last!" Gargamel said, sounding very excited. "Oh, what cruel joy!"

"You dared to invoke my name, you miserable worm?" the horned figure asked in such a fierce and disdainful voice.

Gargamel bowed himself humbly before the horned figure. "O Beelzebub, I implore your strength to demolish the house of my cousin."

"Hmmmm, a quarrel between two sorcerers is not something that I should concern myself about," Beelzebub said. "But if you'll give me something worthy in exchange, I'll accept."

Gargamel tried to think of what he would give up that would satisfy Beelzebub's demands. His cat? His new student? None of those things seemed worthy enough to him. He could feel the noose tightening around his neck when he couldn't come up with anything. "I'll give you my life...to be your slave?" he meekly answered.

"It's a deal," Beelzebub said.

"Grizzly brown bears, Pappy Gargamel's going to use Beelzebub to destroy his cousin," Sassette gasped.

"We have to go and warn Sagratamabarb that that is what Gargamel is planning to smurf," Nat said.

"Wait a minute, Smurflings...this battle isn't between Gargamel and us, it's between Gargamel and what's-his-name," Brainy said. "We should smurf back to the village right away and leave these two sorcerers alone."

"Why don't you smurf back to the village if you don't want to help us, Brainy?" Snappy said as the four Smurflings leaped off the windowsill and headed straight for Sagratamabarb's house, going through the hole at the bottom of the door to enter.

"I'm not smurfing back to the village without you four smurfing back with me," Brainy said as he joined the four Smurflings.

To be expanded on.