Relatively Smurfing/Part 5

On the following day, the Smurfs flew off on a flock of storks, with Papa Smurf riding Feathers the crane ahead of the other birds. They carefully flew together over the Smurf Forest until they reached the sea, where they saw endless miles of beach to walk around on and plenty of crashing waves to go swimming and surfing on. Most of them never saw a beach quite like the one Papa Smurf had led them to before.

The flock of birds soon dropped down from the sky to land near the sand dunes. "Remember that the birds will come by to smurf us in the evening, my little Smurfs," Papa Smurf said as soon as he jumped off Feathers.

A good deal of the Smurfs had slipped out of their pants into their swim trunks as soon as they got off their mounts and headed straight for the ocean. "Last Smurf in is a rotten Smurf," Hefty called out as he and several other Smurfs ran into the water.

Poet stood by the shore in his swim trunks and watched the other Smurfs jump right in. He then turned away from the water and closed his eyes as he felt a poem springing forth from within. "My smurfs stands on golden sands, and watches the smurfs that go smurfing in...,"' he began to recite.

Suddenly a wave came straight to the shore and drenched Poet right where he stood. The other Smurfs on the shore just looked at him and laughed. "I guess even the sea doesn't like to smurf his poetry," Jokey quipped.

"You know what they smurf...every smurf's a critic," Sneaky said as they both laughed together.

Papa Smurf watched as every Smurf started to enjoy themselves, with Clumsy picking up a seashell and putting it to his ear. "Golly, I can even hear the ocean in this thing," he commented.

"What do you expect, Clumsy? It's a seashell, and what you're smurfing is not actually the ocean, but it's the air that smurfs through the seashell," Brainy said.

"You don't believe that I'm actually listening to the ocean, Brainy?" Clumsy said. "Here, take a smurf for yourself and tell me what you're actually hearing."

"Okay, fine, Clumsy," Brainy said as he took the seashell from Clumsy and put it next to his ear. "I'm just going to humor you for what little intelligence you have to..."

"I'm sorry, but your first five minutes to listening to this seashell are smurfed up," a voice said from inside the seashell. "Please insert a coin to continue listening for the next five minutes."

"Gosh, I didn't know that the seashell could even smurf back to you like that," Clumsy said, sounding very amazed.

Brainy looked at the seashell with a very suspicious eye. "I would bet you anything that it was Jokey who smurfed that trick, Clumsy," he said.

Papa Smurf set up his umbrella in a spot where he could lie down and relax in the shade without getting disturbed, but no sooner did he get settled down on the sand, a ball came heading straight toward him, bouncing hard off his stomach.

Player came soon afterward. "Sorry about that, Papa Smurf," he said sheepishly as he picked up the ball from where it had landed.

"Why don't you smurf it somewhere else?" Papa Smurf scolded before Player walked away. He tried to relax again, but then he saw Greedy heading for the water with a cupcake in his hand, wearing an inner tube. "Greedy Smurf, where are you smurfing with that?"

"Oh, I thought that I would smurf in the water for a swim, Papa Smurf," Greedy said.

"Not if you're going to be smurfing that cupcake," Papa Smurf said. "You should finish eating it first before you smurf into the water."

"Gee, maybe you're right, Papa Smurf," Greedy said before he crammed the cupcake right into his mouth before proceeding toward the water.

To be expanded on.