Gargamel's Exile (Empath stories)

Gargamel's Exile is an event that took place around the time of Empath Smurf's 150th birthday in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. What led to this event is Gargamel's discovery of the Gauntlets of Gantharros with the help of the Great Book Of Spells, since he felt that he needed to have greater magical powers to counter Empath's telekinetic and telepathic abilities. This led to an attack on the Smurf Village where he destroyed a good portion of the village and kidnapped almost half of the Smurf population, leading to Empath and the remaining Smurfs teaming together in a final confrontation with Gargamel in order to free the captured Smurfs and send the evil wizard away from the forest forever. At the climax of the battle, Empath used the mindlink to overpower the Gauntlets of Gantharros, causing them to disintegrate and thus enabling Empath to deliver punches that felled the wizard. Gargamel, Azrael, and Scruple were then sent out of the forest where they could do no harm to the Smurfs, though Gargamel still vowed to get his revenge on the Smurfs when they least expect it.