The Prisoner Of Stone/Part 5

Vanity and Sassette decided that they would head straight for the village first. "If we hurry, maybe we can get some Smurfs to help us," Vanity said.

"We won't have much of a choice if most of the Smurfs have been smurfed by the hate spell, Vanity," Sassette said. "It would have to be either Tapper or Empath."

"Let's hope that at least one of them can smurf with us, Sassette," Vanity said.

They soon reached the village, where they saw Grandpa Smurf try to singlehandedly deal with Snappy and Nat trying to get at each other. "Smurfatooties...I'd sure like to go with you, but I'm afraid that I already have my hands full," he said woefully.

Vanity and Sassette saw that the adult Smurfs were now throwing food at each other. One of them threw a ripe tomato right into Vanity's face, splattering him. "Hey, not the face!" he cried out.

Tapper showed up to talk to Vanity and Sassette. "What happened to Papa Smurf, my fellow Smurfs?" he asked.

"Chlorhydris captured him and Cupid just when we were smurfing to her castle to get his quiver of arrows back, Tapper," Vanity answered.

"Yeah, and now we need to smurf to that cave where we found Drusilla and Manfred and smurf this magic pellet to turn that stone statue back into a human before sundown, or Pappy and Cupid are going to be smurfed with hate," Sassette added.

"I would like to suggest taking Empath with you, but he's the last hope we have to smurfing this village in order, youngsters," Grandpa Smurf said.

"Then I might as well smurf with Vanity and Sassette, Grandpa Smurf," Tapper said. "They could smurf all the help they can get to smurf that human out of that evil woman's hands."

"I know that you have no fear of danger with that faith of yours, Tapper," Grandpa Smurf said. "All righty then...I'll try to smurf what I can to keep this village together while you three go rescue that human."

"Let's get going already," Sassette said, eager to lead the other two Smurfs to Drusilla's cave.

"Good luck there, youngsters," Grandpa Smurf said as he picked up Snappy and Nat in each arm while watching the other three Smurfs head back into the forest. - Meanwhile, Empath was still in the infirmary watching over Polaris Psyche, who was still lying there on the bed with his eyes closed. "Polaris, this smurf doesn't know if you can hear this smurf or not, but this smurf wants to let you know that you have been the best friend that this smurf had since we were living together in Psychelia," he said to the unconscious Polaris. "This isn't how this smurf would want to spend Smurfy Friendship Day with you, but this smurf doesn't regret teaching you everything you know about the Smurfs, even if at first you were repulsed by their way of living like this smurf was when..."

Empath then sensed that Polaris was stirring until finally his eyes snapped open. They were now blood red just like the other Smurfs' eyes were. He looked at Empath with an angry look on his face. "Filthy savage!"

Suddenly Empath was thrown through the wall of the infirmary as Polaris punched him so hard that he ended up flying.

"You dare to touch a Psyche and contaminate his mind with thoughts and ideas that don't belong to a true Psyche, for the years we have known each other," Polaris said, speaking with barely restrained fury. "You should be punished."

"Polaris, it's me, Empath Smurf," Empath said as he picked himself up from the ground while Polaris came closer. "Don't you recognize who this smurf is?"

Polaris punched him again, this time sending him flying into the wall of another Smurf house. "How dare you try to turn this one into the image of your savage perverted tribe," he shouted. "You are not even fit for the mercy of the Psyche Master."

"Polaris, listen to this smurf," Empath said as he rose up again to face his friend. "This is a spell of hate that you're under, that is affecting your mind as well as the other Smurfs."

"Don't try to deceive me with your reasoning, savage!" Polaris yelled.

Polaris tried to punch him again, but Empath countered his moves and delivered one of his own to knock Polaris down. "This smurf doesn't want to hurt you, Polaris, but this smurf has got to stop you from..."

Polaris struck back, picking up Empath and hurling him through the window of a Smurf house. He crashed through another wall and ended up bumping straight into a few Smurfs that were already fighting with each other.

"This one doesn't need any help from you or your people," Polaris roared.

Empath realized that he had to get Polaris away from the village before he caused anymore damage with his fighting. He quickly grabbed Polaris and flew with him toward the forest, but Polaris struggled to get himself free and instead hurled Empath toward the roof of a Smurf house, knocking over a chimney as he landed.

Empath barely had time to pick himself up when he saw Polaris head straight for him, looking like he was going to pound Empath's head right into the ground.

To be expanded on.