Little Sister Smurf Lost/Part 4

A little while after Sassette disappeared with Hefty, Empath made it back to the village, looking rather dazed. "Empath, are you all right?" Smurfette asked, concerned for him as she saw him enter the village.

"This smurf is still functioning normally, Smurfette," Empath said.

"Smurf it easy there, laddie," Duncan said as he Empath looking like he was ready to collapse. "Whatever Sassette smurfed to you out there must have smurfed a lot out of you."

"Sacre bleu, what happened to the little mademoiselle that made her smurf like this?" Painted asked.

"Yeah, and why did she even attack us?" Jokey added.

"It's that Avengelica that has smurfed control of Sassette," Smurfette said. "She wasn't totally herself when she smurfed those things to you."

"Well, that little Smurfling surely hates us for no good reason," Greedy said.

"I hate being hated for no good reason," Grouchy said.

"What did we ever smurf to her that would make her attack us like that?" Vanity asked.

"I don't know, but she called Hefty her brother and just carried him off," Handy answered.

"It's just what I figured, my fellow Smurfs," Brainy said. "Avengelica must somehow be twisting Sassette's poor little mind to make her believe that she is somehow related to Hefty, when the facts smurf witness that she was a creation of the Smurflings through Gargamel's formula."

"Brainy is right, my fellow Smurfs," Poet said. "Sassette was a creation, and somehow she's being manipulated by this Avengelica into believing that she was a real Smurf."

"I hate being manipulated," Grouchy said.

"But isn't it possible, my fellow Smurfs, that you're the ones who are being manipulated into believing that Sassette was a creation and not a real Smurf?" Empath asked.

"Crepes suzette, how could you accuse us of ever lying to Sassette?" Painter asked, sounding a bit angry.

"You weren't here when Sassette was first created by the Smurflings, Empath," Greedy said.

"Yeah...Papa Smurf had to create a formula that would smurf her into a real Smurf," Handy said.

And a few more voices raised their objections toward Empath until Papa Smurf came and silenced them all. "It doesn't matter at this point whether Sassette was a real Smurf or a created one. What matters now is finding where this Avengelica lives so we can free Sassette from her grasp and rescue Hefty," he said. "So I want you all to calm down until we can figure something out."

"Yes, Papa Smurf," all the Smurfs said together.

Then suddenly Tapper came running. "Papa Smurf! Papa Smurf!" he cried out. "I just had an unsmurfy revelation that Avengelica has deceived us into believing a lie about Sassette. The Almighty has just revealed to me that Sassette is truly a real Smurf and is being used by Avengelica to smurf her revenge against us."

"Tapper, Tapper, Tapper, can't you see that Avengelica may be deceiving you into believing that Sassette is anything but a created Smurf?" Brainy chided. "We all know the truth, so there's no way that any of us are going to believe otherwise."

"I'd be careful smurfing about the Almighty if I were you, laddie," Duncan said. "If He's revealed Tapper something that may be the truth, who are we to argue against it and smurf that he's being deceived?"

"Let's just say for the smurf of argument that what Tapper is smurfing is the truth, my little Smurfs," Papa Smurf said. "There's got to be some way that we all can know for sure the truth for ourselves."

"If all of you are willing to join together in a mindlink with this smurf, then this smurf may have enough power to uncover the truth about Sassette's origin," Empath offered.

"Well, I'm willing to find out for myself, Smurfs," Smurfette said. "How about you?"

Painter sighed. "C'est la vie. I guess that it couldn't hurt if we found out for ourselves."

"I'm with you all the way, laddie," Duncan said.

"And I will join in the mindlink to make sure this truth is known to all of us," Tapper said.

Soon all the Smurfs decided that they were going to join in the mindlink. None of them seemed to like the idea of not knowing for sure the truth about Sassette.

"Let's all hold hands, close our eyes, and empty our thoughts as we join together as one mind and one thought," Empath instructed.

And so the Smurfs did just that. They all held hands with each other as they closed their eyes and emptied their thoughts, focusing solely on joining their minds together to form a bridge between each other, mind to mind, thought to thought. As the mindlink grew stronger, Empath found out what was hidden in all their minds: the truth of Sassette's origin.

"Great Smurfs of Fire, it can't be!" Papa Smurf exclaimed as they all shared the same revelation.

"Gosh, Sassette was a real Smurf after all," Clumsy said.

"And we all treated her very badly when we were Smurflings," Poet said.

"Hefty treated her the worst, and she smurfed away from the village," Handy said.

"Smurf and begorra, we found her inside a crystal in a cave," Miner said.

"And we smurfed her out of the crystal with a tuning fork," Snappy said.

To be expanded on.