Chapter 10: Chase

They were running as fast as they can. Away from whatever it was chasing them. Though it sounded like it was catching up.

"Smurfstorm! Smurfblossom! What's chasing us?" Smurfette yelled as she steered Bucky

Smurfblossom was hyperventilating, so Smurfstorm answered. "It's called a spider wolf. It only lives in this part of the forest and only attacks when we're in its territory. And right now we're in its territory because of my flipping headache!" She yelled as she held her head in pain again.

"Thanks for the story, but what we need right now is how to get away from these pesky spider wolves." Brainy cried out.

Seeing as Storm couldn't answer, Blossom had to do it for her. "We just need to get to the river. Once we're on the river, it'll stop chasing us!"

"Okay, but where is the river?" Brainy asked

"And how do we make a boat with these spider wolves chasing us?" Hefty yelled

The smurfs on the back seat started trying to think of a way to distract them while the rest builds the boat. Being the smart smurf he is, Brainy came up with an idea.

"I got it." He said, every smurf, except for the ones driving, looked at him, "So, here's the plan. Clumsy, Hefty, and Smurfette distracts the spider wolves while me and Smurfblossom take care of building the boat and Smurfstorm's headache."

Smurfette and the others kinda flinched at the idea of being chased by those spider wolves, but they don't have much of a choice right now. So, they agreed to it.

"Not the best plan I've ever heard, but we don't have much of a choice right now." Smurfette said

"I agree. We've got to work with what we have right now." Hefty added.

"I'll do it. As long as you keep Smurfstorm safe, Brainy, Smurfblossom." Clumsy said. The others awed at Clumsy's kind sacrifice for his girlfriend, he slightly blushed at that. But he then added, "Smurfette and Hefty, too. Take care of Stormy"

The others looked at him in shock. He was willing to distract every single spider wolves that were chasing them just for his girlfriend's safety. Smurfette and Hefty looked like they disagreed.

"No way, little bro."

"No, Clumsy. You need our help."

Clumsy shook his head, no. "No. Storm needs your help more than I do right now." He looked at her and she looked like she was almost close to fainting from the headache. "And the faster the boat finishes, the faster we'll be out of this mess."

Brainy spoke up, "He has a point. And the sooner we get out of this mess, the better."

The others were concerned about Clumsy's choice, but knew that they didn't have time to argue right now, so they just agreed. But they were still concerned because everyone knows Clumsy is, well very clumsy. So, now all they could do is pray that he could do it.

"Just one question." Hefty said.

"Yes?" Smurfblossom answered.

"Where is the river?"

"Hmm? Oh, it's just straight ahead. I can hear the river from here." She answered. Brainy checked his map while driving and it was right.

"She's right guys. It's just a few meters from here." He turned to Clumsy, "You got that, Clumsy?"

He nodded. He flew down closer to the ground to give Smurfstorm to Smurfblossom, she was already dazing away and couldn't understand what was going on around her properly. "Get her to safety. I'll lead away these monsters and I'll be there once I'm done."

They were unsure of leaving Clumsy alone with these guys, but nodded anyway. The others kept heading towards the river while Clumsy turned direction and shouted out to the spider wolves. "Yoohoo! Over here wolfy wolfy wolfy!"

The wolves stopped chasing the others and turned towards him. "Yeah. You want a piece of me?- Woah!" He slipped on the scale, but while doing so, he pulled the reigns upward as the spider wolves struck. He laughed, he came back down and said, "Is that the best you got, Mr and Mrs spidy wolves? "

This time, instead of shooting upwards, he started leading them away from the river.

From afar, Clumsy's friends heard him shout. They were about to head back, but then heard him laughing in triumph. So, they continued heading to the river. While so, Smurfette shot a question at Smurfblossom.

"Um... Blossom? A question?" She asked

Blossom looked at her, "Sure, shoot."

"What other abilities do these spider wolves have?" She asked, seeing as these wolves aren't normal. She gasped and everyone stopped in their tracks as she gasped, as her gasp sounded like a bad one.

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Clumsy on the other hand, was still leading these creatures away from his friends. In the middle of the chase, a spider wolf shot a web at Clumsy. He saw it and thrust up in time.

"Oh, golly." He gulped, "What have I gotten myself into?" He whisper-asked himself. They kept shooting webs at him. Until one finally got his leg and Fire Mist's left wing and stuck them to the top of the tree. He was struggling t get the sticky substance off and the spider wolves started climbing up the tree, slowly. To stalk him. He started struggling hard to get himself free until he got an idea. He took an arrow from his back and said, "Fire Mist, spit fire."

Fire Mist blew fire on the arrow and Clumsy used the fire to burn away the web and he got on Fire Mist and shot for the sky again. Once, he was high enough, he started firing arrows at the spider wolves. He was getting most of the shots, and he was thankful for getting those archery lessons with Smurfstorm. While Clumsy was firing arrows, Fire Mist blew fire at any webs that were shot at them.

Eventually, the spider wolves retreated as Clumsy and Fire Mist went down to the ground. Clumsy patted Fire Mist on the head and started flying back to the river, but not that far up in the sky. Unknown to him, the Alpha of the spider wolves was hiding in the bushes and was waiting for the perfect moment to strike at Clumsy.

When Clumsy wasn't looking, the Alpha jumped out and tackled Clumsy to the ground, trying to eat him. Clumsy was thrown off from Fire Mist. The Alpha shot webs at Fire Mist to stick her to a tree. He was about to strike at Clumsy again, but Clumsy saw a stick beside him and took it as the Alpha tried to bite him, making it bite the stick instead of him, but it was still stronger.

Clumsy knew he wouldn't be able to hold the Alpha for long. So, he came up with an idea.

"Fire Mist, blow fire!" Fire Mist did so, and blew fire on the webs and freed herself. She was about to blow fire at the Alpha, but Clumsy stopped her. "No, don't! Find my friends, don't kill the Alpha! It'll anger the other spider wolves!"

Fire Mist wanted to listen to her owner, but she also didn't want to leave him alone. Seeing that she hasn't left, Clumsy shouted, "Go! I can't hold this for long."

Knowing Clumsy wouldn't be able to hold up for long, she instantly flew towards the river.

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The others just finished the boat. They helped Snowy and Bucky cross the river and let them into the forest to keep them safe. And right now, they were waiting for Clumsy.

"Where is he?" Smurfette asked

"I don't know, should we look for him?"

"No, what if he appears here and we're gone? It's best if we wait here." Brainy instructed

Smurfstorm started waking up as the headache disappeared. She stood up and saw the others looking into the forest.

"What are you guys doing?" She asked. The familiar voice made everyone look back and Smurfblossom hugged Smurfstorm tightly.

"Smurfstorm! You're awake!" She hugged her.

"What happened to me?"

"You fainted, but Clumsy knows better of what happened to you than the rest of us."

She instantly remembered what happened and where they were. She looked around and saw that Clumsy wasn't here. "Speaking of Clumsy. Where is he?"

They then heard a dragonfly wing buzz above them. They looked up and saw Clumsy's dragonfly, Fire Mist. They smiled until they saw that Clumsy wasn't on her.

"Fire Mist? Where's Clumsy?"

She simply whimpered towards the forest. Smurfstorm was the first to understand as she got on Fire Mist with her bow and arrow on the ready. "Get the boat ready. As soon as I get Clumsy back, we need to be off before the Alpha strikes."

"The Alpha?" Smurfette asked

"The Alpha is the leader of the pack."Brainy explained.

Smurfstorm nodded. "And don't you get it, Brain Man. Clumsy's fighting with the Alpha! Alone!"

Everyone gasped. "As soon as I get back with Clumsy, we need to be off."

Everyone had no time to argue as they got the boat ready to sail. Smurfstorm zoomed back in the forest.

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The stick separating Clumsy and the Alpha of the pack was starting to break. Clumsy was using all the strength he had to hold the stick in place. But from all the force, it eventually broke. Leaving Clumsy defenseless from the vicious predator chasing him.

He screamed as he ran away from the spider wolf, doing his best to dodge its attacks. Eventually, he ran to a dead end.

He thought he was a goner as he sighed. The Alpha stalked him for a few seconds and pounced on Clumsy. He shut his eyes tight for the impact, but it never came. Instead, he was pulled away from the strike. He opened his eyes to see himself on Fire Mist, with Smurfstorm driving.

"Stormy! You're awake. You saved me." He said

She gave him a certain look and he knew what that meant. They switched places as Storm started to fire arrows at the spider wolves chasing them while Clumsy drove the dragonfly. She finally replied at his words, "Well, you saved me. It's only fair I finally saved you, don't you think?"

He chuckled, "I guess so."

As the good team they were, Clumsy dodged all the attacks while Storm shot down the spider wolves chasing them.

"Clumsy!" She shouted. He looked at her.

"What is it?" She was about to say something, but was cut off as she had to shoot a spider wolf on their tail.

"Head for the river." She said in the middle of shooting

He looked surprised, "But the others are there. We'll just lead these creatures towards them."

She stopped shooting, "Do you trust me?"

He paused everything he was doing and let Fire Mist drive herself. He looked back at her. He remembered saying that to her when they were checking the Swamp of No Return for Gargamel. He looked at her and nodded while smiling. She smirked.

"Then, do as I say. I have a plan." He nodded and switched direction towards the river. In a few minutes, the river was in sight. And as the river was right in front of them, "Jump, now!"

They both jumped and landed on the boat. Clumsy signaled for Fire Mist to go out to the wild for now. All the spider wolves came to a halt as their breakfast got away. They growled.

"Ha! I can't believe we just did that!" Storm yelled

"Whoo! We did it! We did it!" He then hugged her, much to her surprise. Clumsy remembered who he was hugging and pulled away, both a blushing mess. Their faces inched closer as they were about to do a lip lock. As their faces were like one centimeter away.

"Hey, get a room you two." Brainy said. They just remembered that their friends were still on the same boat as them and instantly looked in the other direction, feeling embarrassed and flustered.

"Brainy!" Smurfette, Smurfblossom, and Hefty yelled. As their exciting feeling of finally seeing their two best friend's kiss was ruined when Brainy talked.

"Back to reality everyone," Smurfette said. "We still need to find that wand."

"Okay According to my map, if we follow this path. It should lead us right to the wand after we pass Smurfy Grove of course." Brainy looked at his map. The others joined in, except for Clumsy and Storm.

It was an awkward silence between them. Until Storm finally broke it. "So, you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. How bout you? You feeling okay?" He asked back.

"I'm good now. The headache disappeared right when I woke up." She said

Clumsy smiled. He then felt something wet dripping down his leg. He looked down and saw blood leaking down. Smurfstorm also looked and saw that blood was dripping from his pants. She gasped and started searching for a bandage and alcohol in her bag.

Clumsy sat down and looked at the injury. There was a cut in his pants near his foot. It must've happened when he was fighting the Alpha. Smurfstorm applied the alcohol to clean the injury and wrapped the bandage on his leg. Clumsy flinched when the alcohol touched his wound. It stung like crazy, but he kept still even though it hurts. She tied the bandage and looked up at him. She saw that he was slightly flinching from the medicine and was trying not to look like it hurts, but she saw right through him.

She used one of her hands to cup his cheek and she kissed him on the cheek. Even if it was just a peck on the cheek like that, it still makes him flustered from the sudden move. She giggled at his cute behavior and left a blushing Clumsy as she walked towards the others to look at the map.

He smiled and whispered, "I always knew you had a soft spot ever since the day I met you."

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