Chapter 7: Into The Forbidden Forest

It was dawn, almost morning. Smurfette was packing her things, getting ready to go into the Forbidden Forest. She packed all the essentials and started her journey outside of Smurf Village. She came up to the log that hid the village, she looked back at the village one more time and went through the log.

She ran towards the wall that separated Smurf Forest and the Forbidden Forest. She took a deep breath as she knew, once she passed the wall, there was no more turning back. Just as she was about to go through the, she heard rustling in a bush. She gasped and looked back, no one was there, but she knew who followed her here.

"Hefty, I know that's you."

He sighed as he left his hiding spot, "Sup, Smurfette."

She knew he wasn't the only one after here, "Brainy, Smurfblossom."

They both came out from behind a rock. Brainy then said, "How did you do that?"

And Blossom said, "Wow, you're good at this. We should play hide and seek."

Smurfette then called out the last duo, "And, I assume, Clumsy and Smurfstorm."

Then, they heard someone trying to get down from above them. Smurfstorm landed on her feet while Clumsy landed face-first on the dirt.

"All good."

Smurfette then asked, "What are you guys doing out here?"

"We knew you were up to something." Hefty answered for everyone

"I need to find that wand before Gargamel does, Hefty." She replied, "If no one's gonna find that wand, I will. And if Gargamel finds it, then every smurf's lives will be at risk."

"But, Smurfette. The Forbidden Forest is too dangerous. We've all been there before and you've seen the dangers of that place." He said trying to change her mind

Smurfblossom guiltily added, "I guess it's kind of my fault that Gargamel has that map."

Everyone looked her way. Brainy then told her, "None of this was your fault, Blossom. None of us knew this was gonna happen."

"It's not your fault, Smurfblossom."

"He's right. It's no one's fault."

"No one is to blame here."

Smurfblossom cheered up a bit. "Thanks. You guys are the best."

Hefty then added, talking to Smurfette, "If you're still gonna go, we're coming with you."

"We're Team Smurf, and we're in this together," Smurfstorm added

"I can't ask you to do that," Smurfette said

Smurfblossom then cheerfully said, "You didn't ask."

"We volunteered." Smurfstorm finished her sentence.

Smurfette smiled, "Thanks, guys."

"First things first." Brainy took out a piece of paper from his bag and dabbed some ink onto Snappy for her to draw the map. Smurfstorm and Smurfblossom were impressed.

"Bug technology. Impressive."

"You never cease to amaze me, Brainy."

Brainy smiled and then cleared his throat, "According to my map, we should be standing right in front of this very large, tall stone wall."

Everyone saw the wall right in front of them, "Check."

They all looked at the hole and started walking towards it to get to the other side. Everyone was walking through the tunnel, though Brainy was walking while recording his voice for documentary purposes.

"One small step, for six small smurfs."

Hefty was too impatient to wait for Brainy, so he shot the vine right at him to make him stop. Brainy spat out the leaves that got in his mouth, "Okay. Let us proceed."

They walked till the end of the tunnel. And, even though they've seen this before, they were still amazed at the sight of it. Making them forget what they were about to encounter.

Smurfette still loved the sight, "Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Wow, wow, wow. Wow."

She looked back at everyone when the flower right above her dove in and grabbed her inside its petals. Everyone screamed. Though Hefty was trying to find Smurfette.

"Smurfette! You okay, Smurfette?"

All the flowers started diving in and started grabbing them. Clumsy was dodging them as best as he could.

"Nice flowers. Nice flowers." He started walking backward, unknown to him a flower was waiting for him to step there, "Not nice flowers!" He ran the other way, but the flower that was waiting grabbed him. And then spat him out.

The flowers then started to play with them as they spat them out and then caught them. Finally, the flowers were done and spat everyone to the ground. Everyone landed in the grass, except there was one smurf missing.

"Wait, where's Clumsy?"

Clumsy was the last one to be spat out. As he screamed and landed on kissing flowers. He then started to struggle with them, "Hey! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!"

Smurfstorm started getting a tiny bit jealous. So, she stepped in to help him.

"Alright. Alright. Come on, you can let him go, now!" She said while trying to get Clumsy out. He did fall out, but what he didn't know was that he had fallen on the boxer plant. He took one of its leaves and used it to wipe off the lipstick. The plant then got mad.

Clumsy then saw a shadow over him and looked up to see the boxer plant, really enraged. He whimpered in fear. The plant then punched him, making him go lightheaded. And punched him several more times before finalizing it by punching him off the side of a steep embankment.

Smurfstorm was furious that the boxer plant just punched her boyfriend off of the side of an embankment. So, she decided to give it a taste of its own medicine.

"Hey, leaf head." She called out, making it mad, "How about you pick on someone your own size?"

It punched her way, but she dodged it and she punched it on the head, making it go unconscious. And as Clumsy fell, Brainy warned a bit too late, "Watch out for the steep embankment."

He fell, bounced off a few time, he tripped on a rock while falling, and landed on his back looking a bit dazed. Everyone came in view for him as Smurfstorm asked while extending her hand for him to reach, "Clumsy, you okay?"

He took her hand and got up, "Yeah, I'm okay. But I did find the dragonfly territory." He said as he pointed up. Everyone looked up in awe as they saw the dragonflies flying gracefully. Some of them stopped to see the smurfs.

"I already miss Spitfire just by seeing this." Smurfstorm said

One dragonfly, a red one, came up to Clumsy and sniffed him. But since he still has pollen on him, he sneezed out smoke. Clumsy covered his eyes to avoid smoke coming on it, but the rest of his face was covered in black smoke.

Then, the red one carried Clumsy towards its nest, "Guys? A little help?" He dropped Clumsy in its nest and sat on him. The others caught up to him and shared a small laugh when they saw it.

"I'm okay." The dragonfly was trying to sleep.

"A little help here." He said.

Smurfstorm knew her ways with dragonflies. So, she volunteered to help, "I'll get him." She said as she started climbing towards the nest.

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Azrael squeezed through the tiny tunnel and pulled himself out, making him shoot out. Gargamel fell from the top of the wall and Monty landed on top of his head. Gargamel then tried to pull him off.

"Monty, get off of me."

He threw Monty off to the side and said, "I hate nature."

The flowers heard what he said and started stalking him, "How gaudy. Hmm? Ow, ow!"

The plants started trying to eat him. Azrael was fighting the boxer plant. It punched him, but Azrael dodged it and punched it in the face, pleased with his results. Gargamel then called him, "Azrael, do something!"

Azrael then started laughing hysterically at the sight of Gargamel getting eaten by flowers.

"It's quite painful." He realized Azrael was laughing at him, "Stop laughing. This is not funny."

Monty felt someone or something watching him, his eyes turned normal for once. So, he turned around, but nothing was there. His eyes then went back to its normal lopsided way.

Gargamel then pulled himself out, "Let me go!"

The plants came back for him, but Azrael scared them off and kicked the pollen on Gargamel, "Ouch."

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Brainy was trying to get more information about the dragonflies. So, while waiting for Clumsy and Storm, he was doing just that while the others enjoyed the view of dragonflies flying.

Storm then jumped down and landed safely. Clumsy, on the other hand, was climbing down, but then fell off and landed on the branch the others were on. He and Stormy climbed up the branch.

"You know, I think I've had enough of these flying antipastos for one day," Clumsy said

Then, out of nowhere Monty screeched and appeared in front of them. They tried to run the other way, but Azrael blocked it and Gargamel was behind him.

"Hey! What are you doing here?" Clumsy asked

"Well, I was thinking of getting a little place out here. Just a quiet place in the forest. It's a little breezy up on the hill." He got tired of being sarcastic. So, he just got to the point, "What do you think I'm doing out here?"

Smurfette then said, "You are never going to find that wand, Gargamel."

"Oh, Smurfette," He said, "If it wasn't for your little friend, I wouldn't even know where to find that powerful wand." Making Smurfblossom feel guilty again.

"It wasn't her fault." Brainy defended, while the others agreed.

"Whatever." He snapped his fingers as Azrael and Monty charged, "Get 'em, boys."

"Smurfintine formation! Go!" Hefty yelled as everyone started running out of the way, making Azrael and Monty crash into each other.

"Hey!" Gargamel was annoyed.

They kept yelling 'smurfintine' as they ran in different directions, but not losing where the others went though.

"Smurfintine!"

"Get 'em, Azrael!" Gargamel was trying to catch the smurfs. Azrael and Monty kept crashing into each other as they were trying to grab the smurfs. As one of them was closing to grabbing the smurfs, the other one accidentally crashed into the other one.

"Smurfintine!"

"Smurfintine!"

"Smurfintine!"

Hefty grabbed a large stick and slammed it on Gargamel's feet, making him cry out in pain, "Ow!"

His hand hit a nest as one of the egg fell on his hand, he then got an idea. He looked at Clumsy as he was still running and yelling.

Clumsy was still yelling, "Smurfintine!"

"Hey, you." Gargamel called out, making Clumsy stop running, "You're the clumsy one, right?"

He was confused, "Huh?"

"Think fast." He threw the egg at Clumsy, who caught it.

"I caught it!" But then the mother of the egg called out to the others. They started chasing the smurfs as they ran, "This isn't good."

The dragonflies were breathing fire, trying to burn the smurfs.

"Clumsy, give 'em back their egg!" Smurfstorm yelled

"Okay." He threw the egg to the side, but it bounced off the stone ledge and bounced on a mushroom and went back to Clumsy's hands, "Oh, come on!"

"Clumsy!" Everyone yelled

"I'm trying!" He threw the egg behind him, but then it was still sliding towards him. He flipped off the tree root and the egg came back to his hands

The fire reached his back as he cried out, "I'm really, really sorry, guys!"

Smurfblossom then spotted holes big enough for them to fit in, "Over there, guys!"

They all jumped in a different hole, but Clumsy got stuck on the vines, "I didn't mean to poach your egg." But then he fell off the vine, making him throw the egg up in the air as its mother caught it, "Whoa!"

All the dragonflies blew fire in each hole the smurfs went in and Gargamel looked in satisfaction, thinking that they were dead, "Well, they're toast."

Azrael meowed, thinking they're still alive.

"Ah, it doesn't matter." He said not caring, "What's a few worthless pennies when there's a pot of gold at the end of my rainbow?"

Azrael rolled his eyes and meowed in doubt. "Trust me, they're goners. I'm telling you, they've been fried to a blue crisp."

He started naming the food they've could've been fried too, "They're smurf kabobs. Smurfberry flambe. Marshmallows." Gargamel said, "Can it, fuzzball. They're dead. Dead, I say!"

They aren't dead, but the fall knocked them unconscious. Just as he left, they started waking up.

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