Chapter 8: Tunnels and New Pets

Everyone started waking up as they all groaned from the fall. They started looking for each other.

"Hello?" Smurfette called out

Hefty heard her, "Smurfette?"

"Echo!" Clumsy was having fun at first until he looked at a dark tunnel, "Darkness. I don't do well in the darkness. I have enough trouble in the daylight." He said as he covered his eyes with his hat.

"Hold on, everyone. We need to find a way out of here." Brainy said as he looked through his bag.

"That is good thinking, 'Brainy'."Hefty said sarcastically.

"Hello? Guys?" Storm called out

Clumsy shouted, "Darkness!"

"Don't be scared. Just..." Hefty said, "Just think happy thoughts."

"Oh, I'm always thinking of happy thoughts." Smurfblossom said from afar

Clumsy said back, "It's not really happy times right now!"

"Just stay in the light, Clumsy." Smurfette said

"Too late. I'm walking into the darkness!" He said as he started walking into the dark.

Smurfstorm was confused about why he was doing that, everyone was. "What are you... why?"

"I'm really freaking out, you guys!" He shouted while still walking into darkness.

Brainy tried to think of a solution, "Stop, everyone."

Everyone listened and stopped whatever they were doing.

Brainy then continued, "Okay, go into your backpacks, get out your emergency tunnel survival kit, find the small glass vial marked 'light', and shake it really hard."

Everyone did as they were told. They looked in their emergency tunnel survival kit, found the glass vial, and shook it really hard until there was light.

Smurfstorm decided to check on how Clumsy was doing, "Clumsy? How you doing?"

"Okay, I guess." He answered while cradling himself beside the light.

"Just hang tight, Clumsy." Brainy said as he got out a pair of tweezers to inspect the tunnel, "I'm not sure how long this will take or how long we'll be down here, so, everybody, whatever you do, don't eat all your rations." He advised.

But since Clumsy was stressing out, "I just ate all my rations!"

"Clumsy!" Hefty shouted, whilst face-palming

"I'm stress-eating!" Clumsy then shouted.

Smurfstorm decided to just find him, "I'm coming, Clumsy. Follow the sound of my voice." She said as she started going deeper into the tunnels.

Brainy reminded also going in, "Wait! These tunnels are like a maze. We'll just get more lost."

"We gotta do something." Smurfette said, going into the tunnels as well.

"I'm with her." Hefty said, also going deeper in the tunnels, "Time for some action."

"I'm just following the rest of you guys." Smurfblossom said, running in the tunnels too.

"We're doing this all wrong." Brainy said

"Smurfstorm!"

"I'm close, Clumsy. Almost there."

"That's just the echo playing tricks on us." Blossom said, running around the tunnels

"Anybody?" Clumsy called out

Smurfstorm thought she was close, "I'm here. I'm here right around this corner." But she saw no one.

"Hey, everybody? My light is going out." Clumsy informed everyone as his light started dying.

Hefty couldn't wait any longer, "That is it! I'm punching us out of here." But as soon as he started punching the walls, everything started collapsing.

"It's collapsing." Smurfette alerted.

Smurfblossom panicked, "Avalanche! Sorry, wrong thing. Earthquake!" She covered herself with her hat.

"Hefty! Put those fists away before you get us all killed!" Brainy yelled.

"At least I'm trying something." Hefty defended himself.

Clumsy was already in panic mode as he took out a bottle of orange liquid, "I'm gonna blow us out of here!"

Some were just agreeing with him and most tried stopping him before he does anything bad.

"No!" Brainy yelled.

Hefty liked the idea, "Oh, yeah!"

"Clumsy, wait!" Smurfstorm shouted.

Smurfblossom thought it was a fun idea, "Go for it!"

Smurfette thought it was a bad idea, "Don't!"

Even though most told him not to. There was no stopping him when he already made up his mind.

"Too late!" He said as he opened the cover, threw it at a wall, and it exploded. Though they weren't together, everyone felt and saw the explosion.

Smurfstorm decided to call out to him, "Clumsy?"

Clumsy looked back at where he threw the liquid and heard a munching sound. A carrot rolled out into view. And after that a bunch of eyes. Clumsy screamed and everyone heard it and became alert.

Smurfette then saw a bunch of glow bunnies, dragonflies, and snow pomeranians running her way. She tried to run away, but a glow bunny lifted her and Smurfette noticed him.

"Bucky? Is that you?" The glow bunny replied by nodding

Smurfette heard something above her. She looked up and saw Clumsy on a red dragonfly.

"Hey, Smurfette." He greeted while holding onto the dragonfly.

Smurfette was glad to see her friend was okay, "Clumsy!"

Then, they saw Brainy trying to run away, but one of the snow pomeranian's lifted him. His glasses almost fell, so he adjusted them back to place. They then saw Hefty was walking on the ceiling after being lifted up, and he landed behind Smurfette.

"Hey, Bucky-bro." The bunny squeaked in return.

Clumsy saw Smurfstorm ahead, so he lowered down the dragonfly and grabbed her hand to lift her up to the back.

"Thanks, Clumsy."

"No problem. My flying lessons with you have paid off well."

Brainy saw Smurfblossom and grabbed her hand and lifted her to the back.

"Nice snow puppy you got, Brainy."

The animals kept running around the tunnels until they reached a hole covered in a bunch of vines with a little bit of light coming out. The smurfs braced themselves for the jump as the animals just went through it.

"Stampede!" Blossom yelled excitedly while raising her hands up in the air.

"I think my rations are coming up," Clumsy said while holding his mouth with one hand and driving the dragonfly with the other.

"Please don't throw up here." Smurfstorm said while rubbing his side gently to stop him from feeling the need to throw up.

The glow bunnies and snow pomeranians started skipping happily while the dragonflies flew above them. Due to all the bouncing, Brainy's glasses fell on the snow pomeranian's eyes and both their vision became blurry.

Though before anything could happen, Smurfblossom jumped to the front of the snow pomeranian. She grabbed his glasses and jumped back to the back. Then, she put them back on Brainy.

"Thanks." He thanked her.

"No problemo, Brain Man." She giggled while Brainy just rolled his eyes. Both Clumsy and Brainy controlled their animals to get beside Bucky.

"Oh, guys. Would anyone be interested in knowing that we're right on course to the wand?" Smurfette informed. Everyone agreed happily.

"All right!"

"Whoo!"

"Yeah, we are!"

Smurfette then added, "And Bucky and your new pets are gonna get us there extra fast."

"New pets?" Clumsy asked.

"Well, aren't you guys gonna keep those two?" Smurfette asked, "Like I decided to keep, Bucky?"

Brainy looked at Blossom for an answer, but she just nodded rapidly. "Well, I guess why not?"

Clumsy looked at Smurfstorm for an answer if he should keep her or not, she just nodded once and that was a clear enough answer for him. "Oh, she's already here. So, why not?"

"Woohoo!" Smurfblossom cheered, "We've got new pets!"

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Papa and Willow came up to Smurfette's door and Papa Smurf knocked.

"Smurfette?" He spoke.

"Before you say anything, just listen."He took a deep breath, "Now, I know yesterday I might have been a bit tough on you and the boys, and I know there are times I'm a little overprotective."

"A little?" Willow exclaimed.

"Okay, a lot overprotective." Papa admitted, "But you have to understand, you snuck out. You have to be more careful."

Willow saw a yellow daisy beside the door and decided to say, "Smurfette, I know lately you may not realize, and we may not say it enough, but you are..."

She looked at the flower and said, "You shine. Right, Papa?"

"Exactly, you shine, Smurfette." Papa said, "So, anyway, we're Smurfy? I think you and the boys have been grounded long enough."

"I agree. You six are now officially ungrounded." Willow added.

They waited for a response, but when they heard nothing.

"Smurfette?"

"Okay. I'm opening the door. And I'm walking in to talk more." He chuckled.

"You there? Hello? Smurfette." Willow exclaimed.

Papa's facial expression turned into a suspicious one. He ran towards Hefty's Mushroom and Willow followed, not knowing what he's doing. When they made it, they saw he was in bed, but when he took off the cover.

"Hefty!" They gasped. Instead of Hefty, they saw a dummy Hefty made out of a weight with a face, boxing gloves, green shorts, and a smurf hat.

Papa ran and Willow followed, still not knowing what he's up to. Brainy was also in bed, but when they took the cover.

"Brainy!" Instead of Brainy, it was a dummy made of a globe, vegetables for a face, a stand, a lab coat, and a smurf hat.

Lastly, he ran to Clumsy. He was in bed, but as expected.

"Clumsy!" Instead of Clumsy, there was a dummy made of three apples, one of them already eaten, and a smurf hat. "Oh, that's not even convincing."

Papa got mad, "When I find those smurfs, I will ground them for a month of blue moons."

Willow still wasn't getting it, "At least not all of them left."

Papa looked at her doubtly, "Oh really? What about your smurfs?"

Smurfwillow's eyes widened and she ran towards Smurfstorm's Mushroom. She was in bed, but when they took the covers.

"Smurfstorm!" Instead was a dummy Smurfstorm, made of a bow, arrows, pillows, and a smurf hat.

They ran to Smurfblossom's Mushroom. She was in her bed, but when the covers were off.

"Smurfblossom!" She wasn't there, instead was a bunch of cherry blossoms stacked together and a smurf hat. "Now, that's not even convincing!"

She looked at Papa, "Okay. Now, I agree with you. Once, we find those smurfs, I will ground them for two months of blue moons."

Nosey was at the window, "Oh, what's going on inhere?" Smurfwillow slammed the window shut in his face, "Hmm. Well, all right."

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