Chapter 6: Meet the Meanest Man

It was now mid July. Whenever the smurfs could they went to the beach. The babies even were learning how to swim with the help of water wings. It was now night time and all the smurfs had a long but fun day at the beach. All the smurfs had fallen asleep and left their windows open to let in some fresh air. Well all the smurfs besides two. The twins were defiantly not ready to go to sleep yet. Since both knew how to climb over their cribs they decided to go explore the village at night.

'Wow the village looks really pretty at night!' Sassette exclaimed as they climbed out the open window.

'Hey what's that?' asked Nat as he observed a fire fly.

He started to follow it into the forest. Sassette noticed her twin was leaving and decided to follow. Just then Gargamel the IV was walking through the forest hoping to find some smurfs in his traps just like his ancestors had done before him. As he passed The Great Oak he saw something, or some things I should say. They were obviously smurfs, but not just smurfs, baby smurfs. One was a smurf in a straw hat, the other a smurfette with red baby braids. He recognized them immediately as the escaped smurfs from the story his father told him when he just a young boy. It said that the first smurfs that had been severely injured in his great-great-grandfather's attempts to catch a smurf had somehow escaped and died a mere ten minutes after escaping. It also said someday they would come back as reincarnations to spread their smurfy love. He knew if he captured them he would be able to prove to his mom that just because he didn't wish to pursue a career in magic he could still bring honor back to his family. He quickly thought up a plan to catch the one year old smurfs.

Minutes later just as he had planned the too young to know better smurfs saw a moth and followed it right to a cage at the same old hut as Sassette saved Nat in so many years ago. It was actually a puppet controlled by Gargamel's descendant. Since the twins didn't understand the danger yet they went and followed the puppet right into the cage. Once the cage was locked they started remembering the stories Snappy and Slouchy told them and had instant déjà vu from their previous life. They started putting the pieces together. The two then started to cry realizing what was going on and how much danger they were in.

The two had cried for five minutes without stop and Gargamel was building a fire in the fireplace. Then Sassette noticed something, there was no top to the cage. They could just climb out like they did in the cribs. Along with that they were so small they could just slip through the bars

'Hey Nat, we can climb out of here just like we do back in our cribs or we can even just go through the bars! Then we just climb out his window just like we did when we left the bunkhouse tonight.' Sassette informed her still sobbing twin brother.

'Great, let's go now!' he replied with instant happiness as hope of being able to get back to the village filled his sadness.

'No, we can't yet. We should wait till he leaves to get a pot to cook us in, that way he won't see us escaping.' the intelligent smurfette told her excited friend.

So they waited for him to leave for five minutes. Once he had left the room the two infants quickly put their plan into action. They got out of the hut just in the nick of time. When they got down they saw Snappy, Slouchy, and Papa Smurf. They were really hoping history wouldn't repeat itself and the two wouldn't die due to the evilness of Gargamel. The three were very excited and relieved to see the two young smurflings climb down the vines near the window all by themsmurfs. Now that the two were out of harm's way they went back to their normal smurfy lives. The twins were now especially careful to make sure to stay away from what they called "The Meanest Man" and he was mean to them somehow even before they were smurfed.