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Today is not particularly sunny day, well figuratively speaking of course. Because today is a sunny day, rather scorching to be exact. Perhaps, due to that reason, Lazy Smurf decide to have an ever-lasting nap under the shade of an elm tree. Seems nothing wrong with it, right? Innocent, tolerated, and rather quite-advised, well, that's true if not for the fact that all of his friend is currently working.
Well, as if it is not oblivious enough, work and lazy are not on the same page, except in the antonym's section perhaps.
Lazy is just not cut up for work.
That's a fact that even Papa Smurf had to bitterly admit it. However, quoting The Quotation of Brainy Smurf the Early Years; "As Papa Smurf always say; everysmurf has a fair share to contribute for the Smurf Village's society, for each task that might to be seems menial, miniscule, and fast to dismissed are the one that build our Village as one; each and every one of us has a liability, accountability, and responsibility that must be shared in each corresponding capability." Or in a commoner's language, laysmurf's term, and simple English that phrase is translated to: Everysmurf must do their job their best at.
That's why lazy still have to work.
Usually, lazy work as the Guardian of the Last Gate; Quality Control; Quality Assurance of high-end, best-selling, top-branded, most-efficient fatigue healer contraption ; mattress and bed.
But, due to the fact that not every day smurfs need new bed, Lazy is currently… unemployed.
That's why, taking his free time into account, and his obligation to still contribute to smurf village, Lazy now leaping from one job to another or a phase that called ; doing an odd job.
***
Today is not particularly sunny day, well figuratively speaking of course. Because today is a sunny day, rather scorching to be exact. Greedy Smurf decide to have a special cuisine delicacy for himself everysmurf dinner, Twilight herbs sautéed with marinated apricot cream and Pottage of herb's compilation. Mmmm, how delicious! He drooled.
Both of the recipe called for series of vegetable; carrot, zucchini, cauliflower, corn, asparagus, and of course the twilight herb.
Realizing his stock of twilight herb had dissipated – mostly *ehem* eaten for midnight snack– Greedy ask three smurf that happening to pass his mushroom's house by to do his 'scavenging' for him.
"Tracker! Lazy! Smurfette!" Greedy shouts as he wave his right hand through window to the three smurfs mentioned
"Yes Greedy?" ask Tracker as he and the other smurfs walked toward him.
"What's the matter Greedy? Smurfette cooed.
"Whaat is it greeedyzzz.?" mutter Lazy, obviously sleepy.
"Today I will smurf 'a special' for dinner! Twilight herbs sautéed with marinated apricot cream and Pottageof
herb's compilation!" Greedy answers enthusiastically.
"Well, it will be smurfy, Greedy!" Tracker says, which followed by Smurfette and Lazy's nod.
"But, I seems to ran out the twilight herbs, could you smurf that for me?"
"Certainly Greedy, we like to help!" Smurfette answers.
"Not to mention if 'a special' in a stake. Right, Lazy?" Tracker says, smirking.
"Ha? Ha? Ah… Sure, Greedy, we will smurf the herbs." Lazy stutters, half-asleep.
"Good! Here, take this sacks, smurf it full, will you?"
"Okay Greedy, anything you say."
So, with that, the three smurfs venture into the forest, in a quest of Twilight Herbs. Originally, the twilight herbs is a rare herbs, not because for its small quantity, but because its randomness place of growth, unlike most plant that has fixed place to grow, twilight herbs is different, for example mushroom will prefer to grow in the humid place, and apple prefer to grow in higher mountainous altitude, twilight herbs grow in random place, each year is different, from the sandy beach, muddy swamp, or even in inactive volcano. And due to that reason it acquired its name, twilight herbs, for you will begin your search in the dawn and found it at twilight.
But of course, that mentioned problem is not a problem. For one of the venturing smurfs is Tracker smurf. Tracker smurf has a gift, his nose. Well, not his nose to be exact, but a wondrous sense of smell that will bring envy of any single living canine family, just give Tracker Smurf a whiff of your need to be found item, clothes of a lost smurf, and Tracker will surely able to 'track' it/him/her down to the end of earth. On the top
of that, tracker nose able to sniff the change of air, the turn of weather, the switch of season, and so on.
Tracker had history to correctly predict early winter, early spring, and even a coming storm, where the other smurfs thought it to be a nonsense. But of course, Tracker prediction was right. So to be quoting his own word "Tracker smurf's nose is never wrong."
That is why, finding twilight herbs is a smurfling play for Tracker. Just half an hour of sniffing the air, and twilight smurf is already found, luckily this year twilight herbs choose a less dangerous place to grow ; in a simple clearing under the shades of tree. And with that the three smurfs begin smurfing the herbs.
"Greedy, sure want an awful lot herbs for his soup." Smurfette commented.
"Pottage, Smurfette, and yes I hoped it's worth it." Tracker says.
"Have you found any, Lazy?"
"Ah? Ah? Oh, no Tracker. I'll see if I can smurf some over there." Remark Lazy that obviously had fallen
asleep, intentionally.
Tracker know this, and give him a scowl.
But of course, Lazy is lazy. He just walked to another edge, hide from his friend's view behind an oak tree and continue to sleep.
"Smurf anymore lazy?" Smurfette asks, try to *encourage* him.
"Oh, I'm still looking Smurfette, it might take me a while." Lazy replies, shamelessly as he begin to snore which followed by Smurfette and Tracker inside sigh.
Meanwhile…
"A drop of snake venom, five slices of itchy nat fungus, two vial of slimy slime, three drachm of grinded mandrake root, crush it until forming a gooey liquid. And add a bucketful of stinkweed's extract." Read a crooked figure from his magic book as he put the magical ingredients to a boiling pot.
"Simmer it with medium heat for fifteen minutes and read this spell."
Evil power, evil power, listen to me who plead for your hour
I offer you the liquid of death and my right to atone! So whoever touch it will be turned into stone!
As this figure finish casting the spell, a reddish smoke puffed from the pot. Seeing this, the figure jumped for joy.
"I did it Azrael! I did it!"
"Mreawh?"
"This potion, my evil wondrous vile potion, will be just the thing I need, to end those despicable wretched
smurf, once it for all!"
"Mreawh?"
"Urrghh! You useless fleabag! Come on! Let's go the forest, I will show you!" said the figure as he carefully placed the potion in spray container.
***
Dream is the best, real dream I mean, thought Lazy. The dream of the dreamworld of course, not a subtle transcend of imagination like Dreamy's daydream, smurf, I don't even know why Dreamy got that marvelous name Dreamy instead of me, well maybe it's because my attitude? And sure, Smurfs can't have same name for different smurf.
Back to the point, dream is the best, dream of the dreamworld, a place where your imagination turned to reality by just wishing it? Well, it's a world for me. If it's not for the fact that I'll smurfed if not periodically having a meal and be shunned if not sufficiently enough socialize with my fellow smurfs, I rather live there, forever.
This is my world, with every inch that crafted is belonged to my imagination.
"So you see Azrael? I've had it! I'm not going to catch a smurf to lose them again!"
"Mreawh?" asked the ginger fluffed cat, confused.
"With my wonderfully evil potion, Azrael, I will turned that vile blue vermin into stone!"
"One by one every time I catch it! Isn't it wonderful Azrael?! A whole forest, no no, a whole world withouc
smurfs! Ha ha ha ha!"
"Mreawh!" Azrael Coos, happy for his master.
ZzzZzZzZZZZz
"Sstt! Silence Azrael, do you hear that?"
"Mreawh?"
"Snoring! It's one of the little blue bon bon!"
"There it is! He is sleeping!" Shout the figure as he swept away the smurfs with his right hand.
"Gargamel!" Lazy screams, surprised to see the figure who turned to be Gargamel had catch him.
"Ha, ha, ha, now take this!" Laughed Gargamel maniacally as he spray the potion to Lazy.
Seeing the weird green potion being sprayed on him, Lazy duck instantly to Gargamel's palm, made the potion miss him.
Gargamel who surprised by Lazy's reflex, confused for a second, Lazy do not waste any time, and bite
Gargamel's hand as hard as he could, sending that tattered-robe wizard, to release his grip as he hold his
right hand and howl an excruciating pain.
Free from Gargamel's grip lazy run as fast as he could. Seeing this, Azrael dash toward him in attempt to catch the fleeing smurf, just in a matter of seconds before the scruffy cat managed to catch Lazy, a blue hand from underground pull the running smurf.
"Ssshhhh!" hissed the owner of the blue hand who turned to be Smurfette. Tracker and Smurfette tell Lazy that they find a rabbit hole underground, and use it to hide from Gargamel when they heard Gargamel is coming.
Azrael who see this begin to put his paw to the rabbit hole to catch the smurf who currently leaned to the wall to avoid Azrael's paw.
"Where did he go?" Gargamel piped as he walk backward; observing the surrounding.
Unfortunately, this line of action is a bad luck for Gargamel. Because, just after few steps back, he accidentally stepped on Azrael's tail who shrieked and leapt sky high in surprise, successfully landing on Gargamel's head.
"Let go, you useless fleabag! Let it go!" cursed Gargamel to the frenzied cat. But it is to no avail, as the turn of event get worse.
Reacting to pain caused by Azrael's continuous scratching, Gargamel accidentally throw the potion upward, and as a law of gravity dictates, the potion fell down. Landing on top of his head,
"Oh no!" said Gargamel as the gooey green liquid petrify him.
Curious to see what's happened the three smurfs pop their head out of the rabbit hole to peek. Needless to say, they all surprised to the turn of event.
"Gargamel..." Said tracker.
"Azrael…" cooed Smurfette.
"Has turned to stone!" Shout all of them.
Seeing this, the three smurfs, run as fast as they could to the village, including Lazy, who has sleepy mark on his face.
"Gargamel had turned to stone!"
And with that everysmurf ran toward the pointed direction, toward the petrified Gargamel.
And the La la la's song could be heard, echoed through the forest.
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