150 years later, our little princess grows into a beautiful smurfette. She was bold, confident and a friend to the villagers and council of the kingdom. There was only one problem........

She was never meant to be running away from royal guards! Wait, what?!

"Your highness!! Stop, please!!" Three fairy guards shouted

But Eliza didn't answer and kept running. She ran so fast that they couldn't catch her even though they were flying. She ran further ahead down the hallway, and disappeared just as the guards came in a moment after.

They looked around the room they were in, it was filled with portrait of the past and present members of the royal family.
"Where'd she go?" Asked the first guard

"I thought you knew?" Said the second.

"Split up! She couldn't have gone far!" The third dashed off, and the others did the same in the opposite direction.

They past a painting of Eliza, it blinked and one of the guards noticed. He went closer to the painting, watching it closely, staring intensely, and continued to do so.  He shrugged and flew off, Eliza let out a huge aigh of relief and crawled out of the painting, she jogged over to the castle training area. It was a large dome, almost as tall as the arena, it was lit up with fairy lights and was filled with weapons, targets, and armour. There were three smurfs, two guys and a girl, in the middle having target practice, she kept her distance and watched from afar. 

The first one was Harold, all grown up, he drew his bow and hit the target getting a bullseye, he did a little dance at the accomplishment. The second smurf who the called Grey, took his arrow, drew his bow and hit the target with a bullseye, but gave an unenthusiastic look and shrugged. The girl, they called her Sasha, she took a blind fold, covered her eyes and five arrows, she aimed them in the air and five little pixies all different bright colours started to fly around with targets in the air. She pulls back all her arrows as the move about, she takes in a breath and launches the arrows into the air. She hits every target with absolute ease, and the pixies drop the targets and wave goodbye,Sasha waved back taking off the blind fold.

The boys looked at her with unimpressed looks and unanimously and said "Show off."

"Hello everyone." Eliza greeted walking in as the pixies cleared the area

"Hello Eliza!" Harold greeted putting away his bow.

"Hey." Greyson waved lightly.

"Good afternoon princess." Sasha twirled her bow in her hand above her head. "So, did the guards see you?"

"Yes, but I got away. So what do you say to a training session?"

"If you mean a session where I pin you down like last time, then yes!"

"Okay....  Now you're going to get it."

Sasha and Eliza strapped on leather armor to their arms, and took wooden swords. The boys sat down and watched. They took their stance, then another pixie wearing a black and white outfit blew a whistle.

Sasha charged and lunged her sword forward, Eliza blocked the attack and swung her sword to her head. Sasha dodged, swiping at Eliza's feet making her jump. Eliza came behind her,letting their swords move in a fencing motion to and fro, her opponent blocking every move but was starting to wear out. Sasha entwined their swords , flipped Eliza's in the air and side kicked her down. She pointed the sword to her face.

"Do you yield?" Sasha said panting hard in her words.

Eliza refused to go down and lose to her lady in waiting, again. She kicked Sasha's sword in the air, pounced on her, grabbing her shoulders. Sasha fell on her back, and Eliza flipped grabbed the sword in the air and the one on the floor,crossed them and pointed it to her neck.

The pixie checked and saw no way for Sasha to move or escape. He blew the whistle ending the training session.
Eliza gave her hand helping her up.
"Not bad. Not bad at all princess." Sasha said shaking her hand

"Good job Eliza." Harold ran over giving the smurfette a bone crushing side hug.

"Well, it was good. But the enemy isn't going to ask you to yield Liza." Greyson put away his sword and walked towards the exit.

"Well, they may not. But my skills have no yield." The others snickered and Greyson chuckled, and with Harold left.
Sasha tapped Eliza on the shoulder, causing her to meet her intensely serious face making her jump.

"Are you sure about tonight? We could all get in a smurf lot of trouble."

"Trust me Sasha. We can do this. Its simple. All we have to do is to get two Midnight blossoms for the forest, comeback during the closing remarks and.... Boom! You are given the respect and adoration you deserve, and my father can finally stop being so overprotective! But we have to do it before-"

"Before the midnight hour ends. I am impressed by the idea, but we are also likely to get kick the bucket. The risk we are taking is too great."

Eliza put a hand on her shoulder, smiling at her with warmness in her eyes "But the reward is even greater. We are put down because of what we are, I want to show them who we are. And I know you do too."

Sasha bowed her head and looked up at her, how can I say no to a chance of a lifetime? she thought. She chuckled
"Let's do it."

"Meet me at the bottom of the tower with Phillip and Storm. I'll do the rest. Now let's go before the guards show up!" The two ran out to laughing, shoving each other playfully.

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Later in the evening, a small gathering was held by the King for a member of his council, Master Azul, coordinator of magical activities. Azul was a tallman-elf, he had pointed ears, tan skin, a short black beard and emerald green eyes. Azul wore a dark blue velvet robe with details of gold, it revealed the red markings on his forearms and hands. It was his anniversary, as he'd been a member of the Royal Council for 40 years, and the people wished to celebrate. And he unlike others in the castle, believed that the princess was greater than she could ever imagine.

"Your Majesty, it is truly an honor to celebrate my anniversary with you, I predict this will be such a memorable
day for us all." He said shaking the kings hand.

"The honor is mine Azul." The king smiled and went over to meet other guests.

Eliza,wearing a white ball gown and her silver tiara, walked over.
"Good evening Azul. Smurfy to see you, as always."She greeted with a curtsey

"Ah Princess Eliza" he bowed "It is smurfy to see you as well. I trust you have exciting plans tonight, yes?"

"Ah, yes indeed I do. And thanks to you my dear friend." She winked at him,he smiled back.

"Good luck." He whispered

She started to leave the room when a smurf in royal blue princely wear completely blocked her path, giving her one of the toothiest smiles she'd ever seen, she jumped in surprise.

"Good evening Your Royal Magnificence! I am Duke David, of the Northern Plains, pleasure to make your acquaintance." He took her hand kissing it gently. He had an English accent, which was not one that was popular in the North she thought, but shrugged it off.

"Good evening. Honor to meet you,I hate to cut you short but I'm in bit of a hurry."

"Ah, but won't the princess do me the pleasure of a dance?"

The music had already started,before she knew it, he pulled her into the dance. He took her hand in hand with little or no grace or poise on the dance floor.

They moved left and he stepped on her right foot, he moved right and stepped on her left foot, she winced in pain as he did. The worst part was he was wearing heels! David dipped her down, which gave her a clear view of the clock. It was past ten o'clock, if she didn't leave now, she'd find it impossible to get the flower.

Eliza thought of a plan. She spun herself around taking one of the very plump dignitaries hands. She swirled her around and into Davids arms, the dignitary looked at him and gave a hearty laugh, swaying him around and shaking her humongous hips.

Eliza chuckled and ran out of the room. She came to her room in one of the southern towers of the castle,  quickly changed her ball gown into a light long sleeve green dress, a black hood and black boots. She shook her hair and let it down, covering her head with the hood.

Eliza popped her head out the window to see Sasha with two bunnies waiting for her below, she tossed down a rope, she began climb down.

"Took you long enough! What happened to you?" Sasha tapped her foot as Eliza got closer

"Hey! Its a lot harder to escape when your feet are in pain,after a duke has stepped constantly on your feet!" She climbed on the white horse clicking her tongue.
"Let's go Phillip."

Phillip neighed and sped off, Sasha and Storm close by their side.

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They rode off into the forest, using the moon as their light through the dark. Sasha and Eliza stopped in a clearing, deciding to continue on foot. Sasha took out a map to check where they were.

"Okay. So we're here, and the blossoms are at least a mile from here.....up North West."

"Phillip, Storm. Behave." She pet the two bunnies "We'll be back soon."
The smurfette walked away deeper into unknown territory.

They walked for hours,constantly looking for the flowers. Sasha had finally had enough.
"Alright we are getting nowhere this way!! Isn't there something Azul must have told you, maybe a spell or a riddle?! Anything! It's almost midnight and we have to get back before the closing remarks!"

"Umm.... Let me think." Her face immediately lit up. "Azul said if you have trouble, use the pure moon to get out of your bubble."

"What in the name of smurf does that mean?"

"Well it could mean we use the moon light. What did Harold used to say when he would take us fishing?"

"Look for the best lighting to spot the fish." Sasha started to get what she was saying" So we just need to find a good point of moonlight and-"

"And we'll find the blossoms." Eliza gave her a high four. "But let's hurry. We only have a few minutes left."

They ran further, still looking. Sasha looked over a rock, whilst Eliza looked through the trees. They came back to meet ,when something caught their eye. In a clear beam of shimmering moonlight, lay a small patch of white buds, they were Midnight blossoms, still closed.Their mouths gapping open, as they watched the begin to bloom.
They opened up slowly, revealing five white petals,blue sparkles all over it, It shimmered in the light so elegantly, the two were in a trance as they gazed upon the flower. Sasha snapped out of it and tapped Eliza to do the same.

"Quick the scissors, before it closes!" Sasha hurried her on

They cut the flowers and put them in a box, then into a satchel.

Eliza began to smile wide"We did Sasha! We actually did it! "

"Yeah. Yeah, we really did! Ha ha!",

They came into a hug, cheering for themselves happily.

Behind them, was a vine decorated with tiny flowers, it began to stand upright, moving towards them. It grew larger as it got closer, slowly wrapping itself on Eliza's boot.
" Okay now let's go. Before they find out we left."

"Sure thi- Aaaaaaahhhh!!!"

The vine held her ten feet in the air,wrapping itself around her. Sasha screamed at the sight, taking out her sword from it's sheath.

"Hang on Eliza! I'm coming!"

"Hurry!!"

The vine squeezed her tight shortening her breaths. Sasha ran up a trees root, jumped high into the air and sliced it. It almost seemed like it was hissing in pain.

They ran as fast as they could through the forest, Eliza looked behind them to see the vine had brought some friends and were now being chased.

"Run Sasha! Unless you want to be eaten by wolves!"

"Wolves?!" A howl from behind quickened her pace.

Sasha whistled alerting the bunnies. They immediately started to run too, quickly the girls climbed onto their backs. They ran as fast as they could, the wolves and vine getting closer. They made it out of the forest, riding towards the castle.

The vine and wolves stopped in the woods, peering through the trees.
Eliza stopped , seeing they weren't being chased anymore, she looked back the wood, looking at the wolves closely. One of them climbed up on a rock giving her better view of him.

Its eyes weren't yellow like other wolves,they were blue instead. Eliza gasped in horror, riding back to the castle as quickly as she could.

"Forsmurfdons!"

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King- Papa Smurf

Sasha- SmurfStorm

Eliza- Kristen OC

Harold- Hefty Smurf

Greyson- Grouchy Smurf

Duke David- Marco Smurf

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