The Dire's ancient was in ruins in the Radiant jungle. Many mindless creeps, and to an extent, mindless heroes perished at the hands of Aggron Stonebreaker, the Ogre Magi, and his newly found friend, Shrek. Shrek grew to a terrifying size thanks to repeated casts of bloodlust, which seemed to make Shrek grow much bigger than any other hero. Using his colossal and shirtless form to his advantage, he devoured one of the Dire heroes and hurled the ancient far away, causing Aggron Stonebreaker's team to win. Pleasantly surprised by the power the two (or three, depending how you look at it) of them could muster, Shrek decided to pay Duloc a visit. Aggron Stonebreaker followed suit.
"Ha ha ha! He he he! That sure was fun!" Bellowed the left head of the Ogre Magi, as Shrek knocked down many trees with his big and sweaty limbs on his journey to Duloc. "But, uh, where exactly are we going?" questioned the right head.
"This place called Duloc. They've been disturbing me for quite some time, sending these little knights to try and get rid of me and me swamp. I think I- er, we'll take care of it once and for all." Shrek answered as he continued to carve a path through the woods, growing increasingly pissed off when tree branches fell and hit Shrek on his heavily muscled torso.
"Ya know, why we're we botherin' with that hunk of rock anyway? You called it an "Ancient" and wanted it gone, why?" Shrek asked as he stopped and turned back to the blue ogre.
"I don't know." One of the heads said. "Me neither," The other one said, "I didn't liked the way it looked. It looked stupid."
Shrek was greatly humbled by the reply and thought that it was a good enough of a reason to eradicate this "Ancient". While he was having a conversation about the Ancient, a thought crossed his mind regarding his current being.
"Can ya hook me up with some more of that magic to help me grow? That stuff's the finest magic I've ever seen!"
A sudden "oh shit" expression appeared on both of the Ogre Magi's heads.
"About that, well, we really can't. We don't-"
"What do you mean, you can't? You did it before, so do it again!" Shrek ordered, with his voice becoming much more intimidating. Suddenly, he felt himself starting to shrink back to his normal size. The rush of being an unstoppable behemoth of the swamp was fading away. Shrek's anger turned into worry.
"That's because we're out of mana! We need mana to do it again!" The right head spoke.
"Just give us some time. Okay?" The other head spoke, seemingly oblivious to the green ogre almost ready to kill. Luckily, the magic wore off, so Shrek was back to his normal size. He just now realized that he was shirtless, and the muscles vanished from his skin, for the most part. He wouldn't be turning big again anytime soon since the Ogre Magi required more mana to keep up the effects. He sighed and continued on through the thick of the woods, now going much slower since he wasn't a giant anymore. That's when he noticed the sun going down and the day was being brought to an end.
"Looks like it's time to stop for now. We'll get to Duloc tomorrow." Shrek said as he noticed the damage he left in his wake of many downed trees and hundreds of branches being thrown away into the mud.
"You know how to build a fire, right? I've seen you do fire tricks before."
"Fire?" The right head of the Ogre Magi spoke.
"Yes, fire! You know what fire is right? We'll need it to set up camp here."
"Fire?!" The left of the Ogre Magi spoke.
"Oh for crying out loud…" Shrek moaned out loud, but before he could say anything else, the two-headed ogre raised his club high above his head. Small embers started to burn freely out of the club's mouth and onto the ground where they quickly became extinguished.
"Fire! Burn! What are we burning? Let's burn something!" Both heads were happily cheering about at the prospect of igniting something; anything. Nothing could please a simple ogre more than using magic to create fires to burn practically anything down to the ground. Shrek shrugged and started to gather up some stones and hefty branches to build a strong fire to keep him and his friend warm, as well as maybe cooking any animals foolish enough to be captured. Shrek did all the work of gathering the sticks and stones and arranging them in the tree-less clearing while the Ogre Magi danced around happily at the thought of burning things, but never actually doing so.
Eventually, the fireplace was set up. All that was needed was a way to ignite it.
"Well now, Aggron, we got ourselves a fireplace! Now we need a fire!" Shrek getting Aggron Stonebreaker's attention. Before the two ogres stood quite the fire place; a perfect ring of stones with a formation of strong, slow-burning branches inside to fuel a fire for some time.
"Do we burn that?" One of the heads asked dumbly, as dumb as a big piece of wood in a pond.
"Yep. You know what to do!" Shrek answered, standing proudly and smiling with his knuckles on his hips waiting for the two-headed ogre to show that fireplace what for. A minute passed before Shrek's smile and attitude petered out. Ogre Magi stared at the fireplace idly, drooling, almost as if he fell asleep. Shrek walked behind him and tapped him on his shoulder.
"Huh? Whu-huh!" The left head said as it snapped out of its daze of confusion, startled by Shrek's meaty hand. The right head looked around in disgust.
"Uh, Aggron. The fireplace. Right there. Start it, shall you?" Shrek asked politely as Aggron Stonebreaker finally realized what Shrek wanted him to do.
"Then why didn't you say something?" The right head said as the left head was focused on the fireplace, imagining it burning as brightly as it could. Shrek opened his mouth and tried to say something, but shook his head and hand.
"All right! Step back and let the experts handle this!" The left head said as Aggron Stonebreaker scrambled to his feet and clutched his arcane club. There was enough mana pent up from the time Shrek spent gathering the materials to cast a fireblast spell.
"Okay! Three, two…two!" Aggron said as both of his arms worked together to jut the club forward and spontaneously combust the fireplace with a considerable, but very flashy, explosion. And again. And again. And again, causing not one, but four instances of fireblast being cast on the fireplace at the same time. After the initial flames and smoke cleared, all that remained was a pitifully tiny pile of ash with rapidly-cooling embers.
"That's how we do!" Pure skill!"
Shrek sighed heavily and put his back up to a sturdy tree near the once-was fireplace and went to sleep. Aggron Stonebreaker did the same soon enough, overflowing with childish joy of expressing his dominance over some rocks and pieces of wood.