Strength of the Heart
A/N I was feeling down today and I couldn't stop thinking about Shrek which basically happens when I'm sad or happy or writing fics. I think about him all the time along with Aria and my friend Inyunaruto365 I hope people like this fic. It's about finding people who believe in you no matter if you're different and in time become precious to you and become like family to you.
It was a clear day in Duloc but a young girl was in the square of the village as other kids played around her as she was on a swing. Her name was Ari but she was different than normal kids.
She was blind and her parents were ashamed of her and pretended to like her but she could tell they didn't want her in the family anymore but the other kids were well aware of her sight problems and made fun of her as a ball came her way but she caught it.
"You're nothing but a freak." a boy told her taking the ball from her.
Ari's younger sister saw tears run from her sister's eyes.
Ari had silvery hair, turquise eyes, slender and kind hearted. She could relate to those who were different and feared by the people of the village and make friends with them.
Later that night she and her younger sister heard their parents fighting again and it was about Ari.
"Malika..... I'm leaving." Ari told her sister.
"W-Where will you go?" Malika asked.
"Somewhere where people accept me and aren't afraid of me because I'm blind, where I can be loved." she answered as she snuck out of the house taking her back pack and her long cane.
Ari had been born blind but her parents had at the beginning tried to help but were hurting her by making her feel isolated.
She loved being in the forest and talking to the creatures that lived there especially the ogres there.
They seemed friendly and wanted to be with her. They told her many tales, played with her especially the three younger ones and the male ogre, their father seemed like a father to her than her own.
She ran into the forest as a storm began to come on and she was frightened hearing the stormy skies and knowing it was dangerous even though she couldn't see. She hoped the storm would pass soon....
In a certain swamp house Fiona and Shrek were awoken by the sound of three paiers of feet as the triplets came into their room. The storm was scaring the five year old triplets.
"It'll be okay guys, the storm will be over in the morning." Fiona reassured them as they were in bed with them.
But Shrek couldn't sleep for some reason.
He had a feeling somebody in the forest needed help and he had to go. He waited until Fiona and the triplets were asleep and crept out without waking them up. He then ran into the forest as the thunder roared louder than an ogre roar.
"I hope that person's okay.
I won't give up!" he thought as he found who he was looking for. Ari was asleep under a tree and he smiled seeing her.
"What is she doing out here in the middle of a storm?
She must've..... ran away from home.
I can't leave her here alone." he thought picking her up gently as he took her back pack which had her long cane in it. He hoped he could beat the storm back to the swamp house.
He arrived back in the swamp house before dawn's first light.
He laid Ari by the open fire to warm her up and smiled sadly as his trumpet shaped ears drooped sadly as he went back to bed.....