Losing Grip.
Fiona was cooking dinner at the swamp. Her husband was skate boarding as usual. He wasn't allowed to do it at the swamp. The last time he'd done it, he'd tried to jump over the roof on the board. She had to get him down from there before he got here.
Artie watched as his ogre amigo did a 360 jump on the skate board. They were unaware that they were being watched. It was a skate gang called the Beatz but they got arrested several times. "Who's that doing mad 360 spins and jumps on the board?" their leader Zeke asked him. Shrek then came over to them. Artie then led him away from Zeke. "What're ya doing?" he asked him. "You can't join up with them. They're bad news." He told him. "I'll think about it, okay?" he told Zeke. Artie then watched as Zeke and the guys left. Shrek and Artie then walked back to the swamp. Fiona watched as her husband came into the house on the skate board and stopped before he hit something. "Honey you know I don't like you doing that in the house. " she told him. He smiled as the kids crawled into the room.
She saw worry in Artie's eyes. Shrek scowled at the teen as he told Fiona what was wrong. "Who're the Beatz?" she asked curiously. "They're bad news. They were arrested lots of times by the cops. They asked your husband to join them." He told her. But there was a reason why. They were necromancers and having an ogre would give them street cred. "What did he tell them?" Fiona said to him. "He said he'd think about it." He told her. She watched as her husband ate some weedrat stew with some eyeball jelly on toast. He then saw his son Meatballs crawl onto the skate board but stopped him before he got a chance to cause chaos. "Nice try buddy but you're still too small to skate board." He said to him calmly. Meatballs scowled at his father. Fiona then took him in her arms. "Don't worry. Daddy didn't mean to say that. He just wants to protect you. He cares about you." Fiona told him. He perked up at this. She smiled as she bathed him.
Artie watched as his amigo changed into night clothes. "How're you feeling? Did you think about joining the Beatz yet?" he asked him.
"Not yet. I'll sleep on it. Don't worry. I won't get into trouble." He told him. Artie smiled at that. "Yeah but they'll make you do it, no matter what you say. I've heard about it." He told him. Fiona was sitting up in bed as he came into the bedroom. "Hey honey. Were where you?" she said to him as he climbed in. "I was talking to Artie about something that happened at the skate park. "Let me guess. He was trying to do an awesome stunt on a board and it didn't work out?" she asked. "Something like that." He said as he fell asleep beside her. She chuckled at his snoring. "Goodnight honey. I guess today must've tired ya out with all those stunts you pull on that skate board. I love you." She thought as she snuggled near him. Zeke was watching this through the window. His eyes glowed with magic. "Pretty soon you'll be with us." He thought as he disappeared… He didn't know that Artie had seen him. He was worried for Shrek.
"He looks like he can suck souls out of others. If that's possible, then Shrek's doomed. I hope he decided not to join them. Fiona then woke up in the early morning with sweat dripping off her face. She'd had a weird dream to do with her husband. He'd joined that skate gang and he'd been changed so that all the happiness, all the joy had been sucked out of him and it scared her. She hoped it wouldn't come true. She then got out of bed and made breakfast. Later she saw her husband walk into the room. He looked really tired. She gave him some swamp coffee. It seemed to help. "I didn't sleep so good, okay?" he told her. She nodded understandlingly. He then got dressed and grabbed his skate gear and took off for the skate park. Artie was worried as he secretly followed him. He then saw him talking to Zeke and the Beatz. He watched as they started shredding some half pipe. "Oh no! He joined them!" he thought as he saw his friend with the skate gang. But he saw Zeke's eyes glow as he approached Shrek and was worried.
"I've got to warn Fiona before that creep hurts him and we can't save him." he told himself as he ran off. Zeke glared angrily at that. "We'll see about that, my mortal friend, we'll see." he said as the day grew on.