Everything That I Am
A/N I've had the idea for this story in my head for a long while and wanted to write it but was working on other fics but I decided to go ahead and write it after listening to a song from Tarzan the Musical and it made me remember this fic because it's about an ogre girl called Briana who is an ogre but was abandoned but adopted by humans as a baby and has been living among humans and has been made to think she is a human all this time until she runs away into the forest and Shrek finds her and decides to help her learn to be an ogre and find where she belongs in the world.
I hope people enjoy this as it is an original idea.
It was a calm nand normal night in Far, Far Away but from a window of a house, s pair of hazel eyes watched other kids her age and other people walk through the streets of the kingdom looking like they didn't have a care in the world as the owner of those eyes were sad as she wanted very much to be out there with them but knew that could never happen as they would be scared and scream along with running away from her in fright as she sighed remembering what had happened a month ago.
"Briana it's time for dinner." she heard her mother call.
The young green skinned girl left the safety of her room and opened the door after making sure nobody was out there as she came downstairs softly.
Briana was an ogre girl with beauitful hazel eyes and long wavy hair with trumpet shaped ears and slender.
Briana's parents had abandoned her when she was a baby and her adoptive parents had found her on their doorstep and had decided to raise her as their own but made her think she was a human like them so she didn't understand why other kids were mean to her as Adrianna and Davi had never told her the truth about what she was.
They hoped that no hunters would come and hurt or take her away.
But they knew that sooner or later, she would find out.
They had no idea it was that night she would find out as members of Adrianna's family were coming for a parrty to celebrate Briana's ninth birthday but Davi was nervous knowing that the other members of the family weren't happy about Briana but had accepted her and knew they would start something as last time at a family get together, some of Briana's cousins had teased her about hunters coming for her but Adrianna had stopped them before they could do any harm but shivered remembering that was why Briana slept with an nightlight in her room at night as she was worried that hunters would creep into the house and take her away but she relaxed a little knowing that her cousins were lying but he opened Briana's door a little but saw she was dressed in a light blue dress with her hair in a wavy ponytail but she was pretending to be a princess knight again as in the stories she made up as she had a powerful imagination and amused herself with it when she was lonely and other children didn't want to play with her like her cousins.
"I'd better leave her alone for now.
She deserves to be happy for now because her cousins will be mean to her later." he thought.
He hoped nothing would happen tonight as he went to see what his wife was doing as Adrianna was getting ready and was in an elegant dress as they were wealthy and had an nice home but cared about each other and Briana very much even when other people in the kingdom said things behind their backs because they had an ogre for a daughter.
Davi didn't care as he was the Captain of the Guard and showed kindness and justice to others when sometimes when the Mayor was cruel but he didn't care.
He then saw carriages approach knowing it was relatives as they had arrived from Duloc and were stuck up and mean to others who were different but they were family so he had to tolerate them.
He heard Adrianna greet them as he went to get changed but saw Briana's cousins run upstairs and was nervous as he knew they were causing trouble as they entered Briana's room but found her playing with a toy sword.
"Playing Knights again freak?" Lunia asked as her sister laughed.
"H-Hi Lunia and Cretia.
How was your trip?" Briana answered shyly.
"It was okay beast but you wouldn't know anything about trips because your parents wouldn't let you outside to even take one." Lunia told her.
"They probably would if I asked.
Why would you say that?" Briana asked them.
"Because you're a monster.
Nobody would let a monster out among humans." they said running out of her room.
The young ogre girl's hazel eyes were moistened with tears at that and wouldn't let them out as she heard footsteps as Davi entered seeing she was upset but saw happiness in her eyes.
"Let's go downstairs, okay?
Dinner's ready." he said as they left and went downstairs.
Briana was feeling better as she was sitting at the table with her family around her as they were having dinner but she couldn't shake off what her cousins had said to her and wondered if that was true but shook them away for now as Adrianna brought a chocolate birthday cake with nine candles on it as the young ogre girl was in awe as Davi laughed seeing the wonder in his daughter's eyes.
"I bet it's made out of mud for a freak like her." Lunia whispered as Adrianna had heard that.
"Go ahead honey, make a wish." she told her daughter.
"I wish I had a friend, somebody who won't run away from me." Briana thought.
She then blew out the candles out but accidentally blew some of the cake onto Lunia's dress.
"I-I'm sorry.
I didn't mean it, honest!" Briana said.
"You're nothing but an ogre girl whose parents didn't even want her so abandoned her and humans adopted you so they lied.
You should go be with your own kind!" she yelled.
Adrianna's sister got her older daughter under control as Briana left the room as Davi was upset.
He was angry.
Briana was in her room on her bed as red rims were around her eyes as the words her cousins had said echoed through her head and wouldn't go away as she'd looked in the mirror and realised she looked different and felt sad as tears had fallen from her eyes but heard the door open softly as somebody entered as she looked up into her Adrianna's blue eyes that were filled with warmth and love along with protection as she remembered what had happened at dinner and knew her sister's kids were little brats were to blame for why her adopted daughter was sad right now as she scooped her daughter in her warm arms as she wiped away the falling tears.
"I-I'm not like you and Daddy after all.
I'm a monster like what Lunia said." the young ogre sniffled.
"It's true you're an ogre and people are mean to them because they don't understand and grownups hate what they don't understand but that doesn't make you a monster because there are other ogres like you who want peaceful lives for themselves.
I have something for you." Adrianna said.
Briana watched as she saw Adrianna pulled out a small wrapped box from behind her back as the young ogre girl opened it and gasped as she held a silver locket in her small emerald skinned hand.
"It was around your neck when we found you on our doorstep but your father and I decided to keep the locket safe until it was time to give it to you and we felt it was time because I have a feeling you will be leaving us but I will always love you and care about you even if you were human or not." she told her.
"T-Thank you." she replied wearing it around her neck.
When she opened it, music played but there was a picture of a male and female ogre but the female looked like Briana as she smiled sadly as she'd heard the song before.
Adrianna then heard arguing as Davi was talking to the Mayor as he was forcing them to move if they wouldn't get rid of Briana as the ogre girl had overheard and had made up her mind as she decided to run away.
Later that night, Briana was packing things she wanted to take with her to where ever she was going but was headed for the forest as she'd packed food along with books, some clothes and was holding her stuffed dragon Mara that her mother had given her when she was five as she put her in her backpack as she waited for her parents to fall asleep before leaving so they wouldn't be hurt or sad about it but she couldn't let other grownups hurt them because of her as she sat on her bed but at midnight heard both her parents asleep and crept downstairs softly as not to wake them but opened the front door of the house and closed it after going through it.
She knew that this was the right thing to do as she entered the forest and found an nice tree to sleep in for the night as she was tired but hoped she could find somewhere she belonged where being an ogre didn't matter.........
