A/N: Two years passed since Carley had to leave to Aria from leaving the others. When she returns to the swamp, everything is not like it was when Carley departed. Find out how everything turns out.

Carley was walking through the forest after two years of leaving the swamp and going back to her kingdom Aria. She was nervous what will happen if Shrek and the others see her again after suddenly leaving the way she did that night.

Inside the house, Shrek was taking a nap with Fiona sitting on his lap sleep also when they were awoken by the sound of someone knocking on the door lightly. Fiona was the first person to wake up from the gentle tap who was able to get up from Shrek without waking up as she walked up to the door and opened it. When she did, her light blue eyes widened to see someone she hasn't seen for two years.

"C-Carley?"

"Hi, Fiona," Carley said as Fiona gave her an almost bone breaking hug happy to see her friend again. Fiona saw that Carley grew during her time away. Her short black hair grew longer that reached her shoulders. She still wore her black and red glasses who also lost a bit more weight since Carley left and seemed to grow a couple feet compared to two years ago.

"I see you're happy to see me again," Carley said.

"Of course I'm happy to see you! Come in, I'll wake up Shrek and tell him you're here," Fiona said ending the hug as the both of them entered the house, "He missed you so much after you left like that."

"He did?"

"Yeah! He wouldn't stop talking about you and how he saw you when you were 13, along with Donkey and the triplets. Everyone missed you."

Carley smiled. "What about Leah?"

Before Fiona could respond, Shrek woke up and saw Carley. Without thinking thinking, the bald ogre gave Carley a hug.

"Hey, Shrek," Carley said trying to breath from the tight bear hug, "Glad to see you, too."

"You jerk! I should hit you for leaving! But I'm so happy you're back!!" Shrek said as he ended the hug with a smile on his face.

"What about Leah?" Carley wondered as Shrek and Fiona went silent when Carley wondered about her friend. Wondering why the ogre couple were so silent about that, she asked, "What's wrong? Where's Leah?"

The two didn't say anything when Carley asked the second time until Shrek said, "..........Well-"

"Hey! Shrek! Fiona!" Carley turned around and saw that it was Leah running beside a woman with light chestnut hair with red crimson hair who wore a black and purple guard robe with a double gold bladed sword.

Carley saw how much Leah grew since she last seen her two years ago. Leah's dark brown hair grew around shoulder length along with losing weight. She seemed more happier than when she last saw her who gave Shrek and Fiona a hug. And as Carley watched the young girl hug the couple, she saw that Leah had a dark brown monkey tail.

"Well, it's about time you got back. Shizuru, I thought you were going to bring her back a half an hour ago?' Shrek said.

"Sorry about that. Haruka came when I was trainin' Leah-san here and showed her a few fighting techniques since Haruka thought mine were just amateurish, as she put it," Shizuru said with a smile across her lips.

"Well, that explains everything. Leave it to that hard-head Haruka to do something like that," Shrek said ruffling Leah's hair.

Carley wondered what was going on with a long, "Uhhhh.........."

"Oh. Sorry 'bout that. Carley, this is Shizuru Viola. Shizuru, this is Leah's friend Carley Palmer," Shrek introduced.

"Ah, your the one Shrek keeps talkin' about," Shizuru said shaking Carley's hand.

"Nice to meet you," Carley said watching Leah timidly hide behind Fiona, "Uh, Leah. Why are you hiding behind Fiona? Don't you recognize me? It's me. Carley."

"C-Carley? I don't know anyone named Carley," Leah said as everyone watched Carley's expression change.

Shrek sighed knowing Carley wondered what was going on.