Believing In Himself.
A/N I felt like writing this because I was on Deviant Art and the Shrek fan art inspired me to write but Superchick inspired me. This is for those like me who have low self esteem and not a lot of confidence just like Shrek. But maybe the others will help him get some confidence. This is an one shot at the moment but might do more if people write more.
Artie noticed that Shrek was very quiet, sad and not acting like himself. He had a feeling it was to do with what he was. Being different meant people not understanding, He sometimes felt like he was a bug others wantwed to destroy like Charming had attempted but failed. He hid his low self esteem within where nobody could find it and hurt his self esteem more.
"What's wrong man? You haven't even yelled at Donkey for being annoying today. That means something must be wrong. Let it out man." he told his ogre friend as they were sitting outside the swamp.
".... T-There's nothing to tell, okay Artie?
Just drop it!" Shrek said getting to his feet. His arm hurt from where the sword had been but the fact that Charming had tried to slay him had shaken him and made him lose confidence. Fiona had noticed as she saw him take care of the triplets along with her.
"Fiona what's up with Shrek? He's been moody and not himself. Is he hiding something?
I thought he was open about his feelings." Artie told her.
"Artie.... he has trouble telling others how he feels.
He'll tell us in time." she said to him as she burped the triplets. He wondered why his ogre friend was so moody but wanted to know why.
"Maybe he needs help." he thought as he saw Donkey and Puss arguing again. He knew they'd tell him what was bugging Shrek. He heard Puss cursing in Spanish as he approached them. Donkey had been his usual self which Puss hated.
"Senor what's up with you?" he heard Puss ask as Donkey heard Dragon as she showed up with the Dronkeys.
"I need to ask you something.
It's about Shrek. Why has he.... been down so lately?
Is he upset?" Artie asked the feline ex assasin.
He knew that Shrek had been depressed and not himself lately. He'd heard Fiona talking to Merlin. He wondered what was going on.
Shrek had been relaxing in the lake thinking.
He still remembered what had almost happened that night in Far, Far Away when he and the others had foiled Charming's plan. He then felt relief as the cold water went over his body.
"Maybe this shouldn't have happened.
Maybe I'll wake up and all of this will have gone and I'll be by myself again and lonely once more.
Maybe Charming should've....
It's not like anybody would care about it if it happened.
I'm just a loser." he thought as his trumpet shaped ears drooped sadly as he got out and dressed. He didn't want the others to know he was feeling down or losing his confidence and having more low self esteem. He then looked up at the grey skies above as it began to rain. He then heard Fiona calling him.
She could tell he was sad. He then began to cook dinner but couldn't make the negative thoughts in his head go away.
"You okay?
You've been acting strange the last few days, ever since we stopped Charming. Maybe you.... want to talk about it?
It might make things better." Fiona told him.
He still remained quiet as they set the table for dinner. He hoped that the others would understand why he was feeling sad. He hoped that the depression would fade soon.
Artie then saw him go off into the forest alone. He hoped that his ogre friend would be okay..... He then followed him into the deeper parts of the forest where nobody could see or hear his sadness.
"I think that sometimes I'm living somebody else's life.
Sometimes I imagine what would happen if I never met Fiona or had a family or friends." he said as tears fell from his hazel eyes.
Artie understood as he heard his ogre friend unleash his sadness and understood as he left him alone.....