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Fiona was a little worried. She knew her husband was trying to do a good thing but was worried especially when she heard Puss boasting about wrecking the workshop in the North Pole.
"I need to speak to him before this goes any further. I want other ogres like us to have Christmas but not this way. I'd better talk sense into Shrek before he gets into trouble." She thought as she saw Shrek holding the triplets and hugging them.
"Hey honey you… look like someone put road kill in your stocking. Are you worried?" he said to her. "I am. I… know you want to bring the joy of Christmas to other ogres but this isn't the right way to go about it." She replied. "What do you mean? This is gonna be awesome! I can't wait to see the look on St Nick's face when the ogre community has Christmas and everything!" Shrek said.
"What I mean is going to the North Pole, trashing Santa's workshop, stealing his spare sleigh and clothes as well as the Naughty list. Those things are going to keep ogre kind on the Naughty list forever. I'm just saying that you need to show him we deserve Christmas instead of this!" Fiona yelled. The triplets started to cry and she picked them up. "Come on guys. Let's go to Grandma's castle where we'll celebrate Christmas legally." She said gently to them. "Honey come back!" Shrek yelled to her. Snowgre was under the sleigh attatching rocket boosters to the sleigh but stopped and got out.
"Snowg what're you doing? Get back under there and work your magic on the sleigh." he told the teen sternly. "Sorry but Fiona's right. This is the wrong way to go about it. I'm going with her." he said walking out of the house. Fiona smiled as Snowgre joined them as well as Artie. "Let me guess mutiny?" she said smiling. "Yep. We want Christmas for everybody but not this way. Do you mind if we go with you to your mother's?" Snowgre answered. "Sure. Maybe when he realises all of us are gone, Shrek'll come to his senses and abandon his plan." she replied as the triplets wriggled in her arms catching snowflakes.
Shrek saw that and sighed. He didn't want to ruin Christmas for anybody, he just wanted a little equality in the proceedings. He smiled sadly as he looked at a photo from last year. It made him smile rememembering that. "I'd better take this stuff back to the North Pole before Santa finds out. Maybe I can make it up to him." he told Puss sitting in the sleigh. "But senor what about giving your brethren the Christmas they deserve?" Puss asked him.
"Remember last year how I wanted Christmas to be perfect and I screwed it up with my anger but I fixed things? Right now it's not Christmas without my family so the ogre community will understand if Santa still has them on the Naughty list." Shrek told him as they took off to the North Pole. But the OPU were really trying to destroy Christmas and get rid of Santa. Mariott smiled as his men set up a trap for Santa that he'd just been caught in. Meanwhile Fiona sighed as she drank mulled wine and watched the snow fall outside with the triplets. "What's wrong honey?" Lillian asked her. "It's not Christmas without Shrek. Even the triplets are missing Daddy. He... tried to do something I didn't approve of. He's probably already going through with it right now." she told her as the triplets crawled over to her with a book. It was the Night before Christmas. "I can't." Fiona said sadly.
"Why not? You know it by heart. I'm sure Shrek won't mind." Snowgre told her. "You don't understand. They love this story and they love Daddy telling it with the part about Ogre Claus and giving the wife a good Christmas goose. I can't break the tradition." Fiona explained to him. One of the babies then pointed to a picture of Santa in the book. "Dada!" they said happily. Fiona smiled at them sadly. But then they heard loud chuckling as somebody came down the chimney. It was Shrek in his normal clothes with Puss in his Santa Claws outfit. "Hey honey you weren't going to tell that story for me, were you? You know I love telling it!" Shrek said to her kissing her. The babies then giggled as their father picked them up in a bear hug. "Hey sweeties! Would you like Daddy to read you that story?" he said tickling them gently and hearing them laugh. "Honey where's all the stuff you took from the North Pole?" Fiona asked him.
"Don't worry senora. We took the stuff back and repaired the damage to the workshop. Only Santa's in trouble. There's these guys called the OPU. They're gonna destroy Christmas and get rid of Santa unless we do something!" Puss explained. "That's awful! We've got to help him!" she said. "Yes we will but only I can get us there." Snowgre answered. Fiona noticed Shrek wasn't going with them. "I've done enough damage there. I'll stay and look after the kids." Shrek replied as the babies hugged him. But he had a reason not to go. The leader of the OPU was his father Mariott, an evil and twisted ogre. He hated his son since he was born that he left him in the forest when he was a few weeks old...
