The power of Five

Ch 3

Lillian was curious as she met her daughter in the royal garden. "What's wrong dear?" she asked her. "It's Shrek. I told him about being a Guardian. He freaked but then this snake like creature appeared and took him and now I'm worried. We've got to get the other girls to help." Fiona told her quietly. She agreed as they went to find the other Guardians.

Meanwhile in the late Fairy Godmother's factory Charming had tied Shrek to a steel table. Phobos watched as Charming waited eagerly for him to come around. "Why're you waiting for him to wake up? I don't understand." He told him. "Because I have a score to settle with him." Charming replied. Cedric watched as Shrek opened his eyes. "Oh great! Prince burro kidnapped me. What do you want?" he said to Charming. "Just to settle a score and so my new friends can take the Heart of Candracar from your wife." He snarled as he saw Cedric bite him in the face and then wrap himself around him. "Does this please you?" he hissed to Charming. "Yes it does. Seeing my enemy being choked like this." He told him. But Cedric let him go. Charming watched as Shrek rubbed his neck.

Fiona and Lillian then saw Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty join them. "What's going on?" Snow asked them. "Some snake like creature came and took my husband. I'm assuming he works for the dark forces the Oracle told us about. We need to use our Guardian powers to save him. Please!" Fiona explained to them. "But we don't know how to use our powers yet!" Cinderella said as the Heart appeared in Fiona's hand. "I know but you've got to try. Guardians unite!" Fiona told her as the drops of magical energy shot out and surrounded them transforming them into Guardians of the Veil. "Let's do it!" Lillian said as they rose into the air and took off into the night sky on their wings. As they flew, a mental image revealed itself in Fiona's head. "I know where they are. They're at the Fairy Godmother's factory!" she told them. They then landed outside it in a matter of minutes. The door was locked with steel padlocks. "How're we going to get in?" Lillian asked. Snow then held out one of her hands and thought very hard. Suddenly a blast of fire shot out of it and melted the locks. Fiona then kicked down the door. "They're here!" Phobos said as he made himself, Cedric and Charming invisble. Fiona saw her husband on a steel table hurt and trying to break free. "Are you okay?" she asked him as his eyes opened. "I'll be fine. You've got to get out of here. Phobos will try to take the Heart from you. Just leave me." He told her. "No! I won't." Fiona said defiantly. "Too bad Guardian." She heard somebody say as he appeared. It was Cedric. Fiona and the others watched as he transformed into his lizard man form. "You! You're the one who took him. What do you want?" she asked. "You should know Fiona. We want the Heart of Candracar. " he told her. But then he was knocked off his feet by a blast of water that had shot out of Cinderella's hand. "Thanks for that." Fiona said as she felt angry. Phobos then made himself known. But then they felt the place shake. "What's going on?" Shrek asked as Cedric wrapped his scaly body around him and watched as Phobos opened a portal. "Next time you'll not be lucky Guardians!" he said as he went through it. Fiona then realised what caused the earth quake. It was her anger. She then got an idea as she looked at the still open portal. "Follow me!" she said as she went through the portal.

The other girls nodded as they followed her through it. The portal closed after that. They were worried about where they'd end up. As they came out the other side, they found themselves in a city but it seemed sad… "What is this place?" Cinderella asked. "I don't know." Fiona told her calmly. She then saw the castle looming above the city. "That's where he must be." she thought as she flew up there and into the castle through an open window. "What's she doing?" Sleeping Beauty asked. "I think she's going in there on her own. Come on! We've got to help her in case that Phobos freak attacks and takes the Heart." Lillian said as they flew in through the window but somebody had followed them...