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Charming cackled as he got an idea. He knew his enemy had found one mortal with Christmas spirit that was intact. He was going to use this against him. He then transformed himself into an elf but wore black clothes instead of green. "This is so awesome! I can't wait until he sees this!" he thought as he walked into the work shop in the North Pole.
Brandon noticed his boss was feeling sad. He'd been taking pain killers because of all those kids bugging him in his head. But Shrek was missing somebody. It was Fiona. "I think she wouldn't believe me if she found out I'm the new Santa. But maybe I can talk to Brandon about it." He thought as he went to the bath room to shave but noticed a weird beard. Brandon then heard him yell and ran into the room. "What's wrong?" he asked him. "I knew the beard would freak you out. It is part of being Santa, you know." He replied to him. He sighed as Brandon was about to leave. "Wait! I need to ask you something. Santa has a wife, right? So I was thinking about maybe making my wife Mrs Claus?" Shrek told him.
Brandon smiled at him. "Sure. Use your Christmas magic to bring her here." he said as Shrek closed his eyes and thought hard of Fiona. Suddenly he saw Fiona appear. She looked a little shocked at her husband's appearance. "Honey you're Santa, aren't you now?" she asked him quietly. "Yeah but I can explain. I hope you're not mad." he told her. She kissed him on his cheek. "No I'm not. If you're Santa then that would make me Mrs Claus! Honey this is so amazing." she replied as Christmas magic surrounded her. Her dress was now Santa like and magic ran through her. But Charming smiled when he saw Snowgre working on toys. He knew that if he knew his cousin was Santa, he'd be angry and that's what he wanted. "Hey man you okay?" he asked him. "I'm fine but I've got something to tell you. Your cousin Shrek is now Santa. If you don't believe it, go to Santa's room." Charming told him. Snowgre then ran into the corridor and came to stairs with candy cane banisters. He ran up them until he found what he was looking for. Santa's room was beside a huge clock counting down the days until Christmas. He then opened the big doors and came to another door that opened into the room. He then hid under a pile of stuffed toys.
He saw his cousin in the Santa outfit and was mad. He was now taking orders from his cousin. He hated this. "That elf was right! I've gotta find a way to stop this." he thought as he hid under them again. Shrek then found him. "What're you doing?" he asked him worriedly. "I... was sort of spying. How come you're Santa?" Snowgre asked him. "He was at our house and he tripped so I had to be the replacement. I think I know what's wrong. You're jealous but Christmas is more important than rivalry. Don't you think?" Shrek explained to him.
Snowgre nodded in reply. "I guess. I'm sorry for doing this. It's just there was this elf while I was working told me this. He was wearing black clothes. Maybe he wanted me to do this." Snowgre admitted. Shrek smiled at him. "I see. You're family. I didn't mean to make you jealous. Besides the toys you make are awesome and I'm sure the kids will enjoy them." Shrek told him. Charming cursed himself as he heard that. "I guess I need to get out of here. Snowgre blew my cover." he thought as he vanished in a haze of light. "Maybe it was Charming trying to get Snowgre to help him destroy the North Pole because if this place was destroyed, there'd be no toys for kids all over the world." Maya suggested to Shrek. He agreed. "Who's this?" Fiona asked him curiously.
"This is Maya. She's the only human whose Christmas spirit is intact after Charming sucked it out of Earth. She's going to help us to stop him and give the Christmas spirit back." he explained gently. She understood. Snowgre then saw his cousin clutch his head in agony. "More kids are going nuts aren't they?" Snowgre asked him. Shrek nodded. Snowgre then used his ice powers to create a cool brace to calm him down. Shrek felt relaxed. He then drank some hot chocolate. Fiona hoped they could stop Charming before it was too late. She had an idea. Many people just cared about presents now that the Christmas spirit was sucked out instead of caring about friends and family. Snowgre understood. "You mean we could bring it back maybe? This is a great idea." he answered. He then went into his cousin's room. Shrek was trying to have a nap. He was having trouble trying. "Fiona came up with a great idea about getting the christmas spirit back. Because it's sucked, they only care about the gifts under the tree, right? But we could revive it by reminding them of what's important this time of year." Snowgre explained.
"It's a good idea but it won't work until we get the spirit back." he answered. But Maya then heard Charming laugh as he entered the North Pole. He needed to get Shrek out of there. He was going to turn this place of joy into one of sadness.