If the Snow Doesn't Fall

Ch 3

Arctus was worried because it had been a few days and Shrek and the others hadn't came back yet/

"Something must be wrong. He told himself as he snuck out of the swamp.

He then opened a portal using his Ogreix.

"Don't worry guys I'm coming." He thought leaving.

Charming smiled as he felt Snowgre's energy from the Robert's house.

"What is it Dad?" Arduro asked him.

"I found that loser of an ogre in Leah's house.

I should've known he'd be there with her freaky friend." He told him as he tried entering the house but couldn't get through.

"There's a protection spell on it.

We're going to have to wait for a while." Arduro told his father.

But then he saw an image of Arctus entering Earth in Calvert County and smiled.

"What did you see?" Arduro asked him.

"We can hurt Snowgre worse… by attacking his son Arctus." Charming replied.

Arduro nodded confused.

He followed him.

David and Leah watched as Snowgre came into the kitchen the next morning.

He was wearing an old black T-shirt Leah had borrowed from her Mom.

"Hey you feel better after sleeping?" Leah asked him.

"Yeah.

I hope Charming hasn't hurt them along with Arduro." he mumbled softly as he lay his head on pancakes.

David was freaked out by that.

"Is he okay?" he asked her.

"I'm not sure. Maybe he's sick or something." Leah told him as Carley went in.

"Snowg you're asleep in pancakes." she told him.

He opened his eyes and pulled his head out of them beginning to eat.

She noticed he looked peaky and not like himself.

"Are you okay?

You haven't been yourself since you got here." she said to him.

"N-No I'm fine." he told her weakly.

She wasn't convinced as he clutched his head in agony.

"I'm fine trust me." he reassured them smiling.

"Let's go!" Leah said excited.

"Go?

Go where?" Snowgre asked them confused.

"We're going Christmas shopping.

It's gonna be great!" Carley told him.

"That sounds... cool." he answered.

"Yeah. Maybe it would cheer you up." she replied as they got dressed.

David was a little worried about this.

"Umm... Leah isn't it weird to be bringing a big furry ogre to the mall?

People will freak!" he told her.

"David it'll be okay. Besides we can pretend he has a rare condition that makes him really furry and comes from Europe.

Besides he has BBS and uses a symbol cane like Carley.

Besides Shrek told Carley and me to look after him.

Maybe it'll make him feel better." Leah replied stubbornly as she grabbed her bag and car keys.

Carley grabbed her back pack and symbol cane along with Snowgre.

He was burning up.

David was in the front seat but kept looking into the rear staring at Snowgre and Carley.

They seemed like best friends.

"This is... just too weird.

I hope Mom and Dad don't come back yet." he thought as they pulled into the mall parking lot.

Leah watched as she and David went togther while Carley and Snowgre went off together as well.

But Charming cackled.

He was in the mall too along with Arduro.

"Are you sure they're here?" he asked him.

"Yes I'm sure.

Just keep a look out, okay?" Charming told him as he drank a Frappucino.

Snowgre felt a bit better as the mall was filled with Christmas stuff.

They were in a jewellery store because she was getting Leah's present.

She had gotten her a locket.

"That's a really nice gift.

I know she'll love it.

Christmas is my fave time of year but I miss somebody close to me." Snowgre told her as she put the gift in her back pack.

"Thanks Snowg but who do you miss?

Is that why're you feeling sad?" she replied.

He nodded.

"I miss my son Arctus.

Snowflake and I had to leave him with Shrek because of our band Artic Fury.

I wish we were a family again." he told her.

He then saw kids throw paper cups at her.

It made her sad because they made fun of her because she had a cane.

Snowgre was about to kick their butts but stopped him.

"It's okay Snowg.

I'm used to being treated like a loser because that's all I am and always will be." she replied sadly as they went to meet up with Leah and David.

She was wearing her blck Shrek the Musical t- shirt with her Pilgrim charm braclet on her left wrist and her Sand Village gloves and head band.

She'd gotten Leah' s parents presents along with David.

But then she saw somebody.

It was an ogre kid about the age of thirteen.

He looked like Snowgre.

"Are you okay?

You look miserable." she told him.

He looked up in fear at her but calmed down.

He could tell she wouldn't hurt him like the others.

"You remind me of my father." he said.

"Your name is Arctus, right?" she asked.

He nodded.

"You look just like Snowg. That's cool." she said.

"You know my father?

Is he with you?" Arctus asked her.

She noded as Leah and David came over.

"Aah! More humans!

Don't let them hurt me!" he said hiding behind her back.

Carley giggled at that.

"Arctus it's okay.

They won't hurt you.

They're my friends.

Leah's also a friend of your father along with me." she told him.

He then came out of hiding.

"Oh great! Another one." David remarked but Leah elbowed him.

Snowgre smiled seeing Arctus.

But before they could talk, they were ambushed.

"I knew it was only a matter of time until you showed up." Charming cackled as Arctus backed away nervous.

"Why're you here?" Leah asked angrily.

She watched as he sent a shuriken at her but Carley knocked her out of the way.

It went into her arm.

David was shocked along with Leah as their friend got to her feet slowly.

"I see you're still a freak who can't do anything but be a blind loser and a scared one as well." he sneered as he disappeared.

Snowgre growled as he came to their side.

"Are you okay?

That looks nasty." he told her.

Arctus was afraid along with Leah and David.

"Let's just get out of here." David told Leah.

Arctus agreed as he and Snowgre got in the car with them.

Arctus was feeling afraid.

He wondered why those guys would attack like that without mercy.

In the house Leah saw Snowgre fall to the floor.

Arctus was nervous.

"Why does that ogre kid care so much about Snowgre?

He barely knows him." dAVID SAID TO lEAH.

"Y-You're wrong David.

Arctus is Snowgre's son.

You're freaking out, aren't you?" Carley told him as she went to her and Leah's room to lie down.

She had taken a shower and was in pyjamas.

There was a cast on her right arm.

Leah sighed as she helped Snowgre into David's room and the bottom bunk bed.

She noticed his head had a fever.

Arctus was in the living room watching MTV...

dAVID WAS CONFUSED.

things were getting stranger by the minute and he wasn't liking it one bit...