Ch 4
It was late afternoon and Snowgre watched as the kid from lunch approached him at the gates.
Matissa saw a crowd gather and wondered what was going on. She and the other kids from Anime Club ran out to see what was going on. "That disabled ogre kid Snowgre challenged Ricaro to a fight." A cheer leader told them.
Matissa was nervous at that. It was Ricaro that had challenged Snowgre, not him.
"I hope Snowgre will be okay. Ricaro is the biggest, meanest guy on the jousting team. He'll hurt him!" she thought as Ricaro punched Snowgre in his furry chest sending him to the ground.
"Yeah Ricaro!
Kick his butt!" the other kids yelled. Snowgre felt sad. Nobody was supporting him or by his side.
"I'll show them! Matissa knows there's more to me than they think!
When I'm through with this jerk, they'll be my friends, I know it!" Snowgre thought.
But within, a strange feeling was taking over him…
The other kids gasped as rays of purple light surrounded Snowgre's body.
Matissa was shocked but smiled.
"Ice Clone Jutsu!" Snowgre yelled as twenty clones of him appeared around Ricaro. The jousting team captain was surprised but scared.
"H-How're you doing this? You're a disabled kid!" Ricardo yelled with fear in his eyes. The other kids then watched as an explosion happened within the battle arena.
They backed away but it stopped.
Ricaro was on the ground out cold and hurt.
Snowgre was lying on the ground too but badly hurt and moaning softly in pain. Matissa saw the look on the other Anime Club member's faces as she knelt by Snowgre's side.
"Hey." She said to him softly. His eyes opened.
"Hey Matissa. Did I win?" he asked her.
"Yes you did. You were awesome! How did you do that? You were like Naruto but way cooler." She replied as his eyes closed in sleep.
The other kids gave her cold looks as she helped Snowgre out of there. She was carrying him back to the swamp.
Meanwhile Shrek was with Snowgre's parents. He'd told them about Snowgre's syndrome but he saw something in their eyes.
It was fear, the fear any parent has when they're worried about their kid.
Snowgre's father Mika had blue fur, green eyes and skender. He was thirty years old. His wife Hiko had snow white fur like her son's but was slender.
"He thinks you guys… will accept him and love him like before but I know it mightn't happen." Shrek said to them.
"You're right. That's… why we sent our son to be with you. We knew when he was born, he was… disabled so we planned ahead. We would love him but then we'd be shunned by our kind.
Do you know how the other ogres will react if Snowgre came back here?
It would just make him more miserable. We're trying to forget we even had a son." Hiko replied.
That bothered Shrek.
He couldn't believe that they'd disown Snowgre like that just because he was disabled yes, but there was more to Snowgre than they knew.
"I see you're going to have another child.
What if it's the same as Snowgre, you're gonna disown it when it gets older?" he told Mika angrily.
"I'm sorry you feel that way Shrek but you don't understand. We're the rulers of this kingdom and Snowgre…" Mika replied.
"Doesn't suit your image of a royal ogre. Isn't that right? I'm going but I have one more thing to say.
Does being royal matter if you have disowned your son because he's different and wants to be a part of your lives again?
Think about that while sitting on your pompous butts!" Shrek said as he left them.
When he got back to the swamp Fiona noticed he was sad but angry.
"What happened while… you were gone?" she asked softly. He saw Snowgre sleeping on the couch.
"Not where he can hear. I'll tell you outside." He answered as they went out of the house. Fiona was angry as Shrek told her.
She couldn't believe how uncaring Snowgre's parents were just because he was disabled.
"What if he asks to see them or talk to you about them?" she asked.
"I'm not sure. I know what'll happen if he finds out, he'll run away to meet them. They'll tell him themselves and he'll be crushed, so destroyed that he won't love anyone or trust them again." Shrek answered as they went back inside. Snowgre was healing himself.
He was curious. What was that strength that helped him when Ricaro kicked him down to the ground? It felt like chakra but wasn't. It was something else.
"Maybe my parents know. I should go ask them. But what if Shrek finds out?
He'll freak." he thought as he ate sushi. Later that night when everybody was asleep, he snuck out. He travelled to his parent's cave in Snowdia.
"Hey it's me your son Snowgre! I need to ask you something." he told them as he knelt by them in their cave.
"I hate to tell you honey but you shouldn't have come. We disowned you." his father told him. Snowgre didn't understand.
"What do you mean I'm disowned? You're my parents!" the teen replied scared.
"Yes but now we don't want you. We hated you when Shrek told us you're disabled. You're dead to us!" Mika roared. Snowgre felt like his heart was going to shatter.
"Don't worry. I-I'm going. I thought you loved me but I guess you were lying!" Snowgre told them coldly.
Shrek saw Snowgre asleep on the couch and was nervous. He knew he'd been to see his parents. "Hey Snowg you don't seem yourself. Is anything the matter? I know you went to see them last night." he began but watched as the teen ran off into his room and slammed the door.
He locked it and climbed onto his bed and curled into a protective ball.
Fiona could hear him venting out his sadness through tears.
They hoped he would be okay...