*****Here's a small update. Don't forget to review! We're now in ape town hehehe****

Chapter 8

"This is a strange land. The shelter here looks a little strange. Let's head deeper into the forest, perhaps we'll find a good sturdy tree to be our new home." Tarzan led his family into the forest. Pocahontas and Mowgli walked a little ahead of Tarzan and his mother.

"Tarzan... you ignored me earlier. That boy looked exactly like you."

"Mother, it's probably because he's a manchild like I was. He's a human we all look alike."

"No it was more than that. He looked identical to you. Same eyes, same nose, same hair. It was like looking right at you when you were 5."

"How's this Tarzan?" Pocahontas and Mowgli were looking up at a very thick tall tree.

"Let's try it."

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"Did you have fun at the beach this morning?" Regina walked into Neal's room after Roland changed.

"Yeah... can I see my Papa now?"

Regina sat at the edge of the bed and lifted up Roland to sit beside her. "Roland I need to ask you something very important, okay? Do you like it here at this castle with me?"

He smiled. "Yeah I like it a lot."

She smiled back. "And I like having you here. When we see your Papa he won't want you to come back here."

"Why not?"

"He'll want you to go back to that tiny dirty cabin in the woods."

"We should bring him here with us."

"He probably won't come."

"Please, I want my Papa."

Regina picked up Pongo off the floor and put him between herself and Roland. "If he took you back to the cabin won't you miss Pongo? This is Pongo's home."

Roland looked at Pongo and at Regina. "Pongo needs me."

She smiled. "Yes he does, and he would miss you very much. And so would I."

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"Hi, Emma's mom?"

Snow looked up from the garden bed where she was planting some tulips and saw Baelfire standing there. "Hi Baelfire, how are you?"

"I'm good. Can Emma come out to play?"

"Emma? I thought it was Neal you hung out with in Neverland."

"Well..."

"I can ask her. But I don't know if it's a good idea for her to be alone with a boy at her age. Only if Neal can go with you two." Snow led Baelfire to the other side of the little house to where Charming, Emma and Neal were playing with the sheep. "Emma, you have a visiter."

Emma came running over. "Hi Bae!"

Bae smiled and blushed. "Hi Emma."

Neal came over too and climbed the wooden fence and sat on it. "Hi Bae."

"Hi Neal... do you guys wanna go play?"

"Yeah..." Emma looked up at her parents. "Can we?"

"Yeah I suppose that's fine if it's alright with your mother."

"Yes just stay together and don't go too deep into the forest. And Emma..."

"Yeah mom?"

"Can you take your bow and arrow just to have with you? Just... just in case."

Emma nodded. "Yeah I guess so."

Snow helped Emma put the bow and arrow sack on her back and watched them run off with Baelfire.

"He seems like a good kid." David commented.

"Yeah he does. He seems to have a little crush on Emma. He asked if Emma could play with him, but she's so young. There should be a third party."

"I agree you made the right decision. Especially after what happened with that Hans kid. But still I think Baelfire is okay."

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Turk led her army of apes to the Enchanted forest and ordered them to split up and kill the humans but to keep a few alive so they could be their were going to overthrow the humans and take over the land. Turk and the group of apes that went with her went through the forest till they came to a mine. The seven dwarves were just about to head home from a long day's work.

"Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's home from work we go.'' The dwarves whistled as they marched then stopped in their tracks and looked at the apes. Two apes jumped at Doc and Sleepy and mauled them to death. Then they grabbed Dopey and pulled him away with them.

Grumpy, Happy, Sneezy and Bashful panicked and just ran in the opposite direction. They just kept running and went to the people they always ran to whenever they had a problem that needed to be fixed. "TERRIBLE NEWS! TERRIBLE NEWS!" Grumpy ran screaming over to David and Snow with the other 3 dwarves in tow.

David was helping Snow finish the gardening. "What's wrong?"

"These apes. They've gone mad. They killed Doc and Sleepy, and kidnapped Dopey."

"Doc and Sleepy are dead?" Snow took a moment and thought of two of her good friends trying to wrap her head around it.

"We have to get Dopey back. There's no way he knows how to protect himself. It was like they were an army out for blood."

"How many were there?"

"Dozens. We panicked and just ran here."

Snow looked at her husband. "The kids are in the forest."

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Emma hugged Shrek's leg. "How are you friend?"

Shrek shrugged. "Kind of lonely."

"This is my brother Neal. He can be kind of annoying just to warn you."

"No I'm not!" Neal pushed his sister.

Emma stuck her tongue out at him. "Why did we have to bring you?"

"Me? I'm Bae's friend not you. You should have stayed home."

"You're such a dweeb."

"Poopy face!"

"Guys stop!" Bae broke them up and they looked over and saw an army of apes watching them.

"What the... there's like... dozens of apes." Neal commented.

"And they don't look happy." Emma looked down at her brother. The apes started charging towards them and one grabbed Neal. "NEAL!"

Bae grabbed Emma's arm and they started running with Shrek. "NO!" Emma screamed her voice cracking. "We have to go back for him!"

"There's so many of them, we can't."

"Shrek can take them." They stopped when they got away from them.

He shook his head cowardly. "No I can't, I'm too scared."

Three apes came running through the trees each one started chasing each of them splitting them up. One chased Bae all the way to the troll bridge and he fell grabbing onto the edge. "No, stop! Stop!" Bae hung there for a few moments expecting the ape to grab him. Finally something grabbed his hand. "NO!"

"It's alright." It was a woman's soft voice with an accent he looked up to see his step mother Belle pulling him up to safety. He was so scared and without realizing it he was clinging onto Belle all shaken up. "What happened?"

"The ape... where did it go?"

"Ape? What do you mean?"

"It was chasing me. There were so many."

"Well you're safe now. I won't let anything happen to you, okay?" She held his face in her hands looking into his eyes.

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"Robin, you've got to get out of this slump." Little John sat down beside Robin at the bar stool.

Robin took down another shot of whiskey. "I can't take it anymore. I've been looking for my son for 25 years. I failed him."

"He wouldn't want you to end up like this. Go home to your wife."

"I need to get back out there and look for him. I'm not giving up on him."

Marian stormed into the pub all shaken up. "Robin. These apes... they attacked our home. I got away."

Robin got up from the bar stool to look at her. "Wait slow down... what happened?"

"These apes. They're attacking the town."

They all walked over to the window and saw people running to and fro trying to escape apes that were chasing them.

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The ape chased Emma further into the forest. Emma just kept running even though she felt like her lungs were going to collapse, she had never run so hard and fast in her life. She felt like she was getting some leeway until she tripped over a stump. She tried to sit up and the ape charged over to her. Then she heard loud stomping feet. It was Shrek, he grabbed the ape and threw it as far away as he could then helped Emma up.

"Shrek, you saved me."

"I'm sorry I was chicken before. I don't want them to hurt you, you're my best friend."

"EMMA!" David and Snow came running over followed by the 4 dwarfs. David scooped up Emma in his arms and they backed away from Shrek.

"No it's okay. He's my friend, he saved my life."

"Emma, do you know how dangerous ogres are?" Snow ran her hand through her daughters hair.

"Not this one. He's a kid like me. He has no parents, he's all alone. But he can help us. An ape was about to kill me and he picked it up and threw it away."

David held her tighter. "These apes, there's so many of them."

"Where's Neal?"

Emma started crying. "I couldn't protect him. Some apes grabbed him and took him away."

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Turk led her band of apes towards Regina's castle and pointed to it. "That is going to be our headquarters. That strange looking place. Attack!" The apes went storming into the castle, killing the few guards and servants Regina had. Regina and Roland were playing with Pongo on the floor in Neal's room. Turk and two other apes barged into the room.

Regina's mouth dropped and she pulled Roland closer to her. "What is this? I cast a protection spell."

They pulled out swords that they stole from the guards and walked in closer.

Roland grabbed onto Regina's waist and started trembling. "Don't worry Roland." She shot some magic at the apes but it just dissolved before touching them and fell to the floor."What? Magic isn't working on them." They started charging towards them then Regina waved her hand and poofed herself, Roland and Pongo away into the forest.

Turk took over the castle and the apes were gathering around and threw the humans they captured into the dungeon in the basement.

After the ape threw Neal into a cell he got up and looked over into the cell next to him. "Dopey!" He recognized his mom's friend.

Regina, Roland and Pongo appeared in the middle of the forest and saw David, Snow and Emma standing there with Shrek.

"What is going on? Why did some monkeys just take over my castle?"

Charming rolled his eyes when she said her castle but now wasn't the time. "I thought you had a protection spell?"

"Magic isn't working on them."

They looked around watching apes running and jumping tree to tree towards the direction of the castle. They were now in ape town.