Within You

Ch 10

Charming laughed along with Tiffany. Soon his plan would be complete and Shrek and his friends would be history.

"But what if they come here trying to break the blindess spell?" Tiffany asked him.

"It'll be easier for me to take care of them that way." He replied to her as two cloaked figures approached him.

"Who're they?" she asked him.

"Just some extra help. They want revenge on Snowgre, Shrek's cousin." Charming replied to her.

The two strangers removed their cloaks to reveal themselves. It was Snowgre's brothers.

"Hey babe. What's going on?" Jonas asked her. He saw his brother Mea shoot him a look.

"What Mea? She's hot!" Jonas retorted.

"Enough! She's saving herself for my foe, your brother's cousin. Besides I need you to help me crush them into the ground especially Shrek and Snowgre." Charming told them.

An evil smile crossed both Jonas and Mea's faces at that.

"Sweet! We get to beat up the losers of our family and not get into trouble for it!" Mea yelled as he and Jonas banged furry fists together.

Snowgre noticed Shrek was acting odd, like he couldn't see at all.

He then saw Carley and got an idea.

"What happened to him? I want to help him. Please tell me. I won't tell the others." He begged.

She smiled at that.

"Okay Snowg I'll tell you. Tiffany cast a spell on him that made him blind. It was meant for Leah but I pushed her out of the way before it hit her.

Leah and I are going to find Tiffany so we can kick her butt and break the spell." She answered him.

Snowgre growled angrily hearing that.

"I'm coming too! He's my cousin and I want in on the action!" he replied.

"Sure but the others can't know, okay?" she answered.

"Sure. You have my word." He told her as he followed Leah, her and Shrek into the forest.

"I can't wait to fight Tiffany. She's so low to pick on my family like that! I'm going to make sure that those I love are safe from her and Charming!" Snowgre thought as they walked further.

But later that night while Leah was getting fire wood for the fire, somebody knocked her off her feet and was chasing her back to the place where they'd made camp.

It was Tiffany along with Snowgre's brothers.

Carley saw Snowgre gulp in fear but tried not to show it.

"Hello brother. It seems you've allied yourself with losers. You're so dead!" Mea told Snowgre as they kicked him.

"What're you guys doing here? I thought you were too busy getting drunk." Snowgre replied getting to his feet.

"We were but then Charming offered us something more fun. The chance to rid you and Shrek from our family tree. We couldn't refuse." Jonas answered him.

Carley then became a protective shield in fromt of Shrek.

Mea laughed at that.

"Jonas the disabled mortal's protecting Shrek. She'll be easy to take out. She's not good for anything!" Mea told him as they lunged at her.

They tried to make her stand down through force but nothing was working.

"How can this be? She's nothing but a disabled freak, a monster! How can she be this hard to take down?" Jonas yelled in anger as Leah was fighting Tiffany.

"You want to know why she won't stand down? Because It's the love she feels for Shrek that's making her strong enough to take your attacks without being tired.

You guys don't care about anybody but yourselves, do you? That's why you'll never win! My friends and I care about each other like a family.

We're way stronger than you think!" Snowgre explained as he felt weird.

"What's this surge of power? It's like I'm on fire. I see now. I can't lose." He thought as a haze of magic surrounded him.

When it vanished, he was wearing a suit of snow white armour with a snowflake crest on his belt and shield.

Jonas and Mea looked scared at that.

"Yes! I became the Artic Knight! I'm the... heir to our family's throne, not Jonas or Mea. That's so good." he thought as he unsheathed his sword.

"It's okay Carley. I can protect Shrek now. Go help Leah." Snowgre told her.

He watched as she ran off.

Tiffany watched as Leah got to her feet.

"I knew it! You can't defeat me! You're nothing but a freak along with your disabled friend. Charming told me all about the two of you." she sneered as she was sent off her feet.

Leah then saw Ogre Child appear.

"Alright Carley! You came to help me! But what about Shrek?" Leah told her.

"Don't worry. Snowgre's taking care of it. Now let's beat her together. Wait! There's a curse mark on her. That's why she's being so nasty." Carley told her.

Leah nodded at that. "We've gotta remove it!" she said as she and Carley joined hands and closed their eyes.

They were focusing on using their positive energy to break the curse mark.

Tiffany watched as a blast of magic surrounded her.

It smelled of lavender.

The curse mark faded.

"W-What am I doing here? Where's Gwen and the other girls? I'm gonna be late for practise!" she asked nervous.

"I think she's back to normal. Do you think?" Leah asked.

"Think what?" Carley replied to her.

"That she remembers what she did while that mark was on her? I know it's gone but she might remember the things she did such as trying to hurt us and blinding Shrek.

Speaking of that I hope the spell broke." Leah answered her as they ran back to camp.

Snowgre smiled. He'd tied up his brothers with chains.

"Let us out or we'll hurt you once we're free!" they threatened but he was ignoring them.

He then saw something on them that scared him. The curse marks were inside their beings.

"What is it Snowg?" Shrek asked him. The second,the curse mark had been lifted on Tiffany, his sight had came back.

"Their curse marks are inside them! How am I supposed to free them now?" the ogre teen replied.

"There's only one way. Kill us like hunters always want to!" Jonas roared.

Snowgre shivered at his suggestion as he resheathed his sword.

"No I won't do that. They're only being evil because Charming inflicted those marks on them." he answered.

He then got an idea as he remembered Carley's plan for taking care of Charming.

He then closed his eyes and focused on when he and his brothers were younger and how much they cared for one another.

Shrek watched as magic burst forth from his hands and surrounded Jonas and Mea.

When it vanished, Snowgre was on the ground. He was in his normal form.

Jonas then came towards him as he and Mea broke from the ropes.

"Snowg? You okay? Why did you risk your life to help us?" he asked as he stroked Snowgre's furry head.

"Yeah why? We... were so mean , unlike us towards you yet you saved us from those marks. It was like they took over us." Mea replied as Snowgre's eyes opened slowly.

"I... did it... because I love you guys. You're... my brothers and nothing's going to change that. I used Love but channeled it through my Artic Knight form to save you guys.

I'm... sorry you don't want me as well as Mom and Dad. I never meant to let you down." Snowgre said with every breath.

Using the spell to remove the marks had weakened and hurt him badly.

"No Snowgre you're not a mistake. We were so wrong to say that stuff but we weren't ourselves that day.

Mom and Dad would be proud of what you just did." Mea told him.

"Really?" Snowgre asked softly.

"Yes. They've been waiting to see which one of us would become the Artic Knight and it's you. You deserve to rule Snowdionia." Jonas replied as his brother's eyes closed.

Shrek smiled as he saw Carley and Leah show up.

"What happened to Snowgre?" Leah asked Shrek.

"He used powerful magic to save us. We had these curse marks inside us and he used Love to save us." Jonas told them.

"Yeah we're really sorry we tried to hurt you. We... weren't ourselves. Charming was controlling us. It was like a nightmare we couldn't wake up from." Mea told them.

"It's okay. We forgive you." Carley replied.

Charming watched angrily at them. He would destroy them no matter what...