From deep within the derelict and ruined environment that was the Dragon's Castle there were many battles between the Dragon and the Knights who attempted to rescue Princess Fiona as Shrek and Donkey entered what remained of the main hall inside. There was a dark hole in the wall that was outlined by the red glow of the lava but mostly shrouded in the shadows, next there was a pair of greaves that stood above but where burned to the bone; followed by the fallen and broken segmented pillar where there was a large and deep ravine in the floor that led below to the lava where steam and smoke rose above. Most of the castle was shrouded in the shadows of the darkness and the two primal dominant colors were a maroon to crimson red where the lava lied below and outside and spruce to denim blue; where the storming sky swirled high above like a vortex that appeared to give off the dark powers of sinister malevolence, what lied within was not seen. Staircases and broken statues were everywhere, but there were also something else that I feel that I should mention out to the heroes who looked around nervously:
Shrek and Donkey did not see the Dragon wherever it may be and slept, but what they could see all around them were the evidence of all those whose remains now found their final rest here in these derelict ruins; it was all around them littered about with more than the corpses of previous rescue attempts that lied about on the floor. Burned bones and charred skeletons wearing scorched armor from long ago were sprawled about the floor, these were the remains of the other Knights who had tried to save and rescue Princess Fiona; but they foolishly chose to slay the Dragon before doing so or tried to get past it, only for them to be burned from the flesh and very deeply scorched to the bone. Donkey was trembling and raving in fear as he asked Shrek this question
"You afraid?" He silently asked
"No, but... shh!" Shrek replied and silenced Donkey, he didn't want the Dragon to know they're here; because once they're out, they were never there in the first place and he intends to follow through on his plan to stealthily sneak through. A in and out plan one may call it, once they're in they're comin' out; simple as that
"Oh good, me neither..." Donkey put on a false bravado of a calm exterior as he looked back and saw a skeleton of a Knight, gasping as he galloped after Shrek; not wanting to be left behind. "Cause there's nothin' wrong with bein' afraid, fear's a sensible response to an unfamiliar situation. Unfamiliar dangerous situation, I might add" Donkey followed Shrek up the stairs and walked through the hall's east wing as he veered too far to the right and jumped back from the skeleton Knight; continuing to speak his mind: "With a Dragon that breathes fire and eats Knights and breathes fire, it sure doesn't mean you're a coward if you're a little scared; I sure as heck ain't no coward. I know that" Shrek shook his head and breathed one out
However Donkey was too distracted to see where he was going and thus crashed into a pile of dead Knights with their halberds falling, and the open faced barbute wearing skeleton rearing back; as soon as Donkey looked back up the skeleton's head snapped off and spooked him further as he had a helmet that strangely could fit the head of someone like a ogre, but if Shrek's going to rescue Princess Fiona and use Donkey's help in doing so then he's going to have to establish two things first beforehand. Still though, that helmet size is a bit... coincidental to fit onto someone like a ogre; none of that mattered as he told him and counted with his fingers: "Donkey, two things okay? Shut... up, now go over there and see if you can find any stairs" Shrek pulled the helmet of one of the dead Knights off from Donkey, he directed him to the west; although there were more than bad vibes coming from within what remained from the ballroom inside, he was at least going to let Donkey make himself useful in this god forsaken place
This large ogre sized helmet he took had a round conical cap on the top with a thick metal sweatband visor on the forehead, with the visor being shaped diagonally towards the bottom; grilled with short to tall lines in a row of five on either sides, it was enough to conceal his identity and face as well as keep his green skin on his neck hidden. He then picked up a four segmented shoulder guard for his right and a three segmented one for his left due to no matching pair, but did it really matter to him? He also picked up some knee guards as well, gotta have some protection if he's going to end up confronting the Dragon; may not be much but there's no other pieces of armor that can fit a ogre like him, trust me he looked everywhere but he could not find anything else because those armor pieces were as big as they come
"Stairs? I thought we was lookin' for a princess" Donkey looked to where Shrek directed him to and seemed puzzled
"The princess will be up the stairs in the highest room, in the tallest tower" Shrek reached down to pick up some bracers as well from the pile of rocks, weapons and three dead Knights that also came with some brown gloves for hide his green hands
"What makes you think she'll be there?" Donkey asked
"I read it in a book once" Shrek responded as he flipped the visor down and walked off, of course now he's going to have to replace his copy of the book because one of the pages is missing; do I need to explain what happened to the missing page that was ripped out? We'll say that there was some deep green and fleshy ravines that needed some serious cleaning, there we go; that'll give you the idea of what happened
"Cool. You handle the Dragon, I'll handle the stairs; I'll find those stairs, I'll whip their butt too. Those stairs won't know which way they're going" Donkey walked off as he opened the right door of the ruined ballroom, still fantasizing about himself and not once shutting up at all because there was something lurking within; something forbidden inside: "I'm gonna take drastic steps, kick it to the curb; don't mess with me, I'm the stair master. I've mastered the stairs, I wish I had a step right here; I'd step all over it" Donkey continued strutting and walked up in front of the hole in the wall where a scaly eye opened, awakening to look at who would dare enter inside it's domain; Donkey didn't even realize it until it was far too late
Thus, Donkey made the grave mistake that would led to his meeting with a certain person that he would come to know as his true love in the future: had he kept his mouth shut and moved slowly hidden from sight when he entered the vicinity of the ruined ballroom within the Dragon's Castle, he would be home free... (A/N: For a long while I thought he said: "Oh" when in actuality he said: "Well" faint memories, go figure right?)
Shrek continued walking forward as there was the sound of growling within the walls, that can not end well at all as he fitted his left bracer on his arm and stopped when he looked up in front of what remained of the castle's outdoor square as he found the tallest tower in just a few moments not long after entering; as it was the one with the glowing yellow light that came from the window above. "Well, 'least we know where the Princess is; but where's the-" Shrek looked around when he was suddenly cut off by Donkey screaming
"DRAGON!" Donkey screamed out as he took off running when a blast of billowing flames were fired from the hole within the ruined ballroom, leaving the ballroom and running back to Shrek as fast as his stubby little hooves could take him. Suddenly there was a large crashing sound from behind as the doors came falling down, although it's appearance was shrouded there was a clear idea on what it looked like. Donkey continued running and jumped over the skeletons of dead Knights while the Dragon crushed them underneath, having their bones and whatnot scattering into the air with some dust flying about
(A/N: The billowing flame I mentioned came from the HTTYD Wiki's Boneknapper page, I decided to use it's fire type to describe the blasts she fires; after all it fit's her description and looked similar thanks to the pictures I looked at)
Shrek turned to face Donkey on the right and saw the Dragon chasing after him, god dammit Donkey; now he could say goodbye to his original plan he intended on following up, but he still intends on rescuing Princess Fiona weather it likes it or not. The Dragon continued to chase Donkey until it stood bipedally on it's talons and fired out a billowing flame towards it's intruders, who found that there were not one but two of them. It was at this point that Shrek knew Donkey wasn't going to outrun it, so he pushed him to the side: "Donkey look out, agh!" Shrek dodged to the left side but Donkey believed he was done for as the smoke blocked his view, he continued to run until another billowing flame was sent and he was forced to duck for it; his tail especially got burned and fell down. "Ahh!" The Dragon approached from behind and was about to bite at him until it turned to face no one other than Shrek who had gotten a hold onto it's spade tipped tail. "Gotcha!" Irritated, it was distracted and allowed Donkey to run up to the stairs where the catwalk led further up to the tallest tower; Shrek's plan worked out
The Dragon began to wave it's tail about to shake and get the ogre in shining armor off, but Shrek is not the one to let go that easily; with a might swing he was sent flying off in the air like a superhero. "Ah whoa, whoa, whoaaaaaaghhhhhhh!" Shrek had his arms shot out forward as he was going to brace for the impact, while the Dragon looked from above and stood up; relieved that he was no longer standing in it's way because now it's still got Donkey to deal with. Shrek continued to fly high into the sky until he found himself hitting the conical rooftop of the tallest tower; "Ough!" He broke through and crashed from the roof, even bringing down the chandelier with him on the way down; being knocked out in the process. The chandelier's rim hung from chains to the center of the ceiling, with each cylinder on the smooth ribbed spine going towards the bottom of the center which looked like a sun that had it's pointed ends curved downwards to the sides. The beautiful baldaquin had green emerald green sashes with some gold markings and edges on the top, tied to the sides against the upwards with three steps up on the front and a decorated red, blue and gold carpet on the front; the bed featured a flower vase on the right side where it stood on the table and a cylinder shaped pillow where the princess slept, all while there were lit torches that lit up the room and a window in the front with transparent curtains surrounding the back and left to right sides. Shrek's sudden and unexpected crash through the ceiling had caused him to be knocked out so badly, that he did not notice Princess Fiona jerking upwards; awakening from her sleep and causing the white daisy flowers to fall to the floor, now that's one hell of a way to make a entrance alright
In the meantime however the fight skirmish continued as the Dragon fired off it's billowing flames into the base of the tower where Donkey began to run along the bridge connected to the other side, where it broke off the left side to prevent him from getting to the other side to escape: "Ah!" and the right side to stop him in his tracks: "Oh!; even breaking off more of the left as he was now trapped on the newly made pinnacle. "Oh ah.. ahhh..." He go no further nor backwards as he trembled in fear before the tall Dragon shrouded in the shadows the lava kept it within a threatening red glow
"No. Oh, no, no!" Donkey slowly backed up but kicked a rock off as he was about to slip off from the pinnacle he was trapped on. "Oh, what large teeth you have" Receiving a growling roar in response for that accidental blurt of his: "I mean white, sparkling teeth; I know you probably hear this all time from you food but you must bleach, 'cause that is one dazzling smile you got there. Do I detect a hint of minty freshness? And you know what else? You're-" He was interrupted in his attempt to spare himself a few moments before death in order to think of a plan, although what he did not expect was that the Dragon appeared to have taken his compliments on it's fangs and let out a soft rumble before bowing closer to him; revealing it's gender
Dragon stood at 100 feet long and 30 meters from snout to leg with her scales being a magenta red color with a salmon to flamingo and crepe pink horizontally lined underbelly, with maroon spikes upon her back; with white fang like spikes on her cheeks, she had webbed ears that looked like tiny version of her bat like wings; with razor sharp bronze to black claws and a spade tipped prehensile tail. Her eyes were a green/yellow color and appeared to have lipstick and eyelashes, though let's say that they were natural markings to avoid any and all errors in identifying her as a male. Finally, she sported a diamond pattern on her scales and appeared very familiar to him; but that was mostly because he felt that he was destined to find and even be together since she was his true love all this time, still all of it remained unclear to him as of now and this time because he's got himself trapped on a pinnacle in the middle due to both sides being destroyed
"You're a girl Dragon- oh sure! I mean, of course you're a girl Dragon; you're just reeking of feminine beauty" Smittened by his further compliments and comments, her eyes fluttered but Donkey did not seem to understand: "What's the matter with you, you got something in your eye?" It was then that Dragon blew a smoke ring in the shape of a heart: "Ohh. Oh. Oh man, I'd really love to stay but you know I'm uh..." He coughed and blew the smoke away with his hoof. "I'm a asthmatic and I don't know if it'd work out if you're gonna blow smoke rings, Shrek!" Donkey turned around and called out for his friend, with Dragon carrying him by the tail from the pinnacle that was once a bridge and happily left the ruined square and back to her treasure hoard with Donkey once again calling out: "Ahhh no! Shrek! Shrek! Shrek!" No one could hear him scream out for help as Dragon returned to the shadows of the derelict and ruined stronghold, as his cries vanished out of earshot since in his heart he knew he was not a very brave animal (A/N: The reason why Mushu was voiced by Eddie Murphy's voice doppelganger in Mulan II which is not a bad sequel was because the former was busy with Shrek 2, I thought that the former came out in 2006 but it actually came out in 2004 where the best of the Shrek trilogy was released; faint memories again unfortunately...)
Back with Shrek who had regained his consciousness, shaking himself and looking to the left as he groaned due to the impact; Princess Fiona had wondered if the day had come at last as she smiled for the first time since she was born with her parents in Far Far Away, this was her true love who came for her as her savior. She was very excited because this was the moment her whole life as years of being imprisoned had done very little to calm her morning type of person that she was, now her Prince Charming had come as the Knight in shining armor got up from his knees and brushed himself off from that quite the entrance he made; her thoughts went to him wooing her with poetry and dazzling her with heroics, but Shrek really just wanted to get the hell out of the Dragon's Castle as quickly as possible. She thought to herself of a idea as she laid out in bed and grabbed her fallen white bouquet of daisies, laying there once more with; looking back one last time before her eyes were closed and her resting body was in position. Shrek had an feeling and turned around to find the light penetrating through the only window that gave all who entered here the yellow beacon of where he slept, the princess laid there appearing as if she was a heavenly vision of wonder. Shrek's gotta' thank Dragon for helping him get to this tower and saving him the trouble of climbing up all those stairs and stone bridges
Shrek approached her baldaquin bed slowly as his eyes narrowed and climbed up the stairs, with her pucking her lips when she sensed her Knight approaching her; ready to be kissed and end this frightful enchantment that took hold each and every night, but what she was about to receive was anything but a rude awakening. Which is reasonable because Shrek can not stay here any longer, he needed to return to Duloc right away as he shook her roughly: "Oh oh!" Fiona was shaken
"Wake up" Shrek awakened her
"What?" Fiona asked, shocked by the Knight's way of approaching her
"Are you Princess Fiona?" Shrek asked as she smiled at her savior
"I am, awaiting a Knight so bold as to rescue me" She introduced herself
"Oh that's nice, now let's go!" Shrek impatience was beginning to leak as he turned to leave until Fiona sat up on her bed
"But wait, sir Knight" Shrek turned to face her. "This be'ith our first meeting, should it not be a wonderful, romantic moment?" She asked as she threw herself back onto the bed with the back of her hand to her forehead, as the white daisies slipped out of her hands and to the right side of her baldaquin
"Yeah, sorry lady; there's no time" Shrek grabbed her by the arm and approached the door, attempting to open the door but ending up breaking the ring to the door that was decorated with some metal plated designs. Fiona was understandable confused as to why her savior would take the door that was barred from the other side
"Hey wait, what you are doing? You should sweep me off my feet out yonder window and down a rope onto your valiant steed" Fiona suggested as Shrek turned to face her
"You've had a lot of time to plan this haven't you?" Shrek asked her as she nodded in response, a little too much time to plan how she would be rescued; just exactly the way she planned when this day would come
Shrek reared his arm back after dropping the broken ring on the door and broke through with a yelp from Fiona and a growl from him, using his mighty ogre strength to bust right into the door; turning to see a spiral staircase down and running down to quickly reach the exit so that they could leave right away. He grabbed a torch from the wall that was shaped like a Olympic torch used for the games, although had smooth surfaces and a ridge near the top where the flames sprouted; running past a hole in the wall that showed the sky outside: "But we have to savor this moment!" Fiona suggested as they ran down the stairs
"You could recite an epic poem for me. A ballad? A sonnet! A limerick? Or something!" Shrek and Fiona ran across the stone bridge that spanned over the sea of lava below outside of the castle, entering the next room before freeing her arm from her savior
"I don't think so" Shrek replied, he looked around since Donkey should've been here
"Can I at least know the name of my champion?" She asked as he never introduce himself, Shrek however was too distracted and replied the same way that he did to Donkey when they first met awhile back
"Uh... Shrek" Shrek responded as he looked around, now where could Donkey be if he's not here where he should've been after supposedly escaping the Dragon; Fiona cleared her throat and held out a handkerchief for him
"Sir Shrek. I pray that you take this favor as a token of my gratitude" Her handkerchief had two parallel lines with round half circle edges, with her name written on one of the corners as Shrek took and regarded it as he looked at her
"Thanks!" Shrek then proceeded to wipe his filthy and grotty brow of the helmet he wore with it before returning it to Fiona, who held it with her hand; she was going to say something when they were both startled by the roar of Dragon who seemingly sensed that Shrek lived, she dropped the used handkerchief in response and asked him
"You didn't slay the Dragon?" Fiona asked in surprise, why would any Knight not slay the Dragon before rescuing her when Shrek turned to tell her
"It's on my to-do list, now come on!" Shrek told her as he realized that Donkey must've been taken hostage and continued to run down the hall, while she went to explain
"But this isn't right! You were meant to charge in, sword drawn; banner flying. That's what all the other Knights did!" Fiona was not the princess to condone the previous attempted to rescue her and always paid her respects to her failed rescuers, as she could explore anywhere she wanted to; however the threshold beyond the two doors of the exit was forbidden like the West Wing of the Beast's Castle
"Yeah, right before they burst into flame" Shrek told Princess Fiona as he looked at one of the remains of a barbute wearing Knight who wore a scorched chesplate with some greaves and bracers that fell off, his shield and chestplate both had a lion depicted along with his sword that lied next to him. On the wall where he rested was a scorched imprint of the Knight who was seemingly pinned to the wall and burned alive, as the force of the billowing flame was enough to had his sword also stuck to the wall and not much could be seen for the shield. From this evidence Shrek assumed that the Knight was not a very brave fighter at all, as he had both his arms and legs spread to the sides diagonally before the Dragon finished him off
"That's not the point, oh!" Fiona freed herself from Shrek's grip as they entered a large cellar with three large barrels, a large book that Dragon had read that had the recipe for "Knightly Treats" thanks to learning and practicing her reading skills and of course a large cauldron. Shrek suddenly stopped and went on ahead to the doors in front of him when Fiona asked him: "Wait where are you going, the exit is over there!" She pointed to the right
"Well I have to save my ass" Shrek responded, now he's really done it; she's pushed her to this edge and dared she ask him:
"What kind of Knight are you?" Fiona asked since this Knight was not one of the others who's ever done things like these: Breaking down doors, running through the halls and making snarky remarks about the other's attempts to save her; is this the kind of Knight she was dreaming about?
"One of a kind" Shrek replied since he was a one of a kind Knight... who breaks down doors before he vanished into the room, slowly opening the wooden door with the ringed knobs. He walked into the treasure room where Dragon had Donkey coiled around her tail, seeing the sight from above the balcony as he held the torch; she was cooing whenever he spoke and as he peaked closer he could hear what he was saying:
"Slow down, slow down baby; please. I believe it's healthy to get to know someone over a long period of time, just call me old-fashioned; I don't want to rush into a physical relationship I'm not emotionally ready for a commitment of uh.. this- magnitude is the word I'm looking for, magnitude" That was when Donkey was stroked by one of her black claws and of course made him call her out. "Hey that is unwanted physical contact" He declared as Dragon raised her to the right and lit the chandelier that hung in the room above them both: "Hey what you doing?!"
The chandelier was a thick band and shaped like a collar that was studded on both the thick top and low bands, with the middle rim having diamond shaped holes in a pattern as for each of the three diamond holes there was a cylinder shape acting like the borders; the top was a round trapezoid where the fires were lit. There were three shackles that held them on the top and diagonal bottom left to right, where it all connected to the main chain that was long and hung over them. Shrek realized that Dragon had apparently fallen in love with Donkey and it seemed that she was sure to chase them as they ran out of the castle, that was something that the ogre could not allow to happen; but then he noticed that the chandelier was round shaped and looked like a collar as it was connected to the ceiling, he laid his torch onto the wall where it leaned against before climbing onto the stone trailing and taking the chain that rested above him. He was getting ready to swing as Donkey continued to talk
"Okay okay, let's just back up a little and take this one step at a time; we really should get to know each other first as friends or pen pals. I'm on the road a lot but I just love receiving cards, I'd really love to stay but-" Shrek hoisted himself and swung across to the side, extinguishing the fires on the chandelier as he now found himself hanging above; looking up to find a reel of chains that were stopped by a lock that kept them from sliding, however Donkey was in a real bad spot now that Dragon was playing with his tail. "Don't do that, that's my tail! That's personal tail, you're tear it off; I don't give permission but heeey... what you doing now?" Looks like Dragon's leaning down to smooch him on the snout, that's not going to end up well
Shrek yanked himself up and forced himself downwards to pull the chain he was hanging from, unfortunately this made his pants slip to expose his green ass but the lock broke off and the chain began to descend as he was descending towards Dragon's tail; whom Donkey was praying that she doesn't end up kissing him. "Hey now, no way. No! No! No, no! No. No, no, no. No! Oh!" Shrek took his place as Donkey fell onto the treasure near Dragon's talons and coiled tail right as she was about to kiss him, instead ending up literally kissing his ass; Dragon was very disappointed that her kiss meant for Donkey was interrupted and roared in her irritation, but Shrek had enough of this and released the chain as the chandelier fell and slipping through her snout and down to her neck. He had enough time to pull his pants back up and the chandelier became a collar for her, now she was really pissed as the chains went onto to continue falling; with him jumping off the coiled tail in slow motion, before they ran like hell for it up the stairs of the balcony. By the way the chandelier slipping onto her neck made Shrek wince since that's got to hurt
Dragon turned to face Shrek who was revealed to have survived and lived, now taking away her Donkey as she fired off a billowing flame once again; the fire bouncing as Shrek grabbed him and continued running when the fires were about to engulf them, but fell off to the lower platform before landing on his feet. They did not stop once as Princess Fiona entered through the doors wondering what was happening inside, but could not speak when Shrek picked her up while running quickly; getting a yelp as both of them were held on the sides, Donkey on the right and Fiona on the left
"Hi Princess!" Donkey declared happily
"It talks!" Fiona cried out in surprise
"Yeah, it's getting him to shut up that's the trick!" Shrek explained before stopping short, there was no place to run; but only to slide down what was once a stone altar; when Dragon lunged forward to bite at them with Donkey screaming, Shrek had no choice but to slide down; regaining balance as they hit some bumps and continued down, unfortunately there was a gap in the stop and struck him right in the mommy and daddy button (Mike Myer's Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Fat Bastard reference) Reaching the button as he stumbled off and walked lightly. "Arrgghhoww!" Shrek continued running as it did not hurt too much since he did have layers of flesh, the pain did not strike him down and it will not stop nor slow him down from Dragon chasing after them with the new collar and chain
Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona ran down through the hall with Dragon chasing them as the chains sparked and fizzled a bit, with them jumping over the next chain as Dragon followed to the right side; and finally to the top right as ducking over the chain which it wasn't tall enough for him to duck over, he could've just easily jumped over it like he did with the previous one. What they were doing was merely tangling the extended chain all around the corridors and around the altars of the pillars, Shrek had no intention on killing Dragon as he was running all throughout the main castle of the hall; he was let's just say punishing her for capturing Donkey and holding him hostage as her own. Soon they found Dragon standing bipedally on her talons and firing a billowing flame towards them, running to their right as Shrek jumped over one chain; ducked below the second and leaped over the third, they were now close to the exit and it was in their grasps
"Okay you two, head for the exit!" Donkey and Princess Fiona did not have to be told twice as they ran for it, while Shrek grabbed a sword stabbed from the ribcage of the fallen skeleton Knights. Having the same bulb pommel with upwards curved spiral handle, hammered in between all four sides crossguard and a long silvery blade. "I'll take care of the Dragon" He held it as if he was going to slay her but instead he did what no Knight has ever done before: He stabbed the sword in between the two of the several overlapping links of the chains, now binded and locked by the sword as Shrek slowly backed up before making a run to get the hell out of the Dragon's Castle
"RRRUUUUUUNNNN!" Shrek echoed out as he turned to the corner to see Donkey and Fiona still going; running as fast as they could as he bolted along with no time to stop and go slowly, reaching the bridge as Dragon fired off one last billowing flame that raced against them. The bridge began to burn as they were nearly there before it split in half, the piece of the bridge broke away into the lava as they were all sent flying towards the edge of the other side; but Donkey could not hang on and fell backwards before Shrek held him by the tail, yelling as Dragon was still coming in hot and jumped. The sword that binded and locked the chains broke from the handle as Fiona yelped when Dragon was about to take flight, before being jerked backwards as the sword had been tightened around the alters so she could go no further beyond this point; she returned to the stone bridge as Donkey fainted and the trio of our heroes continued to climb up with Dragon roaring out at them in anger, giving off a sorrowful whimper at the loss of her love. Looking sadly at him and crying out in disappointment
Donkey looked back at her and turned away, he was really wanting to get to know about her since she didn't look too violent but they had a mission and they were returning to Duloc no matter what stands in their way. Dragon returned inside of the castle and back to her treasure hoard, all she had ever wanted to silence her loneliness forever was someone who she could love; she would give up anything for him, including this treasure hoard since she had no need for these riches she was gifted with by the wicked and evil Fairy Godmother who was behind all of this. Curse these chains she thought as she lamented what has happened, although she would not be alone again as she decided her next move
She had no desire nor wish to return to her former life alone nor to her treasure hoard, she will break these chains one day and she will find Donkey again; no matter what it takes for her to find her lost love. For now she could use some rest because she's had quite a day of having to be binded to the castle at all times. Then again she'll wake up in the afternoon and then go searching for Donkey, there that's better; they won't be too far out there for her to be lost
In the meantime though, the forked road back to Duloc is going to have some delays on their way back with some disappointment at first but friendliness the next; and of course some romantic moments that'll be growing between the two as one's misunderstood and the other's keeping a secret, but how long can she keep it before time runs out and the world of Shrek is changed forever? Time will tell and may their journey back be a safe return with no dangers that lurk in the shadows of Lord Farquaad's desires to become king by marrying Princess Fiona...
(A/N: This is where Shrek: Adaptation written by cgaussie left off due to the author's time constraints and inactivity, to be even more precise though he's been changing the fucking words of the script as well; if you're going to write an adaptation novel like this then don't change the fucking words, that's a 1# mistake that a rookie can make right there. Unfortunately I did not enjoy reading the story because there were lack of details about everything and missing scenes as well, this is the reason why I wrote this)