After fighting off the guards, everyone got on Dragon's back and flew into the air to find me and Carley.

So far, no luck.

"Leah! Carley! Where are you guys?!" Shrek yelled.

"Leah! Come on, girl, say something!" Donkey called out.

"Carley! Carley!?" Lillian yelled.

"Come out, come out wherever you are!" Sui shouted as Dragon was sniffing in the air for any trace of our scent until se caught something.

"I smell something," She said.

"Is it Leah and Carley?" Snow White hopefully wondered.

"I'm not sure. All I can smell is the scent of blood."

"Do you know whose it is?" Fiona asked.

Dragon continued to sniff the scent she found. "No. The scent of blood is too strong."

"What if it's Leah and Carley?" Sleeping Beauty suggested to the ogress.

"Dragon, take us down," Fiona told the red reptile as she flew down into the forest.

There, everyone began calling out me and Carley's names splitting up into little groups of three. They looked around, but so far, nothing.

Then, as the triplets were trying to find us, Zacj tripped on something and fell to the ground. He stood up and felt something cold and wet between his fingers. It was blood. He looked down and saw a trail of blood and followed it with his siblings Sui and Julia behind him until they saw me and Carley lying on the ground unconscious.

Carley was leaned against a tree with her sword in one hand while I was laying on my side with blood gushing out of the wound on the other side of my stomach knocked out cold.

"Mom! Dad! Grandma! Guys! We found them! We found them!" Sui yelled as the triplets went to find Shrek and the others.

I slowly opened my eyes, finding myself in Shrek's swamp. My blurry vision vanished as I saw Shrek, Fiona, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, the triplets, Donkey, Lillian, and Artie surrounding me which made me surprised.

"Uh, hello?" I uneasily said as I sat up, but couldn't from the intense pain that hit my stomach making me fall on my back.

"Don't move around that much. You're still badly wounded," Fiona said.

I had bandages wrapped around my head, waist, stomach, chest, left and right hands, right leg, neck, and left foot as I placed a bandaged hand over my face. "Oh, man…My head is killing me."

"At least you're still breathing. The doctor said that you lost so much blood from using Second Gear they thought they were gonna lose you. You were knocked out for seven days," Lillian said.

"Seven days?"

"Yeah. Carley wasn't hurt as bad as you were, so she stayed by your side and cleaned your wounds," Shrek told me, "She was even crying when she saw that you weren't even awake."

"She was?"

"Yeah. She said that you're her only friend and didn't know what to do if you didn't wake up," Cinderella said.

I was surprised to hear that. I didn't know Carley cared that much about me as I sighed and ran my hand through my hair, realizing that I wasn't wearing my Japanese straw hat. "Hey, uh, where's my hat?"

"Carley's wearing it for you since she knows how important it is to you," Sleeping Beauty informed me.

"Okay, good," I sighed in relief.

"But what I don't is when my kids found you, why was there a trail of blood on the ground?" Fiona wondered.

"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot about that," I reminded myself, "Well, after winning against Prince Charming……"

(Flashback)

"Did we win?" I asked.

Carley's eyes were filled with tears as she said in a teary voice, "...Yeah. We won."

I weakly smiled as I gradually sat myself up ignoring the pain. "Come on. Shrek and the others are probably wondering where we are." I almost fell when I lost my balance, but felt Carley catch me as she draped my arm around her shoulder.

"Now we can go," She said as we both walk/limped back to Far, Far Away.

During the walk, Carley started to breathe heavily from loss of blood as her vision began to get blurry. I was beginning to feel that way, too, but worse as I got on my knees and violently coughed, throwing up blood in the process.

"Leah!" Carley ran to my aid, but didn't know what to do as she kneeled beside me and gently patted my back. Then, tears ran down my face from the pain and nausea I was suffering as I cried from it after throwing up. "Don't worry. We'll get out of this forest soon," She reassured me.

It wasn't the forest I was worried about. It was just... never felt like that after throwing up blood and barley breathing. I was...scared because of if. But I didn't let that stop me as I began to stand on my own but fell to my knees.

"Leah, don't try to move. You're badly injured," Carely told me as I clung my fists tightly with tears running down my eyes again.

"Dammit!" I yelled, hitting a tree trunk to only leave a dent in it, "Why is it that I'm strong one moment, but weak the next?! All those years of training! All that painstaking practice! Why can't I contain it!? Why?!"

"That's not true. You're strong," Carley said.

"Then why can't I stand up without being in pain?" Before Carley could respond, my hearing suddenly seized as I began to see everything around me darken, falling to the ground out cold.

"Leah? Leah?! Leah, wake up! Leah!?" Then Carley felt like her heart stopped beating as she fell to the ground, too unconscious.

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"And that's what I remember," I told everyone seeing them look at me, "What?"

"Wait. If that happened, then what happened to Prince Charming?" Snow White asked.

"I knocked him over a cliff then Carley threw a kunai at his head killing him," I simply replied, seeing everyone stare at me.

"You're serious?" Sui said.

"Yep," I smiled.

"Really?" Zacj gasped.

"Yeah."

"Cool," Julia gasped.

"I was thinking the same thing," Lillian said.

"But enough about that. Where's Carley?" I asked sitting up.

"She's in the kitchen fixing something up," Shrek told me as I stood up and walked into the kitchen and saw Carley fixing up mini pizzas as I quietly walked up from behind her and wrapped my arms around her waist giving her a light hug.

That also surprised her as I layed my head on her shoulder with a smile on my face, seeing Carley look to her right and saw me and turned around. "Leah! You're awake!" She then hugs me tightly.

"Aah! Not so tight! I'm still in pain!" I exclaimed.

"Sorry," Carley said lightly hugging me.

"I heard that you helped me out when I was sleeping."

"Yeah. You're my best friend and that's what friends do," Carley said as I smiled, "Oh, and here's your hat."

"Thanks." I put my hat on as I yawned and looked at my bandaged stomach. "So, how bad was the wound?"

"It was really bad. The doctors had to operate on you here because the wound was so bad that fifty percent of your stomach acid almost damaged the other vital organs. He was surprised to see you still breathing after stitching you up. The other organs in your body were hurt from wind pushing against it, but so far they're alright as to no severe damage. But you can't eat anything spicy for another month or two because of the damage done to your stomach along with half of the acid from it almost being completely dumped out of you," Carley explained.

"Does Chinese food count?"

"Yes."

"Dammit!"

"Well, at least you're still alive."

I smiled with my hands behind my head. "Yeah. I'm glad, too. Thank you for being there and treating my wounds."

"I'm your friend. It's what I do."

"I heard you were crying when I wasn't awake, too."

"I wasn't sure if you were going to wake up or not. I'm surprised you're even standing up."

"I've been asleep for seven days, so I'm well rested," I replied hearing my stomach growl loudly, "And now I'm hungry."

"You're lucky that I'm making something right now. It'll be done in about ten minutes."

"Ehh?! Ten minutes?! I can't wait that long! I'm hungry now! What am I supposed to do until then?" I whined.

"You could sleep for ten minutes," Carley suggested.

"I already slept enough, thank you. I'll go and talk to Shrek." I walk into the front room and talked to Shrek and the others for a while.