Ch 6
Fiona was nervous. She wanted her children to be safe but couldn't give up the Heart of Candracar either. "This isn't fair! I have to save my kids but I won't hand over the Heart.
Who knows what evil Charming and Phobos could do with it." She thought as she saw her friends arrive in their Guardian forms. But then two other Guardians showed up. One of then wore red and black glasses, short black hair with red streaks running through it, slender. She wore a grey halter top, black leggings with grey stripes and black flowert wings. The other Guardian had long chestnut hair, dark brown eyes. She was wearing a dark blue top with purple leggings with blue stripes and brown flowery wings.
"Don't worry Fiona. It's us Carley and Leah." they told her. Fiona and the other princesses were happy to see their friends again especially Shrek. "What're you guys doing here? It's awesome to see you guys again. How did you become Guardians of the Veil?" Snow asked Leah. "We were hanging in Duloc when suddenly these two tear drop like balls of energy appeared out of nowhere. They surrounded Carley and me and we became what you see before you. I was freaked out but Carley explained everything to me. I don't know what we control." she explained as Lillian had the triplets in her arms.
"You won't get away easily Guardians!" Phobos yelled as Cedric lunged at them but Carley then glowed. Suddenly dragons appeared out of nowhere and attacked Cedric and Phobos. "Let's go now. They're occupied with those dragons." Carley told Fiona as they flew off.
They landed at the swamp. The Heart of Candracar appeared in Fiona's hand and returned them to normal form. Carley smiled as Shrek returned to normal. He noticed she was shivering a little. "It's her fear. It wants her to make it real through her element powers but I don't know what hers is." Leah answered him. "I know what it is." Vathek told them. Carley shivered more in worry. "Yes I was a bad guy but I changed. She controls the element of Dreams. She can bring anything she dreams to life just like that." he said reassuringly. Leah then understood.
"So that's where those dragons came from! She wanted to protect us so brought good hearted dragons she imagined to life because they're loyal and brave." she replied. "That's not all. She can bring anything she imagines to life, even things that freak her out. But she has great control over it. I'm not so sure about your element though." he answered softly. Suddenly a bad ogre appeared from nowhere. "O great. One of her fears is of bad ogres, right?" Shrek said as he took it on. "Carley make it go away!" Leah yelled in worry as her friend's eyes glowed and the bad ogre shattered and disappeared. "That was close. Is she okay?" Shrek told Leah. She saw her friend run off.
"Wait! Come back! It wasn't your fault." she said catching up to her disabled friend. "Just leave me. I-I'm too dangerous for anyone to be around in case they get hurt and I don't want that to happen, especially not to you or Shrek. You guys are my best friends." the teen said through tears as her eyes glowed with purple light. "It's okay. I know you're scared about your powers. I'm worried too because I don't know mine are yet. I know you'd never hurt us like that." Leah reassured her as they walked back to the swamp.
Phobos was smiling. He could get the creative one to trust him if he tried to help her. Charming cackled at the genius of his plan along with Phobos and Cedric... Soon the world would be theirs...