Chapter Eight
A Father's Love
Donkey was very worried. His kids were destroying things and causing chaos on a grand scale. Fiona's evil twin was controlling them through evil magic and telling them to do this. She laughed as Shrek helped him to his feet. He growled angrily at her. "You'd better stop this now! Because of you, my wife got hurt and lost her memory, then you try to make her hurt her father who loves her dearly and would never hurt her and now you're controlling my friend's kids!" he snarled angrily as he snatched the pipe from her.
She then growled but cooled off. She smiled evilly as she levitated into the room in the castle where Fiona and her parents were. Shrek looked nervous at this. "Get away from them!" he said as he ran into the castle and into the room swiftly. He was very worried. He heard Harold and Lillian trying to stop her but were failing. He kicked open the door. Fiona saw her evil twin laugh as she came near her. "Come and help me take care of them! You know you want to!" she hissed evilly. Lillian looked at her daughter worriedly as she came near her and Harold and began to strike a karate pose but stopped. "I'm sorry but I'm not going to hurt them! Dad was right about you! You're just trying to use me in your little game and I refuse to play." She said angrily as she head butted her firmly. This relieved Harold. He didn't know some of her memory had returned but not all of it.
"How come you didn't listen to her and hurt us?" he asked curiously. She then smiled warmly. "I didn't do it because… I remembered how you saved me and Shrek from the Fairy Godmother's final spell and how you gave up being a human just so I can be happy." She told him happily. Shrek then kissed her on the lips. "That's my girl! I hope the rest of your memory returns soon." He said as he broke the pipe. The twin screamed in anguish at this. She then realised something and smiled darkly. "I now have enough power to cast my spell! I can send everything back in time and stop them from ever being together!" she cackled happily. Harold watched as the happy blue sky was covered with black, stormy clouds and lightning raged as well.
"What's going on out there?" Donkey asked as he and the kids entered the room. "She seems to be summoning something bad but we don't know what!" Lillian said nervously to him. Suddenly dark mist swirled around the castle furiously like a storm and began sucking both Shrek and Fiona in. This freaked donkey. "I've got to go after them!" he said as he jumped into the darkness bravely. Harold and Lillian watched as it disappeared. Their daughter's twin had gone too and this worried them even more. Shrek then landed somewhere familiar. It was his swamp. Something wasn't right and he could feel it. It was night time. He then looked through the window and saw himself sitting at the table eating. This worried him. "She sent us back in time! This was before I ever met Donkey or Fiona! She must be trying to stop Fiona and me being together! But Fi probably landed in the highest room in the tallest tower in the Dragon's Keep!" he thought as he watched some more. Suddenly he heard rustling in the bushes behind him. Hunters were hiding in them waiting to spring out and attack. He roared and scared them out of their skin. He laughed as they ran off screaming like lunatics. But then he saw someone come out the door of the house.
It was his past self. He'd heard the commotion and wanted to check it out. He wanted to meet him but didn't want to freak him out or anything so hid in the nearest bush but couldn't help himself. "Is anybody out here?" he heard himself ask and came out from where he was hiding. "I'm here! Just don't be afraid when you see me!" he told him. Shrek then came out and revealed himself but when he did that, his past self fainted from shock. "Great! I do this and he flips out!" he thought as he dragged him into the house and put him in the alligator easy chair and waited for him to come around so they could talk. Meanwhile in the Dragon's Keep Fiona was having the same problem. She was worried. When her past self saw her, she'd fainted. "What am I going to do? I can't explain to her that I'm her from the future. She wouldn't get it!" she thought as she sat by her bedside. But in Far, Far Away Harold was worried for them. He couldn't believe that Fiona's twin had stooped as low as sending them back in time to try and change things.