Chapter Eleven
Love Thyself
Fiona's deep blue eyes looked wearily at Shrek. Her pulse was getting weaker and her body was getting weaker by the minute. This made him angry. He wished Fiona's past self hadn't done this. His heart was breaking faster than a mirror's glass. Mounsier Hood watched as Shrek laid her on the bed. "I'm sorry… I failed you! I tried bonding with her but… she went evil like the one hurting Far, Far Away. I want to tell you something. I love you evermore even if the Angel of Death is summoning my soul. Don't forget me." She rasped as her eyes closed into one last sleep.
"What can I do to save her? I feel so sorry that I tried to hurt her. I thought… by doing that, I could break the curse!" Fiona's past self told him sadly. But he wasn't listening to her. Inside sadness and anger were raging like a thunder storm. "There's nothing anyone can do. Maybe if… but it won't work." He said to them. "What is it?" Mounsier Hood asked curiously. "By trying to destroy her, Fiona's dying but if her past self accepts her once more as a part of her… then maybe it can save her from a never ending sleep!" he told him. He smiled at this. Shrek then knelt by her bedside. "Come here!" he said to Fiona's past self quietly. She understood and came near him. "What do you want me to do?" she asked him curiously. "I need you to accept her once more as a part of you. Maybe this will work but if it doesn't, then you'll have hurt both you and me badly." He told her.
She nodded and put her hand on Fiona's heart. "Please let this work! Please forgive me. I made a grievous mistake by trying to hurt a powerful part of myself even if you don't look handsome by society's standards, a lot of people miss you." She whispered into her ear. She hoped this would work but nothing happened. A tear drop then fell from her past self's eye and landed on her face. "I tried but failed." She said quietly. Shrek was very unhappy but suddenly a glowing aura surrounded Fiona and her past self. "What's going on?" he asked himself curiously. He then ran to the bed. He watched as she woke up. "It worked! It's good to have you back!" he said hugging her gently.
She then looked at her past self as she came near. "Thank you for healing me! I know you made a mistake but you fixed it! I understand why you did it! You were very afraid of the curse but doing that wouldn't work. But now you learned to love yourself, even the less beautiful side of you. Our evil twin must be stopped. You see my husband and I were sent back in time to try and pull us apart but you can't do that to Love because it comes back stronger than before." She told her quietly. They were unaware that the other hunters and Fiona's evil twin were watching this. "How touching!" she said as she and the hunters made themselves known. But they'd also captured Shrek's past self and Donkey. "Let them go! They've nothing to do with this!" Shrek said as he tensed up for battle.
She laughed at this. "You're not going to be able to stop me!" she yelled as she lunged at him but he dodged the attack. The other hunters tried to make it to the bed where Fiona was but her past self knocked them out cold. But a team of two more hunters snuck and grabbed her. They then jumped out the window with her and ran off into the night. "FIONA!" Shrek yelled as he watched her disappear. Fiona's evil twin then knocked him out cold using karate. She then vanished from sight. This enraged Mounsier Hood. He wished that Fiona's evil twin hadn't came here and tried to mess things up like this. Meanwhile a hunter threw Fiona, Shrek's past self and Donkey into a cage. "This is fitting for them! Soon we'll end this and I'll rule the kingdom!" she said as she left.