Shrek woke up feeling more miserable than ever. He got up and got dressed but sighed as he walked into the living room. Puss and Donkey watched as he sat at the table quietly just eating silently. "Hey senor how're you feeling?" Puss asked him gently. Donkey wondered if their friend was still worried about Fiona. "Not very good. I was dreaming about Fiona. I need to see her to know she's okay." He said to them sadly with silent tears in his eyes as he got up and went outside.
He then went to the hospital. Fiona was still asleep with the life support machine on. "Please wake up. I miss you. Every night without ya is agony. I feel like it's my fault this happened. You're the thing in this world that matters the world to me." He thought as he held her hand. Suddenly he heard shallow breathing as he let his mind wander. "S-Shrek is that you? I missed you too." She whispered to him. He smiled at her. He then saw Aisha come over to them. "Ah I see she's awoken. It must've taken something special to do it." She said to them. "Who's this?" Fiona asked weakly. " She's a therapist who helps people who have problems with their body image deal with their mental turmoil." Shrek told her. She smiled at her as she fell asleep again. He sighed as he left the hospital.
Puss then saw him come home happy. "I wonder what happened to change his mood." He thought as he saw him come in. "What's up?" Donkey asked. "Fiona came around. She woke up when I visited her earlier. I hope Aisha can help her get over her problem." He told them. Later he visited his wife at the hospital. She seemed more calmer than before. "Hey honey how're you feeling?" he asked her. " A bit better. Aisha's been helping me refind what I lost. I messed up everything, didn't I?" she told him. Tears were running down her face at that. He then wrapped his arms around her. "No you haven't. You're just going through a rough time at the moment but I know you can make it and be the one I know and count on." He told her as he kissed her. Aisha then came over to her.
"You're lucky to have a husband like him. I used to be depressed because I used to be a little chunky but my husband hated it. He said I had to lose weight or he'd leave me. I tried diet pills but they didn't help but throwing up down a toilet did so I kept doing it until I ended up in hospital. I spent a lot of time with a therapist discovering I could be myself and not care what others thought." She told her. Fiona thought about that as she fell asleep. But something very bad was happening in Far, Far Away and Duloc. A cloud of magical energy swept through both kingdoms and changing the people, making them think that vanity was more important than being themselves. Charming laughed evilly as it vanished. Shrek felt weird as he went back into the house. But Puss could feel that something wasn't right.
Later that day Fiona was out shopping in Duloc with her True Love but other people were looking at her angrily and she saw hate and shallowness in their eyes when she'd done nothing to them. She then saw Snow White and her princess girl friends and went over to them. " Hey guys what's up? I see you're doing some shopping." She said to them. " Girls why is this ugly, fat loser talking to us for?" Snow said coldly. " Why're you being so colder than usual Snow? Don't you remember? We're friends?" she asked them. " Friends with you? Don't make me laugh. You used to be cool and one of us until we found out your little secret. Now you're a loser and a fat ogress." Cinderella told her as they laughed at her. But then Shrek joined in the laughter. " You're right. She's nothing but an ugly, over weight wench. Let's go." He said to them. Fiona watched as they walked off.
Tears stung her eyes at this as she went back to the swamp. Puss saw her walk past him into her and her husband's room and followed her. " What is wrong senora?" he asked gently. " It's just I was out shopping with my True Love and we got some amazing bargains. Then I saw my princess friends and I was talking to them but they seemed cold and like they became shallow and said hurtful things. But as they laughed at me, my husband joined in and called me an ugly wench." She told him.
He watched as she fell asleep from crying and left the room. " I knew something wasn't right. It had to do with that strange cloud that covered the kingdom yesterday. I'm going to find out!" he thought as he walked out of the house and into the forest…