The Shreckoning Chapter 3
Burt woke up with a start, he had just had another nightmare about his son Jim dying. Burt got up from his bed, wiped cold sweat from his brow, and walked to the bathroom to get a glass of water. Cindy woke up soon after Burt began walking towards the bathroom. Cindy: "Im sorry dear, Im affected by Jim's death just as much as you are… but you need to rest!" Burt turned around with a fierce glare in his eye. Burt: OUR SON IS DEAD CINDY! YOU DO NOT SEEM TO BE AFFECTED BY THIS AT ALL!. Burt dropped to his knees and began to cry. Cindy looked at Burt for a while, and then shed a tear, and went to sleep.
In the morning, Burt woke up to find that he had fallen asleep in the same spot he had broken down. Burt got up, looked at his sleeping wife with disgust, and walked out the door with intentions to visit Jim's grave. Cindy woke up to the sound of Burt leaving the house, she quickly got dressed and followed him to see what he was up to. She quickly realized upon seeing him leave the house and walking across the that he was most likely going to visit the community graveyard, and visit Jim. Burt walked up to his beloved son's grave, Burt: (sigh) "Jim, Im sorry this happened to you…) Burt smelled something foul… is that a?... an onion? Burt saw a rather small sack of onions next to the grave. Burt: "Is this some kind of sick joke!" Cindy walked up next to Burt. Cindy: "…" Burt looked at the onions, and kicked the sack with disgust, Burt looked at the grave, snarled at Cindy, and then left for home. Cindy stayed behind and stared at the sack of onions, something was odd about them… she felt some kind of presence from them, suddenly a large man wrapped head to toe in coats, scarves, and other forms of clothing walked up to a grave directly next to Jim's. The man was large in build, and his face was covered by all of the cloths, and what appeared to be… a ski mask? It almost looked as if the man had socks covering his ears, but something about his ears were off too, even with the socks in the way you could easily tell his ears stretched out way too far, like some antenna. Cindy remained silent and continued to look at Jim's grave when suddenly the man spoke. Man: (Chuckle) I heard your son was mangled, I envy whoever did it to him, humans are a plague on this earth… Cindy turned to the man and screamed Cindy: "SHUTUP! YOUR A MONSTER!" The man slid off all of his coats, revealing himself to be a large green… thing, with ears that did infact look like antenna. Man?: Not a monster… an ogre… The ogre wrapped his large green hands around cindys throat and began bashing her head into the sack of onions.
Burt was almost home when he suddenly heard the screaming of his wife, followed by laughing done in a deep scottish accent. Burt spun around and ran towards the screaming. When he arrived he was horrified to find that his wife's face was caved in and filled with onions! Burt: (Vomits) "C...C...CINDY!" Burt ran towards his wife, now laying on the ground, probably dead, but he was stopped by the horrific thing standing next to her body. The ogre grabbed a stale onion, and knocked Burt unconscious. Burt later woke up in a dark enclosed space, he attempted to wriggle about, but the space was too confined, and restricted. Burt pushed upwards and was shocked to find that the ceiling of whatever he was in moved a tiny bit upon pushing it. Burt, now inspired from the movement of the ceiling of this "Prison" continued to push upward. Eventually he pried it open enough to crawl through, Burt crawled through the space he made and was shocked to discover that he was inside of a coffin, in a empty hole that seemed to recently have been dug to put his coffin in. Burt pulled himself out of the hole and saw the large green ogre thing pulling a cart full of onions towards the empty hole, Burt figured that the Onions were meant to bury his coffin with. Burt quickly dove behind a small dirt pile to hide himself from the coming ogre. Upon reaching the hole, the ogre looked down it to see if its captive was still down their, upon realizing that it was in fact not there, the ogre threw the onion cart down and began sniffing around.
Burt desperately looked around for something to defend himself, in the dirt there was a glimmer, he looked in the spot where he saw the glimmer, and was happy to see that someone had conveniently dropped a switchblade there. Burt desperately snatched the Switchblade and charged at the ogre. The ogre turned around and widened its eyes when it say its attacked, Burt stabbed the monstrosity in the gut and waited for a reaction of some sort from the beast, like a cry of pain, but instead he was met with a cold glare from the monster, it grabbed him and whispered into his ears Ogre: "You see laddie, and ogres just like an onion, they have layers, and when you cut them… they make you cry…" The ogre pulled the switchblade out of his belly and (pinning Burt to the ground) began cutting furiously at his stomach, until he made a large enough opening to stick a couple onions through. The ogre got up looked down at Burt and said: "I hope you're hungry laddie, because I'm about to fill your stomach…." Burt grunted in pain. The ogre got down to his level and said: "Oh laddie, and if you've got any last words, and if they are directed at me… my names Shrek" Shrek got up, grabbed a handful of onions and began stuffing Burt with them. Burt: AAAAGGGGHHHH! Shrek looked down at burt after completely stuffing him. Burt: "(Coughs up an onion) Why…. Why did you do this to me and my... (Coughs another onion) family… (Coughs one last onion)...Shrek...Why?" Shrek looked at Burt as he lay of the ground dead. Shrek: "Another soul blessed by my eternal loved…." Shrek quickly dragged Cindy and Burt's corpses to a nearby ditch and left them their. Shrek then got up and wandered off… looking for his next victims.