Villainous Endings: Shan Yu
Chapter 1 ~ Truth
[AN: We join this story when Shan Yu has taken the Emperor and it is just the two of them. Please read Villainous Beginnings: Shan Yu before reading this one. NOTHING will make sense otherwise. I'm tweaking this scene a bit so please, don't kill me. ~ CH]
"No matter how the wind howls, a mountain cannot bow to it." The Emperor said coldly.
"I am no wind." Shan Yu said, lowering his sword. "And you are no mountain. You are an old man who ordered a wall built. It was you who started this war!"
"You started this war! You killed my daughter." The Emperor roared back.
"It was an accident!" Shan Yu yelled back, clutching his sword hilt.
"You brought this upon yourself." The Emperor said.
Then Shan Yu realized that the Emperor had said that he killed Su Lin. "I didn't kill her." He said, his voice calm.
"The troop that returned from your city informed me of how my daughter died. A wild horse galloped off a cliff. I doubt a 'wild' horse would not know where a cliff was." The Emperor said.
"Jade would never—"
"You trained the horse to kill her!"
"I loved her!"
"You never loved her!"
Shan Yu turned and grasped his sword hilt tighter. No man would remain alive long after accusing him of not loving Su Lin. "I loved her! I died that day as did my family!" Shan Yu roared, placing his sword blade against the throat of the Emperor. "You may have lost a daughter, but I lost a wife and child."
The Emperor's eyes widened. The Imperial soldiers burst into the room, rescuing the Emperor. Once he reached safety, he glanced back to see the battle between his soldiers and the Hun warrior. Shan Yu fought like he had nothing to lose. In reality, he didn't. The sooner the Hun died, the sooner he could be with Su Lin in the afterlife. Once the soldier from the mountain revealed 'him'self, Shan Yu attacked the woman. She moved like Su Lin did; graceful yet deadly accurate.
She even pinned his shirt to the roof with his own sword. A large firework was barreling towards him. Shan Yu closed his eyes, seeing Su Lin. The rocket ripped him away from the roof, shooting him into the fireworks house. He exploded. The sky light up in a colorful display.
The Emperor stared after Mulan as she galloped on her horse down his steps. She was so like Su Lin… He stood alone, surrounded by his people. Shan Yu had never lied to him; he had often been told by his generals that Shan Yu was an honest, ruthless fighter. He looked to the sky, remorse and realization hitting him like a ton of lead. "What have I done?" he asked to himself. "What have I done?"