Disney The Ghost Of You

Chapter 2

"What the heck?" Ling, who lived next door to Shang, woke up when the sound of the gun shot rang through the air then repeated four more times. He wasn't the only one waken up by it as people one by one looked out of their windows to see what was going on, Mulan rushed to their apartment praying to her ancestors it wasn't what she was thinking, "Shang! Shang!" she cried as she ran across the block in mad panick til she had gotten to their door which was still left open. Shang would never leave the door open, Mulan thought and then her worse nightmare became a reality, she was stunned completely paralyzed at the doorway as she stared at the sight of her love in a pool of blood. "SSHHAANNGG!" Mulan screamed and bursted out into tears, she couldn't believe what she saw before her she didn't want to believe it either, he couldn't he wouldn't! Mulan started to think that he had commited suicide as she never thought anyone would of wanted to murder him.

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The next morning,

"Hey have you guys seen Mulan and Shang? I've been looking for her everywhere" Hercules asked as he ran towards Phoebus, Esmeralda, Pocahontas and John who were just as worried as they were. "So are we, all of us have been calling and texting them about twenty times so far" Phoebus replied, "didn't you guys hear the gun shot last night?" they turned around to see Ling behind them. "A gun shot?" Hercules gulped, "yeah it was around midnight or something, I'm sure it came from Shang's place I would reckon they were having some big row but I didn't hear any yelling and I live next door to them" Ling said. "No Shang would never shoot Mulan he doesn't even have a gun to begin with" John said "well he's from a long line of soldiers and guns aren't exactly illegal in the states," Ling pointed out "well laters," he shrugged then walked off.

At that moment the five friends exchanged concerned and anxious looks, they knew Ling did have a point though non of them could picture Shang shooting Mulan to death, "lets go to their place anyway and see what's going on" Esmeralda said they all nodded and followed her but were they in for a suprise when they got there.

"What's going on?" Phoebus demaned when he saw the police crowding round the block where their friend's lived "there's been a murder last night" one of the police officers replied. "What do you mean murder!" Phoebus snapped, that was not what he wanted to hear he couldn't understand what was happening

""We're blocking off the area for investigation. . . do you know the name of the man?" the officer said flipping out his notebook, "a young Asian man from what I've heard, he seemed to be in his early twenties his corpse is inside apartment 8C do you know him?" the officer asked. "Shang Li," Esmeralda told him, "he's dead" Mulan gasped under her breath even though she had already seen it herself when she returned to their apartment last night.

"Well, yes it's very rare for a person to survive five shots in the chest, the dectives are inside if you want to find out more info" the officer told them. "Take us to them" Pocahontas said bravely "very well but I must warn you it's not a pretty sight, there's a lot of blood all over the place. . . name's officer Parr" Officer Parr said before leading them to the crime scene where it was still being searched over by decetives.

There was five of them walking around the place, four of them were men, they didn't look like what they exepted as they were all dressed in dark blue uniforms. The first man, who seemed to be the leader looked Japanese or Korean, with his round pale face, dark narrow eyes and short black hair. The second man who was almost a head taller than him, he had a rectanglar face with black rectangled framed glasses and like him also had black hair which spiked out a little. The third man, was taller than the two, his hair was a dusty blond, neat at the back with a spiked out fringe at the front, he had a serious look on him as he walked around the room and took notes on everything he saw. The fourth man was the tallest of the lot and the largest, he was almost bald with only one strand of blonde hair sticking out of his head and the small moustace. The one woman, also had a serious expression on her face as she studied Shang's corpse, like half of them her hair was blonde, the end of her hair was clipped up and has a short spiked fringe going over one side of her round face, her eyes were a dark brown colour, she was a very slim kind of woman with all the curves in all the right places.

"Colonel Mustang I brought friends of the victim, they told me his name is Shang Li" Officer Parr explained, "who are you guys?" Hercules asked "we're alchemists it's been reported that this man was murdered by one, though now we aren't so sure since the method of the murder was shooting" the second man told them. "Lieutent Colonel Hughes, this here is Colonel Mustang" Hughes told them, "Lieutent Hawkeye. . . do you know Shang's parent or gaurdian? since they will need to know of his death before it goes to the media" the female alchemist asked them "there's his dad but we don't know what his number is or his name" Hercules sighed, "just look in Shang's phone it's in there" Esmeralda said as she handed the cellphone to her.

"Hughes you call the father while I take these guys out for questioning, Havoc, Armstrong you get the corpse to the ambluance" Mustang ordered before turning back to them. "What will I do sir?" Hawkeye asked, "you come with me" Mustang replied then looked up at Phoebus, "follow me" as he walked out of the apartment with the group of anxious friends and Haweye follow him down to a empty classroom.

"What are your names?" Mustang asked the first question as he flipped out a notebook from his blazer pocket, "Phoebus Potter," Phoebus said "Hercules Athel," Hercules sighed as the guilt of the fight started to sting him "Esmeralda Morez" Esmeralda told him. "Pocahontas Willow" Pocahontas said, "John Smith" John added as he tried to keep his legs from shaking "M- Mulan F- Fa" Mulan stuttered still in shock of the sight of her dead boyfriend.

"You are all allies of the victim Shang Li correct?" Hawkeye asked them, "yeah and Mulan was his girlfriend" John replied "thought so you seem the most upset by this" Hawkeye glanced over at the sobbing Mulan, "now have any of you noticed anything suspious last night?" Mustang asked them.

"Well last night after football practise we arranged to meet in my apartment for pizza at 7pm but he didn't show up til 9pm" Phoebus said "when he came in, there was this large cut on his rib. . . it looked as though he was stabbed but when John asked him what happened he said it was Meg who done it" Esmeralda added "but he was confused it couldn't of been Meg because she was with us the whole time!" Hercules snapped. "Yeah then you and him started getting in a fight!" Mulan barked as she glared at him as her eyes quickly filled up with anger, "where is Meg anyway?" John asked randomly. "She's still in our apartment she said she feels sick" Hercules told him "hold on you had a fight with Shang near the time of the death?" Hawkeye butted in. "Yeah but I didn't kill him we just shouted at eachother that's all" Hercules almost panicked that the alchemists would think that he was the murderer "do you two fight often?" Mustang asked with an interested look on his face. "No this was the first time since high school" Hercules replied now starting to calm himself down though it was very difficult with that feeling of guilt making his face turn pale and his heart thump rapidly inside his chest.

"What usually causes you to fight?" Hawkeye asked, "I dunno. . . . I guess we just clash sometimes" Hercules sighed as the anxiety crept back to him, "is this true?" Hawkeye looked at the others. "Yeah, they hardly ever fight at all. . . I'll admit Shang did seem confused when we saw him, but Meg has been acting weird lately" Pocahontas said. "Is she another friend of yours?" Mustang asked "yeah but since that time we had last seen Shang alive . . . it was like she knew what was going on but she's too scared to say anything" Pocahontas added. "So do you think she could be a suspect?" Mustang glanced up at them from his notebook, "we're not sure. . . she's a really good friend to us but Shang did say Meg had something to do with his eariler injury but she was inside the flat while he was running late" John said. "What time did Meg arrive in your apartment?" Hawkeye asked again, Hercules wasn't sure how much of this torture he could take as he prayed to the Gods for it to be over in a minture.

"Around half past seven, wasn't it?" Phoebus turned to his girlfriend as he was struggling to remember what time it was "it was a little earlier than that. . . ten minutes to seven" Esmeralda replied, "your not thinking that Meg could of really hurted Shang" Hercules' eyes widened in horror that they would arrest his girlfriend. "It's possible, we'll need to question her later on which apartment does she live in?" Mustang asked "3B but I can't think why she would want to hurt Shang or even how since he was a strong kind of guy" Pocahontas said.

"Hmm. . . . well that is all unless there's something else you have something you want to add" Mustang said as he slipped his pen back into his pocket. The group of friends sat silently passing anxious glances at eachother, "okay then we'll be off and see if Hughes has managed to contact the father" Mustang sighed "will we hear back from you guys?" John suddenly spoke up when the two alchemists were about to leave. "Soon" Mustang replied, "what do you mean soon? my boyfriend had just been murdered! don't you guys know what it's like to loose someone you love!" Mulan yelled as hot tears rolled down her cheeks. "Mulan calm down," Pocahontas tried to comfort her grieving friend but it just back fired as she felt Mulan push her away before storming out through the back door of the classroom, she was about to go after her when John quickly grabbed at her arm. "Leave her, you'll only make her worse if you follow her" he advised, Pocahontas sighed never had she felt so helpless in her life.

No, no this can't be! Mulan screamed in her head as she ran through the campus, she wished more than anything that this was one of her weird nightmares and she'll wake up any minute inside her bedroom. But it was very obivious that this whole thing was no dream and so it made her feel worse thinking that she will never see the one boyfriend who she really loved. She was so distressed over the events from the last time she saw him alive til that moment she saw him in death, the memory wouldn't move from her mind no matter how much she tried to shift it. In hysterics she ran faster til she crashed down onto the cold hard ground.

"Are you alright?"

A boy, who seemed to be younger than Mulan by a year or two, he had a rectangle kind of shaped face, with his short black fringe, like Shang his eyes were narrow and dark. He knelt down in front of her with pure concern on his face as he watched Mulan cry he slowly lifted out his hand towards her, it took a rather long while for Mulan to slow down her tears as she looked up to the boy who still kept his hand out to her. Mulan shook her head as she tried to wipe away the tears before taking the stranger's hand, "what's wrong?" he asked still holding onto her hand after she stood herself back up.

Mulan stared at him, why is he being so kind to me? he doesn't even know me she wondered, "I'm Denahi I just moved here three weeks ago with my brother Kenai" Denahi introdouced trying to make her comfortable. Mulan sighed as part of her long jet black hair sweeped over her soacked face "Mulan. . . . my. . . . my. . . b- boyfriend was m- murdered l- last night" she stuttered anxiously. "Oh. . . I'm sorry to hear that," Denahi replied nervously as he rubbed the back of his neck with his spare hand. "I just can't believe it" Mulan sighed as she shaked her head slightly. "I remember when I lost my brother Sitka" Denahi said "was he murdered?" Mulan asked, "no we got into this fight with a bear almost three years ago. . . it's a long story" Denahi told her. "I'm sorry," Mulan glanced over at him sadly, "for what? it's no ones fault it just happens you know?" Denahi shrugged as he stared off into the distance while the wind gently blew through his thick hair. "I guess" Mulan muttered as more tears slowly crept out from her eyes and slipped down her cheeks, they stared there for a while longer in complete silence up until Denahi spoke "I've gotta go well see you around Mulan."

She watched as her new friend ran to the other side of the campus, probably to meet his brother, Mulan guessed then looked up at the darkened sky a sign that a storm was about to start so Mulan crouched down under a nearby tree for a little shelter.

Meanwhile. . .

"Guys I'm getting worried, the storm has already started and I don't know if you guys know this but Mulan is terrified of thunder" Pocahontas said as she and the others watched the storm through a large window.

"She would of already cried herself to sleep inside her apartment," Esmeralda sighed "she just needs some space that's all I mean you two would be the same if either me or Phoebus got murdered" John pointed out "if you don't watch yourselves you might be next" Esmeralda sighed then turned to Hercules who looked the saddest she had ever seen him. "Herc-" Phoebus nudged at his friend's shoulder, "I don't understand how he..." Hercules' voice drifted off as he thought over everything that had happened the last night.

"Look Herc, there's a load of things we could of all done but it wouldn't of made any difference all that we can do now is just stay strong" Phoebus told him "but how? he's been our friend for years. . . we can't just let him go!" Hercules' eyes darkened in anger. "That's not what I meant, but come on I know Shang as well as you do and he wouldn't want us to stay depressed over him" Phoebus said, "try telling that to Mulan" John muttered. "The only thing about this whole drama that gets me is, why would Shang think Meg had something to do with his injury eariler?" Pocahontas asked, "exactly Shang wouldn't just blame Meg for the sake of it" Esmeralda said as she started to pace back and fourth across the room.

"But Meg wouldn't do something like that and she was with us the whole time" Hercules almost snapped still repeating the same words since the beginning. "Not the whole time, we arranged to meet at 7 o'clock you arrived at the apartment at 10 minutes to 7 and Meg hadn't turned up til about thirty minutes later many hours before Shang came in" Esmeralda pointed out. "Then why didn't you say that to them alchemist guys?" Phoebus asked, "I was still shocked from seeing our friend's corpse!" Esmeralda barked. "But there's no way Meg could hurt Shang without getting hurt herself, he was a strong guy!" Hercules tried to defend his girlfriend again, "all we need is a jury then we've got a court" John muttered as he leaned back in his seat. "Ah John can't you take anything seriously for once in your damn life!" Esmeralda yelled, "woa, woa calm down! Shang wouldn't-" Phoebus tried to break it up when Meg appeared.

"Hey guys," Meg said quietly which was really odd for her as she usually takes anything in her stride, "you've made a quick recovery that is if you really were sick" John glared at Meg, he could tell she was hidding something "I heard about Shang" Meg sighed "so you met the alchemists then?" Phoebus asked. "They just questioned me. . . where's Mulan?" Meg asked as she looked around the room "Dunno she could either be outside in the storm or in her apartment" Esmeralda said she couldn't help but glare at her friend suspiously, "what happened to Shang, by that I mean how did he get injured?" she asked.

"Ah come on!" Hercules now stood out of his seat and hugged Meg, "don't turn this on Meg she's done nothing!"

"Tell us the truth Meg what happened to Shang!" Phoebus shouted glaring straight at her, "I don't know!" Meg cried "you must of been there, Shang was never a liar he saw you when he got stabbed! if it wasn't you who? Tell me Meg!" Phoebus almost screamed. "Knock it off!" Hercules roared as he threw Phoebus over a table, "are you in on it aswell?" Esmeralda glared. "Guys please calm down" Pocahontas tried to calm them down but all she could hear was the shouting and screaming off her friends "John help me!" Pocahontas panicked. "Just leave it Pocahontas, there's no point in trying the damage is done" John muttered as he walked towards the door "what do you mean damage?" Pocahontas rushed after him in panic she didn't know where to turn anymore.

"Look around you, Esmeralda's screaming at Meg and Phoebus and Hercules are fighting to death with eachother" John sighed then exicted the room. "John wait!. .. John!" Pocahontas cried this was the worst day of her life she couldn't stand the thought of all her friends falling out with eachother, slowly she turned to her friends with her eyes narrowed in frustration "STOP!" she screamed the loudest she had ever done in her life so at an instant they all froze and looked at her. "You might of forgotten but out there is a girl who needs us, she just lost her first boyfriend in the most cruel way and you know if Shang could see us right now what would he think? For one I think he'll be very disapointed in us for fighting eachother instead of supporting eachother and esspecaily Mulan" Pocahontas said in a more calmed tone as her throat had became sore.

"We should go and look for her," Esmeralda said now feeling awful as well as the others, "I just thought what are we going to do about the funerel?" Phoebus asked, "I'm sure his dad will sort that out" Meg sighed. "But he might not be able to get out of work so if he doesn't come we'll have to orangise it ourselves" Pocahontas pointed out "the storms almost over by the looks of it" Hercules said as he looked out of the window, "yeah I really hope Mulan isn't out there she could catch anything in the cold" Esmeralda said as she slipped on her purple jacket. "Come on guys lets get searching," Pocahontas sighed as she walked out of the room where she banged into Ariel "oh sorry we didn't see you there!" Ariel said, "we heard about Shang's murder was he really shot five times?" Rapunzel asked.

"Yeah, we saw him this morning" Pocahontas replied, "that must of been awful I feel really bad for Mulan she loved him so much" Rapunzel glanced down at the ground sadly. "She planned for him to vist her family over the winter break," Esmeralda sighed "not only that but Shang was the first real boyfriend Mulan ever had," Pocahontas told them "when you have seen together you could see something very special between them."

"Where's Mulan now?" Ariel asked, "we don't know so we're going out to look for her" Phoebus said "oh well let us know if she's okay I would hate for her to be depressed" Rapunzel replied "hopefully she'll be safe inside her apartment" Hercules sighed and waved the two younger girls off before leaving the building to start the search for Mulan.

"Mulan!" Hercules and Phoebus called out at the sametime as they trudged through the solid ice, "does anyone think it's weird how a storm just randomly appeared when we just had snow?" Phoebus said as he glanced around at the ground. "Now that you mention it how is it even possible?" Pocahontas asked as she felt the rain shower her, "no idea though pro Jumba would be wondering the same thing then lecture us about it tommow morning" Esmeralda said. "Mulan it's us your friends! Mulan answer back if you can hear us!" she called out but got no repsonse, "Mulan please we want to help you!" Meg cried at this point she had gotten scared as her heart beated visiously as loads of ideas floated into her mind most of them were of Mulan comitting suicide.

"MULAN!" Meg screamed as her imagination started getting the better of her, "woa what's going on? can you see her Meg?" Phoebus asked as he turned franticly around, "I can't see her anywhere" Pocahontas squinted her eyes trying to see through the rain. "Mulan! come on Mulan!" Hercules called out in a way most people would to their pet dog, "Mulan!" Esmeralda looked under the trees as they passed til she finally found her curved into a tight shivering ball completely soacked with cold water. "Mulan, it's me Esmeralda. . . lets get back inside" Esmeralda held out a hand to her, she waited for a moment as Mulan slowly raised her shaking head before taking her hand.

The six friends leaded Mulan back to the apartment that she once shared with Shang only to see that it was still blocked off for investigation, so they decided to let her stay at Esmeralda and Phoebus' til the police and alchemists were finshed.

"Here Mulan," Esmeralda said in a gentle voice as she tucked her friend to the couch with a purple cotton blanket then a duvet, "your freezing. . . you look so sick" Esmeralda sighed then walked to the kitchen. "I'm sorry Mulan" Meg said, "what?" Mulan blinked at her friend weakly "I said I'm sorry" Meg repeated, "what do you mean? it's not like you killed..." Mulan's voice drifted off as her eyes closed. "Mulan!" Meg panicked "shh don't worry she's just asleep that's all" Phoebus told her as he laid a hand onto her shoulder to calm her down, "she'll still be in shock over his death," Pocahontas said as she stared out of the window.

Meg stared down at the wooden floor, just seeing her best friend so sick made her feel more guilty than she was at the beginning "I wonder if that Lieutent guy managed to call Shang's dad. . . .he'll be so mad," Hercules said as he dropped to the floor "well you aren't supposed to out live your kids are you? and from what I remember they had a close relationship" Esmeralda pointed out. "I don't understand any of this, I wish you would tell us what happened Meg," Phoebus sighed as he rubbed his forehead pushing back his blonde hair "I told you I don't know! he was confused" Meg lied "you must know he wouldn't of said if he wasn't sure" Phoebus argued.

"Guys please don't start fighting again, you'll wake up Mulan and she's in no fit state to put up with it right now," Pocahontas told them, there was a long silence when Meg's phone beebed, sighing Meg slipped her purple blackberry out of her pocket to see a strange text.

So my little nutmeg,

now that wonder boy number 2 is out of the way,

this will make this attempt much easier

and this time no mess ups.

Since when did Hades own a cellphone and how did he get my number? Meg wondered as she stared at the screen, "what is it?" Hercules asked, just then she jumped as she almost dropped her phone. "Oh nothing interesting just the phone company reminding me I'm running out of credit," Meg shrugged as she lied again, she hated lying to her friends but here was no way she could bring herself to them the truth about everything from Hades to Shang's murder. "I've gotta go now anyway, I still haven't finshed that history report for DunBroch" Meg sighed and like before she left her friends without saying another word as they tried to call her back. Once Meg stepped outside, she slipped over her hood then walked down through the campus into the city which was slowly filling up with people as the storm went down, careful not to get noticed she pulled her hood futher down her head til she got to the dark alley that was hidden beside the Poison Apple bar, the passage way to the underworld.

"Ah there's my little nutmeg so nice of you to drop in, so I see you had gotten my text eh?" Hades said as soon as he noticed her walking down the stone stairs, "uh huh but didn't the fates say that the planets were going to aline when winter falls?. . . . it's the 2nd of December now it's already fallen" Meg shrugged hoping this fact would get her out of killing her boyfriend. "You know I don't think I've been throwing the right curves at him Meg my sweet" Hades said as he traced her waist shape pointing out the curves, "all you have to do is find wonder boys weakness because everyone has a weakness, I mean with Pandora it was the box thing and the Trojains got on the wrong horse okay?" Hades told her.

"Hey I'm done with man handling okay," Meg glared at him even though she was pulling a brave face she was terrified on the inside as this whole thing was getting too much for her to cope with Phoebus and Esmeralda getting suspious and she couldn't stand the thought of Mulan if she ever felt that Meg had betrayed her. "I understand since that's what got you into this mess in the first place, you sold your soul to save your ex's life and how does that creep thank you? oh yeah he runs off with some babe," Hades said which just pained Meg more as that memory floated back into her mind.

"I know, I've learned my lesson okay!" Meg waved away the small smoke figures away as she fighted back the tears, "what's so special about this wonder boy anyway? I mean for all you know he could meet a babe somewhere and what will happen you'll get thrown in the dumpster" Hades tried to provoke her in a way to convince her to kill Hercules. "He's different than Adonis, he's kind, he's sweet he'll never do anything to hurt anyone, sure he gets a bit crazy at times but everyone does, he's got no weaknesses, you can't beat him Hades he's gonna-" Meg brightened up. "I think he does Meg, I truely think he does" Hades whispered as he leaned his face against her's. . . .

Alchemist HQ

"Did you contact the father?" Colonel Mustang asked as soon as he entered the office, "yeah and do you know who the father is?" Lieutent Hughes replied, "not the foggiest" Mustang muttered. "General Li!" Hughes blurted out, "he runs the Chinese Military!" for a moment Mustang turned to the large window as he watched the last of the rain fall "is that so, then what was his son doing in America?" Mustang asked, "go to to San Jose uni I don't know, but he was blasting when I told him. . . not that I can blame him of course I would be the same if that happened to my daughter" Hughes sighed. "So this General Li is he an alchemist?" Mustang glanced over at his friend, "yeah he's very powerful in China I don't know about his son though" Huges said "he said he'll be coming as soon as possible, but with the Huns threatening to invade it'll be too late."

"Hmm but if he's like you he would want to be there for his son no matter what," Mustang said, "I hope so since someone's going to have to arrange the funerel" Hughes sighed as he wiped his glasses against his sleeve. "So what did the kids say about the muder?" Hughes asked as he slipped his glasses back on, "they arranged to have pizza together at 7pm but Shang didn't turn up til three hours later and when he did he was wounded, also they said that Shang told them it was their other friend Meg who stabbed him eariler so she's a possible suspect. Once we were done with them we went to this Meg girl, she seemed more anxious than the other five when we questioned her all we can do is wait and see what happens, it's bound to be interesting it always is" Mustang replied as he read through his notes. . . .