Chapter 3:
Sorry for making you guys wait so long, it´s just that this isn´t the only fanfic I´m writing. Believe me it´s not very easy to write two fanfics at the same time, specially when they´re completely different. Well thank you guys for waiting,and for reviewing. I´d like to thank my first three reviewers: Mulanfan, Amb3r, and Rita. You guys rock! :)
At Camp Wu Zhong, Shang was separating the new recruits from the ones he trained the last time. Also he started to give a speech about discipline, honor, and war. It seemed much more easier than the first time; if only his father were there to see him, with a sense of confidence it took him so long to adquire, he surely would be proud of his son.
The old recruits were more mature now, and took things as serious as they should. Tung Ma joined the older recruits. He hadn´t been to war before, but had a lot of experience with martial arts, and that´s if you don´t count that his father had great influence among the chinese. Tung-Ma hadn´t go to war before because his older brother went, and he was too young by then, so his father told him not to risk his life when his brother could deal with the honor of their family. The last he saw him, was before he left home to go to battle, his brother died in battle. Sometimes, Tung Ma blamed his father for his brother´s death, since he was the one who persuaded the General to accept him to join the "real soldiers".
By noon, Mulan arrived to Camp Wu Z hong. It wasn´t as noisy as it was when she first came. A thousand memories of her first time ther drifted inside her head,(now that she recalled her moments in which she got in trouble, like that introduction she had with Yao, Ling and Chien Po, she fould that rather funny.); Mulan let out a laugh and looked for her dear new general ... she remembered yesterday again, what was she going to do? Should she leave things like that as if nothing happened? NO! She didn´t want to but she couldn´t just start an arguement for no reason.
There he was...yelling at two of the new recruits who were playing pranks on Chi Fu. They were about 3 years younger than Mulan; they barely looked like men, they were teen-agers more likely...actually, a few days away from their childhood.
Mulan waited until Shang finished giving the recruits their punishments.
As he turned around, Shang saw Mulan smiling at him. That smile he could never forget since the first time he saw it in Ping, mischievious, and now wonderful would perfectly fit to describe her unique smile.
Hesitating, Shang walked towards the short but beautiful young lady that stood before his eyes. To Shang, she looked too sexy in those training clothes, that would fit her just perfectly. Before he even spoke to her, Shang took a careful glance of Mulan from head to toes.
"Hello Mulan," he said," Sorry about yesterday."
"What for?" replied Mulan crossing her arms.
Shang was very nervous, and he was sweating as if he were doing some exercise.
"You know what I´m talking about," he managed to say politely.
By the way, Mulan was melting for him too. She wanted Shang to repetat again the words "I love you", just to make sure it was not just her imagination or it had been simply a dream. Mulan sighed and said," You don´t have to be sorry about it."
Shang felt a little relieved. So, Mulan didn´t hate him after all. "Then...hum...let´s pretend it never happened."
That´s what Mulan didn´t want to hear. How could he regret about his own feelings, specially when she felt the same for him."After all, who would want me as a wife?" she asked herself silently.
Shang changed the subject. He started talking about the new recruits´ behavior. Something that Mulan didn´t care at all.
"Shang stop it," she muttered.
"Huh?"
Mulan started to speak quickly, sort of hysterically," Look you just can´t avoid the subject...would you just explain this to me?"
"I thought you understood it."
"No, actually," she sounded daring.
"What do you want me to say then?"
Mulan pursed her lips and bit her tongue." Just tell me the truth about your feelings, don´t say it was just me and I heard things wrong...just...oh no." She slapped her forehead, and she could feel her cheeks slowly changing from pink to red. Still, she sounded pleading and that gave him a small clue that she loved him too.
"I said I love you, and I still do," replied Shang," Don´t hate me for it please."
"Why would I hate you?..."
Before she could finish her sentece, Shang kissed her mouth impulsively, he just had to do it at least once, and she didn´t reject his kiss at all.
Mulan pulled away and grinned. "It´s true then."
"I´ve never been so honest in my entire life."
Mulan smiled, she was nervous too, but she felt so good inside. "I feel exactly the same for you Shang," whispered Mulan loud enough so he could hear her.
Shang wrapped his arms around Mulan´s tiny waist, and lifted her a little.
"Let me down," said Mulan giggling.
Shang noticed Yao and Ling found them and they were staring at them, so he put Mualn down and cleared his throat,"It´s time to work now."
"Fine."
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When Lynn arrived to Camp Wu Zhong, all the recruits kept staring at her. Probably because she was riding her purebred horse to the stables, and besides, she was wearing armor almost as fine as the general´s armor should be.
Tung-Ma reached her as she dismounted her white horse inside the stable. Lynn led him to somewhere more private where they couldn´t be seen or heard, not even by the horses. They got to the place in which they stored the food for the horses.
"Why did it took you so long?"asked Tung Ma
"I got lost in the way," replied Lynn. She pulled Tung Ma´s collar so he would be closer to her, and then planted a big kiss on his mouth. The young man replied her kiss and embraced her tightly. The next thing they knew was that they found themselves so close together kissing each other wildly, rolling on the ground together...and I´ll leave the rest to your Big and Creative imagination.
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Shang started to give instructions to all of the soldiers. They were all lined up listening to their commanding officer. Lynn and Tung Ma were still missing, perhaps they were still enjoying themselves at the stables. Anyway, Shang started to name the soldiers who were leaving Camp Wu Zhong the next day to go to battle, Mulan, was among them. Afterwards, he asked Yao, Ling and Chien Po to stand next to him, Shang introduced the three men, and said he was leaving the three of them in charge of the training of the new recruits. Mulan was happy for her friends, they looked happy too, of course Yao and Ling felt so important and proud of themselves, while Chien Po just smiled. To their bad luck, Shang announced that Chi Fu was going to be make sure they were doing their work well. Mulan felt sorry for her friends by the fact, but she was glad to hear the emperor´s nosy advisor was not going to be checking on her. Shang went on talking about discipline and what makes a real hero. Mulan was hearing Shang´s words but she wasn´t paying much attention to what he said, instead she focused on his lips, they looked attractive to her, and she couldn´t wait to kiss them again. Mulan got back to reality and started to pay attention, but then she got distracted thinking about what a good general Shang was.
Just then, Lynn and Tung Ma arrived running. Shang was interrupted when he saw them and he wasn´t quite happpy about it.
"Where were you?" he demmanded.
"Well...I was...erm...helping my cousin to put his horse in the stable," explained Tung Ma.
Shang raised an eyebrow and said," Can´t he do it by himself?"
Lynn just stayed quiet her cheeks started to turn pink. Maybe her secret would be discovered after all and she wouldn´t be allowed to stay.
"Well, yes but I had to meet him there," Tung Ma lied," You see he´s mute and I needed to help him out to introduce himself so I had to go and wait him there."
Shang nodded. Did he actually believe that little liar? Shang stayed quiet so Tung Ma decided to say," Well, since my cousin here is a very good warrior, my uncle wants him to be enlisted with me and the other soldiers that´ll leave tomorrow."
"He has to be TRAINED to go to battle, and as I can tell, he hasn´t been here before," replied Shang matter o factly.
"He knows martial arts."
"He has to be prepared for war, we can´t just send people to go to war and kill themselves."
Tung Ma looked at Lynn, he could tell she was scared to death inside, but she showed some courage. Lynn looked back at her boyfriend, Tung Ma could tell by the look in her eyes that she wanted to stay no matter the dangers she was about to face. Tung Ma smiled at her reassuringly and asked," What if he shows you his skills?" He sounded rather suggesting.
"Maybe later," replied Shang turning his back on them.
"You have to listen to this, it´s important," said Tung Ma.
Lynn narrowed her eyes at the General; he could be so impossing at times. Tung Ma told Lynn to sit with the rest of the soldiers and he went with Shang. "It won´t take us long you know."
"Can´t you wait a couple of minutes?" replied Shang irritated. Boy he was a pain in the neck.
"No!" Tung Ma answered stubbornly," because we´re leaving tomorrow right?"
Shang frowned; Tung Ma was certainly crossing the limits... he was practically yelling at the General and also demmanding him to do what he wanted and at the moment he wanted.
"Look, if you don´t want to be kicked out of here and dishonor your family just shut up and wait!" With that, Shang turned his back on him again, and Tung Ma joined Lynn and the other recruits. The general continued giving instructions and Tung Ma stopped insisting; but still, he wasn´t going to give up. Now that Lynn had come all this far just to be with him, he woudn´t leave her alone and miss her. Who knows what kind of pranks would those pesky little recruits would play on his dear Lynn.
After Shang finally finished talking, everyone went to do the exercises of the day. That is everyone except for Lynn and Tung Ma.
Shang was supervising the arrow shooting, checking that no one would be cheating. Suddenly, Tung Ma tapped Shang on his shoulder," I think you have ..." He was cut by Shang." Ok, hold on just one second please," the general said politely despite of he was sick and tired of hearing the stubborn soldier. Shang went to look for Mulan so she would take care of looking over the recruits.Then, he lead Lynn and Tung Ma to the place in which the soldiers practiced the sparing matches. Actually it wasn´t very far from the arrow shooting space. The three of them agreed that Lynn was sparing with the general. Lynn felt so confident.
Shang and Lynn bowed first. Shang allowed Lynn to begin to deliver blows and kicks at him, and she was quite an expert , but still, Shang managed to dodge all the agressions. Shang tried to kick Lynn but he didn´t succeed much.
Just then, Mulan arrived in the middle of their match. Shang noticed Mulan was watching him, and well... he wanted to show off a bit in front of her to impress her. The thought of Mulan made him lose his concentration, so Lynn took the advantage and knocked his body on the ground.
Lynn smirked and Tung Ma started to clap at her. He was so proud of her.
"Ok, you may come with us," said Shang as he got to his feet and cleaned his robes.
Lynn smiled so self-satisfied with herself, and Tung Ma thanked Shang.
"Go catch up with the others," commanded Shang.
Lynn and Tung Ma nodded, and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Shang called," What´s his name?"
"Ling," replied Tung Ma quickly, completely unaware that there was someone else called Ling in there. With that, the couple left.
"You are very good at it," said Mulan.
Shang placed his hand on Mulan´s shoulder and said,"I think I disappointed you today."
Mulan shook her head and grinned mischieviously." I distracted you that´s why you didn´t win."
Shang smiled back at her.
I´d like to know what do you think about Lynn, she comes from my big imagination. I hope you guys are liking her so far.
Sorry for making you guys wait so long, it´s just that this isn´t the only fanfic I´m writing. Believe me it´s not very easy to write two fanfics at the same time, specially when they´re completely different. Well thank you guys for waiting,and for reviewing. I´d like to thank my first three reviewers: Mulanfan, Amb3r, and Rita. You guys rock! :)
At Camp Wu Zhong, Shang was separating the new recruits from the ones he trained the last time. Also he started to give a speech about discipline, honor, and war. It seemed much more easier than the first time; if only his father were there to see him, with a sense of confidence it took him so long to adquire, he surely would be proud of his son.
The old recruits were more mature now, and took things as serious as they should. Tung Ma joined the older recruits. He hadn´t been to war before, but had a lot of experience with martial arts, and that´s if you don´t count that his father had great influence among the chinese. Tung-Ma hadn´t go to war before because his older brother went, and he was too young by then, so his father told him not to risk his life when his brother could deal with the honor of their family. The last he saw him, was before he left home to go to battle, his brother died in battle. Sometimes, Tung Ma blamed his father for his brother´s death, since he was the one who persuaded the General to accept him to join the "real soldiers".
By noon, Mulan arrived to Camp Wu Z hong. It wasn´t as noisy as it was when she first came. A thousand memories of her first time ther drifted inside her head,(now that she recalled her moments in which she got in trouble, like that introduction she had with Yao, Ling and Chien Po, she fould that rather funny.); Mulan let out a laugh and looked for her dear new general ... she remembered yesterday again, what was she going to do? Should she leave things like that as if nothing happened? NO! She didn´t want to but she couldn´t just start an arguement for no reason.
There he was...yelling at two of the new recruits who were playing pranks on Chi Fu. They were about 3 years younger than Mulan; they barely looked like men, they were teen-agers more likely...actually, a few days away from their childhood.
Mulan waited until Shang finished giving the recruits their punishments.
As he turned around, Shang saw Mulan smiling at him. That smile he could never forget since the first time he saw it in Ping, mischievious, and now wonderful would perfectly fit to describe her unique smile.
Hesitating, Shang walked towards the short but beautiful young lady that stood before his eyes. To Shang, she looked too sexy in those training clothes, that would fit her just perfectly. Before he even spoke to her, Shang took a careful glance of Mulan from head to toes.
"Hello Mulan," he said," Sorry about yesterday."
"What for?" replied Mulan crossing her arms.
Shang was very nervous, and he was sweating as if he were doing some exercise.
"You know what I´m talking about," he managed to say politely.
By the way, Mulan was melting for him too. She wanted Shang to repetat again the words "I love you", just to make sure it was not just her imagination or it had been simply a dream. Mulan sighed and said," You don´t have to be sorry about it."
Shang felt a little relieved. So, Mulan didn´t hate him after all. "Then...hum...let´s pretend it never happened."
That´s what Mulan didn´t want to hear. How could he regret about his own feelings, specially when she felt the same for him."After all, who would want me as a wife?" she asked herself silently.
Shang changed the subject. He started talking about the new recruits´ behavior. Something that Mulan didn´t care at all.
"Shang stop it," she muttered.
"Huh?"
Mulan started to speak quickly, sort of hysterically," Look you just can´t avoid the subject...would you just explain this to me?"
"I thought you understood it."
"No, actually," she sounded daring.
"What do you want me to say then?"
Mulan pursed her lips and bit her tongue." Just tell me the truth about your feelings, don´t say it was just me and I heard things wrong...just...oh no." She slapped her forehead, and she could feel her cheeks slowly changing from pink to red. Still, she sounded pleading and that gave him a small clue that she loved him too.
"I said I love you, and I still do," replied Shang," Don´t hate me for it please."
"Why would I hate you?..."
Before she could finish her sentece, Shang kissed her mouth impulsively, he just had to do it at least once, and she didn´t reject his kiss at all.
Mulan pulled away and grinned. "It´s true then."
"I´ve never been so honest in my entire life."
Mulan smiled, she was nervous too, but she felt so good inside. "I feel exactly the same for you Shang," whispered Mulan loud enough so he could hear her.
Shang wrapped his arms around Mulan´s tiny waist, and lifted her a little.
"Let me down," said Mulan giggling.
Shang noticed Yao and Ling found them and they were staring at them, so he put Mualn down and cleared his throat,"It´s time to work now."
"Fine."
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When Lynn arrived to Camp Wu Zhong, all the recruits kept staring at her. Probably because she was riding her purebred horse to the stables, and besides, she was wearing armor almost as fine as the general´s armor should be.
Tung-Ma reached her as she dismounted her white horse inside the stable. Lynn led him to somewhere more private where they couldn´t be seen or heard, not even by the horses. They got to the place in which they stored the food for the horses.
"Why did it took you so long?"asked Tung Ma
"I got lost in the way," replied Lynn. She pulled Tung Ma´s collar so he would be closer to her, and then planted a big kiss on his mouth. The young man replied her kiss and embraced her tightly. The next thing they knew was that they found themselves so close together kissing each other wildly, rolling on the ground together...and I´ll leave the rest to your Big and Creative imagination.
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Shang started to give instructions to all of the soldiers. They were all lined up listening to their commanding officer. Lynn and Tung Ma were still missing, perhaps they were still enjoying themselves at the stables. Anyway, Shang started to name the soldiers who were leaving Camp Wu Zhong the next day to go to battle, Mulan, was among them. Afterwards, he asked Yao, Ling and Chien Po to stand next to him, Shang introduced the three men, and said he was leaving the three of them in charge of the training of the new recruits. Mulan was happy for her friends, they looked happy too, of course Yao and Ling felt so important and proud of themselves, while Chien Po just smiled. To their bad luck, Shang announced that Chi Fu was going to be make sure they were doing their work well. Mulan felt sorry for her friends by the fact, but she was glad to hear the emperor´s nosy advisor was not going to be checking on her. Shang went on talking about discipline and what makes a real hero. Mulan was hearing Shang´s words but she wasn´t paying much attention to what he said, instead she focused on his lips, they looked attractive to her, and she couldn´t wait to kiss them again. Mulan got back to reality and started to pay attention, but then she got distracted thinking about what a good general Shang was.
Just then, Lynn and Tung Ma arrived running. Shang was interrupted when he saw them and he wasn´t quite happpy about it.
"Where were you?" he demmanded.
"Well...I was...erm...helping my cousin to put his horse in the stable," explained Tung Ma.
Shang raised an eyebrow and said," Can´t he do it by himself?"
Lynn just stayed quiet her cheeks started to turn pink. Maybe her secret would be discovered after all and she wouldn´t be allowed to stay.
"Well, yes but I had to meet him there," Tung Ma lied," You see he´s mute and I needed to help him out to introduce himself so I had to go and wait him there."
Shang nodded. Did he actually believe that little liar? Shang stayed quiet so Tung Ma decided to say," Well, since my cousin here is a very good warrior, my uncle wants him to be enlisted with me and the other soldiers that´ll leave tomorrow."
"He has to be TRAINED to go to battle, and as I can tell, he hasn´t been here before," replied Shang matter o factly.
"He knows martial arts."
"He has to be prepared for war, we can´t just send people to go to war and kill themselves."
Tung Ma looked at Lynn, he could tell she was scared to death inside, but she showed some courage. Lynn looked back at her boyfriend, Tung Ma could tell by the look in her eyes that she wanted to stay no matter the dangers she was about to face. Tung Ma smiled at her reassuringly and asked," What if he shows you his skills?" He sounded rather suggesting.
"Maybe later," replied Shang turning his back on them.
"You have to listen to this, it´s important," said Tung Ma.
Lynn narrowed her eyes at the General; he could be so impossing at times. Tung Ma told Lynn to sit with the rest of the soldiers and he went with Shang. "It won´t take us long you know."
"Can´t you wait a couple of minutes?" replied Shang irritated. Boy he was a pain in the neck.
"No!" Tung Ma answered stubbornly," because we´re leaving tomorrow right?"
Shang frowned; Tung Ma was certainly crossing the limits... he was practically yelling at the General and also demmanding him to do what he wanted and at the moment he wanted.
"Look, if you don´t want to be kicked out of here and dishonor your family just shut up and wait!" With that, Shang turned his back on him again, and Tung Ma joined Lynn and the other recruits. The general continued giving instructions and Tung Ma stopped insisting; but still, he wasn´t going to give up. Now that Lynn had come all this far just to be with him, he woudn´t leave her alone and miss her. Who knows what kind of pranks would those pesky little recruits would play on his dear Lynn.
After Shang finally finished talking, everyone went to do the exercises of the day. That is everyone except for Lynn and Tung Ma.
Shang was supervising the arrow shooting, checking that no one would be cheating. Suddenly, Tung Ma tapped Shang on his shoulder," I think you have ..." He was cut by Shang." Ok, hold on just one second please," the general said politely despite of he was sick and tired of hearing the stubborn soldier. Shang went to look for Mulan so she would take care of looking over the recruits.Then, he lead Lynn and Tung Ma to the place in which the soldiers practiced the sparing matches. Actually it wasn´t very far from the arrow shooting space. The three of them agreed that Lynn was sparing with the general. Lynn felt so confident.
Shang and Lynn bowed first. Shang allowed Lynn to begin to deliver blows and kicks at him, and she was quite an expert , but still, Shang managed to dodge all the agressions. Shang tried to kick Lynn but he didn´t succeed much.
Just then, Mulan arrived in the middle of their match. Shang noticed Mulan was watching him, and well... he wanted to show off a bit in front of her to impress her. The thought of Mulan made him lose his concentration, so Lynn took the advantage and knocked his body on the ground.
Lynn smirked and Tung Ma started to clap at her. He was so proud of her.
"Ok, you may come with us," said Shang as he got to his feet and cleaned his robes.
Lynn smiled so self-satisfied with herself, and Tung Ma thanked Shang.
"Go catch up with the others," commanded Shang.
Lynn and Tung Ma nodded, and turned to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Shang called," What´s his name?"
"Ling," replied Tung Ma quickly, completely unaware that there was someone else called Ling in there. With that, the couple left.
"You are very good at it," said Mulan.
Shang placed his hand on Mulan´s shoulder and said,"I think I disappointed you today."
Mulan shook her head and grinned mischieviously." I distracted you that´s why you didn´t win."
Shang smiled back at her.
I´d like to know what do you think about Lynn, she comes from my big imagination. I hope you guys are liking her so far.