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Hi.....None of the Disney characters are mine, only the dragon, which is coming up in the story. Please read and review my chapters, then I will consider writing more!

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Chapter 2: Chi Fu's visit

You could hear their horses coming. It was Chi Fu and some solders, that were there to make sure nothing happened to him. Shang approached him while he was still on his horse. Shang out of respect bowed down at the man. Chi Fu smiled at the young Captain, and dismounted off his horse. Mulan hated Chi Fu he was a snobby, stubborn old man. He didn't care about anyone else but his self.

"Oh joy he's back!" Yao said sarcastically, nudging Ling in the arm. " Ha! This is going to be interesting." Added Ling, who had an evil look on his face. " Guys just don't do any thing stupid ok." " Why do you care so much Mulan? Let me guess you don't want Shang to get a bad report, do ya?" Yao said snickering at Mulan. Ling and Chien Po just started laughing. Mulan blushed of embarrassment.

" Oh come on Mulan we all know you got feelings for him!" Yao said even louder. All the men around them started laughing. Mulan couldn't take it any more, She began to run away. They all stopped laughing and tried calling her name to come back but she didn't stop. " Was it something I said?" He said shrugging his shoulders.

Mulan stopped when she went up to a little pond, that was surrounded by tall grass and some trees. She crouched down and began to weep. Mushu who was on Khan saw that she was all along near the pond crying. " Lets go see what's wrong." Khan neighed and trotted over next to her. Khan nudged her on the shoulder. She didn't even bother looking up. Khan then laid down right next to her.

" Babe!..... Hey, what's wrong?" Mulan picked up her head. Her eyes were all watery and red from crying. " Everyone! I wish I were home." She sank her head down on Khan's neck and began to cry once more. " What happened?" " Everyone was making fun of me and telling me that I like Shang." Mushu walked up to her and his ears went back, " Hey! Just don't pay attention to them, ok." Mulan looked up at him and gave him a little hug.

" Ok guys......Where's Mulan?" Shang said looking for her. " She ran away, because Yao said something." One solder said " I didn't know she would just ran away." " Alright, alright, I'm going to look for her when I'm gone I want you to work on Martial arts moves, got it." " Got it." They all responded back. Shang then went off looking for her.

Chi Fu then came out, looking for Shang while all the men there were working on Martial arts practices. " Where is the Captain?" Holding up his note pad, ready to write. " He went to go look for Mulan." Chien Po said. " Really?" He said with a stern look on his face, Something was up and he knew this wasn't good.

Shang reached an area where Mulan was close by, " Mulan" he called out her name several more times. Still no answer. " Mulan" Mulan lifted her head it was Shang, and he wasn't far away. She wondered if she should get up and motion him where she was. She decided not to. She didn't want him to see her like this. Shang saw Khan and ran towards that direction. He stopped and saw that Mulan was next to Khan. He walked slowly over to her and said, " Mulan what are you doing here?" " Go away!" He could tell be her voice that she had been crying.

" Mulan, What's wrong?" He went over by her and sat next to her. Khan on the other hand gave him a warning look, as if saying not to come any closer. Shang stayed his distance. " Nothing." " You sound like you've been crying though." She turned around to face him. He saw that her eyes were red from crying. " It's nothing really." " Then why were you crying?" She took a deep breath and began, " Everyone started making fun of me, because I told them not to fool around with Chi Fu." She sniffed, and wiped away the tears with her hands.

" Why did you tell them that I thought you........." " So you wouldn't get in trouble that's why." Shang looked at her with curiousness. Why would she say that? Was it because she has feelings for me? Shang thought but shook away those thoughts. Before Shang could say anything he heard someone cough really load to get their attention.

They turned around to see that it was Chi Fu standing there with his note pad and his hands folded across his chest. Shang got up immediately and stood straight up, Mulan did the same. " Hum.... You better have not been doing anything, now go back to your troops!"

" Yes, sir." Shang said and walked away and didn't even look back at Mulan. Mulan right behind him wiped the remaining tears from her eyes, so it didn't look so obvious that she was crying. When they got back they continued with the exercises for the day. Chi Fu as always wrote notes on his pad of paper.

Yao and Mulan were partnered up again for a sword dull this time. They both took their swords and crashed into one an other, with stroke movements. Mulan tripped him on the ground and held the sword to his chest. Yao closed his eyes in a bit of fear that she might strike him for what he had said to her. He opened his eyes then saw her hand in front of his face so she could help him up.

He took her hand and with her help and was up again. " You're not mad at me?" " I'm over it." She simple said, and smiled at him. " Want to try one more time?" " Your on!" He said then took a fighting stance and got ready for any move that she was about to take.

When they were done Mulan decided that she would get something quick to eat. As she got a quick egg roll she munched on it while walking to Khan, who was grassing. " Hey buddy." She padded his neck. She sat down next to him while she finished eating her egg roll.

" I guess he doesn't go anywhere does he." Shang approached Mulan. She looked up at him, and smiled, " No, he knows to stay close by." Shang crouched down in front of her, and looked at her. " I'm sorry if I've been hard on you." " No, you're only doing your job." " Well I'm sorry, I promise I that I won't react like that again." " Ok!" Shang got up and went towards Chi Fu who was waiting for him by his tent.

Mulan looked at Khan and smiled. Well at least Shang doesn't hate me, she thought. She then brushed the crumbs off her hands. " Well Khan you ready to go on a ride?" Khan's head perked up as if he was ready to go. Mulan laughed to herself. She began to tack up Khan for the ride. She already told Shang that she was going to go on a trail, so that he didn't have to worry about her when she was gone.

Mulan mounted on Khan and got everything situated from there. " All right Khan lets go!" Khan neighed and began to gallop away. She made her way though the crowd of guys, she passed past Shang and waved good bye to him, he waved back.

As Mulan got into the forest she slowed Khan down a bit. And looked around her surroundings. Mushu then came out and stood on top of Khan's neck. " Woohooo!" Mulan giggled. All of a sudden Mulan heard a big thump in the forest. She immediately stopped Khan and looked around. " What was that?" Then she heard a roar that was coming from inside the forest.

"Mulan, what are you doing, we should get out of here?" Mulan didn't listen she was already off her horse and heading into the forest. " Huh..... Know I have to go after her, why doesn't she listen?" He jumped off and ran towards Mulan's direction. Khan also was right behind her. The forest was quiet and dark. She had never been in it before. Mulan stopped abruptly and stared in shook of what she had found.

" What are you looking at Mulan..............." Mushu looked in the same direction she was staring at and was speechless. " It's a Dragon!" she said in a whisper. " Yeah but it doesn't look friendly now lets get out of here!" He started running back but Mulan grabbed hold of him and went towards the creature. The dragon could sense her presents. He turned towards her direction quickly like a bolt of lighting, and roared at her making her fall back in fear and surprise. He was tied up though so he couldn't reach far.

The dragon struggled to get out but it was hopeless. She stood back up and only stared at the dragon, which was not happy at all he moaned and groaned trying to get towards her. Trying to escape from the tight and heavy ropes." It's ok, I'll help you." She spoke softly to it. Mushu jumped in front of her," Your what, NO! Mulan bad idea, it will eat you." Mushu said now trying to hold her back. She bent down near the post where it was hooked up at.

The Dragon looked at her, but didn't move, or hurt her, simple just watched her. But once she took out her sword he went after her but stopped when he saw that she cut the rope for him. He looked at Mulan and wondered why she just did that? Wasn't she afraid of him? She continued to set the creature free. He breathed hard on her watching every move that she made.

Now the Dragon was free, he stretched out sore from being all tied up. He had stains of blood on his scaly dark red skin, where the thick ropes held him. " There you're free now." Mulan said as she put away her sword and went towards Khan and Mushu who just stared at the huge Dragon with fear. " I can't believe you just did that, he's probably going to eat us now." " Mushu." She looked at the dragon, he just stared back at her didn't even make a move just stared at her. " Why was it put here?" turning back to Mushu.

" Probably so it couldn't kill any one." " No, I'm serious, Dragons will only kill if they have to, plus you should know that you're a dragon!"

" I knew that, It was probably put there to suffer or something. now lets get out of here before it changes his mind about eating us." Mulan rolled her eyes and mounted on Khan. When she looked up to see if the dragon was still there watching, it wasn't. She just shook her head and headed back to camp.

" Oh and how about we don't tell anyone about this ok Mulan" "Ok Mushu, plus I don't even think they would believe me." She continued her journey back to camp, the whole way talking about the Dragon and wondering how it got there. You would think that she would have been afraid of it but it really didn't seem to bother her that much. It was kind of like Mushu but only bigger.

But she didn't know that in the dark forest the creature's eyes were kept on Mulan the whole trip back to camp.

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Oh....... It just got interesting, heheh.... Well what do you think, please review me and tell me. Oh and just for future notice if I do put any lyrics of songs in the story please don't sue me I got it from the Internet.

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