Chapter 6:
The Great Loss
Mulan and the whole crew stopped in a nice comfortable spot to sleep. They all set up small tents and blankets and got ready for bed.
Mulan helped Shang to put up a small tent for them to both sleep in. Mulan began to get some of the parts for the tent when she felt Shang hands on top of hers. "You want me to get that?"
"No, I'm ok." She took the stuff and placed it into a nice comfy area on the grass. Shang followed her.
"Mulan, I really think you should start to slow down. You can't forget you are carrying our baby inside you and you don't want to over stress on anything." Shang said picking up some of the things to make the tent and began to build it.
Mulan placed her hands on her hips, "Shang, I'm fine don't worry about it." She replied.
"Well I just don't want you to get hurt that's all, you should have been at the palace in the first place." He said in a protective kind of way.
"Well I'm sorry that I cared about your safety!" She responded by snapping back at Shang.
" I left only because I wanted you to be safe!" He snapped back at her.
"I can take care of myself Shang." She replied in a snotty mood. She crossed her arms in front of her chest in anger. Shang went up to her and stared at her with cold eyes.
"You want me to leave you alone? Fine I will!" With that he turned around and continued to fix the tent. Mulan turned around so not to see him, but she suddenly got to her knees in pain.
"Shang!" Shang turned to her seeing that she was on the ground dropped everything and went towards her.
"What?....Mulan what is it?" He asked in panic. She cringed at the pain holding her stomach.
"I think it's the baby.......It hurts Shang!" Frighten by this he took Mulan in his arms with out any objection. He placed her laying down in the tent or at least what was up. He laid down next to her holding her hands in his.
"It's ok, it's going away now....." She said as she inhaled and exhaled for air. She glanced at Shang in sympathy. "I'm sorry Shang, I'm just going through so much right now."
He leaned closer to her and placed a kiss on her forehead. "I'm sorry too, I shouldn't have yelled at you like that." He then took her hands and kissed them. "But promise me that you will take it easier."
She nodded in agreement. "I don't think our kid likes when we fight." She joked. They both began to laugh at her comment.
Shang sighed and gazed at Mulan, "I don't know what I'd do without you?" Mulan blushed, he was always so sweet. He leaned into her and brought his lips to hers. As they parted he smiled at Mulan and said, "I better go finish making the tent."
"Ok." Replied Mulan with a grin. He got up and headed outside leaving Mulan to sleep in the warm blankets.
It was dark and the soft wind blew throw the branches of the tress. Everyone was sound asleep. Chi Fu crept beneath the soft warm ground. He saw many tents with people in them and men just outside near their dead fires with blankets on top of them.
"Great how I'm I going to find them?" He spoke under his breath. He looked all around him then a small tent caught his eye. It was lightly glowing red. It was Mulan's necklace it was glowing.
He smiled evilly and went towards the small tent and flipped the flap of the tent over to reveal Mulan sound asleep. Right next to her was Shang with his arm around her waist. "Oh great!" He thought.
He slowly and quietly crept inside the tent and went by Mulan's head. He saw the necklace around her neck. He slowly brought his hands towards the necklace. Suddenly Shang moaned and brought her closer to him, making her slightly moan and move her head. They were still sound asleep. Chi Fu sighed in relief and wiped off the sweat off his forehead.
He took the necklace in his hands and slowly brought the necklace over her head. Once he had it he fled out the tent as quickly as he could. Shang eyes opened and he got into a sitting position. He looked around then at Mulan. He had a bad dream. As he laid back down the flapping of the tent flaps caught his attention. "That's strange why are they open?" He asked to himself.
He crawled over to the doorway of the flaps and closed them. He got back under the covers and placed his arm around Mulan once again and fell asleep.
Chi Fu ran as fast as he could out of the field. He stopped once in the forest. "Haha......." He laughed quietly to himself. "Now where to put you?" He said holding up the necklace as he talked to it. He spotted a waterfall and headed towards the top of it. Once at the top he dropped the necklace down the retched waters below.
The necklace fell into the water making a small splash in the water. Chi Fu then fled from the waterfall and went back towards into the Dark Forest where the Orcs waited for him.
Inside the waters of the waterfall two big dark red eyes glowed through the water. The creature growled with anger from the splash that woke him. He sniffed around to see what it might have been. He moved his nose through the waterfall, and then his whole head was through the water.
The necklace glowed red through the water making the dragon turn his huge head down below him.
He had seen this necklace before.
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"Alright it's gone now lets go........." Chi Fu said whipping his hands off.
"You must first take us to the dragons hide out first. Then.....You will get what you want." Said the Orc. The Orcs were all on their black horses waiting for Chi Fu to get on his and take them to the dragons.
He sighed, "Fine." He got on his horse and headed towards the mountains where the dragons hid away was.
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Mulan woke up and stretched. She went outside and began to get ready for the ride home. As she got Khan ready she noticed that her neck felt kind of light. She looked for the necklace around her neck it wasn't there. "Oh no." She murmured under her breath. She ran inside the tent and looked under the blankets and still nothing.
She yelled out, "Shang!" Shang hearing this ran towards his wife in the tent.
"What, what is it?"
"The necklace.... It's gone!" She exclaimed in worry.
"You sure you looked everywhere, I mean maybe you......."
"It's gone Shang, Someone must have took it."
"We'll find it Mulan, I'll go ask the guys if they have seen it." He left the tent and began to talk to his men if they have seen it. There was nothing. Men began to think that Chi fu or the Orcs could have taken it.
It was already to let now, they had to leave the place and head back to the palace.
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Up at the mountain tops dragons screams and roars filled the sky as they were being slotted. Every time a dragon died by an Orc, the heart of the dragon would be placed into the Orcs hands and glow then like magic disappear into the Orc. By this the Orcs got more powerful. Dragon's blood was shed that day. All the dragons' corpses lay on the snow full of blood.
"Are you?......"
"We are replenished now......the dragons are gone and now......Now we will help you destroy China and that girl!" Explained the Orc. They were now unstoppable they had killed so many beautiful and gentle animals that were thought of to be a monster. When really the Orcs and Chi Fu were the monster.
But they didn't know that there still lives a dragon, his name was Ho Chi, and he had Mulan's necklace that Chi Fu dropped in the waterfall. He watched in horror at the site of his home and the dead bodies of dragons on the floor. There was only him and some dragons that were out west from here. But these were his friends and family now they lay in the snow, dead.
He watched from the distance as the Orcs left on their horses. He growled in pain and anger. He wanted to go after them and kill them but he would wind up dead like his friends. He came out of the forest and looked at the sight before him.
"Rah..........." He roared releasing some of the anger and pain deep inside him. A tear escaped from his dark eyes. Raising his claw he stared at the necklace that he gave Mulan. He knew what he had to do now. He had to return the necklace to her, she was the only one that could stop this evil.
If she got the necklace back, she would be able to save him and the rest of his kind. And she could even save China from the evil that crept nearer and nearer to her and her people.