Hello and welcome to chapter 3. Uhhh..... I have nothing else really to say except that I don't own any of these characters so on with the show or read or whatever.

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Mulan was exhausted by the time all the rice was picked up that day. The soldiers did not even stop until well past dark and even then the captain, his name I found out was Shang, was still reluctant to let them leave. He wanted to make them do exercises but they all grumbled and so he let them leave.

When Mulan arrived at her tent she immediately fell asleep, I stayed up for a few minutes getting ready to set up my little diary that I will write to monitor Mulan's progress through the months at camp. Once I was done setting everything up, I found a nice spot in her shoe and curled up in it. It smelled of corn chips but I did not care because I kinda liked that smell and I was soon instantly asleep.

I woke up before Mulan the next morning and decided to make breakfast for her just so she would not have to. I found some rice in her knapsack and a slice of bacon and a few eggs which gave me an idea of how to make them for her.

I made a fire and began to cook the food. The sun was just coming up making the sky all orange and nice. I watched it while the food cooked. Khan was a few steps away eating some grass and watched it also. He also whinnied at me for no good reason; I knew he did not like me. But I just pretended he was not there.

Once the food was done cooking I put it in a bowl and ran back into the tent. I thought about how to wake Mulan until I found Cri Kee sleeping in one of her socks. I picked him up and twisted his wings until I felt he had enough and let him go in front of Mulan's ear.

Mulan jumped up with a start. I put my nose right up to her face. "Alright rise and shine Sleeping Beauty." I say to her. "C'mon up, up, up," I tell her while hitting her head which is a very easy way to wake some one because they can no longer handle being hit in the head a hundred million times.

She just ignored me and covered her head over her covers; I just went over to the bottom of her covers and pulled them off. "Get your clothes on, get ready, got breakfast for you," I tell her. She stood up when I told her I had breakfast. I jumped on her knee and showed her my little creation of rice with a piece of bacon that looked like a mouth smiling and two sunny side up eggs that looked like eyes. "Look you get porridge, and it's happy to see ya," I tell her.

Suddenly Cri Kee pops out from under the porridge; I did not even know he was in there. "Ger out of there, you gonna make people sick," I tell him as I throw him out with my chopsticks. "Am I late?" asked Mulan sleepily. I ignore her and begin to stuff rice down her throat. "No time to talk. Now remember it's your first day of training, so listen to you teacher, and no fighting, play nice with the other kids, unless of course when the other kids wanna fight, then you have to kick the other kids butt," I said and I then smiled at her. Her mouth was now full of food; she actually looked like a hamster who had just stuffed its cheeks with seeds.

"But I don't wanna kick the other kids butt," she said with her mouth full. I hate it when some one talks with their mouth full; I've been spat at way too many times. "Don't talk with your mouth full, now let's see your war face," I tell her. She was still unable to swallow and still looked like a hungry hamster. "Oh I think my bunny slippers just ran for cover, c'mon scare me girl," I said to her. Mulan then quickly swallowed and growled causing me to fly off her knee.

"Yeah that's my tough looking warrior," I tell her while I put her hair up in a pony tail. "Now get out there and make me proud," I tell her. Suddenly Khan pokes his head in and whinnies at her urgently. "What do you mean the troops just left?" I asked him. "They what?!" said Mulan surprised. She jumped up so fast that she knocked down the tent. I lost her in a sea of white until I found her sword and ran out. "Wait you forgot your sword," I call to her, but she kept running. I then get the sniffles because she was now going to war. "My little baby's off to destroy people," I say. Cri Kee just pats my nose until I get over it and I then run off to the camp to watch Mulan try her skills.

The rest of this chapter will consist of what Mushu wrote in his diary about what happened to Mulan every week.

Week 1 I found a nice rocky outcropping to watch Mulan from while she was training. This morning Shang tried to get them to climb up a pole and retrieve an arrow. At first I thought Mulan could do this, it looked easy enough until Shang tied their arms up with very heavy pendants. Every one of the soldiers failed to retrieve the arrow, even Mulan who was the last one up and landed right on her butt when she fell. She then walked around rubbing it until Shang threw everyone a stick. At first I thought Yao was making friends with her by catching the stick for her but I was wrong when he then tripped her. I grumbled at him but decided not to do anything since violence never solved any thing.

They then began to practice with the sticks until Ling put a bug down Mulans shirt. She then squirmed around like she had done when I first decided to live behind her neck. I slapped my face at how she acted, men never do that, and boy was she acting like a man. Shang then grabs her stick and yells at her. That made me mad, nobody yells at my baby. I was about to run out there and punch him but Cri Kee held me back, and truthfully I was glad he did.

They practiced with the sticks for the rest of the day and all through that week. At night, Mulan joined the soldiers at the camp cafeteria and I would join her just to make sure she did things right. She often shared her dinner with me since I could not get the food myself and it was very good. That first night when we went back to the tent she told me how she felt about this place. She wasn't happy about joining it but knew it was for the better. I just assured her that things would get better and that I would protect her. She just smiled at me and then lay down and went to sleep. It had been a long day for her and she deserved it.

Week 2 This week, Mulan had to shoot arrows at the edge of the forest. I tagged along and decided not to hide behind her neck but in the arrow bag, which was actually quite comfortable and made me wish Mulan could keep it so I could use it as a bed. Mostly because I fell asleep on the way there on the first day and I had a hard time sleeping the night before. But she woke me when she arrived at the forest edge after she jabbed me in the shoulder with an arrow accidentally. She apologized and I accepted it while I watched her practice. The soldiers had to hit a tomato that Shang threw at them and then make it hit a circle on a tree. Of course everyone failed miserably and on the third day I decided to help Mulan buy sticking a tomato on the arrow. She just looked at it like it was a weird word problem and of course got in trouble for it. Shang made her do two hundred push ups.

After they could no longer stand trying to shoot arrows they went back to camp and had to do exercises until dinner again. It was only for two hours but everyone was still learning how to train and so they did not find that fun. One night during dinner, Mulan was so tired that she almost fell asleep in her rice. She jumped up when Ling tickled her in the side and almost punched him until she saw Shang glaring at her, so she thought twice about it and I was grateful she did that.

She did not talk to me that night either because right when she got in the tent, she jumped on her sleeping bag and instantly fell asleep. Cri Kee and I stayed up and played Chinese checkers and would you believe it the lucky bug won. I have never been beaten before and I was surprised my Cri Kee's skill. We will play again tomorrow night to see if he can do it again.

Week 3 This week we went up the mountain where Shang showed them how to hit rocks away from him with just a stick and a big bucket of water on his head. I knew Mulan would not be able to do that and I was right. On the first day she was so scared by the rocks that she ducked causing the bucket of water to fall on top of her head and soaking her. She was able to get rid of one by hitting it like a baseball. It hit Chien Po in the stomach but he did not even notice because he's so fat. Mulan was so embarrassed by that, that she almost left the bucket on but Yao had to use it next. Yao was just as bad and was hit in his one good eye and so for the rest of the day he could not see. Shang let him go back to his tent for the rest of the night.

That same night Mulan, Cri Kee, and I played Chinese checkers. Cri Kee won again, I could not believe it. What was his secret or was he just a lucky bug. Whatever the reason, I decided to play another game with him while Mulan went to bed and he still won. Yes he must be a lucky bug. But why was he not lucky when Mulan went to see the matchmaker. His battery must have been dead that day.

Week 4 This week the soldiers went to the river and tried to retrieve fish with just their bare hands. Shang showed them how it was done and a few soldiers were actually good at it. Mulan almost caught one but it slipped out of her hands. I decided to help by catching one for her. I wriggled through the water like a snake and even tricked a fish who just thought I was passing through and grabbed his tail. When I got to Mulan she had just finished trying to catch another fish but she had accidentally caught Yao's leg. She pretended nothing happened and slowly put him back in. I showed her the fish but she refused and told me she wanted to do it on her own. I let the fish go and it slapped me with its tail before it was out of sight, and knocked me out flat. Mulan just laughed at me, I mocked her and swam back to shore where I decided just to watch her and help her if she needed anything.

She was able to catch a fish but that was the only one, I thought that she actually did very well for a first try though and I wanted to give her a hug for it but decided not to, I like to hide my sentimentalism.

Every night this week Shang could make them run through a field of fire arrows. I was so nervous and my heart kept pounding while Mulan ran through them, she was almost hit an unnumbered amount of times and it soon had to stop because Yao was shot in the butt by one. Why does everything happen to him? He was alright; he was ready to practice again the next day.

Week 5 This week the soldiers had to hit really thick blocks with their heads. Ling lost a few teeth and by the end of the lesson everyone had pounding headaches and most of the blocks were still in tact. Shang was actually nice by the end of the day and let them stop early so they could heal their heads and be ready for the next day. Mulan would often lie in the tent trying to get rid of her headache. I put a damp cloth on her forehead and after a while she felt better.

One night, dinner was just rice and only a handful of soldiers would show up because of headaches. Yao, Chien Po, and Ling were there though and got into a food fight with Mulan. It was kinda fun until a chopstick went up Yao's nose. He blamed it on Mulan and soon both were in a fist fight. That didn't last long because Shang came and stopped them and of course told them to do two hundred push ups for their behavior.

Week 6 This was one of the busiest weeks ever. There was Karate in the morning, balancing on some poles that were on a raging river, and lighting cannons after dinner. Mulan had to fight with Shang and ended up getting a black eye and was knocked flat by him. I just told her to keep trying and pushed her back out there.

The balancing on the poles was very interesting, on the first day we found out that Chien Po did not know how to swim and was so afraid that he stood frozen to one spot while everyone stood there hoping that they would not fall in. Mulan accidentally pushed Ling in and thinking that she did that on purpose, Yao pushed her in with him. They both went to shore and Ling wanted to fight but Mulan ignored him and went back to camp. I told her that that was the right decision.

After dinner they all went out to practice shooting cannons. They had them aimed at a Shan Yu doll. One night, while Mulan was trying to light hers, Ling came over and knocked down her cannon. Mulan grabbed it and it blew up in her face and flew out of range and into Chi Fu's tent. Too bad he wasn't in it at the time, man that guy has issues. Shang made Mulan run ten miles around the camp until she was exhausted and did not return until well past the time when all the other soldiers were in bed.

I gave her some hot tea and a massage when she arrived at the tent. She enjoyed them both and was soon fast asleep.

Week 7 This week Shang decided to do something different, he made the soldiers climb up the mountain with two sacks of rice on a pole. On the first day, Mulan was so tired from the night before after running ten miles and doing two hundred push ups that she collapsed half way there. Cri Kee and I tried to get her back on her feet but she would not do it. We had to disappear just in time when Shang arrived and took her pole and ran back with the soldiers. Mulan decided that it was best that she returned to camp where she practiced her Karate moves with me.

One night after dinner, Mulan decided to go take a walk and think for a while. I stayed in the tent like she told me to and played more Chinese checkers with Cri Kee. I was on a winning streak when Shang suddenly appeared and began to pack her things. I wondered what was happening and I quickly hid in a basket that was being held by Khan. A few minutes later Shang walked up to Mulan and told her to go home because she was unsuited for war. Mulan did not say anything and began to walk sadly out of the camp.

I was going to tell her that she was better off going home any way when she suddenly stopped by the pole that had the arrow on top of it. She stared at it for who knows how long until she decided to try it one last time. The first few tries at trying to get up there were failures until she had an idea. She twisted the two weights around the pole and used them as a shimmy to climb up. It was such hard work for her but I cheered her on.

Just when the first ray of sun came up she reached the top. The soldiers saw her do this and cheered for her. Shang ran out to see what the commotion was about. Mulan threw the arrow right at his feet and he looked up at her in astonishment. He could not believe it. Mulan just sat up there with a big smile on her face. She had accomplished something that no one else could and it made me proud.

Shang was nice to them that day and let them practice or hang out if they wanted. All the men congratulated Mulan on her success and a few even hung out with her. I just hoped that Mulan would do better in her other skills.

Week 8 Wow!!!!! Mulan has turned into a real soldier these past few days. Already she has been able to shoot tomatoes but not the targets on the tree; she is still working on that. All the soldiers have been able to jump from pole to pole while crossing the river. She has even been able to knock the blocks with her head. I can't wait to watch her some more because every day she is getting tougher and tougher. If only the ancestors can see me now

Week 9 DOUBLE WOW!!!!!!! Mulan is now what I call a soldier. The other day she caught eight fish in one catch. Ran through the fire arrows and no one was hurt. Shot the cannons and hit the doll. She hit Shang in the face while practicing Karate, and has deflected almost every rock coming her way. I think that in no time we will be assisting the general in our battle with Shan Yu but for now. Mulan still needs to get her Chinese checkers skills in because I'm still beating her.

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Well there's chapter 3 for ya. I hope I spaced her success long enough through the weeks because sometimes people improve in that amount of time but some don't. Any way please review if you want to and check out my other story that I have written. See you next week