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Chapter 8: The predictable...
The sun finally rose above the horizon. Mulan quickly and quietly slipped out of the house and summoned a carrier to deliver the note to her family as fast as he could ride.
"I want you to stay with them till they reply. Both letters." Mulan directed placing an extra coin in his hand."and they will probably feed you also." The carrier nodded and hurried off towards Mulan's home town. She then headed back into Shang's house before anyone noticed that she had left. She closed her door and looked around her room. So much had happened in the last hours. She probably ruined her and Shang's reputation, not to mention their relationship. Shang was so disgusted that he bolted out of the room before she could even talk to him. She glanced out the window and noticed that some servents were milling around outside. Surely it was almost time for breakfast.
Shang looked out of his window, there was hardly any sun up. He glanced just in time to catch Mulan slipping back into the house. 'Look,' he thought looking out at her. ' You upset her so much she tried to run away.' Shang's mind went wild with ideas of him upsetting her and causing her pain.Shang sighed and went to get dressed it would be time for breakfast soon. He just hoped Mulan didn't hate him too much.
Shang escorted Mulan to breakfast and she sat near him at the table. The family ate in silence, with the exception of Jaing who was whining about being sore but how he wanted to train again. Mulan couldn't look at Shang. She didn't want to see the anger and disappointment in his eyes.Unannounced to her, that's why Shang didn't want to look at her. Not because he was disappointed but because he feared that she'd be upset. If he saw Mulan cry he knew his heart would be broken. He frowned. She was a weakness of his.
"Mulan? Shang? why do you two look tired?" Shang looked up at his grandmother who had brought their red eyes to the attention of the whole table.
"Night terrors." Shang and mulan had replied in unison.
"I know what you mean." Zhong replied. "I heard this thump thump thump up and down the stairs all night. I thought an angry ancester was seeking revenge upon me.....uh..for no reason at all.." he smiled weakly at the people staring at him." or something ............then I noticed that it was just Juin." Everyone looked at the matchmaker. she turned red.
"Well, yeah I was having night terrors also, and I thought a small walk would do me good.." She said trying to look calm. The family ate in silence. Until Jaing decided to break it.
"I think I'll be a great General like Shang."
"Yes, you will Jaing." Mei, replied looking at her son quickly.
"And when Shang and Mulan get married then She'll live her and she can help train me too." Everyone stopped silent. Mulan coughed. Did he just say that? The matchmaker started to choke on her tea. Jaing laughed. Everyone looked back and fourth at eachother looking for a reaction. The matchmaker laughed.
"Great imagination that boy has." She laughed again. Sui-Yen followed her idea. After breakfast. Shang and Mulan went their own seperate ways. Mulan quickly changed and prepared for training she then sprinted out to where Shang told her to meet Jaing. Mulan approached the pole to see Jaing, still trying to climb the pole. The boy jumped and tried to shimmy up the pole but ended up falling down quickly. Mulan scanned the area for Shang. He was no where in sight.
"Jaing, where is Shang?" Jaing looked over to her and quit trying to climb the pole
"He said you would teach me by yourself, He had some things he had to sort out." Mulan nodded and proceded to teach him how to shoot arrows while riding a horse. It was about an hour later when she decided that she had lost enough arrows, and the horses had endured enough suffering she told him to try another training activity. Swimming.
"I can't swim in front of you.. you'll see me naked." He whined. Mulan rolled her eyes.
"You don't have to take your clothes off to swim. As a matter of fact. Soldiers will have on armour and will be weighed down so in this activity we're going to weigh you down with those weights you like so much.. It'll cool you down and if it's too heavy we'll start you off lighter. Jaing performed the task with the first weight fairly well. Mulan decided not to press her luck and ended the session.. Jaing was relieved that he was finished.
"Where do you suppose Shang would be?" Mulan looked over the fields.
"Probably in his room." Mulan headed back to the house. 'Shang was so disgusted with me that he couldn't even look at me during training. He made me train Jaing alone.' Mulan reasoned with herself. 'he had to have a better reason than that. he was probably getting some debts paid off.' She was in the house and heading up the stairs. She was certain that Shang had missed the practice because of some family matter. Nothing severe she kept saying in her head.
"Ahh, Fa Mulan." Mulan turned to face Sui-Yen. Her eyes were cold and hard. She looked happy yet evil. Mulan noted the resemblence between Sui-Yen and the matchmaker. It was in their faces. "It appears you haven't heard the news." Mulan cocked her head.
"What news?" Mulan asked sweetly, trying to make her smile as fake as she could. Sui-Yen beamed.
"Your General just agreed to marry me."Mulan stood there. She expected Shang to be a little ashamed of her but to go marry Sui-Yen? The girl he came into her room to avoid? Something was up.
"That's n-not true." Mulan stammered. She felt tears well up in her eyes. Sui-yen decided to gloat a little more.
"Why not go ask him. He told my aunt that the wedding was on." Mulan sniffed, trying to hide the anger and hold back the tears. Sui-Yen smiled. "Is the big warrior woman going to cry?" She sneered." Go ahead and cry." At that second Mulan wasn't sure what she was more aware of. Her fist connecting with Sui-Yen's stomach, or the weird sound that came out of sui-yen in her half laugh and half choke. Mulan stepped back and looked at the crumpled girl in the floor. Mulan turned and rushed to Shang's room.
Shang's room.
Shang was pacing. 'I did the right thing.' he kept thinking and reassuring himself over and over. He did purpose to Sui-yen. Mulan didn't care for him, so he was just chasing a dream, and besides, she said she was content with her family. She wouldn't want to leave them.Shang turned and started pacing again. He was on his millionth lap when Mulan had burst into his room.
"Knocking isn't a strong point of ours is it?" He joked trying to ease the tension that had just entered with Mulan. He then noticed the tears in Mulan's eyes.
"You purposed to Sui-Yen?" She asked in disbelief. Shang stood there. Bad news traveled fast.
"Yeah, I did. I think I made the best decision, Mulan." Mulan bit her lip and balled her fists tighter, and tighter.
"Then was all of what happened last night a set up?!" She felt her anger rising, and her nails digging into her palms. Shang looked at her confused.
"What do you mean, a set up?"
"You came into my room to avoid Sui-Yen, and that horrible woman. Did you know she was going to find us together? Did you want to do that to sever any ties you think you might owe me? Were you being nice to me only because I had saved your life, and you felt you owed it to me?!" Mulan ended the last part in a scream. Shang winced. He stood motionless.
"Mulan, you're one of my best friends, why would I hurt you?" Mulan heard Shang put an emphasis on the word friend. That was all she was to him.
"Friend?! FRIEND?! ha!" She turned to leave but turned to face Shang again. "I'm leaving in the morning. Please do me a favor." She felt her throat tighten and the tears she was trying so desperatly to hold back let loose and fall freely. "Don't invite me to the wedding." and with that she ran to her room, shut the door, threw herself on the bed and cried. Shang, walked to the door way after her and watched her run to her room.
"I did this for you." He said softly. "Why can't I make the right choices." He slowly closed his door. He couldn't shake the image of Mulan's tear streaked face, she actually thought that he would do such a horrible thing as plan them getting caught in the same room. She didn't know what he had just done to keep that old hag of a matchmaker from hurting her.
Mulan's room.
Mulan fell on her bed. Her vision blurred by her tears. She had let her hands relax and noticed the dots of blood coming from her palms from where she had dug her nails into her hands. She got an old rag and wiped the blood off of her hands. She sat on her bed trying to take it all in. Wondering how long till Shang's family kicks her out for punching their new member of the family. She knew leaving in the morning would be the best. There was a knock at the door.
"Shang, I don't want to talk about it..." Mulan growled.
"Uh, m'aam it's me. the currier." Mulan smiled sheepishly. She had completely forgotten about him.
"Oh, okay one minute." She quickly ran to the door and opened it. The man handed her two letters.
"They were nice people. They gave me some nice food. I like it there." Mulan smiled
"I do too." and with that the man turned and left. Mulan closed her door and quickly went to opening her mother and father's letter.
Mulan
We are glad to hear you are coming home soon. But if you have things to finish, please finish them. You know we are okay. You're uncle stopped by. He is visiting with his three kids. You remember the boys? They're 5 and 6 now. His wife just had a third child. A girl. Unfourtunatly, she died in child birth. You're uncle, Cheng, is very heart broken, and he doesn't know how to care for a child. So he is staying with us. Please enjoy your time over there visiting with General Li. We hope to see you soon.
Love,
your father.
Mulan smiled at the thought of her house overrun with those boys. She could just imagine those boys running through the gardens playing with the swords, much in the way she used to as a child. She then remembered her grandmother's letter. Quickly she opened it and read.
Mulan
Some how trouble all ways seems to follow you.. But somehow these two cousin's of yours isn't our after you.. They're here. You are looking at this Sharing dreams and Being caught in the same room with Shang all wrong. The sharing of dreams is a gift. Not a curse and it's telling you something, You are more free of the Chinese traditions in your dreams. and as for Shang, Maybe he doesn't know how to take the idea. What if He is full of just as many doubts as you are? What if he's going through what you are? Don't give up on Shang, even if that matchmaker somehow got him to purpose to that little bratty Sui-Yen. If you don't fight for yourself, then fight for me. I want you to have a man like him. You deserve the best. And he is... I won't go into that. Please just listen to Shang. Hear him out.
Love,
Grandmother Fa.
Mulan read the letter twice. Hear Shang out. She consitered it. Maybe later. But what could he have to say? I love Sui-Yen? She heard it herself. He said she was a friend. He doesn't think of her as anything else but a friend. it's hopeless. 'Stupid dream sharing.' Mulan grumbled in her head. Then it hit her. She never told her Grandmother about her sharing dreams with Shang. And how could she have known about Shang purposing to Sui-Yen if it just happened before she got the letter? Something was up.
Back to Shang.
Shang laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. He heard a knock at his door.
"Mulan is that you?" He asked looking over to the door. The door opened and Sui-Yen walked in. Shang sighed. "Sui-yen you better leave, I don't want to ruin your reputation."' Lord knows who I'd have to marry to help you out.' he thought sullenly. Sui-Yen walked further in.
"You should see what that brutal woman did to me." She whined walking closer. Shang stood up.
"I don't care to see what that Matchmaker woman did to you." Shang said, slightly annoyed.
"Not her, That Mulan creature. She punched me in the stomach." Sui-yen pointed to where Mulan hit her. Shang thought back to when Mulan had hit him in training. She could hit hard. He smiled. "Are you laughing at me general?" Sui-yen asked seductivly.Shang walked away from her.
"This is not proper. Please leave my room."
"But we're engaged. That's more proper than having that other girl in your room." She whined.
"Sui-yen. out." Shang demanded. as soon as she had stepped on the other side of the doorway he shut the door. He walked back to his bed and sat down. He heard the door open again.
"Get out!"
"Sir?" He turned. It was one of his servants. Shang sighed with relief. With his luck that would have been Mulan.
"Yes?" He asked looking at the nervous servant.
"You're grandparents wish to see you..."
What could they have to say? This should be a longer story for you guys. Sorry for the grammer mistakes. It's slowly starting to sound like Dawson's creek..it won't later I hope. Yeah the story's a bit predictable right now. but it will be changed up a bit later. promise.
Chapter 8: The predictable...
The sun finally rose above the horizon. Mulan quickly and quietly slipped out of the house and summoned a carrier to deliver the note to her family as fast as he could ride.
"I want you to stay with them till they reply. Both letters." Mulan directed placing an extra coin in his hand."and they will probably feed you also." The carrier nodded and hurried off towards Mulan's home town. She then headed back into Shang's house before anyone noticed that she had left. She closed her door and looked around her room. So much had happened in the last hours. She probably ruined her and Shang's reputation, not to mention their relationship. Shang was so disgusted that he bolted out of the room before she could even talk to him. She glanced out the window and noticed that some servents were milling around outside. Surely it was almost time for breakfast.
Shang looked out of his window, there was hardly any sun up. He glanced just in time to catch Mulan slipping back into the house. 'Look,' he thought looking out at her. ' You upset her so much she tried to run away.' Shang's mind went wild with ideas of him upsetting her and causing her pain.Shang sighed and went to get dressed it would be time for breakfast soon. He just hoped Mulan didn't hate him too much.
Shang escorted Mulan to breakfast and she sat near him at the table. The family ate in silence, with the exception of Jaing who was whining about being sore but how he wanted to train again. Mulan couldn't look at Shang. She didn't want to see the anger and disappointment in his eyes.Unannounced to her, that's why Shang didn't want to look at her. Not because he was disappointed but because he feared that she'd be upset. If he saw Mulan cry he knew his heart would be broken. He frowned. She was a weakness of his.
"Mulan? Shang? why do you two look tired?" Shang looked up at his grandmother who had brought their red eyes to the attention of the whole table.
"Night terrors." Shang and mulan had replied in unison.
"I know what you mean." Zhong replied. "I heard this thump thump thump up and down the stairs all night. I thought an angry ancester was seeking revenge upon me.....uh..for no reason at all.." he smiled weakly at the people staring at him." or something ............then I noticed that it was just Juin." Everyone looked at the matchmaker. she turned red.
"Well, yeah I was having night terrors also, and I thought a small walk would do me good.." She said trying to look calm. The family ate in silence. Until Jaing decided to break it.
"I think I'll be a great General like Shang."
"Yes, you will Jaing." Mei, replied looking at her son quickly.
"And when Shang and Mulan get married then She'll live her and she can help train me too." Everyone stopped silent. Mulan coughed. Did he just say that? The matchmaker started to choke on her tea. Jaing laughed. Everyone looked back and fourth at eachother looking for a reaction. The matchmaker laughed.
"Great imagination that boy has." She laughed again. Sui-Yen followed her idea. After breakfast. Shang and Mulan went their own seperate ways. Mulan quickly changed and prepared for training she then sprinted out to where Shang told her to meet Jaing. Mulan approached the pole to see Jaing, still trying to climb the pole. The boy jumped and tried to shimmy up the pole but ended up falling down quickly. Mulan scanned the area for Shang. He was no where in sight.
"Jaing, where is Shang?" Jaing looked over to her and quit trying to climb the pole
"He said you would teach me by yourself, He had some things he had to sort out." Mulan nodded and proceded to teach him how to shoot arrows while riding a horse. It was about an hour later when she decided that she had lost enough arrows, and the horses had endured enough suffering she told him to try another training activity. Swimming.
"I can't swim in front of you.. you'll see me naked." He whined. Mulan rolled her eyes.
"You don't have to take your clothes off to swim. As a matter of fact. Soldiers will have on armour and will be weighed down so in this activity we're going to weigh you down with those weights you like so much.. It'll cool you down and if it's too heavy we'll start you off lighter. Jaing performed the task with the first weight fairly well. Mulan decided not to press her luck and ended the session.. Jaing was relieved that he was finished.
"Where do you suppose Shang would be?" Mulan looked over the fields.
"Probably in his room." Mulan headed back to the house. 'Shang was so disgusted with me that he couldn't even look at me during training. He made me train Jaing alone.' Mulan reasoned with herself. 'he had to have a better reason than that. he was probably getting some debts paid off.' She was in the house and heading up the stairs. She was certain that Shang had missed the practice because of some family matter. Nothing severe she kept saying in her head.
"Ahh, Fa Mulan." Mulan turned to face Sui-Yen. Her eyes were cold and hard. She looked happy yet evil. Mulan noted the resemblence between Sui-Yen and the matchmaker. It was in their faces. "It appears you haven't heard the news." Mulan cocked her head.
"What news?" Mulan asked sweetly, trying to make her smile as fake as she could. Sui-Yen beamed.
"Your General just agreed to marry me."Mulan stood there. She expected Shang to be a little ashamed of her but to go marry Sui-Yen? The girl he came into her room to avoid? Something was up.
"That's n-not true." Mulan stammered. She felt tears well up in her eyes. Sui-yen decided to gloat a little more.
"Why not go ask him. He told my aunt that the wedding was on." Mulan sniffed, trying to hide the anger and hold back the tears. Sui-Yen smiled. "Is the big warrior woman going to cry?" She sneered." Go ahead and cry." At that second Mulan wasn't sure what she was more aware of. Her fist connecting with Sui-Yen's stomach, or the weird sound that came out of sui-yen in her half laugh and half choke. Mulan stepped back and looked at the crumpled girl in the floor. Mulan turned and rushed to Shang's room.
Shang's room.
Shang was pacing. 'I did the right thing.' he kept thinking and reassuring himself over and over. He did purpose to Sui-yen. Mulan didn't care for him, so he was just chasing a dream, and besides, she said she was content with her family. She wouldn't want to leave them.Shang turned and started pacing again. He was on his millionth lap when Mulan had burst into his room.
"Knocking isn't a strong point of ours is it?" He joked trying to ease the tension that had just entered with Mulan. He then noticed the tears in Mulan's eyes.
"You purposed to Sui-Yen?" She asked in disbelief. Shang stood there. Bad news traveled fast.
"Yeah, I did. I think I made the best decision, Mulan." Mulan bit her lip and balled her fists tighter, and tighter.
"Then was all of what happened last night a set up?!" She felt her anger rising, and her nails digging into her palms. Shang looked at her confused.
"What do you mean, a set up?"
"You came into my room to avoid Sui-Yen, and that horrible woman. Did you know she was going to find us together? Did you want to do that to sever any ties you think you might owe me? Were you being nice to me only because I had saved your life, and you felt you owed it to me?!" Mulan ended the last part in a scream. Shang winced. He stood motionless.
"Mulan, you're one of my best friends, why would I hurt you?" Mulan heard Shang put an emphasis on the word friend. That was all she was to him.
"Friend?! FRIEND?! ha!" She turned to leave but turned to face Shang again. "I'm leaving in the morning. Please do me a favor." She felt her throat tighten and the tears she was trying so desperatly to hold back let loose and fall freely. "Don't invite me to the wedding." and with that she ran to her room, shut the door, threw herself on the bed and cried. Shang, walked to the door way after her and watched her run to her room.
"I did this for you." He said softly. "Why can't I make the right choices." He slowly closed his door. He couldn't shake the image of Mulan's tear streaked face, she actually thought that he would do such a horrible thing as plan them getting caught in the same room. She didn't know what he had just done to keep that old hag of a matchmaker from hurting her.
Mulan's room.
Mulan fell on her bed. Her vision blurred by her tears. She had let her hands relax and noticed the dots of blood coming from her palms from where she had dug her nails into her hands. She got an old rag and wiped the blood off of her hands. She sat on her bed trying to take it all in. Wondering how long till Shang's family kicks her out for punching their new member of the family. She knew leaving in the morning would be the best. There was a knock at the door.
"Shang, I don't want to talk about it..." Mulan growled.
"Uh, m'aam it's me. the currier." Mulan smiled sheepishly. She had completely forgotten about him.
"Oh, okay one minute." She quickly ran to the door and opened it. The man handed her two letters.
"They were nice people. They gave me some nice food. I like it there." Mulan smiled
"I do too." and with that the man turned and left. Mulan closed her door and quickly went to opening her mother and father's letter.
Mulan
We are glad to hear you are coming home soon. But if you have things to finish, please finish them. You know we are okay. You're uncle stopped by. He is visiting with his three kids. You remember the boys? They're 5 and 6 now. His wife just had a third child. A girl. Unfourtunatly, she died in child birth. You're uncle, Cheng, is very heart broken, and he doesn't know how to care for a child. So he is staying with us. Please enjoy your time over there visiting with General Li. We hope to see you soon.
Love,
your father.
Mulan smiled at the thought of her house overrun with those boys. She could just imagine those boys running through the gardens playing with the swords, much in the way she used to as a child. She then remembered her grandmother's letter. Quickly she opened it and read.
Mulan
Some how trouble all ways seems to follow you.. But somehow these two cousin's of yours isn't our after you.. They're here. You are looking at this Sharing dreams and Being caught in the same room with Shang all wrong. The sharing of dreams is a gift. Not a curse and it's telling you something, You are more free of the Chinese traditions in your dreams. and as for Shang, Maybe he doesn't know how to take the idea. What if He is full of just as many doubts as you are? What if he's going through what you are? Don't give up on Shang, even if that matchmaker somehow got him to purpose to that little bratty Sui-Yen. If you don't fight for yourself, then fight for me. I want you to have a man like him. You deserve the best. And he is... I won't go into that. Please just listen to Shang. Hear him out.
Love,
Grandmother Fa.
Mulan read the letter twice. Hear Shang out. She consitered it. Maybe later. But what could he have to say? I love Sui-Yen? She heard it herself. He said she was a friend. He doesn't think of her as anything else but a friend. it's hopeless. 'Stupid dream sharing.' Mulan grumbled in her head. Then it hit her. She never told her Grandmother about her sharing dreams with Shang. And how could she have known about Shang purposing to Sui-Yen if it just happened before she got the letter? Something was up.
Back to Shang.
Shang laid on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. He heard a knock at his door.
"Mulan is that you?" He asked looking over to the door. The door opened and Sui-Yen walked in. Shang sighed. "Sui-yen you better leave, I don't want to ruin your reputation."' Lord knows who I'd have to marry to help you out.' he thought sullenly. Sui-Yen walked further in.
"You should see what that brutal woman did to me." She whined walking closer. Shang stood up.
"I don't care to see what that Matchmaker woman did to you." Shang said, slightly annoyed.
"Not her, That Mulan creature. She punched me in the stomach." Sui-yen pointed to where Mulan hit her. Shang thought back to when Mulan had hit him in training. She could hit hard. He smiled. "Are you laughing at me general?" Sui-yen asked seductivly.Shang walked away from her.
"This is not proper. Please leave my room."
"But we're engaged. That's more proper than having that other girl in your room." She whined.
"Sui-yen. out." Shang demanded. as soon as she had stepped on the other side of the doorway he shut the door. He walked back to his bed and sat down. He heard the door open again.
"Get out!"
"Sir?" He turned. It was one of his servants. Shang sighed with relief. With his luck that would have been Mulan.
"Yes?" He asked looking at the nervous servant.
"You're grandparents wish to see you..."
What could they have to say? This should be a longer story for you guys. Sorry for the grammer mistakes. It's slowly starting to sound like Dawson's creek..it won't later I hope. Yeah the story's a bit predictable right now. but it will be changed up a bit later. promise.