Ookay this Chapter is SAD! I'm not going to lie. I made another sad story for a bit. I think I know how to make this story end. I'll talk to you guys later.

oh the lyrics belong to selena and the names Mulan, Shang fa li fa zhou grandmother fa ect...belong to disney.

Chapter 13 truth be told...

Mulan sat in the living room. Her family and Shang joined her. Shang sat beside her.

"Now, Mulan. We trust you,but we HAVE to know exactly what happened when you went to Shang's house. If not these men might punish you. Did you embarass the matchmaker's niece?" Fa Zhou asked. Mulan remained quiet. "Please tell us." Mulan looked at Shang for advice but he was staring at her too, he also wanted to know what all was going on. Mulan sighed. and she told the story the best she could, while still leaving out the dreams. Fa Zhou remained quiet, as did Fa Li. Mulan finally finished and waited for the lecture to begin.

"You hit her?" Fa Li started. Mulan nodded. Fa li opened her mouth to begin telling Mulan about tradition, when Fa Zhou gave her a warning look to stop.

"Let's just pray that Sui-yen's story didn't stray too far from the truth." Shang added.

"You know how her story's going to be." Mulan felt body grow hot. " I'll look horrible, She'll add that I wasn't clothed, or came down to breakfast naked or something perposterous." Fa li's eyes grew wide. Her daughter just mentioned 'naked' in front of a man.

"Now, Mulan, you don't know she'd say something like that. This might just be a misunderstanding."

"My wife is correct." Fa Zhou began,"We should worry about this in the morning. For now let's get some rest and pray for happy endings." There was a knock at the door. Mulan jumped. Shang stood up ready to defend her. Fa Zhou went to the door. It was a messanger.

"I am so sorry, honorable Fa Zhou, but I come bearing a very important Message, the Li family said that I couldn't stop for anything until I delievered this message in person." Shang walked to the door.

"May I have the message then?" Shang held out his hand but the messanger shook his head.

"this message is not for you sir, it's for Fa Mulan." Shang turned to Mulan. what did his mother need to tell Mulan? She walked up took the message, paid the messanger and pointed him in the direction of the nearest inn. After the messanger left Mulan opened the note.

"It's from Ming Li, and Zhong Li." Mulan looked at the letter.

"What did they say?" Shang asked Mulan stared at the note, as if it wasn't written in Chinese.

"They said." Mulan read, "Not everything is as it appears. Don't wait to let your feelings show, not all dreams need to come true." Mulan read it a few times more. "Wonder what it means." Her father and mother turned and walked towards the bedroom.

"We'll let you two figure that one out." Fa zhou added as he went to bed, leaving Mulan and shang in the main room.

"Do you think they know something we don't?" Mulan asked sitting down. Shang joined her.

"I can never tell with my grandparents." They sat in comfortable silence."I think we should listen to your family." Shang began. "Worry about this all tomorrow. I'm sure it will straighten itself out then." Mulan nodded. Shang walked her to her room.

"I guess you should head back before the boys notice that you're gone." Mulan smiled and looked down at the floor.

"Yeah, I guess so." Shang confessed looking slightly akward. "I guess I'll see you in the morning?" He put his hand out for her. Mulan took his hand.

"Yeah, in the morning." She replied, and then lifted herself up on tip-toe and kissed him on the cheek. Shang smiled and they went their seperate ways.

Mulan tossed and turned all night. She kept dreaming of the men from the village chasing her calling out 'Adultress.' And as the men got closer and closed in on her they turned into a ferocious, firey red, dragon that hissed 'adultresssss' and when it made the 's' sound with it's tounge, fire would come out. Mulan could smell the sulfery smell. She felt the dragon grow closer and more hot, It opened it's giant mouth and swallowed her. She could hear Shu Fang crying. The shrill scream getting louder, and louder.

Mulan woke in a fit. She looked at Shu Fang who was screaming. The dream was so real. Mulan could still smell the smoke. She looked around. The House was on fire! That was real smoke she was smelling. She quickly darted out of bed and grabbed Shu Fang. She opened the door. The smoke was thicker in the living room. She burst into Shang's room and woke him and the boys. And shang went to go wake Fa Zhou and Fa Li while Mulan and Shu fang made it outside. Mulan rushed outside and began to look for someone to help. She knew that noone would help because it was late. But what she didn't expect was that there would be people outside of her house. They were just staring at the house in mute horror. Fa Li and Fa Zhou came outside and joined Mulan. She looked around. But her family came outside. The boys soon joined them. But no Shang.

"Where's Shang?" Mulan asked looking frantically for him. She held Shu Fang tighter.

"He's still inside he's trying to save Grandma!" One of the boys cried. Mulan's eyes grew wide. She watched the house and prayed that Shang would come running out with her grandmother soon. She was not prepared for what she heard. She heard a sickening cry from an old woman and a crack in the structure of the house and then she watched in pure horror as the house structure fell in and collapsed. Mulan felt sick. She had the urge to just throw up. She knew everyone else heard the scream and knew what happened. Mulan dropped to her knees. She then felt Shu Fang get lighter. Mulan pulled the girl away from her and noticed that the little girl quit breathing.

"Mama" Mulan called and she began her mother bent down to Mulan and Mulan showed her Shu Fang. "Her spirit's gone. She's lighter." Mulan began crying.

"The fire was too much for her." Her mother began showing tears. Mulan had never seen her mother cry. This was all her fault. She laid Shu Fang down on the ground and looked at the suprised look of all the people from the village. They probably started the fire. it was one of them.. But which one. She searched their faces until she landed on one. Sui- Yen's. Sui-Yen stared at her. Her eyes bore into Mulan's . Sui-Yen smiled and mouthed. 'Adultress'.

I promise this story will get happier. It's going to be a bit of a drama now.. This all came to me during school so this is kinda an improv. Let me know what you think Reviews are loved. Anyways this always makes me think of a song "Dreaming of you" By Selena. Here are the lyrics. I can kinda hear them playing in the background. During the parts where Mulan and Shang were in the same room I could see one singing this to the other one. but I didn't want to make this a musical.

lyrics:

Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you And I wish on a star that somewhere you are Thinking of me too

Cause I'm dreaming of you tonight Till tomorrow I'll be holding you tight And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be Than here in my room dreaming about you and me

Wonder if you ever see me And I wonder if you know I'm there If you looked in my eyes Would you see what's inside Would you even care? I just wanna hold you close But so far all I have a dreams of you So I wait for the day And the courage to say how much I love you Yes I do!

Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you And I still can't believe That you came up to me and said "I love you" I love you too!

Now I'm dreaming with you tonight Till tomorrow and for all of my life And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be Than here in my room dreaming of you endlessly