~Hey sorry it took so long I have been busy once again with school! Fun,
fun, lol. Well here is the next chapter to my story I really hope that you
like it and I'm sorry that I made the last chapter sad.
Chapter 4: Once lost
It was a hard and long journey; Mulan was all alone in the snow path ways. She didn't know where she was, she was just glad that she lost the solders that were following her. She had been crying for her loss, she wished she could just die now; the pain that she was going through was too much for her to bear. She wrapped herself in a small thin blanket to try to keep warm from the snow and the harsh winds. She felt as if she had been stabbed a hundred times with knives, exposing her flesh, and letting the coldness blow through her insides. She kept her promise, the promise to run away and not come back for him, to live her life and away from Tin Zao. Mulan didn't know where she was now; she was all alone with no one to talk to but herself and Khan. Tears flowed down her cheeks but it made her face cold when the wind hit them. She lost Bao the one who loved her so much. She was now leaving her family behind and the friends that she knew and loved so much. She knew that there was no other way, she had to leave or they would find her and kill her, and that would be breaking her promise. She had to be strong now, and survive.
Night was falling and it began to get cold quick. To the point where Mulan couldn't feel anything, no heat. Mulan felt her eyes get heavy and everything seem to be getting fuzzy and light. She leaned over to her right side and fell off Khan. She fell unconscious, into a dreamless world, where everything began to get dark, very dark. Khan neighed, confused and worried for Mulan. So Khan neighed and jumped around not knowing what to do with his good friend lying there without hope, without help. Miles and miles away from a house or city. He got on his hinge legs and stood up neighing as loud as he could in hopes to gather attention to him and Mulan. But it was hopeless, no one was around but the wind and the snow and the tiny creatures that hid in there dens. Khan lowered his head as he saw no site of a person. He looked over to Mulan and began to walk over to her and nudge her with his nose, but nothing. He then laid down right beside her, trying to keep her warm with his head wrapped around her body.
The snow got heavier and the winds faster. The night was cold and dark. But it wasn't until a small little light of a torch came. The man got off his horse and walked over to the sleeping horse that was covered in snow and had ice coming off his main and tail. He brought the torch over to him and patted him softly until he turned over to see that Khan wasn't alone, there he saw Mulan blue and unconscious. Khan soon woke up and noticed that there was help, a man that was dressed up in a black cloak. The man too Khan's reins and pulled him up and tied him to his horse that waited there patiently. He returned his attentions to the women that just laid there unconscious, he checked for a pulse on her wrist and noticed that she still was alive with this with this he took her in his strong arms and carried her to his stallion. Placing her up there and him following up. He clicked and tapped his legs to make his pure white stallion move across the snowy path way and headed back to his little place where him and his fellow men stayed and called home.
It was a small place up in a forest near the mountains, small tents were placed every where but it was their home. No one knew about it, it was were rouges, traders and men who ran away from there life came. A mysterious place, trees for protection from the harsh winds, and nasty storms and a beautiful spring where you drink from because it was so clear and pure. "Sir? You have been out late." Said a man all cloaked up as the man that picked up Mulan. The man noticed that he wasn't alone; there was a black horse and a girl that looked as if she needed some help and fast.
"Take this horse here and call for the doctor I don't know how long this woman is going to live."
"Where did you find her sir?"
"I found her on the road why I don't know but she freezing cold and her horse was by her and it looked as if she had been there for a while. She's from the palace."
The unidentified man that saved her brought her into the doctor's tent and placed her down unto the bed. He took away the wet blanket and got some new blankets to put on her. He lit a fire to try to warm her up. As he began to tuck her in he stopped and noticed that he knew her. He moved her hair out of the way from her face and noticed that it was Fa Mulan. "Mulan..." he said under his breath. He couldn't believe his eyes. It had been years since he saw her. She looked a little bit older but so much beautiful and mature since he last saw her.
"Shang..What happened?"
The cloaked man turned around hearing his name that he didn't like as much now then he did when he was younger, when he had a life back at the palace, where he thought everything was good for him there but it turned our bad and it had been three years since his past know was coming back to haunt him. "I found her on the streets..she was all alone except for her and her horse."
As the doctor came forward to see the girl he noticed that she was indeed from the palace. But her face looked familiar to him he was about to ask who she was but Shang just told him without question, or even looking at the doctor. "Is she now?" Said the doctor who was amazed that such a hero would be out in a storm like this and that far away. "She will know are secret everyone's secret if she does live. No one must know about this place and you know that." Said the doctor.
"I know..When she gains consciousness we'll take her back to her family and leave without anything said or asked got it!" Shang ordered. "I don't want her to know that im here.." He coughed, "That we're here..."
"Yes sir." Shang began to walk out of the tent when the doctor said something that caught his attention. "Was she one of the reasons sir?" Shang stopped and stared off into the distance, but he didn't say anything he just continued to walk out. The doctor just frowned and looked back at Mulan who would need his help now. He began to softly stroke her head with a warm cloth. "Fa Mulan...I never thought I would be helping save the heroine of China." Whispered the doc. He paused and chuckled. "We'll let's see if I, Doctor Tang can work my magic on even a hero?" He chuckled to himself. He was the eldest guy in the group but the wisest. He always made a person laugh. He continued to take care of her wiping her face with the warm cloth and always making sure that she was warm. "You do know my dear that everyone hears by the end of tonight will probably know that you are here.." He said talking to her even though she was unconscious. "You must be a great, powerful person back at home; it's no wonder why Shang left when he did. You would still have him under your spell but maybe you still do?" Tang wondered. He looked over to the tent flaps and thought about the way Shang went out and ordered for his commanded to be obeyed. As he warmed up Mulan's hands he noticed that on her hand was ring, a beautiful one at that too. He stared in aw at the thing. Then it came to him, she was married. "Oh.well it looks as if you're married my dear Mulan, I wonder." He looked at Mulan then back at the ring, then outside where Shang had left. "Well, well maybe just maybe you having this little ring on your finger has something to the wonder back home 'where Shang went'?" He began to smile, then began to laugh. "Oh.my dear you do have some surprises coming your way!"
Shang sat around the fire with his fellow men and even solders that ran away to join him. They all drank and talked with one another around the warm fire. "Hey Shang! Where have you been?" Asked Zhao
"Out and that's all you need to know." Answered Shang.
"Really? Does it involve girls like your last couple?" said Wang.
Shang laughed alone with the others. "Wouldn't you like you like to know?"
"Oh.come on!" pleaded Wang.
"Let me guess you picked up a fallen angel?" Joked Zhao.
Shang began to get serious and responded his answer with, "Yea..."
They all stopped laughing and got serious when seeing that Shang wasn't joking around. "What?"
"You know whar never mind its nothing.." Shang began to get up and walk away from them when they all got up and began to follow him.
"Wait! What did you mean by that you cant just tell us that and get away without telling us something...plus you seem very serious tonight as if you saw something or someone that you didn't expect because you are usually high wired and out with all the girls and doing gutsy things yea know..so what's up?" Asked Zhao.
"Guys I'm still the same, I actually plan on see a few girls tonight and I plan to take some food for us from the huge feast that the one town near us is having...no one will know that were coming!" Announced Shang acting as if he was Evil Canival himself. The men cheered and began to walk and join in the plot for the night gaming.
"Don't forget the drinks!" Said Wang. Everyone laughed and cheered.
The doctor came rushing out and spotted Shang, everyone turned toward the doctor in confusion except for Shang who feared of what he had to say. "Shang.its Mulan.I think she." He was stopped by Shang's hand covering his mouth. He didn't want her name to be spoken here.
The men looked at him funny, wondering why he clamped his hand over the doctor's mouth. And why the doctor said 'Mulan'? "Who did you say?" Asked Wang. Thinking that the doctor couldn't have been talking about the one Mulan, the one who saved China. Plus no one else besides them and the many others only knew about the small place.
"It's nothing..Doc. I think you have to stop drinking." He slapped the elder man on his back. But the doctor was in no joking matter.
"Shang! It's not good...her heart is slowing!" Announced the doctor.
"Whose heart?" Asked Zhao.
"Mu"
"No ones no one important!" Said Shang but the men didn't give in the easily. He was hiding something and they wanted to know what. They looked at the doctor and demanded an answer.
"Mulan..Fa Mulan."
They all looked at him in shock and disbelief, it couldn't have been true why her? Why would she be there with them? All sorts of questions were going through their heads. "How did she get here?" They all began to ask. But then they looked at Shang and it all came together. "You brought her here didn't you?" Said Wang.
"I had to I found her out in the streets all alone and she was unconscious at that time and I couldn't just leave her.." Proclaimed an angry Shang.
"So in your case an angel really did fall.." commented Wang. Shang glared at Wang as if not to push him any further or he might just kill someone.
"But don't worry she's going to be leaving soon, once she is a little better then I'm going to return her to her house with out a question asked and no one will know what happened." Announced Shang about his plan.
"Really? Wasn't she the one you had a thing for back in the day?" asked Zing who came out of the corner of the tent. He was one of Shang's good friend and knew much about him.
"That was a long time ago there is nothing there anymore, besides I love the way I live and if she ever knew that I was here and still alive so much of my life would be taken away from me..I want nothing to do with her!" Screamed Shang.
"Fine! I'll come with you when we take her back, just incase any one sees either of us..we can't risk our exposure." Announced Zing.
"I still can't believe you found her though..I mean she's the hero, the one who saved all of China!" Said Wang who was still amazed about what had just happened, and what they all just found out.
"Yes, yes but I need someone to help me, I think that we're losing her!" Claimed the doctor. They all began to jog over to the doctor's tent. Some helped build a better fire, some gathered more blankets while the doctor made some median. Wang was about to putting a blanket over Mulan when he stopped and noticed that he was putting a blanket on the one hero who he thought was pretty hot. "Wow, Shang I can see why you liked the little girl, she's not bad looking..." Shang stopped Wang's hand from getting any closer to Mulan for Mulan's sake. He glared at Wang as a warning to back off her. Wang stepped back and smiled. "I wasn't going to do anything..."
"Ha! Sure you weren't..."
"Oh.come on..She the hero why would I?"
"Because Wang we all know that once you see a pretty girl you won't keep your hands off her."
"I got it!" Announced the doctor, he was finally done with the little warm stew that he made special for Mulan it was high in nutrients and had some of his special herbs in it to help her get better. He leaned over to Mulan and began to give it to her slowly. "Thank you for helping me..you can leave now and go to where you had planned. She should be fine now."
"We'll be back in the morning hopefully." Said Shang.
"Haha, stay out of trouble.." Ordered Tang.
"Aw.come on Doc. You know us.." They all began to laugh and leave the tent for their night fun leaving Tang to tend to Mualn who was still unconscious.
Tang sat their with Mulan and continued to feed her. "Girl I don't know why you came out here but it was a bad idea."
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So? What do you think is it ok? More is to come to the adventure!
Chapter 4: Once lost
It was a hard and long journey; Mulan was all alone in the snow path ways. She didn't know where she was, she was just glad that she lost the solders that were following her. She had been crying for her loss, she wished she could just die now; the pain that she was going through was too much for her to bear. She wrapped herself in a small thin blanket to try to keep warm from the snow and the harsh winds. She felt as if she had been stabbed a hundred times with knives, exposing her flesh, and letting the coldness blow through her insides. She kept her promise, the promise to run away and not come back for him, to live her life and away from Tin Zao. Mulan didn't know where she was now; she was all alone with no one to talk to but herself and Khan. Tears flowed down her cheeks but it made her face cold when the wind hit them. She lost Bao the one who loved her so much. She was now leaving her family behind and the friends that she knew and loved so much. She knew that there was no other way, she had to leave or they would find her and kill her, and that would be breaking her promise. She had to be strong now, and survive.
Night was falling and it began to get cold quick. To the point where Mulan couldn't feel anything, no heat. Mulan felt her eyes get heavy and everything seem to be getting fuzzy and light. She leaned over to her right side and fell off Khan. She fell unconscious, into a dreamless world, where everything began to get dark, very dark. Khan neighed, confused and worried for Mulan. So Khan neighed and jumped around not knowing what to do with his good friend lying there without hope, without help. Miles and miles away from a house or city. He got on his hinge legs and stood up neighing as loud as he could in hopes to gather attention to him and Mulan. But it was hopeless, no one was around but the wind and the snow and the tiny creatures that hid in there dens. Khan lowered his head as he saw no site of a person. He looked over to Mulan and began to walk over to her and nudge her with his nose, but nothing. He then laid down right beside her, trying to keep her warm with his head wrapped around her body.
The snow got heavier and the winds faster. The night was cold and dark. But it wasn't until a small little light of a torch came. The man got off his horse and walked over to the sleeping horse that was covered in snow and had ice coming off his main and tail. He brought the torch over to him and patted him softly until he turned over to see that Khan wasn't alone, there he saw Mulan blue and unconscious. Khan soon woke up and noticed that there was help, a man that was dressed up in a black cloak. The man too Khan's reins and pulled him up and tied him to his horse that waited there patiently. He returned his attentions to the women that just laid there unconscious, he checked for a pulse on her wrist and noticed that she still was alive with this with this he took her in his strong arms and carried her to his stallion. Placing her up there and him following up. He clicked and tapped his legs to make his pure white stallion move across the snowy path way and headed back to his little place where him and his fellow men stayed and called home.
It was a small place up in a forest near the mountains, small tents were placed every where but it was their home. No one knew about it, it was were rouges, traders and men who ran away from there life came. A mysterious place, trees for protection from the harsh winds, and nasty storms and a beautiful spring where you drink from because it was so clear and pure. "Sir? You have been out late." Said a man all cloaked up as the man that picked up Mulan. The man noticed that he wasn't alone; there was a black horse and a girl that looked as if she needed some help and fast.
"Take this horse here and call for the doctor I don't know how long this woman is going to live."
"Where did you find her sir?"
"I found her on the road why I don't know but she freezing cold and her horse was by her and it looked as if she had been there for a while. She's from the palace."
The unidentified man that saved her brought her into the doctor's tent and placed her down unto the bed. He took away the wet blanket and got some new blankets to put on her. He lit a fire to try to warm her up. As he began to tuck her in he stopped and noticed that he knew her. He moved her hair out of the way from her face and noticed that it was Fa Mulan. "Mulan..." he said under his breath. He couldn't believe his eyes. It had been years since he saw her. She looked a little bit older but so much beautiful and mature since he last saw her.
"Shang..What happened?"
The cloaked man turned around hearing his name that he didn't like as much now then he did when he was younger, when he had a life back at the palace, where he thought everything was good for him there but it turned our bad and it had been three years since his past know was coming back to haunt him. "I found her on the streets..she was all alone except for her and her horse."
As the doctor came forward to see the girl he noticed that she was indeed from the palace. But her face looked familiar to him he was about to ask who she was but Shang just told him without question, or even looking at the doctor. "Is she now?" Said the doctor who was amazed that such a hero would be out in a storm like this and that far away. "She will know are secret everyone's secret if she does live. No one must know about this place and you know that." Said the doctor.
"I know..When she gains consciousness we'll take her back to her family and leave without anything said or asked got it!" Shang ordered. "I don't want her to know that im here.." He coughed, "That we're here..."
"Yes sir." Shang began to walk out of the tent when the doctor said something that caught his attention. "Was she one of the reasons sir?" Shang stopped and stared off into the distance, but he didn't say anything he just continued to walk out. The doctor just frowned and looked back at Mulan who would need his help now. He began to softly stroke her head with a warm cloth. "Fa Mulan...I never thought I would be helping save the heroine of China." Whispered the doc. He paused and chuckled. "We'll let's see if I, Doctor Tang can work my magic on even a hero?" He chuckled to himself. He was the eldest guy in the group but the wisest. He always made a person laugh. He continued to take care of her wiping her face with the warm cloth and always making sure that she was warm. "You do know my dear that everyone hears by the end of tonight will probably know that you are here.." He said talking to her even though she was unconscious. "You must be a great, powerful person back at home; it's no wonder why Shang left when he did. You would still have him under your spell but maybe you still do?" Tang wondered. He looked over to the tent flaps and thought about the way Shang went out and ordered for his commanded to be obeyed. As he warmed up Mulan's hands he noticed that on her hand was ring, a beautiful one at that too. He stared in aw at the thing. Then it came to him, she was married. "Oh.well it looks as if you're married my dear Mulan, I wonder." He looked at Mulan then back at the ring, then outside where Shang had left. "Well, well maybe just maybe you having this little ring on your finger has something to the wonder back home 'where Shang went'?" He began to smile, then began to laugh. "Oh.my dear you do have some surprises coming your way!"
Shang sat around the fire with his fellow men and even solders that ran away to join him. They all drank and talked with one another around the warm fire. "Hey Shang! Where have you been?" Asked Zhao
"Out and that's all you need to know." Answered Shang.
"Really? Does it involve girls like your last couple?" said Wang.
Shang laughed alone with the others. "Wouldn't you like you like to know?"
"Oh.come on!" pleaded Wang.
"Let me guess you picked up a fallen angel?" Joked Zhao.
Shang began to get serious and responded his answer with, "Yea..."
They all stopped laughing and got serious when seeing that Shang wasn't joking around. "What?"
"You know whar never mind its nothing.." Shang began to get up and walk away from them when they all got up and began to follow him.
"Wait! What did you mean by that you cant just tell us that and get away without telling us something...plus you seem very serious tonight as if you saw something or someone that you didn't expect because you are usually high wired and out with all the girls and doing gutsy things yea know..so what's up?" Asked Zhao.
"Guys I'm still the same, I actually plan on see a few girls tonight and I plan to take some food for us from the huge feast that the one town near us is having...no one will know that were coming!" Announced Shang acting as if he was Evil Canival himself. The men cheered and began to walk and join in the plot for the night gaming.
"Don't forget the drinks!" Said Wang. Everyone laughed and cheered.
The doctor came rushing out and spotted Shang, everyone turned toward the doctor in confusion except for Shang who feared of what he had to say. "Shang.its Mulan.I think she." He was stopped by Shang's hand covering his mouth. He didn't want her name to be spoken here.
The men looked at him funny, wondering why he clamped his hand over the doctor's mouth. And why the doctor said 'Mulan'? "Who did you say?" Asked Wang. Thinking that the doctor couldn't have been talking about the one Mulan, the one who saved China. Plus no one else besides them and the many others only knew about the small place.
"It's nothing..Doc. I think you have to stop drinking." He slapped the elder man on his back. But the doctor was in no joking matter.
"Shang! It's not good...her heart is slowing!" Announced the doctor.
"Whose heart?" Asked Zhao.
"Mu"
"No ones no one important!" Said Shang but the men didn't give in the easily. He was hiding something and they wanted to know what. They looked at the doctor and demanded an answer.
"Mulan..Fa Mulan."
They all looked at him in shock and disbelief, it couldn't have been true why her? Why would she be there with them? All sorts of questions were going through their heads. "How did she get here?" They all began to ask. But then they looked at Shang and it all came together. "You brought her here didn't you?" Said Wang.
"I had to I found her out in the streets all alone and she was unconscious at that time and I couldn't just leave her.." Proclaimed an angry Shang.
"So in your case an angel really did fall.." commented Wang. Shang glared at Wang as if not to push him any further or he might just kill someone.
"But don't worry she's going to be leaving soon, once she is a little better then I'm going to return her to her house with out a question asked and no one will know what happened." Announced Shang about his plan.
"Really? Wasn't she the one you had a thing for back in the day?" asked Zing who came out of the corner of the tent. He was one of Shang's good friend and knew much about him.
"That was a long time ago there is nothing there anymore, besides I love the way I live and if she ever knew that I was here and still alive so much of my life would be taken away from me..I want nothing to do with her!" Screamed Shang.
"Fine! I'll come with you when we take her back, just incase any one sees either of us..we can't risk our exposure." Announced Zing.
"I still can't believe you found her though..I mean she's the hero, the one who saved all of China!" Said Wang who was still amazed about what had just happened, and what they all just found out.
"Yes, yes but I need someone to help me, I think that we're losing her!" Claimed the doctor. They all began to jog over to the doctor's tent. Some helped build a better fire, some gathered more blankets while the doctor made some median. Wang was about to putting a blanket over Mulan when he stopped and noticed that he was putting a blanket on the one hero who he thought was pretty hot. "Wow, Shang I can see why you liked the little girl, she's not bad looking..." Shang stopped Wang's hand from getting any closer to Mulan for Mulan's sake. He glared at Wang as a warning to back off her. Wang stepped back and smiled. "I wasn't going to do anything..."
"Ha! Sure you weren't..."
"Oh.come on..She the hero why would I?"
"Because Wang we all know that once you see a pretty girl you won't keep your hands off her."
"I got it!" Announced the doctor, he was finally done with the little warm stew that he made special for Mulan it was high in nutrients and had some of his special herbs in it to help her get better. He leaned over to Mulan and began to give it to her slowly. "Thank you for helping me..you can leave now and go to where you had planned. She should be fine now."
"We'll be back in the morning hopefully." Said Shang.
"Haha, stay out of trouble.." Ordered Tang.
"Aw.come on Doc. You know us.." They all began to laugh and leave the tent for their night fun leaving Tang to tend to Mualn who was still unconscious.
Tang sat their with Mulan and continued to feed her. "Girl I don't know why you came out here but it was a bad idea."
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So? What do you think is it ok? More is to come to the adventure!