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Chapter 7: Returning back
Mulan laid in the same bed again from injury and too much smoke that had entered her lungs and made her tired. Tang was working hard to make sure that within all his power that she was not going to die. He sighed and shook his head then turned to meet Shang and the others who were just outside of his tent waiting for anything from him. As he entered the cold air outside he was greeted by Shang, Loong, Zhao, and Wang. Tang looked at Shang in anger and disappointment. He crossed his arms across his chest and stared at him. "Why couldn't you just believe her Shang?"
"Oh...so your going to blame this on me now?"
"Well yea!" He stated. "She told you that she couldn't go back there and you didn't want to listen to he and now look at her....her leg is scratched up bad and she has too much smoke in her lungs....I'm trying everything in my power to save her because I don't want to be the death of this young girl."
"Tang you won't be but you know the law here and you also knew that she...."
"She's a girl that you knew...and you ran away because she was with someone else, and you don't even want to look at her b...." Tang was stopped when he felt a sharp pain in his throat, Shang was holding him up high from the collar of Tang's shirt and he didn't care if he was coaching his friend or not, he didn't like it when people got to far with him it was no excuse to be disrespecting him like that.
"Never say anything about that again...." Shang whispered fiercely. Shang dropped him on the ground and began to walk away. Tang rubbed his neck and got up with the help of Wang, and Loong whole Zhao just went with Shang.
"Thank you...." The guys nodded and left him back to treating Mulan. As he entered the room he saw that Mulan was now opening her eyes, he rushed over to her side and began to slowly say her name and ask her if she could hear him. Mulan nodded and now looked at Tang in confusing. "Are you alright?"
"Where am I?" she asked.
"Back where you were before, the men saw that you were in trouble so they went out and got you out of the burning house."
"My parents....their dead...." Mulan began to sit up form the bed looking in front of her then to her lap. She felt like crying there and didn't care if Tang r anyone saw her. A single tear traced down her face. Tang patted her on the shoulder and tried to comfort her.
"They didn't do anything Tang! I should have been there, to help them, to save them! But instead I ran away! It's all my fault I just wish I would have died their with them I don't deserve to live." Announced Mulan with full rage and depression. Here eyes were now streaming with tears. Mulan collapsed on her bed lying down with her back towards Tang.
"I'm sorry for you're loss but it wasn't your fault you didn't know anything about it, you just ran for your life and that's when Shang found you and brought you back...." Sympathized Tang.
"Shang could care less weather I was dead or not he doesn't care about me or what happened." Argued Mulan.
"My dear I think you got that all wrong I mean yes he has changed but there is still something good inside him that made him decide that you needed him so he saved your life once again, he ran into that fire and got you out." Tang explained.
Mulan was stunned she looked up at Tang, "Really?" she asked.
"Yes, why do you think you're here again?"
Mulan lowered head down to the bed allowed for the tears to roll down her face. She didn't understand Shang any more. One second he hated her, the next he was saving her? "Well get your rest ill tell get you when its time to eat alright?" Mulan nodded and he left the tent.
Mulan snuggled down into the covers as best she could with out hurting her leg and closed her eyes to try to get some sleep in.
Shang was now near the small river that was just gorgeous the sounds of the birds chirping, fogs, insects the sound of water splashing its way on the rough rocks as it hit coming down form the small water fall then gliding its way down the sparkling river across the smooth rocks. It was peaceful and it made him forget about his worries all of them. He sighed heavily as he heard a man's footsteps from in back of him. As he looked over he saw Zhao who began to sit next to him. "This is a beautiful place...I remember when you would always come here because you were upset or worried or scared even. But it surprised us all when you brought this girl here and then was so rough on her I mean I know the law here and I know you know it but I don't know it was almost as if you were hiding something and not just that you were alive, I know you know her...what happened that one night you tried to go back?" Zhao asked.
Shang still stared at the river watching it went by. Shang sighed and cleared his throat, "I never told anyone about that night." He stated.
"I know but I think it would do you some good to let someone know especially with someone that you have been friends with for a long time would it not?" Zhao asked.
Shang smiled, "Fine ill tell you...The night when I went back I was going to go inside and tell her that....I didn't want to lose her, that I had feelings for her and all that shit but it didn't work out because she was already with someone else...Bao."
"Oh....sorry man..." he paused don't you think since she will be staying here with us that we should tell her the story about how we all got here and maybe why you never saw her again?" He suggested.
Shang nodded his head, "No, she can't know....I don't want her to know about this place or how we got here or anything." Ordered Shang. Zhao nodded his head in understanding.
"I just hope were doing the right thing about not telling her." Zhao began to get up from his seat and began to walk back to the camp. Shang watched as his friend left and he was just left there to think about what to say to her and what to tell her. He couldn't believe how hard this was for him. He shook his head and headed back to camp to go talk with her. AS he entered the tent that she was within he was about to something when he realized that she was asleep. He walked over to her and sat in the seat that Tang had put there. As he sat there he just stared at Mulan it reminded him of how she looked that one night when she was with Bao and not him. It hurt to think that she was with someone else, he knew because he saw the ring on her finger but why wasn't she with Bao, why didn't she go to him? The more he thought the less he relised that Mulan was up staring at him wondering why he was there with her. "Shang?" She called out, getting his attention.
He looked over to her and he knew he needed an excuse for being there with her. "Dinner is ready." He began to get up and walk out when she called out his name again, he turned to face her and when he saw that she was stumbling for the right words it made him wonder what she was going to say.
"Thank you for saving me..." She looked up unsure if he was just going to walk away or if he was actually going to take the thanks? Shang bowed his head and headed outside.
Tang then shortly came in a few minuets after Shang did and told her that dinner was served. Mulan got up then soon relised that she was going to need some help from Tang to walk her to dinner because he leg still really hurt. As she was helped outside she noticed that every man there was staring at her, she could feel Goosebumps run down her spin, the feeling of them staring at her made her uncomfortable. As she was seated at a small table where Tang, Shang, Loong, Wang and Zhao were. Mulan just placed her head on her arms and laid it down there. She wished that they would all stop staring at her. "So...where to tonight?" asked Wang.
"Oh...were going aren't we?" Asked Loong.
"Of course we're going we always go when their having the party, just little do they know that we will be joining them..." Answered Zhao. They all began to laugh and drink. Mulan hated when men drink, it made them so stupid and act stupid. Tang gave her a plate of food that had some rice and some chicken on it. Mulan took the chopsticks and began to eat like crazy she hasn't eaten in the longest time since the accident. All the men watched her eat; they were surprised that she was eating so fast and so impolite. Mulan looked over her shoulder and saw that she was being watched by everyone. She quickly slurped up the rice that she had on her chopsticks and apologized for the way she was eating. They all laughed, "It's quite alright...we understand we just never saw a women eat like that before..." said Zhao as he and the men continued to laugh.
"So...why aren't you with your husband?" Asked Shang.
"What?"
"Why didn't you go to Bao, if that's his name?" He asked again but more forceful and demanding like.
"I told you already..." She corrected him.
"Well I think you need to tell me again because apparently I wasn't listening to you at that time."
"Me and Bao were only engaged, we were going to get married soon but the Emperor got sick and when he died that's when Tin Zao came in and....."
"Tin Zao?" Shang asked interupting, it couldn't be right he thought. Almost everyone knew about him and how he was and acted.
"Yea....he began to tell us to leave but Bao got mad with him and that's when I had to watch them torture and hurt him until they shot him, there was nothing I could do. They released me and let me go over to him for the last time...he told me to run and I promised him that the solders wouldn't find me and I would stay alive...He wants me dead and that why I can't go back." Mulan could feel the tears forming in her eyes.
Shang and the others now understood. "Great...now there going to try to find her...which means that they could find us and were not even suppose to be here in China.." Shang hushed Wang quickly. But Mulan got what he said and began to ask questions again.
"What do you mean your not suppose to be here?"
"He was just kidding don't listen to him."
"Shang...I need to know what's going on...please..."
"Mulan we have been through this I don't know how many times now, drop it, its not important..." He demanded. "But Wang is right we can't keep you here if he is looking for you...we're going to have to find a place for you to stay but not here...not with us."
Mulan felt a cold chill run through her heart. "So what am I suppose to do? Where do I go? I lost my home my family, the only family I had, I lost Bao! And you're telling me that I can't stay here? I have no where to go!" Mulan yelled, as tears rolled down her cheeks. "Your solders....your tough...you're..."
"Not what you think!" Corrected Shang.
"What do you mean, 'not what I think'?" she asked irritated by how he was treating her and not telling her anything.
"Truth is that we aren't really solders anymore....hell we steal, rob, go to bars pretty much every night....we are dishonorable solders....we were kicked out alright!" He stated. But she still wasn't getting it, she didn't believe it.
"How?"
"Listen sweets what Shang is trying to tell you is that we all didn't go to war for the Emperor because we all knew that it would be pointless we knew we were going to our deaths and so we disobeyed an order and we were all banished, so we live here!" reinstated Zhao.
Mulan was almost breath taken by the whole thing, she couldn't believe it. "Then why didn't you come and tell me, Shang?"
"Cause I didn't want to I felt no need to tell you..." Answered Shang telling her with harsh words that stun to her like no other.
"But you....you had feelings for me...that's why you went back the first time then you left because of your job...and your telling me that you had no reason to tell me that you were alive all this time, to think..." Shang put his hand in the air for her to stop talking but she didn't she just kept going and going arguing with him and asking questions.
"Mulan!" He yelled. The whole camp went silent as they all stared at Shang, seeing that Mulan was aggravating him very much so. "I don't have feelings for you, I moved on and so did you...and that's for the best you got...well had Bao...so don't come running back to me because I don't need anyone I'm happy with my life here it's been better then it has even been in my years. For once I don't have to go by the many rules of our country we can do what ever we want, and the ladies here are better then you and all the ones at home! So just drop it I wanted you out of here when I first relised that it was you....I made the biggest mistake of my life bring you back here!" Shang breathed heavily. Everyone stared at him in disbelief with the things that he just told Mulan, some that were so painfully hurtful. Mulan just stared at him with a broken heart, he changed so much that it scared her, it hurt her. He wanted nothing to do with her and she got his brief point.
"Sorry then, if I mean nothing to no one here then ill leave. I'll go back to where I belong...and if they catch me I hope that I made you happy when they announce my capture and my death to all of China." With that she got up and walked back to her tent. All their eyes watched as she left, as she went out of site everyone turned their eyes to Shang.
"As you were men!" He ordered. They slowly turned away and continued eating and drinking. As Shang looked in front of him he saw that Loong, Wang, Zhao and Tang were all looking at him disappointed. "What?" He asked.
"Well that didn't go by good at all..." said Wang.
"Why did you say that Shang, even if you don't like her it doesn't mean you had to be that hard on her she just lost everyone in her family and her husband to be." Asked Loong.
"You know if you shut your mouths we could get done early and head off with the plans..."
"I think we need to keep her here, we are the only people she has left....and we can't let her go back just to go out and be captured and die." Proclaimed Tang.
"She can't stay here...what if the solders do find us? You know what will happen...they want us dead as much as they do her!" Shang couldn't believe that he was having this conversation with them.
"Well we stick together then, wanted with the wanted...." Wang said trying to being funny.
"Wang is right Shang...."
"You got to be kidding me!"
"You have to go back in there and tell her that she's staying here..."
"I'm not talking to her...and if you didn't get me the first time, I don't care what she does as long as she doesn't stay here...hell I don't care if she gets captured!"
"You don't mean that...." Said Tang.
"Actually I think I do!" Argued Shang.
"Then why did you save her? She could have died right there and you wouldn't have to worry about her bothering you any more?"
"I don't know why I did...I just..." Shang couldn't get the words out of his mouth, he sighed heavily and screamed and went marching to the tent.
Mulan was in the tent on the edge of her bed crying. She just wanted to die and get all the hurt out. "There, there it's all right...." Said a familiar voice. Mulan looked up and saw Mushu standing right in front of her on top of the bed. Mulan smiled briefly and hugged him. "I'm here...nothing is going to happen...yet I don't know where you are...but...."
"I'm at a camp oh and Shang is alive and well...so is all his men." Mulan said with a bit of sarcasm.
"Wait! You said that he's alive but how?" Asked Mushu.
"He pretty much ran away from the palace and he doesn't want me here, I want to leave....I hate it here...." Mulan wept again in her arms.
Mushu was about to say something when he heard someone outside. He hid under the blankets just as the Shang entered the tent. Mulan continued to cry unknowing that she was not alone. He began to walk up to her and kneel down besides her. Mulan looked up and noticed that it was him she sighed and asked, "What do you want haven't you done enough damage?"
"We've...My men have decided that it would be best if you stay here so we can watch out for you..." Mulan stopped and looked at him as if he was joking, after all he said to her now he wants her to stay.
"I thought you want me dead?" She asked.
"You know what I don't care you decide either to stay here or leave..." Shang got up and walked out. Mushu got out of the blankets and was stunned with what was said.
"Wow! You weren't kidding....he's changed....so...what is it gong to be?"
"Probably leave..." Mulan said without fear knowing that her decision would mean her death.
"What? Are you crazy? Mulan I know that what he said was hurtful but you made a promise and you need to keep it...everything that has happened to you has been hard but you are alive for a reason...when your strength is fully healed we'll go back to the Palace and we will fight....and you know what I beat he'll be so scared to see you that he'll cry like a baby..." Mulan giggled and smiled at her friend.
"Thank you....but I think I would be the only one in the battle if I did go back?" corrected Mulan.
"What you need to do is give it some time....these men will follow you....because China is suffering and bad things will happen and they will soon relies that if they do not do something that China will get weak and will fall." Said Mushu. "So think what you want right now....but if you trust me, trust what I'm telling you...you must stay...." Mulan smiled and rubbed Mushu's chin.
"Thank you Mushu..."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ What will happen in the next day or so...what relationships? You'll be surprised with what happened in the next chapter....and I hope you liked the long chapter! Thanks again for all your support!
Chapter 7: Returning back
Mulan laid in the same bed again from injury and too much smoke that had entered her lungs and made her tired. Tang was working hard to make sure that within all his power that she was not going to die. He sighed and shook his head then turned to meet Shang and the others who were just outside of his tent waiting for anything from him. As he entered the cold air outside he was greeted by Shang, Loong, Zhao, and Wang. Tang looked at Shang in anger and disappointment. He crossed his arms across his chest and stared at him. "Why couldn't you just believe her Shang?"
"Oh...so your going to blame this on me now?"
"Well yea!" He stated. "She told you that she couldn't go back there and you didn't want to listen to he and now look at her....her leg is scratched up bad and she has too much smoke in her lungs....I'm trying everything in my power to save her because I don't want to be the death of this young girl."
"Tang you won't be but you know the law here and you also knew that she...."
"She's a girl that you knew...and you ran away because she was with someone else, and you don't even want to look at her b...." Tang was stopped when he felt a sharp pain in his throat, Shang was holding him up high from the collar of Tang's shirt and he didn't care if he was coaching his friend or not, he didn't like it when people got to far with him it was no excuse to be disrespecting him like that.
"Never say anything about that again...." Shang whispered fiercely. Shang dropped him on the ground and began to walk away. Tang rubbed his neck and got up with the help of Wang, and Loong whole Zhao just went with Shang.
"Thank you...." The guys nodded and left him back to treating Mulan. As he entered the room he saw that Mulan was now opening her eyes, he rushed over to her side and began to slowly say her name and ask her if she could hear him. Mulan nodded and now looked at Tang in confusing. "Are you alright?"
"Where am I?" she asked.
"Back where you were before, the men saw that you were in trouble so they went out and got you out of the burning house."
"My parents....their dead...." Mulan began to sit up form the bed looking in front of her then to her lap. She felt like crying there and didn't care if Tang r anyone saw her. A single tear traced down her face. Tang patted her on the shoulder and tried to comfort her.
"They didn't do anything Tang! I should have been there, to help them, to save them! But instead I ran away! It's all my fault I just wish I would have died their with them I don't deserve to live." Announced Mulan with full rage and depression. Here eyes were now streaming with tears. Mulan collapsed on her bed lying down with her back towards Tang.
"I'm sorry for you're loss but it wasn't your fault you didn't know anything about it, you just ran for your life and that's when Shang found you and brought you back...." Sympathized Tang.
"Shang could care less weather I was dead or not he doesn't care about me or what happened." Argued Mulan.
"My dear I think you got that all wrong I mean yes he has changed but there is still something good inside him that made him decide that you needed him so he saved your life once again, he ran into that fire and got you out." Tang explained.
Mulan was stunned she looked up at Tang, "Really?" she asked.
"Yes, why do you think you're here again?"
Mulan lowered head down to the bed allowed for the tears to roll down her face. She didn't understand Shang any more. One second he hated her, the next he was saving her? "Well get your rest ill tell get you when its time to eat alright?" Mulan nodded and he left the tent.
Mulan snuggled down into the covers as best she could with out hurting her leg and closed her eyes to try to get some sleep in.
Shang was now near the small river that was just gorgeous the sounds of the birds chirping, fogs, insects the sound of water splashing its way on the rough rocks as it hit coming down form the small water fall then gliding its way down the sparkling river across the smooth rocks. It was peaceful and it made him forget about his worries all of them. He sighed heavily as he heard a man's footsteps from in back of him. As he looked over he saw Zhao who began to sit next to him. "This is a beautiful place...I remember when you would always come here because you were upset or worried or scared even. But it surprised us all when you brought this girl here and then was so rough on her I mean I know the law here and I know you know it but I don't know it was almost as if you were hiding something and not just that you were alive, I know you know her...what happened that one night you tried to go back?" Zhao asked.
Shang still stared at the river watching it went by. Shang sighed and cleared his throat, "I never told anyone about that night." He stated.
"I know but I think it would do you some good to let someone know especially with someone that you have been friends with for a long time would it not?" Zhao asked.
Shang smiled, "Fine ill tell you...The night when I went back I was going to go inside and tell her that....I didn't want to lose her, that I had feelings for her and all that shit but it didn't work out because she was already with someone else...Bao."
"Oh....sorry man..." he paused don't you think since she will be staying here with us that we should tell her the story about how we all got here and maybe why you never saw her again?" He suggested.
Shang nodded his head, "No, she can't know....I don't want her to know about this place or how we got here or anything." Ordered Shang. Zhao nodded his head in understanding.
"I just hope were doing the right thing about not telling her." Zhao began to get up from his seat and began to walk back to the camp. Shang watched as his friend left and he was just left there to think about what to say to her and what to tell her. He couldn't believe how hard this was for him. He shook his head and headed back to camp to go talk with her. AS he entered the tent that she was within he was about to something when he realized that she was asleep. He walked over to her and sat in the seat that Tang had put there. As he sat there he just stared at Mulan it reminded him of how she looked that one night when she was with Bao and not him. It hurt to think that she was with someone else, he knew because he saw the ring on her finger but why wasn't she with Bao, why didn't she go to him? The more he thought the less he relised that Mulan was up staring at him wondering why he was there with her. "Shang?" She called out, getting his attention.
He looked over to her and he knew he needed an excuse for being there with her. "Dinner is ready." He began to get up and walk out when she called out his name again, he turned to face her and when he saw that she was stumbling for the right words it made him wonder what she was going to say.
"Thank you for saving me..." She looked up unsure if he was just going to walk away or if he was actually going to take the thanks? Shang bowed his head and headed outside.
Tang then shortly came in a few minuets after Shang did and told her that dinner was served. Mulan got up then soon relised that she was going to need some help from Tang to walk her to dinner because he leg still really hurt. As she was helped outside she noticed that every man there was staring at her, she could feel Goosebumps run down her spin, the feeling of them staring at her made her uncomfortable. As she was seated at a small table where Tang, Shang, Loong, Wang and Zhao were. Mulan just placed her head on her arms and laid it down there. She wished that they would all stop staring at her. "So...where to tonight?" asked Wang.
"Oh...were going aren't we?" Asked Loong.
"Of course we're going we always go when their having the party, just little do they know that we will be joining them..." Answered Zhao. They all began to laugh and drink. Mulan hated when men drink, it made them so stupid and act stupid. Tang gave her a plate of food that had some rice and some chicken on it. Mulan took the chopsticks and began to eat like crazy she hasn't eaten in the longest time since the accident. All the men watched her eat; they were surprised that she was eating so fast and so impolite. Mulan looked over her shoulder and saw that she was being watched by everyone. She quickly slurped up the rice that she had on her chopsticks and apologized for the way she was eating. They all laughed, "It's quite alright...we understand we just never saw a women eat like that before..." said Zhao as he and the men continued to laugh.
"So...why aren't you with your husband?" Asked Shang.
"What?"
"Why didn't you go to Bao, if that's his name?" He asked again but more forceful and demanding like.
"I told you already..." She corrected him.
"Well I think you need to tell me again because apparently I wasn't listening to you at that time."
"Me and Bao were only engaged, we were going to get married soon but the Emperor got sick and when he died that's when Tin Zao came in and....."
"Tin Zao?" Shang asked interupting, it couldn't be right he thought. Almost everyone knew about him and how he was and acted.
"Yea....he began to tell us to leave but Bao got mad with him and that's when I had to watch them torture and hurt him until they shot him, there was nothing I could do. They released me and let me go over to him for the last time...he told me to run and I promised him that the solders wouldn't find me and I would stay alive...He wants me dead and that why I can't go back." Mulan could feel the tears forming in her eyes.
Shang and the others now understood. "Great...now there going to try to find her...which means that they could find us and were not even suppose to be here in China.." Shang hushed Wang quickly. But Mulan got what he said and began to ask questions again.
"What do you mean your not suppose to be here?"
"He was just kidding don't listen to him."
"Shang...I need to know what's going on...please..."
"Mulan we have been through this I don't know how many times now, drop it, its not important..." He demanded. "But Wang is right we can't keep you here if he is looking for you...we're going to have to find a place for you to stay but not here...not with us."
Mulan felt a cold chill run through her heart. "So what am I suppose to do? Where do I go? I lost my home my family, the only family I had, I lost Bao! And you're telling me that I can't stay here? I have no where to go!" Mulan yelled, as tears rolled down her cheeks. "Your solders....your tough...you're..."
"Not what you think!" Corrected Shang.
"What do you mean, 'not what I think'?" she asked irritated by how he was treating her and not telling her anything.
"Truth is that we aren't really solders anymore....hell we steal, rob, go to bars pretty much every night....we are dishonorable solders....we were kicked out alright!" He stated. But she still wasn't getting it, she didn't believe it.
"How?"
"Listen sweets what Shang is trying to tell you is that we all didn't go to war for the Emperor because we all knew that it would be pointless we knew we were going to our deaths and so we disobeyed an order and we were all banished, so we live here!" reinstated Zhao.
Mulan was almost breath taken by the whole thing, she couldn't believe it. "Then why didn't you come and tell me, Shang?"
"Cause I didn't want to I felt no need to tell you..." Answered Shang telling her with harsh words that stun to her like no other.
"But you....you had feelings for me...that's why you went back the first time then you left because of your job...and your telling me that you had no reason to tell me that you were alive all this time, to think..." Shang put his hand in the air for her to stop talking but she didn't she just kept going and going arguing with him and asking questions.
"Mulan!" He yelled. The whole camp went silent as they all stared at Shang, seeing that Mulan was aggravating him very much so. "I don't have feelings for you, I moved on and so did you...and that's for the best you got...well had Bao...so don't come running back to me because I don't need anyone I'm happy with my life here it's been better then it has even been in my years. For once I don't have to go by the many rules of our country we can do what ever we want, and the ladies here are better then you and all the ones at home! So just drop it I wanted you out of here when I first relised that it was you....I made the biggest mistake of my life bring you back here!" Shang breathed heavily. Everyone stared at him in disbelief with the things that he just told Mulan, some that were so painfully hurtful. Mulan just stared at him with a broken heart, he changed so much that it scared her, it hurt her. He wanted nothing to do with her and she got his brief point.
"Sorry then, if I mean nothing to no one here then ill leave. I'll go back to where I belong...and if they catch me I hope that I made you happy when they announce my capture and my death to all of China." With that she got up and walked back to her tent. All their eyes watched as she left, as she went out of site everyone turned their eyes to Shang.
"As you were men!" He ordered. They slowly turned away and continued eating and drinking. As Shang looked in front of him he saw that Loong, Wang, Zhao and Tang were all looking at him disappointed. "What?" He asked.
"Well that didn't go by good at all..." said Wang.
"Why did you say that Shang, even if you don't like her it doesn't mean you had to be that hard on her she just lost everyone in her family and her husband to be." Asked Loong.
"You know if you shut your mouths we could get done early and head off with the plans..."
"I think we need to keep her here, we are the only people she has left....and we can't let her go back just to go out and be captured and die." Proclaimed Tang.
"She can't stay here...what if the solders do find us? You know what will happen...they want us dead as much as they do her!" Shang couldn't believe that he was having this conversation with them.
"Well we stick together then, wanted with the wanted...." Wang said trying to being funny.
"Wang is right Shang...."
"You got to be kidding me!"
"You have to go back in there and tell her that she's staying here..."
"I'm not talking to her...and if you didn't get me the first time, I don't care what she does as long as she doesn't stay here...hell I don't care if she gets captured!"
"You don't mean that...." Said Tang.
"Actually I think I do!" Argued Shang.
"Then why did you save her? She could have died right there and you wouldn't have to worry about her bothering you any more?"
"I don't know why I did...I just..." Shang couldn't get the words out of his mouth, he sighed heavily and screamed and went marching to the tent.
Mulan was in the tent on the edge of her bed crying. She just wanted to die and get all the hurt out. "There, there it's all right...." Said a familiar voice. Mulan looked up and saw Mushu standing right in front of her on top of the bed. Mulan smiled briefly and hugged him. "I'm here...nothing is going to happen...yet I don't know where you are...but...."
"I'm at a camp oh and Shang is alive and well...so is all his men." Mulan said with a bit of sarcasm.
"Wait! You said that he's alive but how?" Asked Mushu.
"He pretty much ran away from the palace and he doesn't want me here, I want to leave....I hate it here...." Mulan wept again in her arms.
Mushu was about to say something when he heard someone outside. He hid under the blankets just as the Shang entered the tent. Mulan continued to cry unknowing that she was not alone. He began to walk up to her and kneel down besides her. Mulan looked up and noticed that it was him she sighed and asked, "What do you want haven't you done enough damage?"
"We've...My men have decided that it would be best if you stay here so we can watch out for you..." Mulan stopped and looked at him as if he was joking, after all he said to her now he wants her to stay.
"I thought you want me dead?" She asked.
"You know what I don't care you decide either to stay here or leave..." Shang got up and walked out. Mushu got out of the blankets and was stunned with what was said.
"Wow! You weren't kidding....he's changed....so...what is it gong to be?"
"Probably leave..." Mulan said without fear knowing that her decision would mean her death.
"What? Are you crazy? Mulan I know that what he said was hurtful but you made a promise and you need to keep it...everything that has happened to you has been hard but you are alive for a reason...when your strength is fully healed we'll go back to the Palace and we will fight....and you know what I beat he'll be so scared to see you that he'll cry like a baby..." Mulan giggled and smiled at her friend.
"Thank you....but I think I would be the only one in the battle if I did go back?" corrected Mulan.
"What you need to do is give it some time....these men will follow you....because China is suffering and bad things will happen and they will soon relies that if they do not do something that China will get weak and will fall." Said Mushu. "So think what you want right now....but if you trust me, trust what I'm telling you...you must stay...." Mulan smiled and rubbed Mushu's chin.
"Thank you Mushu..."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ What will happen in the next day or so...what relationships? You'll be surprised with what happened in the next chapter....and I hope you liked the long chapter! Thanks again for all your support!