A/N: its chapter one of the story-revised!
Disclaimer: 'Mulan' is the property of Disney, plot is mine!
Mushu: oh, how thrilling…
Shut it, Mushu!
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To the the batmo…I mean, to the story! (Heh, heh)
A chance
Chapter 1
Everything was quite, and the household in a little village in China was quite, all its occupants sleeping soundly.
A little serpentine creature crept through the house, opened a certain door to a certain room, and jumped on the bed, where a certain someone was sleeping.
"Wake up, Sleeping' Beauty!" he cried aloud.
Well, it was quite loud, but the person in the bed just slapped the creature to the floor and turn around, still asleep.
"Ow!" he rubbed his sore behind, "OK, time for the heavy artillery!" he smirked, and catching the end of the blanked in both hands, he pulled it off.
The girl shivered, wondering where her source of heat had gone to, finally sat up, and stretched.
"Mushu?" she asked sleepily, one hand rubbing her eye from sleep.
"Good morning, Mulan!" the tiny red dragon, Mushu, jumped in front of her on the bed, followed by his trusty companion, the cricket, a.k.a Cri-Kee.
"You finally woke up on time!" Mushu exclaimed.
"On time?" Mulan looked outside her window, then back at her dragon guardian, "Mushu, it's barely even morning!" she scoffed.
"So? All the more reason to see the sunrise!" was Mushu's logic in action.
"All right, I'm up." Mulan said, and got off her bed and strated to get dressed (in which, of course, Mushu covered his eyes his ears until she finished dressing) and brushed her still shoulder-length black hair until it was shiny.
(A/N: she wears the outfit she wore at the beginning of the movie.)
"Done." Mulan said, and Mushu went to his usual place on Mulan's shirt collar.
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She walked to the kitchen and greeted by a wonderful smell.
From the outside, she heard the crying of the rooster, it was morning, at last.
A tiny woman came to Mulan, grey-haired and wrinkled but the winkle in her eyes was never diminished.
"Good morning, Grandma," Mulan greeted, she knew her grandmother always rises early.
"Good morning, Mulan," Grandma Fa greeted back, "how did you wake up so early?" she wondered.
"Oh, I can wake up early if I want to." Mulan smiled, a little uncomfortable.
"Yeah, with a little help." Mushu muttered behind her neck and she shut him up with her hand, to her grandma it seems like she was rubbing her neck.
"Well, what's for breakfast?" Mulan quickly changed the topic.
After a while, her parents, who also woke up, came to the room, and all ate in silent.
"Mulan?" Mulan's mother, Fa Li, said suddenly.
"Yes?"
"After you do the chores, could you go to the marketplace?" Li asked her daughter.
"Sure, Mama."
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After feeding her horse, Khan ("Cow" Mushu muttered, who got out of hiding in Mulan's shirt collar, a mistake, because a couple of minutes later, he got trampled by the 'Cow'), feeding the chickens (with the 'help' of her dog, Little Brother), and doing all the other chores, she was ready to go to the marketplace.
But before she went through the gate, with Cri-Kee and Mushu getting a ride in her basket, her grandmother called out after her,
"If you see Captain Li, invite him over!"
It was lucky Grandma Fa couldn't see her anymore, because Mulan was blushing like a second sun.
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"OK, let's see what we need to buy." Mushu said to Cri-Kee, who was writing (on a leaf) the shopping list Mushu dictated.
Mulan just smiled at looking at her (little) friends actions.
She looked at the village, and as she passed, she heard whispers all around her.
She had gotten used to it since she returned from the Emperor's palace.
People were biased in their opinion about Mulan.
Some approved of the woman warrior and said that if weren't for her, China would have been doomed, and their children would always be near Mulan, she loved kids, and these ones looked up to her as their 'role model'.
On the other hand, there were those who disapproved, saying that it isn't a woman's job to fight, of this sort of things, Mulan learned to ignore.
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After buying all the things Mulan's mother and grandmother told her to get, she was heading home.
"We're done with the shopping." Mushu said, lying in the now cramped basket while Cri-Kee lay on the bread using the leaf he wrote on as a blanket.
"Hello, Fa." She looked up to see the village noble's daughter, Ming.
She was wearing a very stylish robes and makeup, she was to Mulan's point of view, the perfect porcelain doll, which'll make parents proud and men's hearts beat faster.
"Hello, Tao," Mulan said coldly, they were always formal cold when they encountered each other.
"I see your hair is still short." Tao said with obvious contempt, looking up and down at Mulan,"and that you still have a bad taste at clothes."
"I see you're still a stuck up little princess," Mulan muttered under her breath.
Tao narrowed her eyes," what was that?"
"I said it's good to see you again." Mulan faked a smile.
Tao was still with narrow eyes and opened her mouth to say something, but stopped, looking over Mulan's shoulder.
"Hello, Mulan." A familiar deep voice said.
Mulan turned around to see the handsome features of-
"Shang!" she cried in surprise.
There was a cough behind her and Mulan rolled her eyes, forced to making the introduction.
"Shang, this is Tao Ming, Tao this former commanding officer, Captain Li Shang."
Tao took out a fan from her sash and behind it said, "Nice to meet you, Captain."
"Ming!" Tao's mother called out to her daughter and she said her goodbyes to the pair, especially Shang.
Mulan looked after the 'delicate flower' girl with disgust before hearing Shang,"Nice girl, but way too delicate for my taste."
She looked at him and he smiled, she smiled back, knowing that Shang wasn't like other men of the village that'llbe with a stupid grin on their faces at Tao's act.
To change the subject Mulan asked, "What are you doing here, Shang?"
He smiled, "I here by the Emperor's orders," he answered.
Figures…, Mulan thought, but she didn't show her disappointment, she just asked, "Would like to have dinner at my house?"
"I'd love to." Shang said.
And both continued in the direction Mulan's house.
In the basket Mushu thought with a smirk, something is going on with these two…
Cri-Kee just slept.
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A/N: well, what do you thing of chapter 1- revised?
If I'll get reviews that say its fine, I might consider revising the whole chapters…
Mushu, anything you want to add?
Mushu: Have chapter 11, already!
OK, OK, I get your drift, in the meanwhile, review, please!