A/N: chapter 5!
(Sorry for being late...)
Disclaimer: 'Mulan' belongs to Disney; plot is all mine!
Mushu: hey....
So how is our dragon today? Feeling better?
Mushu: you send on another mission like this and I swear you'll pay!
So says the dragon that shall do as I say because it's my story.
Mushu: just wait...just you wait.
To the story!
A chance
Chapter 5
"Going already?" asked Chun in a sad tone, while watching Mulan get dressed, with the help of the light streaming from the window, it was early morning.
"Yes, Shang wants us to be at the camp by sunset." Said Mulan and put her armor atop her training outfit, tying all into place.
"Too bad, I hoped you'll stay a while longer." Said Chun and smiled at the tiny cricket on her hand.
As Mushu said the night before, Cri-Ki indeed returned when both Mulan and Chun woke up.
Most women would scream and get as far away from a cricket who would not be in a cage, but Mulan hated seeing Cri-Ki in a cage,and luckily, the cricket being free didn't phase Chun.(she actually thought he was rather cute.)
"I hoped so too, but the training can't be put on hold, you know." Said Mulan, tiying her hair up with a green ribbon, and did a final check up to see all was in place.
"Let's go."
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They got the horses from the stables and mounted on them, Shang and Mulan, that is.
Chun and Mulan said their goodbyes while Shang waited patiently by the gate.
"...and don't worry," said Chun, quietly, making Mulan lean closer to listen, "I won't tell anyone on your 'travel-sized' friend."
Mulan said "thank you." And put a hand behind her neck to shush up Mushu who started saying, pretty loudly, "I heard that...!"
Chun and Mulan smiled at each other and Mulan said, "Guess I'll be seeing you sometime soon."
"More soon than you think." Says Chun mysteriously.
They said their final goodbyes and Shang and Mushu rode from the palace.
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When they got to Camp, Shan got down from his horse and strode to a big tent that was there, a soldier cam and took his stallion away.
Mulan got down as well, and began checking her saddlebags when somebody called out a name she hadn't heard in a long time.
"Ping!" came a three-voiced cry.
Mulan turned around and smiled at the three men coming towards her, all in training outfits.
One was tall and skinny, the other was short and stout and the third was three times as wide.
"Hi Mulan!" said the skinny one.
"Hello Ling." She said.
"Ping, my buddy!" said the short one.
"Hello Yao." Mulan said, he knew her true name, he was just teasing her.
"Good to see you, Mulan." Said quietly the wide one.
"Good to see you too, Chien-Po." She said and smiled at the trio.
"So you're training too?" she asked, which was pretty obvious.
"Yeah, we'll be captains in no time!" said enthusiastically Ling.
"How have you been doing?' she asked as she led Khan to a spot of ground that looked good to build a tent on.
While she was unpacking the materials for the tent, they informed her on what happened in their life, until now.
"I continued to train, 'coz you know I have to stay in shape." Said Yao as they helped her with the tent.
"He means training as in beating up any second man around." Ling said to Mulan in a loud whisper.
"I just wrote on what we've been through, it's still not finished, but I think it's good." Said Chien-Po in his quiet way.
"I love to read it." Said Mulan as they got up the tent, which was a much better one than the one she had when she was in the army in the first time.
"I think I got a girlfriend, but she says she like men with more flesh on them, do you it's a rejection?" he asked Mulan, uncertainly.
"Yes, Ling, most certainly a rejection." She patted his shoulder.
After the tent was up and Mulan put down her armor and belongings in the tent, all four went to get dinner.
"So how's thing with you and General pretty-boy?" asked Yao nonchalantly.
"Things are good, we're very good friends." Answered Mulan, only I which we were more than friends..., she added mentally.
They continued to chat cheerfully, catching on on what the other was doing after the army until now.
The gang, (as Mulan, with affection, nicknamed them), treated Mulan like she was one of them with no exception, they even prided themselves on having a friend who was from the opposite sex.
"With you we can uncover every secret that women have!" declared Ling and was crushed when Mulan told him, "What secret?"
As she went back to the tent she saw Shang leaving his tent and with a smile she wished him good night, he just smiled and wished back and was with a serious face once more.
Probably the training that starts tommarrow, Mulan thought sleepily as she entered the tent and went to sleep.
Mushu and Cri-Ki made blankets out of her socks to sleep in.
A/N: chapter 5 is done!
Any comments, Mushu?
Mushu: next chapter, bigger part!
OK, deal!
And please...
Mushu: ...review!