A/N: chapter 10!
(Long chapter (sort of...), as promise!)
Disclaimer: 'Mulan' belongs to Disney; plot- mine!
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A chance
Chapter 10
The Imperial City
"Your Excellency!" said the guard the came through the door, "Lady Chun Shui is missing!"
"Be at ease," smiled the Emperor, "she is safe and sound."
After the guard left, he returned to reading the note his great niece left behind:
Great uncle,
I am going to army.
Do not worry its perfectly safe; I think I'll be in training under the guide of Mulan.
Wish me luck!
Love, Chun
Then he read another note, which came two days later, on which was written:
Your Excellency.
Do not worry, Chun has arrived and completely safe, she'll be training under my guide.
Respectfully,
Fa Mulan, Captain of the Imperial Army.
"No matter where you'll be, you two will always be safe." He told the notes in his hands, thinking that in the future there will be two woman captains instead of one.
He smiled as he glanced outside his window.
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The Camp
All the new recruits lined up, making fun off Chi-Fu, who was as Shang decided to be the Supervisor of Mulan's Camp (Shang tried, but Chi-Fu insisted, he wanted to see how Mulan is "going to fit the title of Captain"); he just sat on a boulder and looked as though he had swallowed a lemon.
"Soldiers!" came a shout, and all looked up to see Mulan coming towards them and stopping, next to a barrel that held long sticks, she was in her training outfit and her hair loose.
"I'm Captain Fa Mulan," she declared, "and I'll be in charge of your training from now on!"
"Wait a minute," said one of the recruits, "'Fa Mulan'? As in the woman that saved China?"
"Yes." She answered, and smiled at the young man.
"That's the famous Fa woman?" said another one, the distain in his voice clear, "I don't believe it."
She smiled a cool smile at the nonbeliever man, "You, what's your name?" she asked coolly.
"My name? It's Dong." He answered.
"Well, Dong, how about a little test?" her smile growing wider.
"Test?" he repeated, confused.
"Yes, if you defeat me, then I'm not the 'famous Fa woman', but if I'll win, you will shut up and accept me and not utter one word about me not being who I am, Deal?" she said calmly.
The boy smiled and winked to his friends, and nodded to her, "Deal!"
Mulan tied her hair up with her green ribbon and smiled.
-Ten minutes later-
"Ow…" said Dong, who was on the ground, beaten complete.
"Still don't believe I was the one who saved China?" asked rhetorically Mulan, looking down at him.
"No, Captain…" he mumbled.
She shook her head and helped him up, "You and you!" she pointed at a couple of young men at the row, "Take Dong to the Medic!" she ordered.
They complied quickly, taking the beatenboy from her.
She looked at the other soldiers, with Chun among them (Chun chose to reveal herself as a woman, but changed her name to Kin while being at Camp, "I don't want any special treatment, just because I'm a noble." She told Mulan)
"Lesson number 1," she informed them, "never ever underestimates your opponent, even if it's a girl," she smirked, "look what happened to Shan-Yu because of that." There were chuckles from the recruits.
She went and took a bow that was near the barrel, and put an arrow in it.
All watched her curiously.
She aimed, and fired.
The arrow hit the top of a tall pole, in the middle of the Camp.
"All right," she said, turning to her subordinates, "exercise 1: retrieve the arrow!"
One of the recruits step forward, but before he was ready to climb up, Mulan shoued,"Stop!"
He looked at her, "What?" he asked.
"Fu, is it?" the man nodded, ",Fu, you forgot something." She motioned to Chi-Fu, who came and dropped a box at her feet, gave her a dark look, and went to sit back on the boulder.
She opened the box, and revealed two large gold circled, attached with a wide leather strings, she gave them to the bewildered young man.
"They're weights" he said, holding them.
"Yes, one represent strength and the other represents discipline," she said, memorizing what Shang said the first time she was at the army, "you need both to retrieve the arrow," and she added, "but, please use your head also." She smiled.
As it happened, none were able to retrieve the arrow, Kin (Chun) climbed half way, but…slipped.
After the last recruit tried to climb and fell, Mulan put back the weights in the box with, "let's try again tomorrow."
She went to the barrel holding the sticks and took one; she twirled it in hair hands with battle movements expertly, "let's train with these now." She told the recruits and threw to everyone the sticks (by the way, all caught them.)
And the training continued.
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A/N: end chapter 10!
Mushu, any comments?
Mushu: Yeah, to the Dong guy, (sings) my baby kicked your butt! My baby kicked your butt!
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