Chapter 3
Disclaimer: Need I say more?
Ok, in this chapter I am going to use part of a song from Disney's Pocahontas. It belongs to Disney too. Please review!
My stomach turned loops. Mulan was putting herself into a loveless marriage for the princesses, and it was all my fault. The image in front of me swirled and disappeared and I saw my reflection staring back at me again. "Its all my fault." I muttered. Then, the water swirled again and my reflection spoke to me.
"You know its not your fault" it said.
"it is!" I said back. I knew I was talking to a river, but right then I didn't care. "If I hadn't gotten mad at her for the princesses running away, we could have reached a solution but then I went and screamed at her. It was never her fault. It was mine for being so cold to the princesses and the guards." My world was crashing down on me, and to make it worse I was guilty.
"But you can still stop it! " my reflection persisted.
"How?" I said " If I go, there will be no alliance."
"Now this is exactly what Mulan was talking about" my reflection yelled at me. " You want to do something, but you won't because you don't trust your heart! It wants you to go and save her from being sold into a loveless marriage, but you won't because you cant trust yourself!"
"It doesn't matter now." I told it. "She doesn't love me anymore."
"Oh really?" it said." Looky here" It swirled and twisted to reveal a room in the palace that looked like it could belong to a king. On the bed was Mulan, eyes wet and red. It was hard to tell from my angle, but it looked like she was talking to a little blue cricket.
" Its all my fault" She said to it. The cricket chirped to her. " Why did I put my own feelings ahead of honour? Oh, Cri-kee, I miss Shang so much!" At the end of her sentence, tears overflowed from her eyes.
"And I never got to tell him I was sorry and that I love him!" She cried. I leaned forward. " I know we're different, but differences don't matter! why didn't I realize it until it was too late? " She broke into another burst of sobs.
She then turned to the window and pulled back the curtains to stare into the blue afternoon sky. She turned and looked at a cloud that was shaped like a yin yang pendant. She sighed heavily and said to the sky,
"Ancestors, hear me. Please let Shang be happy where he is. I guess this time, my heart led me down the wrong path." She turned away and slipped out of the room, eyes still red and wet.
I stared at the river trying to absorb all I had just seen. She taught me that following your heart was everything, and now because of me, she'll never believe that again! Chir gave me a nudge. My reflection reappeared.
"You need to pound the sense back into her that she pounded into you. Get up and follow your heart!" With these words, my reflection disapated. I hopped to my feet and stared ahead.
"okay, heart." I said to myself . "I'm trusting you." I closed my eyes and felt the wind catch my half yin yang pendant. I mounted Chir. " My duty is to my heart."
I don't know what I can do
Still I know I've got to try
Eagle help my feet to fly
Mountain help my heart be great'
Spirits of the earth and sky
Please don't let it be too late
That's chapter 3. Please review, because I love to read them. If you could answer my following question when you review: Do you think I should:
A) twist the end and have Shang taken away and thrown in the Qui-Gong dungeon and somehow escape
B) Stop the story as Shang cuts the sash and let the movie take off from there
C) the story should keep going until after the wedding .
Thanks. Please review!
