Chapter 6
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When Chien-po put us down, we decided it was time to head home. They had to get back to the palace and Mulan and I had to go home to her parents. Just thinking about that, my heart weighed more. My home would be so empty without my father. Since my mother's death when I was 10, my father and I have been able to spend less and less time together, him being so busy in the military. Mulan noticed my expression immediately.
"What's wrong, Shang?" she asked me, "Aren't you happy?"
"Of course." I replied hurriedly," It's just that, without my father I've got no family left. My mother died when I was 10 and my younger sister Wei-Jing died shortly after birth." Mulan's face dropped into a frown.
"I'm sorry." She said. "but, you always have me. I mean, I-" I cut her off by kissing her mouth once again. We could see that the guards had disappeared with their ladies and were taking part in a conversation with the citizens of Qui-Gong, who still didn't know who they really were. Sensing that we were now alone, Mulan told me she had something she wanted to tell me. I felt my nerves act up.
"What? Is it bad?" I asked nervously.
"No, no. it's just something I think you should know." She said. She took my hand and led me to a little place in the corner.
"I'm not exactly sure how to put it." She said. "You might not believe me."
"Of course I'll believe you." I told her. "I believed that a river was talking to me, and if I believed that, I'll believe you." She looked a bit puzzled before speaking.
"okay." She began. " I'm not gonna beat around the bush, I'm going to go flat out and say it: I..have a guardian." I was a bit startled, but I believed her. I was about to speak when she cut me off.
"He's a dragon and his name is Mushu. I'm gonna stop talking so you can say whatever you want to say about it." She stopped talking. I had to think about what to say.
" a guardian?" I started. She cut me off again.
"I knew you wouldn't believe me." She said.
"No, I believe you." I said. She looked at me with a look of disbelief on her face.
"Really?"
"Yes." She smiled.
"I thought I had to tell you because, well you know when you saw "me" badmouthing you outside your tent?"
"Yes, but what does-"
"and when The carriage went into the river?"
"I remember, but-"
"That was all him." I stopped and looked at her. Now I was the puzzled one.
"Why would he do something like that?" I asked. More hit me "and he dropped that beehive on my head, didn't he? And if he's a dragon, he can breath flames, right? So that means, he's the one who scorched me when I was trying to cook that chicken, right? Right?"
"that was all him." She told me." He was only doing it because he knew that if I got married, he wouldn't get to be my guardian anymore, so he went to the ends of the earth trying to separate us."
Whoa. How selfish can you get? I thought.
"But, how do you know it was him?" I asked her.
"He told me. I wiggled it out of him." She answered. I smiled. Just seeing Mulan smile made my heart melt.
Anything else the little gremlin did?" I asked with a smile.
"only one, but after hearing it you won't think of him as a gremlin anymore." She replied. "The golden dragon of unity, never actually came to life. That was all him. By the end of the trip, he felt guilty. I know you're probably thinking he's probably the most selfish thing in the world, but deep down there's a good heart."
"If he got me together with you, he's great." I said. Mulan giggled and we hugged once more. Then something occurred to me.
"Wait, did you say that he got between us to keep his job as your guardian?" Mulan nodded. "Well I think I have a way to fix things." Mulan didn't question. She seemed to want to wait to see what I was going to do.
We decided it was time to go home after it got late. We all wanted nothing more than to go home and see family. We caught up with the guards and princesses and prepared to leave. Our problem was, all we had was Chir and Khan. The ox we had used for the princesses had wandered off and the palace was too far for the guards to walk on foot. When we presented this problem to the guards, we decided we neededa place to stay for the night.
"I'm sure there's an inn somewhere in qui-gong." Suggested Yao." Why don't we find it and stay there?" No one could think of anything better, so we set off to find the inn. Only a little bit outside the palace, we found what we were looking for. The inn was owned by an elderly man and his wife. We rented 4 separate rooms and said goodnight, all of us content.
That's chapter 6. Please R and R. I'm thinking of adding a twist to make the story longer, but I'm not dure. Tell me what you think of adding a twist. Thanks!
