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CHAPTER THREE – Kidnapped

A/N: I want to say a BIG BIG thank you to all my reviewers. Big thank you to Sam, pepe ok, Mii-chan1, Lynn12, narfgirl, shun yi, Hero, TO and Sharpshot for reviewing Chapter Two and a big special thanks to Dragon Spirit Fighter and Angel452 who reviewed both my chapters.

I'm sorry that I didn't write enough about the war and everyone freaking out about it, but I'll do some more in later chapters. Thank you, I love you all!!

Despite having only been at Wu Zhong for a few hours, Fung was now a firm favorite with everyone. Shang was already his childhood friend so he didn't count, but Mulan and the Gang were getting on really well with him, as were the new recruits. Fung had a much more noticeable sense of humor than Shang, which made joking and laughing a lot easier with him.

×××

On the same evening of the arrival of Fung, Mulan was walking along the lake edge, with Mushu trotting along at her heels, when she heard a yell, a whoop and a large splash. She looked over at the middle of the lake and laughed.

"What are you guys doing?" She cried. The Gang looked over at her. Chien-Po and Yao were standing at the water's edge, looking at Ling, who was spluttering the middle of the lake. It was obvious that someone, probably Yao, had pushed him in.

"Having a swim," Chien-Po answered, grinning.

"Oh yeah? How come you're not in the water?" Mulan asked him.

"That can be changed!" Yao exclaimed, shoving Chien-Po in the back. Chien-Po collapsed into the lake, sending waves soaring across the water. Ling was pushed back two meters by the force and Yao and Mulan were standing at the edge, totally drenched. They looked like they had had a bath in their clothes.

"Oops," Chien-Po muttered.

"Screw it, you're already wet! In you come!" Ling grabbed Yao's ankle and dragged him into the water. Yao disappeared under the water and came up again, spluttering and panting for air.

Mulan began to laugh so hard that her stomach started to hurt.

"What's going on?" Fung came up from behind them and looked at the situation. Yao was crouching in the water, Ling was sitting on a rock, Chien-Po was swimming around and Mulan was leaning against a tree, fighting down the last of her giggles.

"Nothing," They all answered. Fung raised his eyebrows.

"Well, if you're doing nothing..." He walked slowly around then shoved Mulan into the lake. She toppled in and came up again, gasping.

"What the hell was that for?" She snapped.

"You said you were doing nothing!" Fung grinned. Mulan splashed him. "Hey! I just washed this yesterday!"

"Well, it's dirty! You need a bath," Yao said then he and Ling grabbed Fung by the arm and dragged Fung into the lake.

"Hey!" He spluttered, splashing Yao. Yao retaliated, sending rivers of water soaring over their heads and onto Fung and Mulan.

"Hey! I didn't splash you!" She yelled. Taking a deep breath, she ducked under the water and wasn't seen for about a minute. Yao looked around, wondering where she was, when he suddenly lost his footing and lurched forward and then disappeared under the water. A second later, Mulan came up, followed by Yao.

"That was for splashing me!" She argued.

"So you ducked me?!" Yao yelled, outraged.

"Calm down Yao. Swim around," Chien-Po said, swimming by. Ling sniggered from his post on the rock. Mulan and Yao frowned at him then swam over and pushed him off. He tumbled into the water.

Mulan and Yao scrambled onto the rock, both fighting for a position.

"Get off!" Yao snapped.

"I was here first!" Mulan said back. Then suddenly they both fell off. Coming up, they saw Fung sitting on the rock, a smug smile on his face.

"Oi!" Mulan, Yao and Ling yelled. They scrambled up and all four of them sat on the rock, pushing and shoving, until they heard someone clearing their throat. All five of them quickly turned around to see Shang standing at the lake's edge, arms folded and looking stern.

They all froze. It wasn't a good place to be found. Yao, Ling, Fung and Mulan were sitting on top of a rock, in the middle of a lake, in soaking wet clothes. Chien-Po was crouched in the water next to them.

"What do you think you're doing?" Shang asked them.

"We were..." Mulan started. Shang raised his eyebrows at her.

"Nothing," Yao answered sullenly. He rolled off the rock, landing next to Chien-Po. Mulan went off next, then Ling and then Fung.

Back on land, the five of them stood facing Shang. His look was stern, yet his eyes were twinkling. Mulan wrinkled her forehead as Shang started laugh.

"You guys looked like you were having fun," He chortled. They all sighed with relief.

"Why didn't you join us then?" Yao asked, very relieved Shang wasn't angry because then he'd have to do two lots of punishments, his and Mulan's.

Shang shrugged. "You better get back and change," They all nodded and started trekking back to the camp, leaving water trails behind.

Mulan stayed behind to find Mushu, who had disappeared just before she got pushed into the water. Shang watched her as she started wandering around and peering into bushes.

"You lost anything?" He asked. Mulan turned to him.

"Oh...just my shoe," She lied. Shang glanced down at her feet, which were adorned with a small pair of black shoes.

"Really?" He smiled. Mulan looked down at her feet. She began to blush.

"Oh...err...um..." She began to stutter. Shang smiled and walked over to her. She looked up at him, wishing for him to kiss her.

She stared deeply into her eyes, which were sparkling. She could feel herself literally melting in front of him. "Oh god, he's so handsome! I wish he would kiss me. Or do I? Yeah, that's the bit to think about, you stupid idiot! Oh, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me,"

Shang reached forward and gently pulled a piece of water weed out of her hair. "Or not..." Mulan thought. She smiled at him and he returned it.

"Thanks," She whispered. It didn't seem like the time for speaking loudly.

"No problem," He whispered back. She could feel her face flushing. However, Shang was still his normal color. "That's weird. Normally he blushes too. Maybe this isn't embarrassing for him..."

"You should probably get back. You might get a chill or something," he said, now in normal tones. She nodded, trying not to show her disappointment. She turned and walked back up the path, Shang watching her until she disappeared.

"What the hell was that? That was the perfect moment! Why didn't you just kiss her?" Shang reasoned with himself. "How could I? Then she'd know that I like her. Could I kiss her without her knowing? No...could I? No...no...NO!!! You can't kiss someone without liking them! Idiot! Shame...that was the perfect moment. Water weed...lame excuse," Shang sighed.

×××

"What did you think then?" Mushu asked Mulan, when they were both sitting comfortably in her tent.

"About what?" She asked him, pretending to not know what he was talking about.

"I know you're dumb, but this is taking the piss!" Mushu snapped. "Hello?! I'm talking about the whole Shang thing at the lake!"

"So what? All he did was pull water weed out of my hair. No big deal,"

"No big deal? I bet I know what was going through your head,"

"Oh yeah? Tell me then, Mister-Smart-Ass,"

"Okay. I bet you were thinking 'Oh god, he's so handsome! I wish he would kiss me. Or do I? Yeah, that's the bit to think about, you stupid idiot! Oh, kiss me, kiss me, kiss me!'"

"What? That's stupid, I'd never think of something like that!" Mulan protested.

"Am I right?" Mulan persisted.

"Yes!" Mulan snapped. Mushu burst out laughing.

"I can read you like an open book, Mulan. You should try to hide your feelings a bit more, my girl. I bet Shang knows about your crush," Mushu sniggered. Mulan threw the blanket at him.

"Listen here, you shrunken lizard, I have no feelings for Shang except friendly ones. I feel the same for him as I do for Chien-Po, Yao, Ling and Fung,"

Mushu, who was glaring at her as soon as the words 'shrunken lizard' left her mouth, suddenly frowned. "I bet Shang thinks you like Fung,"

"What?! Are you kidding?! I don't like Fung in that way!" Mulan cried, fuming.

"I know, I know. Shang would probably think you do. You did get on with him very well though," Mushu went on. Mulan jumped to her feet, quite taken over by sudden anger.

"Well, I'll go and tell him I bloody well don't!" Mulan yelled. She stormed out of her tent and was about to go bursting into Shang's tent when Mushu jumped in front of her.

"You're crazy! You can't go bursting in there, yelling. Then he'll think that you do! So just shut up and get back to your tent!" Mushu yelled.

A disgruntled Mulan allowed herself to be led back to her tent by Mushu. Back in the tent, Mulan lay down on the bed while Mushu covered her with the blanket.

"Cheer up babe," He said. Mulan nodded.

"Night," She whispered.

×××

Somehow, in the middle of the night, Yao and Ling had had a big row over something they weren't telling anybody and were avoiding each other. This was only half of it as tricks were played on each other, rows were very frequent and boastings of how brave each thought they were came out often. Mulan, Chien-Po and Fung, who had joined their 'Gang', were getting tired of this.

"Maybe we should trick them," Mulan said. She was sitting in the eating tent with Fung and Chien-Po. Shang had given them an hour for their lunch break and most of the soldiers took this opportunity to fill their stomachs and quench their aching thirsts.

"How?" Chien-Po asked her. Mulan looked around.

"I'm not sure, but we have to think of a really great trick," Mulan answered.

"Hmm," Fung thought and then he began to smile. "Of course! We have to start with the greatest trick of all time," He paused. "The Covering-Of-The-Toilet," He grinned. Chien-Po blinked.

"I'm sorry?"

"It's the best trick ever. I have a brother, called Loon Gao and we used to play tricks on each other all the time. The Covering-Of-The-Toilet was the best one ever. We caught loads of people with it, even Shang," He smiled and Mulan began to laugh.

"How does it work?" Chien-Po asked.

"Basically, you cover the seat of the toilet with a see-through cloth or covering and when people go it'll spray out everywhere," Fung explained. Chien-Po cringed while Mulan giggled.

"That's perfect! We can set it so both Yao and Ling get hit by it!" She exclaimed. "That's it!" She paused. "Will Shang recognize it?" She turned to Fung, who shrugged.

"Probably,"

"Well that sucks," Chien-Po said. "He's the general, he'll never approve,"

"Screw that," Fung said. "I think it's a good idea. Let's go check the medical tent, they might have something,"

Mulan stood up. "Good," She left the tent, Fung at her heels.

The medical tent was exactly the same as the one that Mulan had been in when she had been discovered in the Tung Shao Pass, white with a red circle on it. A bed was on the right-hand side, boxes of supplies were at the back and odds and ends were on the left, along with a splint and a stretcher.

Mulan bent down next to a box and peered inside. Then she looked up and turned to Fung. "Okay, you look in those red ones and I'll do the green ones," Fung nodded and started rummaging around.

Mulan found bandages, ointment, splints and tea in her boxes while Fung found herbs and more ointment. Then Mulan pulled out a roll of see-through-ish cloth.

"How about this?" She asked Fung.

"Let's have a look," He said. Mulan chucked the roll over to him. He ran it through his fingers then held it up to the light.

"That's perfect," He smiled and then got up. "God, my knees are killing me," Mulan grinned and got up too.

"Maybe you're out of shape," She said. Fung glared at her.

"I'll get you for that!" He threw a handful of bandages at her, and then tore out of the tent, after Mulan, chasing her.

×××

Unknown to Mulan and Fung, Shang was watching them as Fung ran after Mulan, brandishing a roll of cloth.

"God knows what they're going with that cloth. Looks like they're getting on..." He paused and sighed. "But Fung's my best friend. He knows I like Mulan so why would he go after her too?" Shang shook his head, suddenly angry with himself. "What the hell are you talking about? Fung's your friend! He knows about your feelings to Mulan, so he wouldn't! Stop thinking about your friends like that!" Shang glared at himself.

He looked around his tent and sighed again.

×××

Mulan was leaning against the tree outside the toilets. Fung had gone into the toilet to cover the seats with the bandage cloth.

"God! He's taking a while, isn't he Mushu?" Mulan looked around. "Mushu? Where are you?"

"What's up sister?" He said, sticking his head out from the nearby tree.

"I said that Fung's taking a while, huh?" Mushu nodded.

"Yeah, well. He might be using the facilities too,"

"I hope he didn't put the cloth on first," Mulan sniggered. Fung came out, holding the rest of the cloth under his arm.

"Done," He said. Mulan smiled.

"Okay good. Go stick that back in the tent and don't look suspicious,"

"Right," Fung turned and went back to the medical tent, Mulan watching him. Then she saw Shang stepping out of his tent, wearing his training jacket over his bare chest (A/N: That jacket-y thing he wore in 'Mulan' when he yelled "Soldiers!").

Mulan left her spot by the toilets and walked over to the pole. She lined up between Ling and Yao as they were still really pissed off at each other. Chien-Po was turning a blind eye to the whole argument, while Mulan and Fung took an active part, offering advice, tips in sparring and ways of tricking people. Shang had no idea about the row between his two captains and nobody was stupid enough to tell him.

Mulan didn't have a rank but she helped train the recruits with Shang, Fung and the Gang. Mulan normally went with Chien-Po as Shang and Fung paired up and so did Yao and Ling. As Shang had no idea about the difficulties between Yao and Ling, they were forced to partner up to demonstrate sparring to the recruits.

Angry with each other, neither was willing to give way. Ling was slightly quicker than Yao and could deliver a number of kicks and blows in rapid succession. Yao, being short, could dodge some of these, but was at the mercy of Ling's kicks. In the end, Shang broke apart the fight due to the fact that Ling had bitten Yao's arm and Yao, in revenge, had punched Ling so hard he flew back a few feet.

"Stop! Stop!" Shang yelled. Despite his yells, Ling was eager to use this opportunity to beat up Yao good and proper without anything saying anything, as they were meant to be demonstrating. He approached the lying-on-the-floor Yao, picked him up by the scruff of the neck and whacked him in the stomach. Yao managed to take this one and retaliate by a roundhouse kick, sending Ling flying into a tree. Everyone cringed. Mulan looked at Fung, who bit his lip.

Mulan and Fung went to pick up the unconscious Ling. Supporting him by the shoulders and Fung holding his feet, she hobbled over to where Shang was standing, his face bright red, yelling himself hoarse at Yao, who was being held by Chien-Po.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?! You're meant to be giving a demonstration! Whenever I spar with Fung or anyone, do I bite them or send them flying into a tree?!" He bellowed.

Yao looked up. "What?! I never sent him into a tree!!"

"Yes you did!!"

"Oh! So what?"

"The point is that you were setting a really bad example for the new recruits!"

"Hey, it wasn't all my friggin' fault! Ling bit me, for god's sake! You never bite in sparring! That's the one thing you're not allowed to do, besides eye-gouging and fish-hooking!" Yao spat. He turned and stormed off, his face bright red too. The recruits were starting to snigger. Mulan and Fung both found it funny, but they had to look serious otherwise Shang would freak. Well, freak out more than he already was.

"Take him to the medical tent Fung. Mulan, you're to help me train the recruits," Shang hissed. Chien-Po took Ling from Mulan and Fung's arms and proceeded with Fung to the medical tent. The recruits were still smiling.

"GENTLEMEN!" Shang bellowed, losing his temper again. "I will not have this behaviour in my camp! Now run to the cliff and take your sticks!" The recruits ran off quickly, it was better to obey Shang's orders when he was in a mood, instead of trying to be smart.

Mulan turned to Shang. "You all right?" She asked softly. Shang glared at her.

"What?" He snapped. She raised her eyebrows and the hard look vanished from his face. "I'll be fine. What's wrong with them anyway?"

Mulan shrugged. "I don't know. Fung and I have been trying to get it out of them but they're not saying anything," She suddenly realised what she had said. Shang raised an eyebrow.

"They had a row? I thought they were just sparring really violently,"

"Um...no," She answered feebly. Shang looked at her. "Okay, they did. But they're not saying anything about it,"

"Maybe it wasn't a good idea giving them their ranks," He said, walking in the same direction the recruits had run in earlier.

Mulan stared at his back. "You're kidding right? You can't take away their ranks!" She jogged after him. "Shang?"

"I can," He said stiffly.

"I thought the emperor gave them,"

"Yeah he does, but I recommended them to him. Otherwise, they would still be normal soldiers," He paused and looked at Mulan. "I recommended you to get a rank as well," She grinned.

"Really?"

"Yeah. The emperor thought he might give you a bit of time before giving you anything," Mulan's smile sagged. "Come on, you might get something later," Her smile shot up again.

×××

The recruits weren't brilliant at the stick-and-stone exercise. After Shang's flawless demonstration, the recruits lined up one by one to try.

First up was Huang Wong. Wong was a average sized man, with a beard and a large nose. Mulan couldn't stand him because he was always making fun of her. Shang couldn't stick him either; apparently Yao's two nicknames for Shang, 'Pretty Boy' and 'Lover Boy' had sped around the camp at a surprisingly fast rate and Wong could never resist any moment to tease Shang.

Wong was a very good recruit. He had performed all of the exercises with speed and accuracy and even Shang was surprised at how quickly he had picked everything up. The rest of the recruits threw stones at Wong, who managed to hit all of them, but the bucket fell just as he hit the last few stones.

The rest of the recruits weren't any better. One man, Yu Dian, had the same problems as Mulan had had. The bucket upturned, his vision impaired he managed to hit only one stone. Mulan giggled slightly. Shang glared at her.

After the stick-and-stone exercise, they went back to sparring, but with sticks. Shang had to demonstrate with Mulan. Mulan, like Ling, was slightly quicker than Shang but Shang was much more experienced and knew a lot more sparring techniques. After a few minutes, Mulan was beginning to tire, or so it looked like. Shang could see this and was going slightly easy on her before she gripped the stick with two hands, slammed it into Shang's chin, forcing him back then she took him down with one hit of the stick. He flew onto his back, groaning slightly. The recruits cheered. Mulan couldn't help grinning. She went over to Shang and offered him her hand. Smiling, he took it and pulled himself up.

"Nice move. Never seen that been used before. I thought you were getting tired though," He said. Mulan smiled.

"I wasn't. It just looked like it. Don't underestimate me because of my appearance," She smiled sweetly. Shang shook his head, his own smile growing. He turned back to the recruits.

"I want you to divide into pairs and practise amongst yourselves. Mulan and I will walk around and see how you're doing,"

The recruits quickly paired up and Mulan and Shang walked around. Mulan noticed that most people were too 'shy' about hitting their partners, as they didn't want to injure them. Huang Wong and Yu Dian had paired up together. Wong was taking it very seriously and wasn't giving Dian a chance at all. Poor Dian had a bad time sparring with Wong, he got hit several times, kicked and when Dian tried the 'Mulan Move' when he was lying on his back, Wong hit the stick out of his hands. Mulan, who was there to witness this, smiled to herself.

"Good job Wong. Dian, you might want to push yourself a little harder. Don't be afraid of hitting Wong," He nodded.

"Like he could anyway," Wong hissed. Mulan sniggered, but stopped when Dian frowned at her.

"Sorry," She said then walked off to watch the other recruits, unaware that Shang had been watching her the whole time and was not paying a blind bit of attention to the sparring recruits.

×××

Shang called a meeting with all his Officers, including Mulan, that evening. Inside his tent, he had a map of China, with red and black markers on it (A/N: Like that one in Mulan with General Li and Shang at the beginning).

"There aren't that many Huns," Mulan said. There were about five different training camps, shown by a small red marker, then two big red markers, showing armies. The Huns had three black markers.

"These are the places where our scouts have seen the Huns," Shang pointed to the black markers. "They've been stationery for a while now; we're not sure what they're doing,"

"So? How's that bad?" Chien-Po asked.

"Well, it means they're plotting something," Shang lied. Chien-Po raised his eyebrows and Mulan stifled a giggle.

"Who's their leader now?" She asked. Shang frowned.

"We're not sure of his name, but we believe that he is a relative of Shan-Yu, but we are not sure if he's the son, cousin or whatever,"

"You're information is kind of patchy," Yao said. He and Shang had made up sometime during the day, but Mulan, Fung and Chien-Po could only wonder how as they had both seemed pretty pissed at each other.

"I know, but our scout reports aren't very good. All we're certain of is that they're doing nothing," Shang said. Mulan rolled her eyes and Fung smiled at her. Shang noticed this but kept quiet.

"Okay, tomorrow, first thing in the morning, we're going to try that pole exercise. Everyone gets up early," He paused and looked at Mulan. She always overslept. "That includes you, Mulan," Mulan grinned.

"Sure," She got up and walked out the tent.

She looked up at the sky. It was a cloudless night; she could see every single star. Mulan couldn't help admiring it. She had always loved the sky, whether it was the clouds at day or the stars at night, but especially the stars.

She walked past her tent, rubbing her arms to try and warm herself up. Mushu popped out from her collar.

"Where you going?" He asked her.

"Just to the forest. I fancy a walk anyway," She hurried over the bridge and entered the forest. She looked around and couldn't help smiling. The trees hid most of the sky but the darkness still surged through.

After spending a quiet five minutes there, Mushu stuck his head out again.

"Come on, come on! Get back to the tent! The lucky bug's getting tired!" He held up Cri-Kee, who was yawning, his eyes drooping. He looked up when Mulan peered down at him, then shut his eyes again.

Mulan grinned. "Okay, okay," She strolled out the forest before she was hit in the back with an arrow, she tripped, hit the floor and everything went black.

A/N: I'm sorry if some of this was kinda modern, like the tricks but I really couldn't think of anything. Thanks and please review!!