Questionable Identity
Ch. 2
Summary: Mulan isn't who she thinks she is. The Emperor is missing a daughter. Fa Li's family comes for her. Shang can't decided his future.
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A/N: EnjoyJ
Lynn – Thx for reviewing. Mulan is not the long lost daughter. She's to young. The daughter was fifteen 23 years ago which would make her 38 now (In the story). Mulan's 17 or 18.
Traum – Thx for reviewing.
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~Last chapter~
"We must leave at once if you want to see her. She lives in a little village so I hear."
"Well, what are you waiting for? I have packing to do. Come Qing Lan."
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"NOOOOOOOOO!" Fa Li sat up in bed.
Fa Zhou opened his eyes and looked at his wife. "What's wrong?" he asked her.
"I had the dream again."
Fa Zhou rubbed her back. "Go to sleep."
Fa Li nodded and lay back down.
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Dream/Flashback
Fa Chun looked out of the kitchen window where she was making dinner. Heavy rain fell from the sky. She watched as a chicken wandered through the garden. Lightning lighted up the sky for a brief second.
During that second, Chun saw a horse slowly walk by the gates to her home. Looking closer, she saw that the rider was slumped over the horse's neck.
"Zhou!" she cried.
Seventeen year old Fa Zhou entered the kitchen. "Yes mama?" he asked worried.
"Come with me!" she said as she led him out of the house into the rain.
She pointed to the horse that had stopped. "Bring the horse in here son."
"Yes mama." Zhou ran to the gates, opened the doors, and slowly walked up to the horse so not to spook it. "Come here," he whispered.
The white horse looked at him and came closer.
"Good boy."
He took the reins that had been dropped by the rider, and led the horse to his mother.
"Get the rider off!"
Zhou lifted up the rider and slowly placed the rider on the ground by his mother.
"Take the horse to the stables then come back."
Zhou left with the horse in the direction of the stables.
Chun dropped onto her knees beside the rider and pulled back the hood. She gasped.
The rider coughed. "Please, don't send me back," the rider begged as she held Chun's hand.
"How old are you child?"
The rider coughed again. "Fifteen."
"What's your name?"
"Li …"
Chun never found out the rest because the girl blacked out.
Zhou walked back over to his mother. "So?" he asked with curiousity.
"Carry her into the house and put her in the spar room. I will explain later."
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"But mama, I love her!"
"Zhou she is only eighteen to your twenty years. Wait one more year to ask her to marry you. If she says yes you can marry her when she turns twenty."
End of Dream/Flashback
Fa Chun (the grandmother) awoke from her dreams.
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"MULAN!"
"Yes mama?" asked Mulan as she ran into the kitchen.
"Get your chores done," said Fa Li.
"Do I have to?"
"Yes."
"But Ling and Yao are coming soon."
"Your chores must be done then."
Mulan nodded her head and left the kitchen. "Little brother," she called.
The small dog ran up to her barking happily. Mulan tied the chicken feed and a bone onto Little Brother, letting him feed the chickens.
She walked back into the kitchen to get the tea for her father.
As she walked to the temple she heard horses walk through town.
"Baba, here's your tea." She handed him the glass and the teapot. "I have to go."
She ran into the house to get dress while Fa Zhou shook his head.
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Mulan ran to the gate and throw them open.
In front of her stood to men. One was thin and tall, while the other was short and muscular.
"Mulan," said Ling as Yao gave her a hug.
"Hello you two. Come in."
Ling and Yao followed Mulan to the stables where they put there horses.
"How have you been?" asked Mulan as they sat on the grass in the garden.
"I've been ok," said Ling.
"I'm betrothed," said Yao proudly.
"To who?" asked Mulan with interest.
"Aian. You've probably never met her. She lives in my home town."
"What is she like?" asked Ling.
"She can cook and clean, but she can't speak her mind."
Ling and Mulan laughed as Yao said this remembering when Mulan had said as they walked through the mountains.
"How about you Ling? Any women?" asked Yao.
"No. The Matchmaker in my village has been sick since I got back. How about you Mulan?"
"Umm… I'm going to the Matchmaker's again tomorrow."
"Again?" asked Ling.
Mulan blushed and told them about the first time she went to the Matchmaker's.
Ling and Yao laughed. "If you could pick your own husband, who would you pick Mulan?" asked Yao with an evil grinned.
Mulan blushed again and mumbled something.
"I'm sorry, I didn't hear you," said Ling cheerful.
"Well, it deffentaly wouldn't be one of you two."
"HEY!"
Mulan giggled and quickly stood up ready to run.
Ling and Yao just sat there. "Running away Mulan?" asked Yao.
Mulan dropped to the grass again and sighed. "No." She looked around. "Once I marry," she gestured around her, "I won't see this every day. I'll probably be marrying some rich old man who last wife killed herself because she was not happy."
Ling and Yao laughed again. "You sure know how to damper things."
"That's me. Your friendly sad person." Ling looked at her. "Never mind."
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"She seems so happy with her friends," stated Fa Li from the window in the kitchen.
"I know." Grandma Fa smiled. "So, how do you thing tomorrow is going to go?" she asked.
Fa Li sighed. "If she is anything like the last time, not too good."
"Oh Li, she will do fine. I heard that there is a general who might want to take her as his wife."
"Might?"
"Might."
"But she's only been home for two months. Why does she have to go so fast?"
"She'll be here for a few months after the matchmaker's test."
"Grandma, I had the dream last night."
Grandma Fa looked at her daughter-in-law. "I thought you said the dream had stopped."
"I know but it started again when Mulan got back and told us about her adventure."
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"Is this where you think she lives?" asked Jia Ju from the carriage where she was seated with the Emperor and Qing Lan.
"Yes."
"But this," she motioned around her. "THIS IS A FARMING TOWN!" she screeched.
"I know."
"My daughter lives in a farming town?"
"I believe so."
"My daughter lives in a farming town!" With that Jia Ju fainted.
"I guess we will say at an inn for a few days."
The Emperor told his guards to look for an inn on the outskirts of town so that when they were ready to go into the town, they could be presented by the drum.
A/N: I know its slow, but it will pick up I promise.