Crazy trouble with love part 9
Mulan x Ting-Ting, Su and Mei
Series: Mulan
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-China, The Forbidden City-
It was an interesting moment for Fa Mulan, for one she just saved all of China from Shan Yu and well, the entire empire was bowing to her, which made her feel very important.
But in the mists of all of this, Mulan was interested in a question that the emperor had given her, either return home or gain a spot in his royal court.
On one hand she did want to go home to see her family, but on the other, a chance at the emperor's royal court was something that came once in a lifetime. Especially when she could help China in her own way, despite being a woman. Plus, she really wanted to prove herself more to the emperor himself.
So here she was, with the emperor waiting for her answer.
Mulan looked at the elder ruler and finally said. "I would be honored to join your court."
"Excellent." he smiled while the crowd heard and started clapping and cheering. "You can start in two days, you've earned some time to relax."
"Yes my emperor." she bowed before noticing Chi-Fu waking back up, confused.
"Huh? What, sire, what just happened?"
"Just that this fine lady has replaced you." he said as the other man went bug eyed.
"What? But I...she...me...oooh." he let out, fainting on the spot, again.
Mulan looked upon Shang, Yao, Ling and Chien-Po, and saw them looking very happy for her success, but she had no time to talk to them as she was escorted by some imperial guards into the place. "Um, my emperor? What-"
"Since the journey back to your village is a long one, and since you seem tired from the battle. You shall be my guest, I expect you to appear after two days however, but until then, my servants will answer your every request." the elderly man said while walking back to his palace.
"Uh, well thank you, but what about Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po? And General Li Shang?"
"They will all of course be granted time to rest as well. I myself will ensure they are all rewarded for their bravery."
"Oh, I see."
"And the dragon will be accommodated too." he said while Mushu poked out of Mulan's collar. "As for how I knew this, a little dragon blood down my family line, that and it's tail was poking out of your sleeve."
"Aw come on! I thought I was hidden, like a shadow." Mushu groaned while Cri-Kee just chuckled at him. "Oh don't start with me!"
(Later on)
-Imperial Guest Room-
"Wow, it's...beautiful." Mulan muttered while looking at the luxurious room, filled with silken sheets and golden decorations, as she noticed that the guards left her, alone in the room. "Although it feels...bigger than me."
"Well, you DID live in a camp full of sweaty men for the last few months." Mushu chimed in. "So be grateful that you have no roommates, besides us of course."
Cri-Kee let out some chirps and nodded.
Mulan walked over to the bed and sat down. "Well, looks like we will be living here for a while."
"Think we get room service?" Mushu asked while Mulan shook her head. "What? We are in a palace, oh and maybe there are some nice serving girls here?"
"Maybe, but I doubt that they would be interested in a small lizard."
"Dragon, not lizard, dragon. We discussed this already."
"I was teasing you Mushu." she smirked while he huffed and crossed his arms.
"I knew that."
Cri-Kee chuckled while Mulan looked around and felt a little amazed at her situation.
But while she wasn't looking, a group of serving girls in dark blue hanfus and with witch sashs around their waists, walked in and bowed.
"Lady Fa." they said at once. "What is your wish?"
"Oh! Uh...well..." Mulan said while a little creeped out at their unity. "Maybe a bath?"
"As you wish." They bowed before taking her by the waist and dragged her away, leaving Mushu and Cri-Kee behind.
"Wow, they sure do work fast." Mushu said to the cricket while the insect nodded.
(With Mulan)
SPLASH!
"Ah!" she yelped when she got dumped into the large tub already filled with warm water. As she looked around she noticed that she was getting washed by many serving girls, each one using their hands to clean her D cup chest and wide hips with the precision of an acupuncturist.
"If you need anything else, ask Lady Fa."
"Uh, thank you, but I can clean myself." she said before getting washed in an inappropriate spot. "Ah!"
"Your care is our duty." they said at once while washing her from top to bottom.
"Woah there!" she backed up quickly. "I can clean myself!"
But the serving girls moved closer and closer to her while the screen went black.
(Later on)
Mulan, now wearing a golden hanfu with long red sleeves and a golden sash around her waist, walked down the hallway with a flustered look on her person, hoping to find her original clothes as they were taken by the serving girls to be washed, not that she was complaining about the attire. 'By the ancestors, those girls were persistent!'
"Man Mulan, when you clean up, you clean up all the way." Mushu said while walking next to her, bored from playing 'eye spy' with Cri-Kee.
She blushed. "Well, it wasn't too bad. But still, it felt odd."
"Odder than you acting like a man and taking skinny dips with said men?"
"Ok, equally odd." Mulan sweatdropped while turning a corner and noticed three people walking by.
As she looked carefully, she noticed that they were three slender women with peach colored skin, black eyes, black hair, with C cup chests and wide hips, but each one was very different from one another.
The one near the right was taller, with long black hair tied in two hoops with a purple orb hairband, light blue and purple hanfus, a light purple sash that was tied around her waist in a double sided knot, oval earrings and purple ballet shoes.
The one nearest to the left was medium sized, with short black hair with a small tuft of hair tied to the right side of her head with a orange band along with three long strands going down her forehead, light peach and orange hanfus, a dark orange sash around her waist, triangular earrings, and orange ballet shoes.
And lastly, the one in the middle of the two women was shorter than the others, with long black hair braided in the form of two ox like horns that were cut at the ends with a single strand of hair over her forehead, light magenta and pink hanfus, a dark pink sash tied around her waist with two long strands going down her sides, circular earrings, and pink ballet shoes.
Overall, they were beautiful noble ladies, who walked past Mulan and didn't notice her as Mushu wolf whistled at them.
"Helloooo ladies."
The women looked at Mulan, who looked at them still dazed at their beauty, and raised an eyebrow before walking away.
"Oh no, did I come off as rude?"
"What? You? No, they must be thinking how rugged you...no. You're not Ping right now, mmmm." Mushu tapped his chin with one claw. "Oh, they must be thinking how...ladylike you are? Ha! No way, you're more of a tomboy."
Mulan shook her head and walked away.
"That was supposed to be a compliment!"
(Two days later)
-The Imperial Throneroom-
Mulan bowed, while on her knees, in front of the emperor as she was in her normal clothes, the one she wore when she first came to the place, as she waited for the emperor to speak, although Chi-Fu, who was near the right hand side of the throne, looked very cross at her.
"Now then Mulan, today is when your new duties will start. Are you ready?"
"Yes, my emperor. I am ready for any task you bestow upon me."
'Hopefully in the kitchen.' thought Chi-Fu as the emperor clapped his hands and summoned three lovely women, who Mulan recognized as the ones that Mushu whistled at two days ago.
"These are my daughters, Ting-Ting, Su, and Mei." the great ruler of China said with a small amount of joy. "And starting today, you shall be their sword against their enemies. For you, Fa Mulan, protector of China, will be their guardian."
"Consider it done my emperor." Mulan said while Chi-Fu looked flabbergasted.
"Rise." the emperor commanded while Mulan rose up from her kneeling position. "And go attend to your duty. My daughters will meet with you shortly."
"Yes my emperor." she said while walking away, making sure not to trip or look foolish in front of him.
(Later on)
Mulan stood near a red pillar while waiting for the three sisters to arrive from their afternoon walk through the imperial garden, although it was getting boring and to make things worse, Mushu and Cri-Kee were somewhere else in the palace, causing who knows what kinds of trouble.
'I hope those two don't go off and cause trouble.' she thought while glancing at the hilt of the crooked sword of the deceased Shan Yu on her back, which she was allowed to use for her duties by the emperor himself, although it made her feel a little nervous and felt something dark coming from it, something...evil from within.
But that line of thinking was suddenly interrupted by a set of footsteps that moved towards her line of sights, until she saw it was the emperor's daughters, fans covering their lips.
"Mulan, we are done with our time out here." Ting-Ting said.
"Oh, yes." Mulan said while snapping out of it. "So, what do you want to do exactly?"
"Have some food." Su suggested.
"We had some earlier, how about we read some scrolls?" Mei said with a smile.
"No, we are going to brush our hair as of right now." the eldest sister said with a stern look.
Mulan sweatdropped at this.
"Well, our hair does look like it could use some tending to." Su sighed while Mei nodded. "Maybe the heroine has some experience in hair styling?"
"Oh, well usually I let my mother help me with that." Mulan got out. "But I can try and do it."
"Please do." Ting-Ting said with a stern tone. "Our hair is very sensitive."
"Yes ma'am."
(Later on)
Mulan sighed to herself while currently doing Ting-Ting's hair, as Su and Mei were looking over their combed hair. 'So this is what royalty does in their free time...by the gods it's boring!'
"Remember, long smooth movement."
"Yes ma'am." she grumbled to herself while really looking bored. "So, this is what you girls do all the time?"
"One of them, yes."
"I see...so do you want to hear some stories from the front lines?" Mulan asked. "Or some jokes?"
"No, just focus on your current job."
"Are you sure? Because there are some funny moments when I was training." Mulan said while Su and Mei looked very interested. "Like when I was getting started, it started out well and I tried to act manly but one thing after another happened and well...he he, everyone was trying to beat the living crap out of everyone, even the cook."
"How did that happen?"
"Well...I started the fight, tried to get out of it, and ducked from a punch to the face, which hit someone else and that started the fight." Mulan sweatdropped while Su and Mei laughed, although Ting-Ting tried to hold back a chuckle. "But that was nothing compared to training, oh boy, everyone was either trying too hard or too little."
"And how was that funny exactly?" Ting-Ting asked.
"Simple, General Shang trained us to our limits, but everytime that happened, one of us either got hit by rockets to the ass, tried to chop a block of stone with their face, or, and this was the funniest in my opinion." Mulan chuckled. "Tried to climb up a tall pole that had an arrow at the top, only using two heavy brass weights attached to some rope."
"Ok, and?"
"And everyone that tried couldn't get up! It was BAM! SPLAT! Ugh~ And OW!" Mulan laughed. "It was like watching pandas trying to fly off a tree!"
That made the two girls laugh with Ting-Ting forced herself to keep it together and clear her throat.
"I assume no one managed to reach it?"
"That's where you are wrong." Mulan snickered. "I was the only one to do it. Me, a woman in an ALL male army, was able to do it."
"Wow." Mei said with awe. "That's actually amazing!"
"I know, although it was hard for one tiny thing."
"What?" Su asked.
Mulan looked around before saying. "Trying to bathe. No joke, just before going to the mountain pass, I tried to skinny dip...although three others popped up and assuming I was a guy, tried to play 'King of the Rock'. But I had the last laugh when they screamed at a snake biting one of them on the ass and were ALL stuck there on that rock for hours while I left."
"Hahahaha!" Ting-Ting laughed while snorting a little, surprising her sisters in the process. "Hahahaha!"
Mulan herself smiled before the woman caught herself and quickly hid her face behind her fan and cleared her throat.
"Ahem...that was humorous." she blushed. "Very amusing."
"Well, that was a very cute laugh." Mulan chuckled. "I dare say it's like my own laugh, although it sounds a little lower pitched. You should laugh more often."
"Just forget what you heard." Ting-Ting blushed while feeling her heart beat faster.
"Why? It was cute." Mulan said. "But if you really want that, I can do that my lady."
'Damn it...that actually made my heart stop!'
'Laughing would definitely help her relax.' Su thought while Mei had a similar mindset.
(A few weeks later)
Mulan, now in her training attire from the army which was a cream colored attire with green lines on her waist, ankles and wrists along with dark green armor on her shoulders, torso, legs and arms, was busy kicking some straw dummies while making sure to use her free time to stay in peak physical condition.
Now, she was actually getting somewhere in her duty, as the sisters find her interesting and a good friend, although Ting-Ting seemed a little flustered every time she told a joke to the princess, although it could just be the vulgar war time humor she picked up from the army.
But while Mulan was training herself, she did not see Mei watching her from a corner.
"She really does look like a man in that armor." she whispered to herself. "And kinda rugged."
As Mei looked at Mulan's training regiment, she kept on staring at her toned legs, body and sweating brow, which seemed to make the warrior woman look more...ethereal and otherworldly.
"I had no idea another girl could look that way." She muttered with a blush.
Pow!
Pow!
"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Mulan yelled before kicking the dummy hard, causing it's head to fall off from the blow. "Ah...ok. Time to do some stretches."
Mei looked on with stars in her eyes as she saw Mulan cracking her neck and stretched. 'That was amazing!'
That was when Mei noticed the stretches, how they made Mulan's ass pop out and how with each movement the posterior would look more toned along with the chest, as Mulan's joints popped a little.
'Oh my...is it getting warmer out here?' Mei thought while turning bright red as she used her fan to try and cool off as she forced herself from staring and walked away.
Mulan kept on stretching while unaware of the princess's newfound lust for the warrior.
(A few weeks later)
Mulan smiled while feeling like the princesses are getting more used to her, even though they seem flustered or red in the face every time she sees them, but she brushed those thoughts away as she was going to meet Su for some 'special assignment' in the royal kitchen.
All the while Mushu himself was following with a yawn.
"Remind me again why you got me up from a nap?"
"Because Su wanted me in the kitchen before dawn. Plus after what happened to you and Khan, I don't trust you anywhere in the palace."
"It's not my fault the horse decided to bite my tail for no reason!"
"You tried to pull on his tail."
"Oh so you're taking the horses side now, and here I thought we had something going." he grumbled as it wasn't his fault that the horse 'made' him burn a curtain down...and the royal garden, he was the victim here, not the horse.
"Just try and be nice, ok?" Mulan said while walking to the kitchen door.
"Yeah yeah."
"And you stay out of sight, got it?"
"Why?"
"Because while the emperor knows about you, the sisters don't. Plus I don't want anyone running out in a panic."
"Like I would do that, maybe a bite or to but…" he saw her stern face and sighed. "Fine, but I'm roosting in your sleeves."
Mulan nodded while Mushu crawled into her sleeve. 'Hopefully nothing bad happened...speaking of which, what DID Su want me to do in the kitchen anyway? I hope not poison testing.'
When she reached the kitchen she picked up the scent of freshly made food. Which was emanating from the hot ovens as in a pot were some noodles and on a nearby table was a stack of bamboo and lumps of duck meat as Su was chopping the bamboo and placing the remains onto the meat itself.
She turned and saw Mulan. "Hey, you're just in time to help with my special bamboo flavored peking duck."
"It smells great. Did you make all this?"
"Yep." Su nodded while looking at the noodles and placed some spring onion shreds into the boiling pot. "I do this sort of stuff when no one's around, but since you're here, I can create even better curisines."
Mulan nodded while Mushu sniffed the air. "So what do you need me to do?"
"I just need you to keep an eye on the duck when it's hung over the oven, and taste test anything I give you."
"Alright, no problem." She smiled while seeing Su putting the duck on a stick, butt first, and placed it into the oven before closing it as Mushu crawled out of her sleeve and decided to 'taste test' a little. 'Wow...she's very good, I guess she would make a good wife for someone. Although I hope she doesn't force feed me anything like grandma did back home. Ugh...so many rice samples.'
"Man, that smells great!" Mushu whispered while crawling towards the noodles and took some from the pot, gagging after tasting it. "Ugh! Too bland." he then grabbed a bowl of soy and dumped it in. "That will work."
Mulan sat on a nearby chair while watching the oven, making sure nothing bad occurred with it while Su continued cooking.
(A few minutes later)
"Say aw." Su smiled while holding a bit of boiled bamboo on some chopsticks in front of Mulan's face.
"Ah." She said while taking a bite of the bamboo. "Mmmm, huh, that's good. Good job Su."
"Thanks, that really made me feel good about my cooking." Su smiled while Mushu looked around and added some cucumbers to the pot along with a bit of chicken meat.
"Well, you do have a gift."
"Thanks. To tell you the truth, I've been wanting to be a great cook since I was a little girl. I wanted to learn when I learned eventually I'd have to get a husband and knew perfecting my cooking would be extremely useful."
"Well, you are a good person." Mulan smiled. "Even if you don't get married to the right person or don't marry at all, you can make even the gods smile upon your cooking. I mean, I really like your cooking."
Su lightly blushed at the compliments as Mushu crawled towards the oven and saw the flames were dying.
"Mmmm, looks like it's time for some flames." He smirked before blowing hot fire into the oven, reigniting the charcoal and caused the duck to turn from a golden brown to a dark black color. "Oh boy is that gonna be one tasty duck!"
(Later)
Su smiled while giving Mulan some of the noodles to sample as she waited for the duck to get cooked so she could finish her cursine, feeling very happy that the warrior was giving her compliments on her skills.
"Mmm, a little spicy." Mulan said while tasting the noodle as the flames started to grow a little more due to Mushu's flames. "Needs some ginger root."
"Right away." Su said while grabbing the ingredient and gave it to Mulan.
"Thanks...wait." she sniffed the air and raised an eyebrow. "Is something burning?"
Both turned and saw that the oven was expelling large amounts of fire as Su paled.
"The peking duck!" She screamed, running over to a jug of water while Mulan ran to the curtains.
(A few minutes later)
Both panted while the fire finally died down, revealing a very burnt duck that looked more like a stone than a 'living' animal.
"Ah...oh poo." Su said sadly. "The peking duck is ruined."
Mushu gulped from behind a corner while Mulan glared at him and mouthed 'we will talk about this later' to him.
"It's ok, at least we're safe." Mulan said while Su looked sad.
"But the duck."
"We can make another one, but your safety is more important."
"I know, but I hate wasting good food." Su pouted while Mulan placed a hand on her cheek and moved it towards her face, which made her gasp a little at how 'manly' Mulan looked.
"Food can be replaced, you on the other hand, can't." She said with a smile. "Next time I'll help keep an eye on it so we can eat it together."
Su nodded while blushing like mad. 'So...cool…'
(Some weeks later)
-Mei, Ting-Ting and Mei's room-
All three sighed while currently daydreaming about one person.
That being Mulan, the object of their newfound affections.
Each of them however silent on how they felt and were thinking of, too lost in thought. All the while blushing like crazy as they sighed longly in unison.
"I had the most wonderful day." Su smiled.
"Me too." Mei sighed.
"Me three." Ting-Ting said while fanning herself.
"What happened with you two?" Mei asked her sisters.
"I should be the one asking you two." Su said. "You have been out of it all week."
"That's not true." Ting-Ting blushed with a frown. "I am just...hot right now. Today is a very warm day."
The sisters looked at each other with curious looks in their expressions while Mei cocked her head.
"Ok. This is getting strange, I mean we can't all be having hot flashes or looking out into space." She crossed her arms. "One of us is lying."
"Or two of us."
"Or all of us." Su added while all three girls looked annoyed at the other.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"So." Su said while holding her pillow tightly. "Is it a guy?"
"No."
"Don't be absurd."
"Oh...then is it a girl?"
"Of course not!" Both yelled at the same time while blushing.
"Um...ok? Is it a woman then?"
All of them looked away while coughing a little, trying to make up an excuse or at least, figure out how to answer this appropriately.
"It is!"
"Well…"
"Um..."
"It is! Oh tell me who it is? Oh is it one of the concubines father has?"
"No!" Both yelled at once.
"Then who!?"
"No one!" Both yelled while Su grumbled and said out loud.
"It's Mulan isn't it?"
"..."
"..."
"It is, isn't it?" Su asked while two others blushed. "Wait...it is! You two love Mulan like I do!"
"Don't be ridiculous!" Ting-Ting blushed. "I do not love Mulan."
"Well…" Mei blushed while scratching the side of her cheek. "I...might be in love with her…"
"Mei, you know that's unacceptable." frowned Ting-Ting. "You cannot be in love with a woman."
"Then why did you moan her name out last night?" Mei countered as Ting-Ting blushed.
"I-I...well…"
"We all love Mulan!" Su grinned. "That is so great!"
"No! No it is not!" spoke up Ting-Ting firmly. "We have a duty as the emperor's daughters to be prepared when we have to be wed off, and it will be for the benefit of all of China!"
Mei and Su deadpanned at her.
"What? It's all true."
"Ting-Ting, father trusts Mulan more than a few emperors from other lands. Besides, while it's our duty to marry, Mulan showed us that we can choose our own paths." Su pointed out. "Plus wouldn't it be nice to have her as Empress?"
"Yeah, that would actually be a good political move." Mei added. "Mulan, Empress of China, heroine of China. The people love her for stopping the Huns, so making her empress would actually be a good thing."
"No, absolutely not, out of the question." she crossed her arms. "Get that thought out of your minds right now."
"Oh come on."
"We know you want to see her on the throne."
"What no, father would never agree to that!"
(Later)
-Throne Room-
"I would allow the succession and the marriage to occur." the emperor said with a smile as the three daughters looked on in shock.
"W...W...What?" Ting-Ting let out in bewilderment.
"You heard me, my eldest." the elderly man said. "I am allowing the marriage between you and Fa Mulan as well as making her my successor to the throne."
"But...But father! I thought you were always firm on what our future duties would be! Such as continuing the bloodline with men you deemed worthy?"
"That may be." he said. "But sometimes the heavens change their own laws in response towards the actions of noble men and women. And Mulan is worthy of my throne and the love of my beautiful daughters."
"But-"
"I have also seen your three pine for her affection." he interrupted. "From Mei's gazing on her training, Su's confidence with her cooking, and your laughter upon her jokes. All three of you care for her like Hou Yi and Chang'e, a union that would benefit our kingdom for generations to come."
"We knew it!" Mei and Su said with joy as Ting-Ting felt very confused yet happy hearing the news.
"I shall tell Fa Mulan about the arrangement later tonight, but I expect you three to be more open about your feelings towards her. A sleeping bear that never wakes always starves in the end." he advised before walking off, Ting-Ting slack jawed while her sisters squealed in joy while jumping up and down.
"We can be empresses like Mulan!" both Su and Mei said at once while Ting-Ting dropped her fan in shock.
"It...actually happened?" Ting-Ting muttered. "It...really happened?"
As this occured, Mushu, who was hiding behind the throne, stood there in shock as the girls left and he was alone with Cri-Kee.
"..."
Said bug jumped up and slapped the dragon on the cheek.
"Ow!" he got out while shaking his head. "Cri-Kee, do you know what this means?"
The insect nodded, then shook its head no.
"Mulan is going to be an empress and have the ladies in the palms of her hand." he smirked. "Our little girl is turning into one huge babe magnet! Oooh wee! We gotta tell her!"
Cri-Kee watched Mushu run away as it rolled its eyes and followed after him, hoping this wouldn't cause trouble.
To Be Continued.