A/N: Y'all be safe with Hurricane Isaac coming around! I blame pre-calc for not allowing me to update sooner. And sorry that this chapter is a little shorter than the others!

Disclaimer: Almost every character belongs to someone else….not me

Chapter 12

"Mamma! Pappa! I'm home," Mulan exclaimed as she walked into the door way. When she didn't hear a response, Mulan began to worry. She dropped her bags, only stopping to take her knife out of its sheath. Mulan, followed by Mushu, walked down the hallway. Not seeing anything unusual, Mulan was about to go outside when she heard a noise and turned around. Her neighbor, Lien Vu, had just walked up the steps and was now standing at the front door. Mulan sighed, and knew this was going to take a while. You see, Lien Vu was the towns gossip, and even though everything she said was true, she took forever to say what someone wants to hear. She believed strictly on dragging out every single little detail. "Well, here goes nothing, "Mulan thought as she walked back down the hallway.

"Mulan, put that knife away! Young ladies aren't supposed to be playing with those things," Lien Vu said as Mulan approached her. "This is why you never should have run off in the first place." "Sorry," Mulan replied as she slipped her knife back into the sheath. "Do you know wear my family is?"

"Fa Li, Fa Zhou, and that guy that stayed with y'all earlier this year went to the market two days ago."

Mulan was confused, "What does that have to do with anything?"

"You didn't hear about the Hun that ran into the market with a sword, killing three people?"

"No…why? Was my family hurt," Mulan replied frantically.

"You have such pretty hair. My son would have been a perfect match for-,"

"Lien Vu! Where is my family," Mulan had to stop herself from screaming.

"In the next village, at the doctors, Fa Li was stabbed in her belly. She would've died if not for the guy that stayed with y'all earlier this year."

"Where is the man that stayed with us now," Mulan asked quietly.

"Here," he said before Lien Vu could answer. With him, was Khan and Snowfire. "If you go get your bags we can leave now." Without another word, Mulan ran to gather her stuff, only stopping to write a brief note to Shang. She handed the note to Lien Vu, through her bags onto the saddle, and mounted Knan.

"Let's go," Mulan said without looking back.

Fa Zhou paced back forth, waiting for news about his wife. He hated to admit it; he had a feeling the baby wasn't going to make it. Fa Zhou promised himself the he would find the son of a witch that did this to his wife and son, and Fa Zhou will make him wish that he was never born. He was interrupted from his thoughts as someone started pounding on the door.

"Pappa! Are you in there," the person outside the door. It took him a minute to realize that it was Mulan standing outside the door. He let Mulan and Wen Xun in, and went back to pacing.

"Where were you," Mulan asked somewhat angrily.

"I was next to her," he admitted quietly, feeling guilty that he hadn't done anything, that he was too in shock that something like this could happen.

"Then why didn't you do anything," she replied. Before he could respond, the doctor walk out the room that Fa Li was in.

"I have some good news," the doctor said, "and some bad news. The good news is that Fa Li is going to be alright. And the bad news is the baby is premature, and he will probably not last through the night."

"Where is he," Mulan asked.

"In that room," the doctor said pointing to the adjacent room from her mothers. When he saw Mulan heading toward the room, he stopped her. "There is
nothing you can do."

Fa Zhou watched as Mulan shook his hand off her arm, and headed to the room. Stopping at the doorway, she said, "Would you like to bet on that," and then went in. He followed the doctor into Fa Li's room, and waited until the doctor left before lying down next to his wife.

"You have a letter, Captain Shang," Chi Fu sarcastically said in his nasally voice, interrupting Shang from his thoughts.

"Just toss it on the desk," Shang said before looking at the map in front of him.

"Yes, your highness," Chi Fu said as he did what Shang said, "it's from Moo-lan."

"Her name is Mulan, now get out," Shang said as he gripped Chi Fu's robes.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk…disorderly conduct…what will the emperor say this time," Chi Fu walked out the door.

Shang opened the envelope, only to find an address that seemed to be quickly scrawled onto the paper.

"Chi Fu said you got a letter from Mulan," the gang said as they ran into Shang's room.

"It's just an address," Shang replied, knowing what they were going to say next.

"What are we waiting for? Let's go," Yao said, with Chien Po and Ling nodded in agreement.

Shang said and started to pack a bag, only stopping when the emperor appeared.

"Be back in three days, no sooner, no later." The emperor walked away.

A/N: Leave me review, letting me know if y'all are clear of Hurricane Isaac…..and if you like/love/hate this chapter…