A/N: A HUGE thanks to Cheetara 7 for making me inspired to start writing this again. She also wrote a part of this chapter. :) I will try to do weekly updates (if not sooner). I have a memory span like Dory from Nemo…only not as bad. Reviews are good reminders ;P

Disclaimer: I don't own Mulan, Shang, Chi Fu (wouldn't want to own him anyway), and any other Disney's characters.

Chapter 16

"Promise you won't stop writing this time," Shang said as he was putting the saddle on his horse.

"Well," Mulan paused for dramatic effect, making Shang look up, "I guess I can do that." Mulan laughed at Shang's furious expression. At a minute or two, Shang started laughing too.

"I really am going to miss you, Mulan. I-," Shang stopped talking as he heard someone approach the stable.

"A scrawny guy with a funny hat is here. He says he has a message for Shang," Fa Zhou said as he walked closer, looking between Mulan and Shang. They looked at each other with the same horrified look.

"Go, I'll write," Mulan shooed him out of the stable.

"Promise," Shang yelled out loud, hoping Chi Fu was near enough to hear.

"Promise what," screamed Chi Fu in his squeaky, pompous voice.

"Oh, Chi Fu! Didn't you hear? Mulan said she was going to replace the slippers you had gotten wet," Shang said as Chi Fu rode closer.

"Oh, really," he asked. Shang nodded his head. "Wonderful. Fa Mulan come here." They both heard a very audible groan, followed by the sound of feet being stomped-hard-against the ground. Mulan stared stonily at Shang when she approached him and Chi Fu. "I want them to be blue."

"What do you want to be blue," she asked incredulously.

"My new pair of slippers, of course. You don't have to act like you don't know what I'm talking about. Shang told me everything."

"Oh ,really," Mulan raised her eyebrows at Shang , who at that time was trying very hard not to bust out laughing.

"Yes, Mulan, don't you remember? You promised," Shang emphasized the promised. Before Mulan could say anything, Chi Fu butted in.

"Size ten, just in case you were wondering. Any who, are y'all ready to go?"

"I thought I wasn't coming," Mulan stated.

"The emperor clearly stated in the letter that you would go to the camp for a day and then you could go home." Mulan gathered her things and told her father what was happening. After saddling Khan, she joined Shang and the wonderful Chi Fu. "Please let there be silence the whole way there," Mulan silently prayed to her ancestors. Her ancestors must have been busy when she prayed to them cause he talked the whole way there.

"I've got a girl at home, who's not like any other. And no, it's not my mother. It's my cousin," Chi Fu then went on and on and on about his wonderful cousin. "She is a matchmaker and she tells me all about the hilarious failures. There was this one girl; I can't remember her name as of right now. But any way, she wrote whatever they had to memorize on her arm and my beautiful cousin didn't know it. So when she had grabbed her arm, the ink got on her hand and she had rubbed her face with it. I laughed so hard when she came home, it wouldn't come on until the next week." Mulan could feel her face flushing.

"How do you like working for the emperor," she quickly said before Chi Fu could say anything.

"Good, I was so happy when his royal emperorness picked me. I was so ecstatic, I think I fainted." Mulan couldn't help but giggle a little when he said that. If looks could kill, she would have been dead by the look Chi Fu was giving her. "I think I remember that name of the girl…it was you wasn't it."

Mulan felt her face heating up, "technically it was the crickets fault, not mine." Mulan rode up to the gates of the all too familiar military camp. She jumped off of Khan and left him in the field to graze. She walked through the camp until she came upon a group of men gathered around a tall, wooden post with an arrow stuck in the top. Mulan pushed her way to the center where she saw Shang standing near-by as he watched the confused group of men.

"Mulan?" He asked, and then he crossed his arms. "So do you want to show them
how its done, or should I?"

"I think I got this one," Mulan said with a smirk. She walked to the man who
just fell off the post. "Allow me," she said and grabbed the weights. She walked to the post as she
her mumbles behind her.

"This should be interesting," she heard one man say with a laugh. Mulan
sighed, and then wrapped the weights around the post, and began to pull
herself up. When she reached the top, she threw the arrow down, and it landed
at the feet of the man who doubted her.
"And that is how it is done!" She called down from the top of the post, she smiled gleefully.

And then she says, "If you ever come near my family or Shang, I will kill you." Shan Yu laughed merrily as he recalled her facial expression. "Well men, its time to let her know that the challenged she issued has been accepted." He waited until his men quieted before continuing, "Gather your weapons. We leave at dawn." He turned to leave but Xiongnu stopped him.

"Father, I will not take part in this."

Shan Yu stared at his son, "What did you say?"

"You heard me." Shan Yu growled. He didn't like when people didn't listen to him. Picking Xiongnu up by the fabric of his tunic, Shan Yu threw him, hard, against a trunk of a tree. The camp became dead silent. "I am the leader. You will listen to everything I say. You will do anything I tell you without questioning it. Understand?," Shan Yu paused, "if not, I will make your life miserable, I will torture you, and then I will kill you." He grabbed Xiongnu's tunic and pushed him hard against a nearby tree trunk. "You will be the one who kills the baby, understood?" Shan Yu didn't give him time to answer. "Glad you understand." He grabbed Xiongnu's tunic and pushed him up against a tree. "You will be the one who kills the baby. If you don't I will kill you without a second thought."