Author's Note: I kept to my promise. =) I clearly said in two days (or less), I would have chapter 5 up...tada! :) I haven't gotten ANY sleep, thanks to insomnia, so I decided to write it all today. It's officially 10:30 AM and still no sleep. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter.
And to all you Mushu fans...MUSHU IS FINALLY MAKING HIS APPEARANCE! =D *air punch*

Disclaimer: I do not Mulan or any character from Mulan. I only own Li Xieng, Chin-Hwa, Lee Mei-Ying, and Chun Ushi.

Chapter 5: Mushu to the Rescue

It had been several weeks that the incident had occurred between Shang and Mulan; however things weren't exactly any better. The arguments between the couple began to cool down a bit. However, they barely talked when they were at home and didn't even say a word each other when they went to bed. One morning, as Shang was about to leave to train new recruits, he mumbled a goodbye to Mulan and left the house. Mulan peeked out the window and saw Shang began to slowly take off. Her tears began to roll down her cheeks as she watched her husband take off. She couldn't handle being so indifferent with Shang. "Sure, I was jealous", she thought to herself, "But he had no right to yell at me!"She knew that somehow she had to resolve this issue with Shang.

"What's wrong baby girl?" said a familiar voice from below.

Mulan looked around as she wiped her tears, to see where the voice came from.

"Over here! Over here!" exclaimed the familiar voice.

Mulan looked down and saw it was Mushu as he looked up at her with concern eyes. The little dragon hopped on into a tree nearby and scurried his way on to the window sill. He saw that Mulan had very sad expression on her face; she looked tired, her eyes were all red, he knew who could have possibly done that to her.

"This is ALLLL pretty boy's fault, ain't it?" he said angrily as he clenched his tiny claws.

"Mushu..I really don't want to talk about it." she said as she walked away.

Mushu frowned and looked at Cri-Kee who had just hopped on the windowsill to join him.

"You see how he's treating MY baby girl? Look at the pain she's going through!" he whispered to Cri-kee "How DARE he!"

He hopped off the windowsill with Cri-Kee and followed Mulan who went out to the garden. The garden at the Li Estate was one of the beautiful ones in town. Different flowers blossoming everywhere with a large pond, and bridge. Shang, coming from a healthy and noble family, usually had almost all of the finest things in China. However, this garden wasn't the same as the one back home. It had everything but the large, blossoming Magnolia tree that she always adored and had at her parent's house.
Mulan sat by a nearby bench. Mushu stood before Mulan and saw her sighing. He climbed on and crawled unto her lap.

"I'm here for you." Mushu said kindly to Mulan. "Just tell Mushu all about it."

Mulan took a deep sigh and began to explain everything. As Mulan spoke more and more, Mushu got angrier at Shang. "How could he even treat Mulan that way! How dare he try to hurt my baby girl by charming another girl!" he thought to himself.

"Oh Mulan! I can't believe what a selfish guy you married!" he yelled out

Mulan frowned and sighed and didn't bother replying.

"Now what I'm thinking is that General Mood Swings has another girl in his life!" he exclaimed as he pointed at Mulan.

Mulan looked at Mushu astonished and protested for coming up with such an absurd idea.

"But it's true!" he said as a matter of fact. "The boy doesn't come home to eat, he doesn't say a word to you, and as far as I know, there's been no action in that bed for a long long time!"

"Mushu!" she protested as she blushed.

"Ain't it right Cri-Kee?" he asked his trusty cricket friend. Cri-Kee rolled his eyes and nodded.

Mulan became a bit hesitant after Mushu had pointed that out about Shang. Could it be true? Could Mei possibly be his mistress?

She groaned as she palmed her face. Why does Mushu always have to get all these absurd ideas into her head?

"You know what girlfriend?" he said as he rubbed his chin and narrowed his eyes. "I think Cri-Kee and I will go under a secret mission..."

Mulan stood up and put her hand on her hips.

"Just what do you even have in mind?" she said as she raised her eyebrow.

"Oh just something..." he said as he chuckled. "Cri-Kee, off to town we go!" Cri-Kee chirped happily and followed the little red dragon. Mulan palmed her face once more and shook her head. Things with Mushu are simply never good...

Mushu and Cri-Kee walked quickly to town as Mushu complained about Shang. Once they reached town, the two little creatures scurried throughout the crowd without anyone looking at the, , attempting to find Shang. Cri-Kee's face lit up when he saw Shang's white horse. He pointed at the horse eagerly as he chirped. Mushu groaned and looked at Cri-Kee

"Would you stop horsing around and look for old Shang-Hein?" he questioned very annoyed.

Cri-Kee rolled his eyes and pulled his whiskers to the direction of the horse.

"Hey! It's Shang's horse! Maybe if we sneak into his carryon bag, we're bound to know who he is two-timing Mulan with!" Mushu said excitedly as he carefully ran towards the horse. The two small creatures climbed on the horse and went into the small bag to hide from Shang. Both little creatures waited for hours and hours until they fell asleep. Suddenly, however, they felt something move. Cri-Kee woke up and yawned and peeped out the small bag. They were moving! He looked up and saw the tall General riding his horse quietly. Cri-Kee went back in and woke Mushu up.

"Yes!" said the dragon as he rubbed his hands. "It's time to unmask the adulterer of Shang!"

After a while, Shang arrived to Mei's house. Chin-Hwa came running towards him and hugged him. Mushu gasped as he peeped through the bag with Cri-Kee.

"Pretty boy has a son!" he whispered angrily

"Shang!" said cried out a soft voice from the house. Mei smiled and walked towards the young general. Instead of bowing, the two friends hugged each other warmly.

"Nice to see you again Mei." Shang said with his charming smile

Mei blushed a bit and smiled. "It's always a pleasure to have you here."

The two adults went in the house as the small boy followed. Mushu was shocked to have seen this. Shang with another woman? What was wrong with him?

"C'mon Cri-Kee, let's go inside." he said as he climbed out of the bag. The two of them sneaked into the house and watched Shang and Mei eat together with Chin-Hwa.

"Cri-Kee" Mushu whispered "Make a note of all the things that's happening."

Cri-Kee did as what he was stated to do and wrote down everything that was going on. After a while, Mushu and Cri-Kee began to doze off a bit from the conversation of Mei and Shang. Mushu was leaning against an end table and he accidently pushed the table causing a vase to fall.

CRASH!

Mei gasped and looked around.

"What was that?" she asked nervously

Shang got up and volunteered to go check. As Mushu tried to clean up the broke vase, Shang caught Mushu red handed.

"What are YOU doing here, Mushu" Shang questioned angrily.

"Oh no!" Mushu thought to himself, "Now Shang's gonna know I'm spying on him!"

"Well, uh" Mushu began to stammer " You see -"

"Were you SPYING ON ME?" he said as he raised his voice.'

"Listen pretty boy, you don't question me! I -"

"I'm going to kill you" Shang said furiously.

Mushu desperately looked around for an escape.

Aha! A window.

"RUN CRI-KEE!" he yelled out as he ran out the window. Shang attempted to run after the dragon, but it was too late. Shang groaned and banged his fist against the wall.

"Is everything alright?" Mei said as she walked in the room, with her eyebrow raised.

Shang's eyes widen. What was he going to tell her?

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