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Shan-Yu's Victory	By : lightbird Category: +M through R > Mulan (Disney) > Mulan (Disney) Views: 16642 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Mulan was half-aware of being carried by someone and Mushu was still soothing her. She opened an eye and found herself looking up into Li Shang’s worried face. Her other eye opened and she reached up and put her arms around his neck, lifting herself up, a wave of panic sweeping through her. She began to squirm in his arms, twisting her body around, her gaze seeking out Shan-Yu.

“Easy, Mulan,” Shang told her softly. “I’m taking you to a place where Dr. Kong can treat you.”

She looked at him questioningly and opened her mouth to talk but he spoke first.

“He’s up ahead,” he answered, an incredulous expression crossing his features.

She nodded.

“He’s very sensitive about you,” he murmured wonderingly.

Twisting her body around again she sought out Shan-Yu.

“Stay still. We’re almost there.”

“I made sure Shang was the one that picked you up,” Mushu muttered in her ear. “I figured they wouldn’t seize him if he had you with him.”

“It’s from the tea,” she groaned. “He told me to let him know if I started bleeding. So he must have been expecting this.”

“What?” Shang asked.

“Nothing,” she whispered.

“Just be still, Mulan. Dr. Kong is here and he’ll take care of you.”

She closed her eyes and leaned her head against his shoulder, her arms still around his neck. A moment later she thought she felt Shang tighten his hold on her in a sort of odd hug.

~~~

Yao, Ling and Chien-Po leaped up when they saw him back from the city so soon.

“Gao, what is it?”

“I’m not sure. Dr. Kong was summoned into the palace to treat a woman by Shan-Yu’s men.”

“It must be Mulan,” Chien-Po remarked quietly. “He was worried about her.”

“Come on, we have to go,” Yao called out, beckoning for them to follow him.

“What are we going to do?”

“We have to help.”

“Any word about the captain?”

Gao shook his head. “Mushu came and told us that the falcon was with his master. Captain Li went inside with a group of Hun soldiers that were on their way in.”

“Which means he probably got himself caught again,” Yao muttered.

“Gao, you should stay here with the others,” Ling told him. “If we’re not back in a few days, it’s up to you as the leader of your village to decide what you want to do.”

“What exactly is your plan?”

“We don’t have one yet. But we’ll think of something.”

~~~

Shan-Yu nodded to Batu and the nine others as they joined him in his chamber, led by Suren.

“I want her protected at all times.”

“What about you?”

“I can take care of myself. Suren will cover me. We will need to come up with a plan of defense.”

Qulan nodded. “We’re only a small group of men against many who are probably loyal to your cousin.”

“That’s why we need a clever strategy.”

“Perhaps if we come up with a way to pick them off one by one, starting at the top,” Batu suggested.

“That’s the right idea,” Shan-Yu concurred with a nod.

“What about the Imperial commander?”

“I think it’s good that we didn’t execute him. There’s much more to learn from him. When we were about to fight in the garden, there was an interesting interchange between him and Mulan. She knows that our army was destroyed.”

“How? Was she there?”

“Maybe.”

“You said she looked familiar. Was she living in that village?”

He shook his head. “Maybe. I didn’t think so. But I can’t think of any other reason that she would have been there.”
He gestured to Altan and Qulan. “The two of you remain in the hallway and keep an eye on who walks back and forth this way. Work in shifts over night so you don’t get too tired. I’ll expect a report in the morning.”

Acknowledging his instruction they left the chamber to go to their posts and Shan-Yu turned to Chinua and three other men named Ulan, Qorchi and Yeke, beckoning them to follow him into Mulan’s chamber where the doctor from the marketplace was looking after her. The odd-looking tiny red dragon and the Imperial commander were standing over them. The commander drew his sword defensively as they entered the room.

“The four of you remain in that inner passageway,” he told them pointing. “There’s a small hidden room on the other side of the wall of this room. Guard that area and the passageway leading to it.”

He led them toward the wall and slid the panel aside. He gestured for them to step inside.

“I’ll come to speak with you later,” he told them as they settled themselves into the room inside, then he shut the panel behind them.

He turned and went back out to the main room to speak with his council and the others.

“Batu, you and the others keep an eye on Boke and the men he associates with. Take careful note of his movements, his conversations. As you know they are watching you as well. This should be quite an interesting game. We’ll meet back here tonight.”

They hurried off and Shan-Yu returned to Mulan’s chamber, Suren perched on his shoulder.

“Do you know what’s wrong with her, Dr. Kong?”

“She’s had a miscarriage,” he answered.

“A miscarriage?”

A twinge of emotion grabbed him, a mixture of surprise and sadness. She might have had his child.

“She will be alright, but it will take several days. I must stay here with her.”

He noticed the Imperial commander’s flabbergasted expression and suppressed a chuckle.

“Commander, you can put your sword away. We will fight at a later time. Right now, you are my guest. We are both concerned about Mulan and want to make sure that she’s alright.”

A suspicious look was his response to the invitation. “What’s your angle?”

“No angle, Commander. We’re both honorable warriors, as I’ve said before. If we were not from opposite sides of the Great Wall we might have been friends.”

The commander nodded, apparently concurring.

“I am your new leader, like it or not. But perhaps we can aid each other.”

“I don’t think so. You killed my father. Why would I want to help you?”

“Yes, that does make it difficult. But we should talk more. What is your name?”

“Commander,” he answered flatly.

Shan-Yu began to chuckle mirthfully. “Very well, Commander. That’s what I will continue to call you.”

~~~

Chien-Po watched Yao carefully and pointed. “You’re bleeding.”

He growled and waved his hand. “Of course I’m bleeding. You try shaving with a dagger.”

Ling guffawed. “You’re still going to make an ugly woman, Yao.”

“Shut up!” he retorted, shoving him.

“Both of you stop fighting!” Chien-Po ordered, annoyed.

Ling and Yao both stopped abruptly, surprised to see their normally serene friend become so unusually annoyed.

“We’re here to help Mulan and the captain. This is not the time for bickering and brawling.”

“I don’t know why we have to dress up like women.”

“Because, Mulan had the right idea when she went in. No one will pay attention to women.”

“The palace is huge. I just hope we can find her.”

“And the captain,” Chien-Po added.

“Why do you care so much about the captain after everything he’s done?”

“He’s still one of our own and everyone deserves a second chance. Besides, he regrets how he treated Mulan and is trying to do the right thing. Now come on. We need to be ready by night fall.”

They gathered up the silk dresses that Ling had managed to snatch from one of the stands when the procurer wasn’t looking and began to put them on, hidden behind the temple in back of the palace that they had chosen as their waiting spot.

“I hope they fit. I didn’t stop and ask them the sizes before swiping them.”

“You should have paid for them, Ling,” Chien-Po chided.

“With what? I don’t have any money, do you?”

“Alright, alright, enough,” Yao growled. “Let’s just get this over with.”

Ling produced the powder and other ladies make-up that he had paid for.

“Come on, Yao, make a face like this and I’ll make you look pretty.”

Yao slapped him.

“Hey! You almost knocked me over and made me spill it! This is where the rest of my money went, you know.”

Chien-Po sighed and snatched the powder from Ling. “I’ll do it. Yao, hold still.”

“I don’t know how we’re going to pull this off. We will all make ugly women.”

“That’s okay. As long as we’re seen as ugly women and we’re able to get in. They won’t see us as a threat, and hey, if we’re ugly, we don’t have to worry about any of those guys taking a liking to us.”

~~~

Mulan groaned as she set eyes on Dr. Kong. A tall figure stood behind him and she blinked at Shang. She glanced around nervously and relaxed as she caught sight of Shan-Yu standing at the foot of her bed, Suren perched on his shoulder.

“I’ve removed the bandage and taken your stitches out,” Dr. Kong told her. “Your original wound healed nicely.”

“Thank you,” she croaked, too tired to think about the fact that Shan-Yu had probably now seen her wound and knew who she was. “What about the bleeding?”

“When I see Bi again I will have to scold her for giving you Dong Quai tea so irresponsibly.”

“It’s not her fault. I asked her for help,” she offered hoarsely. “Is the tea what made me sick?”

He nodded. “I believe that you were pregnant and the tea caused you to have a miscarriage. That’s what Dong Quai tea does.”

“It does?”

“Yes. It’s used to help a woman get rid of the cord that’s left inside after the baby is born. But it works by causing the womb to contract. If taken while pregnant it causes the womb to contract and detach the unborn child. But it can cause complications, too. The bleeding isn’t just the miscarriage; it’s also a result of the contractions and it probably would have happened even if you weren’t pregnant.”

She froze inside for a long time, feeling a combination of shock and numbness. She’d probably had a life growing inside of her after all. A feeling of regret suddenly stabbed sharply at her, permeating throughout her entire body and Mulan began to weep.
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