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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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The rain still hadn’t let up. Mulan and Ling stood at the door on the second morning since the three soldiers had arrived, waiting for Yao and Chien-Po and gazing out into the street, which was under an ankle-deep river of water.

“This is not looking good,” Ling commented, indicating the steady downpour.

“I know, but we can’t wait anymore.”

“You’ve been sick, Mulan.”

“I’ll be fine. Besides, I haven’t been out to feed Khan in over a day.”

“Is he outside?”

“He’s in the village corral, so he’s sheltered. But I’m still worried about him.”

Ling glanced back at Bi who had come to stand behind them, listening to their conversation.

“Stubborn, isn’t she?” he remarked, noting Bi’s expression. “She was like that in camp, too.”

Mulan smirked at him. She was dressed in the bloody training tunic and trousers and the army boots again, her hair tied up in a topknot with a leather tie that Bi had given her. Her pack with her things was slung over her shoulder. She had the dress Bi had given her in there as well. She went to return it to her, but Bi had insisted that she keep it.

“You may need it, Mulan,” she had said. “Don’t underestimate the power you could have going in as a woman.”

She’d given her a pair of small, feminine slippers as well.

“How do you propose we get anywhere, swim?” Ling asked.

“When we marched to the front we had to wade through rivers that were deeper than this water,” she answered. “We can do it.”

Yao and Chien-Po appeared.

“Oh, shit!” Yao exclaimed when he caught sight of the street. “How are we going to get anywhere?”

“We’re going to wade through it,” Ling told him. “And don’t cuss in front of Mulan.”

“Sorry, Mulan.”

“This is going to be rough going,” Chien-Po mused.

“I know, but we can’t wait anymore. We’ve already lost at least two days.”

After bidding goodbye to Bi and thanking her for her hospitality, Mulan set off for the Tung Shao Pass again with her friends.

“Mulan, I hope you don’t mind me asking,” Ling began once they had put distance between themselves and the village. “But how did you end up in that place? I mean, that sort of place?”

“Bi’s tavern?”

He nodded.

“I was in pain and needed a medic. When I arrived at that village at night, that was the only place open. Bi was very kind to me.”

“She was very nice. But still. That was no place for a girl like you.”

In truth, she didn’t know what place was for her, but she smiled gratefully at Ling, acknowledging his compliment and the sort of protectiveness of her that he was suddenly showing. In fact, all three of them seemed somewhat protective of her now. She didn’t feel that she needed protecting, but she found it very sweet nonetheless.

The rain finally stopped but their multi-day journey remained difficult all the way.

Wading through the ankle-deep water was the least of it. Their waterlogged boots kept getting sucked into the mud that the ground underneath had become, making them work twice as hard to lift their legs as they walked.

“Mulan, this is ridiculous,” Mushu muttered at one point, poking his head out from her collar. “You’re drenched and you’re going to get sick again.”

She reached back and pushed him back down before her three friends saw him. Though she trusted them and considered them friends and comrades, she wasn’t sure if she should explain Mushu to them yet.

Their supplies were saddled onto powerful Khan, and as they became more exhausted, Mulan suggested that they take turns riding on him and resting.

After several days of making their way up the slick, muddy mountain paths they found themselves faced with a more treacherous situation. The snow-covered paths in the higher altitudes now had a thin layer of ice over them, making them extremely slippery. The four of them used their swords to hack off branches from the trees and they made walking staffs to support themselves as they made their way up the mountain path with difficulty.

As they finally approached the Tung Shao Pass they immediately recognized the skeletons of the burnt-out structures that used to be the village that the Huns had attacked.

They stopped and rested at what looked like the place where Mulan had been treated for her wound…and discovered. The four of them stared down into the valley below where they’d left the Huns, buried.

“Hard to believe Shan-Yu and those men crawled out of that after we all left,” Chien-Po remarked.

Having rested, the four of them continued down the mountain toward the Imperial City, all of them dreadfully uneasy as they caught a glimpse of the brightly lit capital. Though they had been expecting to see some sort of light emanating from the city they assumed it would be dim, since there would be no victory parade going on now; but it wasn’t. It was as brightly lit as ever.

“This can’t be good,” Yao muttered. “What could possibly be going on there, that the city is lit up like for a festival?”

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Shang raised his head, startled as he heard the inexplicable sounds outside. He wondered if he was imagining it. He was, after all, in a sealed room with no windows. How could he hear the sounds from outside of the palace? Still, it sounded like the thunder of horses’ hooves and he thought he heard screaming and shouting.

He remained still for a long time, listening, trying to fathom what he was hearing. There was the sound of running and shouting in the hallway outside of his room, masking the sounds that he thought he heard outside the palace; then the sounds in the hall dissipated as quickly as they started.

He leaped up at the sudden sound of the clanking of keys outside the door and went toward the door. He pressed his back against the wall, behind where the door would open, waiting to assault whoever came in.

The two large muscle men without shirts stepped into the room. Shang remained hidden behind the door as they entered. After they had ventured further into the room and were looking about in confusion, he bolted out from behind the door and dashed out of the room, the two men turning and running after him. He found himself blocked by Shan-Yu outside the door, nearly slamming into him.

He stopped, realizing it was no use trying to fight Shan-Yu hand-to-hand. His two men were right behind him. Shang cursed inwardly. He had underestimated his enemy once again, just as he had in the Tung Shao Pass. And Shan-Yu had been expecting him to do this. He felt transparent and predictable.

Shan-Yu let out a deep, rumbling laugh. “Very impressive, Commander. I expected nothing less from you. You would have made it too, if I hadn’t happened to be on my way here. Come with me. Qulan, Altan, come with us. I wouldn’t want the Commander to do anything foolish.”

Shang was led to the balcony overlooking the square. He noted with dismay that the Emperor was no longer there.

“Where is the Emperor?”

He was led wordlessly to the edge of the balcony and Shan-Yu gestured down to the square. Shang gasped involuntarily as he stared down at what he realized was the rest of the Hun army. Even from his distance above the square, he could see that the square and the streets of Chang’an were packed with men on horseback. The sounds that he had heard in the hallway must have been some of Shan-Yu’s army entering and moving through the palace.

“I’m the Emperor, Commander.”
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