𝑨 𝑮𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝑭𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒐𝒓 // 𝑀𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑛 𝑥 𝑅𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒓

A Girl Worth Fighting For // Chapter Four
April 19th, 2020
2,081 words

I feel like this chapter was more gayer and sappy than the others. Probably ooc too and I'm sorry if it is! Let me know if so!

Also, yowhatthefuck already almost 300 views. Holyshithowthatwasquick. I just made an A/N in the last chapter of reaching 100 views and now I have almost 300. Thanks guys but what the fuck calm down before I cry TwT.

᯽︎Mulan's POV᯽︎

After hearing the news earlier, I couldn't bring myself to see the soldiers again. The weirdest boy in all of China literally destroyed the Emperor's Trusted Advisor's tent. And that boy isn't even a real boy! He's a girl! A female!! And if they find out who I really am...

I'll lose my father, my family, Mushu, Cri-Kee, Khan, Y/n, and my own life. I can get exiled. I can get killed! And yet, I didn't take caution. I'm so blind. I'm so stupid!

But as I kept beating myself over my own existence, I hear the footsteps of a man and he's the man I couldn't bring myself to look at most. I'm too embarrassed. I'm ashamed. I can't.

I stare up at Shang (much to my surprise) who glares down at me in disappointment. My heart already begins to sink as a pit grows within my stomach. I know what he'll say but I can't accept it. I don't want to.

"I'm sorry to say this, Ping. Pack up, go home." I blink back my tears and gulp. "You're through." Shang tells me. He drops the reins from Khan to my hands. I watch him as he walks away and I look at my feet in shame.

Mushu slithers on my shoulder and he sighs, "I don't know what to tell your ancestors now." I sigh too, "I did this to protect my father and now I have to go back."

"I'm sorry, Mulan." Mushu tells me. He apologizes and I don't even know why. It's my fault.

"You won't be able to see Y/n ever again." I nod sadly, "This was my chance and I blew it."

"Chance to what?" Mushu looks at me in confusion I shrug. "I don't know..." I hear Cri-Kee play with his feet. The soft, night tune whistled in the grass and I feel more at ease than when Shang was here.

Khan rubs his snout at my elbow and I pet him back, running my fingers across his thin, short fur and through his black hair. I look up from the grass to see the pole and I remember how much I embarrassed myself in front of all the men. Chien Po. Ling. Yao. Shang.

Worst of all, my only friend, Y/n.

Mushu starts to speak but my thoughts run to Y/n again.

She always believed I can do it. She told her brother too. She stood up to him for me. And I need to repay her for it.

"I need to fulfill her faith in me." I grip the reins and then drop them, leaving Khan and Cri-Kee to fetch the medallions.

᯽︎Timeskip - Mulan's POV᯽︎

I tie the two gold pieces to my wrist tightly and start running up the wood, using different techniques to get closer and closer to the arrow. None worked well.

Mushu pats my shoulders, "C'mon, Mulan. I think it's impossible to get those strings bound together."

I lift up the ribbon of the medallions that were at my wrists and bite my lip. I get a new idea and swing my arms around the pole. I give a tug to see if the medallions wrapped around each other but then feel the weight reach to my feet.

I give it another go and tug again, luckily, the medallions stayed put. And thus begins my foot work.

I lift one foot up the wood and grip to it. I do the same with my left foot and get a good position. I raise my arms above me and then lose my footing, sliding down the pole.