A/N: Everyone probably hates my guts for dropping off the face of the Earth. Definitely after the chapter I had posted before this one. I am truly sorry. Things came up and then the chapters that I had on my laptop disappeared and then my laptop broke. I finally got it fixed and am currently working on the next few chapters of Ying and Yang.

Also, I have come to the realization that there is now way I would be able to make this a 60 or 70 chapter story. I probably could, but then it would take forever to finish. So I am thinking around 30 or 40…let me know what y'all would prefer by reviewing with the numbers of chapters that you would like to have. Will be picking the most repeated one. Thanks for reading!

DIsclamier: I don't own anything Disney.

Chapter 19

"Bring him to my tent," Li Shang commanded Yao as he stormed back into his tent. Glancing briefly at the sleeping baby in his bed, he paced back and forth, refusing to let his emotions take control. "How could so much happen in such a short time," he thought angrily, "Why didn't she send someone to me?" Before he could think any more about it, his tent flaps opened up. He could feel his emotions shutting down, his face becoming a stone mask, his body turning into a wall that no one could penetrate. Ignoring the brightness of the sun, Li Shang motioned for Yao to bring the prisoner to come inside while he told two guards to stand outside the tent. The prisoner tried to say something but Shang held his hand up. "You will speak the answers to any questions I have for you. Only then. Understand?" The prisoner nodded silently. "That was a question. Now answer it," Shang made his voice sound like pure ice, devoid of anything but rage.

"Yes, sir." Shang watched as the prisoner glanced at the baby in his bed, then quickly back to the ground as if he didn't want to be seen looking at him. Before Shang could ask his questions, the prisoner started talking. "Shan Yu is alive and by now Fa Mulan is either dead or his prisoner. I was instructed to kill the baby…that baby…while he and the others killed Fa Zhou and Fa Li." When he paused to take a breath before continuing, Shang interrupted him.

"Who the hell are you and where is she," Shang asked wearily, angrily, and hesitantly.

"My name is Xiongnu and I am Shan Yu's son," he began before telling Shang what had happened during the past few days.

Fa Zhou sat up groggily, hoping that everything that happened was just a nightmare, a horrible, unjustified nightmare that his mind made up. Knowing that it wasn't, Fa Zhou tried to focus on his surroundings. He blinked a couple of times, trying to clear his vision. He knew he shouldn't be alive and he wasn't sure he wanted to be. He heard them take Mulan, his orchid, but he couldn't do anything about it. His body was paralyzed, his breathing slowed down so much that it to the point of stopping. Fa Zhou tried to stand but parts of his body was still numb. Fa Realizing that his hands were clasped together, he loosened their hold, distinctly remembering Mulan putting something there before Shan Yu had come back. With a heavy heart, he started reading,

"By the time you read this, I will have been gone for a day or two. I have to do what is right, no matter what the consequences are. Please don't grieve for me, instead search China for Ping. He's alive. I love you, baba and it was the greatest gift and honor having you as my father.

Tell Shang that he fights good and that I'm sorry. Tell him he's a good general and a good leader. And lastly, tell him that he doesn't have to cling to the past and that includes me. Give this to him for me."

"My daughter, my sweet little daughter, you should have saved yourself instead of me." Sitting there in the kitchen, mindless of the mess or what was waiting for him, Fa Zhou started crying for the family he'd lost.

"I can walk," Mulan thought repeatedly as she hanging from Shan Yu's shoulder. "When's the last time you washed your clothes?" Mulan didn't know how far they had gotten in the past three days but her back was sore. She quickly learned to keep her mouth shut to avoid being whipped or being pushed to the ground. She knew once her back healed that there will be scars. "Not that it matters, I will be dead before anyone were to see them." She hoped that her father was awake and that she didn't overdue the dosage amount. She knew he thought that she gave him the other one and she needed him to believe it when she gave it to him. "But I have the other one," Mulan was saving it for someone special, someone who should have died long ago. "I will watch him die like as he watched innocent people die. Even if I need to poison and stab him repeatedly…I will not let him ruin any more families. My only regret is that I can't see Shang one last time." She thought of her necklace that she gave to her dad, missing the familiar weight of it. All Mulan could hope for now was that Shang will find another one who makes him happy. She lost her train of thought when she felt the ground disappear from her feet.

"Is the answer still no," Shan Yu stared at her, waiting for her response. Mulan looked away, knowing what was going to happen as soon as she said no. "I'm still waiting for an answer and I am not a patient man." She felt his hand grab her face as he forced her to look at him. "Do I have to ask again? Fa Mulan, will you either do me the honor of marrying me or tell me where Shang is?"

"Never," Mulan yelled horesly, "I will NEVER tell you where Shang is. Nor will I marry the man who killed my family." Mulan tried to get free only to be shoved down again.

"This would be easier for you if you just said yes. Very well then, boys tie her hands and feet. She has a lesson to be taught." Mulan felt her hands and feet being bonded, but she distanced herself from the pain. Until everything turned black.