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Mulan was undressing, ready to get back into the lake. According to the dragon, a very, VERY bad idea, which he let her know while he was behind some bushes next to the cow and the cricket.
"Last time you almost got seen," Mushu added, trying to dissuade the woman.
"Yeah, it was close..." Mulan began, but was immediately interrupted by the angry dragon.
"It was more than close!" exclaimed Mushu, not forgetting that. Oh, just remembering it, he needed to wash his teeth again. "You shouldn't bathe in what's left of the war."
Mulan shook her head from side to side at his ramblings.
"Don't worry, Mushu, I doubt they'll bathe again," she assured him.
The girl finished undressing and approached the lake, meanwhile Mushu's ears covered his eyes and almost immediately the splash was heard, as well as the sigh of pleasure he generated upon entering the water and refreshing himself.
The small dragon took a towel and approached her without taking his ears off his eyelids.
"Ah, it's okay, it's okay, that's enough," the dragon expressed. "Too much water will make you wrinkle like a raisin."
She was passing her hands over her arm and looked at the red creature.
"Mushu, if you're so concerned," she began, "go watch... And make sure to warn me ahead of time this time."
"Yes, yes," he snapped as he walked away from the girl, still holding the towel and still not seeing. "Go watch," he imitated in a shrill voice, mockingly. "And make sure to warn me ahead of time this time, huh," throwing the towel. "I wouldn't have to be watching if you didn't want to bathe," he struck a feminine pose, "for your silly girly habits."
The cricket was by his side, as Mushu continued to complain about the person he was supposed to be taking care of.
"I've already told you, Mushu, that having to see me as a man doesn't mean I want to smell like one," he continued to imitate. "And I'm telling you it's not that unpleasant," he refuted. "Hey, you owe me one for what I did last time, and I won't bite butts again to save your hide..."
The dragon would have continued complaining if it weren't for feeling the cricket tugging at his whiskers, and when he opened his eyes, he saw what the insect had observed earlier.
"Oh, no! Mulan is in trouble again," he refuted to the cricket. "There are a few things he's sure to notice."
The same girl they were talking about, seeing her captain, hid behind a lotus flower leaf that was floating on the lake as she headed behind that huge rock. Her face red because she had seen him.
"I don't want to see another naked man," she remembered her words that were not being fulfilled.
"Ping," the captain pronounced as he spotted her. "Hello."
"Hello, Captain," she greeted, smoothing the leaf as the nerves ate her from the inside, hoping her face would return to its natural color. "I didn't know you were here," she snapped. "I just came to clean myself, I've already done it," quickly. "So I'm leaving," pointing to a supposed exit.
"You don't have to leave," Shang said. "Besides, there are several things I need to talk to you about. I'll get to the point."
Mulan pressed herself against the rock while her eyes turned to his eyes and she tried to keep her gaze from going down, an intense blush settled on her cheeks, feeling as if she was receiving the heat that she was in a hot spring and not in a lake.
"You can tell me those things when we're dressed," she replied quickly. "Now you can close your eyes and swim for a while," hoping that excuse would work for him as well.
Shang looked at her with narrowed eyes, he was going to tell her that she had improved a lot in training, but simply that idea moved away from his mind because of the attitude she was taking. Mulan felt she was being examined, that he was seeing through everything, that he was undressing her with his gaze, even though she was already naked.
He looked at her inquisitively. Without clothes, Shang could observe the slender, scrawny, so weak and fragile figure of one of the members of his troop. Seeing that despite everything, Ping wanted to withdraw, he took him by the arm and felt the softness of it. As if it were...
"You," he began, his voice paused, his eyes looking at her intently. "You are actually..."
Mulan's eyes widened, her breathing stopped. Already believing that she had been discovered, she only lacked the confirmation in words from her captain.
"Ping, you..." he said.
He saw her bright, innocent eyes, with a strangely deep voice as if it was in the process of changing, not to mention the lack of facial hair. He noticed the swallowing, the nerves she was showing, and that despite everything she had to be firm. It had been a suspicion he had had at the beginning, but now it had increased.
However, he could not finish the sentence. A scream replaced it.
"Agh, is biting asses going to become a habit?" the dragon pronounced. "Although this flavor was better than the previous one."
Shang looked at him with wide eyes (not having heard what was said).
"Snake!" he shouted.
Confirming the rumor he had heard from some of his troops. Stating that there was that species in the lake. Mulan took the opportunity to sneak away, whistling to Khan, who immediately approached her while Mushu clung to his tail.
"Well, another close call," she said as she covered herself with the blanket the animal carried.
Mushu looked at her furiously as he brushed his teeth and put on a large amount of toothpaste.
"Closer than close," the dragon corrected her.
While she gave a smile that showed all her teeth, as a sign of guilt.
"I owe you one."
"TWO!"
On the other hand, Shang, already out of the water and with a bite on his left buttock, sighed.
"You're a minor," he murmured, what he was going to tell Ping before. Something he was later glad he hadn't said (and not sound like an idiot) when he found out much later that the brave boy he thought he was, was not, but a woman. A brave and amazing woman.