Mulan [Daragon]

Part 4

Sandara squinted her eyes at the sun, whose light had become painful rather than beneficial. For three days they traveled by foot towards Busan, only resting when the sun is already replaced by the moon and setting off to their journey again when the sun is setting. Their captain wants to get there as soon as possible, and Sandara knew that even if he disregarded the general as his father, the old man still has a place in Jiyong's heart. After giving the sun a tired look, Sandara looked back at the map spread across her thighs, stuffed it in her back and rubbed her horse's mane before jumping off its back. Top clapped with her little stunt with a silly grin plastered on his face and he commented, "You don't forget to show off, do you?"

Sandara wrapped An's rope around her left fist and with a smile, replied, "Shut up."

Behind them, Seungri groaned along with the other soldiers, their backs hunched in tiredness and as they walk along a farm, they sang in unison, "For a long time we've been marching off to battle."

Daesung groaned. "In our thundering herd we feel a lot like cattles."

Sandara heard the cattles on their left side mooed, and they sounded like they were offended. Top and she never missed a laugh.

Then in unison again, they groaned, "Like the pounding beat, our aching feet aren't easy to ignore!"

Their captain from the front shook his head, and shouted, "Hey! Think of instead a girl worth fighting for!"

"Huh?" Sandara gushed, perplexed.

Seungri wrapped an arm around her shoulders, and she looked at him, retaining the perplexity. He said, "That's what he said, a girl worth fighting for."

Then he removed his arm around her shoulders and walked ahead of her. Top and Sandara looked at each other, both of their eyebrows raised but none of them knew why Seungri walked before them when the former always wanted to walk beside them. But their answers were answered immediately when Seungri looked dreamily on the sky, his clasped hands under the lining of his jaw and began to sing, "I want her paler than the moon with eyes that shine like stars."

Daesung went beside Seungri and showed his biceps, flexing his arm to show off also his nerves. "My girl will marvel at my strength, adore my battle scars."

Taeyang shrugged and beside Sandara, sang, "I couldn't care less what she'll wear or what she looks like. It all depends on what she cooks like beef, pork, and chicken. Mmm..."

Daesung looked at Seungri. "Bet the local girls thought you were quite the charmer."

Seungri flexed both of his arms to make himself bulky, almost muscular, and replied, "And I'll bet the ladies love a man in armor."

The other soldiers shrugged and in unison sang, "You can guess what we have missed the most since we went off to war."

Seungri shouted, "What do we want?"

The others answered, "A girl worth fighting for."

Jiyong joined in, and sang, "My girl will think I have no faults that I'm a major find."

Seungri looked at Sandara expectantly, and in a whim, with her voice croaking, she sang, "How 'bout a girl who's got a brain who always speaks her mind?"

Top laughed, "Nah!"

Shaking off Sandara's lyrics, Seungri sang again, "My manly ways and turn of
phrase are sure to thrill her."

Top, mocking the song's tune, whispered to Sandara, "He thinks he's such a lady killer."

Sandara elbowed Top, urging him to say his type and after a few urging, Top gave in, "I've a girl back home who's unlike any other."