Will you come again?

Eris had asked Rose to come back, As Rose had been watching the scene. It made sense..Perfect sense..
How her heart was warm and cold at the same time. Tulio who stayed faithful, But Ping...Or Mulan..
She had helped her. And Rose felt more than betrayed. She felt jealous. A strange pain in her heart.
What was this rush of emotions? No harm was done..But Rose had to keep an eye on Ping...Or..Mulan.
Something was just wrong. Eris had laid a hand on Rose her shoulder.
''You know you can break the spell, the human is not worthy of carrying your trust to , Or isn't it?''

He wasn't convinced. He had heard far too many women lie to him like that in his lifetime to recognize the lie.
He wasn't going to let her see through him though, and he only shrugged and gave her another soft smile.
"If you say so," he said as he stood up and turned around to help her up as well. If she wanted to leave, he wouldn't stop her.

She was still faking a smile when he helped her to raise up. He was so close now... it wasn't fair, at all! Why couldn't have she just been a real male, or a 'real' female instead? Why had she to be... herself? She turned to dress the shoes: yeah, it was better to go... she would have get rid of that dress, forever, she didn't want to know anything anymore about the feelings of been a woman: it had been enough, painful enough. But before to leave... she turned toward him to greet him... that was the last time that he would have looked at her as a woman... the last chance to... no, it was wrong... he didn't want to betray Rose again... suddenly her body moved faster then her minds: taking him in surprise, she stepped fastly forward and kissed him: a light kiss on his lips, tasting them just for a second before to step back "I'm sorry" she whispered, already ready to leave

He didn't return the kiss, it was over before he could even think to do so, but he couldn't say he didn't like it.
Any kiss from a female's soft lips was worth treasuring, though he was sure he would not betray Rose this way.
He looked down, unsure of what to tell her, how could he simply break her heart like her was about to?
"Mulan, I..." he started, but taking a great pause before continuing. He wasn't even sure where to go with this.
"I can't.." he said softly, looking at her again, hoping she would understand.

Rose narrowed her eyes her blood boiled, To see Mulan ..or Ping. Kiss her Tulio..Like that?
She clenched her teeth, ''One movement..'' Eris whispered in Rose her ear.
Rose swallowed, How dared she. How dared Ping Mulan or what ever she was. Just to kiss her Tulio?
She knew! Rose rose her arm up. As the ring went up in smoke. As the green ribbon around Mulan's waist went up.
Binding Mulan's hair together. Like it was as Ping's previous hair, Letting the dress simply fall off, And instead of the corset.
Ping's bandages were shown. Leaving Ping in her bandages her hair tied together and just the skirt of the dress.

"I'm sorry..." she replied again, blushing and looking down, but she couldn't even say that she regretted it... she was already moving a step to leave, when suddenly something happened: she felt the ring disappear around her finger, the ribbon around her waist raise to bind her hair, the corset change in her bandages...
it happened all so fast...
what... what... what did it ment? Her eyes were wide opened in surprise: suddenly she realized that, without the ring, Tulio could recognize her...
Her face was pale and she felt really nauseated when she turned her glance toward him...

Tulio stood there, frozen in shock as he stared at her, him, with wide eyes.
He didn't understand, he couldn't understand, what did it mean, what was happening?
He couldn't even react to the surprise as his mind raced trying to come up with a conclusion but finding none.
".. Ping?" he asked eventually, his throat dry and his voice hesitant as if he did not believe it.

It was a nightmare, just a nightmare... it couldn't be real!
She wanted to wake up and she couldn't!
She stared into his eyes, her eyes wide opened, her face pale like a blanket, she felt so nauseated like she could throw up any moment.
She wanted to die, in that exact moment, to never face that horrible situation.
What had happened? Why had Eris done it to her?
She would have understood the truth... or misunderstood, she didn't even knew...
She bit her lips so hard to feel the taste of blood in her mouth...
Finally she found the strenght to turn and immediatly she ran away, as fast as she could...

Tulio was in a daze, his mind racing, but he was unable to focus on a single thought.
He took a step back, and had to balance himself to prevent himself from falling.
It couldn't be.. but he had seen it.. yet it was impossible.
It was Ping... but yet it wasn't... but...
Mulan... was Ping?
It didn't seem real, and yet it was. Like a bizarre wonderland of magic where nothing was what it was and everything was what it wasn't. A random thought it him as he remembered the kiss with Mulan and he couldn't help but frown.
He had kissed Ping?!

Still, he had seemed so scared, so embarrassed... Tulio needed to find him somehow, and so he headed back to the tree.