Walt Disney High School

(Mulan)

"Quiet, demure. . . . graceful, polite, delicate, refined. . . poised" I muttered these things in my head as I write them down on my arm, today is the first day of the day I start Walt Disney High School. I can't mess up, I'm pretty sure my parents would never forgive me if I did since we had to move here from China after I was sent a scholarship, non of us wanted to loose the farm so grandma volenterred to stay behind and take care of it for us. I miss my dog little brother, yeah he had to stay behind aswell, "Mulan are you ready yet? School will be starting in an hour," my mama called out to me from the kitchen.

"Comming!" I yelled back at her rushing out of my room to the living room almost to the front door just about to leave for school. . . . . .

"Mulan what do you think your doing!"

I saw my mama stare at me as if I have gone completely mad, "um. . . . school?" I think she's more jet lagged than papa. "Not like that your not, look at yourself Mulan honestly your a big girl now" mama frowned at me from the table where she was eating her rice breakfast. Eh? What's wrong with my outfit? I looked down at myself and feel like a right twat I was so nervous about messing up I forgot to get out of my pyjammers.

"Sorry mama. . . I'm just really nervous,"

"hmm, go and sort yourself out" she told me now glancing away from me, I dropped my bag by the door and go off to my room to change. I still hadn't got round to unpacking all my stuff from the boxes since we moved here, so as I raided each box I threw one the first thing I got hold off since I'm already late as it is. Finding my old yellow top, green blouse and dark blue jeans, what time is it? I glanced around my room wondering how much time I have left before the roll call starts. Only to remember I don't have a clock, just great.

"Bye mama, bye papa!" I called out as I rushed through the living room to the front door before they could reply, it's actually a good thing mama stopped me when she did nothing says a big mess up like turning up to school in your pyjammers on your first day I would sure be a laughing stock if I did. Now all I have to do is find the damn school, I threw off my bag pack to the conrete square in front of me, "hey watch it!" a voice snapped as soon as my bag hit the ground. Thinking the voice was behind me I turned around, but there's no one in sight, "down here" the voice said again in an irratated tone. "Huh?" I look back down at my bag and sitting on it was a small red and gold lizard kind of thing with tiny red horns, his arms folded and a grouchy scrowl on his face. No wait. . . lizards can't talk, I must be going crazy to even think that, I carefully knelt down in front of him just slowly moving my hand when he spoke again. "Yeah I can talk, and that's not all watch this!" a small spit of fire appeared from the lizard's mouth, I still can't believe what's going on here but soon shook it off "what were you doing in my bag?"

"Your ancestors sent me to protect you from the dangers of high school" the lizard proudly replied, the dangers of high school? Well that makes me feel a lot better. Though it's pretty hard to believe that my family's ancestors would send an animal guide me for school, then again how else could a lizard talk? "So the ancestors sent a little lizard to help me?" I asked him and just then the grin turned back into a frown. "Dragon, Dra- gon not a lizard I don't do that tonuge thing" he snapped then flicked his thin red tongue like lizards and snakes do. "You just did,"

"eh whatever" he shrugged carelessly, he didn't look anything like a dragon and comming from China I've seen a lot of dragons non that are real of course since they are only creatures from legends. "Your. . ."

"imtimidating? All inspiring?" his face perked up again "tiny" I said hoping not to offend him again, "of course I am! I'm travel sized for convenience if I was my REAL size you would have a heart attack" he laughed at me. "And my eyes can see straight through your outfit" he added which sounded wrong in so many ways that I just had to slap him for that. "Right that's it! Dishonour! Dishonour your whole family! Crickee get out here!" he snapped then a purple cricket crawled out of my bag exactally how many gaurdians did my ancestors send me?

"Dishonour to you! Dishonour your school! Dishonour your-"

"Look I'm sorry, I'm just really jumpy this morning because I'm really really far from home and there's this new school I need to get to before roll call time and I have no idea where the hell it is!" I panicked. "Then your gonna have to trust me and don't you slap me no more are we clear on that?" he glared at me, I nodded silently before reaching out to my bag again for the scholarship letter if I look at the address I might just find it.

"Are you alright?"

I turn around to see a girl who seemed to be around the same age as me or older, I can't think of anything to say to her as her hazel eyes stare at me in concern as she moved one hand towards me it took a while as I anxiously reached for her hand lifting myself off the ground. "um. . . . thanks" I said shyly as a chunk of my hair slips from behind my ear comming over my cheek. "No problem, are you alright though? You looked frightened just before" she asked me did I look that bad? "yeah I'm. . . um. . . . lost" I replied as I picked up my bag pack from the ground. "Oh where are you trying to go?" she asked me looking like she was ready to help, "do you know where the Walt Disney school is?" I asked her. "Yeah I go there I'm in my second year now it's a great school, crazy but great" she smiled at me, "oh. . . okay, so how do you get there?"

"I just walk up past the market, you see that big castle up there?" she pointed out at the distance, I could see the castle though it looked so far away, "that's the school roll call starts shortly so we better get a move on" she sighed then started walking down the path "so what's your name?" she asked me as I followed her. "Huh?" This doesn't seem to be my day today first I annoy my mama by nearly leaving the house in my pyjammers and now I'm acting dumb when asked a question as simple as this. "Your name, I'm Belle can you hear alright?" she asked me with the same conerned expression as before, "Mulan Fa. . . . My hearing's okay, at least I hope it is" I dred to think what mama's reaction would be if I had gotten deaf. "Mulan? Interesting name, where are you from?" Belle asked me as we kept walking towards the school "China," "wow China it's beauitful I wish I could of gone there instead I've always been in this tragic town" Belle shrugged as we just got onto the bridge to the town. It didn't seem bad to me, it wasn't much different from the village. "It's the same every morning just the same since the morning that me and my father came," Belle sighed just then a rather cheery man called out to her, "good morning Belle."

"Morning Monsieur," Belle replied polietly, "whose your little friend there eh?" he smiled at me "Mulan she's new here-" Belle told him but got quickly interupted "that's nice" he said fast then turned away from us how shouting to someone else, "Marie the baguettes hurry up!"

Actually this town is much more different than the village back in China, it's so loud and busy the only time the my home village is like this is at new year where all the fireworks are out with dragons parading the streets.

"Well won't you look at that Belle's got herself a little friend" a strange woman said by what I guessed was a bakery shop. "And they said it could never be done," a man laughed I glanced over at Belle she didn't seem to be listening to them she just looked straight forward and kept on walking down the path, soon later we finally arrived at the school.