Heart of The Dragon

A/N This is my first Mulan fic so please be nice.

This was an idea that came o me last night when reading Mulan fics and I wanted to do nt own since I love this movie along with Lilo and Stitch but in this fic, Mulan and Shang take in a baby but it's the child of a certain Guardian Dragon but they decide to raise it as their own but it's about family and being true to yourself even if you're different.

I hope other Mulan and Disney fans.

Prologue

It was a stormy night in China as a young woman brought an infant to the village but it was different, special. It's hazel eye slits were full of tears as it cried but the woman knew that the ancestors would be angry knowing that she had taken this young dragon infant from a Guardian Dragon but he'd asked her to find it a good home in China but she smiled seeing the Fa household knowing that a hero of China lived there as a seal glowed on the baby's deep red scaled head as she giggled as the woman approached the doorstep.

The woman was nervous as she saw somebody watch her as she placed the young infant on the doorstep.

It was a young woman with long raven black hair but she was surprised seeing the young infant but brought her inside.

The woman smiled at that as she vanished.

But she was astonished reading the letter but brought the newborn inside from the rain.....

Shang waa woken up by cries of an infant and left the bedroom but he gasped seeing his wife holding a strange infant but smiled as the baby opened her mouth revealing a few baby dragon teeth as he retuned the smile but wondered where the infant had came from but Mulan was nervous as she explained everything to Shang but he was amazed but wasn't sure if they should keep her but she showed him the letter and he sighed in defeat because he knew there was no arguing with his wife but he hoped the ancestors wouldn't be angry at them.

"I don't think so Shang.

Why would the baby be brought here if they were?" Mulan asked him.

Shang nodded but saw a strange necklace around the infant's neck but Mulan sighed removing it because she didn't want to tell her she was adopted or from the ancestors until she was older but was smiling at the charm because it was a small red scaled Guardian Dragon that looked familiar but she needed to ask a certain friend about the child but it could wait.

"What're we going to name her?" Shang asked his wife.

Mukan was lost in thought as the baby was asleep in her arms.

"Fa Hong-Ling." she answered him.

He was amazed at that but understood as the name suited the child because of her beauitful deep red scales and as she would grow, she would be more understanding of others but had a worry that others would be afraid of her because she was dragon yet had a human soul which made him smile.

But they saw somebody outside.

It looked like Mushu but was a bit bigger and taller than he used to be but she saw Hing get excited seeing him as they went outside but Mulan gasped seeing it was Mushu by looking in his eyes but saw sadness in his eyes seeing Hong but wondered why.

"You've changed Mushu.

You used to be smaller than Hong or us.

Now you've grown." Mulan said as the dragon hugged her.

But Shang swore he saw a tear in the dragon's eye seeing Hong but couldn't bear to tell them why seeing Hong made him sad.

"Mushu what's wrong?

Hong likes you." Mulan said as Shang nodded.

The Guardian Dragon sighed at that.

He figured he could at least tell Mulan seeing they were friends but was afraid.

"I'll tell you why seeing Hong made me sad.

She........ is my child.

But I cannot keep her because she is part human but she deserves to live here and not among the Dead but the only way she can be mine is if I can give up being a Guardian Dragon but I can't do that!

That's why I sent her here because I knew you guys would care for her but one day we will be family again." he told her.

Mulan felt bad at that as she saw him leave without saying goodbye.

She along with Shang went back inside with Hong but she felt bad for her friend but had promised herself she would take care of Hong for him but hoped that he would become Hong's father again as she fell asleep.

"I'll keep her safe for you Mush, I promise." she thought falling asleep........