A/N: Thanks for reading. This is just a poem I wrote when I was bored. Forgive the periods as means to separate the stanzas - the horizontal lines didn't really work well to do the job, and empty spaces just don't show up.
A Tale of Mei
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In kindly walls of home of Chang
Of golden man the rumors sang.
Much like the Western Sage,
Celebrity of modern Age –
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To learn from Princess' family.
How this thing could have come to be?
Much silk in grounds of green,
Through moon gate, him they would have seen.
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Up golden man looked from a scroll
At folks not there just for a stroll.
He poised an inquiry
Of what they all had come to see.
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A little girl toward table's rim,
Whose brightly eyes were so not dim.
"You, why have you come here?
And left at home your fam'ly dear?"
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The golden man then told his tale,
Of why his fam'ly love not pale.
Him love had brought out east,
Now that his country's threat had ceased.
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Of royal daughters and the sons,
For special one came he at once.
He spoke with smiling face,
And as for falsehood, not a trace.
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A princess of a lowly clan,
To save her people she need plan.
As girl, had she no pow'r
But saving panda from a show'r.
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Her kindness, even proved back then,
Would serve her well with brav'ry when
The Emp'rer had caught ill:
It gave her strength, her clan to heal.
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A quest for immortality
From suffering her clan would free.
She'd heard, in country far,
Of alchemy, a golden star.
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He knew the ways of death and life.
A question would be worth her strife.
He knowledge could impart
To give her clan a brand new start.
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The princess dreamed with boy to dance
But if she died, she'd get no chance.
In desert pressed she on,
Her dreams too helped her courage don.
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But Mei did falter on her way.
In foreign country bones would lay?
Yet she'd come far from Xing,
Her clan some future hope to bring.
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A servant came to her from blue,
To man her took with strange tattoo.
But other Xingese came as well.
To which would be the secret tell?
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The princess found the prodigy,
But not as romance dreamed was he.
His temper lost with word
Was he as skillful as she'd heard?
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She had great crushing of her heart,
But couldn't country yet she part
With no way to save home
And stop her tale a sorry poem.
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And once she'd took the Elrics on,
She found her panda, she was gone!
She searched down underground,
Her panda with the Elrics found –
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In armor always I was tied,
Her panda poor was forced to hide.
We later met again:
The cold of Briggs were we then in.
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The military, their attack,
Made her to flee through tunnels back.
And I came in alarm:
Through tunnels lay a path of harm!
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My country faced a horrid fate
If I and Brother stopped too late.
My heart found Princess kind.
With me to work she didn't mind.
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Her friends, we all fought 'gainst the mean
to save her clan – an Envy seen.
But Princess' heart was kind:
To friends' own Woes not turned eye blind.
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By armor's side she came and fought
On day that was our doom, they'd thought.
A woman great is she –
She helped us friends our nation free.
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Courageous, kind, as fair and smart,
She owned from then this living heart.
True body gained that day,
I couldn't stay from her away.
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So when I could survive hot sand,
I traveled far to her own land.
Now by a lily pond,
The golden man wore smile fond.
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See you now I came not here
To leave the fam'ly I hold dear?
Because on family,
I'll ask her soon to marry me.