Do you remember back in "A Princess's Punishment" when I asked what story I should write next: Lonnie's arranged married or Ben being raised on the Isle?

Well I have already wrote Ben being raised on the Isle, the sequel to it, and have started writing the sequel to that sequel.

Now I think it is time that I give you the other story. It may not turn out good, but I've had this idea for almost a year now and always thought about writing it, yet never got around to it.

This chapter is only the prologue, but the actual first chapter will be up by the time you finish reading this. Each chapter will have a minimum of one-thousand words, just a heads up. Updates will be whenever I finish a chapter.

Enjoy!

This is the unusual story of how I became married to my handsome husband at the age of sixteen.

I know what you're thinking. Yes, we were a little young to be married. However, the circumstances behind our marriage more than made up for it. At first, I had only gone along with the planned wedding so there would be no war between the two kingdoms. I'm just glad my husband was able to figure out the plan considering I was forbidden to say anything about the wedding.

Did I confuse you? So sorry about that! Trust me, you'll understand completely by the time I'm through.

Let me go back a few years so you know exactly why the wedding happened to begin with.

It started a month after my mother saved China from the villain known as Shan Yu. My father asked my mother for her hand in marriage. She happily accepted, but there were already complications. They disagreed on everything that involved their wedding—glad I didn't have to worry about that.

Anyways, after hearing about their engagement, my mother's guardian dragon was thrilled for them. That is, until the leader of the ancestors informed him that if my mother were to be married, he would lose his job as a guardian dragon and have to leave my mother and his pedestal, which is his place of honor as a guardian. The ancestors were happy with this because my mother being married to my father meant she would become part of his family, which meant my father's family ancestors and guardians would become hers.

Wanting to keep his job and his only friend, the guardian dragon attempted to tear my parents apart, having noticed they were not very compatible. However, my mother's lucky cricket tried to foil his attempts and kept the happy couple together.

The Emperor called upon my mother and father to escort his three daughters across China to be betrothed to three princes. An alliance would then be formed with the kingdom of Qui Gong. If the task was not completed within three days, the alliance would crumble and the Mongols would destroy China.

My mother and father set out along with three of their soldier friends to safely escort the princesses to their new kingdom. Along the way, each princess fell in love with a soldier and each soldier fell in love with a princess. My mother, who had long believed arranged marriages were wrong, decided to go against her orders and—despite my father's wishes—stopped the joining of the kingdoms.

The guardian dragon attempted to cause problems for my mother and father, but kept failing several times. In despair, he caused the carriage to roll away with the three princesses and the three soldiers. Seeing that they were heading toward a cliff, my mother and father rushed to the rescue and tried to get the princesses to safety. This failed and the carriage was destroyed while everyone fell into the river, unharmed.

On the night of the carriage's destruction, the three soldiers took the princesses out to a village and declared their love for them. Meanwhile, the guardian dragon tricked my father into thinking my mother was taking advantage of him. My father ordered everyone to return and forbade the soldiers from speaking to the princesses. After a very heated argument, my father and mother realized they were far too different and ended their relationship.

While traveling through bandit country, the guardian dragon, overwhelmed with guilt, confessed to my mother what he had done. Although my mother was angered by what the guardian dragon tried to do, at the same time, she was enlightened about the news and attempted to reconcile with my father, only to be attacked by a group of bandits moments later.

While saving the princesses, the bridge my parents were standing on broke, leaving the two dangling off by a loose rope. Realizing that the rope could only support the weight of one person, my father sacrificed his life to save my mother, and allowed himself to fall into the river below.

Don't worry! The story gets better. After all, I wouldn't be alive.

Saddened by my father's death, my mother continued on the trip alone to Qui Gong. Not wanting the princesses to be forced into a loveless marriage, she offered herself to marry one of the ruler's sons. The ruler essentially agreed, seeing as she was the woman that saved China.

My father, who actually survived the fall, soon heard about the news, and rushed to stop the marriage, but the ruler denied it. The guardian dragon decided to help by pretending to be the Great Golden Dragon of Unity, and forced the ruler to stop the marriage. Still under the guise of the Great Golden Dragon, the guardian dragon married my mother and father, with their marriage apparently being the one to unite the two kingdoms, and released the princesses from their vows.

My parents are the great warrior Mulan and General Shang.

And their marriage did not unite the two kingdoms after all.

This is where my story begins.