Everyone has seen through the eyes of Sora. The Keyblade's ultimate Wielder. It's okay to love a princess of the heart. It's easy, it's understandable. But how is it to see through the eyes of someone who can't possibly be loved in return?

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"Well, Hakumei? Sora? Did you enjoy meeting your memories?" That annoying Unknown(as I had dubbed him in my head) asked. I didn't reply, but Sora did. "It was good to see everyone again. But why show us an illusion? What do you want from me and my sis?" I felt the Unknown, although under a hood, smirk. "That depends on what you have to give." I frowned, and summoned my Keyblade. I was at his throat in less than a nanosecond. "I'm not a riddle person. What do you want, hoodie?" I growled. I stopped as someone appeared behind him. It was a spiky, fiery red haired young man a few years older than me. He winked at me. "Boo." He probably meant Unknown over here, whose neck was about to be sliced off. I let him go, in curiosity. "What do you want?" Unknown said to Red. He shrugged. "I got bored, what with you hogging the heroes." Unknown threw cards to Red. "Perhaps YOU'd like to test them." "Perhaps I would," Red smirked. Unknown vanished, and Red faced us. "Looks like it's my show now, Keyblade masters. My name is Axel. Commit it to memory." So Red had a name. Sora looked at him oddly. "Um.. Sure." I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. Now are you going to give me the answer your wussy friend couldn't, Axel?" His name rolled off my tongue like honey. Bitter honey. If there wasn't such thing as that, there was now. He grinned, but didn't give me my answer. "You learn quick. So, Sora, Hakumei, or can I call you Kumei? Heh. Now that we're on a first name basis.." Two chakram instantly appeared, as they seemed to be his weapons. "Don't go dying on me!" He charged at us and we were forced to enter battle. Okay, so it wasn't a battle. It was a mere fight. Still, although we knew his name and his features, he was an enigma and, as an enigma, was not to be trusted. What I hated about him most was that he would warp here and there, keeping us on the move, all the time.. And he was holding back. We weren't weak! We saved all the worlds from eternal darkness once, didn't we? Sora and I did get a bit beat up, but thankfully I always had potions on me. After a few minutes, we beat him.Once the last strike was.. er.. Struck, though, he was no longer in the room. He couldn't be dead, that was too easy. In my hand, I found a fire card, and in Sora's hand, a world card.

"More cards..?" Goofy asked. "Hmm... They look kind of like the card that made Traverse Town." Jiminy said, popping out. "Then we need these to go on.." Sora looked to me. "Correct," said a voice, before I could reply. "Axel!" Donald said in surprise. "You again?" I gave him an annoyed look. "After an introduction like that, you don't think I'd just give up the ghost?" Axel shrugged again. I really didn't like this guy. "So you were just testing our strength." Sora half asked, half stated. "Congratulations, Sora, and Kumei, as that is what I'll be calling you now. You're ready to take on Castle Oblivion!" I narrowed my eyes at him. "You're not going to drag us on a tour as an annoyingly perky tour guide, are you?" He chuckled, but it was fake. He then continued. "Follow your memories. Trust what you remember, seek what you forget.. And you will find someone very special." "You mean Riku and the King?" Goofy asked. Axel did that shrugging thing again. I hated that! "Well, I don't know. You'll just have to give some more thought to who's most important to you. Our most precious memories lie deep in our hearts, out of reach. But you can find yours, Sora." "Where? How?" Sora asked, very confused. "The light within the darkness. You've lost sight of it, Sora. You've forgotten forgetting." "Light? I don't understand.." Sora muttered. He looked to me. "Sis?" "Would you like a hint?" Axel asked, once again interrupting me before I could reply. I really, really didn't like this guy. "Well, Sora?" Goofy asked. Sora shook his head. "No, I want to figure it out for myself. And if you get in my way —" "He won't, little brother. We won't let him." I said, glaring at Axel. He grinned. It was fake. "That's my kind of answer. Just what I'd expect from the Keyblade masters. But be forewarned... When your sleeping memories awaken, you may no longer be you." With that, he disappeared. None of us said a word, as Sora was already running up the second floor. "Come on!" Donald yelled, and he and Goofy followed quickly. I didn't run. I was too exasperated and annoyed at the red haired plastic freak to run quickly. I started walking up the stairs, when something pinned me against the nearest wall. "What're you still doing here?" I hissed. "Come on, you can't get rid of me that easily." Thankfully he knew about personal space, as he wasn't invading mine, save for my arms which were pinned to the wall. "I know you haven't lost your light, Kumei, because we all know that your light is Sora. But like he said, he's going to find his on his own. So I'd like it if you didn't interfere- in other words, I'd like it if you didn't say anything at all." I snorted. "Why would I allow myself to be a pawn in your crazy plan?" He smiled. It was fake. "Don't you worry your pretty little heart about that, Kumei." He then invaded my personal space, leaning in to whisper something into my ear. "You will."

I awoke with a sweat, breathing heavily. "Sis? Are you okay?" Sora's voice came. I looked to my right. "Sora? I thought you were driving?" He nodded, "Yeah, we got through the Asteroid Sweep! We're landing in that world now. I just came to wake you up, sis!" He said. I groaned, not at Sora, but at the dream. Like our first adventure, it was quite long ago since our trip to Castle Oblivion. Sora helped me up. "Come on!" I nodded, and once we landed, we got out of the gummi ship, entering these bamboo thickets.. And when I say thick-ets, I mean really thick.

The boys and I saw a young man(about my age) conversing with a large shadow on a rock. The young man looked very familiar. I think I had seen him before! But where..? I couldn't think of that as Sora pulled me into a gang huddle. "A Heartless?" Donald asked, pointing to the shadow on the rock. I'm surprised that the shadow and the young man didn't hear us. "Let's get the jump on 'im!" Sora suggested. Donald and Goofy nodded, but I shook my head. The shadow didn't feel like a Nobody or a Heartless. "Boys, maybe we shouldn't-" Too late. The boys charged. I sighed, "No one listens to the older sister anymore.." I ran up to the boys as a little red dragon jumped into the young man's arms, as the young man turned his back on us. I looked at the dragon oddly. "Mushu? Is that you?" I asked. Mushu peeked out of the young man's shoulders and shook his fists at us, "That's right, I know you heard of me. I'm little, lethal, and legendary! Now y'all scram before I get my dragon dander up!" "Hey Mushu! We missed you!" Sora exclaimed, ignoring Mushu's empty threat. Mushu was still shaking his fists as he replied, "Yeah well you better HOPE I miss YOU, or else you're- you're.. Kumei! Sora! Donald! Goofy!" He exclaimed, as he finally stopped being silly. The young man looked at us. "You know them?" He asked. His voice was pretty feminine for a guy. "Know them? Man, we used to kick all kinds of bad guy butt together! Yeah, you know, I helped these guys out of alot of tight spots. 'Cause I'm a might dragon!" He leaned on my leg. "Right?" He looked up at me for an answer. I moved my leg back, causing Mushu to trip. Sora snickered. "Something along those lines."

"What's your name?" Sora asked. "I am.." The young man cleared his throat, "uh.. Ping! Just Ping. I am Ping, son of Fa Zhou." Fa Zhou? I heard that name before. Where was it..? As I was thinking, Sora continued to question Ping. "You know Mushu?" "Mushu's one of my family guardians." Ping replied. "We didn't know we were borrowing something as important as a family guardian," Goofy said thoughtfully. "Oh!" I suddenly shouted. Finally! It clicked. "Now I remember!" "What is it, sis?" Sora asked. "Excuse us for a moment," I said, and dragged Ping into a farther part of the thickets while Sora, Donald, and Goofy conversed with Mushu. "Ping? Son of Fa Zhou? What're you thinking, Mulan?" I asked, putting my hands to my hips. He- rather, she, took a step back. "How do you- how do you.. Kumei?" She asked. I nodded. "Wow, I didn't recognize you with different clothes!" She exclaimed, with her normal voice now. "My parents and grandmother miss you, so did I! ..Hey, where's that young man with you with the odd hairdo and color?" I looked at her. She remembered that? I shook my head, "Long story. Just don't talk to Sora or the boys about it." Mulan looked at me oddly, but nodded. "Okay.."

We went back to the clearing where the boys were. "Hey guys, what's going on?" I asked. "We're helping Mushu and Ping in joining the army!" Sora replied. Mulan had a very eager look on her face as she looked at Sora. "Would you really join us? It'll be easier to fit in if I'm with guys, like you." Sora looked at her oddly. "What do you mean, 'fit in'?" "Well, um, uh, don't- don't worry about that.." Mulan stuttered. Goofy looked at her more closely, and asked quite bluntly, "You're pretendin' to be a girl, aren't ya?" Sora and Donald jump back in surprise, with Donald's hat jumping up to add to the moment. "You're.. a girl!" They shrieked. I burst out laughing. "Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't notice us talking!" "You knew, sis?" Sora asked. I nodded, "Yeah. Didn't you?" Donald and Sora shook their heads. "Nuh-uh." "Not me." I chuckled as I heard Mulan whisper to Mushu. "I think it's working.." Mushu shook his head, looking doubtful. "I don't know- those two would fall for anything." Sora scoffed, "I'm right here!" "Yeah!" Donald yelled in agreement. I chuckled again. "Don't worry about it, boys." I stopped, and Mulan and Mushu, as well as the three boys, turned to me. "What's wrong, sis?" Sora asked. "I just remembered, they don't allow girls in the army. If I'm going to join, I have to turn myself into a guy!" "How are you gonna do that?" Goofy asked. "Wait for me a minute," I said, and ran off to the gummi ship. When I got back, I was flat-chested and lookin' fruity. But I was a fruity man nonetheless.

Everyone looked at me. "Hey! Where did your chest go?" Donald said, looking confused. "I got some bandage from the gummi ship and did what I know Mulan did." "But your hair is still really, really long," Mulan pointed out. "Hey, if they don't like it, then that's one less soldier to get rid of their enemies." I replied. Mulan shrugged, "Good point. We should get going." We all nodded, and followed her into the army camp. There was a line where most of the soldiers were standing, so Sora and Donald stepped in. A short man with a black eye pushed Sora out of the way, saying, "'Bout time we got some grub." "Hey! No cutting!" Sora yelled. "Get out!" Donald followed. Shorty punched Sora, who fell back. I growled. "No one punches my little brother!" I hollered in a low voice, and kicked Shorty. Donald joined in and jumped Shorty, causing him to fall back- if he hadn't already. The, a taller (way) thinner man looked at the space between the brawl going on and the seemingly last man in line. "Hey!" He said, pointing to it. "A space in line!" A very chubby man followed Stick, wondering out loud, "I wonder what they're serving for lunch today." "Knuckle sandwiches!" Shorty shouted, and jumped Stick the same way Donald jumped him. "That does it!" Sora yelled, as he and Donald joined the brawl. I rolled my eyes. "Sheesh, men. But if you wanna fit in, be like a man! An idiot!" With that, I jumped into the brawl.

I was having fun punching the lights out of Shorty when Mulan shouted, "Please!" We all stopped and looked at her. "Please!" Stick mocked. "What a girl!" Shorty rolled his eyes. "Grr.. No one makes fun of my friend!" I growled, and kicked Shorty again. "Knock it off!" Mulan then shouted. "Knock what off!" Shorty yelled. "Your face!" I replied, as I hit it. "He punched me!" Sora yelled, pointing to Shorty. "Cutting in line!" Donald added. Wow, I had never felt so immature.. This felt good! Stick rolled his eyes, "What a shrimp!" "Who you callin' shrimp, panda lips? I'm a bona fide guardian dragon!" Mushu yelled from Mulan's armor. "L-let's just get back in line, okay?" She almost pleaded, as she pushed Mushu back into hiding. Sora looked at Mulan. "Whose side are you on! I just got slugged!" He said. "Kick some ass!" I shouted, not knowing what I was doing anymore. I hadn't had a brawl- well, I'd never been in a brawl before! It sure was fun. "Want some more?" Shorty shouted, as he lunged at me. I dodged, and he bumped into a taller man who looked very formal. And very, very constipated. "Soldiers! Get back in line!" He yelled. I narrowed my eyes at him. "You got something against guys with long hair?" I yelled, just to see his reaction. He looked at me oddly. I suppose no one had ever done that to him before. Probably a high ranking soldier.. "Uh.. No." He replied. "Good! Sir!" I replied, and stepped back in line. He looked at me oddly again, rather, in a very creeped out way, and left. Hmph. Homophobe.

I had no time to pretend to be a guy pretending to be a girl, as Heartless appeared out of nowhere. "What are they?" Mulan asked me. "Heartless!" Donald replied, but it seemed he was yelling it out in anger more than anything. In an instant, Shorty, Porky, and Stick ran off. I scoffed. "Great. Not that we need them to fight.." "Ping, get ready!" Sora said, and she nodded. We easily beat the Heartless. Ping- I mean, Mulan was pretty good with her sword. It was good that her sword could go against the Heartless. Later on, we were lined up in front of the Homophobe, who I learned was Captain Li Shang. "You four!" He said to me and the boys. "What are your names?" "Alex," I replied. Sora looked at me, but he knew Kumei wouldn't do for a guy's name. I don't actually know if it would even do for a girl. "Sora," he said. "Donald." "Goofy." "You're welcome in my troop." He looked at me, having a very creeped out look again. "Uh.. Even the long haired one. Your battle skills are encouraging." He said. "I'm the son of Fa Zhou-" "You should return home," Captain Homophobe said to Mulan before she could finish. "B-but.. That would dishonor my family!" "You'd rather dishonor my troops?" Mulan didn't look to happy. "Don't make me-!" She stopped. "If Ping trains harder he can be one of the best troops here! Give him another chance." I demanded. "Yeah. Si- Bro is right. Just give us an assignment, we'll show you how well we can work together." Sora agreed. "So you want to be tested?" Captain Homophobe asked. I sighed in exasperation. "That's what he said, Musclehead.."

Captain Li Shang decided to allow us to be tested(me, a soldier?), and gave us three orders. They were pretty useless. All we did was battle Heartless. The actual troop's order was this: to ambush Shan-Yu, the creepy hun's army on their way here through the mountain pass. "We'll smash 'em!" Donald said. "Trash 'em!" I added. "I doubt that." Captain Homophobe replied. "You five will be the advance party. Scout out the mountain for my troops." Okay, weird order. I didn't get it, but whatever. Sora seemed to think this too, as he put his hands behind his head. "That's it? No problem! Right, sis?" He asked. Crap! Sora and I realized this mistake too late in the game. Captain looked at me. "Sis?" I frowned. "You got a problem with that?" He looked at me weirdly again and shook his head. "Talk to me when you're ready to be briefed for your mission," He said. "Yeah, I'm wearing briefs.." I muttered, walking past him. Homophobe.

I didn't have any more time once more to pretend to be a guy pretending to be a girl and piss the Captain off, since Sora wanted the mission over with. It was as easy as chicken pot pie. Except I like chicken pot pie. We went back to report to Captain Homophobe. "Yes, that's exactly what I expect. Now, you still have some tasks to do. Stay sharp. You did well." He said. "I knew it!" Sora cheered. We nodded. "Captain.." Mulan trailed off. He looked at her. "I suppose you've made a little progress." "A little progress!" I almost shrieked. Goofy held me back, thankfully. "Not a little, alot!" Donald said. "No, you're right, captain. Please, give me one more assignment. This time I'll show you what I'm truly made of!" Captain Homophobe nodded. "I'll give you one more chance." "One more chance!" What an insufferable- "Sir!" Mulan, Donald, Sora(who squeezed my arm, trying to get me to agree), and Goofy said, and I muttered a 'sir' before we left for another mission.

We went past the checkpoint, onto the mountain path. Rocks were blocking the way, and a falcon was circling above us. I glared at the falcon, and it flew away. Weird little bird freak. We went on to crash the rocks. A few Heartless came, and what was really funny was when Goofy did one attack when he threw his Shield around, and even after the attack he was still in his stance. I stifled the urge to giggle and looked at Goofy with the most straight face I could. "Uh.. Goofy.. You can stop now." Long story short, we got throught he rocks. Then we saw Shorty, Porky, and Stick, who I found out to be Yao, Chien Po, and Ling. We were all okay now, since I gave Yao a piece of my mind. Chien Po helped a little. What a porky! If he wasn't a human, I'd eat him. Anyway, Yao spoke up. "Hey.. You ain't half bad." "A man among men!" Ling agreed. "That's Ping for ya," I grinned. "Thanks!" Mulan smiled. The three left, and Mulan's face fell. "But the Captain.." She muttered. I laughed, "Don't worry. I'll convince him with my innate manliness!" "Captain!" Sora said, poking me, and I turned around. Oh, it was Captain Homophobe. "Oops," I laughed nervously, and stepped away from him. "Ping sure did good!" Goofy told Captain. "You bet he did!" Donald agreed. "You can bet it on my bro's flowy long hair which you better not discriminate or he'll go psycho on you!" Sora nodded. Wow, my little brother read my mind. "Hmm.. Fine. I'll let you join my troops.. But I'm still not convinced you have what it takes to be a worthy soldier." I strongly disliked this man, and was currently bordering on hatred. "Why not!" Sora almost shrieked. Good thing Goofy pulled him back, just like he did me. "It's okay, Sora. I'll find a way to show him what I'm made of. Just give me a chance." Captain Egohead -no wait, that was Leon- Homophobe nodded. "That's the spirit, Ping." Sheesh, if he thought 'Ping' had the spirit, then why was he so picky? I groaned. Men.

Finally, we arrived at the mountain camp. To our surprise, everyone was already there! How did they do that? I know DiZ transported himself and sometimes me around Twilight Town to get around faster, but they didn't have DiZ' knowledge. So what the..? "Okay, girl! Here's your chance! I just saw this real shady guy. And I know it's Shan-Yu!" Mushu said, taking the chance to interrupt my thoughts like everyone else did. We stepped back. "Shan-Yu?" Mulan asked. "That's the hun leader! We gotta tell the captain!" Sora said. I nodded. "Waaaait wait- wait- wait WAIT! Everybody use their heads for a sec!" We stopped and went into our thinking positions. "Now, why are we here? To make the Captain-" "-The insufferable Captain-" "-Right, Kumei, the insufferable Captain see Mulan- I mean, Ping's talents and bring honor to her family!" We nodded. "So, let's go find out where Shan-Yu is by ourselves. Then, if we're lucky, we can fry him up good! Though just tracking the guy down shold earn us our stars.. Captain Musclehead will have to notice my girl!" I grinned, raising my fist to the air. "Oh yeah!" Mulan nodded. "Okay, let's go." "We'll help out," Sora agreed. "Right, sis?" "Absolutely."

And so, we snuck out of camp to that cave right outside of it. The path wasn't too long, but the inside was enormous. It was kind of like an altar, with all those candles hanging around, but it probably wasn't. That wasn't what we came here for, anyway. "Dead end," Sora said. "Nobody's here." I nodded. Our family seemed to like pointing out the obvious. "You're crazy. Check again!" Mushu told us. We looked around. Nothing. "Oh well.." Donald sighed, and left for the path leading out the cave with Goofy. Little brother only noticed a few seconds later. "Hey, wait up!" There was no time for Sora to run now- the ground shook. "What's happening?" Sora asked me. "Uh.. Earthquake?" I hate it when I'm wrong. I looked to where Donald and Goofy were gasping and banging their fists. Wait, banging their fists? I ran over to them only to be forbidden to pass by a stupid barrier. "Sora! Kumei! Ping!" The two over at the other end yelled. "Guys, how do we-" "Sis! Watch out!" I looked up to see an Assault Rider(I think that's what the stupid Heartless was called) about to thrust his spear-weapon at me. "Holy-!" I rolled out of the way. The Assault Rider charged at me once more. "What do you want with me!" I yelled, and my Keyblade did the rest. A few more Assault Riders, Shadows, and Soldiers came, but it was nothing Sora, Mulan, and I couldn't handle.

"You fought really well, Mu- er, Ping!" I slapped her on the back. "Sis is right, you were amazing!" At this, the barrier disappeared. We ran over to Donald and Goofy. "You okay?" Sora and I nodded. "Yeah, thanks to Ping!" "Come on, time to report to the captain!" Mushu interrupted. "But Shan-Yu wasn't there." Mushu rolled his eyes. That looked funny. "Please! That Hun is old news! We're gonna tell the Captain how thousands of Heartless stormed the cave, and Ping took out almost every one of them!" Wow. When Mushu thought, he could really think. "Good idea. Come on!" I ran ahead of the boys and Mulan, back to the village.. Only to stop and cringe. "What's wrong, sis?" Sora asked, walking up beside me. "That.." I pointed to the village. Sora looked around, cringing as I did. "Ugh.." The village, or camp, whatever, was burnt down, back to ashes. There were still a few poles here and there, but everything was pretty much destroyed. How could that Shan-Yu have gotten past us? I walked around the village, to find someone kneeling down in pain. Despite the destruction, I managed to choke out, "Captain Muscle- er, Captain Li Shang!"

The Captain tried to stand, but he was weak. "Don't overdo it, Captain!" Sora told him, trying to get him to sit down. "It's only a scratch.." He replied, shaking his head. I rolled my eyes. Stubborn. He fell down again, and Mulan rushed to him.

"Captain, the enemy! Where did they go?"

"They went toward the summit.."

"We'll stop them!"

Goofy nodded. "It kinda is our fault."

"You mean MY fault." Mushu said, walking out with his head down.

"No," My voice finally returned fully. "It's mine. I shouldn't have encouraged our running off on our own, even when I didn't like the Captain all that much.." "Nuh-uh!" Donald shook his head at me. "Not it's not!" Sora nodded. "Shan-Yu and the Heartless did this, not us!" He turned to the Captain. "Captain, if you track down the villagers, we'll handle this." The Captain nodded, and we left him to follow that Hun. "The summit.. Come on."

We arrived at the summit, and what we saw wasn't too pleasing. It was even worse than seeing the village burnt down. It was Shan-Yu. Man, he was fat. But there was no time, as usual, to make comments about his weight problems now. "Attack!" He yelled, and the Heartless charged at us. Almost a hundred(or fifty, I might be exaggerating here) Rapid Thrusters(the bee-looking ones) and about six Bolt towers surrounded me, and I couldn't even see Sora, Mulan, or anyone aside from the Heartless. Finally, I warded away most of them and found my way back to Mulan and the boys. "There're still more!" I told them, but I guess that information didn't matter anymore, because Shan-Yu himself was charging at us now. "Stand back!" Someone said from behind us. It was Yao! With Ling, and a few other soldiers. "We'll handle this!" Yao knelt down, pointing the cannon at Shan-Yu as we fought more Rapid Thrusters off, when Mulan suddenly pushed Yao out of the way, grabbing the cannon. "Sorry!" She apologized in a hurry. She knelt down and positioned the cannon towards the mountain, looking for a match. I'd use magic to fire the cannon but I was too busy trying to watch what she was doing and block a Bolt Thrower's face from reaching my little brother at the same time to do so. She grabbed Mushu, squeezed him, and a little spark came out. I would laugh, if I wasn't helping Sora block Heartless away from her. Still, the little spark was enough to fire the cannon. She set Mushu down on the cannon, and it fired away, with Mushu on it, still screaming.. "You're going the wrong way!"

I didn't understand at first why in the world she fired the cannon at the mountain and not at Shan-Yu, who was less than fifteen feet away from us, but when the cannon hit the mountain, I realized it. "Of course! An avalanche!" Just as I realized, the avalanche commenced. "YES!" Mulan high fived with me, but I really didn't think we had time to do that, as- "The avalanche is coming down on us! Boys, get out of the way!" I screamed, and grabbed my little brother with one hand, and Donald and Goofy with the other. "Captain, look out!" Mulan shouted as well, and pulled the Captain out of the way. The avalanche was finished. I regained my balance and helped the boys up. "Come on, we gotta check where Mulan is!" I told them, and ran around until I saw three figures- the Captain, Mulan, and Mushu. What was Mushu doing out in the open with the Captain there?

Oh shit.

Apparently, the boys didn't notice the look on the Captain's face. "Oh boy, you're okay!" Donald said happily, and Sora and Goofy nodded. The Captain turned to us. "You all knew, didn't you! You knew Ping was really a woman in disguise!" The boys gasped, but that's all their reply was. "I can't believe you lied to me!" The Captain said to Mulan. I wanted to reveal that Mulan wasn't the only one, but little brother seemed to read my mind and pulled me back. "The punishment for high treason and dishonoring the Army is death." All of us looked at him in surprise. Sheesh, male chauvinists! "Get out of my sight.. now. You're all dismissed." "But Captain.." Sora reasoned, but that musclehead wouldn't hear it. "My debt is repaid." He walked away, motioning for his troops to follow him. "The Emperor is waiting! Move out!" The soldiers nodded. Yao, Ling, and Chien Po were looking sad for Mulan, but the other soldiers just looked lifeless. It was odd.. I looked to Mulan, whose face had fallen a long time ago. I frowned to myself. Once again, my silence in the matter ruined everything..

"Mulan. I blew it." Mushu told Mulan sadly. I sighed, and Mulan and I took our bandages off. She let her hair down, and took her armor off too, and when she did, she actually looked very feminine. Of course, I already knew this. Mulan turned to us. "Thank you, everyone. Sorry I got you in trouble." Sora and I shook our heads. "It's no big deal," Sora said. I nodded. "We're always in trouble anyway." Sora smiled, then turned to Mulan. "So Ping, I mean, uh, Mulan.. What're you gonna do now?" Mulan looked to the path down the mountain. "Going back home." "Your daddy's gonna be steamed as a chicken dumpling." Hey, I liked chicken dumplings. Mulan hung her head, and I just had to cheer her up. For not saying anything. Again. I threw my arms around the shoulders of the three boys. "Hey, we'll take our share of the blame. Isn't that right, boys?" The three nodded with smiles, and I was glad Mulan returned them. "Thanks. You're all wonderful friends."

We walked down the summit, when we heard something snarling. That horrible sounding snarl could only belong to one person in this world- that crazy Hun, Shan-Yu. We looked over the mountain and below us, we saw him standing. His Rapid Thrust Heartless were still alive, too. Dammit. "Shan-Yu!" Mulan gasped. "He's alive!" Sora gasped. I nodded, "I get it. Come on, we have to warn the Emperor!" The boys and Mulan nodded, and we ran as fast as we could back to the Imperial City. When we did, the sun had already set. We saw Musclehead and his troops on their horses walking(rather, trotting) to the Imperial Palace. I think that's what it's called, anyway. "Shang!" Mulan called for the male chauvinist, "Shan-Yu is alive! He's headed this way!"

"Why should I believe you this time?" "But she's telling you the truth!" Sora backed her up. "I swear on my long hair!" I said, sticking it out in the air for all of China(whatever that was, that's what Mulan called the world) to see. Musclehead looked at me, then gasped, looking at my chest. "You have..!" "Hermaphrodite!" I yelled. "Got a problem?" "No time!" Donald yelled, as he pointed to the falcon circling above us. It flew to the palace roofs, landing on one of the statues.. which, of course, turned out to be that stupid Shan-Yu. "Crap." I muttered. "Why do they always get here before we do?" "Guard the palace! Do not let the enemy get the Emperor!" Musclehead ordered to his troops, but they just stood there, looking lifeless. Suddenly, they stunk of the darkness, and turned into Heartless. I knew something was weird about their lifeless faces! Too bad it was too late.. Yao, Ling, and Chien Po were being held back by the Heartless and could not help. "Captain! We'll secure the courtyard!" Sora told Musclehead. I nodded. "Get to the Emperor now, you can save him!" I yelled, as I cut a I threw a Soldier at a Bolt Thrower, cutting the two in half. The Captain hesitated. "That's an order, Captain!" He nodded with determination, and ran off to the Palace.

We defeated the Heartless, and ran up the Palace stairs as fast as we could. We arrived, seeing Shan-Yu point his sword at the Emperor's neck. "Now you'll bow to me!" "Let the Emperor go, freakshow!" Hmm. I liked yelling in this world. "Foolish girl!" Shan-Yu roared, and lunged at me, but the Captain attacked him from behind before he could successfully do so, and led the Emperor into the Palace for safety. The Captain nodded at Mulan with trusting eyes, and let us deal with the Hun on our own. "It ends now, Shan-Yu." Mulan told him. Shan-Yu only smirked. "Boys, guard the door from any Heartless that'll come! Mulan and I will deal with the Hun!" I ordered, and they nodded. Shan-Yu then ignored the boys as I had hoped and faced me and Mulan. "Ready Mulan?" She nodded. "For China!"

Mulan and I took Shan-Yu by both sides, taking turns in being the distraction. One of us would keep Shan-Yu's attention while the other would attack him from behind. It was a simple strategy so Shan-Yu figured it out fast. He did a jumping-spiral attack which came at us from nowhere, but overall he was no match for me. Or Mulan. He ignored Mulan for a second and charged at me while I threw my Keyblade at his stupid bird. It was trying to carry Mulan away! With no weapon to defend me, he pushed his hands against mine, trying to take me down. Miraculously, the Keyblade didn't come back at me like a boomerang was supposed to do, but at Shan-Yu's head! It was hilarious. Shan-Yu was distracted for the most part and I got my Keyblade back. I didn't bother going into Valor form as Mulan and I slowly wore Shan-Yu down. In the middle of the battle Shan-Yu powered up with the darkness, but Mulan took the final strike for her 'country'(what was that!) and defeated Shan-Yu. Shan-Yu's Heartless disappeared as he fell. "Now that's what I call burning some hunny-bun! Aw, yeah! Mulan's the best! Mulan's the best! No, wait a minute- I'm the best! Mushu's the best! Mushu's the best!" I grinned. "That's what you think, Mushu! Kumei's the best, Kumei's the best!"

We were all gathered in front of the Emperor, with the whole crowd from the Imperial City. The Emperor walked forward. "I've heard a great deal about you, Fa Mulan." Mulan bowed to him. "You stole your father's armor, ran away from home, impersonated an Imperial solderi, deceived your commanding officer, shamed the entire Chinese army, and dishonored your family name." The Emperor said. What was Chinese? Well, I hope he wasn't always a nagger. "We get the picture.." Sora sighed, voicing my thoughts. "Your'e a young woman, and in the end.." Donald and I groaned, awaiting something horrible to be said. "You have saved us all." The Emperor bowed to Mulan. I gasped and I felt really glad for Mulan. "Mulan, look!" I pointed behind us, and the whole crowd was bowing to her. I raised her arm in the air, showing her to the crowd proudly. "Yeah!" After a few cheers from the crowd, Mulan turned to the Emperor. "Your Excellency!" The Emperor nodded. "Captain Li!" Captain Li Shang nodded and gave the sword to Mulan. "Take this," the Emperor told Mulan, "And the world will know what you have done for China." Mulan bowed. "Thank you." I still didn't know why they called this world 'China'. Confusing.. "Mulan. Sora. Kumei. Donald. Goofy. Thank you." Captain Li Shang said. How'd he know my real-? Oh, right. I was cheering for myself awhile ago and he probably found out that was my name when he told me to stop it because the Emperor was coming. Also, he found out I was really a girl and said he 'knew it'. Homophobe. "Thank you? Is that all there is to say, Captain? If you wish to win the heart of Fa Mulan, China's bravest woman, you'll have to be more eloquent than that!" The Emperor said, looking at Li Shang with a funny look. I laughed, "You go, Your Excellency!" We all laughed, 'cept for Li Shang who was blushing. "Hey, can we get an autograph?" Sora joked to Mulan. She smiled.

"Thanks for everything, you guys!" "Now they just GOTTA let me go back to bein' a guardian. They GOTTA!" Mushu yelled to himself. I looked at him oddly. "I thought you WERE a family guardian?" Mushu then noticed that I noticed him and laughed nervously. "What? Oh, no, no- don't even worry about that, that's just real technical. Just for us guardians." I gave him an incredulous look. "Sure." "You tricked us!" Sora shouted, pointing at Mushu, and started chasing him around. We burst out laughing- the sword which used to be Shan-Yu's glowed in Mulan's hands. "Huh?" "Sora, that's enough, it's time to open another gate!" I called, and he stopped chasing Mushu to stand beside me. The crown mark appeared beneath our feet, as light shone from the sword to create a Keyhole above us. Sora and I nodded to each other, and the light from our Keyblade's combined, shining into the Keyhole and opening another gate. "Okay!" Donald cheered. "Guess it's about time to be movin' on." Goofy agreed. "Well, we have to go now." I told them. "You shall be missed," The Emperor said, nodding. "You two play nice!" Sora told Mulan and Li Shang, who gasped. Mulan blushed. "But just in case, if it's a girl, name it after me, okay?" I laughed, patting the two soon-to-be lovers at the back. "Whoa, watch it, soldiers!" Li Shang said to us. Mushu and I laughed, as Mulan waved. "Goodbye, Kumei, Sora, Donald, Goofy! Come back soon!"

We entered the gummi ship. "I'm exhausted," I muttered, as I plopped onto my seat, looking at the next worlds. There was a castle ahead, and I decided to go there first. I stopped driving and looked up. "We're going through Stardust Sweep, boys. Whose turn to drive?" I asked, standing up from the chair of the controls room. "My turn!" Donald said, and I nodded. "Where're you going, sis?" Sora asked as I walked out of the room. "In my room, as usual. I'm really sleepy.." I replied, and walked to my room in the ship. As soon as I hit the pillow, I fell into a slumber. Albeit, not a dreamless one..

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Well, there you are! Sorry for the late update. Review if you liked it, please! Also, I'm sure you noticed Kumei was pretty immature in this world. I think she'll be back to normal in the next one.. She was like this because she was trying to get her mind off a few things. See you on the next update!