AN: This was originally going to be 2 chapters, but then I realized how short the first one was and just connected them. So you get a really long chapter instead, and a new Disney world.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: Don't own it…sadly…

Once they were airborne, a task that had been completely reliant on how long it took them to get away from Hughes and his photo album. They began "discussing" which world they should visit first. Rather, they were completely incapable of coming to an agreement. Donald thought they should visit Beast's castle, Riku was worried about Agrabah, Goofy thought they should go to Atlantica. And Sora was adamant about visiting the Olympus Coliseum. The Elrics had tried to keep up initially, asking questions about the worlds, what they were like, who lived there, in the hopes of aiding the decision. But in the end it proved too much to follow, even for them, and they became content to sit back and watch the others battle it out.

"Sora! We don't need to go to Olympus, they have Hercules! They'll be fine!" Donald exclaimed. "But Belle could be in trouble! We need to help her!"

"Belle has Beast! She doesn't need your help!"

"How do you know!"

"This is getting ridiculous!" Ed shouted, finally standing up and storming to the controls at the front of the ship. He picked up the map that had been sitting there, gave it a quick, confused glance, and then propped it up against one of the seats. "Throw a dart at it!"

"Eh?"

"Throw a dart at it!"

"We don't have any darts." Sora offered.

"Then a spit ball or something!"

"Ugh..." Sora balled up a piece of tissue and stared, pleading, at Ed, who nodded, so he spit on it, and rolled it around between his fingers until he was sure it was wet and sticky enough.

"We don't have a straw either." Riku said, looking amused and grossed out at the same time.

"Oh, just throw it!"

"Okay." Sora tossed it and Ed actually ducked out of the way, not wanting to suffer a spit ball to the face. The glob stuck to the map which flopped over onto the seat.

Riku warily stepped forward and lifted the map by a corner, using only two fingers, as if the whole thing were slimy and gross. He held it up in front of him, examining the results.

"And the verdict is?" Sora asked impatiently.

Riku flipped the map around so they could all see. A goopy, slimy glob of white stuck loosely and messily to the parchment next to a small icon with an Asian theme. The text read "Land of Dragons."

Sora smirked. "Guess we're eating Chinese food tonight."

It was late autumn and a cool breeze blew multicolored leaves in different hues of red and orange across the camp in mini tornadoes. Though the mountains were already dusted with snow, it would be quite some time before any of it reached the low lying valleys, if it reached them at all. But the effects the imminent cold weather would have of the local farms were the least of the peoples' problems and no-one had time to admire the lovely foliage.

Experienced soldiers scurried across the military camp, making preparations and trying to organize the new recruits who were forming a long and chaotic registration line right down the middle of the camp. The recent invasion of heartless had had a surprising effect on the people of the Land of Dragons. Shortly after the creatures' initial arrival, the emperor sent out a recruitment call, asking for all able bodied young men to fight for the sake of their land. And the people were surprisingly willing. So much so that the generals had actually had to turn away boys who were too young to fight. And yet they kept coming back, wanting to fight for their honor and their world. Too bad it probably wasn't going to do much good.

Mulan sighed, this was pointless, she'd fought these creatures before and she knew better. It took more than a sword and some hotshots in shiny armor to get rid of them.

"You don't seem very confident."

Mulan looked to the young woman by her side. She was roughly the same age as her and her eyes burned with the same fierce determination. She was newcomer from another world but apparently the land she came from wasn't terribly different from Mulan's. She and her allies, an elderly man clad in the same black armor as the girl and young man with a sword who'd been identified as a Prince, had insisted that the heartless were responsible for displacing them from their world and that they be allowed to aid in the battle.

Mulan smiled at the strange girl. "Lanfan, it's not that I don't believe in our soldiers, it's just, I've fought these things before, and you need a weapon called a keyblade to kill them."

"A key?"

"Eh...it's not exactly a key. It doesn't matter, we don't have one."

"Well, we can't very well wait for one to show up."

"True." Mulan looked over towards Li, he was conversing with Lanfan's elderly partner, identified as her grandfather, about proper battle strategies. It seemed that Li was in favor of a frontal attack, while the man wanted to try a more subtle approach.

"Have you seen the prince?" Lanfan asked suddenly.

Mulan looked around and realized he was nowhere to be seen, and neither were three particular soldiers with a knack for causing trouble. "Uh oh..."

When a local boy had said that the girls in the nearby village were gorgeous, he'd gotten the attention of Yao, Ling, Chien Po, and certain foreign prince by the name of Ling Yao. Or rather he'd gotten the attention of the three locals, and they had convinced the prince to come along so they could justify their excursion as "bodyguard duty."

But, upon arrival, the prince had become rather interested in a local storyteller's tale of an immortal man who lived in the mountains. The story was no more than a fairy tale, but it had gotten him to follow the poor storyteller halfway across town asking questions, until he determined it was a dead end.

And now, as usual, he was lost.

"And hungry..." He whined to himself as he shuffled down the street grasping his growling stomach. "There must be something to eat around here." As if answering his plea, a small cafe came into view. Too bad he didn't have any money. "Aw come on! That's not fair!" It smelled really good too. "Where'd those soldiers go?"

He wandered aimlessly down a few more alleys but found nothing but a marketplace full of food and no-one willing to lend him any money. "I think someone's trying to torture me..." He stared helplessly at the food, looking like a kicked puppy. As he watched the people go by, he noticed a shadow dance oddly across the ground. At first he thought it was a trick of his hungry mind, but then it started to rise out of the ground.

The movement started slow and unnoticeable, and then drastically shifted to quick and violent as a dark, shadowy creature erupted out of the stone street.

People began to shriek and run in fear. Ling stood his ground and pulled his sword from its holster on his back. "Heartless" he observed, "time for some action!"

When Mulan and Lanfan arrived in the nearby village, following the word of some witnesses who claimed the subjects of their search were here, they were greeted by panic and screams.

"What's going on?" Mulan asked, grabbing the arm of a young man as he ran by.

The boy was visibly shaken, eyes wide with terror. "M-m-monsters! I-i-in the market!" He managed to stutter the answer through sobs and then took off, screaming in terror.

"Heartless?" Lanfan asked.

"Most likely." Mulan scanned the faces of the crowd until her gaze settled on one she recognized. "Yao!"

The squat man turned to face his superior office with a look of shock. The two girls ran over to him. Mulan checked the immediate area, she didn't see anyone else, and surely Chien Po couldn't possibly be that easy to miss. "Where is everyone?" Mulan asked.

"The prince wandered off, they went to look for him."

"And why were you here to begin with?"

"Ah, well, uh...bodyguard duty."

Mulan was about to scold him when a crashing sound from the marketplace caught their attention. "Talk later, fight now!" She called as she flew across the square to the market, Yao and Lanfan right on her heels. But by the time they arrived in the market it was too late.

Ling Yao, prince of Xing, stood in the center of the marketplace, sword in one hand, meetbun in the other, the remains of a heartless fading behind him. He looked up to meet the gaze of his friends. "Oh hey guys! There you are! I was looking for you!"

"Owww!" Mei Chang whined and rubbed her swollen forehead where the bamboo had whacked her between the eyes a moment before. Following the words of a old storyteller, she'd wandered up into the woods looking for the immortal man. Now she stood in the bamboo grove, sore, tired and of course hungry.

"Waaaah! Why's this always gotta be so difficult!" She flopped on the ground with enough force to send Xao Mei hovering into the air for a split second before the small bear landed back on her shoulder with a plop. Mei sat stubbornly in the center of the grove. Arms crossed and face twisted into an unpleasant scowl. Nothing seemed to be going right for her.

Ever since the strange shadow monsters had appeared on her world and done...whatever it was they did...she'd been wandering around this place, which wasn't actually all that different from the place she'd grown up in. But she had yet to run into anyone she knew and it was starting to get lonely. Not to mention, those shadow creatures were everywhere in this world and there was no escaping them.

"Mmmm. I hope Mister Alphonse is ok." She said, her mind fluttering to the focus of her childish crush.

While she was busy dreaming about happier days in a familiar land, she didn't notice the bushes behind her moving and rustling, or the sound of small footsteps coming her way. Until they were accompanied by a rather loud voice.

"Waaaaaah! Somebody help me!" Mei turned around, startled. A small, red reptile flew out of the bushes and took the liberty of using Mei as a human shield, hiding behind her and shaking like a coward.

It took Mei a minute for her mind to catch up with what her eyes were seeing. But only a minute. "Dragon!" She leapt back, startled and a little wary. Were dragons good? Bad? Wait, did it talk?

The little creature stared at her then back in the direction it came. "Talk later, fight now!" He pointed frantically at the bushes. It took Mei another minute, but she finally turned her attention to the area of interest. And just in time to see a large, shadowy beast emerge from the grass.

"Awww! Not another one!" She pulled her knives from her sleeves and threw five at her target. Red ribbons fluttering in the wind as they flew, they landed on five points in a circle surrounding the creature. She dropped five more at her feet, drew a star connecting the points with a stick, and dropped her hands to the ground. As soon as her hands touched the dirt, the grove lit up with blue sparks that danced and crept across the ground with speed and grace. When they connected with the circle of blades on the other side, a star formed, made of the very same sparks which preceded to arch up and, along with a spear of earth raised from the ground, punctured the shadow creature through its center.

The creature gave out a strained cry as it collapsed and faded into a cloud a darkness that then vanished entirely.

Mei sighed and collapsed in exhaustion, "This is getting old!" She whined.

"Not bad! How'd you do that?" Mei looked down to find the dragon staring at her.

"Do what?" Dragons could talk?

"Beat that heartless." Yeah, he was definitely talking.

"Heartless? Is that what they're called?"

"You're not from around here are you?"

"That obvious?" Mei gave a sheepish smile.

"Yeah, but don't worry I'll take care of you, that's my job after all, got a name?"

"Uh, yeah, Mei Chang. Oh and this is Xao Mei." She pointed at her furry companion.

"Well it's good to meet'cha Mei! The name's Mushu! Family guardian extraordinaire! You got nothing to worry about with me around!"

And with that the unlikely group started out of the woods towards the encampment.

If any of the parties going about their business that day had looked up, they might have seen the gummi ship entering the atmosphere, carrying the key to their victory, literally.

AN: New World! New Characters! Yay! Ok, so there are 2 Lings, the one from FMA and the one from Mulan...and then there is also a Yao in Mulan...so, that's confusing...

And no that is not how I picked the order that the worlds will be visited in...not yet anyway...

Hope You liked it.