PrismRain13: So, a lot of you have been asking about Isa's new clothes; i gave a description of them when Land of the Dragons started. Okay, now with that out of the way, here we are right where we left off!

Mushu: A cliffhanger.

PrismRain13: would you let that go? I told you I'd get back to this story and I did! Now lizard do the disclaimer!

Mushu: I'm a DRAGON! And Prism owns nothing other than the plot and her OC's

Chapter 27: Battle At The Bridge

"Are you really so cliché that you have to make your minions do your dirty work?" Riku snarled at Isa as he, Sora and Mulan jumped off the horse and drew their weapons. Isa merely chuckled at Riku's comment.

"You will do well to remember, boy that my beserkers are one of the strongest underlings you will face. I'm sure you remember, Sora?" Isa questioned while Sora realized that he was right; he still had the bruises from both Isa's nobody and his minions; one of the toughest pairs he had faced.

"Well, you never know we might surprise you. You've always been one to underestimate your enemies, Isa." Lea countered and raised his chackrams.

"And you've always been the reckless one who always fails," Isa retorted smugly and Sora could have sworn that Lea was using every fibre of his being to stop himself from charging at the blue-haired man. West and Kairi both looked equally angry at Isa. However, as Sora looked at West, he noticed a hint of confusion in the thief's eyes, as though she didn't understand why she was angry at him.

"Anyway," Isa stated after a moment of silence, "I suppose I should explain what I'm here; I want the four keybearers and Lea to come back with me to Maleficent. She's sure to find a use for you and frankly if I let you go you'll only be in our way."

"So what are we? Chopped liver?" Donald demanded as he was held back by Goofy.

"We're not going anywhere with you!" Sora stated as he held Kairi in a protective embrace as Isa ignored the duck and smirked at the spiky-haired boy. Then Isa began to stride towards Riku. Without even a second to think about it, West had stepped protectively in front of Riku, holding her knife.

"If you want them you're gonna have to go through me Scar-face!" she roared as she charged towards the ex-nobody. West was not even a few feet in front of him when suddenly a roaring pain burst through her skull. Dropping her knife, West grasped her head, releasing a pained scream and colapsed to her knees.

"West!" Riku exclaimed as he pulled her away from Isa as her screaming lessened and she lost consciousness. The silver-haired teen glared daggers at Isa as he cradled West's limp body in his arms, "What did you do to her?" Riku screamed.

"I can honestly say that I've done nothing. But, I have heard that a ten-year long memory loss can be a... distressful thing." Isa smirked, as though he knew why West was in pain.

"Who cares what you have to say?" Lea demanded "You're going down!" and without even a second thought Lea charged at Isa, swiping at him with his chackrams. Isa blocked Lea's attacks with his claymore as though Lea were only a pest in his way, then the blue-haired man snapped his fingers commanding the beserkers to attack.

Yao, Ling and Chien-Po each protectively embraced their princesses while Mickey, Donald and Goofy ran to attack the beserkers. Riku hadn't moved from his position on the ground, until Chein-Po tapped him on the shoulder,

"Go fight; we'll look after her," The soldier stated in a reassuring tone. Riku nodded as Chein-Po scooped the unconscious theif up and the silver-head summoned Way to Dawn and ran into battle alongside the Disney residents. Donald attcked them with every spell he knew, especially using gravity, blizzard and fire. Goofy remained a fair distance away, throwing his Sheild around like a frisbee, then he slammed into the nobodies with the shield in front of him. Mickey jumped into the air and ducked under the berserkers legs, slicing his opponents and blasting them with light magic. Riku soon found himself surrounded by a circle of Isa's minions their weapons raised above their heads. Thinking of no other option, Riku pulled out the summon charm from his back pocket and held it close to his chest.

Now or never, Riku thought he as closed his eyes and raised the charm into the air, "Wall-e!" when Riku opened them he found himself standing in the middle of a junkyard. Then, something burst through the pile of trash, revealing it to be a small rusted cube-shaped robot. As soon as the robot saw Riku it released a small shriek of fear and turned itself into a box, shaking in fear. Riku approached the robot an gently petted it as it raised its eyes. Both Riku and the robot shook hands as the robot saw him as a friend.

"Wall-e," the robot introduced itself as the battle reappeared in front of the two of them. Riku attacked the beserkers with swipes from his Keyblade and blasts of dark magic, while Wall-e turned into a cube and ran into the nobodies like a bowling ball. Riku nodded to Wall-e that it was time to finish this and the small robot zoomed around the space with its front open, scoping up their enemies inside of him.

Once Wall-e had gathered all he could carry, the small robot stood in the centre and began shaking. Then, the robot opened his front, revealing the group of berserkers Wall-e had collected compacted in a small cube,

"Ta-da!" Wall-e said to Riku as the islander nodded and slashed through the cube, reducing all the nobodies to nothing. Once they were gone, Riku and Wall-e shook hands.

"Thanks Wall-e," Riku stated.

"Bye-bye!" the robot waved before disappearing in a flash of light and Riku, Mickey, Donald and Goofy charged into battle again(1).

Meanwhile, Lea, Sora, Kairi, Max and Mulan were fighting against Isa. The ex-nobody was proving himself to be more of a challenge then he had been a year ago, but still seemed to be out of practice. Sora swiped at Isa with his Keyblade, while Kairi followed cosely behind in similar attacks. Mulan leaped into the air and came down with her sword swiping at the ex-nobody.

Mushu had climbed onto her head and began firing balls of fire from his mouth towards their enemy in a similar fashion to when he was a summon. Max rode his skateboard around the battlefield, scraping Isa with his wheels and healing his teammates. Lea on the other hand was attacking far more violently and throwing everything he had at Isa from throwing his chackrams to summoning raging infernos of fire.

"Don't say I didn't warn you!" Lea roared as his chackrams coated with fire and he began tossing them at Isa, resulting in both scorching burns and deep cuts. Lea continued throwing his weapons until both chackrams flew into his hands, "Burn baby!" at that moment, the ground underneath Isa's feet began to grow hotter and hotter until a burst of flames surrounded Isa and Lea threw both chackrams which both hit Isa at the same time then both returned to Lea's hands(2).

Isa growled at the group until Mulan sprinted towards him. At that point the battle had gone down the canyon and now were batting on smiling wooden bridge, the ex-nobody only raised his claymore in front of him, blocking the upcoming attack from Mulan's blade. Isa pressed harder, noticing that Mulan's grip was beginning to falter. Without warning Isa pressed down harder on his claymore, causing Mulan to loose her grip on her sword and the said blade to plummet down until it was out of sight beyond the fog and clouds.

Isa smirked as he raised his claymore, preparing to strike but his attack was blocked by Lea rushing up to him and blocking with his two chackrams. Riku turned away from the berserkers he was fighting and rushed over to help Lea and Mulan but only a split second later did Isa get his claymore free and smacked it into Riku's chest, sending him falling off the edge of the bridge.

"NO!" Sora exclaimed as he watched Riku dissapear like Mulan's sword had. Kairi grabbed his arm and pulled him away from the edge into a comforting embrace as they both allowed tears to fall for their long-time friend.

"Don't worry; you'll soon be joining him." Isa stated as he raised his claymore again. Before Kairi had any time to react, Sora had shoved her out of the way causing the princess of heart to stumble to the beginning of the bridge and Sora to have the claymore slam into his chest, sending him hurtling over the edge meeting the same fate as Riku had. Kairi placed her hands over her mouth in shock and tears poured freely down her cheeks. She almost missed it when both Mulan and Shang charged towards Isa with the same goal in mind. The remaining world-travelers moved out of their way as Shang swung at the ex-nobody with his sword.

Isa merely smirked as an idea seemed to form through his mind. Without warning, the ex-nobody sliced at the bridge, causing the ropes to snap. The remaining world-travelers sprinted off the bridge, but Mulan and Shang weren't so lucky. The bridge broke directly under their feet as Isa smirked and vanished through a corridor of darkness. Thinking quickly, Mulan grabbed Shang's hand with one arm and a rope from the bridge with another.

"Shang, hang on." Mulan called desperately.

"It won't hold us both." Shang told her.

"It will!"

"Mulan... I'm sorry." Shang told her as his grip finally loosened, sending him plummeting into the cavern below.

"Shang! Shang!" Mulan whept. The female soldier remained there for a moment, until she finally composed herself enough to climb up the rope where everyone else was sitting, waiting for her. The beserkers had long since dissapeared.

"Well, not exactly what I had in mind, but it'll do." a voice said from above them. The group looked up to find Isa standing on the top of the canyon, looking at them.

"You monster!" Kairi exclained as tears fell down her cheeks, "You said you wanted us to come with you!"

"I said that you were in our way," Isa corrected, not a hint of greif in his voice, "I would have prefered you to be our hostages, but at least this way, they'll be permanently out of the way. Maleficent will just have to accept what has been done."

"You didn't change! You never had a heart at all! How could you do something like this and just walk away?" Lea roared, but Isa ignored him and dissapeared through a corridor of darkness. There was a soft moaning from behind them as West rose to a sitting position, rubbing the back of her head.

"Woah... what happened? Wait! Where's Riku Sora and Shang?" the theif demanded. Mickey placed a hand on her shoulder, preparing to deliver the news.

"West, ya see... Riku and Sora and Shang... they're gone." Mickey told her with sadness deep in his voice. West gasped and began shaking her head.

"No... NO!" West sobbed, pulling Mickey into a tearful embrace. Shang's horse whinnied before running away from the group, down the canyon.

~*KHIII*~

The remaing group rode in silence until the city of Qui Gong came into view. They stayed on the spot, all debating in their minds what the next course of action should be.

"Fa Mulan," Mei stated, "We're ready to go through with the wedding." her sisters nodded in agreement.

No. Your orders are to take care of each other." Mulan stated, the entire group gasped in shock at her words, "Losing Shang will not be meaningless. No matter what it takes, I'm finishing this mission."

"You mean, you're gonna get married to the princes?" Max asked as Mulan nodded.

"Count us in," Kairi stated as she and West stood up, "The Emperor's expecting three princesses, right?"

"Besides, it wouldn't be fair to make you do this alone," West added. Mulan nodded, thanking them as they climbed onto her horse.

"Promise you'll finish the mission for us?" Kairi asked Lea, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Max who all nodded.

"Don't worry; you can count on us." Mickey stated as the three girls waved goodbye and rode to the kingdom.

~*KHIII*~

Meanwhile, in a lake Shang's horse rode up to the water as a figure rose from the water, caughing for air. The horse nuzzled up to them as the figure grasped the reins, the hore pulling them out of the water.

"Good horse," the figure said weakly as he brushed his hair out of his face, revealing a weakened and pain-filled Shang. He reached into a pouch on his horse's saddle and pulled out a potion, quickly gulping down its contents. Shang looked out into the lake as he felt his strength return to him. The general glanced down and saw the water move something up to the shore; Mulan's sword. Shang bent down, picked it up and held it close to his chest, gazing out to the lake and thoughts about Mulan filling his mind. While looking out there, he noticed something brown and spiky on the surface of the water. Shang's eyes widened with realization as he saw who it was.

"Sora!" Shang exclaimed as he ran back into the water and began pulling Sora's limp body out of the water. Sora coughed as he came out of unconciousness.

"Shang..." Sora asked.

"Take it easy soldier, we all had quite the fall," Shang said.

"Guess it was a good thing I cast that Zero Gravity spell at the last minuite," a new voice remarked. The two boys turned around to find Riku laying on the edge of the river, rubbing his shoulder and drinking a potion.

"Yeah, otherwise we would have been toast," Sora remarked, "Smart move Riku."

"I try," Riku stated cockily as he tossed Sora a potion.

"We better catch up with the others; we don't know how far in rearrangements they coud have gone." Shang stated as he mounted his horse and stapped Mulan's sword to his belt. Sora and Riku nodded in agreement before climbing on the horse as well. The three rode on as fast as Shang's hose would go until Qui Gong was visible along with a few figures sitting on the ground. The horse whinnied and the group turned around revealing the three soldiers and princesses, Mickey, Lea, Donald, Goofy and Max.

"Shang! Sora! Riku! You're alive!" Donald exclaimed with excitement and the rest of the group's faces lit up.

"Yeah, thank Riku and his magic!" Shang stated, "Where's Mulan?"

"She, Kairi and West took off for Qui Gong to take our place," Ting-Ting explained.

"So we could be with who we wanted," Su added sadly.

"But West and Kairi are too young to get married." Sora pointed out.

"I really don't think that's on their mind a the moment," Mickey stated, "All three of them think they just lost someone important to them and the Emperor of Qui Gong needs three princesses. I guess they think that's what they need to do now."

"Mulan was right," Shang realized, "No one should marry someone they don't love. I'm going to Qui Gon!"

"We're going too!" Yao exclaimed.

"No, you're not. Stay here." Shang demanded, until Sora tapped him on the shoulder.

"Don't even think about talking us out of this one, General." he stated, indicating him and Riku who looked equally confident.

"I wouldn't dream of it, soldier," Shang smiled as he, Sora and Riku rode towards the city, leaving everyone else to stand there in confusion.

"Gawrsh, would you say that was an order?" Goofy asked. Chein-Po shook his head.

"I would say it was a friendly suggestion."

PrismRain13: so to those of you who love this world; I'm sorry to say that next chapter will be the last of Land of the Dragons.

Mushu: till next time folks! Review and make this author's day!

(1): Wall-e's limit; Trash Crunch

(2): Lea's limit; Explosion