Disclaimer: I do not own the movie Mulan, except for the video, or any of
the characters in the story.
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I could hear but not see the rain coming down outside from the Ancestor temple, I just hung from the ceiling with my claws fixed to a small plate that held incense. I have been fixed to this spot for who knows how long. It happened right after Fa Dang was killed in battle, now I must suffer being an inanimate object unless something happens, usually once in a blue moon, and then I get to stretch and wake up the ancestors. I hope that one day it will be to get my job back as a guardian because I will show them that I can do it again without accidentally killing a family member.
I can tell it is night because everything is quiet, the roosters aren't crowing and the few crickets that were willing to chirp in this rain can be heard slightly.
Suddenly I smell incense burning, who could be doing that at this hour and in the rain? I can't hear the person praying so he or she must be paying quick respects. I have no idea if that person had left or not but I then felt myself swinging a little bit possible from a raindrop or the person accidentally hitting me, but I kept hoping that I could hear something.
Suddenly I heard the neighing of a horse which lasted a few seconds before it stopped. I wish I could see what was happening because it sounds important. Maybe a family member is going out, or maybe they were being robbed but that would not explain the incense.
A few minutes later I hear the family calling for Mulan, their daughter. I had heard Fa Zhou earlier that morning praying that she would impress the matchmaker. But I do not think the prayer worked because a few hours later, I could hear Mulan wishing that her reflection would show who she was inside. She must have run away, too upset for upsetting the matchmaker.
I ponder this for a moment before I am rudely interrupted by the first ancestor who tells me to wake up. I begin to shake until my claws become loose of the pan. I then appear as myself in a cloud of smoke. For a second I stand on air hoping there is something under me but instead I fall to the floor where I skip around a few times. I then decide to make a grand entrance.
"I live!" I cry out as I slowly rise up. I then look around trying to get my bearings. It also occurs to me that the first ancestor might need me to help Mulan so I happily oblige.
"So tell me what mortal needs my protection great ancestor, you just say the word and I'm there." I say to him but he is not pleased.
"Mushu!" He says angrily as if I did something wrong.
I just ignore him and continue to talk like I usually do after being confined as an inanimate object for so long. "Now let me say something. Anybody who is foolish enough to threaten our family, vengeance will be mine." I then walk around the room growling like a dog wanting a bone before the first ancestor calls my name out loud again in a more angry way than last time.
I look up at him as he points to the stone family guardians on the ceiling, a place where I had once been. "These are the family guardians, they.?" he says to me and I sadly know the answer to that.
"Protect the family." I say rather dejectedly as I look down at the floor not wanting to catching his gaze.
"And you oh demoted one," the first ancestor says to me pointing to each of the markers that represented an ancestor.
"I..ring the gong," I said rather embarrassed by the thought of doing such a stupid deed.
"That's right, now wake up the ancestors." He said.
I heave a heavy sigh "One family reunion coming right up." I said as I pick up the plate that is now a gong to wake everyone up. "Okay people look alive, it's all way past you're beauty sleep thing, trust me." I say annoyed and angry at the fact that they get to pick who they want to help Mulan.
They all quickly appear and begin to argue about Mulan which I now find out has run away to join the army to save her father from going, so I decide to sit down and read the newspaper and ignore all their remarks. Which I am often good at.
Suddenly one of the ancestors announces that they should let a guardian bring her back. I am then grabbed by one of them who wants me to awaken the most cunning. I'm about to ring the gong when another ancestor grabs me and tells me to awaken the swiftest. Again I am grabbed by another ancestor who wants the wisest to go.
"Silence!" Yelled the first ancestor, causing the ancestor who was holding me to drop me.
"We must send the most powerful of all," the first ancestor said. I then realize that they must be talking about me so I climb up on my old post. "Okay, okay, I get your drift, I'll go," I said all suave and ready to do it.
Everyone was silent for a moment before they all started to laugh; I hate it when people do that to me. Just because I am small does not mean that I can't do big things. I then decide to impress them with my fire breathing skills.
"You all don't think I can do it well watch this," I say. I then puff out only a small glimmer of fire but I don't care that is still a big accomplishment for me.
"Jump back I'm pretty hot huh, don't make me have to singe nobody to prove no point," I say to them. But they still ignore me as First Ancestor looks me in the eyes.
"You had your chance to protect the Fa family," he said angrily.
"You're misguidance led Fa Dang to disaster," said another ancestor who just had to point that out, and it was just one little mistake.
They all the point to Fa Dang who was holding his head and looking at me angrily. "Yeah thanks a lot," he says.
I decide to pretend that it was not a problem. "And you point is?" I ask angrily before the first ancestor grabs me from my post.
"The point is that you are not worthy of this spot, now awaken the great stone dragon," he said as he threw me out of the temple causing me to land on my butt. I quickly get up and decide to humor the first ancestor one last time.
"So you'll get back to me on the job right?" I ask. I don't get an answer but instead get hit by my gong which the ancestor had thrown at me. I collapse in a daze for a few seconds before getting back up again.
I then angrily walk down the temple steps toward the great stone dragon. I mumble to the ancestors for not letting me have another chance. "One chance is that too much to ask, it's not like it'll kill ya," I say which is true since they are all already dead.
Once I get closer to the great stone dragon I bang the gong with the little stick that came with it at him but he does not answer. "Yo Rocky wake up you have to go fetch Mulan," I say but still nothing happens.
I try the dog fetching the stick approach but he still would not respond. I then climb up him hoping to find a better way of waking him. As I climb up I stop in front of his face. His face was like cold steel, if I was Mulan I would be too scared to even try to get to know him. I make a quick growl at him before I continue up his face. I then get right up to his ear yelling hello but he still not responds. I then hit him with my gong, big mistake. This caused the ear to crack and fall off. I grab the ear and hope it will stay back on but instead I hear a cracking noise and the statue falls to the ground in a pile of rubble.
Once everything clears I notice that everything is in pieces except for the head. "Uh Stony?" I call out, I then realize that I had just broke him. "Oh man they're gonna kill me," I say as my knees shake.
"Great stone dragon, have you awakened," called the first ancestor. I jump up surprised; I had to think of something quick. Luckily an idea came to me immediately.
I pick up the head and then I start talking to the first ancestor. "Uh yeah I just woke up, I am the great stone dragon, good morning, I will go forth and fetch Mulan, and did I mention that I was a great stone dragon?" I say. I was so nervous about what had happened that I could not remember what I had just said. Luckily first ancestor bought it.
"Go the fate of the Fa family, rests in your claws," he says.
"Don't even worry about it, I will not loose face," I say. The head is then too heavy for my small body and I slip falling down the hill with the head right behind me. I land on the rock he was standing on and before I can get up, the head falls right on top of me. Thank goodness I'm immortal or I would have been one flat pancake. I then push the head off me and look at the ruins of the beautiful statue. Well maybe beautiful was not the word, maybe gothic or something, but not beautiful.
"This is just great, now what, I'm doomed and all cause miss man decided to take her little drag show on the road," I say. I then sit there for a second wondering what to do now when a little cricket jumps up in front of me. It chirps at me happily and I understood what he wanted.
"Go get her, what's the matter with you, after this great stone humpty dumpty mess I have to bring her home with a medal to get back in the temple," I said to him. That suddenly gave me an idea. "That's it I will make Mulan a war hero and they will be begging me to come back, that is the master plan, oh you've done it now man," I say to myself. I felt proud of myself all of a sudden as I curled my whisker a little bit before running off.
As I started running I hear that little cricket chirp and try to catch up to me, I then push him back and out of my way. "What makes you think you're coming?" I say to him.
He chirps at me saying that he was lucky. "You're lucky; do I look like a sucker to you?" I ask him.
He chirps at me again saying something I did not like. "What do you mean a looser, how about I pop one of your antennas off and then throw it across the yard then who's a looser: me or you," I ask him.
He then chirps back at me saying. "It would still be you because that's not nice." I grumble angrily at him and chase him down the road, trying to stop him. "Come back here," I yell.
He chirps back saying that he wanted to be my partner. I thought about that for a moment before coming to a conclusion on that. "Fine then, but you are going to have to do my dirty work and sometimes that is not fun," I said to him. He then chirped an okay which I was glad he agreed to.
I was so happy that I was going to get Mulan that I did not see the tree which I ran into. The little cricket laughed at me. I then grabbed him and looked at him angrily in the eyes. "No laughing at me or I really will pop one of your antennas off," I said to him. He then smiled at me and jumped out of my hand.
"By the way my names Cri Kee," he chirped. "I'm Mushu," I told him and we continued on down the road.
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Well that's my first chapter so please review and tell me how I did. If I get enough positive reviews I will keep going. Other than that, have a nice day.
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I could hear but not see the rain coming down outside from the Ancestor temple, I just hung from the ceiling with my claws fixed to a small plate that held incense. I have been fixed to this spot for who knows how long. It happened right after Fa Dang was killed in battle, now I must suffer being an inanimate object unless something happens, usually once in a blue moon, and then I get to stretch and wake up the ancestors. I hope that one day it will be to get my job back as a guardian because I will show them that I can do it again without accidentally killing a family member.
I can tell it is night because everything is quiet, the roosters aren't crowing and the few crickets that were willing to chirp in this rain can be heard slightly.
Suddenly I smell incense burning, who could be doing that at this hour and in the rain? I can't hear the person praying so he or she must be paying quick respects. I have no idea if that person had left or not but I then felt myself swinging a little bit possible from a raindrop or the person accidentally hitting me, but I kept hoping that I could hear something.
Suddenly I heard the neighing of a horse which lasted a few seconds before it stopped. I wish I could see what was happening because it sounds important. Maybe a family member is going out, or maybe they were being robbed but that would not explain the incense.
A few minutes later I hear the family calling for Mulan, their daughter. I had heard Fa Zhou earlier that morning praying that she would impress the matchmaker. But I do not think the prayer worked because a few hours later, I could hear Mulan wishing that her reflection would show who she was inside. She must have run away, too upset for upsetting the matchmaker.
I ponder this for a moment before I am rudely interrupted by the first ancestor who tells me to wake up. I begin to shake until my claws become loose of the pan. I then appear as myself in a cloud of smoke. For a second I stand on air hoping there is something under me but instead I fall to the floor where I skip around a few times. I then decide to make a grand entrance.
"I live!" I cry out as I slowly rise up. I then look around trying to get my bearings. It also occurs to me that the first ancestor might need me to help Mulan so I happily oblige.
"So tell me what mortal needs my protection great ancestor, you just say the word and I'm there." I say to him but he is not pleased.
"Mushu!" He says angrily as if I did something wrong.
I just ignore him and continue to talk like I usually do after being confined as an inanimate object for so long. "Now let me say something. Anybody who is foolish enough to threaten our family, vengeance will be mine." I then walk around the room growling like a dog wanting a bone before the first ancestor calls my name out loud again in a more angry way than last time.
I look up at him as he points to the stone family guardians on the ceiling, a place where I had once been. "These are the family guardians, they.?" he says to me and I sadly know the answer to that.
"Protect the family." I say rather dejectedly as I look down at the floor not wanting to catching his gaze.
"And you oh demoted one," the first ancestor says to me pointing to each of the markers that represented an ancestor.
"I..ring the gong," I said rather embarrassed by the thought of doing such a stupid deed.
"That's right, now wake up the ancestors." He said.
I heave a heavy sigh "One family reunion coming right up." I said as I pick up the plate that is now a gong to wake everyone up. "Okay people look alive, it's all way past you're beauty sleep thing, trust me." I say annoyed and angry at the fact that they get to pick who they want to help Mulan.
They all quickly appear and begin to argue about Mulan which I now find out has run away to join the army to save her father from going, so I decide to sit down and read the newspaper and ignore all their remarks. Which I am often good at.
Suddenly one of the ancestors announces that they should let a guardian bring her back. I am then grabbed by one of them who wants me to awaken the most cunning. I'm about to ring the gong when another ancestor grabs me and tells me to awaken the swiftest. Again I am grabbed by another ancestor who wants the wisest to go.
"Silence!" Yelled the first ancestor, causing the ancestor who was holding me to drop me.
"We must send the most powerful of all," the first ancestor said. I then realize that they must be talking about me so I climb up on my old post. "Okay, okay, I get your drift, I'll go," I said all suave and ready to do it.
Everyone was silent for a moment before they all started to laugh; I hate it when people do that to me. Just because I am small does not mean that I can't do big things. I then decide to impress them with my fire breathing skills.
"You all don't think I can do it well watch this," I say. I then puff out only a small glimmer of fire but I don't care that is still a big accomplishment for me.
"Jump back I'm pretty hot huh, don't make me have to singe nobody to prove no point," I say to them. But they still ignore me as First Ancestor looks me in the eyes.
"You had your chance to protect the Fa family," he said angrily.
"You're misguidance led Fa Dang to disaster," said another ancestor who just had to point that out, and it was just one little mistake.
They all the point to Fa Dang who was holding his head and looking at me angrily. "Yeah thanks a lot," he says.
I decide to pretend that it was not a problem. "And you point is?" I ask angrily before the first ancestor grabs me from my post.
"The point is that you are not worthy of this spot, now awaken the great stone dragon," he said as he threw me out of the temple causing me to land on my butt. I quickly get up and decide to humor the first ancestor one last time.
"So you'll get back to me on the job right?" I ask. I don't get an answer but instead get hit by my gong which the ancestor had thrown at me. I collapse in a daze for a few seconds before getting back up again.
I then angrily walk down the temple steps toward the great stone dragon. I mumble to the ancestors for not letting me have another chance. "One chance is that too much to ask, it's not like it'll kill ya," I say which is true since they are all already dead.
Once I get closer to the great stone dragon I bang the gong with the little stick that came with it at him but he does not answer. "Yo Rocky wake up you have to go fetch Mulan," I say but still nothing happens.
I try the dog fetching the stick approach but he still would not respond. I then climb up him hoping to find a better way of waking him. As I climb up I stop in front of his face. His face was like cold steel, if I was Mulan I would be too scared to even try to get to know him. I make a quick growl at him before I continue up his face. I then get right up to his ear yelling hello but he still not responds. I then hit him with my gong, big mistake. This caused the ear to crack and fall off. I grab the ear and hope it will stay back on but instead I hear a cracking noise and the statue falls to the ground in a pile of rubble.
Once everything clears I notice that everything is in pieces except for the head. "Uh Stony?" I call out, I then realize that I had just broke him. "Oh man they're gonna kill me," I say as my knees shake.
"Great stone dragon, have you awakened," called the first ancestor. I jump up surprised; I had to think of something quick. Luckily an idea came to me immediately.
I pick up the head and then I start talking to the first ancestor. "Uh yeah I just woke up, I am the great stone dragon, good morning, I will go forth and fetch Mulan, and did I mention that I was a great stone dragon?" I say. I was so nervous about what had happened that I could not remember what I had just said. Luckily first ancestor bought it.
"Go the fate of the Fa family, rests in your claws," he says.
"Don't even worry about it, I will not loose face," I say. The head is then too heavy for my small body and I slip falling down the hill with the head right behind me. I land on the rock he was standing on and before I can get up, the head falls right on top of me. Thank goodness I'm immortal or I would have been one flat pancake. I then push the head off me and look at the ruins of the beautiful statue. Well maybe beautiful was not the word, maybe gothic or something, but not beautiful.
"This is just great, now what, I'm doomed and all cause miss man decided to take her little drag show on the road," I say. I then sit there for a second wondering what to do now when a little cricket jumps up in front of me. It chirps at me happily and I understood what he wanted.
"Go get her, what's the matter with you, after this great stone humpty dumpty mess I have to bring her home with a medal to get back in the temple," I said to him. That suddenly gave me an idea. "That's it I will make Mulan a war hero and they will be begging me to come back, that is the master plan, oh you've done it now man," I say to myself. I felt proud of myself all of a sudden as I curled my whisker a little bit before running off.
As I started running I hear that little cricket chirp and try to catch up to me, I then push him back and out of my way. "What makes you think you're coming?" I say to him.
He chirps at me saying that he was lucky. "You're lucky; do I look like a sucker to you?" I ask him.
He chirps at me again saying something I did not like. "What do you mean a looser, how about I pop one of your antennas off and then throw it across the yard then who's a looser: me or you," I ask him.
He then chirps back at me saying. "It would still be you because that's not nice." I grumble angrily at him and chase him down the road, trying to stop him. "Come back here," I yell.
He chirps back saying that he wanted to be my partner. I thought about that for a moment before coming to a conclusion on that. "Fine then, but you are going to have to do my dirty work and sometimes that is not fun," I said to him. He then chirped an okay which I was glad he agreed to.
I was so happy that I was going to get Mulan that I did not see the tree which I ran into. The little cricket laughed at me. I then grabbed him and looked at him angrily in the eyes. "No laughing at me or I really will pop one of your antennas off," I said to him. He then smiled at me and jumped out of my hand.
"By the way my names Cri Kee," he chirped. "I'm Mushu," I told him and we continued on down the road.
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Well that's my first chapter so please review and tell me how I did. If I get enough positive reviews I will keep going. Other than that, have a nice day.