So I was reading a bunch of Numair/Diane fics yesterday and I decided what the hell, I might as well write a fic about my favourite Tortallian couple. I have no frickin' clue why, but I want to use them in the story of Mulan II with Diane as the great hero of Tortall (China) and Numair as Captain Shang. Guess who's gonna be Mushu, only with a different reason for making an attempt at splitting them up? I think the reason could be that I just watched that movie last night but what the heck. I'm gonna throw in a couple of twists but I think it'll work out okay…I hope. I have no clue what I'm talking about (Lack of sleep). Anywho, I just as one thing of you if you review; NO FLAMES! Constructive criticism hasn't hurt anyone yet so I'll take that instead.

Disclaimer: Maybe the story twists, but I sadly don't own anything else. The Mulan story belongs to Disney and the Tortall characters belong to Tamora Pierce.

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Chapter 1: Proposal

Early in the morning, Daine was out in the fields running free with her horse Cloud, when other animals began to enter the field to greet her. One of the town's dogs began to roll around on the ground, begging for her to play with him. Giggling, she shape changed into a brown dog about the same size and started to friendlily roughhouse with him.

Cloud looked up and whinnied. "You have company, Daine."

Daine looked up to see what the black pony was referring to and found that a tall man with shoulder length black hair tied back into a horse tail had entered the field. "Daine?" He called.

She dashed to the clump of bushes where she had put her clothes, returned to her human form, and began to put them on. When she was decent, she stepped out of the shrubs and headed for him, the animals following her excitedly. "Numair! What are you doing so far form the capital? I thought that the king needed you there."

"I had something important that I wanted to ask you."

"And you couldn't have just used a speech spell?" Daine asked.

"It's the kind of question that I wanted to ask you in person. Um… Daine …will you…er…"

"Yes…?"

Numair looked around to find all of the animals watching them. "Uh…will you…um…"

Daine noticed the animals were all watching him intently, even Kitten had come out of the little house and was now at Daine's feet watching the mage. "I think its time you all went home," She told the animals.

All of them sadly left, but the little dragonet was still at Daine's feet.

Numair sighed and handed Kitten a small glass orb from one of the sattle bags of his horse.

Overjoyed with the play thing, the dragonet scampered off to play with it.

Daine laughed. "You do realize you're never gonna get that back, right?" They started to walk to the house. "Now, what did you want to ask me?"

Numair took both her hands in his. "Will you marry me?"

Daine smiled greatly. "Yes." She dove into his arms for a tight embrace. Soon they were lip locked.

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Not far off, Buri, Raoul, and Onua had all heard the conversation between the great mage and the wildmage.

"I knew it! Pay up, Raoul!" Buri held her hand out to the knight.

"On the contrary, Buri, you bet he would propose to her by sunset, I bet he would propose by noon."

Frowning, she took five gold nobles out of her belt purse and handed them to him.

"I thought you were against gambling, Raoul." Onua looked up at him, "Hypocritical much?"

"When it's against Buri, it's not gambling, but an investment," the knight replied, putting the coins into his own belt purse.

She rolled her eyes. "What ever."

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The three friends had not been the only ones to hear the proposal. Perin, one of the king's clerks, had overheard. Jealousy reared its ugly head when he heard the news. He had idolized her as a goddess. He had been planning for months to propose to her and now, she was taken. He dreaded the thought of seeing her come to live at the capital, and not with him. But what could he do about it? He slumped against the stone wall of a nearby house. Looks like you're too slow, Perin.

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"I'm so happy for you, Daine." Onua cried.

"Thanks. But I think we all knew it was going to happen eventually." Diane said, combing her smoky brown curls.

"You're growing up so fast. It seems like only last month you were saving Tortall."

"It was only last month."

"Oh how time flies!"

The girl broke out into giggles. The woman smiled.

"Diane, some people have showed up to celebrate our wedding with us." Numair showed up at her bedroom door.

She stood and joined him. "Oh, really? Who?"

They stepped outside the house as Numair replied, "All of Tortall."

Thousands of people gathered outside the doorway and cheered for them.

"This looks tougher than the battlefields, magelet," Numair commented.

"So what's our battle strategy?" She asked.

"Divide and conquer." Diane took on one half of the group and Numair took the other.

Perin watched them within earshot and found it very interesting how they both had different answers to the same questions. He smiled. They're so different... That's it! If they're that different, then they have different points of view on most topics…If I can get a feud started, then the marriage will be cancelled! Perin, you're a genius!"

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So that's Chap. 1. Okay, I've got more chapters on the way. Please tell me what you think. You R+R (Read + Review) and I might be able to get a little R+R (Rest +Relaxation).