Part II

Mai peered at Mushu as they lay in the snow. Mushu whistled.

"The house went bye bye." Mai looked around and shivered. In front of her were ruins of a house. Mushu then screamed.

"Holy Cow! What in the world, how is he alive? I thought I had crushed him!" Mai looked at Mushu suspiciously.

"What?" Mushu's mouth went open at the sight of the large statue in front of him. The only remainder of the house was something that had gotten him to know Mulan.

"The Great stone dragon is alive? How is that POSSIBBLE! Sure, I'm glad he's alive, but he was dead! Smushed! A goner!" Mai looked in front of her and saw an old statue of a dragon. It was large, large enough for someone to even curl up underneath it.

Mushu ran over to the statue and yelled at it.

"Yo sleepy head! Wake up! You have some major explaining to do!" To both of their surprise, the rock started cracking. A mighty roar broke out as the rock split in two and moved aside. But there, smaller then the statue, was a blue dragon. Mushu backed up. The dragon was about a third of the size of the statue. Probably about as small as a dog. It stared at Mushu and chuckled.

"Mushu, what a pleasant surprise! You never told me that you worked for the Fa family? Where is the Fa family?" Mushu rubbed his eyes and checked again if the blue dragon in front of him was real.

"No, you can't be the great stone dragon! If I knew that, oh man, I am in trouble now. Wait, I was the one who saved Mulan therefore I'm better then you. There, ha! You may have stole my girlfriend but I was the one who helped make a legend." Mai looked at them both.

"Mushu, who is that guy?" Mushu looked up at Mai, and opened his mouth to speak but the blue dragon interrupted him.

"I am Ping, at your service. I assume you are a Fa, considering you woken up Mushu?" Mushu shook his head.

"Not exactly. Wait, what is your last name?" Mai looked down, embarrassed.

"I…I don't know. I never knew my parents. I grew up in the streets." Mushu raised his eyebrows.

"You don't even know who your parents were? How did you even grow up then?" Mai gave a dirty look at Mushu.

"I can take care of myself. Anyway, until I was five or six, an old man always took care of me. He never told me his name, but he did like me to call him Grandpa. He told me he found me at his doorstep when I was a baby. He died, but he taught me how to take care of myself. That doesn't matter, what does matter is that I suddenly in one week get into the army, meet a talking dragon who knows my idol Fa Mulan, meet a dragon who knows the talking dragon who knows the Fa Mulan, and still didn't get any answers about how this all happened at the same time." Mushu leaned over to the dragon Ping and whispered,

"She's going loo loo." Mai sighed and walked towards the tents. Mushu went chasing after her.

"Wait, Wait! Ok, I knew Fa Mulan. If it makes you feel any better we can have a glorious mission to find where she went. Ok?" Mai looked at Mushu.

"You don't get it, do you? Nobody knows where she went to because about a year after she married Captain Li she disappeared. Her last words to the emperor supposedly were about why and where they were going. The problem is, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY WERE!" Mai shouted. She was tired. All she wanted was to be a hero that people might remember for at least a year. She wanted to be normal. And these dragons seemed to be proof that she was going insane. Mushu approached Mai.

"Look, I thought that was what you wanted. My purpose is to help whoever asks for it, and though you might not be a Fa, I'm here to help. Now, what's the problem?" Mai smiled a second.

"My problem is that I want to be remembered. I want to fulfill my promise to the only man who treated me like his own child. I want to fight for my country and be remembered." Mushu smiled.

"Then that's what we're going to do!" Ping waved his hand behind Mushu.

"Hello! I'm here to help too, but with Mr. "we'll make a warrior out of you" is taking care of you. What am I supposed to do?" Mai thought deeply for a minute.

"We need you to track down Mulan. There…there must be something behind her disappearing. And the emperor is the only one who knows where she is. He's old, if he dies soon, then so will the secret of Fa Mulan." Ping did a little salute.

"At your service madme." He did a little bow, and marched off towards the forest. Mushu rolled his eyes.

"Hey, genius, the emperor's palace is the opposite direction." Ping nodded and marched off into the night. Mushu sighed.

"And to think that he was smart enough to steal my girlfriend. Mai smiled.

"You know, I do have a friend named Ping. But he's a guy training with me." Mushu whistled.

"Hey, don't you go fallin in love with no body, you hear?" Mai blushed.

"Um, no I didn't mean that. He's just a friend...he…he was taking a dare from his friends to try and become friends with me. It just turned out I wasn't a cold person that they thought I was and he actually liked me." Mushu nodded sarcastically.

"Yeah, yeah. Sure. He likes you. You're only friends. Mulan said the same thing." Mai twitched her lip.

"I'm telling you," She said, walking towards her tent. "We're just fr…" She stopped talking as an arrow flew by her and landed in front of her. She looked up at the trees near her. She saw, hidden in the trees, were men. At least 50 of them, all with bows and arrows. Mai gulped, but they didn't do anything. Mushu held up a note that was tied to the arrow. Mai read,

"Dear Reader,

We know where you are. We know your battle plans. We know your every move. We've already won the war. Give it up. We know your secrets, we know allies you never knew you had. And we know where they are. Deliver this to the emperor; I believe he would like to know that we have the location that we can win the war with. We will get our revenge. We already have done what we did before. Your wall taunted us. We're in China, and tell your beloved Emperor this. The mountain does not bow to the wind, but the wind wears it away. We leave you with this. We know someone who is powerful that Mulan herself doesn't know is alive. Tell her that her father's head is still mounted in our base as well, and we know whom he died protecting.

-Shan Yu II & Hun Army-