Authors Note: Okay, here's chapter 11. Thanks to Innked Lady Corpse and kingdomdisney for reviewing.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything recognizable. Just my OCs Katy, Ryan, Cassie, and Jordan
In a clearing surrounded by bamboo, just outside of a destroyed army camp, a girl who was dressed as a soldier peered through the tall stalks, watching an evil looking man as he surveyed the destruction. He faithful dragon companion was watching too.
"See that, Mulan? It's Shan-Yu, leader of the Hun army! C'mon, girl, this is your chance! I can see it now: "Fa Mulan whups public enemy number one!" You gonna be famous! I'm talkin' A-list!" The dragon crowed
The girl—er—Mulan replied,
"Mushu, I'm not sure…I haven't even joined the army yet. I have to take my father's place to preserve the Fa family honor. I just hope I don't get discovered."
Mushu scoffed
"Whatever, you just scared—admit it."
"Aren't you?"
The dragon smacked his forehead
Katy groaned to herself as she looked around; nothing but vegetation. This place was reminding her a little too much of Deep Jungle. She didn't want to revisit her memories of that place. There was waaaaaay to much falling involved. As they tried to find their way out of the thicket, they stopped short at the sight of a large shadow hovering in a clearing to their left.
"A Heartless?" Donald asked.
Sora nodded
"C'mon, let's get the jump on 'im!"
"You guys, I don't think—" Katy began to protest, but the others were already creeping towards the so-called Heartless.
Katy frowned. That heartless sure did look familiar…
Sora, Donald and Goofy charged, causing the girl in the clearing to scream and a small, red dragon to leap into her arms, the "Heartless" *cough* shadow *cough* disappearing.
"Stop, you guys! It's Mushu!" Katy called, causing them to stop in their tracks.
"That's right, I know you've heard of me." The red dragon said, from atop Mulan's shoulder. "I'm little, lethal, and legendary! Now y'all scram before I get my dragon dander up!"
"Hey, Mushu! We missed you!" Sora said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his head.
Still not catching on, Mushu kept babbling.
"Well you better HOPE I miss YOU or else you're—"
He blinked a few times, processing
"Sora, Katy, Donald, and Goofy!" He exclaimed.
"Do you know them?" Mulan asked, confused.
"Know them? Man we used to kick all kinds of bad guy butt together! Yeah, you know I helped these guys out of a lot of tight spots."
Sure, if you actually used the Mushu summon in the first game…which I didn't…ever…heh, heh. Anyway, back to the story.
"Yeah, something like that." Sora laughed, turning to Mulan. "And…you are?"
"I'm Mulan. Oh! No, I…I mean…I'm…" She stuttered
"Ping!" Mushu exclaimed, exasperatedly
"Mulan…Ping?" Katy asked
"Just Ping. I am Ping, son of Fa Zhou." Mulan—er—Ping replied in an exaggerated deep voice.
And apparently, Sora and the other's bought it…or they were really good actors. Katy decided to stick with the former.
"How do you know Mushu?" Sora asked
"Mushu is one of my family's guardians." Ping replied
"We didn't know we were borrowing someone as important as a family guardian." Goofy remarked.
This caused Mushu to have an epiphany
"Yeah, that's right! And that puts you four up to your eyeballs in debt to Ping here. Well, guess what, kiddies? It's payback time."
Katy gaped at him.
"Are you serious? We don't owe this chick—er—dude anything!"
Ping/Mulan began to protest as well, but Mushu waved it away.
"Ah, they don't mind. Ain't that right?" Mushu asked
"Hmm, sounds fair." Sora agreed.
"It does?" Katy asked.
Ignoring her comment, Mushu continued
"See, Ping here was just about to join the Imperial army. We gotta go find the other recruits over at the training camp."
"Will you join us? It'll be easier to fit in if I'm with guys, like you."
"What do you mean, "fit in"?"
"Well, um, uh, don't—don't worry about that." Mushu stuttered.
Then Goofy, of all people, enlightened them.
"You're pretendin' to be a boy, aren't you?"
"WHAT?" Donald exclaimed
"You're a…girl?"
Mulan blushed
"You didn't…notice?"
"Nuh uh."
"Not me."
"I think it's working." Mulan said to Mushu.
"I don't know—those two would fall for anything." Mushu replied
"I'm right here!" Sora protested.
"Excuse me! Can I speak!" Katy whined, interrupting the banter "If Mulan has to pretend to be a guy, how am I getting into the camp? Something tells me that they won't be to keen on letting me stay."
They all stopped walking. They hadn't thought of that.
"I'll tell them you're my sister. As long as you don't try to actually enlist in the army, I'm sure they'll let you stay." Mulan reasoned.
"Yeah…somehow I don't think they'll buy it. We don't exactly look alike."
Donald mumbled something under his breath and Katy's hair went from purple to black.
"I guess that's better. As long as they don't get a good look at my face and see that I'm not Asian." Katy muttered, trudging next to Sora.
"Relax, It'll be fine." Sora reassured her.
Katy nodded and tugged and her now black locks, wrinkling her nose in distaste, causing Sora to laugh
"Shut-up! " Katy moaned
"Why? I think you look pretty."
Katy stuck her tongue out at him but had a stupid grin on her face the rest of the trek
KHKHKHKH
The six of them entered the camp with little trouble. Katy was getting some strange looks, but that was the worst of it.
"Remember, girl, manly" Mushu whispered to Mulan who nodded and puffed out her chest.
Sora got on the "chow line" and got pushed roughly to the ground by a small, rather ugly looking man.
"Bout time we got some grub." The man muttered to himself.
"Hey, no cutting!" Sora protested
"Get out!" Donald agreed.
The man whipped around and punched Sora in the face, causing him to fall to the ground.
Okay, let's back up a minute hear and take a second to think about all of the battle's Sora has fought. After all those Heartless and nasty Disney villains, Sora couldn't block a punch from a guy half his size? Interesting…
Anyway…
Katy clenched her fists and went to intervene, but Mulan held her back and shook her head.
"Don't draw unwanted attention." She whispered.
"Fine." Katy pouted, glaring at the ugly man, whom Donald was currently wrestling with.
So, Sora gets punched in the face and Donald wrestles with the guy. That makes perfect sense.
"Hey look, a space in line!" a taller, skinny man exclaimed
"I wonder what they're serving for lunch today." A rather…large, bald man asked aloud, pushing the others out of the way.
"Knuckle sandwiches." The ugly man said, shaking his fist at the other two, before lunging at them
"That's it!" Sora said, taking a swing at the man who punched him.
And so, it became an all out brawl between the four of them, the bald man just looked on serenely.
Mulan looked over at Katy, pleadingly but the younger girl shook her head.
"You told me not to draw attention to myself, remember?" She said with a smirk.
Mulan sighed and called out in her normal voice
"Please!"
"Please? The skinny man repeated
"What a girl." The ugly man muttered.
Mulan paled and cleared her throat
"Uh…knock it off!" she said, in her deep voice this time.
"Knock what off?" The ugly man asked, innocently
"You punched me!" Sora exclaimed
"Cutting in line!" Donald added
"What a shrimp!" The skinny man laughed.
"Who you callin' a shrimp, panda lips? I'm a bona fide guardian dragon! Mushu exclaimed before Mulan could stifle him.
"L-look, let's just get back in line, okay?" She pleaded
"Whose side are you on? I just got slugged!" Sora cried, gesturing wildly to the ugly man.
Mulan looked over to Katy for help and the teen sighed.
"Fine, I'll help. The things I do for strangers…" She muttered to herself as she strode over to Sora.
Gripping him by the shoulders, she smashed her lips against his, effectively cutting off all other protests. He kissed back, hands going to her waist while the men in line as well as Mulan watched them, slack- jawed.
"Soldiers! Back in line!" An authoritative voice called to them
"The Captain!" Somebody whispered as everyone scrambled to get back in line
Apparently, the two teens were too caught up in their, ahem, activities that they either didn't hear the order, or they chose to ignore it because the Captain came over and wrenched them apart, sending Katy a glare.
"Why is there a girl in my camp?"
"Uh, she's my…sister, sir. She had no place to stay so I took her with me." Mulan explained, trying not to stutter.
The Captain fixed her with a long look before nodding.
"See to it that she stay's in line. No more funny business, you hear?" He said, giving Katy another glare
"Yes, sir." Katy replied, icily, wiping her mouth on the back of her hand.
The Captain left and conversation started up again, but before any introductions could be made, they were ambushed.
"What are they?" Mulan asked
"Heartless!" Sora exclaimed
Ugly, Skinny, and Baldy ran off leaving the rest of them to deal with the Heartless, what a surprise.
They took care of the enemies quickly. And after a brief yet tense conversation with the captain, agreed to test their worthiness by doing missions for the army. After much argument, it was agreed that Katy could go with them as well…not that she was looking forward to it. It was gonna be a long couple of days…
After about a day and a half of nonstop missions, the Captain finally thought they were "worthy" enough to go ahead of the rest of the troops and scout. Happy to be out of the stuffy camp, the party agreed and was currently on their way to the villiage near the mountain summit. After clearing all of the heartless, they met up with Ugly, Skinny, and Baldy (who actually turned out to be very nice people. Go figure.) A few miles more and they met up with the Captain who finally accepted Ping into the army (FINALLY!). The party made it to the village safely parted ways with the other troops to have a private conversation with Mushu.
"Okay, girl! Here's your chance!" Mushu said to Mulan in a low voice. "I just saw this real shady guy and I know it's Shan-Yu."
"Shan-Yu!" Mulan exclaimed
"That's the Hun leader!" Sora exclaimed
"T-thanks for that E-Einstein." Katy shivered. She wasn't dressed for snow.
"We should tall the Captain." Goofy suggested
"Right." Mulan agreed.
"Waaaait wait-wait-wait WAIT!" Mushu exclaimed "Everybody use their heads a sec. Now why are we here?"
"B-because you t-told us that we had d-debt to pay to Mul-s-sorry Ping." Katy got out teeth chattering.
"No! Well, yes…but no! We're here to make the Captain see Ping's talents ad bring honor to her family."
The others nodded
"So let's go find out where Shan-Yu is, by ourselves. Then if we're lucky, we can fry him up good! Though just tracking the guy down should earn us our stars…"
"B-bad idea!" Katy exclaimed, but Mulan nodded
"Okay. Let's go."
"Shan-Yu is in a cave outside the village!" Mushu revealed.
The others nodded and started for the cave, Katy "borrowing" one of the other soldier's coats before running to catch up. The last thing she needed was frostbite…
The cave wasn't really that big, so they hit a dead end in no time.
"Nobody's home." Katy remarked, looking around
"Oh ,well." Donald sighed, walking back towards the village, Goofy following.
Sora, Katy, and Mulan were just about to follow, when suddenly, the ground shook.
"What? What was that?" Mushu asked, looking around wildly.
A barrier came up between the three of them and the exit. And that's when the Heartless attacked. What did you expect?
After a fairly difficult battle, the barrier came down and Sora, Katy, and Mulan reunited with Donald and Goofy once more. Deciding to report to the Captain, even though they didn't find Shan-Yu was a good idea, they made their way back to the village, only to find it had been burned to the ground. Immediately looking for survivors, they spotted the Captain slouched against a wall a ways to their left.
"Don't overdo it, Captain." Sora warned as he struggle to get up and meet them.
"It's just a scratch." He tried to convince them before doubling over in pain.
"Captain, the enemy, where did they go?" Mulan asked
"Toward the summit." He groaned
"We'll stop them." Mulan vowed
"It kinda is our fault." Goofy muttered
"Right." Mulan agreed
"You mean MY fault." Mushu sighed
"Uh-uh." Donald protested
"Shan-Yu and the heartless did this, not us!" Sora said, firmly. "Captain, if you can track down the villagers, we can handle this."
The Captain nodded and the party set off toward the Summit.
A/N: Okay, I have to stop here. I still have some homework to finish up. The rest of this chapter and the next will be out tomorrow. Please Review!