A/N: The Coliseum was quite a hit wouldn't you say? And Serah was quite a help for me don't you think so? My journey to find and rescue Aqua still continues. Let's see where my journey takes place next...

World: Land of Dragons

I arrived at the next world. I arrive at some flat grassland village. I take a walk around the field, wondering where I could be at. Up to the point, I arrive at this one farmhouse. I walk through the gate arriving at the courtyard. I taken by the beauty of the cherry blossom tree.

"Wow." I say, looking up at it. I stand in front of it. As I gaze upon, something hits me. Not literally but mentally. I get flash visions. They're pretty blurry, blinded by the light, but I can see the blossom tree in it. The visions give me an incredible headache. The pain becomes intense. I fall on my knees, hands on my head shouting in pain, until the pain becomes overwhelming and I slipped in unconsciousness.

How can that be? How could looking at a simple Cherry Blossom Tree cause so much pain? Could this be one of my forgotten memories? I wish I knew.

In my dreams, I'm a child. I'm out on the porch with Aqua. She's sitting on a rocking chair, slowly rocking back and forth, as I'm sitting on her lap and she's reading a book. It was a beautiful day. Sun shining, birds shining, the calming stream noise of the river. It was perfect. I rest my head on Aqua's shoulder, falling asleep. Aqua looks down at me, then smiles.

As the peaceful moment goes on, tragedy strikes. I woke up, in dream not in real world, shocked. Darkness is taking over, and Aqua is gone.

"Mommy?" I shout, beginning to panic. "Mommy!" Darkness strikes everywhere, destroying the beauty, the light, the castle.

I just stand in place, breathing heavily in fear, listening to the sound of my heart beat as the thumping gets louder and louder.

Finally, I wake up, screaming. I'm panting, covered in sweat. It was only a nightmare. I release a sigh, planting my face in my hands. I take a moment to relax and recover my strength, then I look around my surroundings. To my surprise, I'm in some house.

"What?" The last thing I remembered was looking at the farmhouse, then everything else was black nothingness. I'm guessing I'm inside the house, but I don't recall asking to rest for the day.

I get out of bed, then noticed my trench coat and boots are removed. I walk to the door, slide it open and down the hallway. I hear voices as I wonder. Something about 'She can be killed' or 'Why would she do this?'. I follow the voices until I arrive at some dinning room. Three people. A husband, wife and an old lady.

They are sitting on their knees in front of the table talking, but their conversation stops when they see me. "He's awake." The old lady says.

The wife gets up and grabs hold of my hand. "Come, you must sit. You shouldn't overdo it."

The wife has me sitting on a chair. "I'm fine. Don't worry about me." I say.

The old lady comes up to me with a cup of tea. "Here. This should help."

I accept the tea. "Thank you." I take a sip of the tea, it's pretty good. "What happened? The last thing I remembered was arriving at some house. Then...everything else was all black."

The husband gets up, walking to me with his cane for support. "We're not sure. My daughter and I found you out in the yard passed out."

"How long was I out?" I ask.

"Two days." The wife answers. Two days? That's shocking. "We're the Fa family. I'm Fa Li."

"I'm Fa Zhou." Fa Zhou answers.

"You can call me Grandma." Grandma Fa says.

"Patrick." I answered. I look to have notice there's only three of them, since they mentioned they have a daughter. "Where is this daughter you spoke of?"

The three of them look down in worry and nerve. I can tell what happened...sort of. "Mulan is gone. There's a war going on and she took my place in the army." Fa Zhou says.

"I'm sorry to hear that. Can't you stop her?" I asked.

"We can't. She's already long gone. And if we reveal her as a women, she will be killed." Fa Li says.

I seem surprised hearing that. Just then, loud crashing happens outside. The Fa family hurries outside. When they're gone, I get on my feet as well, in fear what it could be.

I'm outside of the house, just as I thought. "Those creatures are back!" Grandma Fa says.

The yard is full of Assault Riders, Nightwalkers and Wyvern's. "Heartless." I say under my breath. I walk out of the house, past the Fa family, and summoned my Keyblade. "Stay back."

The Heartless turn their attentions to me. I'm not at my full strength, for I'm still recovering from the mind attack before. I suddenly remembered what Serah told and gave me.

I take out the Lightning Charm and hold it over my Wayfinder. Light energy glows from the charm, and another Black Angel Keyblade appears in my other hand. I can feel the powers of Lightning Farron seeping through my veins, I am renewed with new found strength, and I attack the Heartless.

I strike swift but powerful, the power of dual wielding. I use Lightning Strike, pull my Keyblades over my shoulders then swing them, unleashing a wave of thunder in front of me. the Assault Riders comes charging at me. I dodge their attacks, then I link the Keyblades by their keychains. The keychains straights and then becomes solid, then I wield the weapon by the keychains and perform Razor Gale. Spinning the Keyblades around me, striking enemies near me and unleashing a whirl wave in its wake.

The Nightwalkers are defeat. Wyverns flies around, but I bring them down with Thundara. Half of the Wyvern's are defeated. One of the Assault Riders hits me with his spinning lance. I get knocked back, but recovered. I next used Petal Storm. I switch my left Keyblade backhanded, then I spin around in a whirlwind with Rose Petals spawning, flowing through the wind of my movement.

Two Wyverns and a Assault Rider are all that remains. I now reach to my full power, unleashing Zantetsuken. I leap towards the Heartless, spinning round and round at high speed slashing at the Heartless. I land past them, then the flash of light cuts slashes the Heartless finishes them, and my link with Lightning ends.

I turn to the Fa family, who approaches me. "That's amazing. Are you some kind of warrior?" Fa Li asks.

"Something like that." I say.

"If you're that good. Do you mind finding our Mulan and bring her home safely?" Fa Zhou asks.

"I think I can manage that." I say.

I stay for a few minutes at the Fa household to recover some of my strength, then I put on my boots and coat, mount a horse and went off. They even gave me a picture of Mulan so I know who she is. As I ride, I think of the Fa family.

I can't believe that their own daughter would go into war just like that. I feel like I'm reliving that one day when Aqua had to leave for her journey. I can't even imagine why a girl would risk her live going out into a war, even when she could be killed if they find out she is a girl. The last part kind of disturbed me, so I'm guessing she's disguised as a boy.

I arrive at some Bamboo Grove, I now go on foot. At the end, I found some man by a large rock with a shadow creature on it. I'm a bit on alert with the large shadow, but I also focus on the boy. I look at the picture of Mulan, they have a striking resemblance. I'm guessing this is Mulan.

I now turn my attention to the large shadow. I summon my Keyblade, slowly position myself to do a Strike Raid. I hurl my Keyblade back then throw it. The Keyblade hits the shadow directly, but it doesn't hurt it. The Shadow becomes startled, so does the soldier. The shadow vanished and something small leaps out of those rocks to the soldier.

"Wha..." I'm confused. Was that shadow really just a shadow? I make an approach. The soldier looks at me, then suddenly calms down. "What's going on here?" I point at the large rock. "I thought I saw a Heartless."

A tiny red serpent dragon comes out of the soldiers armor. "Who are you calling a heartless! I'm a bona fide guardian dragon!"

The dragon jumps off standing on the ground. "That shadow I saw...was a gecko?"

The dragon is hurt. "Gecko! That does it!" The dragon holds up his fists. "You will suffer the full fury of the powerful indestructible Mushu!"

Mushu charges towards me, shouting, then kicks me right in the boot. He now starts booting on my boot, which does no pain at all. Then he grabs hold of my foot, trying to lift me but failing. I just feel pathetic watching this. Mushu releases some air and backs up. "Betcha scared now, huh?"

"Terrified." I say sarcastically. I look up at the soldier. "So, you're the girl I've heard about."

"Uh, n-no. No! I'm clearly a boy." The soldier says in a deep voice. "I am...uh, Ping. Son of Fa Zhou."

I walk over to the soldier, pulling out the ribbon in her hair that's holding it together. "Cut the act, Mulan. I know it's you. I'm not dumb."

Mulan sighs in disappointment. "All right. You got me." Mulan gets a good look on me. "Wait...I remember you, You're that boy from the yard."

"Yeah, yeah. I was knocked out and taken in. I'm well aware of that." I say. "Let's get to the point. I'm here to take you home."

"No! I can't go!" Mulan says. "I have to bring honor to my family."

I cross my arms. "That's why you signed up for the war? Honor?"

"Well, that's not the main reason. I did it to protect my father." I raised an eyebrow hearing that. "He's old and still hurt from the last war. If I let him go, he'll die. So I stoled his armor and dressed up like a boy to take his place." I give a small sigh, looking down. "I'm sorry my parents sent you all the way out here, but I'm not going home."

Mulan walks past me, and Mushu follows. "Wait." Mulan stops and turns, then I turn. "I'm coming with you."

Mulan seems surprised. "Really?"

"Yeah. I figured you can use a hand out there. I'll be honest, you are not very convincing to being a boy." I say.

"Now that's what I'm talking about! We've got someone to help us fit right in!" Mushu says.

"Thank you for your help." Mulan says.

I hand Mulan back the ribbon so she can do her hair. "I'm Patrick, by the way." I start moving on. "Let's go. Stay close to me too."

Me and Mulan make our way through the Bamboo Grove, arriving at the base camp down below. We've made it to the base camp. I walk right in while Mulan stays behind. Mushu pops out of Mulans armor, by her head.

"Remember, girl. Manly!" Mushu says.

Mulan stands up straight. I stop and look back, seeing Mulan walking stumbling with her knees buckled. She looks pathetic. I groan putting a hand on my head. Mulan walks past me, that's when I grab her by the back of her uniform and pull her close to me.

"You're walking like you have to go to the bathroom." I say to her.

"I'm trying to blend in." Mulan says.

"Well you're not doing a very good job at it." I say. "Just...act natural." Me and Mulan walks around the base camp, this time Mulan's walking more normally. Just then, a tall skinny sodlier, Ling, starts fleeing in terror, so does a short gorlia man, Yao.

"RUN!" Yao shouts.

Chien-Po makes a run for it as well. The captain of the army, Shang, runs in as well. "Get back here, soldiers!" Shang looks at us. "Who are you two? You're not in the army."

"What's going on?" I ask.

"That's none of your concern!" The Captain gets attacked from behind, knocked past me and Mulan. We both look ahead to see an army of Heartless.

"What are those things?" Mulan asks.

I summon my Keyblade. "Heartless! I hope you're ready to fight."

Me and Mulan fights off the Heartless. Of course I do most of the fighting while Mulan just gives a slow single swing on that sword of hers. I fight off the Heartless using Strike Raid, then continue attacking them. The Assault Riders spins their lance at me. I get knocked back by quickly recover, then I do Shimmering Sweep, aerial spin striking with light energy.

Half of the Heartless are Defeated, and Mulan has killed...none of them. The girl is having trouble taking out a Shadow, and it's not even flatten in the ground like the coward they are. I cast Zero Gravity, sending the Heartless in the air and then I enter Star Surge, then strike at the Heartless.

All of the Heartless got defeated. Shang approaches to us. "You were really good." He says.

"Uh...thank you sir, it was nothing." Mulan says in a boy voice.

"I wasn't talking to you." Shang says with disapproval, then he approaches me. "I was talking to him. What's your name, soldier?"

I stand straight, showing respect. "I am Patrick...Fa Patrick." I lied, then I turn my attention to Mulan. "And this is Ping, son of Fa Zhou."

"Patrick? What kind of name is Patrick?" Shang asks.

"Don't ask me, never have parents who go to fortune tellers for answers." I say.

"Well, you got me there. My parents went to one for my middle name." I was about to ask but Shang interrupts. "Don't ask. I didn't know Fa Zhou had two sons."

"Technically, we're cousins. But yes." I say.

"I see. Well, you're welcome to join my army." Shang says. Shang turns to Mulan. "You on the other hand can go home."

Mulan is hurt to hear that. "Wha-me? But why? Captain, I want to fight."

"You are not fitted for war, soldier." Shang says. "Go home. I already have a Fa who can fight good."

Shang makes his leave, Mulan looks down in disappointment. "Stop!" Shang stops, turn around to face me. "If you want me in your army, you have to take Ping too."

"What? You want me to have him in my army?" Shang asks. "You would rather dishonor my troops?"

I swing my Keyblade right in front of Shang, inches away from his face. That earns gasps from all the other soldiers, and a startled look from Shang. "I stay! Ping stays!"

Shang looks at me, I give him a look that's telling him I'm not bluffing. The soldiers around us mutters, saying stuff like 'Who is this guy' 'What is he thinking?' 'I'm never seen anyone stand up against the captain like that'.

Shang groans in defeat. "Fine. Ping can stay. But you're responsible for training him."

I lower my Keyblade. "Fair enough."

Shang turns and leaves. "Back to work, soldiers!"

Me and Mulan head to the outside walls of the base camp. We figured we could use an open space for training, and away from men so they won't know Mulan's a girl.

"Phew. That was a close call back there." Mushu says.

"No kidding. Thanks for the save back there." Mulan says.

I stand in place. "It's a bit early to be thanking me. Now it's time for training." I turn facing Mulan. "First thing's first. We need to practice with your sword work. Cause you fight like a girl."

Mulan is offended by that comment. "Hey!"

I hold my Keyblade out in front of me. "The way you fight with a sword, you don't use it as a weapon. You use it as an extension of your arm." I swing my Keyblade around a few times, showing Mulan an example. "That's how it goes. Got it?"

Mulan nods. She takes out her sword and repeats my method. She was at first, but then loses balance and the sword flies out of her hands. Sword flies towards me, until I grab it just inches it away from my face. Mulan looks up at me in worry. "Maybe we should try something else." I say.

I now have Mulan balanced on a pole, holding a bucket of water on her head and two buckets of water, one of each side, hanging from a pole she's holding over her shoulders. So far, her balance is...off. She's having trouble keeping it, staggering around. I'm surprised she has yet to fallen.

"Concentrate. Maintain your balance." I say.

"I'm trying!" Mulan says.

"Never try! Only do!" I say.

"What does that mean? How can you do something without even trying?" Mulan lost her balance there. She nearly fall but manage to keep her stand.

"Well, you..." I think for a moment, but I couldn't come up with the words. "Actually, that pretty much confused me too, but Master Eraqus use to say it a lot." Mulan yells as she falls off the pole and water spills everywhere. "Go again!"

Balancing wasn't very well. Only small progression was made from it. We move on to a small technic, where Mulan wears a blindfold and wields a bamboo stick and I throw rocks at her as she tries to deflect them.

I'm throwing the rocks at her, and all she's doing is getting hit. "Focus, Ping!" I say.

"How can I? I can't even see!" Mulan says.

"The point of the lesson is hearing. Many enemies can be as quiet as a pin drop. Listen deeply for the wind the rocks make." I say. "Again."

Mulan takes in place, taking a deep breath. I throw a rock at her, she swings it, only too soon and ends up being hit. "I thought I heard it that time."

"Maybe you did, but you should also try to detect when to strike." I say.

Mulan did okay on the part of the training. Now we move onto combat. I fight Mulan and I've got her knocked out from the very beginning. Seriously, that girl wouldn't last ten seconds. I even disarmed her of her weapon. Mulan gets her butt whopped for the tenth time.

"Pathetic!" I say. "I have seen a five year old little boy that can fight better then you."

Mulan looks up at me. "How would you know that?"

"Cause I was that five year old little boy, and I was using a toy sword for a weapon!" I make my fighting position. "Again!"

Mulans is rough on her training. This is going to take a while.

Nightfall takes the skies. Mulan collapses down on the ground, panting in exhaustion. I just stand in front of her, looking down at the soldier girl.

"That is enough for today." I walk away. "We'll resume again tomorrow."