A/N: I'm trying to make a man out of Mulan. Do you guys think I'm going a little too hard on the girl? Well let's find out when we go into battle. How about the opening scene with the blossom tree. Any of you can guess what that was about?

World: Land of Dragons

Dinner is being served in the Base Camp. I'm in line with all the other soldiers. Mulan is in her tent outside of the camp, resting and probably recovering from the training sessions I've been giving her.

I get two trays of the food and then make my way to the tent outside of camp. Inside, Mulan is sitting, out of her soldier boy disguise. I hand her a tray. "Thank you." She says.

"Don't mention it." I say.

I sit across from Mulan and we eat in silence, until the girl speaks. "Hey, Patrick. I've been wondering. What are you doing out here?" I look at Mulan. "I mean, not out here in the army, but here in China. You don't look like you're from here."

I look down, trying to think wither or not what to say. I know I'm not suppose to meddle about other worlds. I speak carefully.

"I'm on a journey. I'm looking for someone." I say. "Fifteen years ago, I was found and taken in. A women named Aqua, she took good care of me. She was like a mother to me. We've done everything together...But then one day..."

I told Mulan about what happened to the Land of Departure. Though I had to make it sound less like it literally was another world. Mulan was pretty shocked to hear everything in the end.

"Oh dear. I'm sorry to hear that." Mulan says.

"Yeah. Me too. So that's why I'm helping you out. I know how it feels to lose a family member, I don't want you nor your family experience the same tragedy as I did." I say. "However, it's not a complete loss. I recently discovered that she's still alive, and I will find her."

"Yeah, well good luck with that. You'll probably never find her!" Mushu says.

Mulan slaps Mushu. "Mushu!" Mulan returns her attention to me. "You said this Aqua person was like a mother to you." I nod. "What happened to your real family?"

I look down. "I don't know. I don't have any memory of my real family, or my home." I set my tray down on the ground. "Everytime I try to remember, I get some major headache. The pain becomes overwhelming, I can't even remember the slightest piece of the lost memories."

"Is that why you were passed out in the yard?" Mulan asks.

"Maybe. I can't really remember." I say.

After dinner, me and Mulan went to sleep. I sleep in the tent inside the base camp, figured I'd give the girl her privacy. The sun starts to rise. As soon as it does, Shang alerted all the soldiers to be awaken. As soon as I got the news, I hurried over to Mulan's tent.

"Get up!" Mulan awakens startled. "News from the captain! We're needed on the front lines!"

Mulan is surprised. "What? Already!?"

"Get dressed! We need to move!" I say.

I hurry back to the base camp. When Mulan gets suited up, she joins in as well. Me and Mulan stand in the front lines of the army, behind Captain Shang. Shang turns to us and faces me and Mulan.

"I trust that Ping here is well trained." Shang says.

"I wouldn't say 'well' He's...uh, progressing fine. Good enough to be in the battlefield." I say.

"I'll believe it when I see it." Shang says. Shang faces forward, then gets on his horse. "Move out!"

Shang and the army moves on ahead. We wondered through the fields of China, we arrive at Checkpoint. That's when the Heartless attacked us. Me and Mulan take the front lines. I fight off the Heartless, then do Shimmer Sweep. Mulan is managing to throw a few swings with her sword. It's not good fighting, but it's better then how she fought back in the camp.

After the Heartless are defeated, Shang approaches us, well mostly towards Mulan. "I'll admit, that was some fine fighting. But you still need some work if you wish to be in the war." Shang says.

"Yes, captain." Mulan says.

Shang moves on ahead. I give Mulan a pat on the back. "Not bad, Ping."

Me and Mulan moves on ahead. We all take the path towards the Mountain Trail. So far. We have no encounters with any heartless. But that doesn't calm me down. I have a feeling they're waiting for just the right moment...

Just when we're on the trail, something large flies over us. Everyone was startled and we get a good look at the monster when it flies past us. "What was that?" Shang asks.

The monster is a large skeleton dragon with red eyes and crystal bones. The Midnight Flight. (Suppose to be a bun, as in the "Midnight Fright")

"A Heartless!" I say. I summon my Keyblade, chasing after the Heartless up the trail, until a swarm of Shadows and Nightwalkers appears in my path. "Gah! Even more Heartless!"

"Soldiers! To battle!" Shang orders.

We all attack the Heartless. I cast my Water and Ruin spells at them, then strike. Mulan attacks as well. With all of us, the Heartless soon falls then we moved on ahead. We get out of the short trench and come out of the opening of the Mountain Trail. That's when more Heartless spawn.

The Midnight Flight comes within sight as well. The giant heartless faces us and opens its mouth. Frost energy charges up. I soon realize what it's doing.

"Everyone take cover!" I warn. We all hide behind some boulders, moving out of sight. Midnight Flight soars ahead as it unleashes a powerful frost breath. The frost breath flies past us, and the heartless flies away from us. We all come out of hiding, keeping our eyes on the Midnight Flight.

"We're never gonna make it to the village with that thing on our tail." Shang says.

"Then we'll just have to shake it off." I say. "Come on, Ping!"

I rush on ahead, with Mulan following me. We run up the mountain trail. More Heartless spawn and we fight them, but we also keep our eyes on the sky for the Midnight Flight. That monster is constantly appearing and blasting frost breaths at us.

I cast Water then Ruin, and I enter Spell Weaver and start attacking the Heartless. Mulan was about to take out few of the Heartless, Shang is starting to be impressed, though he's still hiding it. The Midnight Flight makes its attack and me and Mulan takes cover.

Midnight Flight unleashes its frost breath. When it's over, Me and Mulan continues attacking the Heartless. I reach my full power and unleash Spell Weaver, finishing off the rest of the Heartless. After that, I cast Cure and we moved on.

We arrive at the cliff of the Mountain Trail, that's when the Midnight Flight swoops in in front of us, roaring at our faces.

"Can we take it?" Mulan asks.

I position myself to fight. "Only one way to find out."

Me and Mulan attack the heartless. Midnight Flight swipes its claws then bites at us. I do Strike Raid at the heartless. When done with that move, I enter Fever Pitch and swiftly strike. Midnight Flight does Shadow Gleam, darkness glows in its eyes then it releases purple beams aiming at me and Mulan.

I cast Cure to restore our health then cast Fire then do Shimmer Sweep. Midnight Flight does Ice Tomb, slams its claws to the grounds and pillars of ice shards rise out of the ground. I reach my full power and unleashed Fever Pitch. Mulan strikes at the Midnight Flight.

The Midnight Flight roars in agony then flies away, retreating. Me and Mulan stand in place, watching the monster getting away, then Mulan puts away her sword.

"Is it over?" She asks.

I slowly shook my head. "I don't think so..." I turn walking off. "It'll be back." Me and Mulan rejoined with the rest of the army, then continued on.

We've made it to the village in the mountains. "Thank goodness the village is still standing. But Shan Yu will be here soon."

"Who's Shan Yu?" I asked.

"She's the leader of the Hun army." Shang explains. "Our mission is to stop and defeat Shan Yu."

I nod. "Noted."

"We'll rest here for a while, then we move on to the Summit." Shang says. The army disbands. Me and Mulan stays with Shang. Shang turns his attention to me. "Excellent work out there." Shang turns to Mulan. "You...well, you did fine out there. But I expect more from you." Shang makes his leave.

Mushu pops out of Mulans armor. "All right, girl! The captain's warming up to yea!"

"I know, but still, I feel like it's not enough to bring honor to my family." Mulan says.

"Hey. Every little bit helps." I say.

"Hey! Ping!" Me and Mulan turns, to see Yao, Ling and Chen-po coming up at us. "You were pretty good out there, facing that giant creature." Chen-po says.

"No kidding. Even I wouldn't be brave enough to take it on." Yao says.

"Uh...thanks. But Patrick here has done most of the fighting." Mulan says.

All eyes turn to me, I just give a small shrug with my shoulders. Yao, Ling and Chen-po continue on with their conversation with Mulan about her achievement back in the Mountain Trail. Mulan feels a bit awkward at this situation.

I just stand back and watch with a small smile on my face, then that smile disappears and I go for a short walk outside the village. Light snow falls from the skies as I walk. I stop about thirty feet from the village, looking at my surrounds.

Snow. Nothing but snow. I kneel down and and scoop a hand full of snow, standing back up just looking at the snow in my one hand.

Being here reminds me of that one snow day back in the Land of Departure. It was my very first snow day, as far as I could even remember. I was so overwhelmed with excitement, I actually bolted from my room to out the door. I was outside for only three seconds then I rush back inside freezing to death.

Aqua laughed at my sudden burst of energy. She did find some winter clothes for me to wear, then she put her own on as well and we spend the day playing in the snow. We had fun together. Snowball fights, making a snowman, snow angels. I remember Ventus and Terra joining in for the Snowball fights.

My favorite movement was at night, when me and Aqua huddled together by the fireplace with hot chocolate. I can't remember exactly why it's my favorite, but I do remember I loved being with my mother the whole time, even though Aqua really wasn't my mother, she still felt like one to me.

"Patrick." I flinch returning my mind to reality. I didn't realize I zoned out until I heard Mulans voice. I turn to see the soldier girl approaching me. "You all right?"

"Yeah. I'm fine." I face forward. "I was just thinking."

"About what?" Mulan asks.

"Nothing important." I say, turning and heading back to the village.

Mulan just stays behind watching me make my leave. We all stayed at the village for a while, resting up. So far, no Shan Yu or heartless showed up. I spent the at the village training Mulan some more in combat. The girl is starting to approve a bit. Hopefully she'll be good enough to survive battle.

We all gather at the entrance towards the summit. "Let's move out!" Shang says, moving on ahead.

Me and Mulan follows the captain and everyone else follows us. We make our way past the Ridge. Very few Heartless attacked us, which is a bit strange. When we're close to the leader, there's always a full army ready to crush us.

After defeating the Heartless, we moved on towards the Summit. We stop right in front of the large snowy mountain. At the top is a shadowy warrior.

"Shan Yu." Shang says, taking his sword out.

I summon my Keyblade, position to fight. What came to surprise is that Shan Yu is not alone. Hundreds of Heartless, Barbarians, sword wielding soldiers wearing fur armor, comes within sight.

"Holy Era." Shang whispered.

"That's a lot of Heartless." I say.

Shan Yu holds out his sword. "Attack!" He orders.

All the Heartless charges down to us all. I take the lead, holding my Keyblade out. "Prepare for battle!"

Shang stands next to me. "If we die! We die with honor!"

I charge right into the army of Heartless. I start attacking them and they fight me back. I cast Halo, wiping out few of the Heartless, knocking close ones away and restoring my health. I enter Star Surge and attacking the Heartless with my twilight strikes. Dozens of the Barbarian's are going down fast.

As I fight, I see Mulan, Shang and the rest of the army fighting off the Heartless. Mulan is struggling to fight but is still standing. I rush to her side and unleash Star Surge, clearing out the Heartless close to her. The Barbarians are swarming. I feel like I'm over-unleashing my strength. I just know when this whole thing is over, I'll probably either cramp up or pass out.

I do Sonic Blade, repeatly sonic blasting through the Heartless crowd five times then unleashed a powerful blast. I enter Critical Impact and strike hard at the Heartless. Half of the Barbarians are gone, but the remaining are still swarming hard. Ten of our soldiers have fallen. Mulan, Shang and I are still standing and fighting.

I unleash Critical Impact, wiping out a ton of Heartless.

In a matter of minutes, we wiped out the entire Heartless army. We stay in place, on our hands and knees panting in exhaustion. Few of us using our weapons for support.

I look up at the top of the hill, Shan Yu is still standing. More Barbarians appeared at the top of the hill. I slightly gasp seeing them.

"Oh Karabast." I say.