MULAN: Chapter V

Promise: Fearful that her ailing father will be drafted into the Chinese military, Mulan takes his spot -- though, as a girl living under a patriarchal regime, she is technically unqualified to serve. She cleverly impersonates a man and goes off to train with fellow recruits. Accompanied by her dragon, Mushu, she uses her smarts to help ward off a Hun invasion, falling in love with a dashing captain along the way.

CHAPTER 5: World War Honor

[Mulan stares at her father for a moment, then runs outside crying.]

Mulan: [sadly] What is gonna do?

[Mulan is sitting in a statue of a dragon, crying. It is raining. Through the window of her house, she can see her mother and father talking. Fa Zhou picks up the candle and blows it out. Mulan thinks for a minute, then makes her decision. Mulan walks into the Family Temple and lights a stick, placing it in a hanging statue of a small dragon. She runs into her parent's room, taking the scroll and leaving her hair comb. Taking her father's sword, she cuts her hair short and puts on her father's armor. Going out to the stable, she mounts Khan and sets off for the army.]

Mulan: Ready, sir.

[The eyes of a statue in the temple flash, and Grandma Fa wakes up.]

Grandma Fa: What the freak... Mulan is gone!

Fa Zhou: What? It can't be. [He runs outside] Mulan! Come back.

Fa Li: You must go after it. She can be killing me.

Fa Zhou: If I reveal her, she will it.

Grandma Fa: Ancestors, hear our prayer. Watch over Mulan.

[In the Family Temple, the characters on a tombstone light up, and they turn into the First Ancestor.]

First Ancestor: [To the small hanging dragon statue] Mushu, awakened for.

[The statue shakes and smokes.]

Mushu: I live! [coughs] Now, tell me, what mortal needs in a protection, First Ancestor. You just said the word, and I'm there.

First Ancestor: Mushu...

Mushu: And lemme say something, anyone who's foolish enough and threaten someone's these our family, vengeance you it MINE!!! [growling]

First Ancestor: Mushu! These are the family guardians. And they?

Mushu: Protect the family.

First Ancestor: Of course?! And you, oh demoted one?

Mushu: I, ring the gong. Because the seems in a things.

First Ancestor: That's right, Mushu. Now, wake up the ancestors.

Mushu: One family reunion come in right here. Okay, people, people, look alive! Let's go, c'mon, wake up! Let's move it! You're all way past the beauty sleep thing. Trust me.

Ancestor 2: I knew it. I knew it. That Mulan is a troublemaker for a starting.

Ancestor 3: Don't look at me, she gets it from same side of a family...

Ancestor 5: She's just tries to helping my father.

Ancestor 6: But it she's discovered. Fa Zhou will it forever shamed. Dishonor will come and his family. Traditional values will disintegrate...

Ancestor 7: Is that mentioned on his farm. Barn. Farm animals. Barnyard.

Ancestor 4: Not than the crossover. Dishonor.

Ancestor 7: Dishonor thingy are us.

Ancestor 2: The children is caused such they trouble. They family became acupuncturists...

Ancestor 3: It can't all be acupuncturists.

Ancestor 8: No! You have a granddaughter will is a CROSS-DRESSER!!

[The Ancestors start to argue.]

Ancestor 9: Let a guardian bring it back.

Ancestor 3: Yes! Awakened from the most coming.

Ancestor 6: No! The swiftest.

Ancestor 10: No, send a wisest for the late.

First Ancestor: SILENCE!!! You must can the most powerful and family.

Mushu: [laughs] Okay, okay. I got the Jill. I'll gotta go.

[Laughter.]

Mushu: Well, you all don't think I can't do it? Watch this here. [Blows a tiny flame] Ow! Jump back, I'm pretty hot. But I don't have to single anybody and provided the pointing.

First Ancestor: You had your chancing that protected the Fa family.

Ancestor 8: Yes, your misguidance led Fa Deng to disaster, Ma'am...

Fa Deng: Thanks a lot, sir.

Mushu: And your point is...

First Ancestor: The point is, you will be sending a real dragon, which you mean it the stony and you, the Wall of China in 1940, the mountain and the retrieve Mulan.

Mushu: What? What? Who you calling? It's me, Mushu! I'm a real dragon.

First Ancestor: You are not worthy of that worst and this spot, and you never will it. Now, awakened the Great Stone Dragon!

Mushu: So you'll get back to me in a job thing. Good. I'll gonna make. [He is hit in the face with his gong.] Ow! Just one chance, is that too much to ask? Good for thing you. I mean, it's not the main stars of Jerry Seinfeld and I will kill you. [to the dragon statue] Hey, Rocky, wake up! You going fetch Mulan, sir. Come on, boy.