Long, long ago in ancient China, there was a guard patrolling the Great Wall of China. All of a sudden, the Huns managed to climb the wall! The guard sent a signal, and Shan Yu burned their flag. People warned the Emperor. The Emperor wanted to send a large army to defend China.
Meanwhile, a girl named Mulan is getting ready to meet the match-maker. Her father prayed to their ancestors that Mulan would do very good.
The grandmother tests a cricket for good luck, and gives it to Mulan when she is getting prepared for the matchmaker. Crick-ee, the cricket, got loose and caused chaos at the match-maker’s. Mulan did not pass.
Mulan felt very sad when she got home. Her father told her it was okay, and she would eventually do fine.
A man beat a drum as a signal that somebody was coming to their village. It was the messenger of the emperor. He said that one man from every family must go to war. Mulan’s father must go, even though his leg is badly hurt.
Mulan did not want him to go, so she snuck out in her father’s armor with her horse.
The Ancestors awakened. They wanted to send the great dragon to help her. Mushu, the wimpy small dragon, wrecked the dragon statue, so he went himself. Crick-ee tagged along with him.
The Hun army rode into China. A couple of men found them. Both of them try to escape. Shan Yu killed one of them.
Mulan was trying to be like a man. Mushu finally convinced her that he was a good dragon sent by the ancestors.
Mulan caused trouble by trying to be a man.
A leader of a different Chinese army taught Captain Li Shang, his son, how to be a good leader.
Shang came out and asked Mulan about her name. Mushu helped her. Mulan was a big disgrace trying to be like a man.
She was not good at anything. Shang shot an arrow to the top of a very tall pole. Nobody could reach it. Shang wanted to kick Mulan, whose made up name was Ping, out of the army. Mulan proved that she could stay because she reached the arrow at the top of the pole. Then she got good at everything.
Shan Yu found out about a village in a mountain pass. He directed his army to that village.
Mulan was skinny dipping in a pond. The other men almost found out that she was a girl.
Mushu pretended to be a man and delivered the general a message about the Huns and that they should go to the mountains.
The army set off toward the mountains. Ling started singing and everybody joined in. They stopped when they found a burnt village in the Tung-Shao Pass.
The Huns had destroyed the town and the army that was there. Shang’s father was killed.
Mushu lit a cannon that told the Huns where the army was. The Huns started shooting arrows.
A huge group of Huns started running down the mountain. Mulan stole the last cannon and started an avalanche that covered the Huns. Shan Yu hurt Mulan. Mulan saved Shang’s life.
The doctor found out that Mulan was a girl. Shang was going to kill Mulan, but he spared her life. They then left without Mulan.
Some of the Huns rose out of the snow. Mulan went to a ceremony to warn Shang and the Emperor. Nobody would listen to her, though.
The falcon snatched Shan Yu’s sword from the Emperor. Several Huns grabbed the Emperor and ran away into the palace.
Mulan had a plan: Chin-Po, Ling and Yao dressed up as concubines and snuck into the palace. Just in time, Shang attacked Shan Yu.
Mulan led Shan Yu to the roof and Mushu lit a fire work. The fireworks took Shan Yu into a temple and blew him up.
The Emperor gave Mulan Shan Yu’s sword and his crest to honor her family.
Her father was very glad to have Mulan back. He said that she was a bigger honor than the gifts from the Emperor.
Mushu got to be a guardian again. Shang came to return Mulan’s helmet. That was a very happy day!
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