The IceWoman Cometh (Dream Journal)

I was in China, Nanking, under the Japanese occupation. I was in the body of Mulan, who after many years of supernatural slumber had awoken. The chamber seal broke after a violent explosion from a sabataged Japanese convoy. I wasn't sure if this Mulan was the same military hero from legend. She was very tall, muscular and had wild curly black hair. Her features were to the region but her other characteristics made her stand out distinctly from the rest of Nanking's population.

She came to a Catholic Girls school being held hostage under a female second-in-command. Mulan allowed herself to be caught. She's brought forth to the commander. "What is your name?!" They demand to know. Mulan somehow has the sense not to reveal her true name and says, "Uh...Lan Wo." Every time the commander asks her a question or makes a threat against her Mulan tells her protocol from the Japanese Imperial Army prohibiting her from answering. She seemed to have an extraordinary knowledge of it. Unable to interrogate further because all the protocols being spot on, no loopholes, the commander gets fed up of Mulan throwing the book at her and attackes her. Mulan most instantly overpowered her opponent, dislocates all of the commanders limbs making it almost impossible to move. The rest of the soldiers cannot intervene lest they risk breaking the rules and shaming themselves. With all the commotion Mulan's master plan was realised with all the girls and nuns escaping. After they had all fled to safety Mulan slinks away after taking all the firearms. In the next scenes I am an observer. I see the General arrive after hearing of the incident. He finds his Second-in-Command softly weeping in the dirt unable to get up. Her men all unarmed, scared witless, refusing to talk.

One of the other Generals top soldiers said she was only a beauty consultant from Tokyo (I assume he's talking about how everyone had to join in because of all the soldier shortages?). The general is furious but also greatly unnerved and worried, what will his superiors think? In the end the incident is blacklisted, quickly and quietly forgotten about. The last part of the dream is an old woman telling her great-grandchildren The Mysterious tale of the Beautiful Giant Lady (from her child's perspective Mulan would have seemed huge) saving her and her peers lives that day. "What happened to her?" Asked one of the children. "I don't know. We never spoke of it again. The Sister's would have had us believe she was an Angel sent from the Lord. Whatever she was I am eternally grateful."

And so the first adventure of Mulan came to a close.