The King of The Kingdom – CH 6

TITLE: The King of The Kingdom
CATEGORY: Disney
COMPLETED: 10-19-08
SUMMARY: Original character is part of a mystery brewing at Walt Disney World. Everyone knows him, but he does not know why. He can’t leave or go home.  Contains tons of Disney characters interacting with main character.
WORDS: 33187
CHAPTERS: 12

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Disney, this is a fictional story. Nothing in this story is real.

CHAPTER 6 – PIRATES, RABBITS & A MOVIE

He had been a trying to reach his uncle for a while now, but Daniel had not been able to reach him by phone. He had even tried to write a letter to him, but had not heard anything back. Earlier in the week, he had talked to the concierge’s desk about getting a plane ticket, but all flights out of Orlando had been booked solid. There did not seem to be any flights out of like another month. He booked the flight that was open, but he was on standby.

Meanwhile waiting for his flight back to California, he was still enjoying visiting the park and all the fun things Disney had to offer. He had gone parasailing and boating, went out to the clubs on Pleasure Island. He was liking living at Disney and really did not want to leave there, even though he still was not sure why he was there.

One night at the Contemporary Hotel, they were holding a pin trading event. Guests and fans of pin trading were invading the hotel. Everyone was wearing lanyards filled with pins. Daniel went to check out the event to see what all the excitement was with the pins. He got to the event and a girl at the desk would not let him enter without a reservation. But when the hotel manager saw Daniel trying to enter, he allowed him to go in and participate.

Since that night, Daniel had gotten addicted to pin trading at the parks. Each time he goes to the park, he pin trades. He is not necessarily a pin collector, he trades to trade. For the fun of it only. Daniel had even bought lots of limited edition pins to give some lucky guest a chance to trade a starter pin for a good limited pin, that usually makes kids very happy.

The Magic Kingdom was one of the most popular parks in Orlando with the tourist and was the place Daniel loved to frequent to pin trade because of the amount of people who go there. Not only does Daniel trade with other guests, who get very happy to trade with such a friendly guy, but with cast members too. Daniel always followed the protocol of pin trading and was often talked about on message boards online. People often sought out Daniel to trade with and exchange stories.
Daniel saw of group of cast members hanging around a cast member entrance door who were all wearing lanyards with pins. No guests were around, so Daniel went up the the group to see what pins he could trade. When he got to them he saw someone he thought was his uncle. Daniel spoke to him as if he knew him, “What are you doing here?”

The guy dressed as a cast member seemed to be uneasy and agitated, but greeted Daniel as if he did not know him, “I’m sorry, did you want to see our pins?”

Daniel knew this was is uncle, “Uncle Charlie?”

“I’m sorry, my name is John Jenkins.” he said.

The other cast members were looking at John with strange, even worried looks on there faces.

“I am Daniel, your nephew. You raised me.” Daniel said looking for an answer.

“Are you okay? I don’t have any kids, not even married. Do we need to call someone?” John said to Daniel assuring him that he was not his Uncle Charlie. But Daniel was convinced that we was. Daniel started to walked off sulking and just as Daniel was out of range, John took a deep breath and left the park through the cast member door. His fellow workers followed.

“Dude, that was so close.” one of the cast members said to John.

“I know. They never told me what to do if I ran into him. They told me I wouldn’t. I had a feeling I would, but they swore I wouldn’t.” John said.

“Are you going to tell RED?” another one said.

“I think I need to,” John said.

Daniel decided to hide out on Tom Sawyer’s Island until the park closed and the coast was clear. He was hoping that if stayed in the park, more characters would come to life again. After his run ins at The Jungle Cruise, his Kim Possible in action, Cruella and her henchman, maybe they were as real as he was. Maybe there was a possibility that they got to play around after the park closed. So if he hung out long enough, he thought the cast members would come out and play. He could try to find out more information about what he is doing there.

Once he thought it was safe to come out of his hiding spot, he revealed himself and saw the magic of Magic Kingdom had really come to life. Fairies were flying around happy and free. He followed them to the edge of the island and to his surprise Tom Sawyer Island truly is for the pirates. In the middle of the water, Daniel could see the pirate ships had escaped from Pirates of The Caribbean ride and were battling Capitan Hook and his ship of bumbling pirates. It looked a bit comical to Daniel as the combination of characters and movies had come to life and were mingling with each other.

As Daniel turned around to walk to a different side of the island, away from the pirates, Peter Pan was standing directly behind him. “Hey Daniel, wanna play?”

“So, you know me too?”

“I know everyone who is a kid at heart.” Peter said.

“But I really am not.”

“You are too.”

“Not”

“too”

“Not”

“too, to infinity. I win.” Peter declared his victory, but Daniel could one up him.

“And beyond. I win,” he sarcastically said to Peter.

Daniel started to walk off and Peter followed him, copying every move and every gesture just as he was Daniel’s shadow. He could see Peter behind him from the corner of his eye and it was getting a little annoying. Once his frustration built to the point of no return, Daniel turned around to tell Peter to leave him alone, but he was gone. He turned back around and Peter was standing in front of him give him a startle. “Ugh” he said releasing his feelings.

“Why did you loose your kid?”

“What kid? What are you talking about?” Daniel asked raising his voice at Peter.

“The one in side you. You seem have all your marbles, but no kid.”

“Look, I am 21 years old. I can’t be a kid anymore. I have responsibilities, I have life.” Daniel replied.

Peter seemed a bit sad as Daniel continued walking away from him. But just then, Peter had an idea. “Pixie Dust!” he exclaimed.

Daniel turned around, “What about it?”

“You need some. With pixie dust you will find the magic and once you believe, you will get your kid back.” Peter explained. Just then, Peter leaped into the air and flew over Daniel sprinkling him with his magical pixie dust. Peter explained, “When you see pixie dust, you need to believe and then all your dreams will come true and take you to enchanted worlds you could only imagine.” He then flew off and soon vanished from Daniel’s sight.

Daniel knew in his heart that everything here must be real, but how could it be. Peter Pan was the same guy he saw in the park all day long. He was in the parade and greeting guests, but yet here he was flying over Tom Sawyer’s Island. He looked to see if he could see a wire Peter was attached to, but saw nothing. With a sigh, Daniel continued to walk to the other side of the island to the raft launch. He thought he would be able to paddle the raft to the other side of the island, he did not want to swim. He did not plan for there not to be way back, but the rafts were on the land side.

Standing at the launch contemplating his next move, Daniel heard something running in the bushes. Out comes a white rabbit wearing glasses with a red jacket on. Daniel knew immediately that he was from Alice in Wonderland. “I’m late, I’m late for an important date.” He said running out from the bushes on the island.

Daniel asked, “What are you late for?”

“Oh my, you need to come too.” The white rabbit grabbed Daniel’s hand, pulling him along one of the paths into the island. Suddenly with a quick turn, the two of them went off the path and past a few trees. The rabbit jumped into a rabbit hole and disappeared. Daniel stopped and peered down at the blackness of the hole. It was large enough for him to go through, but without seeing what was below he hesitated. What the hell, he thought. He jumped into the hole without regard to where he would end up.

The blackness engulfed Daniel as he seemed to be falling into a pit of nothingness. He could feel the air rushing past him as if he were falling at a high speed. He tried to open his eyes, but all he could see was darkness. Just then, he was stopped by something that made him bounce back up, almost like a trampoline. Just then, brightness appeared in the form of a movie surrounding him. It truly was not a movie; it was his life in rewind. Memories of his life were playing in front of him. He watched as he seemed to be floating in mid air. He saw his moments with Kim Possible. He saw as he showed up at the park. Then he was at his last job. Everything was playing in high speed reverse. There was his uncle and him playing with his friends, his movies and his favorite drawings. He looked so happy. Then there was something he did not remember; Daniel was in a building with people he did not know. Did he just not remember who these people were? Then there was a scene of him as a baby. Maybe it was his father that he had never met. There never was a scene with a woman that could be his mother. It ended with a team of men in white coats in a room with lots of experimental looking tools and one of the men was holding up a bottle with something in it. Daniel squinted to get a better look, but could not tell what it was. The memories began to feature sound and Daniel heard one of the men say, “I think we finally got a boy.” Just then the sound and lights went off and Daniel began to fall again.

When the lights came back on, Daniel found himself falling into a pool of water. Splash! Everything got into focus again and he pushed himself up. As he treaded water, he noticed that he was no longer at the Magic Kingdom, but was back at the Contemporary Hotel in the pool. He was in his clothes that he had on all day, shoes and all. He swam to the shallow side and rested on the steps. Trying to grasp all of what happened and what he saw. That night was exhausting. There was too much to take in all at once. As he sat there in his quiet, peaceful surroundings, he wondered if any one of those men in the movie of memories was his dad. He started to miss his aunt and uncle and his friends. There was something in him that was empty.

Running back to his room, Daniel bypassed all of the employees that were greeting him while trying to get back to his elevator. Trying not to cry, he got up to his room and slammed the door behind him. He looked around and a world of confusion engulfed him. He did not know weather he should be angry or sad at that moment. He had drawn a beautiful picture of Kim Possible in a sketch book that was left by a mysterious person earlier in the day; but when he looked for it for a little comfort, it was gone. Just like every picture he had drawn since he had been there. Everything disappears and Daniel did not know by who or when. He screamed to release the emotions that were building inside.

He sat down at the table and looked at the pencils and the blank pages in his book that now were there instead of the drawings he had spent time on. Daniel ripped out a page and threw it on the floor, then another. Picking up his pencil, he wrote the words, “Fuck You” on the page, then in anger, he threw the book across the room which hit the wall and fell to the ground. He started to cry and went to bed to forget about his day.

~ by jrpopfan on April 14, 2009.