A/N: I've been meaning to write one-shots about the Keepers before the series. From meeting each other to family bonds, you're very welcome to suggest! Any age, any Keeper (or Fairlie!), any place. To start them I'll start like the series started-Finn at the Magic Kingdom. Only, this time, he isn't 13 years old, but a 5 year old. I'll refer to him as 'Larry', because KKI said that's the name he used before third grade.
Disclaimer: I'm not Ridley Pearson, I don't own Kingdom Keepers, and if I did I'd be writing KKV while hearing Batman music, not writing fanfics while singing along to Relient K.
5-year-old Larry Whitman loved Disney. Not just the movies, which of course he loved, but the parks, too.
Mommy and Daddy didn't take him to the parks much that year, something that had to do with Mommy's big belly and an unborn sister his parents kept talking about. For Larry, not going to the parks too often only made him enjoy the parks more when he did go.
With his Mickey balloon, his autograph notebook (or one of his many, more like it), and a big smile on his face, Larry Whitman traveled his favorite park, the Magic Kingdom, sitting on Daddy's shoulders.
He loved the smell of Main Street U.S.A., the parades that involved pirates and swords, meeting his favorite heroes and villains, and, he probably wouldn't admit as a teenager, getting kissed on the cheek by the Princesses, Snow White specially, when he took a picture with them.
Larry loved the tunnels in Tom Sawyer Island, the Haunted Mansion(which stopped scaring him that year), It's A Small World, and, weirdly, staring at the old Firehouse. He would soon forget this, but sometimes he swore he saw a white-haired man staring back at him.
That year, Daddy tried to make Larry interested in rides like Splash Mountain, the Barnstormer, and Big Thunder Mountain, because he had finally reached the minimum height. But Larry was too scared to ride. He looked at those rides and saw ups, downs, huge falls, and screaming children. No way he'd ride anything like that. Little Larry being scared of such basic rides didn't please Daddy much, but with a lot of coaxing from Larry's mom, Daddy didn't force him to ride anything Larry did not want to ride.
Larry enjoyed the fireworks, too. They scared him a little bit, but his fear was forgotten every time he saw the gold, pixie-dust-like fireworks. Seeing Tinkerbell fly through the sky made his night, and when the speakers played "When You Wish Upon A Star" he got really sleepy, and knew it was time to go home.
Every time Larry passed the gates to go home, he whispered a silent "Bye bye" to the Castle and, just before falling asleep on his daddy's arms, wondered about the Park at night, when not a single kid was in it. Must be a happy place, filled with adventure, magic, and sword-fighting!
And the next morning, the first thing he'd do was ask his parents when they would take him to the place where dreams really do come true again.
A/N: Adorable little Finny. -sigh- I can't believe he's almost 16. They grow up so fassstttt! -cries-
Anyway, back to normal, LOL, review&suggest ideas? :D
-287 days for KKV: Shell Game-
