The Kingdom Keepers: You Decide

The full summary is really: Florida, where the city meets the wilderness, and for Disney fans, where mystery meets magic. Nothing is more true for the selected DHI's, or the Kingdom Keepers who have a bigger responsibility than just remembering when to return to to use their FastPass. They have to constantly keep the forces of Disney's most villainous characters at bay. With the original 5 Kingdom keepers busy hard at work, it's up to the new ones to protect Disney.

A/N: This is a story a bunch of my friends and I have come up with please review to tell us what you think! :)

Chapter 1

Jet's alarm clock rang throughout his room, as he angrily tried to turn it off. He smashed the clock multiple times before it actually turned off. 5:30. He set his alarm on to wake up for school. On a Saturday. He covered his face with hands frustrated with himself, when he remembered that he was going to Disney world. That surely cheered him up. He quickly got dressed and ran downstairs for breakfast when he saw Alice standing there, helping his mother set the table. She had long blond hair, and glistening blue eyes. Her whimsical features always reminded him of Alice from the cartoon, and with the black headband in her hair she looked the part.
"Morning!" he called.

Alice smiled widely at him like a cat. "Good morrow, friend!" she called, waving her hand at him casually. That sort of language was common for her, unlike most other teens.
She adjusted her headband and tilted her head to the side. "You ready for the parks?" Her voice and language seemed more casual then. "I'm so excited, I feel like I'm gonna die." Then she reached out and grabbed him by the arm, dragging him along behind her. "Come on, walk faster, slow poke."

"Okay, okay I'm coming!" he said as he was being dragged outside of the house sideways, with a piece of toast still lodged in his mouth.
"Bye mom!", he yelled. It was muffled because of the toast.
"Bye you two, don't forget to wear sunblock!" she called back. They unanimously answered, "We know, we know!".

Alice walked beside him, still gripping his arm tightly. "So," she said, walking a good five steps ahead of him. "Have you heard about that DHI program?"
She glanced back at him and shot a smile. "I heard they want fresh faces," she said then twisted her mouth to the side as she looked him over. "However, you look fresh out of bed."

Jet looked up thinking he would see himself, and felt his hair for any "Poofs" on his head. He brushed it down with his hand and took out a granola bar from his Disney world backpack.

"Well if i would have known that you were gonna be there so early i would've woken up earlier!" he said exasperatedly. His jaw hurt from the obviously stale bar he was eating.
"Yeah, that DHI thing, the last kids that went into had to do all this crazy stuff. You think we could handle it? And it wouldn't be just us two right?"

Alice laughed at him and let go of his arm to reach into her pockets. "That's what I heard…" she said. I wonder how many kids will sign up for it. Or how many they'll take."
She stopped and stared forward at the sidewalk blankly. "Wait, Jet, where are we going?" A light laugh escaped from her lips. "Shouldn't we be taking a bus or something?"

"shoot" he screamed. "we've been walking in the wrong direction!". Jet lived exactly 15.32 miles from Disney world, and walking would take longer than their attention spans could handle. They made it to the bus stop, and passing his house, they both got a weird look from Jet's mother who was watering the flowers. They arrived just in time to catch the last morning bus, "the other ones wouldn't arrive until 12:30 and seeing as how it was only 7:30 it would be a very long wait. They arrived at the park before the gates opened and being season pass holders and long time Disney Fanatics they avoided the crowded line to buy tickets.

Alice looked around, her eyes gleaming. It was only the twenty-third time she had been there that year but she was still thrilled. "Where do you want to go first?" she asked, looking around like a little girl in a candy shop.
The crowds passed by them, some of them shooting annoyed glances. Alice was too distracted and filled with wonder to notice the fact that they were blocking Main Street traffic by standing directly in the middle of the street.

"Let's go to space mountain!" Jet said excitedly, they both quickly started out towards the coned shaped mountain, without noticing that they were being followed. They got in line and just before they were about to enter the queue that led to the interior of the ride, they were asked to get out and follow four men dressed in Dapper Dan costumes. Dapper Dan was a long honored tradition in the Magic Kingdom and neither of them had thought twice about them walking around the park. They entered through a door marked "Cast Members Only" door. It was a large room, almost as if they were going to film a movie or a show. They were led to a room in the back lined with green walls and a particular cast member with white hair, and brilliant blue eyes; on his name tag was inscribed with black lettering: WAYNE

Alice elbowed Jet in the arm. "Psst!" she whispered, gripping his arm tightly. "What's going on? Are we in trouble?"

"Ssh! Just don't look suspicious ok? We can handle this"

Wayne grinned and started to raise from his seat in the middle of the room. He came closer and examined them carefully. The two kids just stood there, Alice as nervous as could be and Jet had a placid face, though his attention was on the immense green walls around him. He glimpsed around and saw, to the right of where Wayne had been sitting, hangers full of suits, with various pressure points on it, in various sizes.
"No way!", Jet said excitedly, not realizing that he actually said it aloud.
"Yes, Jet", Jake flinched at the sound of his name being used by the old man with white hair, how did he know his name
"You two have been selected", continued Wayne, "To be some of our new DHI's"
Alice's reaction was pure joy and excitement, Jet's was utter shock and confusion.

After Alice's short episode of jumping up and down and waving her arms and squealing, she stopped and her face drew a blank as her epiphany hit her. She hadn't even auditioned and yet there they were, about to just jump in. Just that morning they had talked about auditioning; had someone overheard them? They were just outside of Jet's house, miles away from Disney property. Why was this happening?
"Wait– who are you? Why are we auditioning? I'm totally lost," Alice said, looking around with innocent eyes and her hands clasped onto Jet's arm. "Is this a joke?"

Brian was busy acting out all these poses for the Imagineers when he noticed two more people being brought it by Wayne.

Alice glanced over at Brian and pursed her lips uncomfortably, trying to meet eyes with him, to get some sort of signal from him that this wasn't just some sort of trick. She seemed terribly afraid of everything going on around her.

All of a sudden another person was being dragged in. It was a girl around the ages of all three teens in the room. She looked around as she stood next to a Dapper Dan herself.. All of a sudden she shouted in a sassy tone, "Will anyone CARE to explain what in the world I am doing here?"
Wayne looked up and smiled, "Hello Katherine."
The girl shuddered for she hated being called Katherine.."It's Kat by the way.. So who in the world are you?"

The old man pointed to the dark lettering on his badge where his name was and smiled at them as he said, "My name is Wayne Kresky."
Alice unglued herself from Jet's arm and turned to look at Katt. "So you're as confused as I am?" she asked, her eyes dancing with worry. "I'm so lost, I don't even know what we're doing here."
Wayne just watched them, feeling as if his commentary was unnecessary at them moment, just studying how they all reacted with each other.

Kat starts to stare around.. She looks at Alice Jet and Brian.. "And you are??"
They all say there name back. Kat then says, "Well I'm Kat."
Then she stares at Wayne.. she gives him a curious look. Then finally decides starting to get impatient, "Will you like say something! I have been dragged away and I don't even know where I am!"
Wayne looks at Kat curiously then at everyone else, almost as if saying in his head I knew it.
Finally Wayne speaks, "Kat you come almost every weekend, sometimes you ride, sometimes you sit and read, and sometimes you explore, I think the Kingdom will get along fine without you for one day. Yes I know who you all are and all your trips to Walt Disney World."
Kat stares flabbergasted.. Then finally starts to say something, then decides against it. Then once again she starts to speak with her sassy tone back, "Old creeper much?"
She then looks over at Alice being the other girl. She sees confusion but kindness in her face… Kat then gets up and starts to walk around.. "So old man are you going to tell me what's going on, or should I leave." Though she threatened to leave, Wayne knew she wouldn't. He could see her curiosity in her and all the other teens, he knew he was beginning his choices well.

"Katherine," Wayne used her full name again, not exactly ready to start calling any of them by nicknames. "We have been studying several of you as possibilities for our Daylight Holographic Imaging program, and you were one of those who were chosen. This is one of the easiest ways to contact you, we hope you don't mind," he said, keeping a completely straight face.
"So… you're saying that we never actually needed to audition? You guys were studying us, waiting for us to show up… You based the auditions off of what you saw in us when we visited the parks?" Alice asked him, slowly catching on. "And now you're asking us if… we want to participate?"

Brian caught Alice trying to make eye contact with him. He responded with a ' The same thing happened to me' look.

Alice opened her mouth again, this time not to Wayne, but to Brian. "And you," she called out to him in concern. "How long have you been here?" she asked, dragging him into the conversation along with the rest of them.

Alice looked off into the distance thoughtfully, crossing her arms as she got lost in space. She snapped back to reality suddenly, her head shifting back to look at Brian. "Do you come here to the parks a lot?" she asked him, then looked him in the eye again and tossed her blonde hair over her shoulder. " I just… I don't think I understand how Mr. Kresky could have known which of us to study.. I mean. Thousands of kids visit the parks every day. Why us?"

"I come here often. Maybe he looked who visited the parks the most and chose them. Then he had people spy on us and see if we ft the criteria." Brian said.

Kat looked down at her old converse shoes. She came almost everyday for a long time. She began to wonder if this was why, but something was lingering in the back of her mind. Was it because of something else. Did they somehow know that she sometimes went off where she wasn't suppose to, sometimes for a quiet place to think, write or read or sometimes for an adventure? She began to wonder if any of the other people here did that.

Alice bit her lip. "Well, I go every weekend with Jet," she said. We always go together. Always." She thought about all the times they had entertained the crowds with their spectacular Disney knowledge, or helped out any of the lost guests. She was like the guide they never hired. Had they been watching her then?

Kat didn't want to say how many times she went to Disney, for she knew it was too often. It was this place though, it lightened her moods and gave her what she needed to think. Even if it was every weekend and almost everyday after school, plus those summers day after day. Some people thought it would get boring, but if they knew what she had seen..

Then all of a sudden Kat snaps back up.."You called me Katherine again old man."
Then just as suddenly, her anger was gone and she listened to what Brian, jet, and Alice were going to say.

Then Kat began to think.. Jet and Alice knew each other, isn't that strange that they would "chose" two people who knew each other. She didn't know how this was going to work now..

"And what about you? Jake i believe?" Said Wayne, his attention now on Jet.
"For someone with your kind of excitement and enthusiasm that i see around the parks, you're being very quiet", he finished.
"What? Oh sorry", he replied. He was still in a state of shock.
"I've heard about the Kingdom Keepers, and I've seen them around the park as hosts, but I never thought that I would be one. I mean, I made fun of Alice for even mentioning it this morning, i thought she was crazy!". He glanced over at his friend and noticed that she was still in amazement.
"Am I the only one who can't believe this is happening?" he yelled.

Alice grabbed Jet's arm again, this time with a softer and more nurturing nature. "Jet," she said softly. "Jet, calm down." She looked over at Wayne and then at Kat and Brian, then back at Jet again. "Well, unless you and I have developed a case of schizophrenia, yes, this is happening." she said.
"But honestly, Wayne?– I mean," she swallowed, noticing her error in manners. "Mr. Kresky," she corrected herself. "I don't understand why you picked us of all people."

"I dunno," Brian replied, "Five, ten.. maybe fifteen minutes."

Kat was unsure what to think of Wayne, Jet, Alice, and Brian. She liked Alice but she was unsure of how she would get along with the rest. Kat liked Alice for seeming somewhat quiet but nice and especially calm. Kat was normally the one who would throw herself out there to talk.. but now she was unsure. Kat was always sure of stuff, because she always would get away and think, mostly in Disney World. But now, she just couldn't walk out and think, and this confused her.
She went back to staring at her shoes, then she looked up and around and saw a chair. She went and sat down. Then totally ignoring everyone else… she began to play what looked like she was trying to play an invisible piano. It relaxed her, then she stared up again to see them all staring into space.. She knew she wasn't alone in her thoughts…
Kat looked up again, thinking about what Alice just said… "Will someone just finally answer our freaking questions." She now stared directly at Wayne, Kat knew that when she wanted something, she would somehow find a way to get it, and answers was something she would find a way to get.

"I've got it!" yelled Jet. "This isn't happening! I probably hit my head on Space mountain during one of the turns and now I'm having some crazy dream! okay, I'm okay now, we can continue". Everyone looked at Jet as if he was crazy and Alice stepped back from him in case he had a fit.
"Dude, this is for real.", Brian said after finally realizing what was going on.

Kat looked up, "That's the thing though. I have no idea what is "for real". Then she burst out laughing, a trait that often happened out of no where. They all stared at her.. She spoke, "Sorry I just think its funny how we are all like oh em gee.. but I have no idea what we are Oh em geeing about"
Then she looked up…almost daring them to tell her what was going on.

Alice raised her hands in defeat. "Jet, Jet, stop." she said, then lowering her arms to her side. "You're freaking me out. Just stop, please. I mean, things weren't this bad when I fell down the rabbit hole," she said, starting to blabber about "the Wonderland experience."
"Shouldn't we be happy that we even got the opportunity to be DHIs?" she asked them all openly as she crossed her arms across her waist as if she was hugging herself and leaned against the edge of a desk across from Jet. "I mean, sure, I'm just as surprised as the rest of you. But, maybe we should stop questioning it. This is a huge opportunity."

Kat stares at Alice.. "Well what do you expect from me? I don't even know what this DHI thing is anyway. I only heard of it once but I wasn't really paying attention."
Kat then looks at Alice again.. the rabbit hole experience.. Kat shrugs it off dieing to get away and maybe think or play piano..
Then she looks up again.

"Fine, what do we have to do?" he asked, finally admitting what was happening. The other kids in the room were friendly and he knew that this wasn't a bad thing, just an unbelievable one.

Wayne jumped in, "I'm sure you've all heard the saying, seeing is believing, yes?". All the kids shook their heads.
"Well, the group of Disney Villains, the Overtakers, are using this tactic. If you don't believe, you won't see them. Which is why we have kids help us. Nothing is more powerful than the imagination, as the narrator in fantasmic puts it." The kids stared blankly. "The reason I bring this up" he continued, looking at Jet,"Is because you need to believe, and fast, we don't have much time, we need to get you suited up and filmed", he finished.

Alice's eyes glimmered when he said "suited up."
"Ooh," she said, bouncing off of the desk immediately and raising her hands in excitement, about to the level of her head. "Like, costumes?" she asked, suddenly dropping the cool, casual attitude.

"Yo, Wayne, can I be done yet? I'm starting to get a rash wearing this suit." Brian said.
"Fine. Go change back into your clothes. We have enough information for your DHI. Who's next?" Wayne replied.
Brian sighed in relief.

Kat stares still.
Kat had stood back up and had her hands on her hips. Though she seemed moody and sassy like, Kat knew that she shouldn't act like this. It wasn't her to just get mad like this. Oh well she thought. If this is really important they will get to know the real me.
In reality, Kat was excited. It was a new adventure, like the ones in her songs. Then she moved towards the group again and looked at Wayne. "So tell me what to do old guy." Though it sounded rude she said it in a friendly manner that wasn't. Wayne recognized this as the girl he had been watching. He stared at her and smiled… that was her.. saying, sure I'll be next..

Next up was Jet and Alice. Alice was doing various poses as if she was going out for a vogue shoot. Little did she know that she would gesturing and pointing, not bending and snapping. They finished quickly and all the kids were in the clothes that they had originally been in when they walked, were dragged rather, in. "One last thing" Wayne said. You need to work together as a collective group, no one gets left behind, you will become a family, Ohana, that means family.."
"And family means nobody gets left behind" Jet said, jumping in. The other kids looked at him, but he didn't notice.
"Right" Wayne replied with a smile. Then there was a puff of smoke, and Wayne was gone. The kids were amazed.
"Trap door", Brian said.
"No, Real, we need to start believing, now" Jet replied.
They all looked at him with agreement slapped across their faces.
"Let's do this" Alice said.

"Do what? We haven't been told a thing except we have to work together." Brian said.

Alice paused. "Wait. But, what exactly are we doing?" she asked. "All we're doing is signing up to be DHI's," a little bit of laughter slipped out. "It's not like we're gonna be.. I mean.." she lost the term she was going to use to make her statement comical. "What do you guys think we're getting ourselves into?"

Kat looked up. Jet had just quoted lilo and stitch.. Maybe this would work out.
Kat looked up again.. "So what now?" do we pass out our phone numbers and addresses? I mean what else do we need to do besides pose? And.. Why in the world would we need to work together and get to know each other?"

"I dunno, but it couldn't hurt to get to know each other." Brian said.
"Well you can normally find me in MK or AK.. but here's my number and address."

"Well, um," Alice looked around a bit pensively at the others. "Sure, cool, I can do this, I guess." she said and pulled out a scrap of paper." She scribbled something on it, tore it into equal parts for the others and handed them around. "That's my number, you can call me anytime." she said.
"You'll usually find me at Epcot or Magic Kingdom. On weekdays, if I'm not here, I'm at the park somewhere," she said. "Call me and I'll give you my email and address then, I don't have enough paper for all that."

"Okay," Brian said, writing down Kat's number and address and taking the paper Alice had handed out. "Here's mine." said he, showing the others his information. "I hang at Epcot on Fridays and Saturdays. Occasionally Hollywood Studios."

"Maybe we should all get together sometime," Alice said, happy to see everyone participating eagerly. "Like, maybe the day after tomorrow? I'm free then. And what day is it, oh, right it's Friday. Three day weekend." She titled her head to the side in thought. "Sunday afternoon? At the frozen yogurt place by the park?" she suggested.

Kat asks, "What time?"

"Hmm, um… one o clock? We can get some lunch," Alice said.

Kat looks at all them once more, "I might be a little late." Kat turns around and walks out the door, shouting behind her, "See you then," and then,"Call"

Alice watched her go, shocked at her sudden exit, then smiled and said, "See you later," she called, waving good-bye.

A/N: I hoped you enjoyed! Please review! If there are any mistakes let me now, most of them will likely be from when I uploaded it though.. :P