1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 clears throat. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:07,000 I gather round, you scurvy dogs, for what I'm about to tell you is a tale so wild, 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,520 you'll think it a legend. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,280 But every word be true. 5 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:15,680 It's me, Captain Redbeard, scourge of the seas, and as fate would have it, the skies 6 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:16,680 too. 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:21,040 Now sit ye down, and I'll spin ye the yarn of how I escaped to Cursed Island. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,840 Not by ship, but by flying. 9 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:27,680 I, flying, you won't be believing it, but I swear on me mother's beard. 10 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,760 It happened just as I'll tell ye. 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:36,480 It all started when me, no good, rotten crew, turned coats the lot of them, decided they'd 12 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:41,880 had enough of old Captain Redbeard, and left me marooned on a sun-blasted rock in the middle 13 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:43,280 of nowhere. 14 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,680 They thought they'd seen the last of me, but oh, how wrong they were. 15 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:51,280 Days turned into weeks, and the sea became a distant memory. 16 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:57,640 I was left with nothing but me wits, a handful of coconuts, and the sun scorching me brains. 17 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:04,920 But then, one fateful day, I spotted a seagull, I, a fine bird, with feathers white as sea 18 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:10,480 foam and wings that stretched wide, carrying him through the skies with ease. 19 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:16,320 I watched the bird soar above me head, and at first I cursed him, thinking of the freedom 20 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,760 he had that I'd lost. 21 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,720 But ye see, the bird didn't leave me. 22 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:29,360 No, this particular seagull, a scrappy fellow I named Squawk, decided to make me his friend. 23 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,760 At first, I thought to catch old Squawk and roast him for supper, but the little bugger 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,600 was smarter than I gave him credit for. 25 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,960 He squawk'd and fluttered about, so full of life that I couldn't bring myself to do 26 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:41,960 it. 27 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:44,280 Instead, we struck a deal of sorts. 28 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,240 I fed him bits of fish I caught in the tide pools, and in return Squawk entertained me 29 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:51,480 with his company. 30 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,680 But it wasn't just his company he brought me. 31 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,080 Aye, the bird started leaving me gifts. 32 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,360 Every morning, I'd wake up to find a feather or two on the sand where Squawk had perched 33 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,360 the night before. 34 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,280 It was as if he knew I was telling him me best jokes. 35 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,560 What's a pirate's favorite letter? 36 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:17,240 You think it be the R, but it's the C. Squawk would flap his wings and squawk as if he understood. 37 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:20,680 And every day, I'd find more feathers, bright and clean. 38 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,960 Now here's where me pirate brain kicked in. 39 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,360 After a few days of collecting these feathers, I got to thinking, if this bird could fly 40 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:29,960 away what was stopping me? 41 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,040 Aye, it hit me like a tidal wave. 42 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,160 I could build myself wings with these feathers. 43 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,800 And so, I began planning me escape. 44 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,840 I spent weeks collecting feathers, telling jokes to old Squawk, and weaving the feathers 45 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,120 into a grand pair of wings. 46 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:50,080 I used driftwood from the wrecks that washed ashore and vines from the island's trees 47 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,320 to tie it all together. 48 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:58,680 The work was slow, aye, but with every feather Squawk gifted me, I grew closer to me freedom. 49 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:04,560 I told him, why couldn't the pirate play cards because he was standing on the deck? 50 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,240 Squawk squawked louder than a storm. 51 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,680 He'd never heard such fine pirate humor. 52 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,880 The day finally came. 53 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:17,920 I strapped me makeshift wings to me back, stood atop the tallest cliff the island had 54 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:21,640 to offer, and stared out at the vast ocean. 55 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:27,800 Squawk circled overhead, giving me one last cheer as if to say, go on mate, it's your 56 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,520 time. 57 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,600 I took a deep breath, muttered a quick prayer to the sea gods, and leapt. 58 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:39,760 For a moment, me heart stopped as I fell toward the waves, but then the wind caught 59 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:41,000 me wings. 60 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,720 By the beard and Neptune I was flying, soaring over the ocean like a bird, free as the gulls 61 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:48,160 that followed me. 62 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:53,520 I flew and flew, far from the cursed rock where I'd been stranded. 63 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:57,360 After hours in the air, a ship on the horizon spotted me. 64 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,120 The crew thought they'd seen a ghost, but I landed aboard, feathers in me hair, and 65 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,120 a grin on me face wider than the open sea. 66 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,400 They didn't believe it at first, but after hearing me tale, they had no choice but to 67 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:13,600 believe I'd flown across the ocean itself. 68 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:19,320 And so, Yalot, remember this, Captain Redbeard ain't one to be held down not by land, sea, 69 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:20,320 or sky. 70 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:26,960 I, with the help of a friendly bird and a few good jokes, I escaped the inescapable. 71 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:45,960 Now raise your tankards to Captain Redbeard, the first pirate to sail the skies.