Pirate Island
Mum said we were leaving soon, which is really rubbish as I really enjoyed playing with my friend Billy, he’s 10 and he owns the best teddy bear in the world, his name’s Ian. Every day me Billy and Ian play pirates and cops and robbers and once we were even allowed to have water pistols to have a really big water fight where Ian got really wet and Billy got really annoyed as Ian never really dried well so now we call him saggy Ian... which I think is really funny, Billy doesn’t though. Mum said I had to stop playing with them though as she said he was bad for me as he’s bad for my imagination as I always come back telling her of all the dragons we slay on Pirate Island! I think it’s not the imagination thing at all, I think mum gets worried because she’s afraid the evil pirates will mistake me as a dwarf and slay me through the heart, she worried a lot! Billy knew I was leaving, so did Ian, but Billy said I could keep Ian as he was never going to dry properly and he smells funny and his eye is sort of falling out, but I like him, everyone should like him, Ian rules. Mum said we were leaving in a week, but she said that last week, so me, Billy and Ian just act like it’s our last day together every day and it’s always more fun as we never waste a minute, you can’t ever waste a minute, not on Pirate Island!
There was one time, where me and Billy climbed really high on the trees near the church and I fell really hard and when I woke up everyone was really worried and upset, but I wasn’t. Billy was there and said that everything was going to be ok, and everything was, I really missed Ian for ages after that, as he got caught up the tree and my Dad had to go up after him, but that was after I cried and cried because I missed him so much. He was wet when I got him back as he’d been dropped in the muddy puddle, which is why Billy got so upset because he wanted his dad to go get it, but his Dad never really did much of anything other than drink dad pop. I always thought that was funny ‘dad pop’ it always sounds like poop. So every time I see him drinking dad pop I always think he’s drinking dad poop. I had to have six stitches on my head and they had to cut my hair which I cried about, I don’t cry at a lot, but I thought when your hair gets cut it was like when you lose a leg and it doesn’t grow back, it did do in the end but I was so scared.
Me, Billy and Ian were on Pirate Island battling huge dinosaurs when I heard a maiden call for help, I got my sword and I slayed the beast, right though the eyes! It went blind and got confused and tumbled over, Ian used his eye lasers to burn the beasts teeth of his jaws then Billy jumped up high and cut off the beasts tail and it ran away, we ran to the maiden and she said it was time to move and I had to pack up my things and go home, but I told her that I had more beasts to slay with my band of mighty pirates and she said I could carry on playing till the sun set. Knowing it was our last day together as the Mighty Trio, we knew there was one last thing to do- defeat the evil sorcerer Killerzoid, half evil wizard, half evil robot. It took several stabs of my killer nunchucks and Ian used his invincibility shield to protect Billy so he could take Killerzoid’s magic staff away for me to take the last and final stab at his evil heart. When I did he turned himself into an evil tree and I shot flames from my sword and he died, crying and screaming. Me Billy and Ian, stood as the sun set as he finally was vanquished. We were heroes! We could finally leave Pirate Island, but Billy said he had to stay and wouldn’t say why, I cried, but Billy made me feel better when he said that he’ll use Ian as a walkie talkie if I ever wanted to talk. I was sad when I left in the big van. Mum said Billy had left a long time ago and I had to get over that he had left, and that pretending he was still there was bad for me, but she never sees him. She doesn’t know that Ian uses his invisibility to make sure he can’t be seen. As Billy is a wanted pirate, and if he’s ever seen the evil Killerzoid would come alive again and kill the world. I never understood why she cried though, it’s always ‘Molly listen, Molly, listen’ she always said she wished she could make me see, make me see that Billy had passed away, that I was ill because I fell real hard, but I think she just has spent too much time off Pirate Island.
I could see Billy waving goodbye from the stone he always liked to stand next to in the cemetery, he looked happy and was waving and I waved back, so did Ian. The sun had nearly gone and Mum said I wouldn’t see Billy again, but she didn’t know I had a walkie talkie to speak to him, that’s just mine and Ian’s little secret. I can still hear him sometimes, but everyday his voice gets fainter, but it should get better once I get some more batteries.
The Return of Pirate Island
I wasn’t expected to say anything in the meetings, not really. Jojo would usually speak for most of them; he was a ‘class A’. Other words, he had the most severe mental traumatisation of any of us. Every meeting he would talk about how he saw his brother die and how he speaks to him when no one’s watching. Never did put a good start to the evening. He’s nice though, old Jojo. He taught me how to play poker once, but most nights we end up playing chess and he lets me smoke his cigars, I hate cigars though. My name’s Molly by the way, a few years ago my friend died after falling from a tree and he speaks to me through Ian, Ian’s my teddy. I’ll be 16 next week and Jojo said that he’s going to make me a birthday cake if the wardens let him have some ingredients. They never do though, every time we ask for anything they just give us more morphine. My bedrooms nice, it’s no Pirate Island though. I go back there every now and then to make sure the evil Killerzoid hasn’t found Billy, the boy who died. I want to go back soon, Billy hasn’t spoken to me in a while, and I keep worrying that he’s caught him.
Pirate Island is amazing I can’t even describe how beautiful it is, there’s flying dragons, dinosaurs and obviously, pirates! I promised Jojo next time I go I’ll take him there, but I don’t know if he’ll be welcome, Billy always did get jealous when new people would come play with me, it’s so frustrating but I’m his bestest buddy and best friends always do what the others tell them and always help them out. It’s the law. The warden talked to me yesterday and said I could leave if I did a couple of things, one would be to stop talking to Ian, and the other if I stopped talking to Jojo, they said I couldn’t talk to people who were more ill than I was but I think they being too mean on old Jojo, he’s nice and he’s getting a rough time and I think it helps when he talks to me as I help him as we both have friends other people can’t see. We both know they’re real and only because not everyone can see them it doesn’t mean they’re not real just that they are too closed minded to see them.
I said not a chance and he just shook his head and walked away, he’s not as nice as Juliet. Juliet is the head warden, and she doesn’t mind it when me, Ian and Jojo play together, she just watches and sometimes she even makes us all tea, I like Juliet. She smells funny though, a bit of a mixture of coffee and grandmas... I do like her, but she’s not enough to stop me from seeing Billy, I know what I have to do, and I’ve got to do it soon, I’m going to take Ian with me and break out of here. First things first, I’ll have to tell Jojo, but he usually ends up shrugging off and saying I’m crazy, but I always say that he’s crazy one, the silly man. And he did just do that, he didn’t call me crazy though, he just hugged me and walked off. I took my things that night, and I used a bobby pin and I pick-locked the window in the sitting room, I was very nervous, I was finally going to return to Pirate Island!
There were a lot of lights and alarms going off when I left, it was like a firework display, and they were people running to me wanting to give me a hug goodbye, but I was in my running mood and wanted to run really fast, as if I ran fast enough I could teleport there as that’s what Ian said. He told me to return to Pirate Island I had to run and run and run until I couldn’t feel my legs and not let the running men catch up with me or I’ll never see Billy ever again. I got to a shed and I slept inside in the whole night and when I woke up I was there, I finally got to Pirate Island! It was like being home again, there were birds the size of houses flying over my head and the ocean was rippling over my toes and I felt this sizzling sensation over my body, I felt alive.
‘I’ve got to try again, I don’t care if it kills her just pass me that god-damn syringe’, a nurse passes the doctor a syringe of adrenaline in a white room, a young woman is laid having a fit on the table ‘who the hell let her go!? I told you, you couldn’t support her fucking fantasies’ the sound of flesh on metal echoes around the room. ‘Jojo? Who in Jesus is Jojo?’ The nurses explain about the girls illusions, the personality of an old man with similar problems to her helped her adjust to reality, it was better than how she was.... ‘you can’t keep leading her on, she has to know, she needs to cope with the truth’. The head nurse Juliet tried to explain, when a girl accidently kills her friend, especially at such a young age it can make them dangerous, it can cause them to harm others, ‘she needs to deal with it head on, we’ve been over this Julie, she can’t have both Ian, Billy and another personality you’re causing her to sink further, she’s going to lose it completely’. A shriek of the girl on the table piercings everyone’s ears...
He’s safe I found him, Billy was ok, he just had to use his ultra invisibility to stay quiet as Killerzoid had nearly found him. I was really worried. He told me to go back though, until he needed me, and I will, best friends have got to stay together.
Escape from Pirate Island
Molly hadn’t talked me in over 5 years, I’ve been trying to avoid the evil half-wizard half-robot Killerzoid for 11 years by staying invisible. But he’s finding me, I can feel him when he’s close, the second he finds me I’m done for. It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have kept in touch with her, people didn’t believe her when she said she was talking to me, I don’t blame them either, I am dead after all. Maybe I was scared to stop talking to her, maybe I thought by speaking to her I had a life line back to life, like I hadn’t really died. It doesn’t matter anymore, but I need to get in touch with her one last time. I need her help to finally destroy Killerzoid. I used to use my teddy Ian to speak with her, he was soggy and had an eye missing after she dropped him in a puddle when I fell of the tree, she tried to catch me but she couldn’t. I don’t blame her, she tried really hard, but she wasn’t strong enough...
She had a family now, and a baby called Billy. That’s my name too. I know she can hear me, but it’s like she ignores me on purpose. Sometimes she speaks back but it’s to usually tell me to be quiet, that she’s grown up now, and she has to be left alone with her family. I’d leave her alone but if Killerzoid comes back to life it would mean bad things for her, it would take her back to Pirate Island, for good. One night I kept calling her name, I wouldn’t stop because I knew if I did all would be lost for us. I think I got through too, all I heard was that she would try, and that I shouldn’t get in touch again or she could lose her baby, I really didn’t want her to lose her baby.
‘Shush Billy, Mummy will only be gone for a little while, I’ll be back soon. Stay sleeping little one, think of Pirate Island, the place of miracles and dreams and you’ll wake up to see another sunny, bright day’. Molly tucked in baby Billy and set off into the night, the snow was fierce, it was baby Billy’s first Christmas and Molly wasn’t confident that he’d have his mummy for his second. She knew it would have to happen though, one last visit, to finally escape from Pirate Island... for good.
She went back to an old cemetery, one she just to live very close to when she was a child, one which was very close to a place where she lost a close friend, where she couldn’t hold on, one what left her mentally damaged for so many years, she really didn’t want to be back here, but she knew, it was the only way to finally be cured. Juliet was so nice, spending so much time making her better, playing along with her hallucinations. She was a head warden but now she’s retired, and acting Godmother to little baby Billy. Molly knew if things turned out for the worse they would still be a mum waiting for him, even if it wasn’t her.
She approached Billy’s grave, and rubbed her hands across the stone which wore his name. Hearing his voice she closed her eyes and found herself once more in the flourishing fields of Pirate Island. There was something wrong this time, there wasn’t the same feeling of euphoria, and Billy couldn’t be seen anywhere. A flash of white rose over the mountains in the distant, it was a wave of snow, racing towards her, a hand grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her under a shelter. It was Billy. ‘Just one last favour Moll, I’m so sorry for everything, just one last favour, I promise’, Molly swelled up with tears and hugged him ‘you’re a clumsy fool, you know that? What do we need to do?’ Billy explained that Killerzoid had only one thing to keep him alive and once it’s gone Billy can finally live in peace, a golden orb what needed to be thrown into the salt water Pirate Island was infamous for having.
They went out, both looking worn but hopeful, there was an impending sensation that this time they weren’t going to make it. It was ok, this time, it would be the end. Billy knew where the orb was, Molly had left Ian with baby Billy, to keep him safe, to make sure one of the three old friends would have a future. Killerzoid appeared at the instant, Molly realised straight away why, it was Billy, he wasn’t invisible, Killerzoid had found him. Killerzoid took his staff and tried to cast a spell on Molly and Billy but it only turned the snow into water, he was too weak to cast any true sorcery. Billy threw himself on top of the evil wizard while Molly searched him, it was there, the golden orb, she picked it up and ran to the shore, her arms raised, she threw it as hard as she could into the deep salted water. Behind her came an impending shadow, it was Billy, he was turning white, transparent. She could just make out what he was trying to say.... ‘thank you’.
I found myself back at Billy’s grave, the voices were gone, I was so worried I wasn’t going to see my baby again, I was so worried I was going crazy. I really don’t know if I am, if all this was real, but I know I can sleep knowing Billy’s ok, I can rest easy knowing Pirate Island is no longer ruled by Killerzoid. It worries me though, he came back so easily, could he not return? I went back home that night, I looked into my little Billy’s cot and there he was sound asleep, holding Ian. I can sleep.
‘Molly, MOLLY, it’s me Billy! Something’s gone wrong very very wrong, it’s Killerzoid’.
‘Shush dear, it’s over now. It’s over...’
There was one time, where me and Billy climbed really high on the trees near the church and I fell really hard and when I woke up everyone was really worried and upset, but I wasn’t. Billy was there and said that everything was going to be ok, and everything was, I really missed Ian for ages after that, as he got caught up the tree and my Dad had to go up after him, but that was after I cried and cried because I missed him so much. He was wet when I got him back as he’d been dropped in the muddy puddle, which is why Billy got so upset because he wanted his dad to go get it, but his Dad never really did much of anything other than drink dad pop. I always thought that was funny ‘dad pop’ it always sounds like poop. So every time I see him drinking dad pop I always think he’s drinking dad poop. I had to have six stitches on my head and they had to cut my hair which I cried about, I don’t cry at a lot, but I thought when your hair gets cut it was like when you lose a leg and it doesn’t grow back, it did do in the end but I was so scared.
Me, Billy and Ian were on Pirate Island battling huge dinosaurs when I heard a maiden call for help, I got my sword and I slayed the beast, right though the eyes! It went blind and got confused and tumbled over, Ian used his eye lasers to burn the beasts teeth of his jaws then Billy jumped up high and cut off the beasts tail and it ran away, we ran to the maiden and she said it was time to move and I had to pack up my things and go home, but I told her that I had more beasts to slay with my band of mighty pirates and she said I could carry on playing till the sun set. Knowing it was our last day together as the Mighty Trio, we knew there was one last thing to do- defeat the evil sorcerer Killerzoid, half evil wizard, half evil robot. It took several stabs of my killer nunchucks and Ian used his invincibility shield to protect Billy so he could take Killerzoid’s magic staff away for me to take the last and final stab at his evil heart. When I did he turned himself into an evil tree and I shot flames from my sword and he died, crying and screaming. Me Billy and Ian, stood as the sun set as he finally was vanquished. We were heroes! We could finally leave Pirate Island, but Billy said he had to stay and wouldn’t say why, I cried, but Billy made me feel better when he said that he’ll use Ian as a walkie talkie if I ever wanted to talk. I was sad when I left in the big van. Mum said Billy had left a long time ago and I had to get over that he had left, and that pretending he was still there was bad for me, but she never sees him. She doesn’t know that Ian uses his invisibility to make sure he can’t be seen. As Billy is a wanted pirate, and if he’s ever seen the evil Killerzoid would come alive again and kill the world. I never understood why she cried though, it’s always ‘Molly listen, Molly, listen’ she always said she wished she could make me see, make me see that Billy had passed away, that I was ill because I fell real hard, but I think she just has spent too much time off Pirate Island.
I could see Billy waving goodbye from the stone he always liked to stand next to in the cemetery, he looked happy and was waving and I waved back, so did Ian. The sun had nearly gone and Mum said I wouldn’t see Billy again, but she didn’t know I had a walkie talkie to speak to him, that’s just mine and Ian’s little secret. I can still hear him sometimes, but everyday his voice gets fainter, but it should get better once I get some more batteries.
The Return of Pirate Island
I wasn’t expected to say anything in the meetings, not really. Jojo would usually speak for most of them; he was a ‘class A’. Other words, he had the most severe mental traumatisation of any of us. Every meeting he would talk about how he saw his brother die and how he speaks to him when no one’s watching. Never did put a good start to the evening. He’s nice though, old Jojo. He taught me how to play poker once, but most nights we end up playing chess and he lets me smoke his cigars, I hate cigars though. My name’s Molly by the way, a few years ago my friend died after falling from a tree and he speaks to me through Ian, Ian’s my teddy. I’ll be 16 next week and Jojo said that he’s going to make me a birthday cake if the wardens let him have some ingredients. They never do though, every time we ask for anything they just give us more morphine. My bedrooms nice, it’s no Pirate Island though. I go back there every now and then to make sure the evil Killerzoid hasn’t found Billy, the boy who died. I want to go back soon, Billy hasn’t spoken to me in a while, and I keep worrying that he’s caught him.
Pirate Island is amazing I can’t even describe how beautiful it is, there’s flying dragons, dinosaurs and obviously, pirates! I promised Jojo next time I go I’ll take him there, but I don’t know if he’ll be welcome, Billy always did get jealous when new people would come play with me, it’s so frustrating but I’m his bestest buddy and best friends always do what the others tell them and always help them out. It’s the law. The warden talked to me yesterday and said I could leave if I did a couple of things, one would be to stop talking to Ian, and the other if I stopped talking to Jojo, they said I couldn’t talk to people who were more ill than I was but I think they being too mean on old Jojo, he’s nice and he’s getting a rough time and I think it helps when he talks to me as I help him as we both have friends other people can’t see. We both know they’re real and only because not everyone can see them it doesn’t mean they’re not real just that they are too closed minded to see them.
I said not a chance and he just shook his head and walked away, he’s not as nice as Juliet. Juliet is the head warden, and she doesn’t mind it when me, Ian and Jojo play together, she just watches and sometimes she even makes us all tea, I like Juliet. She smells funny though, a bit of a mixture of coffee and grandmas... I do like her, but she’s not enough to stop me from seeing Billy, I know what I have to do, and I’ve got to do it soon, I’m going to take Ian with me and break out of here. First things first, I’ll have to tell Jojo, but he usually ends up shrugging off and saying I’m crazy, but I always say that he’s crazy one, the silly man. And he did just do that, he didn’t call me crazy though, he just hugged me and walked off. I took my things that night, and I used a bobby pin and I pick-locked the window in the sitting room, I was very nervous, I was finally going to return to Pirate Island!
There were a lot of lights and alarms going off when I left, it was like a firework display, and they were people running to me wanting to give me a hug goodbye, but I was in my running mood and wanted to run really fast, as if I ran fast enough I could teleport there as that’s what Ian said. He told me to return to Pirate Island I had to run and run and run until I couldn’t feel my legs and not let the running men catch up with me or I’ll never see Billy ever again. I got to a shed and I slept inside in the whole night and when I woke up I was there, I finally got to Pirate Island! It was like being home again, there were birds the size of houses flying over my head and the ocean was rippling over my toes and I felt this sizzling sensation over my body, I felt alive.
‘I’ve got to try again, I don’t care if it kills her just pass me that god-damn syringe’, a nurse passes the doctor a syringe of adrenaline in a white room, a young woman is laid having a fit on the table ‘who the hell let her go!? I told you, you couldn’t support her fucking fantasies’ the sound of flesh on metal echoes around the room. ‘Jojo? Who in Jesus is Jojo?’ The nurses explain about the girls illusions, the personality of an old man with similar problems to her helped her adjust to reality, it was better than how she was.... ‘you can’t keep leading her on, she has to know, she needs to cope with the truth’. The head nurse Juliet tried to explain, when a girl accidently kills her friend, especially at such a young age it can make them dangerous, it can cause them to harm others, ‘she needs to deal with it head on, we’ve been over this Julie, she can’t have both Ian, Billy and another personality you’re causing her to sink further, she’s going to lose it completely’. A shriek of the girl on the table piercings everyone’s ears...
He’s safe I found him, Billy was ok, he just had to use his ultra invisibility to stay quiet as Killerzoid had nearly found him. I was really worried. He told me to go back though, until he needed me, and I will, best friends have got to stay together.
Escape from Pirate Island
Molly hadn’t talked me in over 5 years, I’ve been trying to avoid the evil half-wizard half-robot Killerzoid for 11 years by staying invisible. But he’s finding me, I can feel him when he’s close, the second he finds me I’m done for. It’s all my fault, I shouldn’t have kept in touch with her, people didn’t believe her when she said she was talking to me, I don’t blame them either, I am dead after all. Maybe I was scared to stop talking to her, maybe I thought by speaking to her I had a life line back to life, like I hadn’t really died. It doesn’t matter anymore, but I need to get in touch with her one last time. I need her help to finally destroy Killerzoid. I used to use my teddy Ian to speak with her, he was soggy and had an eye missing after she dropped him in a puddle when I fell of the tree, she tried to catch me but she couldn’t. I don’t blame her, she tried really hard, but she wasn’t strong enough...
She had a family now, and a baby called Billy. That’s my name too. I know she can hear me, but it’s like she ignores me on purpose. Sometimes she speaks back but it’s to usually tell me to be quiet, that she’s grown up now, and she has to be left alone with her family. I’d leave her alone but if Killerzoid comes back to life it would mean bad things for her, it would take her back to Pirate Island, for good. One night I kept calling her name, I wouldn’t stop because I knew if I did all would be lost for us. I think I got through too, all I heard was that she would try, and that I shouldn’t get in touch again or she could lose her baby, I really didn’t want her to lose her baby.
‘Shush Billy, Mummy will only be gone for a little while, I’ll be back soon. Stay sleeping little one, think of Pirate Island, the place of miracles and dreams and you’ll wake up to see another sunny, bright day’. Molly tucked in baby Billy and set off into the night, the snow was fierce, it was baby Billy’s first Christmas and Molly wasn’t confident that he’d have his mummy for his second. She knew it would have to happen though, one last visit, to finally escape from Pirate Island... for good.
She went back to an old cemetery, one she just to live very close to when she was a child, one which was very close to a place where she lost a close friend, where she couldn’t hold on, one what left her mentally damaged for so many years, she really didn’t want to be back here, but she knew, it was the only way to finally be cured. Juliet was so nice, spending so much time making her better, playing along with her hallucinations. She was a head warden but now she’s retired, and acting Godmother to little baby Billy. Molly knew if things turned out for the worse they would still be a mum waiting for him, even if it wasn’t her.
She approached Billy’s grave, and rubbed her hands across the stone which wore his name. Hearing his voice she closed her eyes and found herself once more in the flourishing fields of Pirate Island. There was something wrong this time, there wasn’t the same feeling of euphoria, and Billy couldn’t be seen anywhere. A flash of white rose over the mountains in the distant, it was a wave of snow, racing towards her, a hand grabbed her by her wrist and pulled her under a shelter. It was Billy. ‘Just one last favour Moll, I’m so sorry for everything, just one last favour, I promise’, Molly swelled up with tears and hugged him ‘you’re a clumsy fool, you know that? What do we need to do?’ Billy explained that Killerzoid had only one thing to keep him alive and once it’s gone Billy can finally live in peace, a golden orb what needed to be thrown into the salt water Pirate Island was infamous for having.
They went out, both looking worn but hopeful, there was an impending sensation that this time they weren’t going to make it. It was ok, this time, it would be the end. Billy knew where the orb was, Molly had left Ian with baby Billy, to keep him safe, to make sure one of the three old friends would have a future. Killerzoid appeared at the instant, Molly realised straight away why, it was Billy, he wasn’t invisible, Killerzoid had found him. Killerzoid took his staff and tried to cast a spell on Molly and Billy but it only turned the snow into water, he was too weak to cast any true sorcery. Billy threw himself on top of the evil wizard while Molly searched him, it was there, the golden orb, she picked it up and ran to the shore, her arms raised, she threw it as hard as she could into the deep salted water. Behind her came an impending shadow, it was Billy, he was turning white, transparent. She could just make out what he was trying to say.... ‘thank you’.
I found myself back at Billy’s grave, the voices were gone, I was so worried I wasn’t going to see my baby again, I was so worried I was going crazy. I really don’t know if I am, if all this was real, but I know I can sleep knowing Billy’s ok, I can rest easy knowing Pirate Island is no longer ruled by Killerzoid. It worries me though, he came back so easily, could he not return? I went back home that night, I looked into my little Billy’s cot and there he was sound asleep, holding Ian. I can sleep.
‘Molly, MOLLY, it’s me Billy! Something’s gone wrong very very wrong, it’s Killerzoid’.
‘Shush dear, it’s over now. It’s over...’
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