[Music playing as we see a grand majestic ship flying through space.]
NARRATOR: On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful, [Creaking] the great merchant ships with their cargoes of Arcturian sura crystals felt safe and secure. Little did they suspect, that they were pursued by ...
[a smaller, more sinister ship flies after its prey]
NARRATOR: ...Pirates. And the most feared of all these pirates was the notorious Captain Nathaniel Flint.
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL FLINT: Fire!
[The pirate ship fires cannons at the bigger ship and the two crews fight]
PASSENGERS: [All gasping]
PIRATES: Aah!
[We see a young Jim as he's watching this play out in his storybook.]
NARRATOR: Like a Candarian zap-wing overtaking its prey--[Door creaks]
SARAH: James Pleiades Hawkins! l thought you were asleep an hour ago.
JIM: Mom, I was just getting to the best part. Please?
SARAH: Oh, can those eyes get any bigger? Scootch over.
NARRATOR: Like a Candarian zap-wing overtaking its prey, Flint and his band of renegades swooped in out of nowhere.
PIRATES: [Jingling]
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL FLINT: Ha ha ha ha!
NARRATOR: And then, gathering up their spoils, vanished without a trace.
SARAH AND JIM: Ooh!
NARRATOR: Flint's secret trove was never found, but stories have persisted that it remains hidden, somewhere at the farthest reaches of the galaxy, stowed with riches beyond imagination, the loot of a thousand worlds.
JlM AND NARRATOR: Treasure Planet.
SARAH: OK. Blow your nose.
JIM: How do you think Captain Flint did it, Mom? How'd he swoop in out of nowhere and vanish without a trace?
SARAH: l have no idea. Come here, you, you li--I'm gonna get--oh! [Pffft]
JIM: [Giggling]
SARAH: OK, now it's time for this little spacer to go to sleep.
JIM: You think somebody'll ever find Treasure Planet?
SARAH: Sweetheart, I think it's more...like a legend.
JIM: I know it's real.
SARAH: You win, It's real.
JIM: Nighty-night, Mom.
SARAH: Nighty-night, sweetheart. l love you.
JIM: Love you, too. [Rustling as Jim takes out his book again.]
NARRATOR: There are nights when the winds of the Etherium so inviting in their promise of flight and freedom made one's spirit soar!
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Treasure Planet the Son Of The last pirate king
FanfictionCaptain Nathaniel Flint belonged to an unnamed alien species with fangs, multiple eyes and a reptilian-like face. At some point in his life, he became a pirate, and his infamy was so staggering that he was known as the most feared of all pirates. At...
