Hamish and the Battle of Half Blood Moon

            The battle had been raging for 30 minutes or more, with the two ships circling each other, each taking damage but continuing to return fire. Each time the Phantom tried to break into the cove and reach the beach the Lady M would parry and block the way, firing all her guns in defence of the island, and forcing the Phantom back.

Under cover of the roar of the guns we swam in quickly towards the battle. The cannon fire was deafening, with each shot looking like a dragon spitting out fiery death. Then Hamish told me ‘It’s time, they’re so busy with each other they’ll not notice a small furry cow, wish me luck’ and with that he dived down and I watched a small trail of bubbles head off in the direction of the Phantom. I guessed all those triple A drills he practised in the swamps of Florida were going to help him once again here.   

At that moment, I have to admit It felt somewhat surreal, as I waited there alone, treading water in the middle of the sea, bathed in blood red moonlight, watching two ghost ships engaged in battle with the sounds of their cannon reverberating around the cove... it wasn’t exactly how I’d thought my day would turn out!

A short time later I heard the shouts... ‘Stop him, stop him, he’s got the key’, and as I looked up I could see the ghost pirates of the Phantom turning and shooting their pistols at something on board the ship. It was like a wave of shouts and shots moving along the ship and then I saw him reach the gangplank and run out, and with an almighty bound he bounced right onto the end of the plank and rose way up into the air and carried out a triple somersault with spin before diving into the sea. The ghost pirates were momentarily stunned by this display of rotating orange furriness but as he splashed down for the second time that day he was surrounded by the splashes of musket balls hitting the water as they regained their senses and tried to home their fire in..  

I gulped again... but was secretly glad I wasn’t going to have to try to succeed where he had failed.

And then up he popped with a key in his mouth and with a nod towards the beach, off he swam.

As we reached the beach we looked back, there was no sign of the Lady M or the Phantom of the Sea and the moon had returned to it’s normal white glow. We were exhausted and walked slowly back to our hide amongst the rocks where I woke Niki and told her what had happened. She looked at me and said ‘Yes, very clever.... very funny, enough of your games, we’ve humoured him enough for one night, it’s time to go home to bed.’

Hamish just looked at me and shrugged his shoulders :o)

(ps: my apologies for the quality of the photograph but it was getting quite hairy at that point!)

Taken in: España / Illes Balears / Santa Galdana (show map)

Taken on: June 2, 2011

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Sets appears in: • The Adventures of Hamish

Groups appears in: • Toy Stories • The Secret Life of the Material-Animals more » • T189 Past, Present & Future « less

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