The headless pirate

Did you enjoy World Book Day, shipmates? I had a great time. I stuck a cardboard box on my shoulders and Mum helped me drape my pirate costume around it so that I looked headless. I had two small holes to see through. Then I carried a false head under my arm. Dad took a picture and I think my costume looked good. I had to think quickly when my teacher asked me which book character I was. I told her I was an executed pirate and she could take her pick! Luckily she had no idea that executed pirates didn't have their heads chopped off.

After school, I had a brilliant idea about playing a trick on the crew of the Sea Wolf. I rubbed my gold doubloon and went back to the Sea Wolf, still in costume. My plan was to come up from the storeroom, groaning and waving my arms about. (I had to leave the false head behind because only the clothes I’m wearing go back in time with me.) But when I got up on deck, the crew were in the middle of a terrible fight. Captain Blackheart and his vicious band had boarded the ship. Suddenly everyone stopped fighting. They all stared at me and then they all dived over the side, even my friends. Apart from Charlie who can’t swim. She grabbed Sinbad and started to climb the rigging to get away. At that moment, Crow landed on my shoulder and began to nibble at the cardboard through my costume. Charlie guessed it was me and came back down. When the rest of the crew returned, Harry Hopp declared that he’d known it was me all along and he’d been chasing the enemy away. Captain Blade wasn’t very amused. I spent the next two hours scrubbing the deck!