(Eagle) Teaser

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If you came here following my link, know that wordpress displays the newest entries first. You’ll find the beginning of the story on the bottom of the previous page.
This post I pieced together from scenes of the story. I tried to do it in adventure-movie-style, the actual story is a bit different.

Trailer:

A pitched battle between at least three sailships, some lifeboats carrying barrels flare up, everything goes fiery red and then dark.

Calm again

The quarterdeck of a warship somewhere on the Carribean sea.
Present: The helmsman, a teenaged ensign coming up carrying a tray with tea and biscuits.
Zoom out, reveal several wounded sailors going about their duty, a boy in the crow’s nest and very far at the horizon a smaller vessel that’s trying to get away.
Teenager’s voice: „I know now why they call pirates the enemies of humanity…“

Fade in: A boarding operation led by a blonde man and a carib indian
Teenager’s voice: „It’s not the breaking of laws,“

Fade in: Several pirates make merry in a stable with giggling local girls
Teenager’s voice: „…or the sinning.“

The dungeons of a fortress, about twenty caged pirates.
The blonde man from earlier steps forward towards the cage and grasps the bars.
Fortress Officer: „With their actions they target the very foundation of our society!“
Blonde man: (mumbles something to himself)

The scene is first overshadowed, then erased by a large „1643“

Several pirates patching up sails, one of them is female.
Female pirate: „Take, for instance, our scribe. Perry is is loyal to England, he’d never join a pirate crew!“
Teenager (with spanish accent): „Then why did he?“
Female pirate: „Because we are not pirates, but privateers.“
Teenager: „Thanks a lot, that makes me a defector instead of a deserter.“
A broad, male pirate sitting nearby interrupts the two: „And what about Captain Clark? Is he a blue-blood or not?“

The blonde man and a pirate walk the streets of a colonial town.
Pirate: „You know how I feel about this. Blood spills, spirit remains.“

Text: „the son of a traitor“

The blonde man admireringly strokes his brand new english navy officer’s uniform.

Text: „fights for his honor“

Blonde man, sitting with the carib indian, the pirate and a gentlemenly looking pirate in a rundown pub: „Oh, come on, where’s the romance in this?“

Text: „and right to love“

In a dark cellar the blonde man and the pirate dodge under a wooden bar that’s swinging towards them from the ceiling, pirate gets to land on blonde man, blonde man pushes away pirate, saying: „Thanks for the interest, but you better find yourselves a girl!“

Pirate in a pitch black shaft of some kind, holding the torn remains of a red pirate flag.
He shouts upwards: „Claaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark!“

A ship somewhere on the carib sea. The blonde man is approached by yet another pirate.
Pirate: „You obviously harbour feelings for that man. For the greatest womanizer of Puerto Principe?!“

Text: „Black Dogs and Errant Eagles“

One large and three smaller warships emerge from behind an island.
They are seen through the eyes of a bunch of pirates standing at the rail of their ship with their backs to the camera. One of them is the blonde man, this time wearing a red coat.
Scrawny looking pirate (fearful): „This is gonna be a slaughtering!“

The blonde man lies in chains in a cell on the warship from scene one.
Voice from the off: „You may live a privateer, but you always die a pirate.“

The scene with the three warships again.
Scrawny looking pirate (nearly sobbing): „Don’t mock me. Not now.“

Text: „Coming this Spring to a theatre near you“