Pirate's Island

"Pirate's Island" is the one-hundred-and-sixth and final episode of Butterfly Valley (1969 series). It premiered after HeyKids Studios had shut down a day earlier.
==Synopsis==
Petunia, Rose and Bluebell visit a mysterious island that was inhabited by pirates a long time ago, but they have to fight Frank, who has formed his own pirate crew, with a live skeleton as his first mate. However, the skeleton later betrays Frank, leading a mutiny against him.
==Plot==
The episode begins with a schoolboy playing with toy pirate figures when Rose approaches him. She noticed the boy putting the figures into a toy pirate ship and asks if she can hold one of his toys and he responded in acceptance.
Rose grabs a pirate toy and freaks out when she noticed a bare skull instead of a human head on the figure.
Rose runs to her sister and alerts her that there was a skeleton in the playroom, then Petunia calms her down and the twins find the magic flower glowing. Petunia picks it up and the twins transported to Butterfly Valley.
Rose and Petunia then walk around the streets and greet Bluebell, who later joins them until they stumble on a mysterious pirate ship. Rose points out the ship and the girls went to inspect it. When Bluebell accidentally spins the steering wheel, the ship suddenly moves backwards as the twins stumble.
The pirate ship maneuvers all the way to a seemingly unknown place. Bluebell alerts Rose and Petunia that they've been stranded on the Buccaneer Island. The girls soon began to explore the place.
Meanwhile, Frank and his Bee Fairy troops attempt to find Princess Butterfly, but they can't locate her. One of the soldiers told Frank that she might be having a vacation with King Boogieman. Frank responded that it would be a perfect time to kidnap her.
Back on the Buccaneer Island, the girls found another pirate ship. They went aboard and examine it, but suddenly, Frank and his troops appeared before them, demanding Princess Butterfly's whereabouts. Petunia told the Bee Fairies that Butterfly is in the her palace.
The Bee Fairies decided to attack the girls, but then Frank summons his first mate, an actual living skeleton, which scared the girls and makes them run into the cabin.
Frank and his newly-formed pirate crew began to set sails to find Princess Butterfly and kidnap her in Butterfly Valley, while the girls are inside the cabin. Bluebell began to feel seasick as Rose tries to make her feel better.
Once they've reached Butterfly Valley, the pirate crew went out of the ship, with Rose, Petunia and Bluebell sneaking behind.
The pirate crew began to attack the Butterfly Fairies. They then rampage towards the palace, where a royal guard alerts Princess Butterfly about the incoming attack.
Butterfly exits the palace to erect a giant barrier to defent it. The Bee Fairies and the skeleton try to fire their arrows and spears at the barrier, which deflects them. The weapons fall back onto the pirate crew, killing them in the process.
Rose, Petunia and Bluebell ran to the palace to alert Princess Butterfly about the pirate attack, only to find out that the pirate crew are already killed by their weapons, much to their horror, but Frank and the skeleton had managed to survive.
The skeleton began to ramble on how to pass through the barrier and Frank, in response, decided to use a spell to open the barrier. Once they've managed to pass through the barrier, Princess Butterfly walks out the palace and Frank prepares to kidnap her.
However, Butterfly uses a redemption spell on the skeleton, causing him to blame Frank for making him his slave. Frank freaks out as Rose, Petunia and Bluebell used a spell to attack him, before Butterfly finish off the Bee Fairies, including Frank, and the skeleton with a beam of light.
Princess Butterfly thank the girls for their help on defeating the Bee Fairies again and awards them silver badges for their bravery and determination to help the Butterfly Fairies.
Rose and Petunia bid farewell to the Butterfly Fairies and use the magic flower to return to school. They then decided to put up a show about pirates with the help of their schoolmates, thus concluding the episode and the series as whole.
==Broadcast notes==
*During the initial broadcast, before the episode begins, a special note was left by a former staff member of HeyKids Studios to assure viewers that the studio, which produced the series, has been closed yesterday. That version of this episode with the note and the next one described below was included in the Blu-ray box set Butterfly Valley: The 50th Anniversary Collection.
**After the initial screening of this episode, NBC responded to the viewers regarding the sudden dark nature and the cancellation of Butterfly Valley by showing another note left by one of its staff members.
==Trivia==
*Like the previous episode, the trolls do not appear throughout the story.
*This is the final episode where blood is seen in some scenes, which will never happen again after the 1969 series.
*Some viewers have noted that Frank's first mate slightly resembles the Skin-Taker from another HeyKids series Candle Cove, but this is unlikely as they have different voice actors and the first mate lacks eyeballs that the Skin-Taker had.
*"Butterflies Ahoy," the seventeenth episode of the 1998 series, has a similar plot to this episode, albeit without characters who first appeared in the second season onwards.
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