Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
My Martin and you are listening to dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,
we're going to jump back into the Cards of Power
series and continue the preliminary rounds of the Deity level tournament,
which I set up as one on one battles where
Magnus and you will have to take on some other opponents.
And I got a couple of great ideas that I
think I'm gonna put in this episode, so let's check
them out.
Speaker 2: Him My name is Alan from Australia, and my suggestion
for the Count of Power series is that in the
Daily level tournament, you face again someone named Allen, and
he has a book dragon and it's almost impossible to
beat it until Bugnes uses his naughty attack. Thanks out
of your podcast.
Speaker 1: Great idea, Arlen. This one took me a lot of
thought to think about how a book dragon might be
a really good opponent for Magnus, but I think I
got some really cool things down. I also thought that
we'd probably have time for two battles in this one,
so I took one more idea. Let's check it out too.
Speaker 3: My name is Connor Aldrich. To suggest a story suggestion
for the Cards of Power series, and it's a karate
chicken as an opponent.
Speaker 1: Great idea, Connor, the second opponent today will be a
karate chicken. If you like the podcast, don't forget to
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anywhere you're listening. I also got some new submissions for
my story and artwork contest, so thank you first of
all to Caspian who sent in a story that I
believe he dictated to some parents there and they sent
to me. And thank you to JD who both submitted
some stories and some pretty awesome pictures inspired from the podcast. Again.
I'll be starting to put up some of the artwork
onto I don't know my different social media platforms like
Instagram and stuff like that, and I'll be picking a
winner of both the story and the artwork competition to
do a story with me. I believe in the last
episode I said you had until April thirteenth to hand
them in, but I, for some reason was going backwards.
In my head, it really should be June thirteenth, So
thank you to the Spotify commenters who pointed that out.
I really appreciate it. And now it's probably time to
get on with the story after a possible word from
a pousible sponsor, of course, because unfortunately we need to
keep the on around here. Now it's time to get
as comfy as he can in that bed. Close your
eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the
story does. You wake up inside a very luxurious hotel.
You get up, stretch, and move over to the bed
where Magnus is curled up like a little dragonling kitten
or whatever. Ah. Time to get up already, he says,
as he gets himself on his feet and stretches his
back up in the air like a cat. You head
down the elevator to the main lob you wear. You
smell well, one of your favorite smells in the entire world,
a complimentary continental hotel breakfast. You spend some time. I'm
piling your plate full of all kinds of different breakfast foods,
whatever sorts of things you like anyways, and then you
head over to one of the screens, the ones that
can tell you who you're up against next and where
you're gonna battle. Please present your ID card, the screen says.
So you reach into your card core and produce the
glowing ID card in front of you. The screen scans it,
and a schedule pops up in front of you. It
looks like you have two battles on the docket today.
The first one says it's against someone named Arlen. All right,
it looks like it's actually happening in a few minutes.
And the second one, a little bit later today is
against Connor. There's not much of a break between the two.
You quickly read over the details for the match against Arlen.
It says it's in competition Building two, Arena three. You
run outside through the main parking lot and look around
until you see the large two sign over one of
the battle arenas. You summon your magic wing card and
blast across the parking lot as quickly as you can,
landing in front of the door and allowing the wings
to return to your card core as you enter. You
immediately make your way to the registration desk. Will come
your ID cod Please, you again produce your ID card
in the air. The lady picks up a little handheld scanner,
scans the thing and looks at a computer screen. Ah, yes,
your battle is about to begin. You are in battle
Arena three. It's just down that hallway to the right.
You run down the hallway she's pointing to until you
see a big number three over top of an elevator.
You and Magnus climb on the elevator and it automatically
closes and moves upward. When the door's open, you find
yourself once again in an almost identical battle arena to
the day before. They seem to be well clones of
each other. There's already a referee standing in the center,
and your opponent, presumably Arlen, standing across from him with
a well a dragon holding a buck. You walk to
the center, where the referee greets you. All right, then,
welcome to your next round of the competition. I believe
you two already know the rules. This is an instant elimination.
Winner goes on to more rounds, and the loser, well,
they don't go on at all. Any previously scheduled matches
for after this one will be erased and reassigned. Now,
I believe you two have already declared your battle partners.
On one side, here we have Arlen, who has declared
a deity level book dragon. I'm interested to see exactly
what that is. And on this side, I believe you
have declared a deity level fire dragon named Magnus. If
you please make your way to your circles. You quickly
reach o your hand and give Arlen a nice handshake
to say good luck before walking to your circle. You
step inside the circle and a force field is produced
around you, one that can keep you safe from the battle.
At the same time, the referee floats up in the
air and produces a force field around himself. All right,
if you two are ready, we will begin the match
in three two one go Immediately, Magnus begins to transform
into his deity level form, glowing and growing larger and
larger and larger, until he's a very large black dragon
with veins of pure sunlight energy across the battlefield. The
book Dragon hovers up into the air with its wings
spread wide and around him. Dozens of books appear around
him and begin to circle slowly. Each one has a
different symbol on it, one that looks like a flame,
a lightning bolt, a tornado, a fist of stone, something
that's maybe like a sound wave, a portal picture, a shield,
and many more that you don't even recognize. Magnus lowers
his head and digs his claws into the ground. Sunlight
energy begins to pulse through his veins. Careful, Magnus, you say,
I don't think those books are just decoration. I noticed.
Magnus rumbles the book dragon simply smiles, but not a
very friendly smile. One of the books snaps open. The
page turns by itself at A blast of blue flame
shoots from the book like a cannon. Magnus reacts instantly.
He opens his jaws and answers with a blast of
fire of his own. A roaring stream of golden orange
flame slams into the blue fire halfway across the arena,
and for a moment the two attacks push against each other.
Then another book opens, a lightning book. A bolt of
electricity shoots sideways, curving around Magnus's fire blast and striking
Magnus in the shoulder. Magnus roars as sparks dance across
his scales before he can recover. A third book opens,
one that has a stone fist symbol on it. Chunks
of rock rip themselves out of the ground and start
to launch themselves at Magnus like boulders from a catapult.
Magnus swings his tail and smashes the first two apart.
He grabs a third using his elemental powers, shoving it
off to the left, but a fourth one strikes him
hard in the ribs and pushes him backwards. The book
Dragon flaps his wings once and rises higher. The book
spin faster around him. Ah, he says, annoying. Magnus growls.
Then he inhales deeply. The sunlight lines across his body brighten,
making the room hotter and hotter and hotter, before he
unleashes a huge cone of pure sunlight energy directly towards
the book Dragon and his little floating library. But just
before the flames reach him, another book snaps open, a
sho shield book of some kind. A glowing barrier appears
in front of the book Dragon, and the fire or
pure sunlight energy spreads across the shield like water hitting glass.
The barrier flickers, but it holds. Another book opens. A
windspell blasts through the flames, punching Magnus backwards across the ground.
You start to worry, Magnus is strong, but this dragon
is fighting with so many powers at once. You watch
as Magnus charges. He leaps into the air, wings beating hard,
and then flies straight down towards the book Dragon with
his claws outstretched. Another book opens, a teleportation book. Purple
energy flashes, and the book Dragon vanishes. Magnus slashes through
empty air. As the book Dragon reappears behind him. Another
book opens and a massive, invisible shock wave of sound
blasts out. Magnus is hit from behind and sent crashing
into the arena floor. Magnus pushes himself up, shaking dust
and broken stone from his wings. I'm fine, he says,
but he looks rather angry. He stomps both of his
front claws into the ground. He pours out of them
into the stone beneath the arena, and the ground begins
to glow. Red. Cracks spread outward in every direction as
the floor softens into lava. You grin, that's it now.
He can't land, but the book Dragon seems perfectly happy
to continue hovering. The wind book opens again, and a
swirl of air shoots beneath the dragon, holding him in
the air with absolute ease. Magnus narrows his eyes, and
the book Dragon opens three books at once, fire stone,
and lightning. A storm of attacks slammed down towards Magnus.
He spreads his wings, wraps them around himself, and starts
glowing with pure sunlight energy. Fire splashes across him, Lightning
cracks into him, and stone shatters against his back. Having
control of all of these elements, Magnus is able to
hold firm for a moment until the Portal book opens.
A glowing portal appears beside Magnus, another above him, and
the stone chunks that had shattered against him are sucked
into the first portal and fired out through the second,
hitting him directly in the head. Magnus stumbles backward. How Magnus,
if heat won't work, eh, maybe try freezing everything right,
Magnus responds, and he sucks in a huge, deep breath.
The ground below him hardens into obsidian, and everything becomes
incredibly cold. As Magnus absorbs every single bit of heat
that he possibly can, the books start to develop frost
across them. Magnus reaches out with his mind to any
water vapor in the air, crystallizes it into ice spikes,
and launches them straight towards the dragon, but again the
shield book pops out in front of him and covers
him in a protection develayer of energy. This is getting old,
Magnus says. As books start to swirl around him, launching
attacks of all different kinds of elements, Magnus decides that
he needs to try something a little bit different. He
reaches inside himself. He connects with the power he's only
used a little bit before, the power of lightning. He
focuses all of the heat energy he's absorbed into the lightning,
and instead of aiming it in any particular direction, he
just lets it explode outward. Chains of lightning bolts spread
from the dragon, crashing into various different books and then
chaining themselves to other ones. Magnus forces all of the
heat energy he possibly can into the blast as the
lightning arcs from book to book to book. When the
blast finishes, most of the books, with a single exception,
drop to the ground. The only one still hovering is
the lightning book itself, which seems unaffected for obvious reasons,
but it honestly shouldn't be difficult. Now, Magnus begins to
glow brighter and brighter until his entire body transforms into
pure sunlight. Then he unleashes a blast of pure sunlight
energy directly at the dragon. The one remaining lightning bolt
shoots out in front, attempting to block the blast, but
the blast goes straight through it and straight into the Dragon,
breaking him apart into a bright blue form of energy
that's reabsorbed into Arlon's card core. Well, I believe that
is a match, the referee says, as he floats down
towards the ground. Now, Arland, unfortunately you are out of
the tournament this year, though I do highly recommend you
try out again next year. That book Dragon of yours
is mighty powerful to the winner. You're probably gonna want
to double check your matches for this afternoon. Well, we
do schedule additional matches in advance. They often have to
be changed as people are eliminated. Oh and if you
need to recharge your magical creature, there should be a
hospital building nearby ready to do that. The shield around
you disappears. You walk to the center, shake Arland's hand
and pat him on the back. Have book Dragon's amazing,
you say, Hopefully we'll meet each other again, Hanks Arlen says.
You step into the elevator and go back down to
the main floor. You immediately go over to a screen,
scan your ID card and see that, well, you're still
up against Connor this afternoon. That must mean he won
his match. You and Magnus, who is now the size
of a dragonling, once again, head directly for the hospital building.
What are we doing here? I feel fine? You might
feel fine, but you took a bunch of hits. I
don't think we should start a new daity level match
when you're not at one hundred percent. You respond, now fine.
You head into the hospital building, where you meet a
nice person at the counter. Welcome to the hospital. I
see you have a magical creature that could use recharging
and healing. Please step onto the platform. You gesture for
Magnus to listen. He jumps up on a large, circular,
technological looking platform and blue energy shoots into him. When
the energy stops, he steps out of the circle and
looks up at you. That was amazing. I feel like
I just slept for a whole day, and I don't
know when to a spa or something. Can we do
this again after maybe, buddy, let's go check out the
next match. You head over to Building four and check
in at the counter. You're directed over to Battle Arena
number two. You make your way into the elevator, go
up to the floor, then step out to once again
see a referee and an opponent standing across from him.
You walk towards them, and the referee introduces herself. Heh, welcome.
My name is Betty and I will be your referee
for today. I see the two of you have already
declared your matches. On this side we will have a
deity level fire dragon that apparently has other elemental powers
as well. And on this side we have Connor and
a karate chicken. Is that right? A karate chicken. That's right,
Connor says, But he's now ordinary karate chicken. He's a
deity level karate chicken. Connor's core begins to glow. Energy
swirls out of it and forms itself into a well
like an adult human sized chicken, wearing a karate gee
and adorned with all sorts of martial arts weapons, two
swords on its back, a bow staff, and one hand
size tucked into its belt, nun chucks, ninja stars, everything
you could imagine. Mar Car the karate chicken says, ah, okay, then,
well to your sides, card holders, we will begin shortly.
A glowing shield appears around the judge and she floats
up into the air. You shake Connor's hand and then
move across the battle arena into your protective circle. Energy
glows around you, and Magnus steps out in front. All right,
we will be getting in three two one. Magnus immediately
transforms into his deity level form as the karate chicken
draws both of its swords from behind its back and
then takes on a come and get me sort of
karate stance, holding one blade up in the air over
its head and the other out in front of itself.
Magnus takes in a deep breath and breathes out a
plume of fire. The karate chicken well almost instantly disappears
from the place it was standing and reappears beside Magnus's face,
swinging the sword down and cutting him on the cheek. Now, hey,
clearly it can move an incredible speed. Magnus tries to
strike it with his claws, but again the karate chicken
just does a sort of front flip over top of them,
lands underneath spins in a circle and slices straight at
Magnus's chest before jumping backwards across the arena. It reaches
into its gee and pulls out a whole bunch of
ninja stars. The karate Chicken starts to throw them towards Magnus,
who responds by stomping on the ground and lifting up
a huge column of earth and rock right in front
of himself. As the ninja stars hit, they explode, blowing
up the giant rock face, shooting rocks into the air,
but Magnus doesn't hesitate. He rabs the rocks out of
the air using his mind and wills them to fly
towards the Ninja Chicken. They crash into the ground. As
the Ninja Chicken begins jumping and flipping and well doing
a whole bunch of ninja like moves to move out
of the way. As he flips, he continues to launch
ninja stars that explode upon contact. Magnus once again presses
his claws into the ground. Heat energy pours into it,
spreading all over the arena and melting the ground itself
into lava once more, But instead of sinking into it,
the Ninja Chicken just begins to glow some sort of
aura peers around its body, and it stands right on
the lava. Smoke continuously rises up from where it's feet
hit the ground, but somehow it can walk on this stuff,
like a martial arts master that can stand on hot coals.
Magnus dives down into the ground, swimming through the lava itself.
The ninja chicken takes on a defensive stance and begins
to focus, ready for an attack from any direction. Columns
of lava start to shoot up from the ground straight
towards the chicken. One by one. It slices them in
half with its sword, moving over to the side and
taking on a fighting stance once again, But Magnus never
shows himself. He stays in the lava and continues to
launch attacks of rock and lava again and again. And
while he does, the temperature in the room begins to
rise hotter and hotter and hotter, until the chicken starts
to look a little drowsy, a little heat exhausted. Its
eyes start to close just a little bit, as if
it's getting very tired, and the next strike of lava
actually manages to hit it in the back, sending it
flying across the arena. And crashing into another column of
lava that shoots up from the ground and catches the
little chicken, wrapping around it and solidifying in to obsidian.
Then Magnus rises out of the ground, takes a deep breath,
glows with pure sunlight energy, and unleashes a blast of
mixed elemental force pure heat, ringed with rocks, lightning, and
even air. They blast into the chicken all at once
and wel It immediately transforms back into a bright blue
energy and flies into Connor's card core once again. Very good.
I believe that is a match. If you would please
a terial magical creature to make the ground walkable again,
that would be great. Uh, Magnus, you heard her right,
Magnus says, pulling himself up out of the lava. He
takes in a deep breath and freezes the ground, turning
it all into obsidian. It once again looks nothing like
it did when you two started, but well, you're sure
they have some sort of car that can transform it
back without an issue. Very good. I declare you as
the winner, Magnus. Uh Cotda. Unfortunately you are disqualified, but eh,
your karate chicken was quite impressive. I believe against many
other opponents, it would have won the protective barrier around you,
and Connor disappears. You walk to the center line and
shake his hand as Magnus devolves back into his dragonling form.
You exit the arena through the elevator and out into
the main lobby, where you double check to see if
you have any other matches for today. Nothing comes up,
so you head back to the hotel area, back up
to your room and climb in into your bed. Magnus
curls up at your feet, stretches, and lays down, immediately
falling asleep. You pull the covers up to your chin,
close your eyes, and start to focus on your breath.
With each breath, your muscles relax a little bit more,
your shoulders fall away from your ears. Your arms and
legs release any tension they have and sink down into
the mattress. And with each breath, your mind begins to
wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new adventures
to come. Good night, everyone, mumm.
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