Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
I'm Martin, and you are listening to dad's bedtime stories. Tonight,
we're bringing you back to the Cards of Power Universe,
which many of you have been waiting for if you've
never listened before. The Cards of Power Universe is a
police where kids are given magic cards when they get
to a certain age and then sent off into the
wilderness to battle magical creatures and stuff like that. There's
been a lot of episodes of it so far, and
you're totally welcome to start here or go check out
some of the earlier ones. Let's see what suggestion we have.
Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Ethan. I have a story suggestion
for Card to Power, where, like in the Daily Tournament,
are You Verses character his name is uh Oliver and
he has a very powerful UH like golden dragon which
could suck energy out of any creature, and Magnus is
super close to losing, but he wins by combining all
his elements in one blast.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Ethan. I think that's a great suggestion and
it led to, I hope, a pretty cool character battle idea. Honestly,
most of the time I just storyboard these things. And
make them up as I go. So at this point
I don't even really know what happens in the story myself,
but we are all about to find out together after
a possible word from a possible sponsor. Now close your eyes,
get as comfy as you can in that bed, and
imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.
You wake up inside the luxurious hotel, swing your legs
over the side of the bed, stretch your arms up
in the air, and of course move to wake up Magnus. Hey, buddy,
time to get going. You say, ah, what's going on?
Oh ah? Is it time for time for breakfast? He asks, Yes,
you answer and head down to the main part of
the hotel, the hotel lobby, where you smell one of
the best scents ever created. A free that is, complimentary
continental hotel breakfast with a little bit of almost anything
you could ask for. You and Magnus head through the
mini buffet line, fill up your plates with a little
bit of every thing you like, and sit down to eat.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Any idea who we're up against next, Magnus asks. The
preliminary rounds of this tournament should probably be over soon.
Oh yeah, good question. Let me go check. You get
up from the table and head over to one of
the many view screens that give information about the tournament.
You produce your ID card, the computer scans it, and
scheduled booking pops up in front of you. It seems
that in roughly thirty minutes you're supposed to battle someone
named Allie inside battle Stadium four, Room two. You head
back to the table and let Magnus know. After finishing
up breakfast, the two of you had able to cross
the huge parking lot to the giant battle stadium with
the number four on it. Of course, as usual, you
enter the building and go up to the registration counter,
once again producing your ID card from your card core. Ah,
let me see here, Yes, we have you scheduled for
a battle room two in uh oh, just about ten minutes.
The two of you should probably get going. It says
that the other contest into Olive oh Olie has already registered.
Just head that way. Second one on the right. You
head to the left down a large hallway until you
get to a large number two. You step into the
elevator below the giant number two. The doors close and
you're lifting up to the battle arena floor. The doors
soon open to reveal a battle stadium that looks well
exactly like every other battle stadium. You've been in a
huge open area with two protected force field like circles
on either side, and a little bit of every kind
of element you might be looking for, earth, nature, water,
and I mean, of course air and that sort of thing.
Oh hey, there, welcome to battle Station two. You must
be the other contestant. This here is Ollie. I believe
the two of you will be battling, and I will
be your referee. The guy wearing the striped shirt says,
all right, you guys know the sort of protocol here.
The two of you are going to fight your already
registered creatures, and the person who wins goes on, and
the person who loses does not go on. Is that understood,
he asks you, and I'll you both nod all right? Then, Well,
on this side we seem to have some sort of
deity level golden Dragon, and on this side we have
a deity level of fire dragon, a cool dragon versus dragon. Alright,
time to head over to your circles and let's get
this thing started. You head over towards the circle designated
for the card holder. A shield instantly appears around you,
protecting you from any damage you know, due to magical
creatures battling. Ali on the other side of the arena
steps into his as well. Magnus immediately begins to transform,
growing larger and larger until he's once again become a
deity level fire dragon with veins of pure sunlight. He
steps forward towards the center, lying as the large golden
dragon on the other side does the same. The referee
floats up into the air and is covered by an
energy shield himself. All right, everyone, we're gonna begin in
three two one battle. Magnus instantly takes a deep breath
and blasts out a plume of powerful heat energy. It
hits the golden directly, and the kind of does nothing.
The golden dragon just glows red and sort of absorbs
the power into its core. Magnus takes another deep breath,
pulling all of the heat energy he can from the
air around him, and unleashes another blast of even more
powerful energy. The energy shoots out of his mouth white hot,
and slams into the dragon, who again just sort of
stands there and absorbs all of it. Then the other
dragon begins to glow bright red. Its stomach starts to shine,
and a blast of a very similar energy shoots back
out of it directly into Magnus, sending him well backwards
just a little bit. Honestly, the heat doesn't do much
to the dragon, but well, it's pretty clear that he's
just been hit by his own attack. Ah, so you're
some sort of energy absorber. Hah. Well, let's see what
else you've got, Magnus says, and then he begins to glow,
his veins laid up white hot, and the ground beneath
him starts to melt slowly, starting with a little pool
around Magnus and spreading out across the rest of the arena.
The ground transforms into magma. The little pool of water
instantly melts into steam, and Magnus, who is almost pure
energy at this point, dives into the ground. The Golden
Dragon floats up in the air and starts scanning around,
but it isn't long before the ground itself starts to
attack him. Under the command of Magnus, of course, spikes
of obsidian shoot out of the lava towards the dragon.
He instantly dodges to the right. Another spike and he
dodges to the left. A blast of powerful magma shoots out,
hitting the dragon directly in the stomach, and he begins
glowing red once again. The heat is pulled out of
the magma, turning it back into stone. Then the dragon
lowers down over top of the ground, and energy starts
to swirl from the magma, through the air and into
the dragon. The ground slowly hardens into pure obsidian. The
dragon glows brightly and lands on the solid ground again.
Magnus is nowhere to be seen, that is until cracks
start to form in the ground and the dragon bursts
up from below, sending shards of rock flying in every direction. Well,
I guess you are able to absorb the heat energy
from that too. Let's see how you do with different
kinds of energy. Magnus slams his tail on the ground,
breaking apart obsidian and rock. Then, using his mind and
his elemental affiliation to rock, he lifts the stone and
obsidian into the air. It starts to spin around him
and reform into much sharper shapes large spikes of obsidian. Then,
one by one he sends them flying towards the dragon.
The first one shoots right into the thing, the next
crashes into his shoulder. The next hits his stomach, and
the dragon starts to glow a deep green color. The
obsidian that's already hit him gets pulled directly into his body,
and the remaining chunks sort of instantly fly into the dragon.
The green energy starts to surround his shoulders, arms, chest,
and head, and then solidifies into what looks like obsidian armor.
Ah did he just absorb the rock and turn it
into armor? He asks, looking back at you. I think so,
you say, well, obviously stuck doesn't work. I better try
something else. The Golden dragon stomach starts to glow once again,
and a blast of red hot magma shoots out, hitting
Magnus directly in the stomach. Magnus simply grabs the magma
out of the air, solidifies it into obsidian, and slams
it into the ground. Staring down the Golden Dragon, he
looks around the arena. At the very top is a
bunch of steam and smoke, probably from the lake that
was almost instantly evaporated. He focuses his mind on the steam,
and slowly it begins to pull down from the ceiling
and wrap around him, getting thicker and thicker and thicker,
before condensing again into a stream of water. Magnus spins
the water around himself and begins unleashing attacks towards the creature.
Blasts of pure water shoot at the thing. The dragon
dodges and unleashes another blast of fire towards Magnus. He
instantly raises rock up in front of him, Absorbing the blast,
transforms the water spinning around him into ice spikes, and
sends them flying towards the Golden Dragon. They all hit
at once and again. The Golden Dragon begins to glow,
only this time a blue color. The ice is pulled
into his body and the glow starts to reform atop
his shoulders, transforming the rock armor into something that looks
like well too many cannons, one on each shoulder. The
cannons light up blue and instantly send a stream of
water back at Magnus. He jumps to the side, grabs
the water using his mind and his hands, spins it around,
transforming it into a nice spike again, and sends it
flying back at the Golden Dragon again. The dragon glows blues.
The spike hits him, absorbs it and stands ready to
fight again. All right, Clearly that didn't work, Magnus says,
maybe I need to try something a little bit different.
To this point, Magnus hasn't really used his affiliation for
nature energy, but it seems he's changed his mind. His
down towards the ground and connects his mind to little
seedlings still buried beneath the rock. He wills the seedlings
to grow up out of the ground and transform into
huge and powerful vines. The vines shoot up out of
the floor of the arena and begin waving around in
the air. Let's see you absorb something like this, he says,
commanding the vines with his mind to shoot towards the
yellow dragon. The vines wrap around the dragon's arms, they
wrap around the dragon's legs, they wrap around the dragon's body,
and Magnus wills them to pull tighter, like a snake
coiled around its prey. You watch as the dragon slowly
starts to tense in some pain, and then it starts
to glow a lighter green color. The lighter green energy
spreads out along the vines towards the ground, and then
the vines snap off from the ground around Magnus. Instead,
they lift up in the air, still connected on the
other side to the yellow Dragon. The coils merge with
the dragon's body, and suddenly the vines begin to attack
Magnus instead, wrapping around his arms and legs. He instantly
heats up, burning them apart as soon as they hit them,
only to be hit by a blast of water from
the water cannon, followed by a blast of fire from
the dragon's stomach, which this time sends magnet Is flying
into the side of the arena. Oh, Magnus says, pulling
himself up off of the ground. I guess I have
one more element to try, Magnus announces, as air starts
to spin around the arena into a large vortex around
the dragon's body. You look across the arena at the
Golden Dragon, and you notice something in his eyes. Looking
over at this cardholder, Ollie, you see the same look.
They clearly aren't worried about this air attack. Magnus, Wait what,
he says, I don't think that's gonna work. Well, we
have to try something, Magnus announces. I agree, but we
need to think that thing can absorb any kind of
element you've already thrown at it. I imagine it can
absorb the wind as well, and who knows how it'll
use that against you. Well, what do you suggest, then,
Magnus says, well, I I mean, we know it can
absorb one element at a time, but so far we've
never seen it absorb multiple elements at once. How many
elements do you think you can command at once, Magnus?
Who do you think you're talking to? Magnus replies, and
then he starts to light up once again, growing hotter
and hotter and hotter as his veins glow brighter and brighter.
Soon Magnus is once again transformed into a little miniature sun.
The stone lifts up off of the ground and starts
whipping around him in a circle as well. Then any
remaining water vapor in the air is pulled down and
starts circling around him too. The ground that's transformed into
magma starts to lift up and spin around in a
band of magma. Vines shoot up out of the ground
again ready to attack, and a large vortex of air
starts to spin around Magnus. Well let's see how you
do with this, he announces, taking a deep breath and
unleashing a powerful blast of pure heat energy directly y
at the dragon. It hits the dragon, who immediately starts
to turn red and absorb the power, but instead of
cutting it off, Magnus joins the attack with every other
element he has. Stone, magma, water, vines, and a huge
concentrated blast of air begin to spin around the pure
energy attack, blasting into the dragon all at once. The
stone pummels the dragon, the vines wrap around it, the
water transforms to ice, and well tries to freeze the
dragon in place. The dragon starts to glow different colors red, blue, gray,
but it can't seem to settle on one, and the
elements continue to do damage in the meantime. Soon the
dragon is unable to hold its gray. It flies across
the arena and smashes into the other wall. The vines
continue to tighten around it as the stone and ice,
and fire and wind continue to pummel the dragon. When
Magnus is absolutely exhausted, he releases the attacks, almost falling
to the ground. Luckily for him, the golden Dragon seems
to be in worse condition. Its eyes slowly start to
close as if it's about to lose consciousness, and eventually
it gives in, falling to the floor, transforming into energy
and shooting back into his cardholder's core. Olie on the
other side of the arena immediately looks disappointed. Well, folks,
it looks like we have a winner. The referee announces,
floating back down to the center and may I say,
that was a pretty cool battle. Oh boy, if only
both of you could have gone on. I bet you'll
take on other opponents with ease. Huh. Anyways, Magnus is
the winner and gets to go on to the next round.
There should be some more matches a proof for tomorrow,
and then well, the preliminary round should be over soon.
You walk up to the center line. Ollie does the same.
You reach out and shake the other kid's hand. Could match.
You say, here, dragon is really powerful, yeah, Allie says, Unfortunately,
he doesn't seem to be as powerful as yours. Ollie
wants away, steps into the elevator and disappears. You follow
close behind him. When the elevator returns, you step inside,
go down to the bottom floor, and walk out of
the battle arena. You head back across the parking lot
and into the large hotel building on the other side.
You enter the elevator, go up to your room, head
down the hall and open it using your key card.
Inside you smell something amazing food. You walk in to
find a tray piled high with all sorts of different
food and desserts, with a note that reads, congratulations, you've
made it to the last round of the preliminary tournament.
We thought you could use a little treat. You look
over at Magnus, who has transformed back into his dragonling size,
of course, and the two of you dig in, eating
your fill of food and deserts until you can eat
no more. Then you lay down on the bed, pull
the covers up to your chin, and close your eyes.
With each breath, you release a little more tension from
your muscles, allowing your arms and legs to sink down
into the mattress. And the more you breathe, the deeper
you go, and the deeper you go, the better you feel,
until eventually your mind begins to wander off to thoughts
of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good night,
Everyone name.
Speaker 3: Never und Never, Union.
Speaker 1: M s.
Speaker 3: New York m more than Union A mo assas