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Speaker 1: Hey, hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories.

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Today it's Saturday, which means it's time for another compilation episode,

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a super story, if you will. And as you know,

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we've been kind of going back to the Kid Wizard

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episodes a world where imagination is magic in a very

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literal sense, and today we're going to take on episodes

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five and six. Episode five is about nature, magic and

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a forest fire, and episode six involves a magic carpet race. Honestly,

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I barely remember doing these episodes, so it's kind of

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fun to go back and see what happens. Anyways, I

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really hope you like them. But now it's that time again.

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Time to get as comfy as you can in that bed,

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close your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the Kid

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Wizard in the story does. You open your eyes and

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look around. You can see that you're inside the little

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pocket dimensioned bedroom of your backpack. You get up as usual,

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get dressed, get ready, have breakfast, and then you head

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up the little ladder in the center of the room.

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As you climb up, a zipper unfolds above your head.

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You climb straight out at the top with a little

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backpack and find yourself in the middle of a forest.

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Oh yeah, I was learning about nature magic before. Out

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of nowhere, another backpack appears. The top of it opens up,

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and out climbs your teacher, Martin. Good morning, Martin says,

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good morning. What do you want to get up to today? Well,

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maybe we could continue learning about this nature magic thing.

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Oh yeah, that would be a great idea, you respond,

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and then you hear a strange beeping noise. Now, when

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is it this time, Martin says, pulling out his magic

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wand and looking at it as the tip of it

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flashes a bright red color. He flicks the wand and

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in the air in front of you appears the face

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of another wizard. Well, hello there, and unfortunately there's a

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little bit of a wild magic that's appeared in the

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real world. It's causing quite a well, a forest fire,

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the wizard explains, a forest fire. Martin says, again, those

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things are the worst. All right, we'll be right there.

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Come on, kid, we better get going. Uh, what's happening,

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you ask, No, it's another forest fire. Those things can

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get out of control real fast, Martin says, as his

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magic carpet flies out of his backpack and unfolds itself

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beside him. He steps on to it as you do

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the same thing with your magic carpet. Once again, the

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carpet wraps its little fibers around your feet, and you

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and Martin take off into the air, soaring high above

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the forest that surrounds the Magic Academy. As you fly,

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Martin continues to explain things. Well, you see, forest fires

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are a problem because they get people worried, and as

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you know, belief is what fuels magic, and well, worry

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can be even more powerful because people tend to kind

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of focus on it too long. Anyway, as soon as

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a fire starts and it can get out of control quickly,

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and if it's a wild magic causing it in the first.

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Speaker 2: Place, this could be bad. Kid.

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Speaker 1: You don't like the sounds of that, but you know,

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with Martin by your side, everything's going to be just fine.

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The two of you fly back towards the ancient and

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old tree that leads you into the real world again.

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You fly directly into the tree into a portal that

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leads to a strange and colorful tunnel winding left and

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right and up and down. Before eventually flying out the

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other side back into the real world. In a large

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and dense forest. You follow Martin higher and higher and

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higher into the air, high above the clouds, where no

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one will see you, and wonder what's up with the

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magic carpet. You soar high above the world with the

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sun on your face and against your skin. Martin never

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explained exactly where it was you were going, but you

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trust him enough to follow him wherever it is. Before

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too long, he begins to descend below the clouds. As

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you follow behind him, you find yourself once again and

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high above a large forest. Only this one is covered

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in all sorts of thick smoke. In the distance you

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can see where it's coming from. A huge area of

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the forest is completely set on fire. Oh no, that

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looks really bad. It is, but we've dealt with things

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like this before. With enough wizards, we should be fine.

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Speaker 2: As you look.

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Speaker 1: Around you you see other wizards flying through the air

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as well, some of them atop magic carpets like you,

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while others ride broomsticks, motorcycles, and even flying skateboards. The

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possibilities for flying things seem pretty much endless, and you

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can't wait to try out something else. The wizards fly

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to every edge of the giant forest fire. They pull

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out their wands, and bit by bit they create an

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illusion around the area. The air shimmers, and the view

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of the forest fire is replaced with the view of

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a forest fire that's being fought with huge water planes

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and helicopters. As the wizards themselves pass through the new illusion,

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they just sort of disappear. This is a great cover,

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you realize.

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Speaker 2: As you pass.

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Speaker 1: Through the outside of the illusion, the view changes once again,

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and you see all the other wizards once again, flying

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from place to place, summoning water from nearby lakes or rivers,

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shooting beams of ice down at the fire, each one

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just trying to do their has to put part of

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it out. As you circle around the area beside Martin,

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he points to something there. It is, he says, the

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center of it. Sometimes these strange, wild and unregulated magic

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seem to appear from nowhere. It's both a good and

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a bad thing. The bad side is the forest fire,

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of course, But the good side is that if we

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catch this thing, we can harness its power to create

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other magical items, and it has a lot of power.

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Speaker 2: We can.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, But first We're going to have to get close

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to it. Help me out. Martin flies down towards the fire.

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He lifts his wand up in the air. It glows

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a bright blue color, and he shoots a blue beam

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of icy air down towards the ground. As the beam

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hits the trees that are on fire, the fire goes

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out almost immediately, and it even leaves a layer of

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ice behind. You decide to try to help out. The

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ability to use your ice magic has become much more

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reflexive over the last little while. The more you do it,

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the less you have to think about it. You no

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longer have to go back to that place where you

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attempted to feel very very cold. Instead, you just have

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to remember what it feels like to shoot out a

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beam of ice, and it kind of happens. You lift

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your wand up in the air, you allow the power

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of ice and cold to pass through your limbs. Then

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you focus it into your wand shooting a slightly different

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looking but very simil beam of ice towards the ground. Together,

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you and Martin carve out a circle around the wild magic,

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freezing the area on both sides of it, so the

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fire completely goes out. When there's enough room. Martin lands

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on the ground beside the huge ball of floating fire

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that's shooting little fire balls in every single direction.

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Speaker 2: You do the same.

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Speaker 1: You can feel the heat against your skin. It's really

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really intense. All right now, I say we try to

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trap it with ice. It might be the only way

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to contain the heat. And I'm not sure this is

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gonna be enough, he says, looking towards his wand he

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reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tiny little backpack.

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The backpack immediately grows to full size in his hand,

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and he sticks his arm down inside it, reaching around

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for something. It's still strange to see his arm go

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deeper than the bag should allow. But you're getting a

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little bit used to it. Ah, there it is, he says,

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as he pulls out a huge staff with a large

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crystal on the top. This should do, he says. He

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grabs the staff in his hands, he spins it around

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his body like a bow staff, doing figure eights and

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loop to loops. Then he rises it high up into

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the air, where it glows a bright blue color. He

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then slams the butt of the thing into the ground.

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As soon as it hits A flash of blue energy

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shoots out into the ground in every direction. The ground

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itself starts to become covered in ice. The ice and

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circles the Wild Magic and slowly grows towards it. As

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it does, the wild Magic starts to get even hotter.

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Pushing back against the ring of ice, Martin focuses as

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much as he can, doing his best to believe that

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the ice will overtake the fire. I could use some helpier, kid,

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he says, Oh right, you realize. You take your wand

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you lift it up into the air as well. It

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glows the same bright blue color, and you slam it

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down into the ground, trying to copy whatever it is

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Martin did. Either way, you focus on sending your ice

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energy through the ground around the Wild Magic and towards

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the large ball of fire. You try to drown out

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any other sounds, any other thoughts, and you just imagine

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the ice spreading through the ground and encompassing the Wild

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Magic and a large ball of ice. And sure enough

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it starts to work, but pretty slowly. The ice approaches

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the large ball of fire, and it starts to make headway,

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crawling up the bottom and around the sides, but the

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Wild Magic keeps pushing back, creating such intense heat that

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the layer of ice breaks and falls to the ground.

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Other wizards, seeing what's going on, fly to your side.

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They line up on every side of the wild magic,

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and each one lends their paths to it. With enough wizards,

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the work becomes easy. The ice easily shoots back through

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the ground, up and around the wild magic, creating a

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thick ball of ice. Then the ice starts to glow.

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It shrinks, it shrinks and shrinks, and then it suddenly

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solidifies into something that looks like glass, with a large

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fireball in the center. You release your attempts to freeze

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the thing, and the other wizards do the same, everyone

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feeling pretty tired. As you look around, you see some

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of the other wizards still putting out other parts of

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the forest fire, but generally speaking, things are looking pretty good.

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Some wizards run and grab the large ball of fire

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that's now contained in some sort of magical casing, and

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they fly off with it, presumably back to the magic Academy.

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You look around at the forest devastated by fire, large

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black trees.

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Speaker 2: Smoke going into the air.

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Speaker 1: This is terrible, you say, anah, This well, yeah, but

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with some magic it won't be a problem. If we

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just left it alone, all the seeds would grow back

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into trees, and in almost no time at all we'd

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have a new forest. But we can make it happen faster. First, though,

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we're gonna need some nutrients. Martin takes his staff and

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presses it right against his throat where his vocal cords are,

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and then he starts to speak, and his speech is

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amplified up into the air for everyone to hear. Guys,

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we're gonna need some water here, and this plaze is

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bone dry, he announces. The wizards, hearing what he's saying,

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begin to fly higher up into the air. They zoom

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off in each different direction, and then each one returns

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with a large well, a large cloud. The clouds begin

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to form together into a huge gray rain cloud, and

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before long the rain starts to hit the ground. And

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then it gets faster and faster and faster, until soon

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enough it's raining so quickly that you become completely drenched

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in water. The ground itself, not even having time to

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absorb it, starts to puddle with huge pools of the stuff.

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All right, now, step two, Martin says, as the rain

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clouds dissipate above them, and the sun comes back out.

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He reaches his staff up in the air, and instead

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of glowing a bright blue color, this time it glows

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a bright green color. Once again, he slams the staff

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down into the ground, and lines of green energy travel

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through the ground into little seeds that are spread all

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around him. The seeds start.

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Speaker 2: To glow and glow.

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Speaker 1: And then they begin to sprout, first into tiny little seedlings,

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and then into little trees, and then into bigger trees,

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and then they just keep growing and growing and growing

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until they tower around you once more, looking like they're

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well thirty or forty years old already. How do you

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do that, well, Martin says, as I said, I was

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going to teach you this anyways.

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Speaker 2: Is it some kind of nature magic?

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Speaker 1: You ask, well, kind of, But it's more nature magic

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Speaker 2: As I said before, what I'm.

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Speaker 1: Doing is kind of tricking the seeds into existing faster,

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if that makes any sense. Man.

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Speaker 2: Don't get that mistaken.

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Speaker 1: With moving faster, they're completely different things, although they do

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go together sort of. You see, when you make something

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exist faster, every single atom in it starts to spin faster,

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to go go through time at a faster rate, and

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as it does, it absorbs the nutrients around it, and

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it grows into large trees. You can use your nature

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magic at the same time to direct how they grow

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or how they twist. I've already taught you that part. Okay,

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so all I have to do is make things exist faster,

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I think.

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Speaker 2: Guess I'll give it a try.

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Speaker 1: You say, all right, and I'll work on other parts

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of the forest. As Martin moves his way around the

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forest and coaxes all of the little seeds to grow

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into large trees once again, you kneel down in front

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of one little pine cone. You look at the pine cone,

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and you decide that this might be the right place

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to start. You close your eyes and begin to focus

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on your breath, steadily in and out. With each breath,

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you allow your shoulders to relax more and more. You

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allow your face to soften in a nice half smile,

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and you hold your wand gently in your hand. You

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focus your attention on the pine cone. You allow the

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pine cone to become one with well your thoughts, and

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as you do, you start to see the pine cone

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inside your head. Using your mind, you kind of zoom

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in on the pine cone, seeing it closer and closer

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and closer, until you're so zoomed in that you can

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see it on an atomic level, little atoms just vibrating together.

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You imagine the atoms to start moving faster, existing faster,

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as Martin suggested, and slowly, but surely they begin to

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speed up faster and faster and faster. The pine cone

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quickly deteriorates in front of you, and then one part

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of it sprouts little roots that reach into the ground. Next,

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a tiny little stem pops up. Encouraged by the progress,

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you imagine each part of the thing moving even faster,

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absorbing all of the water and nutrients from the ground

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that it needs and from the sun that's shining brightly

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above you. And sure enough, it continues to grow at

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an even fast faster pace, growing into a little seedling,

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and then a small tree, reaching up towards the sky

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to become a medium sized tree, and then going further

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and further and further, reaching higher and higher towards the sky.

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As the trunk expands quickly in the ground in front

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of you, you continue to focus on the tree as

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it grows faster and faster and faster. When you open

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your eyes. All you can see is a giant tree trunk,

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a trunk much wider and thicker than you, and much

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wider and thicker than any of the other trees. Whow kid,

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take it easy there, That thing's like two hundred years

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old already, oh, you say, as you look up at

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the tree of oops. The tree is huge, much much

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much bigger than any of the other trees in the

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surrounding area. You summon your magic carpet and step aboard.

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You fly up towards the top of the tree, and

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you see that it sticks up out of the forest

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a lot more than any of the other trees. You

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might have gotten a little carried away, but the view

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from up here is amazing. And that's when you get

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another idea, I wonder.

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Speaker 2: You say.

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Speaker 1: You reach your consciousness out towards the tree once more,

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allowing your energy to pass through the wand and into

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the tree. This time, you use the nature magic you

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learned to give the tree permission to release its hardness,

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allowing it to become malleable. And then, using your mind,

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you coax the tree into moving into winding its branches

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together into a little platform high above the world, complete

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with a little railing on the outside and living branches

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growing out of each corner. When you release your mind,

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you see a beautiful platform sitting in front of you,

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completely woven out of the branches from the top of

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the tree. You land on the platform and you look

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out over the forest. Martin flies up and lands beside you.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Kid, good idea and great view.

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Speaker 1: You and Martin watch as the wizards around you you

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begin to disappear, flying away from the now rebuilt forest.

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As they go, they take their illusion with them, revealing

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and absolutely breath taking. Sunset and as the sun sets,

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you're starting to get sleepy too well. It may be

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time to take a little rest. You say, that took

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a lot out of me. You reach into your pocket

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and pull out your tiny little backpack. You put your

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hand on either side of it and expand the backpack

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in much the same way one would zoom in using

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a tablet or touchscreen. You open up the backpack, place

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it on the ground, and you step inside, finding the

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sturdy ladder and climbing back down towards your little pocket

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to the backpack closes above you and completely disappears from existence.

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As far as anyone else can tell, you immediately jump

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in the comfy bed, your mind still centered from the

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focus you put on growing the tree. You lay your

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head down on the soft pillow, and you go back

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to your breath once again, each breath relaxing your muscles,

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allowing you to sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress,

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and allowing your mind to drift off to a wonderful

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and relaxing sleep. Imagine yourself waking up inside your pocket dimension.

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You've been practicing all of your different magic skills for.

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Speaker 2: Days and days and days.

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Speaker 1: You've now mastered fire, ice, levitation, and even a fair

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bit of nature magic. Today, you feel like taking a

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bit of a break from practice, maybe exploring the area

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around the Magic Academy. You look down on the ground

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and you see your magic carpet sitting there, the very

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magic carpet that picked you up for the first time

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and delivered you to the Magic Academy. You climb aboard

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the carpet and together you float up out of your

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little pocket dimension. The zipper of the backpack opens up

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above you, and you rise up out of it into

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the real world, or at least the Magic Academy part

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of the real world. You find that you're already outside

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the castle. You grab your back, smush it together to

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make it shrink down small enough to fit in your pocket,

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and you take off on your magic carpet, flying high

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up into the sky. You spend some time floating around

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the castle, through the enchanted forest and just looking at

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all of the different sites there are to see. And

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that's when you see a group of other wizards approaching,

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and they're led by none other than Tarannas Rexington, your

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least favorite wizard. Well, if it isn't the kid from

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the non wizarding world, what's that you're riding around on

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one of the carpets that I give it to you

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by the Agadamy. Look, everyone, he's got a basic carpet.

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All of the other wizards start to point and laugh

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at you. You never really thought of your magic carpet

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as basic before, and you like this magic carpet. This

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magic carpet's way better than yours, You respond, even though

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you know it's probably not true. Tyrannus Rexington and most

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of his friends are floating around on either things that

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look like snowboards or floating skateboards, very very stylish and

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very expensive looking. You've learned over your time at the

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Magic Academy that different wizards seem to have different preferences

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for different flying objects. A magic carpet is given to

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each wizard when they start at the Magic Academy, but

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you assume from there you can either buy or make

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another one. You're honestly not really sure. Well, if you

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think that your cop it is better than mine, Tyrannus responds,

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then I challenge you to a race. His friends immediately

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start to chatter with one another, tapping each other on

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the shoulders and talking excitedly about what this race may

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look like. As quickly as you can, you think through

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your different options to race or not to race, But

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when you see all of the others staring at you,

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and you look down at your carpet, you know there's

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no other choice. I'll race you, you respond, And where

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do you want to do this anyways? Oh well, I'm

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not sure. Perhaps just follow me and we'll find somewhere

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to race somewhere I've totally never raced before or practiced

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for this exact moment, Tyrannus says. There's a bit of

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a strange response, but you decide to just kind of

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shake it off. And see where this takes you. Tyrannus

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and his friends fly up into the sky. You, standing

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aboard your magic carpet, fly after him. They lead you

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across the enchanted forest and all the way over to

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a large volcano that's spewing ash and smoke at all times.

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You fly up to the very top of the volcano,

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and there you find two starting flags and a large

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sign that says Race of Doom. You immediately start to

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get a little wary about this. Something seems off here.

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As Tyrannus lands beside the starting posts to the Race

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of Doom, he explains the rules. All right, well, we

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will both leave at the same time. The race is

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marked with different magical checkpoints to keep you on track.

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They light up a bright color until you pass through

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them man wnchtime, they just sort of disappear. The race

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should lead you down into the volcano through a series

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of tunnels, pass a whole bunch of very spiky and

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very dangers obstacles, and then to right over there where

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the finish line is. Rexington points down to the bottom

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of the volcano where you see another set of gates.

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Finish gates. Uh okay, I think I've got it. Have

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you raised this race before, though, you ask, oh me,

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well a few times, but not in a long time.

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I mean, I should be pretty rusty. I think it's

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rather safe. You know that he's lying to you, but

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you also know that at this point there's nothing you

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can really do about it. Why would you have agreed

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to this in the first place. You shouldn't let peer

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pressure push you into doing really dumb, dangerous things like

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flying through a mountain of a lava on a magic carpet.

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But before you can finish that thought, you hear one

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of the other students announcing the start to the race.

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Ready three two one and go Immediately, Tarannus Rexington zooms

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off straight down the center of the volcano. You snap

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back into focus and follow behind him as quickly as

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you can, going through the starting gate and then dropping

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down rapidly straight towards the lava. You pass through several

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glowing gates on the way down. Each one makes a

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little digging sound as you pass through, almost like you're

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in some kind of video game. Just before the gates

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hit the huge pool of lava at the bottom of

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the volcano, they lead you towards the side through a

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little tunnel that shoots off to the left. You do

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your best to will the magic carpet to go faster

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and faster, and it starts to obey. You make your

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way through the tunnel at rapid speed, dodging left and

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right and up and down. As you pass through another

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series of gates, the tunnel leads you into another cavern

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that's full of lava, and not just any lava, but

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lava with little rocks that shoot up out of the ground.

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You stop for a second as you watch Tyrannus Rexington

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head straight through the room, dodging around the flaming balls

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of rock and passing through each one of the gates

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in turn. You take a deep breath once again, and

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then you will the magic carpet forward, blasting through the cavern,

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dodging left and right as huge balls of rocky fire

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shoot up out of the ground. One of them singes

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the carpet just a little as you pass through, but

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either way, you're quick enough to be able to navigate

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the room with relative ease. As soon as you stop

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worrying about the flaming balls of rock, you once again

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shoot through another cavern, Only this one seems to have

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all sorts of obstacles. This particular tunnel is covered in

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half walls walls that come down from the sea, laying

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or up from the ground or off from the side.

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You quickly have to duck down below them, jump up

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over top of them, or swing from side to side.

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Once again, you make your way through the tunnel like

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a pro, dodging each obstacle with relative ease, and you

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even catch up to Tyrannus Rexington again. The two of

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you head into the next area neck and neck, but

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this area is even scarier than the first. There's huge

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metal spikes sticking out of the walls and the ceiling

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and the ground. In order to hit all of the gates,

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you have to quickly wind around them. It's all pretty

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easy until you realize that the spikes move and shift.

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Some of the spikes start disappearing back into the walls,

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an other ones suddenly shoot out, causing you to suddenly

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lurch to the left to avoid one of them, or

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off to the right. Still neck and neck with Tyrannus,

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you make your way through the room of spikes back

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through another tunnel, and you find yourself on the final

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stretch towards the finish line. Only something seems off about it.

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The ground below you starts to rumble and grumble, and

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then spikes start shooting out.

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Speaker 2: Of it as well.

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Speaker 1: You dodge the spikes from left to right as you

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head towards the finish line. You will yourself just a

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little bit ahead of Tyrannus, and you're about to pass

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through the finish line when a spike unexpectedly shoots up

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beneath you. This time, you're not quite quick enough to move.

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The spike doesn't hit you, but it does catch your

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magic carpet. You watch as the carpet rips in half

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00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:50,599
below you. At the last minute, Tyrannus pulls ahead, flies

480
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,800
through the finish line of the obstacle course, and you

481
00:38:55,199 --> 00:39:00,400
fall to the ground just short of it, with two

482
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:05,440
pieces of a magic carpet attached to your feet. Your

483
00:39:05,519 --> 00:39:10,079
magic carpet has been completely destroyed.

484
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 2: All of the other.

485
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:17,039
Speaker 1: Students begin to laugh, and together with their friend Tyrannus,

486
00:39:17,519 --> 00:39:22,079
they fly away, telling you to have fun getting home.

487
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:28,440
Oh no, this isn't going to be easy. You find

488
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,239
that even though your magic carpet's ripped in half, you

489
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,000
can still kind of get it to fly. It's just

490
00:39:36,119 --> 00:39:38,920
a lot less stable than you'd expect.

491
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 2: You do your.

492
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,639
Speaker 1: Best to carefully float up over the trees and head

493
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:49,760
slowly back towards the castle. It doesn't take you as

494
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:55,239
long as you thought it would, but it certainly isn't easy.

495
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,480
You land outside the castle doors and you head into

496
00:39:59,519 --> 00:40:04,119
the train room where Martin's normally hanging out. As soon

497
00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:07,719
as you enter, you see him, and he sees you.

498
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:13,000
What happened to you? He says, You tell him the

499
00:40:13,079 --> 00:40:17,000
story about how you got into this whole situation in

500
00:40:17,039 --> 00:40:23,320
the first place, and how you ripped your magic carpet. Now, well,

501
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,519
I guess you're gonna have to make a new one.

502
00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:29,079
Then come on over here and I'll show you how

503
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,440
make a new one. You think I can make a

504
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:40,960
magic carpet, you ask, well, the magic carpet or some

505
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,559
sort of other flying device. And wizards have all sorts

506
00:40:44,599 --> 00:40:49,800
of preferences. Some of them like to use the traditional broom,

507
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:54,679
Others prefer a more modern feel, using something more akin

508
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:59,400
to a snowboard or a skateboard. Honestly, it's really up

509
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,719
to you. If you want to fly around on a

510
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:07,039
magic table, we can make that happen. Well, what do

511
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:08,039
you recommend?

512
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 2: You ask?

513
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: Martin for you, well, maybe you should try a skateboard.

514
00:41:17,119 --> 00:41:20,559
And I know it's not really your traditional flying device,

515
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,920
but the cool thing about them is they just kind

516
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,880
of blend in in the real world too. When people

517
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,360
see you flying around on a magic carpet and kind

518
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:36,719
of gets their backs up. But with a skateboard, you

519
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,760
can just switch over to rolling around on the ground magically,

520
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:47,760
and nobody asks a question. Huh you think imagining yourself

521
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,840
flying through the air on the skateboard and then landing

522
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,159
on the ground and winding through people, that does sound

523
00:41:56,199 --> 00:42:00,559
like the perfect idea. Well, how do I make one?

524
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:05,679
You ask, Well, first you need to make the skateboard itself,

525
00:42:06,519 --> 00:42:10,079
and I've already taught you nature magic. You should just

526
00:42:10,159 --> 00:42:15,119
be able to bend a tree into the right shape. Here,

527
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,519
use this, Martin says, picking up an empty pot with

528
00:42:20,599 --> 00:42:24,920
some dirt in it and placing it in front of you. No, man, this,

529
00:42:25,559 --> 00:42:30,000
Martin says, tossing you a seed. You grab the seed

530
00:42:30,079 --> 00:42:34,679
and put it down inside the potted plant. You pull

531
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:38,719
your magic wand out of your pocket, and you focus

532
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,480
all of your energy towards the seed, becoming one with

533
00:42:43,599 --> 00:42:49,519
the seed, imagining the seed beginning to grow, imagining it

534
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:55,920
existing faster than everything else. Soon enough, the seed begins

535
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:00,719
to glow, and then it grows and grows and grows

536
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:06,960
at an absolutely rapid pace into a much larger tree.

537
00:43:07,119 --> 00:43:11,360
And as it grows, you give the tree permission to

538
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:16,039
become more malleable, and you start to form it into

539
00:43:16,079 --> 00:43:21,320
the shape of a skateboard. The tree twists and bends,

540
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:27,000
winding its branches together and then smoothing them into the

541
00:43:27,039 --> 00:43:33,280
perfect shape. Next, you focus on the wheels themselves, growing

542
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:36,320
out of the bottom of the board and forming into

543
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:43,199
perfect wheels with little ball bearings. The end result is

544
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:49,559
an absolutely beautiful skateboard. You reach out, grab the board

545
00:43:49,599 --> 00:43:52,079
and kind of snap it off the branch.

546
00:43:53,159 --> 00:43:54,159
Speaker 2: Perfect.

547
00:43:54,559 --> 00:43:58,159
Speaker 1: Now, when you're gonna need to make that thing run

548
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:04,960
is a little bit wild magic. You see, Magical objects

549
00:44:05,039 --> 00:44:08,559
can't just exist on their own. You have to give

550
00:44:08,599 --> 00:44:12,400
them something to power them. Man, the most common way

551
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:17,559
to do that is using wild magic. We've captured now,

552
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,960
since you and I captured a whole forest fire the

553
00:44:21,039 --> 00:44:26,639
other day, Well, he should be good. Martin reaches his

554
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,760
hand down into his backpack much further than it should

555
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:35,679
be able to go. When he pulls it out. He

556
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:40,440
pulls out a giant ball of ice with a very

557
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,719
bright flame in the center of it, the forest fire

558
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,559
that the two of you captured the other day. Now,

559
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,159
what you're gonna want to do is connect the two

560
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,880
objects in your mind, move some of the power into

561
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,280
the skateboard, and then well, just kind of will it

562
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,800
to do what you wanted to do. As long as

563
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,079
you believe it, it should work most of the time.

564
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 2: Oh okay. He hands you the giant.

565
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:21,159
Speaker 1: Ball of ice that's surrounding a large ball of wild

566
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:25,239
magic in the form of fire. You hold the ball

567
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,079
in one hand, and you hold the skateboard in the other.

568
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:34,800
You close your eyes and you allow your consciousness to

569
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:40,320
expand into both of them, becoming one with the skateboard

570
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:47,400
and one with the wild magic. As you focus, you

571
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,960
imagine the wild magic leaving the ball of ice and

572
00:45:52,159 --> 00:45:57,360
being absorbed by the skateboard itself, bringing life to it.

573
00:45:58,679 --> 00:45:59,519
Speaker 2: Life that.

574
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: Allows the skateboard to fly through the air with ease

575
00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:10,880
or rolled across the ground like it's powered by electricity

576
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:16,440
or something. And as you focus, you feel a little

577
00:46:16,639 --> 00:46:21,159
tingling as the magic works its way out of the

578
00:46:21,199 --> 00:46:26,800
ball of ice through your arm, through your body and

579
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:32,440
into the other arm that's holding the skateboard. The skateboard

580
00:46:32,519 --> 00:46:37,320
begins to glow, and you continue to focus. You focus

581
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:41,000
on what it'll feel like to ride it, exactly what

582
00:46:41,079 --> 00:46:44,400
it'll be able to do, moving through the air with ease,

583
00:46:44,519 --> 00:46:50,039
and the ground and well attaching itself to your feet.

584
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:57,239
And soon the skateboard begins to glow very very brightly,

585
00:46:58,079 --> 00:47:01,760
and the trickle of magic starts to slow down, to

586
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:05,159
the point where you don't feel like you can force

587
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:10,280
any more magic into the thing. With that, you open

588
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,960
your eyes and look up at Martin. Did it work?

589
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,280
You ask, Well, there's only one way to find out,

590
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,480
he says, coming over and grabbing the large ball of

591
00:47:23,519 --> 00:47:28,559
ice and placing it back inside his backpack. You place

592
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:35,320
the skateboard on the ground and you carefully step aboard it. Immediately,

593
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:40,039
it feels like it snaps to your feet, attaches itself

594
00:47:40,119 --> 00:47:45,159
with some sort of invisible pull. Even stranger, you now

595
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,960
feel like you can command the skateboard in much the

596
00:47:49,039 --> 00:47:53,760
same way you command your limbs to move. You imagine

597
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:58,719
it moving forward, and it begins to slide around the room,

598
00:47:59,599 --> 00:48:04,000
rolling across the floor with ease. You weave your way

599
00:48:04,159 --> 00:48:07,960
inside and outside of all the huge pillars that are

600
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:11,280
holding up the roof. Man, do you really start to

601
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:15,280
get the hang of it quickly? Next, you decide you

602
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,440
better find out if this thing can actually fly. With

603
00:48:19,519 --> 00:48:23,239
a thought, it hops up off the ground and into

604
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,960
the air, and in almost the same way, you can

605
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:32,719
weave up and down side to side, and even do

606
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,360
some loop to loops as if there's invisible skateboard ramps

607
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:42,440
in the air itself. Well, kid, I'd say it works

608
00:48:43,159 --> 00:48:47,400
and have fun. You spend most of the rest of

609
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:52,880
the day flying around on your new magic skateboard. You

610
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,400
find that when you have a skateboard that can easily

611
00:48:55,519 --> 00:49:00,840
transition between the ground and the air, everything becomes a

612
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:07,400
skateboard park. You fly up over the castle, landing and

613
00:49:07,679 --> 00:49:11,360
rolling down the side of the roof, only to jump

614
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,159
back off and soar through the air until you land

615
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:18,679
on the side of a tree and roll down it.

616
00:49:18,679 --> 00:49:23,880
It opens up a whole new world of possibilities, and

617
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,159
you play around with every single one of those possibilities

618
00:49:29,079 --> 00:49:34,280
until you get rather tired. Luckily, for you, in a

619
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,519
world like this, home is wherever you are. You reach

620
00:49:39,559 --> 00:49:43,000
into your pocket and pull out a tiny little backpack

621
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,960
You put your hand on either side of it, and,

622
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,559
just like you'd zoom in on a tablet or touch screen,

623
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:57,559
you pull your arms apart, causing the backpack to expand

624
00:49:57,679 --> 00:50:02,599
into a rather large back You find it's easier to

625
00:50:02,639 --> 00:50:06,320
get in and out when it's rather large. You one

626
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,960
zip the top of the backpack and, still aboard your skateboard,

627
00:50:11,519 --> 00:50:15,559
you float up into the air and lower yourself gently

628
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:20,480
down into the backpack, entering into the little pocket dimension

629
00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:25,679
that you now call home. The backpack zips up above

630
00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:31,880
you and presumably disappears from existence once again. You land

631
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:36,559
on the floor of your bedroom and you step off

632
00:50:36,599 --> 00:50:40,039
of the skateboard. You pick it up and place it

633
00:50:40,079 --> 00:50:44,719
against the wall. Before heading over to the bed. You

634
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,760
climb underneath the covers. You pull them up to your chin,

635
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,639
and you allow your head to rest on the very

636
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:59,760
comfy pillow. A pillows so comfy you suspect it me

637
00:51:00,199 --> 00:51:06,960
be magical. You focus on your breath, and with each

638
00:51:07,159 --> 00:51:15,079
breath you get sleepier and sleepier. All of the muscles

639
00:51:15,119 --> 00:51:20,079
in your body begin to relax, allowing you to sink

640
00:51:20,199 --> 00:51:26,159
down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and before long,

641
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:33,519
you're so comfy and so tired that nothing seems better

642
00:51:33,639 --> 00:51:37,960
than just allowing yourself to drift off to a world

643
00:51:38,119 --> 01:01:00,639
of dreams and new adventures to come. Good Night everyone,

644
00:52:30,320 --> 00:55:02,400
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