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 headed back into the Cards of Power episode
because Caspian, who's one of my Patreon's sponsors, asked me
if I was planning on doing a Cards of Power
Easter related story, and I told them no, I don't
think I am, because I don't think I have time.
And then while I was cleaning my Airbnb, we have
an Airbnb that I had to clean, I just kept
coming up with story ideas for that exact thing, so
I decided to do it after all. So this one
goes out to Caspian. Now, before we get started today,
there is one very important thing I have to do.
I promised everyone to do the draw for the March
Guaranteed Story Idea contest, and that's exactly what we're going
to do right now. I had twenty six submissions that
are all in my Google form, So I'm now going
to go to a random number generator and I'm going
to make it produce a number between one and twenty six,
including the numbers one in twenty six and whatever number
that is. I'm going to look up at which person
that was, and they're going to get the guaranteed story idea,
So drum roll please. The winner of the guaranteed story
idea for March is number seventeen, and the seventeenth person
to do it was Will J. So will you won.
I'll send an email over to whoever submitted the submission
there and we'll figure things out from there. But now
I believe it's time to get onto the story after
a possible word from a possible sponsor. Remember we don't
do ads during or after the story, but we do
need to sponsor the podcast, so we get them over
with at the beginning. Now it's time to 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 your log cabin. You and Magnus
have breakfast. Man, you immediately head back out into the
protected zone you were exploring. You summon your magic wing card,
one of the first cards you ever received. Magical energy
wings shoot out of your shoulder blades and lift you
gently up into the air. You and Magnus float back
out over the protected zone to the little village where
Gabe and his well, elemental salamander are waiting to transport
you back. As you arrive at the little village, you
see that the entire thing is decorated in all sorts
of different bright pastel colors, with pictures of bunnies and
eggs everywhere. You land on the ground and see Gabe
and his elemental salamander walk over towards you. What's all
this about, you ask, Oh, well, it's obviously our Easter celebration. Ow,
we have Easter on my planet too. What happens here, Well,
we like to celebrate in a very interesting way by
hiding a bunch of chocolates for the kids to find.
Oh and well, of course there's the Ultimate Bunny in
the Eggs of Power. But that's a nice story. Wait
a second, what do you mean the ultimate Bunny in
the eggs of power? You ask, Well, once a year,
at this exact time, all powerful deity level Bunny shoots
down from the sky, along with a bunch of really
high powered eggs of power, each one's a different element.
The story goes that if you can track down all
of the eggs battle them, well, then you get a
chance to battle against the bunny, and if you win
against the bunny. He gives you something special, So like
the ultimate Easter egg hunt. You say, I guess, so
if by Easter egg hunt you mean battling giant, super
powerful easter eggs. Yeah, man, it's the same time you
hear a strange explosion in the sky. The top of
the protected zone. The force field or whatever it is, crackles, booms,
and four lights shoot through it, straight down towards the ground,
all through it the protected zone. They look like little meteors,
although well they're sort of egg shaped honestly. Each one
makes a loud explosion sound as it smashes into the ground. Ah,
those are them. You look over at Magnus. Are you
thinking what I'm thinking?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: Are you thinking about going and finding those eggs, battling them,
and then taking on some sort of super powerful bunny
rabbit for a chance to win a really cool prize.
Magnus responds, That's exactly what I was thinking. Say, oh, no,
I wasn't thinking about that at all, Just kidding. Yeah,
let's go. Magnus immediately starts to glow. He transforms into
a larger and larger and larger dragon until he's well
in his deity level. Form a large black dragon with
streaks of pure sunlight energy through his veins. Want a ride,
he says. You quickly run over and jump on top
of the dragon. At the same time, you summon your
high tech armor. See you in a while, Gabe. Maybe
we'll go back tomorrow. At this point, we're having too
much fun here. Magnus runs forward, jumps into the air,
and spreads his wings. You immediately begin talking to your
high tech suit suit or looking for some high powered eggs.
I believe I just heard them crash down on the
landscape below. Any chance you'll be able to track them? Understood?
Tracking attempted? You watch through your visor as it scans
the area below. Heat signatures detected three, no, make that
four separate areas. Would you like me to create a map?
It asks, Uh, yeah, obviously, create a map. Let's go
to the closest one first. Understood map set out. A
little mini map appears in your field of vision, as
if you're playing a video game or something. It has
a little dot in the top left hand corner and
another dot that represents you and Magnus. All right, Magnus
over here to the left, let's go. You turn the
large dragon and can continue to fly at a pretty
impressive speed over the landscape until you see a little
trail of smoke, almost like a campfire, drifting up from
the ground towards the sky. That's gotta be it, you say,
the first egg. Let's hit it. Magnus dives down through
the air, flows through the trees, and you begin searching
around left and right looking for the little egg. Sure enough,
you see a gigantic divot in the ground. You slide
off the dragon, still wearing your high tech armor, and
run over to the side of a mini crater. You
peek over, peer inside and see a giant, bright blue
egg that's pulsing with electrical energy. A bolt shoots out
of it and connects with your chest, sending you flying backwards. Luckily,
your high tech armor takes most of the blow and
you don't really feel anything at all. Hey, Magnus says.
He takes a deep breath and blows out a plume
of fire towards the egg, but it doesn't really seem
to do anything other than well, perhaps anger the egg.
The egg continues to spark with lightning and rises up
out of the ground, floating above the forest floor. Two
legs pop out the bottom, two arms pop out the side,
and it drops to the floor just in front of
the crater. Then it begins to attack with more bolts
of energy. I think I have an idea for this,
Magnus says, stomping on the ground. Suddenly, the ground it's
shoots up and wraps around Magnus's body, creating a sort
of stone armor. This should isolate me against the blasts,
he announces. As he starts running forward. He shoots his
tail down into the ground, lifting up a huge boulder,
and then fires it straight at the egg. The egg
dodges out of the way, shoots up into the air,
and un the leashes a powerful blast of lightning that
connects directly with Magnus, only it travels through his new
rock armor and directly into the ground. Magnus jumps up
in the air stomps down on the ground, causing a
bunch of rocks to shoot up. Then one by one,
he blasts them forward like miniature little bullets, straight at
the egg. They blast through the shell bit by bit,
cracking it and causing more electricity to spill out. At
the same time, you reach into your card core and
call forth your energy shield. The shield blasts out of
your chest and immediately wraps itself around the egg as
you've commanded it to do. The egg continues to blast,
sending bolts of lightning left and right, only now they
connect with the energy shield and ricochet around. You slowly
command the shield to shrink down, smaller and smaller and smaller,
until there's an explosion of energy inside, and then well,
not much at all. You lower the shield to the ground,
release it, and all you find inside is glowing blue energy.
The energy shoots up into the air and disappears off
into the distance. Ah, did we do what we were
supposed to? Magnus asks, Maybe, you say, let's try to
find the other ones, and well, maybe we'll find out.
You climb back on the dragon and shoot back up
into the air, following your little mini map to the
second little bleep on it. Sure enough, you eventually find
another trail of smoke drifting up from the ground. You
land near it, but approach it more cautiously. This time.
You soon come to another crater with a glowing sort
of green light shining out of it. You look out
over the side and a massive boulder shoots straight up
and towards you. You dodge out of the way just
in time as it smashes behind you. I think this
one might be a Earth type. Ah yeah, I was
getting that impression, Magnus says. The egg floats up out
of the crater. The ground below it breaks apart and
well sort of magnetically connects to the egg, surrounding it
in a giant layer of stone. Two stone legs shoot down,
two stone arms shoot out, and the thing lands on
the ground in front of you, looking like a gigantic
egg shaped boulder. It rolls on the ground and starts
zooming straight towards you and Magnus. You both jump out
of the way. Ah, what do we need for this?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: Well, if I remember correctly, rock is weak against water, right,
You immediately summon well a card you haven't used in
a little while, Aisling the water Dragonling. The card glows
a bright blue color in front of you, and then
reforms itself into a little water dragonling. Hasling, We're gonna
need a little help, Aisling nods and acknowledgment, and then
begins to glow, growing larger and larger into his mythic form,
A gigantic storm dragon clouds form over top, and rain
immediately begins to pour down a I wouldn't recommend your
lightning powers though it's a rock type after all. Instead,
Aasling begins to form large ice spikes out of the
water and shoot them down towards the little rock egg creature. Magnus,
now surrounded by water, begins to use it to his
advantage as well, collecting it up in a stream and
blasting it straight towards the little rock egg creature. Magnus
hits the creature with a huge stream of water and
freezes it midpush, encasing it in ice atop a large
pillar of water. The ice spikes fly down and smash
into the creature, breaking apart the stone until eventually you
can see a sort of green egg shell peeking through,
which seems to be your opportunity. You summon your laser catana.
It appears in your hand, and then you summon your
time card, slowing down time around you and allowing you
to travel at super speed. You blast forward the katana
in hand and strike it straight down into the egg.
The egg immediately explodes in green light, sending you and
Magnus flying backwards, just as the last one did. The
green light rises up into the air and blasts back
down towards the ground off in the distance. Ah, I
think we beat that one too, you say, I guess so,
if we were supposed to turn it into energy or whatever.
Is there another one?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: There's two little blips. One looks like it's the same
as the others, and the fourth one is a bit
different for some reason, And it looks like it's coming
from the same area that both of those energy bursts landed.
I say we go for the egg shaped one first.
I agree, you say. Climbing back aboard the large dragon
and summoning your other cards back to your card core,
you take off into the air and follow your mini
map once again until you once again come across a
little stream of smoke rising up into the air, Only
this one is surrounded by what look like volcanoes. The
air gets hotter as you descend towards it. You land
on the ground in front of a large crater fly
up in the air off of Magnus's back. Check out
the third egg. This time it's glowing a bright orangey
yellow color. Obviously a fire type or something like it.
You watch as it rises up into the air two
little feet surrounded by fire. Two arms surrounded by fire
pop out, and it starts to glow brighter and brighter
and brighter until it ignites into what looks like a
miniature sun.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 1: I guess same plan as last time you announce. You
summon Aisling once again, and again the gigantic dragon summons
a storm of pouring rain and water. Aisling and Magnus
use their water powers to redirected straight towards the glowing
ball of fire, but every bit of water that hits
it just instantly evaporates. Ah, I think it might be
too powerful for this, Magnus announces, as a blast of
sun shoots out and sends him flying backwards. Ow that hurt.
Another beam of energy blasts out straight towards Aisling and
pierces straight through the dragon, causing him to reform into
a card and connect with your card core again. Oh wow,
that's way more powerful than I thought. Yeah, and actually hurt.
And it's my main elemental type, Magnus says. In response,
he takes a deep breath and blasts the sun with
a blast of pure sunlight energy. Only eh, it doesn't
seem to hurt the thing. In fact, the sun like
creature grows just a little bit. Ah, we're gonna need
something more powerful, and that's when you reach inside yourself
and produce your ice storm card. The storm starts to
form all around you, growing colder and colder, and then
you will allow yourself to become part of it. You
become almost like a floating consciousness that can see the
entire battlefield, the entire storm, all at once. You focus
all of the cooling energy from the storm directly at
the gigantic, glowing ball of fire in the middle, and
you slowly move it inwards. Icy wind, ice, rain, and
water start to bombard the sun. It continues to melt
almost everything, but as the storm becomes more and more concentrated,
it seems to weaken just a little bit. You continue
to bombard it with all of the cold energy you can.
It blasts back at the storm, but with no real
target to hit, there's almost nothing it can do. You
shrink the storm further and further and further until it's
just sort of a tiny storm surrounding the sun like egg.
The sun power of the egg grows weaker and weaker,
until eventually the sun dies out and the egg freezes
in place. You release the storm, form yourself back into
a human, and summon the card back to your core.
You watch as the nail frozen egg hits the ground, cracks,
and again a bright yellow orange energy shoots out of
the thing and off into the distance, towards the same
area where the other two blasts of energy went. Suddenly,
the same area the energy just ran to explodes into
a burst of energy energy you can see from all
different directions. You blast off into the air using your
high tech armor. Magnus flies up beside you, and sure enough,
in the distance you see what looks like a gigantic
well egg made of energy, energy of all different colors.
I think that could be the ultimate bunny, you ask, Ah,
There's only one way to find out, Magnus says, and
together you blast towards the strange thing. You land on
the ground in front of it, and sure enough, standing
directly in the center is a large humanoid bunny, a
very muscular looking one with his fists pressed together. His
eyes are closed and he's focused in some sort of
meditative state. His eyes suddenly open and he looks at you.
You have done well, young one, You have found and
defeated the eggs and now it is time for the
ultimate challenge me. The energy blasts straight into the rabbit,
and he takes on a sort of fighting stance, his
one hand pointed towards you. With two of his fingers,
he makes the sort of come at me gesture that
martial artists often do. You take a fighting stance of
your own. Magnus begins to charge up a huge blast
of pure heat energy, and the bunny disappears in a flash.
You look left and right, but you can't see anything
until suddenly you feel something in your side and find
yourself flying across the forest floor, crashing through trees, before
eventually landing on the ground ow you say, pulling yourself up.
Luckily again, your suit took most of the blow. You
look back towards Magnus and you see little flash is
around him. The bunny appears to his left and blasts
him with a fireball, then disappears ap peering behind him
and unleashing a blast of rock energy from the ground,
before disappearing again and hitting him with a bolt of lightning.
It's like the bunny can move at super speed. Wait
a second, maybe it can. You reach into your card
core and activate your time card. Time slows down around
you once again as the counter starts to move down.
Now you can see the bunny running from place to place,
jumping up in the air at a rather normal speed.
That should help even the odds, you say. As you
activate your energy's sword and your right hand and your
energy shield in your left in a sort of well
half circle form, you run forward towards the rabbit, who
notices you coming and turns to face you.
Speaker 3: I see you have the power of speed too, but
do you have the skill needed to defeat me?
Speaker 1: Your suit begins to speak to you. Would you like
to enter ninja mode? It asks, Uh, yep, I think
we better, you respond, and strangely, the suit suddenly snaps
itself into place, making your form better than it was.
As the rabbit runs towards you and jumps in the
air to perform a perfect jump kick, your suit seems
to know exactly how to react, parrying to the side
and kicking back at the rabbit. The rabbit falls to
the ground, gets back up and runs for you again.
It begins to strike as quickly as it can, punching
and kicking, and somehow your suit responds almost automatically, blocking
the strikes out of the way left, right, up, down
over before you see the perfect opening and strike back
with a fist. The bunny flies across the ground, slams
into a tree, and falls down to its knees. You
immediately run towards it, raising your sword up in the
air and swipe across the bunny, but before you can connect,
time seems to stop almost entirely. The bunny stands up
in front of you and nods.
Speaker 3: Very good, you have proven yourself worthy of the prize.
Speaker 1: The bunny says, he snaps his fingers, and the time
around you changes back to sort of a normal time.
Magnus starts moving again, and the bunny begins to glow,
rising up into the air. For proving yourself worthy and
finding the eggs of power, I give you two gifts.
Light shoots out of the bunny's hands and begins to
form itself into a strange shape, a gigantic easter basket
sort of shape. Then, in a blast of energy, the
bunny shoots back into the sky and completely disappears. You
walk over to the giant easter basket. You float up
into the air above it and look down inside. The
entire thing is full of chocolate eggs. Chocolate eggs with
a card sitting on top. The card rises up into
the air and floats over in front of you. It
reads the Eggs of Power. Summon three power eggs with
different elemental abilities to fight by your side. Cool, you say,
immediately absorbing the card into your card core.
Speaker 3: You grab a hold.
Speaker 1: Of the easter basket using your well reinforced strength from
your high tech armor card, and you and Magnus blast
off to war towards the little village where Gabe is waiting.
Speaker 2: You land the.
Speaker 1: Egg in the middle of the ceremony in the middle
of the village, and immediately all of the children and
magical creatures rush towards you and grab a hold of
the chocolate eggs, ripping tinfoil off of them and eating
them as quickly as they can. Wow. Thanks, Gabe says,
Did you actually find the eggs? Yep, you say, and
I even got to battle the Ultimate Bunny or whatever
that thing was. Call You spend the next few hours
feasting on chocolate before summoning your log Cabin card once again.
You and Magnus enter inside, crawl into your bed, and
close your eyes. With each breath you let go of
tension and your muscles, starting with your arms, then your legs,
letting go of the tension in your shoulders and your neck,
your face, your eyes, until it feels like you're just
floating on a cloud once again, and slowly you allow
your mind to wander off to thoughts of new dreams
and new adventures to come.
Speaker 2: Good night. Everyone must never union in New yor no
more union, no mom of thing,