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 going to be jumping into the Cards of Power
series once again with a couple new suggestions. And before
I get started, I have a couple big announcements about
the Cards of Power series. First of all, as many
of you know, I've just started reading book one of
the Cards of Power series on my new podcast, Dad's
Anytime Stories. And number two. I just published volume two
of Cards of Power on Amazon, so if you want
to check it out, you can search for the Cards
of Power by Martin Gage, Volume two and you should
be able to download it or by the paperback version.
I did have to go up and praise a couple
of dollars, mostly because this one is over two hundred
page into a pretty big book. So I hope you
like it. If people continue to buy the books, I'll
continue to make more. And now let's check out some
of the story suggestions.
Speaker 2: Hi, I want to he's a suggestion for the Card
of Power series. I want Magnus to fight a time
dragon and name the abilities of time. Bye, all of
your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Now, I have that one down as being from Ted,
So thank you Ted. That's on the docket. Let's see
what else we got.
Speaker 3: Bye.
Speaker 2: My name is Henry and I'm from Australia, Brisbane, Australia,
and I'd like to suggest a suggestion for the Cards
of Power series. It's when you battle this really hard
car holder and you get to pick a card out
of his card deck and you choose the RCED car
and they choose outlazers and new coach stuff.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 2: I love your podcast. I listened to them every night.
Speaker 1: Another great suggestion from Henry. Henry, I hope it's okay
though if the cardholder is a girl, because it's going
to be a girl in this one. Let's check out
one more suggestion. I think just one more.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 2: My name is Hedrick F. I'm seven years old and
I would like to suggest an explosive mouse card with
an explosive mouse cardholder Honey as the explosive mouse card.
Speaker 4: Bye.
Speaker 1: A great suggestion. I'm not sure if you met you
wanted the cardholder to also explode or just have explosive
mouse cards, but I'm going with the explosive most cards
because I just think it's less deadly. I guess last,
but certainly not least. I had a suggestion given to
me by Milly for an electric pig, but she told
me in person and I didn't record it, So thank you, Milly,
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any possible ads like this one. Possibly. Now it's time
to get as comfy as you can in that bed,
close your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid
in the story does. Now, as you may or may
not recall from the last couple of episodes, and you
were transported by a friend named Gabe to his planet
from a sort of battle planet that you'd been on lately.
There you captured some new cards, met to well some
version of the Easter Bunny, who gave you another special card.
But now it's time to return to the battle planet.
It's time to get ready for the Deity Level tournament.
You wake up inside your lug Cabin card. You head
to the kitchen, where Magnus is already well woofing down
is breakfast in a very undragon like manner. You go
through the cupboards and fridge, which are once again fully
stocked with all of your favorite things, and you eat
your fill. Then you and Magnus head out of the card,
summon the log cabin back into your card deck, and
head for the little village where Gabe and his elemental
salamander are waiting. You activate your magic wing card and
gently float above the ground down four worst trails across
valleys until you see the little village once again. You
land in the outskirts and walk the rest of the way.
Magnus lands on your shoulder for a place to perch.
Soon you find Gabe by a water fountain in the
center of the town. Oh hey, there, you're finally back. Well.
Are you ready to go back to the battle planet
where your spaceship is currently held? Oh yeah, let's go,
you say. You place your hand on Gabe's shoulder and
he activates his teleportation card. The card appears in its
bright blue, glowing form in front of his chest, and
then in a flash of light, you appear back in
the parking lot of the battle planet, right beside your
very own spaceship. Gabe. You say, that was really helpful
for you and your salamander to teach Magnus you know,
command for the elements and all. Ah, no problem anyways,
I hope you do well in that Deity level tournament
you're training for. Thanks, you say, maybe I should actually
do some more training. You look over to the giant
battle stadium beside the parking lot. If you're going to
be ready for a tournament, then you have to be
ready for anything. Battling other card holders is probably the
best way to do that. I think I'm going to
go train some more, you say. You wave goodbye to Gabe,
who disappears in another flash of blue light. You and
Magnus head through the large doors of the stadium and
walk up to the counter. Ah any cool matches that
I can participate in, you ask, hmm, Well, yes, the
lady responds, I do have one person about your level
waiting for an opponent. Her name is down As let's
see here.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, Milly, and it looks like she's looking for
a three round battle here. If I'm not mistaken it
miss that's what it says here. Three round battle winner
takes a single Deity level card and oh, what do
you know, she's already checked her card in If that
sounds like something you'd like to participate in. I'll just
need one card of equal or greater value. You reach
into your pocket to the cards you haven't yet put
in your card and begin to flip through them. Elemental Tiger,
black Hole, Dragon, Poisonous Snake. You didn't really find much
of an attachment to the Elemental Tiger, since it was
really the snake that defeated him after all, so you
slide that card forward. Well this work, you ask, hmm, yeah, yes,
it does seem to be a deity level, so yes,
I'll keep this here. You will find your opponent Milli
in chamber number four, just down that hallway there to
the right.
Speaker 1: You nod in understanding, and then walk down the hallway
she pointed to until you see a gigantic sign that
says number four. You step inside the elevator just under
the sign. It hisses to life and smuts you up
to what seems like it must be the top level.
The doors open up, and you walk out into another
gigantic battle stadium, one made to well mimic real life trees, water,
real earth underneath, with a gigantic protective dome overhead. The
thing is as big as well a gigantic football stadium
or something of the lake. Finally, the girl says, standing
inside at the other end of the stadium, I've been
waiting for almost an hour for another opponent. You walk
over to your starting spot, a little circle that from
experience creates a well force field like barrier around you
as the card battle goes on. As soon as you
step in place, a voice appears overhead. Good morning, welcome
to the Battle Ofrena. I am the brand new AI
that will be in charge of refereeing your match. Now,
I believe you have agreed to a three round match,
one creature or card per turn. As the initiator of
the match, Millie will select her first card. MILLI, what
do you have, the voice asks. Now. Milly was a
little unlike some other card holders. She was from a
planet not too far from here, a planet full of
people who called themselves Azzies. For some reason. On her
choosing day, when most people aimed to pick the most
powerful and the meanest looking cree features they could possibly find,
Milly picked her partner because well, she just liked the
way it looked. It didn't look too powerful. It was
just a cute little piglet with a curly tail reportedly
in electric type, but her future opponents on the Aussie
planet would soon discover that it wasn't something to be
messed with, because that little pig could produce one of
the strongest electric blasts the universe had ever seen, and
since the time she got it, she'd evolved it too,
all the way up to a deity level pig. So well,
it might look cute at first, her opponents were making
a big mistake if they underestimated it. I choose oinks.
The electric pig, Milly said, has a blue card glowed
in front of her body, transformed into energy and reformed
itself into the cutest little pink picklet you've ever seen
in your life. It's tail spun, producing a little bolt
of electricity. Seeing this, you're sort of surprised. This is
supposed to be a deity level match, but what she's
produced doesn't look deity level at all, though you know
from experience that looks can be deceiving and well, some creatures,
like Magnus can evolve into different forms. It will. Thinking
through all of your different card options, you decide to
test out something you haven't tried all that Often one
of the other cards you recently acquired the poisonous snake.
You pull the card out of your pocket and activated
using your card core. It glows a bright blue color,
reforms itself into its snake shape, and hisses, very good
will begin in three two one. The voice announces, and
then a buzzer sounds. Your snake hisses and immediately releases
a puff of toxic gas that starts filling up the
entire area. The electric pig looks at it, oinks, and
begins winding its tail. The cute, curly little tail spins
around and around it starts charging itself with electricity. Bolts
shoot up towards the outsides of the stadium, and then
the little pig begins to grow, first in to a
larger pig, then into a wartthog looking pig with gigantic
tusks or horns or something at the front, each one
sparking with electricity, and then into a gigantic pig made
entirely out of lightning, no physical body at all, just
a bright blue outline of a pig about half the
size of the stadium. The lightning begins to crackle inside
the pig, shooting left and right up and down from
one part of its body to the other. Your poisonous
snake card responds by unleashing a bright green plume of
poisonous gas, a gas that quickly fills up the entire
stadium with something that's most creatures shouldn't be able to
breathe without passing out anyways. Unfortunately for you, it would
seem that the electric pig in its current form does
not in fact have real lungs, and therefore is not
in fact affected by the poisonous gas. All at once,
the pig starts to glow a bright blue color, and
then it shoots its entire body of electricity into the snake.
The snake glows blue and jolts with the electrical shock.
The lightning blasts out of it and reforms into the
lightning shape of a pig. Once again. The snake begins
to sway left and right, but it doesn't pass out,
so the pig hits it again and again and again,
until eventually the snake gives up, closes its eyes, falls
over on its side, and then reforms itself into energy
and into a glowing blue card that lands in front
of you. You grab a hold of the card and
tucket in your pocket. Very good. Round one goes to Milli.
Now as the winner of the first round. Milly will
once again pick her card first in order to give
her opponent, who is currently losing the advantage. Milly, what
card will you choose? Milly recalls her Electric Pig card
into her card core before thinking deeply about her next choice.
Another blue card appears in front one of her, transforms
into energy and appears as a tiny little mouse, a
mouse about the size of the palm of your hand.
But again, you don't plan to underestimate this creature. It too,
could be much scarier than it looks. It isn't clear
exactly what its elemental power is, so you decide to
be on the safe side of things. You reach into
your card core and summon a card that hasn't let
you down before, and one that's given others quite a
bit of trouble. Dominic the Magical Dingo. A gigantic Dingo
appears in front of you, staring down the little mouse.
Very good, who will begin round two in three two
one go? As soon as the buzzer goes, the mouse
starts to glow, and then it starts to duplicate again
and again. And again and again and again, until thousands,
maybe tens of thousands, of tiny little mice surround the
entire stadium. Oh you say, there's tens of thousands of them.
You wonder if it's an illusion card or if they're
real clones, And if they are, do they have any
particular power? Choosing Dominic for this particular battle was probably
the best choice you could have made, since at least
he too can clone himself, which is exactly what he does.
Lashes of light start to appear around Dominic, different time clones,
clones that look just like Dominic, only from possible alternative universes,
slightly altered, some slightly injured, one of them with the
patch over his eye for whatever reason. But before he
can finish making all of the clones he can, the
mice begin to explode, and not in little tiny explosions either.
Each one packs a gigantic boom, sending clones flying across
the arena left right center, straight up into the air.
Clone after clone disappears in a flash of light. Until
Dominic activates his time power, time slows around him as
he looks left and right, thinking about exactly what he
should do next. He cloaks himself in invisibility and slowly
and silently makes his way behind the opponent, directly beside
Milly herself. He watches in slow motion as the mice explode,
one after the other, sending his clones flying. Soon, all
but one of the mice have disappeared. Augh, I think
I got you, Milly says, but uh, well, that's only
because she can't see Dominic. Still in his invisible form
and moving at his accelerated rate of speed, he saunters
over to the one remaining mouse. He lifts up his
large paw and stomps it down on top of the thing.
It doesn't have a chance to move. It doesn't even
have a chance to explode. It simply transforms into energy
as Dominic reappears. What we have a winner. The winner
of round two goes to the opponent and his magical
cloning time manipulating dingo. Many might call it a nexus
type congratulations. Now, as the winner of the second round, opponent,
it is your turn to pick the next creature. You
summon Dominic back to card form and reabsorb him into
your card core. You look across at Millie, who seems
rather upset that you defeated her little exploding multiply most creature,
and then you look over at Magnus. You better pick me,
Magnus announces. In a second, he jumps out of the
little protective force field and onto the arena floor. Opponents selected, Millie,
what will you choose? A glowing card appears in front
of the girl, reforms itself into energy and then into
a large blue dragon, one that looks like Magnus in
almost every way other than it clearly has more of
a water or freezing elemental type, much like Asling. Very good.
Now the battle will begin in three two one. This
time it's your turn to surprise your opponent. Magnus begins
to glow, and then he starts to grow larger and
larger and larger, before shrinking down a little bit again
into his deity level form a black dragon with veins
of pure energy and now the power of almost every
single element. He stomps on the ground, raising dirt up
into the air. He begins to swirl it around his
body and heat it up into magma. He breathes out
a plume of fire that starts to ring around him
as well. He summons some water from the nearby many lake,
He pulls air in from near by, and vines start
to grow up around the creature. He transforms the water
into ice spikes, the earth into lava spikes, and all
at once, he blasts every single element at the creature, fire, earth, wind, water, vines,
and an extra plume of pure sunlight energy straight out
of his mouth. But in an instant, the ice Dragon
just moves out of the way in a flash, so
quickly that he can't even see it happen. There's another
flash and another flash, until the dragon appears beside Magnus
and swipes at his side. But then a buzzer goes off.
A buzzer it's meant to stop the match at tension.
Unfortunately I have to detected an extra card being used.
It would seem that the dragon in question is in
possession of a time card, which means that Millie must
forfeit the match. What I mean? I agree, that's I
guess cheating if the dragon's using a card. But it
was kind of a cool battle. I'd like to see
what happens in the end. Well, it is possible for you,
as the opponent to pick an alternative. For example, you
could agree to give your dragon the power of one
extra card as well, evening the odds. Okay, you say,
I'll do that. You reach into your card core. A
glowing blue card appears in front of you and solidifies
into card form. You grab it out of the air,
look over at Magnus and say, here, buddy, this should
even the odds. You throw the card at Magnus, who
grabs it out of the air. Well, well, well, I
guess you're right, it should the time card. The time
card glows blue and then shoots into Magnus's chest. If
everyone's ready, we'll begin again in three two one go.
This time, Magnus activates his time card right away, and
all of a sudden, the other Dragon doesn't seem as fast.
In fact, it looks like it's moving at a normal speed. Obviously,
it was also in possession of a time card. It's
been well established that legendary creatures and above can hold
cards of their own. After all, Magnus again summons all
of the elements earth from the ground, water from the lake,
wind from well everywhere around him, nature from the ground below,
and fire from his very core, And again he unleashes
them all at once. Only this time the other dragon
doesn't have a chance to move. It's hammered by spikes
of lava, spikes of ice, and a blast of powerful
energy all at once. At the same time, its arms
and legs are wrapped up in vines, and the air
seems to disappear from around its mouth all at once.
Or get thinner. The dragon attempts to breathe, but finds
there's nothing there to take in. Magnus breathes in deeply,
summoning another blast of pure sunlight energy, and unleashes it
straight at the dragon. The dragon explodes in a burst
of energy and reforms itself into a card once again,
a card that Milly quickly absorbs into a card core.
We have a winner, the voice of the arena announces,
Please proceed to the front counter to collect your card.
The force fields around both you and Milly disappear. Magnus
begins to shrink down into his dragonling form, and Millie
walks forward to the center of the arena. She reaches
out her hand to shake yours, and you meet it
in turn. Then she walks away straight to the elevator
and disappears below. You and Magnus follow closely behind. The
elevator comes back. You step aboard, and in a whoosh,
you find yourself back down on the main floor in
a gigantic hallway. You walk over to the front counter
and speak to the lady you saw in the first place. Ah,
I see, you.
Speaker 3: Won your match very good. Here is your card back
one Elemental Tiger, and of course the cod you won
may tech cord. It looks like an ah see laser cod.
She slides the card over to you and you pick
it up and look at it. It appears to be
an extremely futuristic looking car with laser cannons on top
of it, something you'll have to try out in the future,
but for now. Uh Well, You're feeling kind of tired,
and Magnus is looking kind of drained, so you head
out the doors of the battle Stadium, through the parking
lot and back to your Cards of power spaceship. You
climb up the platform on the back, turn left, and
head directly down the hall to the sleeping corriters. You
climb into your bed, pull the covers up over top
of yourself, and as soon as your head hits the pillow,
you begin to focus on your breath. With each breath,
you sink down deeper into the mattress, letting go of
the tension in your arms and your legs, your hands,
your feet, your shoulders. The more you breathe, the deeper
you sink, and the deeper you sink, the better you feel.
You soften your neck and your face until it feels
like you're floating on a cloud. Then you allow your
mind to wander off as well, off to thoughts of
new dreams, new adventures, and new opponents to come. Good
night everyone, us.
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