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 headed back into a series that
I haven't done for a while, Kid Wizard. There have
been quite a few people in the Spotify comments anyways
asking me to continue the story, and I honestly don't
know why I haven't continued it in a while. I
think mostly just because I haven't had suggestions for it,
but they gave me a suggestion.
Speaker 2: In the comments.
Speaker 1: I believe their user name was Smoky, but Dominic has
also been asking for kid Wizard, and they suggested that
kid Wizard learns weather magic. So I think we're going
to do that tonight. I don't know that he'll actually
learn everything about weather magic, but I think we.
Speaker 2: Could start that process.
Speaker 1: If you've never listened before, I think you really need
to know is Kid Wizard is a kid who gets
invited to a wizarding school, which is inside.
Speaker 2: Sort of a well.
Speaker 1: There's a portal in an ancient tree that leads to
a whole other world of wizardry, and while there, the
kid is given a backpack that's kind of enchanted and
inside the backpack is an entire place to live, kind
of like a little pocket dimension, and in every episode,
the kid learns something new about magic.
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you're probably gonna get nad right about here. Time to
close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in
that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the.
Speaker 2: Kid and the story does. You wake up.
Speaker 1: Inside your pocket Dimension backpack. You get up, swing your
legs over the side of the bed and stretch. You
head over to the little fridge in the kitchen area
of your pocket dimension, grab whatever food you want, throw
on some clothes, and climb up the long ladder. As
you climb, the top of the backpack opens up and
you step out into well a gigantic empty training hall.
You pick up the backpack and sort of squish it together,
it automatically shrinks down into a really tiny size, small
enough that you can easily place it in your pocket.
You head out of the training area, down the halls,
through the main commons area where the cafeteria is, and
suddenly you feel a little drops of water on your head,
but you're inside.
Speaker 2: You look up to see a little cloud.
Speaker 1: A small little spark of lightning takes off, hits you
in the shoulder, which kind of hurts, and then the
cloud starts pouring rain. Where is this thing coming from?
You wonder? As you get completely drenched with water. You
try to run away, but the cloud follows you as
if you're in some sort of cartoon. Soon you hear laughter,
familiar laughter. You look over to see Tyrannus or Rexington.
You're ourgch enemy and all of his friends laughing hysterically
and pointing at you. Clearly they're the ones behind the
well little cloud. Many thoughts begin going through your mind,
thoughts of how to get rid of the cloud, or
what exactly you could do to Tyrannus Rexington. Perhaps a
little bolt of lightning would teach him what's what? You
decide that that would probably only cause more problems. Maybe
you should just get rid of the cloud m Unfortunately,
you don't really know how to get rid of clouds.
You try to push at it using telekinesis, but it's
as if the power slips right through the thing. You've
never really dealt with cloud or weather magic before. Instead,
you decide on a completely different tactic, teleporting away. You
close your eyes, you get to that place where your
body is filled with well more relaxing thoughts, and you
imagine yourself being in a completely different place back in
the training hall where Martin teaches you various different kinds
of magic. You imagine what it looks like, what it
feels like, what it smells like, and soon your body
begins to disappear from where it is and reappear where
you want it to be. Luckily, the cloud doesn't follow. Ah,
what happened to you, kid? Martin asks, Well, Tyrannus Rexington
happened to me? You respond, Oh, wow, you're drenched. Yeah
I am, you say, Remembering that you have the power
over heat magic, you slowly raise the temperature of your
body and your clothing, and very soon you start to steam.
The water evaporates, and well, you dry off rather quickly,
What exactly did he do this time? Martin asks, he
made a cloud rain cloud that followed me arraund and
rained on me. Well, the glassic rain cloud drick hilarious,
Martin says, maybe to other people, it wasn't hilarious to me. Yeah,
good point. Did you try to push it away? Yeah,
but it didn't work. Ah, did you try doing it
using normal telekinesis? Uh yeah, yeah, Well obviously that wouldn't work,
and its cloud form water can be rather elusive. And well,
I'm gonna take a wild guess that you would like
to learn weather magic now, Uh yeah, kind of?
Speaker 2: I thought? So?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, well, honestly, whether magic isn't super simple,
but you have a lot of the basics you'd need.
You understand eating things up and cooling them down. You've
got your basic telekinesis. You learned lightning magic, which you'd
come in really handy if you want to add dramatic
lightning like effects or well direct the direction of them.
So I guess all that's really left is manipulating water
and air. I guess, so, oh, why doesn't telekinesis work
on them?
Speaker 2: First of all?
Speaker 1: Well, it does work on them to be honest with you,
it's just how you focus it on something that's so flexible.
Solids are easy. I mean, ice would be if you
really thought about it. You could have turned that cloud
into dies and then shot it back at Tyrannus if
you really wanted to. But it's often more difficult to
get the hang of using telekinesis on water. It's just
so flexible. Same can be true of air. To be fair,
you can absolutely use telekinesis against well, singular or groups
of air particles move them around, but really commanding the
air as a much bigger deal. It's a force of nature,
after all, one that affects all parts of the earth
and flows through almost all people. So to truly command
it in a meaningful way, you have to tap into
something that most people know of her learned to. It
seems like Tyrannus had it figured out. You see, Tyrannus
didn't have anything figured out. He knew enough to create
a little tiny cloud, But I doubt he can apply
that to weather in general. I'd love to see that
guy try to create a whole thunderstorm. That's a completely
different thing.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: You have to understand how weather works. You'd have to
condense the water in the air into clouds to command
the wind itself to move in a particular way, possibly
to even create a cold front or warm front. He
was probably just using basic telekinesis on a small bit
of water to create the cloud. If you want to
show him up, I say we learn real weather magic. Okay,
I'm in whatever that means. All right, Well, first let's
work on your water manipulation. Martin leads you over to
a little pool of water. Now, water is a form
of matter. It's certainly solid enough to hold on to,
but elusive. In order to truly command it in any
kind of meaningful way, it's best to sort of become
one with the water, to allow the energy from your
body to move into the water. To understand that you
and the water are not actually separate beings. You're part
of the same larger thing that holds everything together, and therefore,
in a way, the water is a part of you.
It's both outside you and inside you at the same time.
When you realize this connection, you can extend your mind
into the water.
Speaker 2: When you can.
Speaker 1: Feel every part of it as if it's part of
your own body, then you can manipulate it much more easily.
Watch Martin reaches out towards the water. The water lifts
up out of the pool, streams into a long, thin stream,
and starts to spin around the room. Martin moves around
as if he's performing some sort of martial arts sequence,
directing the water to move with him. Once the water
feels like it's a part of you, then you can
use your basic telekinetic principles to allow it to float
up and around. Instead of pushing against it with telekinesis,
you become it and push against other things. After that,
do you already understand the principles of heating things up
and cooling them down? You can apply those to the
water as well. He holds a ball of water in
the air and it soon begins to boil and steam. Then,
almost as instantly, it freezes into a large ball of
ice before melting into water again. He gently allows it
to flow back into the tiny little pool and looks
over to you.
Speaker 2: Your turn.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's all I have to do is realize that
I am the.
Speaker 2: Water more than that. Kid.
Speaker 1: You are everything, and everything is you. We're all connected.
We may seem separate, but uh, we're not. We're just
experiencing the sense of separateness, and just tap back into
that part of yourself that knows it's connected to everything.
Allow the water to become part of you, and making
it flow will become much much easier. You close your
eyes and reach out to the water. You take long, slow,
deep breaths, You relax your muscles, and you start to
focus on those thoughts that are well happier. You remember
the feeling of happiness in general, and you let it
fill your entire body. Then you try to let go
of any thoughts in your mind, getting rid of your
own ego, that part of you that says you are
you and you are very separate from other things. Instead,
you just breathe and you allow your very consciousness to
expand beyond your own body into the surrounding area. For
a second, it says, if you find yourself floating above yourself,
above everything in the room martin the little reflecting pool,
you look down at the water from that perspective and.
Speaker 2: You move towards it.
Speaker 1: Your consciousness meets the water, and you imagine it's spreading
out into the water, filling all of the water and
becoming the water. And for a second, a strange realization
passes through your body. You always were the water. You
open your eyes, move your hands, and the water moves
with them. It streams up out of the pool. It
spins around your body with ease. You form it into
the shape of a little water person and instantly command
it to freeze. Then you let it melt again, flow
around in circles. Good, kid, Now, water has different states
of being. Right now, it's liquid, and you just froze
it into a solid. If you really want to use
it as a cloud, then you're gonna have to let
it evaporate and then uh, well, recondance in a slightly
different way, like steam or a cloud. You focus on
the water and you can see that well that it
can become many different things. Just as easily as all
of the little particles can stop moving and freeze in place,
they can get a little more excited and evaporate. You
allow the water to begin to evaporate around you. Steam
rises up in the air and starts to fill up
the entire area around you. Good now, condense it just
enough that it becomes a cloud, but not a pool
of water. Again, with your connection still in the steam
around you, you move it around, you pack it together,
just not as tightly as it was before, and the
steam condenses into a cute little cloud. Good job, kid,
that's probably exactly what Tyrannus did to you, though Pep
may have used more of an external telekinetic force to
do it, since I don't think that kid could truly
connect with water the way you just have. All right,
put the water down and let's move on to air.
You allow the water to flow over the reflecting pool
again and then condense it into water and stream it
back down.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, air is honestly the same sort of thing. The
only difference is that it's everywhere. You can command small
pockets of air without too much trouble. But if you
want to do it on a sort of wider scale
to truly impact the weather that impacts everyone else, you're
gonna have to overcome a lot of collective belief in
the weather. What do you mean, Well, I mean that
most people expect the weather to be the way that
it is. If a weather man tells them that, hey,
it's going to rain today, then they generally believe it's
going to rain, and it does. If they believe it's
going to be windy, then it probably will be. The
wind and weather have a sort of natural pattern they follow.
That pattern can often be predicted using a whole bunch
of you know, technical weather things, and as such, there
tends to be a lot of collective belief in the
weather and well believe that it'll do what people expected
to do. And as much as that kind of belief
isn't as strong as a well directed believer like yourself,
it can still be something to get over, to reach
into the weather itself, to become one with it, and
to cause it to do things that other people will
absolutely not is happening, but won't really believe can or
should happen. Well, that's rather difficult, But like anything else,
as long as you believe that it's happening stronger than
other people believe that it's not, you should be fine.
I sort of understand you say, nah, you'll get it eventually.
As I said, we can work on wind in much
the same way we did with water. It's just if
we want to turn that into like a tornado that
other people are going to see or something, it's kind
of a different thing.
Speaker 2: Anyways.
Speaker 1: As I said, reaching out to the wind is the
same as reaching out to the water, possibly easier, honestly,
because it surrounds you all the time, It enters your lungs,
it becomes a part of you. So yeah, all you
have to do is expand your consciousness and ask it
to move with you. He demonstrates by moving through the
air as if he's again performing some sort of martial
arts technique. You feel the wind move around with him.
Then the wind blows so strongly that it lifts Martin
straight up into the air before placing him down on
the ground. Ah, you get the picture.
Speaker 2: Once again.
Speaker 1: You close your eyes, you relax your muscles, your body,
and you focus on that place where you feel perfectly content,
perfectly happy, and slowly you let go of your ego,
that part of you that knows that you are you
when you are not the wind. You let go of thoughts,
and you allow your consciousness to drift up into the
world again to that perspective where you can see Martin
and yourself and the reflecting pool. But this time, instead
of focusing on the water, you focus on the air
that's all around you, and suddenly you come to the
realization that wow, air is actually everywhere. Humans are surrounded
by air in much the same way that fish are
surrounded by water, but it's just so usual that they
kind of stop noticing it. You wonder for a second
if fish really notice that they're in the water until
they're not.
Speaker 2: Weird.
Speaker 1: You allow your consciousness to fill the air around you,
to remember that the air is in fact part of
you in some way, and slowly you open your eyes
and the wind moves with your body that spins around
in circles. It lifts you up into the air and
gently allows you to fall down. All right, kid, I
think you've got it now to create a thunderstorm. What
Tyrneus did was very small scale, I'd say, and I
think somebody with your magical ability can do better. As
I explained, it can be rather complicated to create a
thunderstorm that people don't expect, because well, their expectation itself
has power. But you, kid, you seem to be like
the type that doesn't really care about those things, the
type that figures out how to do it anyways, the
type that can believe more than everyone else around you.
Act type that should be able to manipulate the weather itself,
especially in this here magical pocket dimension where you know
there's not billions of people who expect the weather to
be a certain way. It'll be easier. Here is what
I'm saying. Grab your flying skateboard thing and let's head
up into the sky. With a quick focus of your mind,
you imagine the skateboard of peering out of your pocket
and flying under your feet. It listens, it shoots out
of your pocket, out of the little backpack in your pocket,
expands to its full size, and lands on the ground
in front of you. You step on top of it
and feel an almost instant link to the thing. Martin's
magic carpet flies underneath him and he does the same thing. Together,
you blast out the main doors of the training facility,
through the halls of the castle, and out and up
into the air above. All right, kid, to create a
real thunderstorm, you're gonna need to do a couple things first,
and you'll have to gather a large cloud. That means
calling the water to you. The water is always present
in the air, unless it's like super dry, but it's
pretty much always there. Just like a dehumidifier can somehow
filter it out of the air. You should be able
to find it, condense it, bring it together into a
large cloud and allow that cloud to start raining down.
Your connection to the wind should allow it to pick
up as well. And well you already understand creating paths
for lightning. Those three things should create a pretty epic
thunderstorm if you ask me. Ah, Okay, you close your eyes,
floating on your skateboard high above the world, when you
find that you're still in that correct state, that place
where you understand that the wind and the water.
Speaker 2: Are all parts of you.
Speaker 1: But this time you expand your consciousness further, not just
into a little bit of the air or water surrounding you,
but into the entire area above the magical castle. You
grab the water in your mind and you begin to
condense it from nowhere. Slowly, steam starts to rise up
into the world, and you command that steam to move
itself together to collect itself into a gigantic cloud. The
air continues to produce steam, and as it's created, it
moves together until the cloud gets larger and larger, darker
and darker and darker. Good, now, let's make the wind
pick up a little bit for you know, dramatic effect.
You expand your mind once again, this time into the
wind surrounding the place the air itself. You command the
air to go from being relatively calm to a little
more excited, to blow through the castle, through the trees,
and you know, generally, just intensify things a little. The
more you focus, the stronger the wind blows. You command
it around in a little circle, a continuous force that
pushes against the castle and people below. All right, now,
maybe add in a couple lightning strikes. You focus on
creating a pathway for the lightning as you did before,
and you unleash its power. A lightning strike zips down
towards the ground and strikes a tree beside the castle.
Another one hits the ground itself. All right, now, unleash
the rain. Still allowing the cloud to be a part
of you, you give it the command to condense to
that point where it can't hold itself up in the
air anymore. Water starts to fall down faster and faster.
The wind continues to blast, and you continue to direct
a few lightning bolts, mostly through the air itself, as
you don't want to do too much damage below. Ah right, kid,
good job. I'd call this a real thunderstorm. Below you
see students and teachers making their way out of the
castle and looking up but the sky above to see
exactly what's going on. Most of them know, well, they
know what's going on, since they understand magic and understand
that the thunderstorm appeared out of nowhere. As the cloud
drains itself of all water, the sun reappears. You let
go of your connection to the wind and allow it
to become still once again, and you and Martin drift
back down towards the castle, where you see all of
the students and teachers staring at you in awe. Why
are they all looking at me like this? You ask, Oh,
that's because you just did an incredibly advanced magical technique
that most of them will never achieve. Even the teachers
haven't really figured it out for the most part. You kid,
are a bit of a prodigy. Really, yeah, did you
really think that most people learn how to create a
thunderstorm out of nothing in a matter of thirty minutes
or so? I mean, come on, on the way back
inside on your skateboard, you pass Rexington and his friends.
They too look rather shocked as you fly by, rather
like they might think twice before messing with you again,
Or perhaps maybe not. They don't seem all that smart.
You make your way back to the training hall and
jump off your skateboard and look over at Martin. Well, kid,
that's probably enough for one day, he says, as he
pulls a tiny little backpack out of his pocket, grabs
it with his other hand, spreads them apart, and causes
the backpack to grow. At the same time, the top
of it unzips. He climbs inside, steps down a ladder
that shouldn't really be able to exist, and then the
entire backpack just floats up in the air and disappears
from existence. You suddenly let out a large yawn. The
whole effort of creating a thunderstorm has left to you
rather mentally exhausted.
Speaker 2: You reach into your own.
Speaker 1: Pocket, expand your own backpack with the same gesture, and
climb inside it. Moving down a ladder, you watch the
zipper zip above you as you make your way to
the ground. You laid down in your bed, pull the
covers up to your chin, and pretty quickly you begin
to fall asleep. You let go of the tension and
your muscles. With each breath, you allow yourself to sink
down deeper and deeper into the mattress, and with each breath,
you allow your mind to wander off to thoughts of
new dreams, new magic, and new adventures to come. Good night, everyone, command.
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