Speaker 1: He Hello friends from across the nation and around the world,
and welcome to a special Saturday night episode.
Speaker 2: I've taken on the weekends.
Speaker 1: To putting together compilations of some of my favorite episodes,
and tonight is no different. Last week I brought to
you Kid Wizard Parts one and two, and I'm going
to continue that trend with another Kid Wizard super story
with parts three and four. If you have an idea
for Kid Wizard, I really want to get the series
going again. I want to go further with it, so
please leave me a message at speak Pipe or fill
out the Google form. But now it's that time again.
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. You wake up and look around
the room. This is this place, you wonder, and then
you remember you're inside your dimensional backpack, some sort of
pocket dimension accessed through the backpack, where you're perfectly safe
and you have everything you need. Bedroom, kitchen, living room,
you know, anything you could really imagine. You head over
to the kitchen and eat a quick breakfast before climbing
up the large ladder that leads out the top of
the backpack. When you get to the top of the ladder,
you one zip the backpack from the inside and you
crawl your way out. It's very strange crawling out of
a tiny little backpack, but it's also pretty cool. You
zip the backpack back up and throw it on your back.
You look around and see that you're still in the
practice area, although Martin's not here yet for some reason,
probably still sleeping. You grab your wand out of your backpack,
and you decide it's time to practice your skills. Yesterday
you not only learned to harness your ice powers, but
after ending up in a duel with some kid named
Tyrannus Rexington, you also learned how to control heat. Maybe
you better practice, you think. You hold the wand up
in the air. You start by closing your eyes and
taking a few deep breaths, relaxing any of your muscles,
and just focusing in your mind. You focus on the
feeling of coldness, the same feeling you had when you
first made things for freeze around you, and a chill
runs through your body. You harness the energy through your
arms and into the wand, shooting out a huge plume
of icey air. Everything it hits is immediately covered in
a thin layer of ice. You draw a little pattern
on the wall using your ice powers, before eventually letting
the beam of freezing cold disappear. Now, I wonder how
I did that ice thing, you say to yourself.
Speaker 2: Cold always feels.
Speaker 1: Like things are slowing down, almost stopping. But hot was
as if they were speeding up, or spinning faster, maybe
even just vibrating faster. You close your eyes and instead
of imagining the sensation of cold, you start to imagine
the sensation of heat. Feeling very hot on a hot
summer day, the feeling of a campfire against your arms
and your hands. You focus on that energy and allow
it to pass through your entire body. Your ears start
to feel warm, and a little bead of sweat appears
on your forehead. You focus the energy through your wand
just like you did with the cold, and out of
the tip of the wand shoots a huge beam of
fire energy. It flies across the room, instantly melting the
little pattern of ice you drew on the wall.
Speaker 2: Whoa cool.
Speaker 1: You spend the next little while shifting between cold and heat,
changing between slowing down the vibration of things around you
to speeding it up and making it hotter. The more
you practice, the more the feeling gets ingrained in your mind.
You're easily able to switch from hot to cold, from
cold to hot, from ice to fire. You're not really
sure how much time passes as you practice, and you
hear a voice come from behind you. Hey kid, good job.
I was just gonna say we should start with mastering
the fire thing, but it seems like you've figured it out.
Tell me what does it feel like to create the fire?
Martin asks, Uh, Well, cold feels still, as if the
air around me is barely moving at all. But hot
feels well fast, as if everything's moving and incredibly quickly.
I see you figured it out. Well, you're probably right.
Most of us believe that what you're really doing is
changing the way the atoms themselves vibrate, reaching down to
the atomic level, and well speeding things up or slowing
them down. Right now, you're mostly doing it with the air,
but with practice, you'll find that you can do the
same thing to any kind of matter. I mean, you
do it to the ground, you create lava, and you
do it to wood you.
Speaker 2: Create well fire.
Speaker 1: I guess now the question is what should we learned
to do next. Now, when you think wizarding, what kind
of powers do you think of? Martin asks, Uh, well,
I you know, like moving things with your mind?
Speaker 2: I guess you respond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good call, kid. That might be the next perfect
step for you. After all, you were able to collect
that water in the air and turn it into ice particles. Yeah, yeah,
let's try that. Well, if we're gonna do that, I
think we need to move somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Carpet, I need you.
Speaker 1: Suddenly, a magic carpet flies out of the Wizard's backpack
and floats right beside him. He steps on top of it,
as if it's some sort of surfboard. Well are you coming,
he says, Uh, how How do I just summon your
magic carpet by asking for it?
Speaker 2: And I'll know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Okay, a carpet, I need you, you say. Your backpack
on zips behind you, and out of it flies the
same magic carpet that brought you to the Wizarding World
in the first place. It hovers right beside you, and
just like Martin, did, you step on top of it
instead of sitting down standing. Seems like a whole new
experience as you look at your feet. You see that
the magic carpet is knitting little, uh well, binding like
things over top of it, strapping your feet to the
carpet to ensure you.
Speaker 2: Don't fly off.
Speaker 1: Follow me, Martin says, this is always a blast. Martin
zooms out of the training room, flying on the magic
carpet as if he's surfing or wakeboarding over the air.
You will yourself forward as well, and the carpet does
exactly what you think it'll do. It follows Martin. You
blast through the castle and out the doors, and then
you start rising higher and higher above the ground until
you're flying just below the clouds, over top of huge
and vast areas of forest, magical forest, of course, with
all kinds of magical creatures to be seen, Unicorns and griffins,
floating from place to place, ferries, and you're pretty sure
you even see some rock trolls down below. Flying on
a magic carpet like this feels really, really fun. It
beats sitting down on the thing. You hold your arms
out in the air as you zoom over top of
lakes and trees until you and Martin come to a
large mountainous region with a whole bunch of rocks everywhere.
Martin hovers down, lower and closer to the ground. He
hops off of his magic carpet, which immediately disappears into
his backpack. You carefully imagine yourself lowering down to the
ground as well, and the carpet does exactly what your
mind commands it to do. When you think of jumping off,
the little knitted bindings just kind of release themselves and
you easily hop onto the ground. Now I like using
this place to teach Telekinese because well, there's a lot
of things to pick up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: There's two levels to telekinesis, beginner telekinesis and advanced. Today
we'll start with beginner telekinesis, and that's when you use
your own body or your own wand to attract or
repel objects. Watch this, Martin waves his wand around in
the air and then points it at a rock. The
rock begins to tremble, and then it starts to fly
directly at Martin's wand just before it hits the wand,
he reaches his hand out and grabs onto the rock.
You see what I did was I used my wand
to well create a little field of magnetism, a type
of magnetism that attracts that very rock. Now you try.
The first step is to use your wand to connect
your energy field to that of a rock, and just
pick one of these laying around. You look around the
area and you see in the distance what seems to
be a perfectly good rock to try things out on.
You center your mind once again by taking long, slow,
deep breaths, and then you point your wand towards the
rock in question. You allow your energy, your consciousness, to
travel through the wand and connect itself to the rock.
Soon you can feel the rock's energy.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: Now, what I want you to do is kind of
match the rock's energy. Imagine yourself becoming like a magnet,
a magnet that's programmed to let the very energy of
the rock flight towards you. You do exactly what Martin
tells you. You try to imagine yourself as a magnet.
You focus on the vibration of the rock, and you
match the vibration with your wand, And as you do,
the rock begins to tremble. You focus even harder on
matching the exact vibration, and sure enough, the rock shoots
towards you and hits you directly.
Speaker 2: In the stomach. Oh, you say, oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you gotta watch out for that. Yeah, this is
in a very controlled way to do things. Martin says,
maybe we should have tried with shooting the rock away
from you instead. Uh, maybe, you respond, well, we'll try that.
Speaker 2: Next. Watch this.
Speaker 1: Martin waves his wand again at a rock in the distance.
This time the rock begins to tumble and rumble, and
then it shoots off into the distance. See, all I
did was the opposite. Instead of trying to attract it,
you find the vibration that sends it flying away from you.
Speaker 2: Now you try, you.
Speaker 1: Do just that, weaving your wand around, focusing on another
rock and trying to twist the vibration of your wand
until you feel the rock rumbling again and then shooting
directly away from you. Wow, kid, that normally takes months
of practice. Honestly, I'm starting to believe you're some kind
of prodigy. Eh, never mind. Now we're gonna need to
practice until muscle memory kicks in allowing you to do this.
It will, and that's what you do. You practice for
hours and hours, pulling a rock towards you and then
changing the vibration to shoot it off. Into the distance
before too long. It's pretty automatic. You can just reach
your wand out to something and pull it towards you
or shoot it in the other direction. Well, I think
you got that part down. The next part is levitating
a rock. It's something that seems simple, but it's much harder,
and it's also where the advanced technique comes into play.
Speaker 2: Oh well, what do you mean.
Speaker 1: Well, there's two ways you can move a rock. The
first way, and the only way most wizards know how,
is by connecting it to your own energy field and
then kind of using yourself to lift it up. Watch this,
Martin reaches his Wanda once again, connects to a rock
with his mind, and the rock starts to rumble and
then it lifts up off the ground. Although it seems
like it's a very difficult thing for Martin to do, lifting.
Speaker 2: Rocks like this works.
Speaker 1: You just kind of connect your power to it and
instead of pulling it towards you or pushing it away,
you just connect your energy and lift it up up.
Oh cool, But why does it look so difficult to do?
Martin drops the rock. Well, that's because you're using yourself
as a pivot point. And let me show you pick
up that rock right there, not with your wand just
with your hands. You walk over to a large rock
and you lift it up off the ground. It's pretty heavy,
but I mean not too heavy to lift.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 1: Now put it down. You do as he says and
put it down. Then Martin waves his wand in the
air he summons some sort of plant energy out of
the ground, causing a branch to shoot straight up out
of the ground and into the air. The branch solidifies,
and then he hovers it up off the ground and
jam one end of it into the rock, merging the
stick and the rock together. All right, Now, hold on
to the very end of this stick and try to lift.
Speaker 2: The rock up.
Speaker 1: You grab the far end of the stick attached to
the same rock. You just lift it up. You do
your best from the far end of the stick to
lift up the rock on the other side. But no
matter how hard you try, you can't get the thing
to budge. See, it's all leverage. Lifting a heavy object
from far away puts a lot on your own body.
That's why the advanced technique is much more important. But
you probably won't figure it out today. We'll just learn
the basic one. Oh okay, well, how does the advanced
one work? You ask, well, Well, instead of using yourself
as a pivot point, you use the object. You change
the object instead of yourself repelling it from the ground
or from other objects in the area. It takes a
lot of concentration, but the result is effortless levitation. Martin
whirls his wand around in the air. He focuses his mind,
puts both of his hands out to the side, and
as he lifts them up, so to a whole bunch
of rocks surrounding you. Rocks of all shapes and sizes,
boulders and stones, every one of them lifts up off
the ground and begins to hover around you and then
move around in a circle. That's amazing, you say. Martin
drops the rocks and opens his eyes again, and yeah,
I'm pretty amazing. Well, uh, anyway, you try the basic
technique first, Martin says. You do as he asks. You
reach out your wand you connect to a rock just
like you did before, and you hold the rock in place.
Then you slowly raise your arm up with the rocks
still connected to your energy field, as if you've connected
an invisible pole to the rock. You slowly lift it
up off the ground. But just as you expected, it's
really hard to lift your arm up, as if you're
lifting a rock on the end of a pole. Just
as Martin demonstrated, you move the rock from place to
place and then put it down your arm feeling completely exhausted.
And that's when you hear a voice.
Speaker 3: Well, if it isn't my friend from yesterday, well, kid,
it looks like you can barely even raise a.
Speaker 1: Bebyl you look to see the wizard kid from yesterday,
Tyrannus Rexington, surrounded by a whole bunch of his friends.
They all burst out laughing, directed well directly at you.
Oh is it too hard to lift a little bebel?
Speaker 2: They say to you, mockingly.
Speaker 1: Ugh, it's not hard. I'm just learning. Why do you
go away? I don't go away because of people like you,
Tyrannus says, people who think anyone can become a wizard.
It's a slap in the face to we wizarding families
who have existed for centuries. Well, if your wizarding family
is so great, and I bet you can do better
at telekinesis than the kid here, Martin says, Have course
I can. I am the descendant of a line of
proud wizards. I grew up learning telekinesis. Well, if that's
the case, then prove it. We'll have a little competition.
Whichever one of you can lift the biggest rock wins.
Martin says. You look at him in disbelief. You literally
just learned how to move things with your mind. You're
not ready for a competition. Martin just looks at you
and winks, ready, kid, Oh okay, you say. You look
around the area and you see what you believe is
the biggest rock you can probably lift up from here.
You wave your wand you connect to the rock, and
then you begin to lift the rock up off the ground,
using an amazing amount of strength from your arms and legs.
But you're able to lift it up. When it's up
to a certain height, you release your connection and the
rock falls down. That's nothing, Turana says, stepping up beside you,
He too reaches his wand out connects to one of
the rocks, and with great effort, he's able to lift
it up off the ground. But it looks as though
he's using every piece of muscle.
Speaker 2: In his body.
Speaker 1: He's practically vibrating to get the thing up off the ground.
The only issue is you're not sure you can lift
anything heavier, not using the beginner method. Anyways, I'd like
to see you do better than that, Tyrannus says. You
look around the area and you see a gigantic boulder
sitting beside you. You close your eyes and you focus
on the boulder, connecting your wand directly to it. This time,
instead of creating some sort of stable connection to the rock,
you become one.
Speaker 2: With the rock.
Speaker 1: You feel the vibration of the rock and then the
vibration of the ground. You imagine the rock well coming
to the right vibration to repel itself away from the ground,
like two magnets of the same polarity. As you slowly
adjust the vibration of the rock up and down, you
eventually feel a place that starts to tremble. You focus
in getting the vibration even more and more precise, until,
to your astonishment and that of everyone around you, the
huge boulder starts to shake, and then it lifts up
off the ground, floating in the air directly between you
and Tyrannus. You close your eyes and allow the boulder
to fall down once again. It crashes with a huge thump,
and you look at Tyrannus. Well can you beat that?
You ask? Tyrannus looks at you, and he looks at
the other kids with determination in his eyes. He flings
his wand directly at the boulder. He focuses all of
his energy, and then he bends his knees, straightens out
his arms, connecting himself to the boulder. He does everything
he can, using the muscles of his legs and his
arms and his core to pick the huge boulder up
off the ground. But no matter how hard he tries,
or how strong his connection to the boulder is, he
just doesn't have the muscle strength to do it. He's
clearly using the beginner technique, you think. With arms and
legs shaking and sweat beating down on his forehead, he
eventually gives up and falls back onto the ground.
Speaker 3: Well, I you clearly cheated, and I will prove it in.
Speaker 1: The future, Tyrannus Rexington says, looking at you. He spits
on the ground and twirls in the other direction. Together,
he and his friends all jump aboard their own magic
carpets and fly off into the distance. Those guys are terrible,
Martin says, yeah, they really are. You respond, but.
Speaker 2: That was so cool.
Speaker 1: I've never seen anyone who can make a boulder that
size float with that amount of training. Good job, kid,
Martin says, but uh, we've been training long enough if
you ask me. Martin pulls out his little backpack and
opens it up. He climbs inside and begins to go
down his own little ladder, disappearing to seemingly nowhere. The
backpack then zips itself up, floats up in the air,
and disappears from existence. Right, I guess it is getting late,
you say to yourself. You one zip your own backpack
and step inside, climbing down the little ladder that leads
to a huge room inside the pocket dimension. As you
climb down the ladder, you see the backpack zip itself
up above you and presumably disappear from existence as well.
Speaker 2: You lay down in your bed.
Speaker 1: And you see the magic carpet sitting at the foot
of it.
Speaker 2: It looks up.
Speaker 1: At you and twists what could presumably be its head
to the side, and then places it back down on
the ground and begins to lightly snore. Weird, you think,
But you're too tired to worry about that. The lights
inside the backpack pocket dimension dim and you put your
head down on the pillow. As soon as you hit it,
your mind begins to wander off. With each breath, your
arms and legs relax more and more, sinking down deeper
and deeper into the mattress and allowing your mind to
wander off to dreams of new thoughts and new adventures
to come. Good night, everyone. Imagine yourself waking up once
again inside your little pocket dimension bedroom. Strangely, every day,
when you wake up, it starts to look more and
more like your own bedroom, only expanded with a little
living room area and kitchen area. Maybe it's doing that
on purpose, wonder you grab some breakfast from the fully
stocked kitchen. Strangely, it always has all of your favorites
and you never run out.
Speaker 2: When you're done.
Speaker 1: With that, you head back up the ladder that leads
you out of the little backpack area. As you get
closer to the top, the zipper unzips itself, revealing another room.
You climb out of the backpack and you find yourself
in the same training room where you and Martin have
been hanging out a lot lately. So far, you've learned
to control ice, magic, fire and heat, magic and of
course moving objects with your mind telekinesis. For the last
few days, you've been practicing all of those things a lot.
In fact, every waking minute. You can now shoot fire
or an ice with ease, change the temperature of different
things around you, and by the time you quit yesterday,
you were able to lift up several large rocks at
the same time using your telekinesis.
Speaker 2: As you look.
Speaker 1: Around the training area, you see a whole bunch of
boulders spread throughout it, and you decide to practice. While
you wait for Martin to get up, You close your
eyes and focus your energy once again. You allow your
consciousness to expand, to become one with the rocks that
surround you, and as you do, you use the muscle
memory you've developed to will the rocks to lift up
into the air. You begin changing the direction they're moving
with just a subtle thought and a change of vibration
to the rock itself.
Speaker 2: You spin the.
Speaker 1: Rocks around you in circles. You float them up and
down and side to side. It just gets easier and
easier to do, the same as practicing any other skill
you've ever practiced. You no longer have to think about
it so much, you just kind of expect it to happen,
and it does. Good job, kid, You hear a voice
say from behind you. You turn around to see a
very tall, very bald looking wizard with a pretty cool beard, Martin.
Good morning, you say to Martin, good morning, And I'm
glad to see you practicing. And I've been pretty amazed
with what you're able to do.
Speaker 2: Kid.
Speaker 1: Most people barely learn this number of powers in a
lifetime of studying you. Well, you seem to be able
to pick up anything a lot like me, which is
incredibly impressive, if I do say so myself. With that,
a strange alert starts to go off. Martin reaches into
his pocket and pulls out his magic wand. The wand
is well, it's blinking a bright red light. Martin lifts
the wand up and flicks it.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: The red light flies off the wand and transforms into
a large hologram of another wizard. Oh finally, well, there's
some trouble Martin. We need you quickly. Some rogue wizards
are causing trouble in the real world. I'm not sure
we'll be able to stop them without you. They've created
an army of rock Ogres. Oh dear, I'll be right there,
Martin responds, weaving the wand again, causing the hologram to disappear. Well, kid,
I guess it's time to go back to the real world.
And haven't been there in a while. Ah, oh yeah,
you respond, Do my parents think I'm missing? I haven't
been back there in all but weeks. No, I forgot
to mention. We took care of that. When the magic
carpet came to get you. We replaced you with an illusion.
I mean it does everything you're supposed to do, goes
to school, does the chores, that sort of thing when
you want to go home, and it'll just kind of disappear.
But until then, I mean, it'll take care of everything.
Uh cool, I think, you respond.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how.
Speaker 1: To think about being replaced by some sort of magical illusion.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we gotta get going. There's Rockocres.
Speaker 1: Martin summons his magic carpet out of his bag. It
floats right beside him, and he steps on top of
it a lot like he's riding a surfboard. Once again,
you do the same, summoning your magic carpet right beside you.
You throw your backpack back on your back and climb
aboard the magic carpet. Oh yeah, kid, And I've been
meaning to ask you, why are you always keeping that
backpack full size? Isn't it kind of annoying to carry
it all the time? Martin asks, Uh, what do you
mean keeping it full size? You respond, while the dimensional
backpacks are dimensional that he can shrink and expand and
whenever you want them to look at mine.
Speaker 2: Martin shows you his bag.
Speaker 1: He sort of places it between his two hands and
smushes it together. As he does, the bag instantly shrinks
until it's the size of a little keychain. He moves
his hands the opposite way, expanding them apart from the bag,
and the bag grows, almost like how you can grow
and shrink things using a tablet or touchscreen of almost
any kind these days. Curious, you take your backpack off.
You hold it with one hand underneath, and you take
the other hand policing it on top. You slowly move
your hands together, and sure enough, the backpack shrinks down easily.
When you press your hands fully together and then beat them,
you find a little tiny keychain like backpack and the
palm of your one hand. You take the little backpack
and place it in your pocket. Uh, that'll come in handy,
you say. You climb aboard your magic carpet, stepping on
it once again like it's some sort of surfboard. The
strings and fibers of the carpet immediately shoot out, wrapping
around your feet, holding you on tight. Following Martin, you
fly out of the castle, out into the larger magical
world surrounding the wizarding School, and back toward the large
ancient tree that you originally entered through. As you approach
the large old tree, a little doorway begins to glow
in its trunk. Martin flies through without any hesitation, and
you decide to follow them. You find yourself in a
colorful tunnel of some kind, floating left and right and
up and down, before eventually reaching another light on the
other side. You fly through the light, and you find
yourself in a large forest. Back in the real world.
You follow Martin high up above the trees and then
above the clouds. As you continue to fly, he starts
to talk to you. Ah, I forgot to mention a
few things about being in the real world, Martin says, well,
the thing is magic is sometimes a little harder to
do here.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Why is that, you ask, Well, it's because in reality,
all humans have magic, they just don't know it. Their
consciousness itself creates a field that shoots out of them,
a field made of beliefs and expectations. Uh, it kind
of works to keep reality the way it is. Man
with a whole bunch of people together, I'm all believing
and expecting the same thing, you know, like gravity to exist,
stuff like that. Well, it has a way of holding
reality in place. It makes it a lot harder to
do magic. Well, at least at first. Oh okay, so
I won't be able to do magic here.
Speaker 2: That's not what I said.
Speaker 1: I said it could be harder to do magic here,
particularly if you're surrounded by a whole bunch of normal
folk who don't believe in the stuff. Their disbelief can
have a way of kind of throwing it off.
Speaker 2: I mean not when you're.
Speaker 1: As experienced as I am. Eventually you can reach a
point where your conscious decision making is way more powerful
than anyone's subconscious decision making. But at first it can
be kind of tricky. So I'm not going to be
able to do magic here. Of course you'll be able
to do magic here. It's just not always as easy. Luckily,
in a situation like this, the first thing the wizard's
counsel will do is create a barrier around the scene,
a barrier to well stop anybody from being able to
see what's going on, and to kind of subtlely influence
their minds to believe they don't want to go in
that direction anymore. So in this case, you should be fine.
Just wanted you to know in case you went back
to the real world on your own one time and well,
things didn't like you wanted them to.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Thanks, that is good to know. You continue to fly
high over the clouds, the sun gently hitting your skin,
making you feel very relaxed and oh kind of happy.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 1: Eventually Martin starts descending down through the clouds, so you
follow them. You find yourself at the coast right beside
the ocean. There's a huge beach down below you, with
waves beautifully hitting the shore. You can't really see anything else,
and then in front of you the world looks a
little wobbly, as if there's glass or something. You and
Martin pass through this strange looking area and when you
pop out on the other side. You realize that it
must have been the shield that the Wizard's council put
around the place, because inside there is a lot going on.
There's wizards flying in every different direction, most of them
riding magic carpets, but a couple of them riding things
that look sort of like skateboards. An army of ogres
is down below fighting back against the wizards, and in
the center of the ogres are a group of well
other wizards wearing all black. The wizards from both sides
are shooting fire and lightning and ice. It's a pretty
crazy battle. Martin lands in front of a huge group
of ogres and you land beside him, pulling out your
wand and ready to defend yourself. All right, kid, you
can take out as many ogres as you can before
I get to them.
Speaker 2: All h K, you say.
Speaker 1: You start to look for the different ogres, and then
you decide to use your ice powers to get rid
of some of them. You start shooting fire and ice
in all different directions, hitting some of the ogres. You
find that ice is the most effective, slowing them down
and casing them in a large thing of ice, I mean,
is a pretty good way to stop them, so you
focus on that. Once you've successfully frozen most of the
ogres in your surrounding area, you look over to see
what Martin's up to. You watch as Martin reaches into
his wizarding robes and pulls out a large ziplock bag.
He opens the ziplock bag, closes his eyes, and taps
his wand the contents of the bag light up, and
then they begin to fly out of the bag in
all different directions. What are those like seeds or something?
You wonder as you watch the amazing scene. The seeds,
still glowing, hit the ground all around the battlefield. Martin
raises his wand up in the air. It begins to
glow a bright green color, and then out of each
of the spots where the little seeds hit the ground,
vines and trees and branches shoot out at amazing speed.
The branches and vines start to zigzag their way through
the battlefield. They start to wrap up the ogres, lifting
them up in the air. There's hundreds and hundreds of vines,
each one going and growing in a different direction, and
each one reaching one of the little rock creatures, wrapping
it up and then lifting it up into the air.
One by one, the rock ogres are wrapped up tight
and lifted high above the battlefield. Soon enough, Martin has
amazingly gotten rid of almost every single one of the
rock ocres, and then the vines go for the wizards
in the middle. The wizards start using their fire magic
to try to burn the vines away from them. Some
even shoot a couple bolts of lightning. They destroy some
of the branches, but there's just too many of them.
They wrap around the wizard's ankles and then arms, stripping
them of their wands. Soon enough, every single one of
the wizards is wrapped up in vines as well. The
battle is effectively over with all of the bad guy
is wrapped up in vines that are standing tall in
the middle of the battlefield. Another wizard, the same one
that was on the holographic image, lands beside Martin. Oh
good work, I knew we needed you. That made things
much much easier. Martin, thank you very very much. Yeah, no,
don't worry about it, we'll take care of the rest.
Speaker 2: Thank you again.
Speaker 1: Martin jumps back on his magic carpet and flies up
beside you. That was incredible, you say, yeah, I'm pretty incredible.
Martin responds, how did you do that? You ask, I'll
tell you on the way back. Come on, you and
Martin fly high up above the clouds, once again heading
back for the entrance to the Magical Wizarding School. Well,
you see, when I was a kid, the first power
I manifested was a nature power of sorts, the ability
to grow things quicker. Now, I was about nine years
old and i'd planted this little maple tree. I'm from Canada.
You see, man, the maple tree was growing, but I
wanted it to grow faster. One day, I was just
sitting there and staring at it, wanting it to grow
and grow and grow. And then something changed. It was
like I could see the tree vibrating. I could see
the open space between its different atoms. I could see
the electrical field itself that kept the thing together. At first,
I just watched, but then I started to imagine the
field going faster, and to my surprise, it did.
Speaker 2: The trees started to.
Speaker 1: Grow and grow faster than I could actually control. Before long,
it got too big to be in the pod, and well,
it just kind of fell over. That tree didn't live, unfortunately,
But I slowly learned that I could make things grow quickly.
Imagine just being able to turn a tomato seed into
a full tomato plant with tomatoes on it, and it
was pretty cool. Eventually people caught on to me, though,
and invited me to Well this place where they trained
me to be a wizard.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Can you teach me?
Speaker 1: Well, maybe you've been able to learn everything else so far,
but I don't think we should start with the whole
growing things quickly thing, and it's probably more important to
learn how to move and bend existing trees and branches.
Follow me, Martin says, Descending out.
Speaker 2: Of the sky.
Speaker 1: You see the large tree below you, the same one
that provides entrance to the magical realm once again. You
and Martin fly through the tunnel and back to the
Magical Wizarding School. Instead of taking you back towards the castle,
Martin directs you into the deep, Deep forest, the forest
that surrounds the school itself. He lands in a clearing
surrounded by a whole bunch of old trees and vines.
You both climb off of your magic carpets. All right, Well,
the first step to nature magic is this. Yeah, it's
a lot like the telekinesis you've already been doing, and
in fact, well it is sort of telekinesis itself. At times,
you reach out your energy into the surrounding trees, and
then in the same way you move the rocks, you
allow the trees to move. The only difference is that
before you can really change the shape of a tree,
you have to give it permission to well release its
rigid connection and become malleable again. Watch this, Martin closes
his eyes and reaches his wand up into the air.
You see a beam of light shoot out of the
wand to connect itself to the tree. The tree begins
to go and then it starts to creak, Its branches
start changing directions and moving around. Then Martin connects his
magic to other trees as well, until five different trees,
all standing in front of you are glowing a bright
green color. All of them start to twist and turn
and bend, their branches start to move together and to
kind of intertwine themselves into a new shape. In front
of your very eyes, the trees come together to create
what looks like a large log cabin made entirely out
of trees and branches that are still living yeah, see,
just like that, Martin says. Now you try, I mean,
you don't have to make a house or anything. Just
try to move a branch or something, all right.
Speaker 2: You say.
Speaker 1: You look over to the side and see a smaller tree,
something that looks like it'll be a little easier to move.
You close your eyes, empty your mind, and you take long, slow,
deep breaths. You imagine your consciousness spreading out from your
body and joining itself with the tree. You lift your
wand up in the air and point it towards the tree,
allowing a connection between your wand and the tree itself,
just like it did for Martin. The tree begins to glow.
You find that you can subtly influence the tree, just
like you do rocks. You try to move the branches,
but it feels like they're gonna break or snapp don't forget.
You have to give the tree permission to move. Trees
are kind of rigid. They've decided to stay as they are.
But I find that if you give them permission, they'll
kind of release that rigid connection, and well, you can
re solidify it when you're done. You try to imagine
what Martin's telling you. You communicate with the tree. It's okay, tree,
you think you can bend. It's totally fine to bend.
It feels really good. You begin moving your body back
and forth like you are a swinging tree, moving with
the wind, and slowly you feel the tree release. What
used to feel difficult to move now feels like easily
malleable ropes or something like that. You open your eyes
and you watch as the branches of the tree change direction.
You make the tree wave left and right and back
and forth. You wind the tree up almost into a braid,
standing tall and twisted, and then you release all the
branches once again, allowing them to flow outward. You release
your connection to the tree, and you look over at Martin. Wow,
good job, kid. Again, I didn't think you'd be able
to do that so quickly. Well can you teach me
how to make them grow and move now?
Speaker 2: You ask?
Speaker 1: Uh, Well, probably not today. That's a whole new can
of worms. In fact, you're kind of getting into time
magic at that point, which is dangerous to say the least.
Oh really, yeah, maybe tomorrow if some kid writes in
and asks for it. Anyways, for now, it's time to
go to bed, Martin reaches into his pocket and pulls
out his bag. He puts his hands on either side
and expands the bag back to its normal size. He
places it on the ground, opens up the zippers, jumps
up in the air, and slides inside the bag. The
bag zips itself up and disappears from existence once again.
You reluctantly decide to do the same. You reach into
your pocket and find the little backpack keychain. You hold
it in the palm of one of your hands and
place the other hand over top of it. You imagine
the backpack expanding, and as you pull your hands apart,
it does just that, growing back to its normal backpack size,
or maybe even a little larger. You one zip the
zippers and you climb down the ladder. Once again, the
zippers close over top of you, as the backpack presumably
disappears from existence as well. You head directly to the
comfortable bed, a bed that looks a lot more like
your bed than it even did this morning. As you
climb inside, you can tell how comfortable it is. The
lights dim in the room almost automatically as you pull
the covers up over top of yourself and allow your
head to hit the comfortable pillow below you. You close
your eyes and you start to focus on your breath,
and with each breath, you begin to sink down deeper
and deeper into the mattress, allowing your heavy eyes to
close and your heavy arms and legs just sink down
and relax. And with each breath, your mind too becomes
more and more relaxed, allowing it to drift off to
dreams of new adventures and new things to come. Good Night, everyone,