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.
I was thinking about what episode I should do, and
the Dragon Night series kept coming back to me because
I haven't done one in a while, and I feel
like I've left the story kind of just hanging there.
And then I got this suggestion honestly just today, which
is a lot quicker than I normally get to making suggestions.
So let's check it out.
Speaker 2: Well, my name is Jason, and I have a idea
for the Dragon Night series. He's and I think we
should take out the dragon him generals and stuff off
in the row of how the Dragon King took out
the like rebellion ones, wait, should we go file, Water,
her arm, Nature, Earth, etc.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I love your podcast by Grayson. I think that, you know,
fighting the Dragon King or Dragon Thief as he's often called,
by taking over the dragons in the same order he
did is an excellent idea, and that's exactly what we're
gonna do tonight. We're going to start it anyways. It
also leaves things open for suggestions about the other dragon generals,
So if you have an idea about the Dragon King's generals,
like the Water General or the Nature General or whatever
we're gonna call them. Leave me a message on speak
pipe and we just might be able to incorporate that
into a future episode of The Dragon Knights. Before we
get started with that, though, I do have a new
Patreon sponsor who it turns out really likes The Dragon Knights,
so I thought it would be perfect to shout her
out on this one. So thank you to Shelby and
Michelle from Australia for sponsoring me on Patreon. I have
some more show outs to do on Sunday, but I
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I really appreciate that they shared it on Facebook.
Speaker 4: Facebook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Facebook, it says next up. Thank you to Logan
Lily and I believe their mother Andrea for sharing the
podcast on Facebook as well. Thank you to Millie and
Arlen for sharing the podcast on Instagram. That that helps
a lot. I appreciate it, guys. Thank you to Hunter
T for sharing it on Facebook. Thank you to Colson
for having his dad share it on Instagram. Thank you
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you to will J for sharing it on Facebook. Thank
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And last so far, thank you to will J for
creating a YouTube short with some stuff for my podcast
on it as well. So that brings us to seventeen
people in the podcast. But that being said, I should
probably really get on with the story after this possible
break from a possible commercial sponsor. 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. Now, if you haven't listened to the
Dragon Knight series, or you haven't listened in a while,
just as a reminder, you, my friend, are a dragon Knight,
a person with a special link to an elemental dragon,
giving you all of the different elemental powers earth, fire, wind, water, nature,
and recently you've even learned the ability to control lightning.
You've gathered a team of other dragon Knights, each one
with a dragon and a power of their own, and
together you plan on defeating the Dragon King or Dragon
Thief as he's often called, a king who once used
a mind control power to take over the dragon world.
Luckily for you, the Dragon King's very own daughter, August,
joined your team and taught you the dragon Control spell
and how to release it. You've used it to release
a whole bunch of dragons, and now it's time to
decide how to deal with the Dragon King or Dragon
Thief himself. You wake up inside the cave, the very
comfortable cave that you and the others have created. You
walk out into the main area, where some of the
other Dragon writers are currently eating breakfast, including August the
Dragon Princess. You sit down at the table and grab
some of the fruit from the plates nearby. Well, everyone,
you say, I think it might be time time for
what August asks time to well, time to see if
we can defeat the Dragon King once and for all,
or at least to start trying. So far, we've been
in a bunch of battles, We've freed a bunch of dragons,
but I don't feel like we have a specific purpose
or a specific plan. We need to come up with something.
The others all not an agreement. But how are we
supposed to do that, Bennett asks, Well, August says, we
could do it the same way that my father did
it in the first place. Uh, go on, you say, Well,
my father didn't just fight one giant battle. He took
over the dragon world systematically. He started with the fire dragons.
There's more fire dragons than any other kind, and well
they were kind of the key to him defeating the others.
Maybe we should start the same way by freeing the
fire dragons. I mean, that sounds good, but aren't there
hundreds of fire dragons. How can this small group of
dragon riders possibly hope to take them on? I mean,
I know that because we're true dragon riders, we have
the advantage on a one on one battle. We've all
gotten really good at aiming for the dragon riders, which
completely immobilizes the controlled dragons. But I don't know, nine
of us versus hundreds of fire dragons, how can we
possibly stand up to that? Well, we could try to
free some of the fire dragons first. Maybe they'd fight
on our in the battle, maybe, you say, But could
we free enough before the battle started? Well, Ellie, your
elemental dragon, says from behind, you have already freed many dragons.
Perhaps you can ask them for help too, I guess.
But how would we find all of them? Well, you
could just do a call of the dragons, of course,
Ellie says. What's a call of the dragons? You ask, Oh,
I probably should have covered this earlier. The call of
the dragons is, well, it's very much like that poll
that you all felt that brought you here, only done
on purpose. Any dragon writer who is in need of
help can call for others. Signal is put out into
the world, drawing the other dragons and dragon riders toward you.
The more riders asking for help, the more powerful the signal.
If all nine of you get together and do the
call of the dragons, those you have freed will not
be able to resist. H Well, that's a good idea too.
Maybe we should start with that, or perhaps we should
get closer first. At least, says we could scout out
the area, do the Call of the dragons to the
correct place, and begin the battle when they arrive. It
would allow us to perhaps free some dragons in secret too.
We would still be outnumbered, but I think we would
be able to manage. Do the rest of you think
this is a good idea, You ask, looking around the
table at all of your friends. They all nod in agreement.
So you begin to prepare. You pack supplies. You all
climb atop your dragons, and you head out the long
Stone tunnel. When you get to the end, you grab
a hold of that part inside you, the part that
connects itself to stone in the earth. You reach out
to the large boulder that covers the entrance, and you
will it to push to the side. The boulder cracks
and rolls out of the way, allowing the sunlight to
flood in. You and the others make your way out
and close the door behind you, sealing it up to
look like part of the mountain once again. Then you
all take to the air. You take the lead well,
August and her elemental dragon Eliara, fly behind. Elemental dragons,
having control over all the elements are some of the
only ones that can actually create a field of invisibility,
so you work together to do just that, creating a
huge invisible bubble around you and all of your friends.
You fly in a sort of diamond shape formation through
the skies, over top of forests and lakes, until you
see large volcanoes erupting in the distance. The land of
the Fire Dragons, the land of the coal mines, where
ash and cinder are from too. Mash and Cinder, knowing
their way around the area, lead you over to a
nearby mountain, one that looks out onto the volcanoes and
the fire Dragon area. You land at the top of
the mountain and quickly you go about creating a shielded
cave here, a base from where you can observe the
others in secret. Bennett his Earth dragon, as well as
you and August and your elemental dragons, make a huge
hole in the top of the mountain, one big enough
for you and the other dragons to hide inside. Then
you close all but a few viewing holes to spy through.
You grab a pair of binoculars along with the others.
You look out onto the fire Dragon territory, huge volcanoes
with hundreds of fire dragons flying from police to place,
commanding the workforce and the mines to work as hard
as they can in mining coal. On the outskirts, where
the sun still reaches, you see large glass structures that
look a lot like greenhouses. Sleeping in each one is
a fire dragon. What are those? You ask, looking over
towards August. August grabs a hold of the binoculars and
checks out what you're looking at. Well, those are the
dragon superchargers. I believe they give fire dragons even more
power by supercharging them with heat. I believe the dragons
take turns laying in them for hours at a time, hours,
you say, August, that might be the perfect chance to
free the dragons. There's what twenty of those things and
twenty dragons sleeping inside. If we can sneak in and
well connect to the mind control spell all at once,
we can free those fire dragons and maybe they'll join us.
That's an excellent idea. Over the last few weeks, Meliara
spent time teaching you and all of the others the
mind control spell, not for the purpose of controlling animals,
but for the purpose of releasing the control that had
already been put on them, and to stop the spell
from working on your own dragons the next time you
face the Dragon king. It was truly the only way
you could think of. If we all sneak in under
the cover of invisibility, we can probably free the twenty
dragons in no time. That's just about two dragons each.
And maybe I can handle the extras since I have
a better grasp of the spell. If we time it
just right at the time that the other dragons are
gonna come and help us, if the Call of the
Dragons works, we might actually have a chance. Well, I
say we go for it. Uh should we do the
call of the dragons thing? First? You ask, looking over
at Ellie. Well, very good idea. To start, I recommend
sitting in a circle. You and the others listen, sitting
down in a large circle inside your new little mountain lookout. Now,
grab hands with the others. You must all be connected
to amplify the spell, Ellie explains, you do just that. Now,
all you must do is reach out into the universe
and ask for help. Focus your mind on the need,
focus your mind on what you plan to accomplish, and
send it outward, just like that pull you all once
felt that brought you together, pulled you inward. At first,
none of you are sure what Ellie means. But immediately
when you start thinking about your goal, when you start
thinking about the need for help, a strange pulling sensation
appears at the very recor of your being, once again,
the same kind of pulling sensations that drew you together.
Your body's light up, and the pull gets stronger and
stronger and stronger, until it suddenly disappears. I I think
it worked. I felt many dragon minds. I think some
of them have even found new dragon writers. You say, oh, yes,
that would have been the first thing they would have
sought out. Dragons need a connection to their riders. Most
of them would have been connected at birth, but having
been without it so long, I cannot imagine how strong
the pull would be. You feel the connection dragons and
riders are on the way many of them, but perhaps
not quite enough. I say we get on with the
other part of the plan. You speak with the others
and decide that it's probably easiest if you all climb
aboard Eliara and Ellie. That way, they can keep you
and the others in an invisible force field. You'll get
close enough to the supercharge in greenhouse structures and release
the dragons as quickly as you can. If all goes well,
you can convince them to fight with you before h well,
before the others get there. You all summon your dragon
armor and climb aboard the two dragons. The others waiting
in the sh shadows to spring into action as soon
as they're needed. Eli and Eliara take to the air
and gently glide down towards the fire dragon area in
a shield of invisibility. They land as quietly as they
can between patrols of the Dragon King's soldiers wearing their
red and black armor. You quietly climb off of the dragons,
still covered in the invisible force field, and slowly you
make your way toward the gigantic glass cages. Each one
has a huge, magnificent fire dragon inside. You spread out
in a circle, each of you facing one of the
fire dragons, and together you reach out. Using your mind.
You grab onto that strange thread that you can feel
attached to the dragon's mind, the one blocking its connection
to its dragon rider, and the one attached to its
brain's control center. You grab a hold of them with
your own mind, pull them off, and throw them away.
Then you focus on the next dragon doing the same.
Within minutes, the fire dragon's eyes stop glowing and they
begin to look around.
Speaker 4: What what happened?
Speaker 1: They say? But before you can explain anything, one of
the fire dragons flies up straight through the glass, breaking
it apart. Wait, you try to say, trying to explain
exactly why you just freed them and what's been going on,
But it's too late. The dragons begin to attack their surroundings,
breaking through the glass and leaping up into the air,
spreading their wings and flying down to different areas of
the fired dragon zone. What are they doing, you say,
I believe they are finding their long lost connections, Alas says.
You watch as one dragon lands on the ground beside
a little miner, a miner covered in black soot. You
watch as a glow connects the two, and the little
boy suddenly hasdagon knight armor surrounding him. You look to
the others who are doing the same, almost immediately finding
the knights that they should have found upon hatching. They're
finding their knights, You say, yeah, but I think the
others might be noticing. August points out, looking up towards
the fire dragons in the sky, who are suddenly swooping
down and surrounding the dragons dragon knights. One of them says, pointing,
stop them. This is not going exactly how we intended,
you say, and the others aren't here yet, but we
have to stop them. Everyone, let's go with that. You
take to the air, grabbing a hold of the air
within your body, and sho yourself up high into the sky.
The others do the same. Aliara and Lly take off,
break out of their fields of invisibility, and begin launching
rocks towards the fire dragons, then bolts of fire, blasts
of lightning, water, wind, and anything else they can handle.
At the same time, the dragons from the other riders
fly down from the mountain towards you, one of them
lighting up with a strange green mist around it. The
poison dragon, the lightning dragon, begins to unleash bolts of lightning.
The water Dragon grabs a hold of the water and
begins throwing it around, taking out as many of the
riders from the bad Dragons as it can. The wind
picks up and starts swirling around, and vines reach up
out of the ground, wrapping themselves around as many of
the Nights as they can. You blast towards one of
the dragons and immediately tackle the dragon Knight off of it.
You spin around and unleash a bolt of lightning at
the other sending the dragon Night flying. You feel a
blast of fire coming towards you. You grab a hold
of it with your mind, spin it around your body,
and send it back in the same direction, hitting the
Night off of the dragon. But no matter how many
Knights you and the others defeat, more dragons keep coming,
hundreds of dragons, until you find yourselves absolutely surrounded. A
gigantic fire dragon lands in front of all of you,
the fire Dragon of the Fired General.
Speaker 4: I would suggest you put down your arms and surrender,
otherwise we'll have to do this the hard way.
Speaker 1: You look at the others, then straight at the fire General.
Not a chance, you say, reaching down into the earth
and unleashing two blasts of rocks straight at the General.
He ducks out of the way, blasts a plume of
fire that you quickly avoid by leaping up into the air.
You focus on the fire inside you and unleash a
bolt of lightning straight towards the General. It hits the General,
shocks him in place. He falls asleep and falls off
of the dragon. But there's still too many of the others.
Fire dragons flying in from every side, unleashing plumes of fire,
until you feel a strange pull once again, the strange
pull that brought you and the others together in the
first place. This time it feels like it's pulling you
up towards the sky. You look for a second and
you see other dragons. Only they don't have the dragon
King's men on top. They have dragon riders, water dragons,
earth dragons, fire dragons, air dragons, natured dragons, and even
one very fire familiar legendary lightning dragon. All dive down
out of the sky and unleash a barrage of different attacks,
all at once. Vines wrapping up guards, blasts of water
freezing them in place, gusts of wind knocking them back,
and of course stones, blasting them off their own dragons.
The attacks come from all different directions, all at once,
and the tide of the battle begins to change. One
by one, the Dragon King's men are taken off of
their own dragons and tied up or frozen or subdued
in rock on the ground, and one by one, their
dragons just land and sit there, very still with their
glowing dragon eyes, unable to do anything without those who
control them. With the newly freed fired dragons, all of
those who showed up and your own crew, there have
to be about fifty, maybe even sixty dragon riders true
dragon riders in the battle, and it doesn't take long
before every single one of the fire dragons riders are
completely knocked off their mounts. Some are frozen to the ground,
some are encased in rock, others are tied up in vines,
and some others have just been knocked out by a
controlled burst of lightning. Around you is a sea of
fire dragons, just sitting there with their glowing eyes. Gather
with the others, take a minute to breathe, and then
you begin making your way across the sea of fire
dragons and releasing the spells one by one, freeing each
of the dragons and allowing them to mostly almost immediately
find their true dragon knights. For the most part, they're
among the miners, the ones living where the dragons were
born in the first place. Within the next couple of hours,
hundreds of new dragon knights are united with their dragon
for the first time, and hundreds of the dragon Knights
soldiers are thrown in the prison. You find yourself in
an odd position where suddenly all of the people of
the Fire Dragon village are looking towards you for answers,
for orders, for direction, but you're feeling pretty tired. Is
there anywhere to sleep around here? You ask. You're shown
to a large building along with your friends, one that
apparently belongs to the Fire Dragon general. Your dragons curl
up around the house outside, and you and the others
enter in. You find a whole bunch of guest bedrooms,
each with a very comfortable looking bed, and you head
to the closest one. You throw back the covers, collapse
onto the mattress, and pull them up to your chin.
You close your eyes, and with each breath your body
begins to sink down into the mattress. Your muscles already
feel tired from a very busy day, and they easily
release the tension, allowing you to sink deeper and deeper
into the mattress. And the more you breathe, the deeper
you sink, and the deeper you sink, the better you feel.
And eventually your mind too, begins to wander off to
thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new dragons to come.
Good night everyone, and.
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