Learning Weather Magic - A Kid Wizard Adventure - Magical Bedtime Stories

0:04 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.

0:35 In the comments.

0:36 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.

0:55 Could start that process.

0:58 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.

1:08 Sort of a well.

1:10 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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1:37 Don't forget to rate it and review it on whatever platform you're listening on. Ratings and reviews do make a really big difference. Positive ratings and reviews. I should say sharing it with a friend is a big deal too. And yeah, if you want to add free episodes, you can always join us on Patreon. And if you haven't joined us on Patreon, that's totally okay, but it means 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.

2:10 Kid and the story does. You wake up.

2:16 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.

2:55 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.

3:28 You look up to see a little cloud.

3:34 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.

4:11 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.

5:01 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

6:18 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,

7:45 I'm gonna take a wild guess that you would like to learn weather magic now, Uh yeah, kind of?

7:56 I thought? So?

7:58 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.

8:31 So I guess all that's really left is manipulating water and air. I guess, so, oh, why doesn't telekinesis work on them?

8:44 First of all?

8:46 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

9:53 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.

10:25 To do that.

10:26 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

11:40 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.

12:24 When you can.

12:25 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

13:34 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.

14:03 Your turn.

14:05 Okay, that's all I have to do is realize that I am the.

14:12 Water more than that. Kid.

14:16 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

15:39 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.

16:21 You move towards it.

16:24 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

17:43 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

19:08 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.

19:37 All right.

19:38 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.

20:44 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.

21:49 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.

22:10 Anyways.

22:11 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.

22:51 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.

23:06 Once again.

23:07 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

24:23 kind of stop noticing it. You wonder for a second if fish really notice that they're in the water until they're not.

24:33 Weird.

24:35 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

25:53 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

26:54 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.

27:58 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.

28:37 Are all parts of you.

28:42 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.

29:53 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.

31:02 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

32:14 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

33:16 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

34:19 from existence. You suddenly let out a large yawn. The whole effort of creating a thunderstorm has left to you rather mentally exhausted.

34:32 You reach into your own.

34:33 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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