Magic Costume Tree Super Story - 4 Full Uninterrupted 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. But, uh, yeah, tonight I could not record a new episode because I just ran out of time. And, uh, sometimes that happens. So hopefully I'll get a brand new one out very soon. But in the meantime, I realized that it's October... And I haven't told everyone to send me magic costume tree episodes.

0:40 And that would break a very important tradition. So, you have until next week. Which gives you pretty much only this weekend because I record most of the episodes on Sunday. But if you put in a great idea for the magic costume tree, it's possible that it could be made. But I can only pick one or two. So just keep that in mind. Anyways, I decided to do a compilation episode of some amazing Magic Costume Tree episodes, so I hope you enjoy them. After a, uh, you know, a word from a possible sponsor or something like that.

1:21 Now it's time to get as comfy as you can in that bed, close your eyes, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. Imagine yourself walking along a sidewalk. It's an ordinary day wherever you live. But as you walk, you see a strange glowing coming from the side of the sidewalk. You look towards it and you see a path that you've never seen before.

1:59 A path that seems to lead into the forest. A forest you didn't even know was there. but something about it seems very inviting, very peaceful, and very, very safe. So you decide to follow the path. The path is lit by little pumpkins on either side, each one carved into one of your favorite pictures. As you walk along the path, it winds left and right, and you see leaves falling from the trees, each one a different color. Eventually, you walk out into an opening, and inside the opening is a gigantic and old-looking tree. As you approach the tree, you see that it actually has a door in the center of it. You walk up to the door and you knock a few times. No one answers, so you knock again. And as you do, the door squeaks open.

3:14 You peek inside and you don't see that anyone's there. But it is light inside for some reason. You step into the tree and you see that you're surrounded on all sides by a closet full of clothing? Clothing? Wait a second, this isn't clothing. These are costumes. Beautiful, amazing costumes of every shape and every size. You begin looking through the racks of costumes and you come across one that looks like wizard robes. You pull them off the hanger and hold them up in front of you. They look kind of familiar. They're familiar. Almost like something you might have read in a book or seen in a movie. Huh.

4:10 You hang the hanger back up. And you put your arm inside the wizard's robe. Swing it around your back and put your other arm in. You button it up at the front. And then you realize there's something in the pocket. A wand. A wand. You pick up the wand and hold it in your hand, and suddenly a surge of power passes through your body. You get a strange chill that runs up your spine, and you can feel something else, something that feels like another sense. But instead of allowing you to feel like an arm or a leg, you can suddenly feel the mystical energy that runs between all things. And you find that just like you can bend an arm or a leg, you seem to be able to change the direction of this energy.

5:17 You seem to be able to make contact with things and change their very reality. This must be what magic is like. You walk back outside of the tree and you look around the forest. You lift your wand up in the air. You focus on a stump in the distance and you imagine the stump turning into a deer. Power surges through your wand and you whip it towards the log. A huge bright light shoots from your wand to your log. connecting that unforeseen energy that you're able to feel and manipulate in the air. The energy soars through the log and changes the log's shape. The log stretches out, grows four little legs and a little fluffy tail, and stands up and looks at you.

6:23 A wooden deer.

6:25 A wooden deer. The deer begins to run around in circles and then runs off into the forest. Amazing. You begin walking through the forest and with each leaf you see, you wave your magic wand and turn it into a butterfly or a fairy or a bird until magical creatures made of leaves and twigs are flying all around you in every direction You use your powers to create swirls of colors moving all around your body, through the air and up into a magical dome. You look up at the sky and you wonder about the stars, but you can't see them right now because it's light out. And then you have an idea. You force the magic sphere of colors straight up into the air. until it explodes in an amazing show of light and fireworks. But as

7:34 the fireworks disappear, you see only a dark sky, a dark sky dotted with bright stars in every direction. And as you allow your focus to wander, the light appears again, and you're standing in the forest in daytime once again, This is a pretty cool costume, you think. But then you start to wonder that if this costume gives you these powers, another costume might give you other powers too.

8:14 You head back to the tree. You open the door and walk inside. You find the curtain where the magician's costume or wizarding costume or whatever it was was hanging. You hang the wizard's costume back up and you begin to look around the room once again. Soon you come across a red and blue costume that looks a lot like one of your favorite video game characters. Cool. Well, this probably doesn't work like the other one, you think, but you decide to try it on anyways. You step into the costume and pull it up over top of your body. There's a zipper at the back that you pull up with a little string, and then there's a beautiful red hat that you put on top. As soon as you put the hat on your head, a strange

9:11 power surges through your body. You suddenly feel like you can jump amazingly high into the air. You have to test it out. You head back outside. And as soon as you're in an area where you can jump really, really high, you bend your legs and you jump up into the air. There's a strange electronic sound as you jump up, but you fly higher than you could have expected, up above the trees, and you gracefully land back down.

9:51 It's almost as if the costume changes the speed of gravity or something. you begin bouncing all over the forest. you bounce up into the trees and jump from branch to branch from leaf to leaf until you come across a strange box that's floating in the air what could this box be you think You jump up as high as you can towards the box, and you punch it with one of your fists. As you punch it, the box breaks into a whole bunch of pieces, and a little feather is floating in the middle of it. You grab the feather, and a strange power passes through your body once again. Suddenly you feel something on your back, something that you can move just like it's an arm or a leg. You look back and you see two

10:50 huge wings. Whoa. You begin to flap the wings and you fly high up in the air, floating high above the world. You gently glide over the forest. You see a bird and you begin to join it, flying left and right and just learning from the bird. Watching as it rides the currents of air. You do the same. Then something catches your attention on the ground below you.

11:27 A glowing flower of some kind. You fly down towards the flower and land in a field. The flower is a bright blue color and it seems to be giving off a cold feeling. You reach out and touch the flower. And as you do, your body glows and feels a surge of power once again. You reach your hand out and suddenly a little ball of ice shoots out and hits the tree in front of you, encasing it in ice.

12:05 The trees around you begin to shake. And then out of them walk little tiny creatures that seem to be made of leaves. One of the creatures jumps up in the air straight towards you, and instinctively you shoot it with an ice ball. Ten points, a voice says. What? Ten points? All of the other leaf creatures begin to bounce towards you and jump up in the air. So, you figure your job is to freeze them. One by one as they jump, You shoot little balls of ice into the air, catching each one, turning it to ice.

12:50 And with each one, you get ten more points.

12:55 Cool.

12:57 Calculating points, another voice says. Suddenly little coins appear in the air above you, and then they gently float down into your hands. You're holding a hundred gold coins. Cool. You place the gold coins in your pocket and you decide it might be time to go try on another costume. You bounce back up into the trees and up into the air, spreading your wings and gliding back to the magic tree where you found the costume in the first place.

13:36 You land outside the tree and head back in. You unzip the suit and take off the hat And the power seems to drop away as well. You hang the suit back up and you begin to look around the room for something else. You come across a bright blue suit with the picture of a lightning bolt on it. You take the suit off and you believe you recognize this as well. It's another one of your favorite gaming characters.

14:10 One that can move incredibly fast. You quickly step into the suit, zip it up behind you, and you feel a surge of power pass through your body. But this time the power makes you want to move really fast. It makes you want to do everything really fast. You jump towards the door and you're there in an instant.

14:34 When you think about stepping into the little space in front of you, you're just there instantly as well. Cool.

14:43 Cool.

14:45 You line up down a trail and you think about running really, really quickly. And all around you is a swirl of air spinning towards the direction you want to go, shooting leaves up behind you until you release the energy and you begin running through the forest as fast as you can possibly imagine. Luckily, when you need it to, your thoughts seem to slow everything down and it's as if everything else is in slow motion as you run by it quickly. The birds and leaves and deer just seem frozen in the air as you pass at amazing speed, zooming around trees and over logs until you come to a stream. As you look at the stream, the water looks more like ice than water, You have a strange feeling that you'll be able to run directly onto it,

15:49 so you do. And you find that the water doesn't give way like it probably should. It's a little bit bouncier than the ground, but just as solid. You begin running up the stream, and you watch as water splashes up behind you. But again, the water seems as solid as anything else. Soon you move so far up the stream that you come to a waterfall. The little dripping pieces of water look like stones that you can jump onto, and you begin jumping left and right off each of the pieces of water, straight up the waterfall. You land at the top, run over to the side, and you suddenly stop running. Everything resumes its normal speed once again, The birds are flying like they used to and the deer are running and the leaves are falling and you

16:52 can feel the wind against your hair. Whoa, super speed, cool, you say. You power up the speed once again and you run down the waterfall, back down the stream and through the forest. As you see the tree in front of you, you come to a sudden stop. You open the door and walk inside. You hear your watch beeping.

17:23 Oh no, it's time I'm supposed to be home, you realize. You quickly take off the special suit and hang it back up in the tree. Then you step out of the tree, back into the forest and close the door behind you. Maybe I'll come back another time. You say to yourself. You run back down the forest path, but this time at a normal speed without any special powers.

17:53 You head back down the sidewalk and then you take whatever other series of steps you need to to get back to your house. You open the door to your home, walk inside and head straight for your bedroom. You're exhausted from using all of those different powers. You wave hi to your adults on the way by, and you go to lay down in your bed. You pull back the covers, slide on to the mattress, and you pull the covers up to your chin. Your eyelids are feeling heavy, so you just let them close. You begin to take long, slow, deep breaths, and with each out breath, You let your muscles relax a little bit. You sink down deeper and deeper into the mattress and you allow your mind to wander away to new things and dreams of new adventures

19:00 to come. Imagine yourself waking up in the morning, stretching your arms and legs and getting up out of bed. You remember that it's costume day at school. You have to find a costume quickly. You begin running around the house, looking through all of your drawers and through your closet, running from place to place, and trying to find where you put your Halloween costume. But it's nowhere to be found.

19:32 Someone calls to you from the kitchen. Honey, it's time to go to school, the voice says. Oh no, I have to get going. You go to the kitchen, you eat a pretty amazing breakfast that's been made for you. and then you head out the door without a costume. You begin to walk down the street, and that's when you remember the costume tree. That tree that you went to where every costume you put on came to life.

20:07 Maybe you could find it again and Maybe you could find a costume in it to wear today and for Halloween. You begin to look along the side of the road. It looks pretty normal for a while. But then you come to a strange path that seems to lead into a forest lined with jack-o'-lanterns. Little pumpkins that have been carved with candles inside them. You follow the path of jack-o'-lanterns through the forest and you find that there's a sense of relaxation and calm in the air. You walk the winding path for a while until you come to an opening and in the center of the opening is a huge, very old looking tree. The tree has a door at its base that goes right into the trunk.

21:04 You run up to the door Grab the handle with your right hand, turn it, and open up the tree. Just like before, the inside of the tree is like a huge closet, filled with costumes hanging on every side. Costumes of all different colors and all different sizes. The room is lit by something that looks like fireflies that are floating around in the air. just creating little points of glowing light everywhere they go. You look around the room, wondering where you should start. You see a bright, glowing blue light at the other end. It begins pulsing on and off. You decide to go check it out. As you get closer, you see that the light's coming from a little firebug that's sitting on top of the hangar to one of the costumes. The firebug flies away, And

22:04 you decide to check out the costume that it was sitting on. You take it off the rack and you see that it's some sort of superhero costume. It has a cape. It's made entirely out of red fabric that feels really neat to the touch. You decide to try it on. You step your feet inside the legs. Pull the costume up over your shoulder. and then button it at the back just behind your head. You hear a strange noise like a set of bells clinging, and then a strange sensation passes through your body. A shiver almost as the suit tightens up around you, changing itself until it fits you perfectly. Then you feel another sensation, a sense of strength passing through your muscles. It's as if every muscle in your body gets a little bigger, a

23:06 little bit stronger. You flex your muscles and stretch your arms out to the side. And then you look down. You see that you're floating just off of the floor. You get scared for a moment and fall back down to the ground, landing pretty gracefully.

23:27 You can fly.

23:29 You can fly. And you're pretty sure you have super strength too. This could be the perfect Halloween costume. You could get from door to door incredibly fast if you can fly. Just think of all the candy you can collect. You straighten your body back out and you naturally just float above the ground. You grab your backpack and you float out towards the door. Open it up and out into the forest. You land beside a tree that's nearby and you decide to test out your strength. You grab onto the tree and you pull upwards. To your surprise, the entire tree rips out of the ground. You find that you can wave it above your head in circles.

24:23 It's a huge tree. You begin spinning it around over your head. tossing it up in the air and catching it with your other hand. The tree is as easy to throw around as a tennis ball. Amazing. You straighten the tree back up and jam it back into the ground where you found it. Then you use your feet to pack the dirt around it, hoping that it will live after this crazy thing that it's been put through being swung around over a child superhero's head. But in deciding that that's not really relevant information for the story, you focus your attention back to the idea of flying.

25:09 You do the same thing you did before, stretching your arms up over your head and then out your sides. And you can feel a new sense, a sense that lets you push up off the ground and into the air. First you float gently up above the trees and then you let yourself loose, straightening your arms and your legs and shooting up into the air as quickly as you can.

25:40 You quickly shoot up high above the trees, higher than any building in the area until you pop through the clouds. You begin bobbing up and down through the clouds using your newfound superpowers. Then you fly down closer to the ground looking for something familiar, something that'll help you find your school. You soon spot it and you follow a nearby street that looks familiar to you until you come to your school overhead. You look for a little area nearby that's secluded where no one will see you flying because as much as it's really cool to have superpowers, You're not sure you really want everyone to know you have superpowers. You land gently, make sure your backpack's secure, and you walk back out where the other kids are

26:39 just entering the school. You join one of the lines, you go inside and go to your classroom. And the day's pretty normal. The teachers give out a little more candy than they normally would, and everyone around you is dressed up in something After doing some special Halloween-themed class lessons, you and your friends head outside for recess. Everyone decides that you should maybe play soccer, or football as many of you know it as. One of your friends has brought out a soccer ball. You go and create some makeshift nets on either side of the field, and you and your friends begin to play. You're elected to be the first goalie, so you step back towards the goal and you get yourself as ready as you can. Your

27:32 newfound strength makes it feel like you could jump really, really fast and move very quickly. Soon, you have your chance. The soccer ball is headed towards you with one of your friends kicking it down the field. You focus on the ball. And you watch as your friend kicks it as hard as they can. Strangely, all time around you seems to slow down. You can see the soccer ball pushing the air to the sides. It's going so slow.

28:08 But strangely, you feel like you can move at a normal speed. You simply walk over to the area where the soccer ball is about to hit. You stick out one of your hands. And you grab it. The soccer ball stops and time shoots back to normal. Everyone's amazed at the save you've just made. To them, it must have looked like you were going incredibly fast. You pick up the ball, take a few steps forward, and kick it back towards the other end. That recess every time the ball comes towards you. Time just immediately slows down and you easily stop it. Another power you didn't realize you had. Super speed. When the recess bell rings, you head back inside and the rest of the day goes about like normal. When the end of the day comes,

29:08 you're very excited because tonight is Halloween and you have an amazing costume that will allow you to collect more candy than ever before. Now instead of getting home like you normally do, You decide to go back in style. You head back over to the hidden place where you landed in the morning. You look around and make sure no one's looking. Then, you focus your concentration on pushing that magical energy against the ground. And you shoot yourself straight up in the air. You move so quickly that even if someone saw it, they'd probably just think it was a figment of their imagination. Once again, you fly up through the clouds... bob up and down through them, trying to catch them in your arms. But they just

30:02 sort of float around you as you pass through. You fly for a while high up above them, feeling the sunlight against your skin and the air against your face. It's an amazing sense of freedom to be able to fly. But soon down below you, the light dims and it's time to trick or treat. You quickly fly back down to your house, landing in your front yard and walking inside.

30:38 You put your backpack down and you go and search through the kitchen for as many bags as you can find. And when you can't find enough, You head to your bedroom. You take off the pillowcase to all of your pillows. And you shove them all inside one pillowcase. Then you realize you're going to need somewhere to keep the candy.

31:00 So you head back to your bedroom. You find some little strings. You hang them out through the window and you close the window on top of the strings. You figure that each time you fill one up, you can just fly back, tie it to one of the strings, and leave it hanging from your window, giving you lots of time to fly back somewhere else and get more candy.

31:24 When you're ready, you head outside, look around to see if anyone's watching, and then you jump up into the air until you're looking down on the world below. You fly up high enough to get a good view of the area below you and you look for the area that has the most lights thinking that it'll be a really good neighborhood to go trick-or-treating in. You see an area that looks very bright and as you fly closer you see that there's all sorts of Halloween decorations on almost every lawn in this neighborhood. It looks like the perfect place to go trick-or-treating. You find a tree nearby and you slowly lower yourself down just behind it and land gracefully on the ground. Luckily it's dark now so you don't have to be as careful about hiding your powers.

32:24 You activate your super speed and everything around you seems to freeze. As it does, you run up to a door that has a group of trick-or-treaters just knocking on top of it. and you stop in the back of the line. You let time go back to normal, and one by one each of the kids gets candy put in their bag. You stick yours back out, you say thank you, and just as everyone's turning around, you turn your super speed back on. You zoom around the children from that group, and go to the next house that has a group of children just about to show up.

33:03 once again appearing magically behind them, getting some candy, and then disappearing right away. You do this again and again and again until you've filled up two entire pillow sacks with, well, with candy. With the pillowcase full, you fly back up into the air, back to your house, and you float just outside your window, where you tie the bag of candy up to one of the strings that's hanging outside. Then, grabbing another bag, you zoom back up into the air and repeat the process. That night, you fly from neighborhood to neighborhood, filling up your bag with as much candy as you can. By the end of the night, you've collected six entire pillowcases or large grocery bags. full of candy.

34:02 Thinking that you might have time to do just one more, you fly back up into the air and look for a neighborhood you haven't been to yet. You soon find one and fly down towards it. That's when you see something that you do not like. There's two bigger and older looking kids in mean looking costumes who are bothering a friend of yours. They seem to be bothering your friend to give them all of their candy. Your friend tries to resist, but you watch as they push him over, grab his bag full of candy, and run away. You quickly drop down to the ground beside your friend. Are you okay, you say? Yeah, they just stole all my candy. Well, don't worry. I'll take care of it, you say. Wait right here. You quickly activate your super speed. You search

35:07 around the neighborhood for as many rocks as you can find, and quickly, using your super speed powers, you rush from rock to rock and pick up a whole bunch of them, filling two sacks with rocks. When they're full, you fly up into the air and look for the two bullies. You soon see them walking below back to their houses, jumping up and giving each other a high five for what a great job they've done. All of the different things you could do to get revenge for your friend pass through your head. But you eventually decide to be nice about the whole thing. Or sort of nice anyways.

35:51 You activate your super speed, freezing time around you. and you fly down towards the bullies, still moving at incredible speed. You exchange the sacks that the bullies are holding for the sacks you've filled up with rocks. Then you jump back up into the air and fly away. The bullies have no idea that all of their candy is gone.

36:21 You fly back to your friend and land a little distance behind him, then run up a side. Hey, look what I got, you say. You hold out the sacks of candy, and your friend takes them. Amazed, way more candy than they'd collected in the first place. Thanks, they say. You're welcome. I'll see you tomorrow at school, you say.

36:49 You run back off until you're in a dark enough area that you can jump back up into the air and fly. You decide that that's probably good enough for a day's work, and you fly back towards your house, landing in the front yard and walking inside. No time to go back to the costume tree right now. You walk into your room and you unbuckle the costume. As soon as you undo the button on the back of your neck, the costume suddenly grows again and becomes very easy to take off. You put it on a hanger and hang it up in your room. Then, extremely tired from the night and knowing that you have lots and lots of candy hanging safely outside your window, you climb into your bed and pull the covers up over top

37:47 of yourself to your chin Your eyes are becoming heavy, so you let them close and you let your head sink down into the pillow. You begin to focus on your breath, just noticing it as it goes in and out. And with each breath, you allow your muscles to drain all of their energy and you allow them to sink down deep into the mattress. And with each breath, you go deeper and deeper, allowing your muscles to melt and allowing your mind to go wherever it wants to go. Now, if you've listened to Magic Costume Tree episodes before, you would know that the Magic Costume Tree always appears to those in need of adventure And today is no different.

38:55 You wake up in the morning, go through your usual morning routine, eat some breakfast, and head outside. As you're exploring around home, you notice something you haven't seen before. A little trail off to the side. cutting through all sorts of branches and little trees, you decide to go check it out. As you walk through the little path, you feel a pulse of energy a pulse of energy that you have felt before you continue down the path and standing directly in front of you is a gigantic and very ancient looking tree with a door on the front.

39:52 You look behind you and, well, it seems like the path to home has just sort of disappeared. You walk up to the large ancient tree, swing open the door, and step inside. Row upon row upon row of costumes are hanging in the thing, and As always, one of them is lit up. It looks kind of furry. You walk over to the costume that seems to be lit up by a spotlight. You pick it up off of the rack and look at it. At first you wonder if it might be like a monkey costume or something, but you soon realize that it's a Sasquatch. A sasquatch costume.

40:52 You quickly unzip the back, hang up the hanger again, and step into the costume, one foot at a time. You zip up the back using a pull string, and then you feel a strange tingling sensation, as if the costume and your body are becoming one. You can now feel every part of the costume as well. The gigantic costume feet have become your feet. You can bend the gigantic toes and curl the gigantic feet. Cool. You also feel stronger somehow, as if you could run 50 miles without any effort. A sudden clunking sound startles you. You jump back away from it and, well, you realize it was just the hanger falling off the rack. You must not have hung it up properly. But what? What's going on with your arms and legs? As you look down, you, well,

42:07 you can't really see them anymore. You take a deep breath and relax your body, and as you do, your arms and legs come back into view. That must be some sort of Sasquatch reflex. Invisibility. You practice for a moment, turning the invisibility on and off. You find that by sort of thinking about that startled state you were in for a second, the invisibility activates. And by relaxing your body and muscles, well, you become visible again. You grab the hanger and hang it up properly this time, and you decide to head outside, wondering exactly what this Sasquatch costume can do, and why the magic costume tree appeared to you today. There's always a reason after all. When you step outside, you find that the magic costume tree

43:19 has somehow relocated itself into the center of a huge forest. Gigantic old trees grow on either side, which is kind of perfect for you because for some reason, running through the forest, Feels like the best thing you could possibly do. You run towards the trees and jump up in the air, instinctively grabbing onto a branch and swinging up higher. You land on top of another branch and, well, you're blown away that you just did that. Your arms feel like they could throw you straight upwards. So much power. You try again, leaping to another branch and using your arms to throw yourself up into the air. You fly through the air, catch on to another branch, and continue to swing, kind of like a monkey, branch to branch, only you

44:29 have so much power that you're able to swing gigantic distances away. You find yourself sailing through the air, but it's almost as if the trees are moving towards you as well. I mean, you're certainly throwing yourself through the trees and through the air with incredible power and speed, but the branches seem to move towards your hands too.

45:00 You decide to put that to the test. You stop for a second, hanging from one of the branches, and reach your arm out. A vine shoots out and wraps around your hand. Cool. You let go of the branch and swing down on the vine, moving towards the ground before shooting upward again. You leap into the air, reach out your hand, and sure enough, another vine shoots towards you.

45:36 You spend a little bit of time making your way through the forest, jumping from tree to tree, branch to branch, vine to vine, until you finally allow yourself to drop down to the ground once again. Your gigantic feet pad your landing perfectly. Sasquatch must be able to really move. Surrounded by the trees, you feel your connection to nature as well. Every bird, every bug, every living creature, every living plant in the area gives off some kind of special signal. And when you close your eyes and focus, you can still sense them. You can feel their life around you. It's a really neat sensation... And it feels like it goes deeper than that... You reach your hands out...

46:42 Focus your mind... And you start to call the trees and the flowers to grow... You feel them respond... You feel them growing up higher and taller... And as you open your eyes... You watch them do just that. The trees which were once mere seedlings begin to grow up through the others, up towards the sky. And below them, on the ground, beautiful wildflowers bloom at will. You walk down the forest path and wherever you go, You leave a trail of incredible wildflowers growing behind you. But you start to sense something else. Something in the distance. You start to hear voices, movement. Interesting. You walk over towards the area where you hear them. You duck down behind a bush and you look out. There's a huge campsite.

48:01 A whole bunch of people. Families, maybe? Kids and adults. All hanging out in various tents. Really, really large tents. Cooking meals on campfires. Hanging out and telling stories. And that's when you hear a scream. You look over to your right... and see a little girl pointing at you and yelling at the top of her lungs. You instinctively activate your invisibility, and the girl looks confused. Her parents, and someone you assume to be her older brother, run over to see what's going on. I saw a Sasquatch.

48:52 There was a Sasquatch right there. Oh, honey, Sasquatch aren't real. I'm sure you're just imagining things. It could have been the shadows or something, her father says. Come on, breakfast is ready. This way. The family walks over towards a large tent, a tent where they're cooking breakfast for the whole group. The girl keeps looking backwards and, well, looking rather confused. She knows what she saw after all. You stay invisible and decide to get a better vantage point.

49:34 You kinda wanna see what's going on. You throw yourself up a tree as quickly as you can until you can see out over the entire camp. As you listen in, you discover that it's some sort of company camping trip for employees and their families. When they're done breakfast, the boss gathers them around. Alright everybody, thank you for coming to our annual camping trip. As you know, It's very important to us to have everyone together. It builds teamwork and camaraderie. And this year, we have a very special edition.

50:26 I'm here to announce the prize for winning the family competition. $ 5, 000 cash and. This wonderful trophy. The crowd gasps. That's a lot of money. I'll be keeping all of this in our tent right here. The company tent. While the rest of us go off to the egg on a spoon competition. Follow me, everyone.

51:06 The man moves inside his tent and, well, you can tell that he places the money and the gigantic trophy inside. Then he leads the crowd away, presumably to one of those competitions where you have to hold an egg on a spoon and run around an obstacle course without breaking it. Classic company camping stuff. You're about to go watch to see who wins the competition. when your Sasquatch senses tell you that somebody else is here, somebody else is nearby.

51:46 You jump to the next tree and begin to swing through the air, still completely invisible. You land atop a nice sturdy branch and look down below you. Two men dressed in camouflage And holding bows and arrows are peeking out on the campsite as well. Did you hear that? One of them says. Five thousand dollars. And look at all this camping gear they have. These people are glampers.

52:27 Expensive coolers. Expensive supplies. If we can take it for our own, we'll make out like bandits. But what are we going to do with all that camping stuff? The other man asks. Well, I'll pawn it or something. I don't know, but at least that $ 5, 000 cash won't be hard to get rid of. Oh, no. They're planning to rob the company camping trip? That's terrible. You continue to watch as the two men in camouflage sneak through the now mostly empty campsite. You can still hear the campers off in the distance, cheering and laughing and crying as they compete for the best egg spoon holder person. The men unzip the tent, step inside, and begin to rummage around.

53:41 You can't let this happen, you realize. And with your Sasquatch powers, maybe you don't have to. You leap down off of the tree and land gracefully using your gigantic Sasquatch feet. You quietly move over to the entrance of the tent, and you watch as the men grab the $ 5, 000 and shove it in their pockets. Then, they grab a gigantic and very nice looking cooler, dump the food out on the ground, and start shoving everything else they can find inside it, anything that looks valuable at all. You hear someone else approaching as well. I'll be right back.

54:35 I'll just go grab that from the company tent, the voice says. The same father from before. You back up to allow him to move towards the tent. He looks inside and meets eyes with the two men. Hey, who are you and what are you doing here?

54:58 You.

55:00 Oh, no. The men hold up their bows and point them towards the guy. I didn't see anything. I'm sorry. It's too late for that. We're gonna have to tie you up until we can get out of here. Oh, no need for that. I won't tell anyone at all. You decide that this might be your moment to act. You step into the tent, still invisible, and then appear out of nowhere. You quickly reach out and grab one of the bows and arrows. You throw it outside as quickly as you can. All three men yell in surprise, and the other man points his bow and arrow towards you.

55:55 Before he can shoot, vines shoot up out of the ground. Vines that you've instinctively called on. They wrap around the bow and arrow, around the man's legs and arms. The other man looks at his friend, looks at you, and tries to run outside. You quickly reach out and grab his jacket, lifting him up into the air in front of you. Wow, you really are powerful. Vines shoot out of the ground again and tie him up as well. There, there really is a Sasquatch, the other guy says. Um, yes, you respond, trying to use the deepest voice you can.

56:50 We Sasquatch are here to help you. Do not be afraid. Uh, okay. I guess not. You did save us after all. That man has stolen your money. You will find it in his pockets. Uh, okay. Looks like they dumped out all of our food too. It's covered in dirt. It's not going to be any good at all anymore. No, I am sorry. Perhaps I can help. You walk outside and reach down into the ground using your mind. Suddenly, things begin to grow. Little plants, little bushes, little trees shoot up out of the ground. They grow flowers, and the flowers turn into fruit and berries. Until there's a, well, kind of a gigantic food forest sitting in front of you, just outside the tent. How, how did you do that?

58:13 the man asks. We Sasquatch have our secrets. Now, um, call the police or something. I must go. Oh, uh, thank you, and, uh, see you later? Yes, or probably not. You respond. You activate your invisibility once again. and you run away from the campsite. You jump to the trees, grab onto a branch, and begin to swing, branch to branch, vine to vine, flying gracefully through the air. At times you run, and at times you move through the trees until you see the familiar ghost of the magic costume tree you leap out of the forest and land in the clearing outside the thing it feels as though it's calling you once again you walk up to the door swing it open and step inside. You suddenly feel the costume sort of detach from your body, becoming less a

59:41 part of you and more a costume once again. You unzip the back zipper and pull the costume off. It feels weird to be normal again. You grab the hanger and hang it up, zip it up, and put it back on the rack. Thank you, costume tree, you say. That was a fun adventure. In response, the tree just sort of glows. You swing the door open again and step outside. You find that you're no longer in the center of the forest. You see the same path ahead of you that you took to get to the costume tree in the first place. You wave goodbye to the tree, head down the path until you see your home right in front of you. You look back and the path has completely disappeared once again. You head inside your home and directly to your bed. Somehow, even though the Sasquatch

1:01:01 costume did most of the work, your muscles are still kind of sore and achy. You climb into your bed, you pull the covers up over top of yourself, and you close your tired eyes. With each breath, you let go of a little more tension in your muscles and sinking down deeper and deeper into the bed. You let go of the tension in your arms. You let go of any tension in your legs. You allow your shoulders to relax and sink into the bed, and you allow your face to sort of soften into a nice half-smile, And once it feels like you're just floating on a cloud, you allow your mind to wander off too. Off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures, and new costumes to come.

1:02:19 Good night, everyone. You wake up in your very own bed, inside your very own home. There's a strange feeling in the air, a tingling sensation of sorts that makes the hair on your arms and legs stand on end. It's the same feeling you normally get when the magic costume tree appears. You quickly get dressed, eat breakfast, and run outside, hopeful that wherever you go, the magic costume tree may be waiting. You start to search all around your home, behind it, beside it, in front of it, you know, every direction you can walk, but no matter where you go, you don't see the magic costume tree anywhere. You sit down on the ground, place your elbows on your knees, and smack your hand into your head, disappointed. You were

1:03:30 really hoping you'd see it today. When you look up, well, you realize that you're not standing where you were before. Somehow, you're in the middle of a forest. You look to your right, and sure enough, the magic costume tree is standing there, in the middle of a clearing surrounded by trees. Excited, you get up and run towards the magic costume tree, swinging the door open and jumping inside. Inside, there is row upon row upon row of costumes. You begin to look through all of them, until one of them has that Special glow. That special highlighted glow that tells you it might be the right one for today. It's a large, draping black costume. You pick up the hanger and take it off of the rack. A dragon costume? You unzip

1:04:47 the costume, place the hanger back on the rack, and begin to step inside. At first, the costume seems sort of loose and baggy, too big for you. You pull the dragon head hood up over top of your face, and the costume starts to tingle. And then, it begins to change. It shrinks down until it perfectly fits to your body.

1:05:21 And.

1:05:22 You feel other sensations too, as if the costume is becoming part of your body. Your head merges with the dragon head, and you suddenly have large teeth and eyes that can see things you couldn't see before. Your hands merge with the claws and become one with them, and... I don't know. What's that behind you? You have a few other senses that you didn't used to have. A tail and wings. You also feel wildly, wildly powerful. There's a certain strength running through your muscles that makes you feel like you could pick up a car and throw it.

1:06:18 And There's something else deep inside you too. Something that feels, well, hot. You look over in the mirror and you see that, well, you see that you actually look like a real dragon. Or at least a real dragon person. You step outside to get a better idea of your dragon powers. You start by moving over towards a tree. Now, most of the time you wouldn't think that you could, like, you know, pick up a tree. But something feels different today. You take a hold of the tree with both of your claws, which actually sort of dig into it with very little effort.

1:07:08 Then you pull upwards and the tree rips out of the ground, roots and all. You swing the tree around your head and throw it up into the air. You watch as the tree sails through the sky and crashes into the other trees below. Cool, you say, before suddenly feeling bad that you just ripped a tree out of the ground for no reason. Maybe you should be a little less destructive with such powerful powers. Next, you decide to test whatever that feeling is in your core. The hot one. Knowing that you're a dragon, you have a pretty good guess. You open your large dragon mouth. You focus on that core of heat inside you. Point your head up straight in the air and breathe out. A huge plume of fire shoots directly up into the sky. Cool. Next,

1:08:23 you need to test your wings. You've never had wings before, but something about them is just sort of second nature. You stretch them out to the sides, and you flap them downwards. Now, when you move your hands through the air... It doesn't really feel like you're pushing through anything substantial.

1:08:48 But when you push down on giant wings, you can really feel the air. It shoots you up into the sky, and... you flap them again and again and again, rising higher and higher and higher above the magic costume tree and above the forest you were somehow magically transported to. The hot sensation inside your stomach or core or whatever you want to call it suddenly flares up as well. Instead of wanting to shoot fire out of your mouth, it seems to want to shoot out of your wings. You allow the sensation to take over as you spread your wings as wide as they'll go. and you suddenly start to shoot through the air. The fire, or whatever it is in your core, sort of pushes you forward like a thruster or a jet engine. You straighten your body, arms,

1:10:05 and legs, and you begin to push forward through the sky, rising high up above the clouds. doing rolls and flips and turns. You spend the next little while getting used to flight. You learn that you can change direction in an instant. You can do barrel rolls and loop-de-loops. The whole thing is incredibly thrilling, honestly. You continue to blast through the sky, high above the forest, high above the world.

1:10:46 until something catches your eye. Something catches your dragon eye, anyways. Something you're pretty sure you wouldn't have been able to see with your normal human eyes. There's something on top of the clouds. You shoot directly towards it, and as you get closer, you can make out more and more of it. It looks like Well, it looks kind of like a city floating high above the clouds. And there's other creatures moving around it too. Other dragon creatures. The closer you get, the more dragons you see. Dragons of all different shapes and all different sizes entering the city.

1:11:45 leaving the city, and just sort of flying around the city. When you finally get close enough, you glide down and land on the ginormous streets, surrounded by ginormous buildings, each one with ginormous doors. Everything here is made to be big enough for even the largest dragons. Who are you? A voice says from beside you. You turn your head to see a bright blue dragon. Me? Uh, you know, I'm just your everyday, perfectly normal, non-suspicious dragon, you answer. Hmm, I've never seen you before. You must be from one of the other dragon cities. Maybe the southern one? I heard people look kinda weird in the southern one. And you look kinda weird, the dragon says. Uh, yeah, I'm from the southern dragons. We do look kinda different, you say,

1:13:03 shrugging your shoulders and allowing your wings to fall down to your side. What's your name, you ask?

1:13:12 Me? Me?

1:13:13 My name is Millie, and I am a water dragon. As if to demonstrate the point, Millie unleashes a blast of water straight up in the air, which then kind of rains down on top of you. Oh, uh, nice to meet you, Millie. What kind of dragon are you? Millie asks.

1:13:41 Huh, well.

1:13:43 I'm, uh, I guess I'm a, I'm a fire dragon, you say? And, copying what Millie did, you take in a deep breath and unleash a blast of fire straight up in the air. Oh, fire dragons. Very respectful. Well, are you coming to the meeting? Millie asks. Uh, what meeting? you respond. The meeting with the great dragon. He has called for us all to attend. Oh, well, I guess I'm going to the meeting then. Lead the way, you say.

1:14:32 And Millie begins to walk down the street. You follow behind her. As you walk, you pass... All sorts of different dragons. Dragons that seem to be able to command nature, causing plants to grow at will. Dragons that seem to be one with the earth, tossing stones up in the air and, you know, juggling them around. Dragons that seem to rest and float on the air. Must be air dragons, you assume. Some dragons seemed to be sparking with electricity, others glowing with a strange glow, and one even seemed to be a, well, a space dragon if you weren't mistaken.

1:15:31 A jet black dragon with little spots that glowed like stars. Eventually, you and Millie arrive at a large castle in the center of the city. Many of the other dragons follow slowly behind. You enter inside and come to a gigantic room that looks like a huge dragon stadium. A large opening in the middle, sort of at the bottom, and huge rings surrounding it. Rings on all different levels, filled by all different kinds of dragons. It takes a while, but soon the whole stadium is completely packed. A door at the bottom of the arena opens up, and all of the dragons instinctively hush. A huge dragon wanders out very slowly, each of his steps perched shakes the stadium just a little bit. Uh, who's that, you ask? You

1:16:50 really aren't from around here, are you? Millie says. That is our elder dragon, the ruler of this city. I think he's about to make a speech. The large dragon clears his throat. And... A huge necklace around his neck with a gigantic gem on it begins to glow. Welcome, brothers and sisters. I have gathered you here for a very good reason. I believe it is time. to show the humans the power of the dragons. For far too long, we have allowed the humans to rule the world, or to believe they do anyways. Some of what they have done is good, But other choices are proving less desirable.

1:18:11 Today is the day we take over. You're shocked to hear these words. Really? Dragons are going to take over the world?

1:18:28 What?

1:18:29 You look to your left and right, wondering if all of the dragons feel this way. But all you see is their eyes glowing red. The same color red as the elder dragon's necklace. We will listen. we will obey the dragons respond uh Millie are you okay you ask must listen must obey Lily says, her eyes still glowing a bright red color. You look down at the elder dragon and the necklace that he's wearing around his neck.

1:19:25 It does have a strange pull to it. Your eyes almost get lost in it for a second, but the human parts of you seem to take over and you're able to shake it off. The dragons begin to leave the stadium. Then, they leave the castle. You follow behind, seeing exactly where it is that Millie's about to go. As soon as the dragons exit, one by one they take off into the sky. They fly up over top of the city and down towards the earth. Oh no, this can't be good, you say. You jump into the air, spreading your wings and activating your sort of natural dragon thrusters.

1:20:24 You blast up over top of the city and dive down towards the earth, following Millie as carefully as you can, even though she pretty clearly seems to be in some sort of trance. You dive down towards the ground and you watch as swarms of dragons begin to unleash their powers towards the cities and towns below, blasting them with ice and fire, lightning, water, and even poison in some cases. Millie, I don't think this is a good idea, you say.

1:21:11 You think about fighting back, but there's just so many of them. There's no way you could stop this many dragons who are under, well, mind control? Is that what's going on? Wait a second. It's the necklace, isn't it? You realize? If you're gonna stop all of this, then you need to stop the elder dragon. And You need to destroy the necklace or steal it or something. It does look like a big dragon, but at least it's only one dragon and not an entire dragon army. You turn back and activate your thrusters in your wings once again, shooting you up high into the sky. You swoop up over top of the clouds until you spot the Dragon City once again. You blast off towards it, and without hesitation, you zip into the castle, into the arena, and float

1:22:27 high up above the Elder Dragon, who's just sort of standing there with his eyes closed, You spot the necklace hanging around his neck, and you decide that, well, you should probably just go for it before he realizes that something's up. You aim at the necklace, and with all of your might and with all of your willpower, you shoot straight down towards it. Your natural dragon thruster is pushing you downward at incredible speed. You reach out your dragon claws and you snatch the necklace straight off of the elder dragon's neck, rolling on the ground as you land.

1:23:24 Who are you? the elder dragon says. Give me back that necklace. I don't really think I should, you say. And with that, you spread your wings again and shoot up into the air, above the arena, through the castle, and out the door. Unfortunately, you hear something coming after you. The top of the castle suddenly breaks open stone flying everywhere as the huge elder dragon flies into the sky.

1:24:08 I'll give you one more chance. Give it to me now, or I'll take it. You turn to face the dragon. I don't really think I should give it back to you. You're trying to take over the world. Well then... You leave me no choice. The dragon takes in a huge breath, its mouth begins to glow a bright red, and it shoots a beam of laser directly towards you. Your dragon instincts kick in and you move to the left quickly, narrowly missing the dragon laser blast or whatever that was.

1:24:59 The elder dragon continues to unleash blasts of laser, and you continue to dodge left, right, up, down, until the dragon begins to get sort of tired. You asked for it. The elder dragon's eyes glow, and the crystal in your hands begins to glow as well. I'm going to need some support here, he says to, well, no one you can see. But sure enough, one by one, dragons begin to appear, surrounding you from all sides. Unsure what else to do, you look down at the glowing necklace. You reach inward for all of your dragon's strength, and you press the gem together, trying to crush it with all of your might. It resists at first, but as you flex your muscles as hard as you can, the gem gives way and collapses between your hands, breaking into little

1:26:23 pieces that luckily don't hurt you at all. The gem suddenly explodes in a blast of light, one that doesn't hurt you, but does temporarily blind you, forcing you to look in the other direction. As you begin to blink your eyes open once again, you look around you and you see all of the dragons kind of rubbing their eyes and shaking their heads. Millie flies over beside you. Wait, what just happened? she asks. I believe that the elder dragon was using some sort of mind control crystal to convince all of you to take over the world. He was what? That is against the dragon code. Very against the dragon code, Millie says, staring over at the elder dragon.

1:27:36 The elder dragon just sort of looks left, looks right, and begins to slowly step away as the other dragons slowly surround him with very disappointed glares.

1:27:54 Ha ha.

1:27:55 We are sorry about this, Millie says. Please tell your people at the Southern Dragon Tribe, or wherever it is you weird-looking creatures come from, that we are sorry. We will take care of our elder. Thank you for freeing us. You're welcome, you say. and a strange pull starts to tug on you. Your wings spread, and you float up into the air. I guess it's time for me to go, you say, waving goodbye as you're drunk. costume starts to pull you back towards the costume tree. You shoot through the sky, down and above the forest, until you soon float down and into the costume tree once again. You land softly on the ground, and with a sudden, kind of shivering feeling, the costume detaches itself from your body.

1:29:13 It grows bigger and sort of hangs off of you like it did before. You unzip the zipper, step out of the costume, and hang it up once again. Knowing that the adventure is over, at least for now, you leave the magic costume tree and you see a path in front of you, one that you hadn't noticed before. You walk through the path, push apart some trees and shrubs, and emerge directly in front of your home once again.

1:29:57 You look back and... the forest is entirely gone. You enter your home, go straight to your bed, and crash down on top of it. You pull the covers up over top of yourself, you close your eyes, and you begin to just breathe. Your muscles feel different without the dragon costume on, but They also feel very, very relaxed.

1:30:36 With each breath, you sink down a little deeper into the mattress, and your mind begins to wander off to new dreams, new adventures, and new costumes to come. Good night, everyone.

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