The Book Dragon and the Karate Chicken - Cards of Power #68 - A Bedtime Adventure

0:04 Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world. My Martin and you are listening to dad's bedtime stories. Tonight, we're going to jump back into the Cards of Power series and continue the preliminary rounds of the Deity level tournament, which I set up as one on one battles where Magnus and you will have to take on some other opponents.

0:28 And I got a couple of great ideas that I think I'm gonna put in this episode, so let's check them out.

0:35 Him My name is Alan from Australia, and my suggestion for the Count of Power series is that in the Daily level tournament, you face again someone named Allen, and he has a book dragon and it's almost impossible to beat it until Bugnes uses his naughty attack. Thanks out of your podcast.

0:58 Great idea, Arlen. This one took me a lot of thought to think about how a book dragon might be a really good opponent for Magnus, but I think I got some really cool things down. I also thought that we'd probably have time for two battles in this one, so I took one more idea. Let's check it out too.

1:17 My name is Connor Aldrich. To suggest a story suggestion for the Cards of Power series, and it's a karate chicken as an opponent.

1:30 Great idea, Connor, the second opponent today will be a karate chicken. If you like the podcast, don't forget to rate us and review us on whatever app you're listening on. Five star ratings, particularly on Apple podcasts, make a gigantic difference to other people finding the podcast, so I really really appreciate those, as well as any ratings kind of anywhere you're listening. I also got some new submissions for my story and artwork contest, so thank you first of all to Caspian who sent in a story that I believe he dictated to some parents there and they sent to me. And thank you to JD who both submitted some stories and some pretty awesome pictures inspired from the podcast. Again.

2:18 I'll be starting to put up some of the artwork onto I don't know my different social media platforms like Instagram and stuff like that, and I'll be picking a winner of both the story and the artwork competition to do a story with me. I believe in the last episode I said you had until April thirteenth to hand them in, but I, for some reason was going backwards.

2:43 In my head, it really should be June thirteenth, So thank you to the Spotify commenters who pointed that out. I really appreciate it. And now it's probably time to get on with the story after a possible word from a pousible sponsor, of course, because unfortunately we need to keep the on around here. Now it's time to get as comfy as he can in that bed. Close your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does. You wake up inside a very luxurious hotel.

3:20 You get up, stretch, and move over to the bed where Magnus is curled up like a little dragonling kitten or whatever. Ah. Time to get up already, he says, as he gets himself on his feet and stretches his back up in the air like a cat. You head down the elevator to the main lob you wear. You smell well, one of your favorite smells in the entire world, a complimentary continental hotel breakfast. You spend some time. I'm piling your plate full of all kinds of different breakfast foods, whatever sorts of things you like anyways, and then you head over to one of the screens, the ones that can tell you who you're up against next and where you're gonna battle. Please present your ID card, the screen says.

4:23 So you reach into your card core and produce the glowing ID card in front of you. The screen scans it, and a schedule pops up in front of you. It looks like you have two battles on the docket today. The first one says it's against someone named Arlen. All right, it looks like it's actually happening in a few minutes.

4:49 And the second one, a little bit later today is against Connor. There's not much of a break between the two. You quickly read over the details for the match against Arlen. It says it's in competition Building two, Arena three. You run outside through the main parking lot and look around until you see the large two sign over one of the battle arenas. You summon your magic wing card and blast across the parking lot as quickly as you can, landing in front of the door and allowing the wings to return to your card core as you enter. You immediately make your way to the registration desk. Will come your ID cod Please, you again produce your ID card in the air. The lady picks up a little handheld scanner,

5:47 scans the thing and looks at a computer screen. Ah, yes, your battle is about to begin. You are in battle Arena three. It's just down that hallway to the right. You run down the hallway she's pointing to until you see a big number three over top of an elevator. You and Magnus climb on the elevator and it automatically closes and moves upward. When the door's open, you find yourself once again in an almost identical battle arena to the day before. They seem to be well clones of each other. There's already a referee standing in the center, and your opponent, presumably Arlen, standing across from him with a well a dragon holding a buck. You walk to the center, where the referee greets you. All right, then,

6:51 welcome to your next round of the competition. I believe you two already know the rules. This is an instant elimination. Winner goes on to more rounds, and the loser, well, they don't go on at all. Any previously scheduled matches for after this one will be erased and reassigned. Now, I believe you two have already declared your battle partners.

7:24 On one side, here we have Arlen, who has declared a deity level book dragon. I'm interested to see exactly what that is. And on this side, I believe you have declared a deity level fire dragon named Magnus. If you please make your way to your circles. You quickly reach o your hand and give Arlen a nice handshake to say good luck before walking to your circle. You step inside the circle and a force field is produced around you, one that can keep you safe from the battle.

8:10 At the same time, the referee floats up in the air and produces a force field around himself. All right, if you two are ready, we will begin the match in three two one go Immediately, Magnus begins to transform into his deity level form, glowing and growing larger and larger and larger, until he's a very large black dragon with veins of pure sunlight energy across the battlefield. The book Dragon hovers up into the air with its wings spread wide and around him. Dozens of books appear around him and begin to circle slowly. Each one has a different symbol on it, one that looks like a flame, a lightning bolt, a tornado, a fist of stone, something that's maybe like a sound wave, a portal picture, a shield,

9:22 and many more that you don't even recognize. Magnus lowers his head and digs his claws into the ground. Sunlight energy begins to pulse through his veins. Careful, Magnus, you say, I don't think those books are just decoration. I noticed. Magnus rumbles the book dragon simply smiles, but not a very friendly smile. One of the books snaps open. The page turns by itself at A blast of blue flame shoots from the book like a cannon. Magnus reacts instantly.

10:04 He opens his jaws and answers with a blast of fire of his own. A roaring stream of golden orange flame slams into the blue fire halfway across the arena, and for a moment the two attacks push against each other. Then another book opens, a lightning book. A bolt of electricity shoots sideways, curving around Magnus's fire blast and striking Magnus in the shoulder. Magnus roars as sparks dance across his scales before he can recover. A third book opens, one that has a stone fist symbol on it. Chunks of rock rip themselves out of the ground and start to launch themselves at Magnus like boulders from a catapult.

11:00 Magnus swings his tail and smashes the first two apart. He grabs a third using his elemental powers, shoving it off to the left, but a fourth one strikes him hard in the ribs and pushes him backwards. The book Dragon flaps his wings once and rises higher. The book spin faster around him. Ah, he says, annoying. Magnus growls.

11:30 Then he inhales deeply. The sunlight lines across his body brighten, making the room hotter and hotter and hotter, before he unleashes a huge cone of pure sunlight energy directly towards the book Dragon and his little floating library. But just before the flames reach him, another book snaps open, a sho shield book of some kind. A glowing barrier appears in front of the book Dragon, and the fire or pure sunlight energy spreads across the shield like water hitting glass.

12:14 The barrier flickers, but it holds. Another book opens. A windspell blasts through the flames, punching Magnus backwards across the ground. You start to worry, Magnus is strong, but this dragon is fighting with so many powers at once. You watch as Magnus charges. He leaps into the air, wings beating hard, and then flies straight down towards the book Dragon with his claws outstretched. Another book opens, a teleportation book. Purple energy flashes, and the book Dragon vanishes. Magnus slashes through empty air. As the book Dragon reappears behind him. Another book opens and a massive, invisible shock wave of sound blasts out. Magnus is hit from behind and sent crashing into the arena floor. Magnus pushes himself up, shaking dust

13:20 and broken stone from his wings. I'm fine, he says, but he looks rather angry. He stomps both of his front claws into the ground. He pours out of them into the stone beneath the arena, and the ground begins to glow. Red. Cracks spread outward in every direction as the floor softens into lava. You grin, that's it now.

13:52 He can't land, but the book Dragon seems perfectly happy to continue hovering. The wind book opens again, and a swirl of air shoots beneath the dragon, holding him in the air with absolute ease. Magnus narrows his eyes, and the book Dragon opens three books at once, fire stone, and lightning. A storm of attacks slammed down towards Magnus.

14:24 He spreads his wings, wraps them around himself, and starts glowing with pure sunlight energy. Fire splashes across him, Lightning cracks into him, and stone shatters against his back. Having control of all of these elements, Magnus is able to hold firm for a moment until the Portal book opens. A glowing portal appears beside Magnus, another above him, and the stone chunks that had shattered against him are sucked into the first portal and fired out through the second, hitting him directly in the head. Magnus stumbles backward. How Magnus, if heat won't work, eh, maybe try freezing everything right, Magnus responds, and he sucks in a huge, deep breath.

15:22 The ground below him hardens into obsidian, and everything becomes incredibly cold. As Magnus absorbs every single bit of heat that he possibly can, the books start to develop frost across them. Magnus reaches out with his mind to any water vapor in the air, crystallizes it into ice spikes, and launches them straight towards the dragon, but again the shield book pops out in front of him and covers him in a protection develayer of energy. This is getting old, Magnus says. As books start to swirl around him, launching attacks of all different kinds of elements, Magnus decides that he needs to try something a little bit different. He reaches inside himself. He connects with the power he's only used a little bit before, the power of lightning. He

16:32 focuses all of the heat energy he's absorbed into the lightning, and instead of aiming it in any particular direction, he just lets it explode outward. Chains of lightning bolts spread from the dragon, crashing into various different books and then chaining themselves to other ones. Magnus forces all of the heat energy he possibly can into the blast as the lightning arcs from book to book to book. When the blast finishes, most of the books, with a single exception, drop to the ground. The only one still hovering is the lightning book itself, which seems unaffected for obvious reasons, but it honestly shouldn't be difficult. Now, Magnus begins to glow brighter and brighter until his entire body transforms into

17:35 pure sunlight. Then he unleashes a blast of pure sunlight energy directly at the dragon. The one remaining lightning bolt shoots out in front, attempting to block the blast, but the blast goes straight through it and straight into the Dragon, breaking him apart into a bright blue form of energy that's reabsorbed into Arlon's card core. Well, I believe that is a match, the referee says, as he floats down towards the ground. Now, Arland, unfortunately you are out of the tournament this year, though I do highly recommend you try out again next year. That book Dragon of yours is mighty powerful to the winner. You're probably gonna want to double check your matches for this afternoon. Well, we do schedule additional matches in advance. They often have to

18:43 be changed as people are eliminated. Oh and if you need to recharge your magical creature, there should be a hospital building nearby ready to do that. The shield around you disappears. You walk to the center, shake Arland's hand and pat him on the back. Have book Dragon's amazing, you say, Hopefully we'll meet each other again, Hanks Arlen says.

19:14 You step into the elevator and go back down to the main floor. You immediately go over to a screen, scan your ID card and see that, well, you're still up against Connor this afternoon. That must mean he won his match. You and Magnus, who is now the size of a dragonling, once again, head directly for the hospital building.

19:41 What are we doing here? I feel fine? You might feel fine, but you took a bunch of hits. I don't think we should start a new daity level match when you're not at one hundred percent. You respond, now fine. You head into the hospital building, where you meet a nice person at the counter. Welcome to the hospital. I see you have a magical creature that could use recharging and healing. Please step onto the platform. You gesture for Magnus to listen. He jumps up on a large, circular, technological looking platform and blue energy shoots into him. When the energy stops, he steps out of the circle and looks up at you. That was amazing. I feel like I just slept for a whole day, and I don't know when to a spa or something. Can we do

20:44 this again after maybe, buddy, let's go check out the next match. You head over to Building four and check in at the counter. You're directed over to Battle Arena number two. You make your way into the elevator, go up to the floor, then step out to once again see a referee and an opponent standing across from him.

21:13 You walk towards them, and the referee introduces herself. Heh, welcome. My name is Betty and I will be your referee for today. I see the two of you have already declared your matches. On this side we will have a deity level fire dragon that apparently has other elemental powers as well. And on this side we have Connor and a karate chicken. Is that right? A karate chicken. That's right, Connor says, But he's now ordinary karate chicken. He's a deity level karate chicken. Connor's core begins to glow. Energy swirls out of it and forms itself into a well like an adult human sized chicken, wearing a karate gee and adorned with all sorts of martial arts weapons, two swords on its back, a bow staff, and one hand

22:24 size tucked into its belt, nun chucks, ninja stars, everything you could imagine. Mar Car the karate chicken says, ah, okay, then, well to your sides, card holders, we will begin shortly. A glowing shield appears around the judge and she floats up into the air. You shake Connor's hand and then move across the battle arena into your protective circle. Energy glows around you, and Magnus steps out in front. All right, we will be getting in three two one. Magnus immediately transforms into his deity level form as the karate chicken draws both of its swords from behind its back and then takes on a come and get me sort of karate stance, holding one blade up in the air over its head and the other out in front of itself.

23:37 Magnus takes in a deep breath and breathes out a plume of fire. The karate chicken well almost instantly disappears from the place it was standing and reappears beside Magnus's face, swinging the sword down and cutting him on the cheek. Now, hey, clearly it can move an incredible speed. Magnus tries to strike it with his claws, but again the karate chicken just does a sort of front flip over top of them, lands underneath spins in a circle and slices straight at Magnus's chest before jumping backwards across the arena. It reaches into its gee and pulls out a whole bunch of ninja stars. The karate Chicken starts to throw them towards Magnus, who responds by stomping on the ground and lifting up

24:41 a huge column of earth and rock right in front of himself. As the ninja stars hit, they explode, blowing up the giant rock face, shooting rocks into the air, but Magnus doesn't hesitate. He rabs the rocks out of the air using his mind and wills them to fly towards the Ninja Chicken. They crash into the ground. As the Ninja Chicken begins jumping and flipping and well doing a whole bunch of ninja like moves to move out of the way. As he flips, he continues to launch ninja stars that explode upon contact. Magnus once again presses his claws into the ground. Heat energy pours into it, spreading all over the arena and melting the ground itself into lava once more, But instead of sinking into it, the Ninja Chicken just begins to glow some sort of

25:49 aura peers around its body, and it stands right on the lava. Smoke continuously rises up from where it's feet hit the ground, but somehow it can walk on this stuff, like a martial arts master that can stand on hot coals. Magnus dives down into the ground, swimming through the lava itself. The ninja chicken takes on a defensive stance and begins to focus, ready for an attack from any direction. Columns of lava start to shoot up from the ground straight towards the chicken. One by one. It slices them in half with its sword, moving over to the side and taking on a fighting stance once again, But Magnus never shows himself. He stays in the lava and continues to launch attacks of rock and lava again and again. And

26:56 while he does, the temperature in the room begins to rise hotter and hotter and hotter, until the chicken starts to look a little drowsy, a little heat exhausted. Its eyes start to close just a little bit, as if it's getting very tired, and the next strike of lava actually manages to hit it in the back, sending it flying across the arena. And crashing into another column of lava that shoots up from the ground and catches the little chicken, wrapping around it and solidifying in to obsidian.

27:43 Then Magnus rises out of the ground, takes a deep breath, glows with pure sunlight energy, and unleashes a blast of mixed elemental force pure heat, ringed with rocks, lightning, and even air. They blast into the chicken all at once and wel It immediately transforms back into a bright blue energy and flies into Connor's card core once again. Very good.

28:22 I believe that is a match. If you would please a terial magical creature to make the ground walkable again, that would be great. Uh, Magnus, you heard her right, Magnus says, pulling himself up out of the lava. He takes in a deep breath and freezes the ground, turning it all into obsidian. It once again looks nothing like it did when you two started, but well, you're sure they have some sort of car that can transform it back without an issue. Very good. I declare you as the winner, Magnus. Uh Cotda. Unfortunately you are disqualified, but eh, your karate chicken was quite impressive. I believe against many other opponents, it would have won the protective barrier around you, and Connor disappears. You walk to the center line and

29:32 shake his hand as Magnus devolves back into his dragonling form. You exit the arena through the elevator and out into the main lobby, where you double check to see if you have any other matches for today. Nothing comes up, so you head back to the hotel area, back up to your room and climb in into your bed. Magnus curls up at your feet, stretches, and lays down, immediately falling asleep. You pull the covers up to your chin, close your eyes, and start to focus on your breath.

30:20 With each breath, your muscles relax a little bit more, your shoulders fall away from your ears. Your arms and legs release any tension they have and sink down into the mattress. And with each breath, your mind begins to wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good night, everyone, mumm.

33:47 An never Nion name Aco in New York more Minion.

43:03 No no

43:05 No assas