The Energy Absorbing Dragon - Cards of Power #69 - A Bedtime Adventure

0:05 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 bringing you back to the Cards of Power Universe, which many of you have been waiting for if you've never listened before. The Cards of Power Universe is a police where kids are given magic cards when they get to a certain age and then sent off into the wilderness to battle magical creatures and stuff like that. There's been a lot of episodes of it so far, and you're totally welcome to start here or go check out some of the earlier ones. Let's see what suggestion we have.

0:50 Hi, my name is Ethan. I have a story suggestion for Card to Power, where, like in the Daily Tournament, are You Verses character his name is uh Oliver and he has a very powerful UH like golden dragon which could suck energy out of any creature, and Magnus is super close to losing, but he wins by combining all his elements in one blast.

1:22 Thank you, Ethan. I think that's a great suggestion and it led to, I hope, a pretty cool character battle idea. Honestly, most of the time I just storyboard these things. And make them up as I go. So at this point I don't even really know what happens in the story myself, but we are all about to find out together after a possible word from a possible sponsor. Now close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in the story does.

1:59 You wake up inside the luxurious hotel, swing your legs over the side of the bed, stretch your arms up in the air, and of course move to wake up Magnus. Hey, buddy, time to get going. You say, ah, what's going on? Oh ah? Is it time for time for breakfast? He asks, Yes, you answer and head down to the main part of the hotel, the hotel lobby, where you smell one of the best scents ever created. A free that is, complimentary continental hotel breakfast with a little bit of almost anything you could ask for. You and Magnus head through the mini buffet line, fill up your plates with a little bit of every thing you like, and sit down to eat.

3:04 Well.

3:05 Any idea who we're up against next, Magnus asks. The preliminary rounds of this tournament should probably be over soon. Oh yeah, good question. Let me go check. You get up from the table and head over to one of the many view screens that give information about the tournament. You produce your ID card, the computer scans it, and scheduled booking pops up in front of you. It seems that in roughly thirty minutes you're supposed to battle someone named Allie inside battle Stadium four, Room two. You head back to the table and let Magnus know. After finishing up breakfast, the two of you had able to cross the huge parking lot to the giant battle stadium with the number four on it. Of course, as usual, you

4:08 enter the building and go up to the registration counter, once again producing your ID card from your card core. Ah, let me see here, Yes, we have you scheduled for a battle room two in uh oh, just about ten minutes. The two of you should probably get going. It says that the other contest into Olive oh Olie has already registered.

4:41 Just head that way. Second one on the right. You head to the left down a large hallway until you get to a large number two. You step into the elevator below the giant number two. The doors close and you're lifting up to the battle arena floor. The doors soon open to reveal a battle stadium that looks well exactly like every other battle stadium. You've been in a huge open area with two protected force field like circles on either side, and a little bit of every kind of element you might be looking for, earth, nature, water, and I mean, of course air and that sort of thing.

5:34 Oh hey, there, welcome to battle Station two. You must be the other contestant. This here is Ollie. I believe the two of you will be battling, and I will be your referee. The guy wearing the striped shirt says, all right, you guys know the sort of protocol here. The two of you are going to fight your already registered creatures, and the person who wins goes on, and the person who loses does not go on. Is that understood, he asks you, and I'll you both nod all right? Then, Well, on this side we seem to have some sort of deity level golden Dragon, and on this side we have a deity level of fire dragon, a cool dragon versus dragon. Alright, time to head over to your circles and let's get this thing started. You head over towards the circle designated

6:51 for the card holder. A shield instantly appears around you, protecting you from any damage you know, due to magical creatures battling. Ali on the other side of the arena steps into his as well. Magnus immediately begins to transform, growing larger and larger until he's once again become a deity level fire dragon with veins of pure sunlight. He steps forward towards the center, lying as the large golden dragon on the other side does the same. The referee floats up into the air and is covered by an energy shield himself. All right, everyone, we're gonna begin in three two one battle. Magnus instantly takes a deep breath and blasts out a plume of powerful heat energy. It hits the golden directly, and the kind of does nothing.

8:05 The golden dragon just glows red and sort of absorbs the power into its core. Magnus takes another deep breath, pulling all of the heat energy he can from the air around him, and unleashes another blast of even more powerful energy. The energy shoots out of his mouth white hot, and slams into the dragon, who again just sort of stands there and absorbs all of it. Then the other dragon begins to glow bright red. Its stomach starts to shine, and a blast of a very similar energy shoots back out of it directly into Magnus, sending him well backwards just a little bit. Honestly, the heat doesn't do much to the dragon, but well, it's pretty clear that he's just been hit by his own attack. Ah, so you're

9:11 some sort of energy absorber. Hah. Well, let's see what else you've got, Magnus says, and then he begins to glow, his veins laid up white hot, and the ground beneath him starts to melt slowly, starting with a little pool around Magnus and spreading out across the rest of the arena. The ground transforms into magma. The little pool of water instantly melts into steam, and Magnus, who is almost pure energy at this point, dives into the ground. The Golden Dragon floats up in the air and starts scanning around, but it isn't long before the ground itself starts to attack him. Under the command of Magnus, of course, spikes of obsidian shoot out of the lava towards the dragon.

10:15 He instantly dodges to the right. Another spike and he dodges to the left. A blast of powerful magma shoots out, hitting the dragon directly in the stomach, and he begins glowing red once again. The heat is pulled out of the magma, turning it back into stone. Then the dragon lowers down over top of the ground, and energy starts to swirl from the magma, through the air and into the dragon. The ground slowly hardens into pure obsidian. The dragon glows brightly and lands on the solid ground again.

11:07 Magnus is nowhere to be seen, that is until cracks start to form in the ground and the dragon bursts up from below, sending shards of rock flying in every direction. Well, I guess you are able to absorb the heat energy from that too. Let's see how you do with different kinds of energy. Magnus slams his tail on the ground, breaking apart obsidian and rock. Then, using his mind and his elemental affiliation to rock, he lifts the stone and obsidian into the air. It starts to spin around him and reform into much sharper shapes large spikes of obsidian. Then, one by one he sends them flying towards the dragon.

12:06 The first one shoots right into the thing, the next crashes into his shoulder. The next hits his stomach, and the dragon starts to glow a deep green color. The obsidian that's already hit him gets pulled directly into his body, and the remaining chunks sort of instantly fly into the dragon. The green energy starts to surround his shoulders, arms, chest, and head, and then solidifies into what looks like obsidian armor.

12:47 Ah did he just absorb the rock and turn it into armor? He asks, looking back at you. I think so, you say, well, obviously stuck doesn't work. I better try something else. The Golden dragon stomach starts to glow once again, and a blast of red hot magma shoots out, hitting Magnus directly in the stomach. Magnus simply grabs the magma out of the air, solidifies it into obsidian, and slams it into the ground. Staring down the Golden Dragon, he looks around the arena. At the very top is a bunch of steam and smoke, probably from the lake that was almost instantly evaporated. He focuses his mind on the steam, and slowly it begins to pull down from the ceiling and wrap around him, getting thicker and thicker and thicker,

13:56 before condensing again into a stream of water. Magnus spins the water around himself and begins unleashing attacks towards the creature. Blasts of pure water shoot at the thing. The dragon dodges and unleashes another blast of fire towards Magnus. He instantly raises rock up in front of him, Absorbing the blast, transforms the water spinning around him into ice spikes, and sends them flying towards the Golden Dragon. They all hit at once and again. The Golden Dragon begins to glow, only this time a blue color. The ice is pulled into his body and the glow starts to reform atop his shoulders, transforming the rock armor into something that looks like well too many cannons, one on each shoulder. The

15:06 cannons light up blue and instantly send a stream of water back at Magnus. He jumps to the side, grabs the water using his mind and his hands, spins it around, transforming it into a nice spike again, and sends it flying back at the Golden Dragon again. The dragon glows blues. The spike hits him, absorbs it and stands ready to fight again. All right, Clearly that didn't work, Magnus says, maybe I need to try something a little bit different.

15:49 To this point, Magnus hasn't really used his affiliation for nature energy, but it seems he's changed his mind. His down towards the ground and connects his mind to little seedlings still buried beneath the rock. He wills the seedlings to grow up out of the ground and transform into huge and powerful vines. The vines shoot up out of the floor of the arena and begin waving around in the air. Let's see you absorb something like this, he says, commanding the vines with his mind to shoot towards the yellow dragon. The vines wrap around the dragon's arms, they wrap around the dragon's legs, they wrap around the dragon's body, and Magnus wills them to pull tighter, like a snake coiled around its prey. You watch as the dragon slowly

17:00 starts to tense in some pain, and then it starts to glow a lighter green color. The lighter green energy spreads out along the vines towards the ground, and then the vines snap off from the ground around Magnus. Instead, they lift up in the air, still connected on the other side to the yellow Dragon. The coils merge with the dragon's body, and suddenly the vines begin to attack Magnus instead, wrapping around his arms and legs. He instantly heats up, burning them apart as soon as they hit them, only to be hit by a blast of water from the water cannon, followed by a blast of fire from the dragon's stomach, which this time sends magnet Is flying into the side of the arena. Oh, Magnus says, pulling

18:06 himself up off of the ground. I guess I have one more element to try, Magnus announces, as air starts to spin around the arena into a large vortex around the dragon's body. You look across the arena at the Golden Dragon, and you notice something in his eyes. Looking over at this cardholder, Ollie, you see the same look.

18:40 They clearly aren't worried about this air attack. Magnus, Wait what, he says, I don't think that's gonna work. Well, we have to try something, Magnus announces. I agree, but we need to think that thing can absorb any kind of element you've already thrown at it. I imagine it can absorb the wind as well, and who knows how it'll use that against you. Well, what do you suggest, then, Magnus says, well, I I mean, we know it can absorb one element at a time, but so far we've never seen it absorb multiple elements at once. How many elements do you think you can command at once, Magnus?

19:35 Who do you think you're talking to? Magnus replies, and then he starts to light up once again, growing hotter and hotter and hotter as his veins glow brighter and brighter. Soon Magnus is once again transformed into a little miniature sun. The stone lifts up off of the ground and starts whipping around him in a circle as well. Then any remaining water vapor in the air is pulled down and starts circling around him too. The ground that's transformed into magma starts to lift up and spin around in a band of magma. Vines shoot up out of the ground again ready to attack, and a large vortex of air starts to spin around Magnus. Well let's see how you do with this, he announces, taking a deep breath and

20:49 unleashing a powerful blast of pure heat energy directly y at the dragon. It hits the dragon, who immediately starts to turn red and absorb the power, but instead of cutting it off, Magnus joins the attack with every other element he has. Stone, magma, water, vines, and a huge concentrated blast of air begin to spin around the pure energy attack, blasting into the dragon all at once. The stone pummels the dragon, the vines wrap around it, the water transforms to ice, and well tries to freeze the dragon in place. The dragon starts to glow different colors red, blue, gray, but it can't seem to settle on one, and the elements continue to do damage in the meantime. Soon the dragon is unable to hold its gray. It flies across

22:02 the arena and smashes into the other wall. The vines continue to tighten around it as the stone and ice, and fire and wind continue to pummel the dragon. When Magnus is absolutely exhausted, he releases the attacks, almost falling to the ground. Luckily for him, the golden Dragon seems to be in worse condition. Its eyes slowly start to close as if it's about to lose consciousness, and eventually it gives in, falling to the floor, transforming into energy and shooting back into his cardholder's core. Olie on the other side of the arena immediately looks disappointed. Well, folks, it looks like we have a winner. The referee announces, floating back down to the center and may I say, that was a pretty cool battle. Oh boy, if only

23:15 both of you could have gone on. I bet you'll take on other opponents with ease. Huh. Anyways, Magnus is the winner and gets to go on to the next round. There should be some more matches a proof for tomorrow, and then well, the preliminary round should be over soon. You walk up to the center line. Ollie does the same.

23:41 You reach out and shake the other kid's hand. Could match. You say, here, dragon is really powerful, yeah, Allie says, Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to be as powerful as yours. Ollie wants away, steps into the elevator and disappears. You follow close behind him. When the elevator returns, you step inside, go down to the bottom floor, and walk out of the battle arena. You head back across the parking lot and into the large hotel building on the other side.

24:27 You enter the elevator, go up to your room, head down the hall and open it using your key card. Inside you smell something amazing food. You walk in to find a tray piled high with all sorts of different food and desserts, with a note that reads, congratulations, you've made it to the last round of the preliminary tournament.

24:59 We thought you could use a little treat. You look over at Magnus, who has transformed back into his dragonling size, of course, and the two of you dig in, eating your fill of food and deserts until you can eat no more. Then you lay down on the bed, pull the covers up to your chin, and close your eyes.

25:30 With each breath, you release a little more tension from your muscles, allowing your arms and legs to sink down into the mattress. And the more you breathe, the deeper you go, and the deeper you go, the better you feel, until eventually your mind begins to wander off to thoughts of new dreams and new adventures to come. Good night, Everyone name.

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