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Azelyn, The Pillow Golem, and the Marshmallow Dragon - A Cards of Power Adventure · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime Stories. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: we're jumping back into the Cards of Power universe for
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a spinoff story based on a
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Speaker 1: couple ideas. The first one is the main idea, so
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Speaker 1: let's check it out right now. Hi.
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Speaker 2: My name is Anslin, I'm ten years old, and I
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Speaker 2: have an idea. It's a dragon versus It's a marshmallow
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Speaker 2: dragon versus a pillow gollumn. The marshmallow dragon turned into
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Speaker 2: a marshmallow dragon by eating too much marshmallows, and the
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Speaker 2: pillow column turned into a pillow column by sleeping too much.
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Speaker 1: A lovely stories by great suggestion. And when I was
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Speaker 1: writing the story, sort of coming up with a whole
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Speaker 1: plot and everything, I realized that I'd probably need another
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Speaker 1: card holder with another magical creature of their own. So
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Speaker 1: I picked up this suggestion too.
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Speaker 3: And my name is Solman. I would like there to
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Speaker 3: be for the Quada pastures, there to be a pterodactyl
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Speaker 3: that could be invisible and shoot electric boat of it's
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Speaker 3: mouth linked and hails.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: I love your podcast. Listen to the ever I listen
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Speaker 3: to them every night.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you to h ASLN and Soma before we
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Speaker 1: get started. As of the recording of this episode, I
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Speaker 1: did notice one more person had joined my social share
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Speaker 1: contest where you can share the podcast on social media
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Speaker 1: and then enter into a draw for a guaranteed story idea.
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Speaker 1: So far there are seven people as of the record
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Speaker 1: of this podcast. Anyways, so big thank you to Melissa
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Speaker 1: MC for sharing on Instagram and joining as well. If
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Speaker 1: you want to know more information all of the infos
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Speaker 1: in the show notes, as well as a form to
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Speaker 1: fill out if you do share the podcast, because last
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Speaker 1: time I did this, I didn't have a form and
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Speaker 1: it was really hard to keep track. So please fill
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Speaker 1: out the form if you share the podcast, and thank
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Speaker 1: you for everyone who has. Now it's that time again,
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Speaker 1: time for a possible word from a possible sponsor. Don't worry,
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Speaker 1: there's never any advertisements during or after the story though.
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Speaker 1: I just have to fund this somehow. Now time to
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Speaker 1: get as comfy as you can in that bed, close
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Speaker 1: your eyes and imagine yourself doing what the kid or
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Speaker 1: marshmallow Dragon does. Now, as many of you know, the
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Speaker 1: protected zones and the cards of power universe are full
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Speaker 1: of all sorts of magical creatures, and for most of
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Speaker 1: those creatures, their main desire was to get more powerful.
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Speaker 1: Some wanted to grow stronger until a powerful cardholder came
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Speaker 1: along and chose them. Some dreamed of becoming rare battle cards.
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Speaker 1: Some practiced all day long, hoping to prove that they
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Speaker 1: were the best in the land. The marshmallow dragon had
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Speaker 1: once tried to care about all of that, a long
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Speaker 1: time ago, before he became soft around the edges, before
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Speaker 1: his tail turned bouncy and his scales became squishy, and
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Speaker 1: his horns looked more like more like puffed things than
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Speaker 1: pointy horns. He'd imagined himself as a terrifying dragon of legend.
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Speaker 1: He'd practiced his roars, his fiery poses, his fire breath.
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Speaker 1: But then he'd discovered her the enchanted marshmallows. They grew
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Speaker 1: in a certain hidden field of the protected zone, full
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Speaker 1: of magical sugar puffs that drifted from the tops of
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Speaker 1: special little reeds like little white clouds. Some would even sparkle.
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Speaker 1: The dragon had eaten one, then ten, then all of
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Speaker 1: the marshmallows he could find. Then he started toasting them
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Speaker 1: with his own fire breath and eating even more. At first,
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Speaker 1: nothing really happened except that he felt wonderfully full and
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Speaker 1: a little bit sleepy. But over time the marshmallow magic
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Speaker 1: had seeped into him. His scales softened, his body became
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Speaker 1: kind of stretchy and squashy. His landing stopped sounding like
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Speaker 1: dragon landings and more like someone dropping a pillow on
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Speaker 1: the ground. Worst of all, his fire had changed. Instead
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Speaker 1: of breathing fierce flames, he would sometimes sneeze out warm,
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Speaker 1: sugary fluff. After that, the other creatures in the protected
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Speaker 1: zone had stopped taking him seriously. A few laughed, a
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Speaker 1: few culled names like puff snout, flop wing, or even
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Speaker 1: dessert lizard. The Marshmallow Dragon had decided that if he
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Speaker 1: couldn't be respected, he'd at least be comfortable. That was
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Speaker 1: how he met the pillow Goleum. The pillow Golum had
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Speaker 1: once been made of stone, proper stone, hard, heavy, dependable stone,
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Speaker 1: with an affinity for the earth itself. He'd guarded a
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Speaker 1: ruined structure at the edge of the dream Grass plains,
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Speaker 1: and according to the stories he told in his slow,
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Speaker 1: sleepy voice, he'd been very stern about it, very stern,
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Speaker 1: he would say, while lying on his back and a
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Speaker 1: heap of pillows. I was extremely stern for oh at
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Speaker 1: least several afternoons. What had happened to him was simple.
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Speaker 1: The dream grass around the ruins was soft enough to
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Speaker 1: nap in. Then, some enchanted traveling merchants had passed through
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Speaker 1: years before and left behind a wagonload of magical pillows.
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Speaker 1: The goal had told himself he was only protecting them,
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Speaker 1: but then he leaned against one, and he decided he'd
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Speaker 1: have just a quick nap. After that, the pillows magic
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Speaker 1: had soaked into his stony body, until the hard rocks
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Speaker 1: softened into fluffy stuffing and springy cloth. He no longer stomped.
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Speaker 1: He kind of poofed around. Feathers sometimes drifted from his
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Speaker 1: shoulders when he sighed too hard. The other creatures thought
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Speaker 1: he was ridiculous, so he and marshmallow Dragon became friends,
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Speaker 1: best friends. In fact, Together they found a hidden marshmallow meadow,
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Speaker 1: tucked between a line of candy canes and a hill
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Speaker 1: of sleepy blue moss. It was one of the quietest
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Speaker 1: and safest places one could find in the protected zone.
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Speaker 1: The same marshmallows grew wild there. Dream pollen floated through
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Speaker 1: the air, and it was always warm and reasonably safe,
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Speaker 1: which suited them perfectly. On most days, the marshmallow dragon
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Speaker 1: lounged in the sun and toasted marshmallows on the tip
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Speaker 1: of his tail using his firebreath. On most days, the
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Speaker 1: pillow Golum arranged himself into a nest of giant soft
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Speaker 1: cushions and just sort of offered remarks that cloud looks
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Speaker 1: like it's shaped like a pillow. Sometimes they talked, sometimes
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Speaker 1: they didn't. Sometimes the marshmallow dragon practiced scary roars, just
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Speaker 1: in case he ever needed one, though they often came
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Speaker 1: out more like a puff or squeak. These days. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: pillow Golum built forts and then promptly fell asleep in them. Altogether,
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Speaker 1: they were happy, and because this was the cards of
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Speaker 1: power world, that happiness could not possibly last forever, not
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Speaker 1: for a magical creature anyways. One bright afternoon, the marshmallow
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Speaker 1: dragon was floating on his back at a pond of
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Speaker 1: melted sugar. Nearby well, the pillow Golum dozed under a
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Speaker 1: pile of pillows. The dragon tossed a toasted marshmallow into
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Speaker 1: the air and caught it in his mouth. This, he announced,
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Speaker 1: chewing proudly. Is the life. Pillow Golum opened one eye
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Speaker 1: halfway m He said, too much excitement for me. The
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Speaker 1: dragon snorted excitement. I just caught a marshmallow, yes, said
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Speaker 1: the pillow Golum. Very dramatic. The marshmallow dragon grinned and
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Speaker 1: flicked a marshmallow at him. It bounced harmlessly off of
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Speaker 1: his fluffy body. Then the meadow crackled with sudden blue light.
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Speaker 1: The air buzzed, and a shadow swept overhead. Both the
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Speaker 1: dragon and Golum looked up. Boy, who seemed like he
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Speaker 1: was just floating in the air, gently landed on the
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Speaker 1: ground in front of them, and then climbed off of
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Speaker 1: something invisible. The shadow below looked a lot like a terradactyl,
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Speaker 1: but they couldn't see anything at all until for half
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Speaker 1: a second it appeared a terradactyl. What is this place?
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Speaker 1: He said, It's even weirder than I heard. The marshmallow
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Speaker 1: dragon swallowed. Pillowgolum leaned toward him and murmured, do we
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Speaker 1: have to do battle? I very much hope not, whispered
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Speaker 1: the dragon. The boy smirked, I'm Soma. I'm looking for
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Speaker 1: unusual creatures, rare stuff, strange evolutions, you know, things worth owning.
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Speaker 1: He looked the two of them up and down. You
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Speaker 1: two were definitely strange looking. The marshmallow dragon puffed out
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Speaker 1: his chest as much as a marshmallow dragon could. We
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Speaker 1: are not interested in being owned, he said, huh, that's adorable,
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Speaker 1: Soma replied. A hum of energy buzzed through the pterodactyl,
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Speaker 1: then it disappeared where the terodactyl goal. The pillow Golum said.
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Speaker 1: Soma's grin widened. Oh, you'll find out. The attack came
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Speaker 1: from nowhere. A streak of blue electricity tore across the
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Speaker 1: meadow and slammed toward the pillow Golum's side. The poor
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Speaker 1: golum barely had time to turn before the invisible tear
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Speaker 1: or adactyl's strike would have hit him with full force,
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Speaker 1: but the marshmallow dragon leaped. He hurled himself sideways in
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Speaker 1: a heroic squishy blur, and took the attack instead. Blue
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Speaker 1: lightning burst over his soft body. He yelped, bounced twice,
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Speaker 1: crashed into a pile of marshmallow reeds, and passed out.
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Speaker 1: Dragon shouted, pillow Golum, not knowing.
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Speaker 4: What to do.
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Speaker 1: The pillow Golum jumped up into a ball and bounced
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Speaker 1: off into the forest. Soma walked up to the marshmallow dragon,
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Speaker 1: raised a hand and activated his card core. A blue
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Speaker 1: light spread throughout the dragon until his entire body became
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Speaker 1: bright blue energy. The energy started to reform itself into
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Speaker 1: the shape of a glowing blue card, and the boy
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Speaker 1: grabbed it out of the air. The pillow Golum watched
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Speaker 1: from the shadows. Soma read the card. Huh, marshmallow dragon.
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Speaker 1: He turned it over once. Honestly, I thought he'd be cooler.
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Speaker 1: Then with a shrug, he called his pterodactyl, jumped onto
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Speaker 1: its back, and flew off into the distance. The meadow
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Speaker 1: went quiet. The only sound was the slow settling of
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Speaker 1: flattened marshmallow reeds. Pillowglum sat up. He looked at the
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Speaker 1: empty sky, then at the place where his friend had fallen,
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Speaker 1: then back at the sky again. He didn't say anything
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Speaker 1: for a long time. I should have moved faster, far
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Speaker 1: from the protected zone. Soma arrived at the Beginner Card
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Speaker 1: Shop by dusk, just outside the protected zone. The place
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Speaker 1: was full of cardholders, buying supplies, trading creatures, and bragging
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Speaker 1: about things they'd done. Behind the counter stood an old man.
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Speaker 1: He was speaking to a wizard, one of the choosing
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Speaker 1: wizards from the Wizard's Council, the same one that gave
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Speaker 1: card cores to the children on their choosing day. Soma
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Speaker 1: tossed the Marshmallow Dragon card onto the counter. The wizard
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Speaker 1: caught it and peered at it through tiny round glasses
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Speaker 1: before handing it over to the shop owner. Interesting, he said,
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Speaker 1: not really, it's soft and sticky. Honestly, it seems kind
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Speaker 1: of pathetic. I'm hoping to trade it in. What do
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Speaker 1: you give me for it? The shop owner thought for
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Speaker 1: a minute, then reached below the counter and picked up
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Speaker 1: a pile of tokens, sliding them across the counter towards Soma. Eh.
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Speaker 1: I guess that'll do, Soma said, grabbing the tokens and
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Speaker 1: walking out of the shop. Mind if I have a look,
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Speaker 1: the wizard asked, Be my guest, the shop owner replied.
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Speaker 1: The wizard picked up the card and stared at it.
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Speaker 1: Poor fellow, he murmured, Mind if I take this one
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Speaker 1: with me to the choosing he asked, I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling about it, be my guest. The card shop owner replied.
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Speaker 1: The Wizard grabbed some tokens from his pocket, slid them
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Speaker 1: across the counter, and headed outside. A group of new
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Speaker 1: cardholders stood in a semicircle at the same time the
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Speaker 1: Wizard moved out of the shop. At the end of
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Speaker 1: the line stood a girl, a girl named A'sln. The
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Speaker 1: wizards started by explaining the importance of the choosing day,
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Speaker 1: then by tapping his staff on the ground three times,
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Speaker 1: producing a whole bunch of glowing, floating orbs that absorbed
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Speaker 1: themselves into each one of the kids, creating a card core. Next,
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Speaker 1: he presented them all with their own choice of cards.
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Speaker 1: When A'slen's turn came, the Wizard gave a small nod
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Speaker 1: and the cards floated in front of her. Several of
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Speaker 1: them looked really flashy. There was a horned lizard with
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Speaker 1: molten claws, a wind fox with three tapes feels, a
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Speaker 1: small armored beetle that looked like it made weird clicking noises.
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Speaker 1: And then there was one card near the side that
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Speaker 1: looked a little warm, a little crinkled, that even looked
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Speaker 1: a little sad, but it seemed to have character Aslyn
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Speaker 1: reached for it before she quite knew why an unusual choice.
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Speaker 1: The wizard said, what is it, Azelyn asked. The wizard
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Speaker 1: glanced down, Bosh, mellow Dragon. A few of the other
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Speaker 1: beginners snickered. Azeln simply ignored them. There was something about
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Speaker 1: this card that just felt right, so she reached out
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Speaker 1: and grabbed it. Then, with the help and guidance of
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Speaker 1: the wizard, she activated her card core and linked with
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Speaker 1: the card her very first card. Well, go on, the
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Speaker 1: wizard said, try summoning it. Aislyn stepped into an open space.
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Speaker 1: She produced the card from her card core and said,
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Speaker 1: Marshmallow Dragon, I summon you. A burst of blue energy
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Speaker 1: shot out of her chest, formed itself into a glowing card,
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Speaker 1: which then reformed itself into the shape of a marshmallow dragon,
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Speaker 1: which generally looked a lot like an ordinary dragon, only softer.
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Speaker 1: His scales looked pillowy, his wings looked spongy, His tail
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Speaker 1: was tipped with a fluffy puff that bounced when it
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Speaker 1: hit the floor. He blinked, looked around, and drooped almost immediately.
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Speaker 1: There were a few laughs from the other beginners. A'sln
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Speaker 1: gave them a look, then knelt beside the dragon.
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 1: She said, I'm Hazelin. The marshmallow dragon looked up. Hello,
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Speaker 1: you don't seem very happy, she said. The dragon hesitated.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to be scared of me. I picked you.
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Speaker 4: Just tell me.
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Speaker 1: Why do you look so sad. The marshmallow dragon sat down,
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Speaker 1: curled his tail around himself, and took a deep breath.
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Speaker 1: Well I kind of had a friend, he said. Hazelin
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Speaker 1: didn't interrupt, so he went on. He told her everything
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Speaker 1: about the protected zone, about the hidden marshmallow meadow, about
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Speaker 1: the pillow golden who liked naps more than battle, about
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Speaker 1: Soma and the electric and visible pterodactyl, about the attack,
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Speaker 1: and by the time he finished, A'sln's expression had changed
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Speaker 1: from curiosity to outrage. He traded you away, she said,
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Speaker 1: I guess so, Otherwise I don't think i'd be here
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Speaker 1: after capturing you from your friend. She said, Uh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I guess so that's horrible. The marshmallow dragon gave a
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Speaker 1: tiny shrug. He said, no one would want a marshmallow dragon.
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Speaker 1: Aislon stood up at once. Well he was wrong, The
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Speaker 1: dragon looked up. Now, let's go find your friend. He
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Speaker 1: stared for a second, as if he'd not expected the
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Speaker 1: answer to be that simple. Really, he asked, Really, she said,
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Speaker 1: A'sln climbed onto the marshmallow dragon's back. He was softer
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Speaker 1: than expect did like riding a spongy couch or something
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Speaker 1: one with wings. Sorry if I bounce a little, he
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Speaker 1: said nervously. I think I can handle it, she replied.
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Speaker 1: He launched into the air. The flight back toward the
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Speaker 1: protected zone was fast, bright, and a little bit wobbly,
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Speaker 1: but overall the dragon was comfortable, the kind of comfortable
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Speaker 1: you could sit on all day. They headed inside the
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Speaker 1: gate and up into the air once again. They flew
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Speaker 1: high above the beginner's zone until the dragon angled downward. There,
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Speaker 1: he said, the marshmallow meadow. But when they reached it,
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Speaker 1: Maslin felt him go tense. Beneath her, the meadow had
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Speaker 1: been ruined. Marshmallow reeds had been stomped flat, pillow nests
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Speaker 1: were ripped apart. The sleep the blue moss had been
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Speaker 1: churned into ruts and cracks, and all of the ground
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Speaker 1: had been broken up. In the middle of it all
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Speaker 1: sat a pack of rock golams lumbering through the field,
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Speaker 1: tearing up clumps of marshmallow, breaking up clumps of ground,
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Speaker 1: and hurling rocks at each other. Where's your friend, Aslyn asked,
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Speaker 1: I I don't know. A rock golum noticed them and turned,
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Speaker 1: then another and another. Soon the whole gang was staring
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Speaker 1: their leader. One of the largest rock golums stomped forward
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Speaker 1: well he rumbled. The desert lizard came back. The other
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Speaker 1: golums laughed. It sounded like boulders falling down a staircase.
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Speaker 1: The marshmallow Dragon lowered his head. Aslyn could feel him
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Speaker 1: starting to shrink inside himself. Then she stepped in front
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Speaker 1: of him. This meadow isn't yours, she said. The leader
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Speaker 1: snorted it is now. Then Aislyn activated her cardcre and
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Speaker 1: commanded the dragon Dragon, it's time to do battle. Something
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Speaker 1: passed through the dragon that E've never felt before, as
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Speaker 1: if the bravery from the girl her command to do
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Speaker 1: battle filled him with well bravery of his own. It's
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Speaker 1: as if a battle mode sort of activated inside him. Suddenly.
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Speaker 1: He really wanted to show these gouldams what was what?
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Speaker 1: Gilp them Asln shout it. The marshmallow Dragon nodded in agreement,
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Speaker 1: inhaled d deeply, and blasted a thick stream of sticky
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Speaker 1: white marshmallow goo across the field. It splattered over the
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Speaker 1: lead rock Golum's leg and glued them together instantly. He
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Speaker 1: took one more step, failed and toppled sideways with an
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Speaker 1: enormous crash that flattened three of his own allies. Again
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Speaker 1: Aslan shouted, the dragon spun firing more sticky goop. Two
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Speaker 1: rock golums gutted across the arms. Another god had full
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Speaker 1: in the face and staggered backward blindly. For a few
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Speaker 1: glorious seconds, it worked. Aisln laughed, See, you're amazing. The
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Speaker 1: marshmallow Dragon blinked. Then his expression had changed. A rock
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Speaker 1: golum ripped one arm free, grabbed a boulder straight out
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Speaker 1: of the ground, and hurled it right at them. Duck.
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Speaker 1: Aislen yelled, and the dragon ducked. The stone sailed overhead.
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Speaker 1: Something else happened too. It made the marshmallow Dragon a
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Speaker 1: little bit upset. For the first time in a long time,
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Speaker 1: he felt a spark deep in his throat. He opened
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Speaker 1: up his mouth, and this time he unleashed a blob
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Speaker 1: of goop that was also on fire. The flaming mass
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Speaker 1: of goop hit one of the golams, sending them flying
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Speaker 1: across the field. You can do fire too, A'slyn said
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Speaker 1: in surprise, Ah, I used to be a fire dragon.
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Speaker 1: It's a long story.
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Speaker 4: Enough.
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Speaker 1: The lead golum growled, whipping the last of the marshmallow
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Speaker 1: off of his body, and all at once he and
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Speaker 1: the others reached into the ground, pulled out boulder, and
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Speaker 1: began to run at the two of them. The marshmallow
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Speaker 1: dragon did his best, firing sticky flaming bursts as fast
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Speaker 1: as he could, gluing one, toppling another, scorching a third.
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Speaker 1: But for every golum that fell, more kept coming. One
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Speaker 1: slammed into his side and sent him skinning through a
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Speaker 1: patch of marshmallow reads. Another swung a giant, rocky fist
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Speaker 1: towards A'slin, but it bounced off of something strange. She
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Speaker 1: looked up to see another golum, only this one looked
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Speaker 1: really soft, as if he were made out of pillows.
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Speaker 1: Leave my friends alone, he said. He took in a
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Speaker 1: deep breath, shrinking his body down, and then suddenly shot
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Speaker 1: it back outwards like a ball. The ball hit the
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Speaker 1: rock golum and sent them flying across the field. The
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Speaker 1: golums continued to throw boulders toward Aislin. The marshmallow dragon
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Speaker 1: and the pillow golum. The pillow golum stepped in front
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Speaker 1: of the rocks and bounced them back in the direction
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Speaker 1: they came from. Every rock that came their way was
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Speaker 1: intercepted and flung back at the rock golums themselves. The
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Speaker 1: marshmallow dragon unleashed blasts of fiery marshmallow flame that hit
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Speaker 1: the golams and continued to burn afterwards. Eventually they called
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Speaker 1: for retreat. Let's get out of here, the lead golum said,
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Speaker 1: trying to brush off some fiery marshmallow goop. They turned
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Speaker 1: to boulders and rolled away. Pillow gol up. The marshmallow
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Speaker 1: dragon yelled and ran over and hugged his friend. Where
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Speaker 1: have you been, the pillow gola masked. I'm sorry I
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Speaker 1: could not save you. That's okay, the marshmallow dragon replied,
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Speaker 1: and I ended up finding a brand new friend. Ah
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Speaker 1: many chance you'd want to join us, he asked? Join you? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, become a card like some of the others,
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Speaker 1: and well, do something useful in your life instead of
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Speaker 1: just sleeping all the time. Will I still get to
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Speaker 1: sleep a lot? The gola masked, Well, yeah, being inside
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Speaker 1: a cardcore is like the ultimate sleep. It's super relaxing.
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Speaker 1: That does sound nice. In that case, I will join you. You
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Speaker 1: may turn me into a cod he said, I won't resist.
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Speaker 1: Aislyn walked up to the pillow Golum and placed a
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Speaker 1: hand on its chest. She activated her card core and focused.
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Speaker 1: Just like the wizard had told her to. The Golum
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Speaker 1: began to glow a bright blue color, until eventually he
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Speaker 1: turned into pure energy. That energy reformed into a glowing card,
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Speaker 1: which Aislen absorbed into her card core. She now had
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Speaker 1: two magical creatures, and they were best friends. As the
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Speaker 1: sun sank down, she summoned the pillow Golum back into existence,
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Speaker 1: and the three of them curled up in the soft
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Speaker 1: blue grass of the meadow. As Lin laid down with
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Speaker 1: her head against the pillow Golum, one of the softest,
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Speaker 1: most comfortable pillows she'd ever felt in her life. The
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Speaker 1: marshmallow dragon wrapped around her on the other side, and
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Speaker 1: slowly she stared up at the sky and began to
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Speaker 1: relax her muscles. She let go of the tension in
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Speaker 1: her arms and her legs. She released the tension in
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Speaker 1: her shoulders and neck and face, allowing herself to sink
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Speaker 1: down deeper and deeper into the soft pillow Golum. Her
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Speaker 1: eyes became heavy, so she let them close too, and
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Speaker 1: slowly but surely, she began to drift off to thoughts
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Speaker 1: of new dreams, new adventures, and new magical creatures to come.
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Speaker 4: Good night. Everyone must.
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Speaker 5: Never union name ACoM.
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Speaker 1: Ne more
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Speaker 5: Union kicking, no thing, no