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The Ice Dragon and the Nine-Tailed Sugar Rush Fox - Cards of Power #75 · 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.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, we're finally headed back to the Cards of
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  Speaker 1: Power universe. And for those of you wondering why I
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  Speaker 1: haven't headed back to the Dragon Knights universe for a
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  Speaker 1: little while, there's a really simple answer to that. I
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  Speaker 1: just haven't got the right suggestion yet. to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what happens at the Air Dragon Stronghold. I set everything up,
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  Speaker 1: but I just can't decide what's going to happen next.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm waiting for the perfect idea for that. If
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  Speaker 1: you have one, send it to me on Speakpipe. That
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  Speaker 1: would be amazing. As for this episode, I did get
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  Speaker 1: some suggestions. Lots of cards of power suggestions, but at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the day, I decided to choose this one,
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  Speaker 1: mostly so I could bring back a somewhat... long-forgotten character.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Janvi, and I'm from Ontario, Canada,
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  Speaker 2: and I would like a story in the Cards of
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  Speaker 2: Power series where you and Magnus have to beat someone
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  Speaker 2: with an ice dragon that can freeze the whole stadium
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  Speaker 2: so all the cold air turns warm, and can also
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  Speaker 2: make icicles that that can drop from the ceiling and
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  Speaker 2: there's also a nine-tailed fox but it is made of
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  Speaker 2: candy so it can trap you in sticky chocolate or
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  Speaker 2: and it can also shoot hard candy from its mouth
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  Speaker 2: and it might get a sugar rush so it can
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  Speaker 2: run faster and that's it bye.
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  Speaker 1: Now janvi i like that idea And I, too, am
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  Speaker 1: from Ontario, Canada, as you probably know. Likely a different
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  Speaker 1: part of Ontario, because it's pretty big, but Ontario nonetheless.
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  Speaker 1: What got me about your idea was the candy nine-tailed fox,
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  Speaker 1: because when Roro and I were working on the Cards
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  Speaker 1: of Power game, which you can buy on GameCrafter and
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  Speaker 1: find the links to on my podcast website, by the way, dadsbedtimestories.com, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we needed some balance in the game, and we needed
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  Speaker 1: to find another animation-type character. I believe it was either
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  Speaker 1: a deity-level character or a mythic-type character. Anyways, we went
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  Speaker 1: back through the files, and we found a character, deity-level,
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  Speaker 1: named Food Dude. And as far as thinking of the perfect...
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  Speaker 1: perfect opponent for this particular nine-tailed candy fox, I thought
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  Speaker 1: Food Dude would be the right one. Also available in
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  Speaker 1: the Cards of Power game, or card game, on GameCrafter.
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  Speaker 1: Order in advance. Takes a while to get printed and
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  Speaker 1: sent to you. In other news, I want to let
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  Speaker 1: everybody know that I just finished the very first volume
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  Speaker 1: of Cards of Power the graphic novel. Story by Martin Gage,
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  Speaker 1: that's me, illustrated by your future robot overlords. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: I can't draw, so I decided to spend a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time and effort in getting ChatGPT to create the
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  Speaker 1: right number of fingers for dragons, which was really, really hard,
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  Speaker 1: and shout out to Busy Dad, who went through the
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  Speaker 1: first volume and counted all of the fingers and toes
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  Speaker 1: and let me know which ones needed to be changed
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  Speaker 1: after I did a draft. Anyways, you can get to
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  Speaker 1: the link on my website, you can search for Cards
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  Speaker 1: of Power the graphic novel on Amazon, or you can
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  Speaker 1: actually check out a digital version on Patreon, including the
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  Speaker 1: second volume, which I'm still editing for the correct number
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  Speaker 1: of dragon fingers and toes, because for some reason, artificial
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  Speaker 1: intelligence doesn't like keeping toes and fingers. Correct. Number-wise. Anyways,
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  Speaker 1: it's about 102 pages of a graphic novel, and if
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  Speaker 1: you want it, it's there. You can check out a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a preview first to see if you
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  Speaker 1: want it. And if you're looking for the Kindle edition or, like,
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  Speaker 1: the e-book edition, that will be coming shortly. I just
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  Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to create it because you have
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  Speaker 1: to kind of select each panel. It's a long story.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of stories... it's definitely time to get on
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  Speaker 1: with this one. And since I basically did an advertisement
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  Speaker 1: for myself, I will not insert one here. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. Just get as comfy as you can in
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  Speaker 1: that bed, close your eyes, and imagine yourself doing what
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  Speaker 1: the kid in the story does. Now, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: recall already, you, my friend, have somehow ended up participating
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  Speaker 1: in a deity-level card tournament on a distant moon that
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  Speaker 1: specializes in battle. You find yourself in a luxurious alien
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  Speaker 1: hotel room where you've been staying ever since the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the tournament, and you are now in the semifinals.
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  Speaker 1: The last match before the final match. You stretch your
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs before looking over at the other bed
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  Speaker 1: where Magnus is curled up into a little ball. Good morning, Magnus.
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  Speaker 1: Is it? he asks without opening his eyes. Well, I
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  Speaker 1: think today's the semi-finals. Magnus's eyes shoot open. Semi-finals? Finally,
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  Speaker 1: a real battle. And this time you're actually going to
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  Speaker 1: use me, right? Well, honestly, that depends on what we're
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  Speaker 1: up against. Magnus jumps up into the air and floats
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  Speaker 1: beside you. Oh, come on. Dominic got to defeat both
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  Speaker 1: opponents last time. You can't possibly leave me out again.
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  Speaker 1: You laugh. All right, buddy. You're up first, even if
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  Speaker 1: the other opponent makes absolutely no sense for you to
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  Speaker 1: be against. Excellent. I hope they've prepared a trophy with
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  Speaker 1: my name on it. Because despite what you say, there
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  Speaker 1: is no opponent that makes sense for me to be
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  Speaker 1: up against or doesn't make sense for me to be
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  Speaker 1: up against. Right. You respond. You get dressed and head
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  Speaker 1: downstairs for your usual continental breakfast, something you can never
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  Speaker 1: forget in the Cards of Power universe. And after enjoying
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  Speaker 1: some of your favorite foods, both your favorites from Earth
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  Speaker 1: and your new, well, alien favorites, you head over to
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  Speaker 1: the tournament computer and scan your identification card. Semi-final match confirmed. Opponent,
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  Speaker 1: Jan Vee. You open Janvi's profile. It shows a girl
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  Speaker 1: about your age standing beside an enormous dragon. A white dragon.
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  Speaker 1: That looks like an ice dragon, Magnus exclaims. Oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be fun. Uh, aren't you, like, super weak
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  Speaker 1: against ice and water types, you say? Well, most fire
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  Speaker 1: creatures are, but as you know, I'm more diverse and, well,
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  Speaker 1: I've completely disintegrated several lakes in my time, which kind
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  Speaker 1: of takes away their advantage, if you may remember. Right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I do remember that. You step outside and
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  Speaker 1: activate your magic wings, and together with Magnus... You fly
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  Speaker 1: across the alien city towards the enormous battle stadium. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: this time you're able to avoid most of the crowds
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  Speaker 1: by flying and heading for the tournament entrance rather than
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  Speaker 1: the main one. Before long, you've checked in, passed through
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  Speaker 1: the change rooms, and stepped out into the gigantic arena,
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  Speaker 1: since today... Your match is first. The crowd explodes with cheers.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, aliens from across the universe, welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the semi-finals of the Galactic Deity Card Tournament. On one side,
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  Speaker 1: our surprise competitor from Earth, Accompanied by the legendary dragon,
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  Speaker 1: or deity-level dragon, Magnus. Magnus waves toward the audience and
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  Speaker 1: the audience cheers. You're pretty sure it's going to his ego.
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  Speaker 1: And on the other side, Janvi, known throughout the galaxy
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  Speaker 1: for her incredible powerful and somewhat strange magical creatures. Janvi
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  Speaker 1: waves to the audience before smiling across the arena at you.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck, she calls toward you. You too, you respond.
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  Speaker 1: the referee floats into position. Remember, competitors, one creature active
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  Speaker 1: at a time, the first to defeat two opposing creatures wins. Now,
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  Speaker 1: select your cards. Magnus doesn't wait a second. He flies
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  Speaker 1: into the arena and begins to evolve, moving through all
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  Speaker 1: of his forms. An upright dragon, into a very powerful
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  Speaker 1: looking dragon, into an even more powerful and, well, pretty
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  Speaker 1: well gigantic dragon covered in magma, and then he shrinks
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  Speaker 1: back down a little bit into a very large black
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  Speaker 1: dragon with veins of pure sunlight energy. More condensed than
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  Speaker 1: the mythic form, but definitely more powerful. Janvi summons a
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  Speaker 1: card of her own. Well, I think it might be
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  Speaker 1: a mistake going with a fire type, at least if
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm famous for. Blue energy shoots across
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  Speaker 1: the arena and begins forming into an enormous dragon. Its
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  Speaker 1: scales are almost completely white, with brilliant blue veins glowing
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  Speaker 1: throughout its body. Gigantic icicles protrude from its back, and
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  Speaker 1: its enormous wings look almost like sheets of frozen glass. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: you whisper. The dragon lets out a roar, and its
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  Speaker 1: breath alone sends frost creeping across the ground. Ready, competitors,
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  Speaker 1: the referee asks. Three, two, one.
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  Speaker 2: BEGIN!
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  Speaker 1: The ice dragon immediately unleashes a blast of pure cold energy.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus doesn't even bother dodging. The blast hits him directly,
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  Speaker 1: covering his entire body in a thick layer of ice. MAGNUS!
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  Speaker 1: You shout, but then you hear laughter. REALLY? ICE? Magnus'
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  Speaker 1: veins begin glowing brighter and brighter. The ice cracks before
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  Speaker 1: exploding off of his body. Let me show you some
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  Speaker 1: real elemental power. He breathes in deeply and begins absorbing
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  Speaker 1: heat from the surrounding area. Strangely, well, for anybody who
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know Magnus... The arena becomes even colder. Wait, he's
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  Speaker 1: absorbing heat while that thing's already trying to freeze everything?
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  Speaker 1: The ice dragon spreads its wings and unleashes another blast.
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  Speaker 1: This time, the cold expands in every direction. The floor freezes,
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  Speaker 1: the walls freeze. Even the ceiling becomes covered in gigantic icicles.
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  Speaker 1: And outside the arena's protective force field, you notice something incredible.
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  Speaker 1: The spectators are shivering. The Ice Dragon's powers are so
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  Speaker 1: intense that even the audience is beginning to freeze. Emergency
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  Speaker 1: heaters activate throughout the stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 1: The dragon roars. Hundreds of enormous icicles break away from
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling and begin raining down directly towards Magnus. Though,
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  Speaker 1: raining down might be the wrong word since they somehow
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  Speaker 1: point directly at him, targeting the dragon. He looks up. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's adorable. Then, His entire body lights up brighter and
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  Speaker 1: brighter and brighter until he's surrounded by an enormous sphere
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  Speaker 1: of pure sunlight energy, so bright that you can barely
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  Speaker 1: look at it without squinting almost entirely. It's like someone
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  Speaker 1: has placed a miniature sun directly inside the stadium. Magnus
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  Speaker 1: really isn't holding back. The icicles melt before they even
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  Speaker 1: reach him. The frozen floor begins turning to water, then steam.
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  Speaker 1: The audience can feel the heat returning and, well, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: they start to get a little bit warm. The emergency
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  Speaker 1: heaters switch direction and start pumping cool air in instead.
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  Speaker 1: The ice dragon unleashes another tremendous blast of cold, pushing
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  Speaker 1: against Magnus' solar energy. For a moment, the two powers
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  Speaker 1: seem evenly matched. Then, Magnus grins. You know, I've been
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  Speaker 1: practicing my other elements, too. He slams a foot into
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Huge vines burst upward, wrapping around the ice
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  Speaker 1: dragon's legs and wings. The ice dragon tries to freeze them,
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  Speaker 1: but more vines immediately replace the ones that break. Next,
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  Speaker 1: Magnus summons enormous pillars of stone, which shoot up around
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  Speaker 1: the dragon's legs and solidify, locking it in place. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how about a little taste of electricity? Storm clouds appear overhead.
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  Speaker 1: With booms, gigantic bolts of lightning crash down onto the
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  Speaker 1: trapped dragon, one after another. The dragon roars, struggling to escape.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus floats higher into the air. His sunlight energy gathers
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  Speaker 1: around his chest and pours towards his open mouth. Time
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  Speaker 1: to wrap things up. he unleashes a beam of pure
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  Speaker 1: heat energy. It crashes into the ice dragon with unbelievable force.
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  Speaker 1: You almost forgot how powerful Magnus had become. For several seconds,
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  Speaker 1: all you can see is brilliant white light. Then, the
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  Speaker 1: light disappears, and the ice dragon is... A stream of
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  Speaker 1: blue energy flies across the arena and returns to Janvi's
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  Speaker 1: card core. First point awarded, the referee announces, and the
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  Speaker 1: crowd goes wild. Magnus looks toward you. Well, that was easy.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get too confident, buddy, you say. but Magnus is
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  Speaker 1: already waving at the cameras. Janvi smiles. That was impressive,
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  Speaker 1: but let's see how your dragon handles this. Another card appears.
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  Speaker 1: This time, the energy forms into a gigantic, nine-tailed fox.
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  Speaker 1: Its fur is bright orange with white markings. and its
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  Speaker 1: nine enormous tails each have a different color and texture.
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  Speaker 1: One sparkles like crystals of sugar. Another looks as though
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  Speaker 1: it's covered in melted chocolate. Another glows bright red like
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  Speaker 1: spicy hot sauce or something. That's a strange creature, you say?
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  Speaker 1: Magnus chuckles. The fox?! After that dragon? Come on. The
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  Speaker 1: referee raises his hand. Round two, begin. Immediately, one of
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  Speaker 1: the fox's tails points toward the ground. A stream of
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  Speaker 1: sparkling white sugar shoots out of it, floating through the
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  Speaker 1: air directly towards the fox's mouth. The creature opens its
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  Speaker 1: mouth and gobbles up the sugar. Then, it disappears.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Magnus asks. And with a bam, something hits him from behind.
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  Speaker 1: Another whack, another strike connects with his shoulder. Another bam?
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  Speaker 1: and the fox appears briefly in front of Magnus, smacks
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  Speaker 1: him across the face with one of its tails, and
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  Speaker 1: disappears again. It's moving too fast, like the sugar gave
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  Speaker 1: him some sort of super speed sugar rush? Ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed and I was thinking the same thing. Magnus
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  Speaker 1: unleashes a huge blast of sunlight energy, but the fox
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  Speaker 1: is already somewhere else. Then another tail raises into the
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  Speaker 1: air when it stops for just a moment and a
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  Speaker 1: stream of thick, melted chocolate shoots up in the sky
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  Speaker 1: straight towards Magnus. Chocolate? Chocolate? Magnus laughs. Seriously? The chocolate
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  Speaker 1: splashes across his wings and chest. Magnus lights up his
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  Speaker 1: body to burn it away. But strangely, it doesn't disappear. His, well,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise bright glow starts to get dimmer. and the chocolate
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  Speaker 1: starts hardening into a thick shell around his scales. That's annoying,
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  Speaker 1: Magnus mutters. He tries to move his wing, but it's
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  Speaker 1: becoming stiff. And, stranger than that, Magnus stops moving normally. Ah, kid,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong? I don't Feel very good. You watch as
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  Speaker 1: Magnus wobbles. My paws feel funny and I can't really
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  Speaker 1: think straight. The fox appears beside him and strikes again.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus tries to defend himself but his movements are slow
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  Speaker 1: and clumsy. Wait a second. You look more carefully at
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  Speaker 1: the chocolate. Tiny streams of glowing energy are moving through
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  Speaker 1: it towards the fox. It's stealing energy from Magnus. Then
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  Speaker 1: you realize what kind of energy. Sugar. It's stealing sugar
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  Speaker 1: from his body. Blood sugar.
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  Speaker 2: Sugar.
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  Speaker 1: People need that to survive. The magical chocolate is draining
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  Speaker 1: Magnus' blood sugar, weakening him from the inside. Magnus tries
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  Speaker 1: to summon another blast of solar energy, but only a
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  Speaker 1: little tiny puff of light appears. That's not good. He
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  Speaker 1: mumbles and then collapses. His body transforms into blue energy
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  Speaker 1: and returns to your card core. Second point awarded. The
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  Speaker 1: match is tied. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, the announcer says.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Jan V has just used her candy nine-tailed
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  Speaker 1: fox's signature move. The sugar rush ends. Followed by sugar steel. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've never experienced low blood sugar, it's probably difficult
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  Speaker 1: to imagine what an incredible effect it can have. But, well,
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  Speaker 1: if you know somebody with diabetes, just ask them. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't feel very good. And it also doesn't feel very
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  Speaker 1: good that you have to choose one more creature... You
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  Speaker 1: consider Dominic, but this fox is also incredibly fast, and
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  Speaker 1: its attacks can weaken almost any living creature. Then, an
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  Speaker 1: idea pops into your head. If your opponent wants to
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  Speaker 1: fight using food, well, why not fight back with food?
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  Speaker 1: You reach deep into your card core. SEARCHING FOR A
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  Speaker 1: CREATURE YOU HAVEN'T SUMMONED IN A VERY LONG TIME. ONE
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  Speaker 1: YOU ALMOST FORGOT WAS THERE. ALL RIGHT, YOU WHISPER. THIS
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  Speaker 1: MIGHT BE A BIG CHANCE, BUT LET'S SEE WHAT YOU'VE GOT.
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  Speaker 1: YOU SUMMON THE CARD. BLUE ENERGY SHOOTS INTO THE ARENA,
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  Speaker 1: SWIRLING TOGETHER INTO AN ENORMOUS FIGURE. A gigantic, round-bellied giant
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  Speaker 1: wearing a chef's hat. Food, dude, he says. Which, as
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  Speaker 1: far as you know, is the only thing he can say.
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  Speaker 1: The audience goes completely silent. Then, someone starts laughing. Soon,
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  Speaker 1: thousands of spectators are laughing. Janvi looks confused. That's your
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  Speaker 1: final creature? You smile. Yep. Food dude. The referee raises
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  Speaker 1: his hand. Final round. Begin. The fox immediately unleashes a
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  Speaker 1: stream of hardened chocolate. Food dude looks down as it
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  Speaker 1: splashes across his enormous belly. The chocolate begins to harden.
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  Speaker 1: Food Dude looks at it for a moment. Then he
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  Speaker 1: opens his mouth. A gigantic sucking force begins pulling the
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  Speaker 1: chocolate away from his body. Every last bit of it
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  Speaker 1: flies straight into his mouth. He swallows.
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  Speaker 3: Food Dude.
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  Speaker 1: You laugh, though you're not entirely sure if, well, it
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  Speaker 1: can still absorb his sugar from but hopefully not. The
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  Speaker 1: fox growls and unleashes another attack, this time a stream
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  Speaker 1: of flying hard candies. Food Dude raises a hand, and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly a series of enormous pizzas appear in front of him,
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  Speaker 1: each one surrounded by a different elemental power. One catches fire,
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  Speaker 1: Another begins crackling with lightning. A third freezes solid. Food
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  Speaker 1: Dude sends all three spinning toward the fox. The fox
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  Speaker 1: jumps aside as the flaming pizza flies past, then dodges
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  Speaker 1: the lightning pizza. But the frozen one explodes beside it,
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  Speaker 1: sending enormous chunks of magical ice in every direction. The
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  Speaker 1: fox yelps. and jumps backward. It shoots a stream of
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  Speaker 1: sugar into the air once again, opens its mouth, gobbles
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  Speaker 1: it down, and moves faster than anyone can see. Food
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  Speaker 1: Dude spreads out both hands. Hundreds of enormous spaghetti noodles
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  Speaker 1: start to shoot out of the ground somehow, wrapping themselves
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  Speaker 1: in every direction. trying to create a sort of net
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  Speaker 1: for the fox. For a moment, the fox gets caught
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  Speaker 1: in it, and Food Dude sends a bolt of electricity
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  Speaker 1: through every piece of spaghetti. The fox shakes for a
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  Speaker 1: minute before disappearing from sight again. It starts racing around
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  Speaker 1: the arena, ripping apart the noodles faster than Food Dude
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  Speaker 1: can replace them. Then, it begins striking the enormous giant.
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  Speaker 1: Food Dude stumbles backward. His eyes suddenly glow purple. The
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  Speaker 1: fox rushes past, and Food Dude tries to lock eyes
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  Speaker 1: with it, but the creature moves too quickly. Again, Food
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  Speaker 1: Dude turns, trying to catch its gaze. The fox is
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  Speaker 1: already behind him. you suddenly remember something very important about
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  Speaker 1: your gigantic food-powered friend. His psychic powers. I almost forgot
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  Speaker 1: he can hypnotize creatures. Food Dude's eyes glow brighter as
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  Speaker 1: he attempts to focus on the fox, but even though
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  Speaker 1: he can sense where it's going, it simply moves too
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  Speaker 1: fast for him to hold eye contact long enough. The
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  Speaker 1: fox hits him again. sending him staggering across the arena. Food, dude,
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  Speaker 1: the giant says, sounding almost confused. The fox races away,
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  Speaker 1: gobbles down another stream of magical, speed-enhancing sugar, and prepares
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  Speaker 1: to attack.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: Food Dude instead spreads his enormous arms. This time he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't summon one or two foods. He summons hundreds. Gigantic
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  Speaker 1: meatballs appear overhead, each one surrounded by crackling lightning. pizzas
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  Speaker 1: burst into flame and begin spinning through the air. Enormous
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  Speaker 1: frozen vegetables shoot up from the ground while gigantic spaghetti
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  Speaker 1: noodles swirl around like enormous little wisps. The food starts
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  Speaker 1: circling around Food Dude faster and faster. Before long, the
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  Speaker 1: entire arena is filled with, well, an enormous tornado of
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  Speaker 1: elemental food. Whoa, you say? The nine-tailed fox tries racing
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  Speaker 1: through it, dodging the flaming pizzas and spinning around the meatballs.
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  Speaker 1: Its sugar rush is still unbelievably powerful, but the tornado
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  Speaker 1: keeps expanding. More foods are added, and they spin faster
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  Speaker 1: and faster. There's Less and less room, even for a
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  Speaker 1: super-speed fox to move around. The fox jumps over a
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  Speaker 1: gigantic frozen broccoli, ducks underneath a flaming pizza, narrowly avoids
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  Speaker 1: an electrically charged meatball. It lands on the ground, gobbles
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  Speaker 1: up another stream of sugar, and shoots forward again. But
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Food Dude is waiting. He directs the tornado inward, surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the fox with hundreds of different attacks all at once,
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  Speaker 1: with almost no space between them. And finally, a gigantic
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  Speaker 1: lightning-charged meatball crashes into its side. With a boom, electricity
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  Speaker 1: sparks in every direction. The fox flies out of the tornado,
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  Speaker 1: stumbles across the ground... and lands on its back. For
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: just a moment, its nine tails stop moving, and the
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  Speaker 1: creature looks up. Food Dude is standing directly in front
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  Speaker 1: of it. His eyes begin glowing brilliant purple, and the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: fox eyes turn purple too. Oh, he got it, you yell,
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  Speaker 1: and the crowd goes silent. The fox struggles to stand,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: trying to activate the sugar rush once again, but the
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: strange purple glow in its eyes begins growing stronger. Its
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: enormous tails slowly settle onto the ground. It blinks, then
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: blinks again. Its eyelids become heavier and heavier. and the
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  Speaker 1: fox's head droops. And finally, it curls itself into a
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  Speaker 1: little ball, closes its eyes, and falls fast asleep. The
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  Speaker 1: magical tornado disappears. All the pizzas, noodles, meatballs, and other
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  Speaker 1: foods dissolve into energy. And for a second... The arena
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  Speaker 1: is completely silent. Then, the nine-tailed fox begins glowing blue.
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  Speaker 1: Its body transforms into energy and shoots directly back into
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  Speaker 1: Janvi's card core. The referee raises both hands. Second point awarded.
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  Speaker 1: Match complete. Ladies, gentlemen, Strange alien creatures, we have our
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: first finalist. The crowd goes absolutely bonkers. You leap into
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the air cheering as your force field disappears from around you.
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  Speaker 1: We did it. We actually did it. Food Dude looks
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  Speaker 1: towards you.
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  Speaker 2: Food Dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: You were amazing. Sorry for keeping you in my core
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: so long. For dude, he says. Which somehow you take
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to mean that he actually likes being in your core.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Probably no surprise that something that large prefers to rest
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: a lot. You recall him into his carred. and recall
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  Speaker 1: it to your card core before turning toward Janvi, who's
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: walking across the arena. I have to say, that was
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: pretty incredible. I never thought someone could defeat my fox
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  Speaker 1: with a tornado of food, but come to think of it,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: I guess it sort of makes sense. Fighting fire with fire,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: or food with food, I should say. Honestly, you respond,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: neither did I. You shake her hand, wave goodbye to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the audience, and head back toward the change rooms. Once inside,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you summon Magnus. He's back in his little black dragonling form,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: but he still seems pretty tired. What happened? Well, we won,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: you say? as you pull a little granola bar out
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  Speaker 1: of your back pocket. But I think you might be
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: a little low on the blood sugar. Eat this. Magnus
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: unwraps the bar and shoves it into his mouth, chewing rapidly. Ah,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: this is wonderful. I've never felt something that actually sends
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: a sort of warm sensation through my entire body. What happened? Well,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: as far as I can tell, something about the other
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  Speaker 1: creature's chocolate absorbed your blood sugar.
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know I had blood sugar. I think
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: we all do, you say. I was defeated by chocolate?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And then a giant chef won the tournament? Magnus says. Ah, Well,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: technically we're not done yet, we still have the finals.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Magnus looks up. Oh, well good, because I plan to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: win that one without any help. You laugh. I hope
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you do, buddy. Together, you make your way out of
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the arena, activate your magical wings, and fly high above
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the alien city. To avoid the huge crowd of reporters
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: waiting outside your hotel, you once again fly straight for
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the balcony. You land, open the door, and head inside.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Magnus immediately stretches out on one of the hotel beds.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: You decide to do the same. You pull the covers back,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: slip inside the freshly made bed. and then pull the
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: covers up to your chin. You close your eyes, and
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: just begin to focus on your breath. With each breath,
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: you allow your body to relax a little bit more,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: sinking down deeper and deeper into the mattress. And before long,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Your mind wanders off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: and new strange magical creatures to come. Good night, everyone.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you. you Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you.