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The Nature Dragon Stronghold - Dragon Knights #22 - Free Audiobook for Kids · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation, around the world. I'm Martin,
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  Speaker 1: and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories. Tonight, we're
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  Speaker 1: headed back into the Dragon Knights universe, because yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of have to finish this series now. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a specific episode to go next. What I have
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  Speaker 1: is the episode that kind of needs to go next,
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  Speaker 1: where you the main character helps take over the Nature
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  Speaker 1: Dragon stronghold in the last episode based on some pretty
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  Speaker 1: clever ideas about the Nature Dragon General. We ended up
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  Speaker 1: kind of learning the history of this general and how
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  Speaker 1: they in fact helped the new Dragon Knights come to
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  Speaker 1: be and have been waiting to help to be on
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  Speaker 1: the side of the Dragon King, which I think is
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  Speaker 1: a pretty cool plot point, And yeah, I thought we'd
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  Speaker 1: continue from there. So that's basically what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's time to get as comfy as you can
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  Speaker 1: in that bed, close your rise, and imagine yourself doing
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  Speaker 1: what the kid in the story does, because you, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: are the main character.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You stand inside the water Dragon Stronghold, looking out over
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  Speaker 1: the icy cliffs and the ocean beyond. Not long ago,
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  Speaker 1: this place belonged to the Dragon King. Well, it still
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  Speaker 1: technically belonged to the water Dragons, of course, but the
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  Speaker 1: water dragons had not belonged to themselves. They'd been trapped
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  Speaker 1: under the Dragon King's control spell, forced to obey riders
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  Speaker 1: that they themselves had never chosen. But now that's changed.
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  Speaker 1: The fortress is alive again, not just with soldiers, and
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  Speaker 1: not just with dragons or people rushing around trying to
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  Speaker 1: repair damage caused from the battle. It's alive with true bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Over the last few weeks, more and more Water dragons
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  Speaker 1: have found riders of their own. Some of the dragons
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  Speaker 1: had been without true riders for so long that the
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  Speaker 1: moment the control spell broke, they could feel their perfect
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  Speaker 1: match somewhere nearby. Some found children and nearby fishing villages.
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  Speaker 1: Some found old warriors who had never expected to be chosen.
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  Speaker 1: Some found sailors, farmers, and even one person who'd been
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  Speaker 1: working in the kitchen. And now all around the stronghold,
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  Speaker 1: new Water dragon knights train. They practice summoning their armor.
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  Speaker 1: They practice summoning water from the sea, using their dragon
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  Speaker 1: connection to the water element. The Dragon King's army has
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  Speaker 1: lost one of its strongest regions, and yours has become
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  Speaker 1: stronger than ever. You stand in the great Hall of
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  Speaker 1: the Water Fortress with the other dragon Knights gathered around you. Ellie,
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  Speaker 1: your elemental dragon rests behind you, her wings folded tight
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  Speaker 1: against her body. Even sitting down, she's now enormous. Her
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  Speaker 1: multi colored scales shimmer slightly in the cold light. August
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  Speaker 1: stands near you with Eliara, her elemental dragon curled protectively
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  Speaker 1: behind her. Bethy and Luna stand beside the great frozen table.
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  Speaker 1: Jewels and Vine are nearby, looking well somewhat interested. Bennett
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  Speaker 1: and Granite stand together, both looking solid and ready, which
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  Speaker 1: makes sense because earth dragons and earth riders often look
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  Speaker 1: like they are personally built by a mountain. James leans
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  Speaker 1: against a pillar, while Whisper floats lazily beside him, not
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  Speaker 1: really touching the ground because well, because they don't need to.
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  Speaker 1: They're wind dragons. Connor and Bolts stand near by the entrance,
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  Speaker 1: little sparks of electricity flickering from bolt scales. Ash and
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  Speaker 1: Cinder have brought a group of fire dragons with them,
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  Speaker 1: their bodies glowing warmly against the icy room. Curtis and
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix stand a little further back, partly because Phoenix's poison
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  Speaker 1: nature tends to make everyone else give them a bit
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  Speaker 1: of space, and partially because Phoenix seems to enjoy looking
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  Speaker 1: mysterious around all of You are representatives from the dragons
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  Speaker 1: you have freed so far. Water dragons, fire dragons, Earth dragons,
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  Speaker 1: Wind dragons, nature dragons, many of whom were once under
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  Speaker 1: the Dragon King's command, but now have riders and ideas
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  Speaker 1: of their own. It's not a small group anymore. It's
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  Speaker 1: now an army. You take a deep breath. All right,
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  Speaker 1: you say, I think it's time the conversations. Quiet, August
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  Speaker 1: looks at you carefully. Time for the next stronghold, she
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  Speaker 1: asks you.
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  Speaker 2: Nod.
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  Speaker 1: When your father took over the dragon world, he did
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  Speaker 1: it one region at a time, fire than water, then
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  Speaker 1: the others. He didn't win with one giant battle. He
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  Speaker 1: won by taking pieces of the world until no one
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  Speaker 1: could stop them. So we take it back the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Smiles Nature dragons. Next, you glance at jewels and vine.
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  Speaker 1: Nature dragons. Next, Vine lifts her head, her green scales glinting.
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  Speaker 1: The jungle region will not be easy to take, she says.
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  Speaker 1: Nature dragons are strongest when surrounded by life, trees, roots, vines, moss, flowers,
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  Speaker 1: everything in the jungle. They are connected to more power
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  Speaker 1: than almost anywhere else. Good, you say, then when we
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  Speaker 1: free them, they'll be even more powerful.
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  Speaker 3: On our side.
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  Speaker 1: That is a good point, at least, says a wonderfully
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  Speaker 1: simple point. I like that. You look over at August.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the Dragon King knows what we're doing?
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  Speaker 1: August nods almost certainly. After losing the Fire region and
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  Speaker 1: the Water stronghold, he'd have to be very bad at
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  Speaker 1: noticing powers not to understand what comes next. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried about. You say, Bennett crosses his arms. So
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  Speaker 1: what's the plan? Sneak in again? You think about that.
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  Speaker 1: The last few times you used stealth, you used invisibility,
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  Speaker 1: you used surprise, and freed some of the dragons before
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  Speaker 1: the full battle began. But this time something feels different.
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  Speaker 1: You have an army of dragons, now so many dragons.
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  Speaker 1: You have true dragon Knight, fire, water, earth, wind, nature,
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  Speaker 1: and even lightning and poison. You have two elemental dragons
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  Speaker 1: and a whole army of free dragons who are very
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  Speaker 1: interested in helping free more of their own. Maybe hiding
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  Speaker 1: and sneaking isn't the answer this time. Maybe it's time
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  Speaker 1: for the Dragon King to see exactly what he's up against. No,
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  Speaker 1: you say, this time, we don't sneak in. Everyone looks
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  Speaker 1: at you, this time, we hit them with everything. We
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  Speaker 1: have a full out attack. We overwhelm the stronghold, knock
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  Speaker 1: the riders away from their dragons, and then August and
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  Speaker 1: I free as many dragons as we can. A slow
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  Speaker 1: smile spreads across Ash's face.
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  Speaker 3: I like this plan.
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  Speaker 1: You like any plan with lots of fire. Bethy says,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's a bad plan. Ash replies. Connor
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  Speaker 1: lifts one hand. I also support any plan that involves lightning.
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  Speaker 1: Of course you do, Bennett says. You look over at Jewels.
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  Speaker 1: How do you feel about this? Jewels takes a deep
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  Speaker 1: breath and places one hand against Vine's neck. If the
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  Speaker 1: Nature dragons are still under the spell, then they're suffering.
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  Speaker 1: I say, we go get them. Vine lowers her head.
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  Speaker 1: The jungle remembers true nights. It may not help us
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  Speaker 1: at first, but once the spells begin to break, I
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  Speaker 1: believe the land itself will be on our side, and
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  Speaker 1: that settles it. You climb onto Alley's back and feel
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  Speaker 1: the familiar connection between you and your dragon open wide
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  Speaker 1: inside your chest. All right, you say, dragon knights, let's fly.
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  Speaker 1: Moments later, the skies above the water Dragon's stronghold fill
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  Speaker 1: with wings. Dozens of dragons rise from the icy cliffs,
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  Speaker 1: then dozens more. Ellie takes the lead, with you on
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  Speaker 1: her back. August and Eli Yarra fly beside you. The
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  Speaker 1: rest of the original dragon knights form around you. Behind
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  Speaker 1: them come the newly freed dragons and their riders, spreading
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  Speaker 1: into a gigantic formation that stretches across the sky. For
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  Speaker 1: a moment, you look back. You can barely believe it.
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  Speaker 1: Not long ago you were just a kid who found
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  Speaker 1: an egg in the forest. Now you're leading a dragon army. Huh, Ellie,
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  Speaker 1: you say, yes, this is kind of a lot. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Ellie replies, but in a good way. I hope, so
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  Speaker 1: I believe. Hope is sort of the point, Ellie says.
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  Speaker 1: The army flies for hours, crossing ocean cliffs, rivers, plains,
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  Speaker 1: and finally the outer edges of the jungle region. At first,
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  Speaker 1: you see only green. The jungle stretches beneath you in
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  Speaker 1: every direction, and it's beautiful, but it's also clearly dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: In the distance, the nature Dragon Stronghold rises from the
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  Speaker 1: center of the jungle. It's not me of stone like
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  Speaker 1: the earth bases, or ice like the water Fortress.
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  Speaker 3: It's grown.
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  Speaker 1: Massive trees twist together to form towers. Branches weave into bridges.
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  Speaker 1: Walls are made of living wood covered in moss and
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  Speaker 1: flowering vines. Platforms spiral around trunks wider than castles. Roots
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  Speaker 1: form natural gates, and giant leaves curve overhead like rooftops.
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  Speaker 1: It's less like a fortress built in a jungle and
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  Speaker 1: more like the jungle itself decided to become a fortress.
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  Speaker 1: Then you see movement, a lot of movement. August leans
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  Speaker 1: forward on Aliara. Oh, now he's reinforced it. She's right.
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  Speaker 1: Dragons rise from the stronghold, and not just nature dragons either.
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  Speaker 1: Earth dragons climb up from the forest floor, launching themselves
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  Speaker 1: into the sky with chunks of stone circling around them.
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  Speaker 1: Wind dragons shoot out of the treetops and streaks of
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  Speaker 1: gray and white, making sonic booms as they go. And
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  Speaker 1: nature dragons rise and huge numbers vines trailing from their wings,
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  Speaker 1: and above them all several elemental dragons shimmer into view.
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  Speaker 1: The elementes. The Dragon King has clearly figured out your plan.
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  Speaker 1: A voice booms across the sky from one of the
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  Speaker 1: enemy riders. In the name of the Dragon King, give
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  Speaker 1: the dragons back or be destroyed. You glance at August.
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  Speaker 1: She shrugs. You're the leader, she says. You look ahead
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  Speaker 1: at the army waiting above the jungle. Then you draw
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  Speaker 1: your sword. No, you say, elly grins beneath you. I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping you'd say something like that. The sky explodes.
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  Speaker 1: Fire dragons on your side blast forward first, sending huge
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  Speaker 1: streams of flame across the air. Enemy earth dragons answer
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  Speaker 1: by launching boulders upward, each one spinning like a giant cannonball.
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  Speaker 1: Water dragons sweep around from behind you, pulling moisture from
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  Speaker 1: the humid jungle air and turning it into spears of ice.
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  Speaker 1: Wind dragons blast air, and then the nature dragons attack.
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  Speaker 1: Vines shoot upward from the trees below, reaching impossibly high
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  Speaker 1: into the sky. Some wrap around wings, some lash like whips.
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  Speaker 1: Others twist together into giant nets. Jewels and vine dive forward. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: Vine unleashes a blast of green energy, and trees beneath
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  Speaker 1: the enemy dragons bend sharply, sending your own vines up
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  Speaker 1: to meet theirs. Jewels leaps off of Vine's back onto
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  Speaker 1: a spinning disk of wood, her green dragon nite armor
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  Speaker 1: flashing as she slices through the enemy vines with her sword.
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  Speaker 1: Go for the riders, you shout, separate the riders from
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  Speaker 1: the dragons. The message passes through your army. That has
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  Speaker 1: always been your greatest advantage. The controlled dragons are powerful,
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  Speaker 1: but the riders of the weak point without orders, the
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  Speaker 1: controlled dragons just kind of land on the ground and
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  Speaker 1: sit there doing nothing, And so the dragon knights strike
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  Speaker 1: at the riders. Bethy and Luna create a massive wave
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  Speaker 1: of moisture in the air, sweeping three enemy riders from
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  Speaker 1: their saddles and freezing them inside floating ice bubbles. Bennett
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  Speaker 1: and Granite flies straight into the cluster of earth dragons.
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  Speaker 1: Granite smashes through with storm of rocks.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Bennett leaps off of his dragon's back, lands on a
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  Speaker 1: floating boulder and launches himself at an enemy rider, knocking
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  Speaker 1: him cleanly away from his dragon. James in Whisper move
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  Speaker 1: almost too fast to follow. Sonic booms crack through the
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  Speaker 1: air as they zip between wind dragons, creating tiny little
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  Speaker 1: tornadoes that pluck riders from adles and drop them safely
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  Speaker 1: but firmly on the tree tops. Connor and Bolt rise
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  Speaker 1: above the battle lightning flashing between them, Spray and pray.
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  Speaker 1: Connor asks, I believe this is an excellent moment for it,
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  Speaker 1: Bolt says. Then lightning bursts outward and dozens of directions,
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  Speaker 1: not striking dragons directly, but forcing enemy riders to shield
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  Speaker 1: their faces and lose control for just long enough for
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  Speaker 1: your friends to move in. Ash and Cinder dive through
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  Speaker 1: the center of the battle, fire roaring around them. They
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  Speaker 1: release it and controlled blasts the knock three riders backward
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  Speaker 1: without burning the dragons beneath them. Curtis and Phoenix take
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  Speaker 1: a different approach. Phoenix releases a cloud of green mist
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  Speaker 1: into the air. It swirls around a group of enemy riders,
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  Speaker 1: making them cough, blink, and slump, just enough for Curtis
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  Speaker 1: to send black vines snapping around them sleeping spores. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you and Ellie fly straight towards one of the Elemental dragons.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy rider raises a hand, and the Elemental Dragon
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  Speaker 1: blasts fire, water, stone, wind, and vines all at once.
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  Speaker 1: Ellie twists in the air, dodging the fire, cutting through
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  Speaker 1: the wind as you reach out with your mind, grab
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  Speaker 1: the water from the attack, freeze it, and send it
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  Speaker 1: crashing back at the rider. The rider ducks ellie dives lower.
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  Speaker 1: A boulder shoots toward you, but you split it in
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  Speaker 1: half with your earth magic. Vines whip up where but
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  Speaker 1: you burn them with fire. A blast of wind hits
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  Speaker 1: you from the side, but you steady yourself using your
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  Speaker 1: own command of the air. Then you see something strange.
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  Speaker 1: The forest below you moves, not like trees swaying in
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  Speaker 1: the wind, or vines responding to nature dragons. The forest
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  Speaker 1: itself moves together all at once. Massive roots burst from
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  Speaker 1: the ground. Trees bend their trunks like living giants. Vines
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  Speaker 1: thicker than bridges shoot up from the jungle floor and
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  Speaker 1: grab an earth dragon out of the sky. The dragon roars,
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  Speaker 1: but the vines ramp around it, carefully, not crushing it.
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  Speaker 1: More vines separate the rider from the saddle, wrapping the
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  Speaker 1: rider up and carrying them away. Then another dragon is
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  Speaker 1: pulled down, and another When dragons try to zip away,
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  Speaker 1: but the trees launch nets of vines so quickly that
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  Speaker 1: even they get caught. Nature dragons under the Dragon King's
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  Speaker 1: control spell are wrapped up as well, pulled gently but
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  Speaker 1: firmly toward the center of the stronghold. Even one of
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  Speaker 1: the elemental dragons gets snagged by a dozen roots shooting
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  Speaker 1: out of the highest trees. Huh, Ellie, you say, is
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  Speaker 1: that you? No, Ellie says, I had assumed it was jewels.
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  Speaker 1: You look down and see jewels, staring at the forest
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  Speaker 1: with the same confusion on her face. It's not jewels, though,
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  Speaker 1: August and Eliara fly closer. This is not my father's doing,
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  Speaker 1: says then, who is it below you? The jungle continues
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  Speaker 1: to rise. The captured dragons are being pulled toward the
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  Speaker 1: center of the stronghold, where the largest tree towers above
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  Speaker 1: all of the others. Its trunk is wider than a castle,
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  Speaker 1: its branches stretching across the sky like roads. I think
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  Speaker 1: we need to see what's happening, you say, agreed, August
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  Speaker 1: says you, and August dive. Eli and eli Yara fold
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  Speaker 1: their wings and shoot toward the center of the jungle
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  Speaker 1: around you. The battle continues. Your friends keep fighting, using
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  Speaker 1: incredible moves to knock riders away from dragons and stop
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  Speaker 1: the dragon King's army from regrouping. You pass through a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of leaves and land on a massive wooden
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  Speaker 1: platform grown from the tree around you. And there she is.
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  Speaker 1: The Nature Dragon General. Violet stands atop a large green dragon,
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  Speaker 1: her armor shining black and red. Her dragon is huge
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  Speaker 1: and beautiful, with scales like layered leaves, horns like branches,
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  Speaker 1: and vines curling around her body bloom around Violet. Dozens
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  Speaker 1: of dragons sit trapped in living wooden cages, not heard
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  Speaker 1: or crushed, just contained or captured. Mostly nature dragons, though
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  Speaker 1: you also see Earth dragons, Wind dragons, and one very
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  Speaker 1: annoyed looking elemental dragon. Their riders are wrapped up separately
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  Speaker 1: in a thick vine covered, arms pinned, and bodies held
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  Speaker 1: safely away from their dragons, where no commands can be given.
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  Speaker 1: Violet looks at you, Then she looks at August. Then
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  Speaker 1: she sighs. Tuck you long enough, you blink. H'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for the true dragon Knights to arrive
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  Speaker 1: for years, Violet says, And now that you're here, you're
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  Speaker 1: standing around looking confused. August narrows her eyes. Aren't you
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  Speaker 1: the Nature Dragon General? Yes, don't you serve my father?
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  Speaker 1: Violet gives her a sharp look. I serve no one.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the dragons trapped all around her. You
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  Speaker 1: did all this well, with help, Bloom did all of this.
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  Speaker 1: I just sort of directed what I wanted Bloom to do. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: she's still trapped under your father's spell, which means I
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  Speaker 1: can't really use my nature powers. Bloom's eyes are dull,
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  Speaker 1: empty and silent. Well, Violet says, get going. These dragons
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  Speaker 1: would prefer not to be controlled any longer. You look
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  Speaker 1: at August, and August nods together. You step toward the
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  Speaker 1: closest trapped nature dragon. You close your eyes and reach
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  Speaker 1: out with your inner magic, not the elemental power, but
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  Speaker 1: the human magic that August taught you. You search for
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  Speaker 1: the cold thread of control, the false connection wrapped around
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  Speaker 1: the dragon's mind and connected to the riders. You find it,
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  Speaker 1: You grab it, and you pull. The spell snaps. The
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  Speaker 1: dragon blinks, its glowing eyes fade into something fierce and alive.
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  Speaker 1: It lifts its head and lets out a roar that
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  Speaker 1: shakes the leaves from the trees. One by one, you
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  Speaker 1: and August free the dragons. The change is instant. Every
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  Speaker 1: time a dragon that sat empty, eyed and silent suddenly
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  Speaker 1: snarls with anger. Another shakes its wings and rips through
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  Speaker 1: the last of the spell with a roar. Oh dare
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  Speaker 1: they sit on our backs without permission? One Nature dragon growls.
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  Speaker 1: The tied up rider makes a muffled sound that could
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  Speaker 1: be an apology or just sort of whimpering in fear.
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  Speaker 1: Violet watches carefully. She says nothing as the dragons wake
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: at last, only Bloom remains. Violet slides down from her
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: dragon's back and stands beside her. For the first time
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: since you landed. She doesn't look like a general. She
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: looks like someone who has been waiting for this moment. Please,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: she says, You and August step forward. You can feel
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the spell around Bloom's mind, and so you pull it free.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Bloom trembles. Violet places one hand against Bloom's snout. Come
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: back to me, she whispers. I did what the Earth
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: showed me. I waited. I'm sorry, but I waited. Now
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: come back to me. The connection shatters, Blooms eyes flash
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: bright green, and a sudden blast of energy leaves the dragon,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: hitting Violet in the chest. Instantly, Violet's old armor is
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: blasted away and replaced by Nature Dragon armor. True Nature
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Dragon armor.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: You took long enough.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Bloom says, and Violet laughs only with tears in her eyes.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: A Violet draws her Nature Dragon's sword, and then she
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: begins glowing with green energy. The whole platform shakes as
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: the trees respond. Bloom spreads her wings, Violet climbs on
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: her back. Now, Violet says it's time to end this.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: She lifts one hand and begins to glow. The other
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: freed Nature dragons join in, glowing green as well and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: adding to her power. The jungle answers. All around the stronghold,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: vines explode upward, not wildly or randomly, but with perfect control.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: They wrap around enemy dragons still under the Dragon King's spell,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: pinning wings without breaking them, catching tails without crushing them,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and pulling riders gently but firmly out of saddles and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: tramping them in wooden cages. Together, the forest becomes a storm.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Roots rise like walls, branches bend like bridges, and trees
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: grow taller, joining in the fight like well, kind of
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: like gigantic giant trees that know how to fight. The
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: battle begins to change. Before your army was winning already,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Now the jungle itself is on your side. A group
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: of enemy Earth dragons try to regroup near the outer trees,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: but Violet and Bloom send roots through the soil beneath them.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: They burst upward, separating riders from dragons and pulling the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: riders into cages. A wind dragon tries to flee, but
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: James in Whisper chase it straight into a net of vines.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: The rider is caught and the dragon drops safely down
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: to the ground. One of the King's elemental dragons roars
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and unleashes a blast of fire toward the central tree.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: You and Ally dive in front of it. You pull
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: water out of the air itself, spin it into a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: huge water shield, and stop the huge fire blast. Conner
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and Bold strike from above with a flash of lightning
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: that knocks the rider out. Across the battlefield, the remaining
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: riders begin to break. The strongest of the remaining elemental
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: riders looks around, seeing freed nature dragons filling the skies
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and giant trees entering the battle retreat. He yells back
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: to the Dragon King. The remaining Earth dragons, Wind dragons
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and elemental dragons still under control turn and flee. For
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: a moment, you think about chasing them, but then you
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: look at all of the trapped dragons still waiting to
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: be freed. Let them go, you say, we'll get them eventually,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Elly nods. For the next hour, you and August move
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: from dragon to dragon, breaking the control spell again and again.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Nature dragons wake up, relieved to be free. Some immediately
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: sense their true riders somewhere in the world and launch
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: into the sky to find them. Others stay to help rebuild.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You gather with the others at the central platform, surrounded
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: by freed dragons, new allies, and the rest of your
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: dragon army. Violet stands beside I'd Bloom. For a long moment,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: no one says anything. Then you step forward, so you say,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I guess you've been on our side the whole time.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Violet gives you a small smile. Not exactly, I was
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: on the side of what needed to happen, but yes,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: in practical terms, that means I was waiting for you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: August crosses her arms. But you helped my father conquer strongholds.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Violet does not look away. Yes I did. I helped
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: him defeat earth dragons. I helped him take the Air Stronghold.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I commanded Bloom through a false bond. I did terrible things.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Bloom lowers her head beside her. Violet places a hand
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: on the dragon's scales. But long before that, I listened
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to the Earth. I saw what was coming. The dragon
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Knights were going to fail. Nothing I could do would
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: stop that. So I chose the only path the Earth
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: showed me. You understand before she says it the eggs,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Violet nods. I convinced the dragon knight's sex to hide
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: them fire, water, earth, wind, nature, elemental hope, hidden where
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the dragon King could not find it. I did not
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: tell the others that their battle was destined to fail.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I only told them that hope needed to be planted.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So you're the reason we found our dragons. In part,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Violet says, the dragons chose you, the world guided you.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: But yes, I helped make sure there was something left
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: to find. You look around at all of your friends.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: All of you were here because someone long ago had
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: hidden eggs, had hidden hope, instead of spending it all
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: on a doomed battle. Violet looks at you. You are
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: well on your way to restoring balance. Fires, free water,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: as free nature is free, more dragons wake every day.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: The dragon King will be afraid. Now good, you say, yes,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Violet replies, But afraid enemies become dangerous. He still has earth,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: dragon wind, dragons and the elementals, and he still has
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the spell though it seems you found a way around
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: that too, But you will still need my help. I
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: know his army, I know his generals, I know how
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: he thinks, and unlike most of his riders and most
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: of you, I was trained as a true dragon Knight, Blooms,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: smiles slightly. Well, you say, I'm pretty happy to have
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: an extremely powerful nature Dragon and a true Dragon Knight
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: on our side. Then let's restore balance together, she says,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: But that can wait for tomorrow. Today you're feeling very tired.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Violet shows you around the Nature Dragon's stronghold to the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: main fortress, where there's a whole bunch of rooms for guests.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: You take one of the rooms, climb into one of
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the beds that itself looks like it was grown out
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of the ground instead of being built. You pull the
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: very comfortable covers up to your chin, close your eyes,
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: and slowly you begin to fall asleep.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Good Night everyone, New York.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: More Union, no mo thing, no more game.
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