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The Air Dragon General - Dragon Knights #24 - A Bedtime Adventure · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories.
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  Speaker 1: And tonight, we're headed back into the Dragon Knight series. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've never listened to the Dragon Knight series before,
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  Speaker 1: you can honestly probably start right here, because this is
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  Speaker 1: kind of a story that's related to what I've done
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  Speaker 1: so far. But it's the entire backstory for a character,
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  Speaker 1: so it's totally cool to start here and If you
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  Speaker 1: like it, you could go find all of the others.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's like 22 or 23 more of them
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  Speaker 1: at this point. Now, I got a lot of suggestions
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  Speaker 1: for the wind or air dragon general, which made it really,
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  Speaker 1: really hard to choose. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: I chose this one.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Beckett from New York, and I have a
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  Speaker 2: story idea for the Dragon Knights universe. I have an
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  Speaker 2: idea for the Wind Dragon General. You can choose the
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  Speaker 2: name because I have no idea what to do. So
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  Speaker 2: the Wind Dragon General is a cunning young man who
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  Speaker 2: is not very great at fighting, but he uses manipulation
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  Speaker 2: and encasing the other elements in air and pushing them
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  Speaker 2: back at their opponents and making it so their opponents
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  Speaker 2: can't fly around to win a fight. Thank you. I
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  Speaker 2: love your podcast. I rate it 10 out of 10 stars.
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  Speaker 1: Bye. Thank you, Beckett from New York. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: an excellent idea. But because you didn't come up with
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  Speaker 1: names for the dragon or the dragon general, I went
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  Speaker 1: to one of my other suggestions from Alex. So thank you, Alex,
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  Speaker 1: who wrote in about three weeks ago and suggested that
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  Speaker 1: the wind dragon general was named Breeze and had a
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  Speaker 1: dragon named Levitate. Alex wasn't the only one to write in. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: there were a lot of really great ideas. It was
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  Speaker 1: super hard to choose. But thank you to everyone, because
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  Speaker 1: Patreon people. But now, we'll get on with the actual episode.
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  Speaker 1: After a possible word from a possible sponsor. Time to
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  Speaker 1: close your eyes, get as comfy as you can in
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  Speaker 1: that bed, and imagine yourself doing what the kid in
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  Speaker 1: the story does. Chapter 24. The Air Dragon General. Before
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  Speaker 1: Breeze was the Air Dragon General, before dragons of every
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  Speaker 1: element whispered about the strange and, well, frankly frightening things
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  Speaker 1: he could do, And before he commanded the highest mountain
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  Speaker 1: stronghold in the Dragon King's empire, he was simply a
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  Speaker 1: boy who wanted more than anything to become a Dragon Knight.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't big, he wasn't strong, and he wasn't very
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  Speaker 1: good at fighting, but Breeze always wanted to become a
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  Speaker 1: Dragon Knight. He grew up in the mountains of the
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  Speaker 1: Air Dragon Nation. And when I say mountains, I don't
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  Speaker 1: mean the sort of mountains you, you know, like walk
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  Speaker 1: up a trail for a few hours and eventually, you know,
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  Speaker 1: reach the top of. These mountains were enormous. Some disappeared
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  Speaker 1: into the clouds. Others rose above them. The air dragon
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  Speaker 1: stronghold had been constructed across dozens of peaks, with towers
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  Speaker 1: carved directly into cliffs, and gigantic bridges stretching across gaps
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  Speaker 1: so deep that you couldn't even see the bottom. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: air dragon knights didn't really need bridges, because they could fly,
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  Speaker 1: but Breeze couldn't, nor could many of the other people there.
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  Speaker 1: and that bothered him more than almost anything. As a child,
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  Speaker 1: Breeze watched dragon knights leap from balconies thousands of feet
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  Speaker 1: above the ground and simply float away. He watched wind
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  Speaker 1: dragons streak between the peaks, creating sonic booms as they
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  Speaker 1: accelerated through the sky. More than anything, he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be one of them. But no dragon ever chose him.
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  Speaker 1: No egg called to him. No mysterious pull ever led
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  Speaker 1: him to some hidden chamber. No dragon looked at him
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  Speaker 1: and said, You are my knight. Eventually, Breeze became old
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  Speaker 1: enough that people stopped telling him he might still become
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  Speaker 1: a knight. Instead, they put him to work. He carried food.
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  Speaker 1: He cleaned training platforms. He brought equipment to Dragon Knights.
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  Speaker 1: He repaired harnesses and, well, Breeze hated it. Not enough
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  Speaker 1: to refuse doing it, of course. He was too smart
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  Speaker 1: for that. Instead, he watched. Every time he delivered something
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  Speaker 1: to a training ground, he stayed just a little longer
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  Speaker 1: than necessary. Every time two dragon knights discussed a technique,
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  Speaker 1: Breeze listened. Every time a dragon demonstrated something unusual, Breeze
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  Speaker 1: remembered it. And eventually, one of his jobs brought him
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  Speaker 1: to Current. Current was an elderly wind dragon knight who
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  Speaker 1: had spent most of his life studying the element of air.
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  Speaker 1: Most people thought Current was, well, a little nutty and
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  Speaker 1: wildly boring. If someone asked him about the weather, Current
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  Speaker 1: might explain air pressure for an hour or two. If
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  Speaker 1: someone mentioned breathing, Current might begin explaining that air wasn't
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  Speaker 1: actually one thing. It's mostly nitrogen, Current told Breeze during
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  Speaker 1: one of their first conversations. A little oxygen, carbon dioxide,
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  Speaker 1: water vapor, and tiny amounts of other things. Breeze actually
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  Speaker 1: looked interested, which was unusual. Current's eyes lit up. You understand?
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  Speaker 1: Not really, Breeze admitted, but I want to. That was
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  Speaker 1: all it took. Current started talking, and Breeze started listening.
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  Speaker 1: At first, Breeze had simply discovered a good way to
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  Speaker 1: avoid work. If Current wanted him around, no one questioned
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  Speaker 1: why the boy carrying supplies had disappeared for several hours.
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  Speaker 1: But the more Current talked, the more interested Breeze became.
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  Speaker 1: Current explained weather systems, pressure differences, warm air, cold air, storms,
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  Speaker 1: and currents. Then he began explaining things that even most
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  Speaker 1: wind dragon knights didn't really understand. Most riders think our
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  Speaker 1: power is wind, Current said one afternoon. It isn't? Current
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  Speaker 1: shook his head. Wind is simply moving air. We can
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  Speaker 1: command the air itself. He lifted one hand. The air
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  Speaker 1: around his fingers shimmered. Moving it is merely the easiest
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. And, well, the only thing most of
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  Speaker 1: these dum-dums ever learn to do. Breeze leaned closer. What
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  Speaker 1: else can you do? Current smiled. That is a question
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  Speaker 1: I've been spending most of my life trying to answer.
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  Speaker 1: Current explained that a wind dragon might, theoretically, manipulate the
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  Speaker 1: different parts of air. Oxygen, for example. Humans and dragons
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  Speaker 1: needed it to breathe. Fire needed it too. Without oxygen,
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  Speaker 1: flames couldn't continue burning. Plants were different. They absorbed carbon
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  Speaker 1: dioxide and used it to grow. Breeze listened to every word. So,
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  Speaker 1: if you could control the oxygen specifically. Well, then you
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  Speaker 1: could theoretically increase it, Current said, or decrease it. Could
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  Speaker 1: you remove it? Current hesitated. Theoretically, but I don't believe
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  Speaker 1: anyone's ever done that. Breeze smiled, and Current continued. And
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  Speaker 1: then there's the matter of a vacuum. A what? Nothing,
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  Speaker 1: Curran said. Breeze frowned. Nothing? Well, an area containing virtually
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  Speaker 1: no matter at all. No air, no oxygen, no nitrogen. Nothing. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze looked out through the enormous open windows toward the
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  Speaker 1: dragons gliding between the mountains. What happens to a dragon's
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  Speaker 1: wings if there's no air? Current smiled. Now you're asking
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  Speaker 1: interesting questions. For years, Breeze listened. Unfortunately, he never gained
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  Speaker 1: any power with which to actually use what he'd learned. Until,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the Dragon King came. Or, Dragon Thief, as
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  Speaker 1: many people called him. By the time the king reached
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  Speaker 1: the Air Dragon nation, his army was overwhelming. He'd already
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  Speaker 1: taken dragons from every one of the other nations and
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  Speaker 1: turned them against their own people. Earth dragons attacked from below.
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  Speaker 1: Fire dragons filled the air with flame. Water dragons froze
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  Speaker 1: defensive positions. Elemental dragons, well, combined everything together. And Violet,
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  Speaker 1: who would eventually become the nature dragon general... helped force
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  Speaker 1: the air dragons into predictable pathways using gigantic vines growing
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  Speaker 1: impossibly high between the mountains. The true air dragon knights
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  Speaker 1: fought brilliantly, but they lost. Breeze knew they would, so, well,
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  Speaker 1: he hid. He crawled into an old maintenance passage behind
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  Speaker 1: one of the storage chambers and waited while the battle
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  Speaker 1: raged outside. He heard explosions, dragons roaring, and eventually everything
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  Speaker 1: became quiet. When Breeze finally came out, the Air Dragon
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  Speaker 1: Nation belonged to the Dragon King, or Dragon Thief as
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  Speaker 1: many still called him. Most of the true Dragon Knights
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  Speaker 1: had been taken away, The remaining dragons stared blankly with
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  Speaker 1: glowing eyes. And Breeze did what he'd always done. He
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  Speaker 1: made himself useful. He made himself liked. When soldiers needed food,
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  Speaker 1: Breeze brought it. When equipment needed moving, Breeze moved it.
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  Speaker 1: When officers wanted someone who knew the stronghold... Breeze showed
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  Speaker 1: them around. He didn't resist. He didn't complain. And eventually,
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  Speaker 1: his loyalty was noticed. In just the way that Breeze
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  Speaker 1: hoped it would be. The Dragon King had a simple
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  Speaker 1: way of rewarding loyal soldiers, and Breeze knew it. Dragons.
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  Speaker 1: One day, All of his hard work came to fruition,
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  Speaker 1: and Breeze was led to a huge platform where several
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  Speaker 1: controlled wind dragons waited. For the first time in his life,
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  Speaker 1: he was allowed to choose. He walked among them slowly
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  Speaker 1: until he stopped beside a long, pale gray dragon whose
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  Speaker 1: body seemed almost impossibly light. simply floating above the ground
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  Speaker 1: in the air. This one, Breeze said. The dragon lifted
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  Speaker 1: its head. Its glowing eyes stared forward without any emotion
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  Speaker 1: at all. His name's Levitate, according to these papers, an
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  Speaker 1: officer said. Then Levitate it is. The Dragon King's magic
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  Speaker 1: created the false connection. Breeze felt commands become possible in
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  Speaker 1: his mind. Not a true bond. Not shared feelings or
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  Speaker 1: elemental power, but levitate would obey. And for Breeze, that
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  Speaker 1: was enough. Because finally... He had access to everything current
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  Speaker 1: had taught him. At first, Breeze trained normally. Gusts of wind, tornadoes,
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  Speaker 1: flying around, zipping through the air, fighting. He was never
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  Speaker 1: much of a fighter. But at night, when no one
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  Speaker 1: was watching, Breeze experimented in secret. Levitate, Breeze said one evening,
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  Speaker 1: placing a candle on a stone table. Remove the oxygen
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  Speaker 1: around that flame. Nothing happened. Breeze concentrated on exactly what
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  Speaker 1: Current had explained. He tried to pass the understanding through
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  Speaker 1: the mental connection and into the dragon. Imagining... mentally the
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  Speaker 1: air separating into different parts, imagining himself finding the oxygen
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  Speaker 1: and moving only that. Levitate stared at the candle. The
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  Speaker 1: air shimmered slightly and the flame went out. Breeze smiled
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  Speaker 1: and practiced. The following month, the Dragon King's officers held
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  Speaker 1: a tournament. The winner would become one of the new
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  Speaker 1: commanders of the Air Dragon Army. Or, at least that's
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  Speaker 1: how they got everyone to participate. Breeze decided to enter. Again,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't much of a fighter. In fact, his first
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  Speaker 1: opponent just laughed when he saw him. Eww. The Servant Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze simply climbed onto Levitate, the signal sounded, the opponent's
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  Speaker 1: wind dragon shot forward, and Levitate moved out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: All the while, Breeze gave him a quiet command, a
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  Speaker 1: mental command to remove the oxygen around the dragon and
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  Speaker 1: the rider. Nothing visible happened. There was no tornado, no wind,
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  Speaker 1: no attack that anyone could really see. The other rider
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  Speaker 1: continued to charge. Breeze continued to dodge. And slowly, the
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  Speaker 1: other rider, well, slowed down. He blinked several times. His
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  Speaker 1: movements became sloppy. His speech became somewhat scrambled, and he
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  Speaker 1: started to shake his head, trying to keep himself awake.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze watched calmly. The man tried to command another attack,
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  Speaker 1: but the words came out confused. Then his body slumped forward,
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  Speaker 1: and he fell unconscious against his dragon. The crowd stared
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  Speaker 1: in complete confusion. No one knew exactly how he won,
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  Speaker 1: and some certainly thought it was probably just a technicality,
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  Speaker 1: but Breeze was declared the winner. His next opponent lasted
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  Speaker 1: even less time, and his victory started to look less
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  Speaker 1: like a flashback. The third rider knew something strange was
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  Speaker 1: happening and immediately attacked. Breeze simply had Levitate shoot straight upward.
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  Speaker 1: His opponent followed while Levitate created a bubble around him.
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  Speaker 1: Not a bubble anyone could see. A bubble without any oxygen.
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  Speaker 1: Seconds later, the rider became dizzy, then confused, then unconscious. Levitate,
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  Speaker 1: nicely enough, swooped underneath and caught him before he hit
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  Speaker 1: the ground. After all, they were all on the same side.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze won the tournament without throwing a single punch. The
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  Speaker 1: crowd wasn't exactly excited about it, since they didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know how he did it, but the Dragon King was
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  Speaker 1: certainly fascinated. He understood enough about the elements to have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty strong theory on what was going on, even
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  Speaker 1: if he didn't know how to recreate it. He made
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  Speaker 1: Breeze a commander. The greater rank... gave Breeze more time
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  Speaker 1: and more privacy to experiment. He began working on Current's
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  Speaker 1: other theories. The vacuum creating nothing. It took months for
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  Speaker 1: Levitate to successfully create a vacuum, but eventually Breeze learned
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  Speaker 1: how to command him to do so. How to push
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  Speaker 1: out every bit of air from a specific area and
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  Speaker 1: prevent it from rushing back in. The first time he succeeded,
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  Speaker 1: Breeze dropped a feather into it. The feather fell strangely.
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  Speaker 1: No floating or drifting like you'd expect from a feather.
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  Speaker 1: It just fell straight down. And Breeze smiled sadly. He
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  Speaker 1: continued to force Levitate to practice the technique until he
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  Speaker 1: could do it faster and command a larger and larger area. Soon,
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  Speaker 1: Breeze and Levitate got a chance to test out the technique.
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  Speaker 1: A handful of true air dragon knights had survived the
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  Speaker 1: conquest and formed a rebellion in the northern mountains. The
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  Speaker 1: dragon king sent Breeze after them. The rebels saw him
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  Speaker 1: coming and laughed. Five free wind dragons against one controlled dragon?
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  Speaker 1: They'd beat those odds many times before. They attacked together.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze waited until they were almost on top of him.
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  Speaker 1: Then he gave the command. and the air disappeared. All
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  Speaker 1: five dragons dropped suddenly, not knowing what had happened to them.
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  Speaker 1: They continued to try beating their wings, but there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing to push against. They fell from the sky and
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  Speaker 1: crashed into the ground. Breeze kept the vacuum in place
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  Speaker 1: and continued to watch as All five of the dragon
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  Speaker 1: riders fell unconscious from lack of oxygen. With no air
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  Speaker 1: inside the vacuum, there was obviously no oxygen either. They
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  Speaker 1: were pretty easy to catch after that. Breeze was celebrated
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  Speaker 1: and promoted again. Eventually, there was no rank left above
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  Speaker 1: him except the dragon king himself. He became the Air
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  Speaker 1: Dragon General, and stories about him started to spread. Soldiers
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  Speaker 1: saw Breeze face a fire dragon once. The dragon opened
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  Speaker 1: its mouth and unleashed a gigantic wall of flame. Breeze
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  Speaker 1: simply lifted one hand, and the fire disappeared. The soldiers
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  Speaker 1: thought he had somehow stolen it. That somehow, in addition
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  Speaker 1: to his wildly unexplainable air powers, he also had power
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  Speaker 1: over fire. Breeze never explained that he'd simply removed the
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  Speaker 1: oxygen feeding the flame. Another time, a nature dragon covered
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  Speaker 1: an entire battlefield in vines. Breeze and levitate floated overhead,
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  Speaker 1: and slowly the plants began to droop. Leaves curled, vines weakened,
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  Speaker 1: flowers collapsed. It seemed as though Breeze had power over
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  Speaker 1: nature as well. Breeze had simply removed most of the
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  Speaker 1: carbon dioxide from the air around them until... There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing left for the plants to breathe, but again, he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't about to explain that to anyone else. He was
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  Speaker 1: too smart for that. Too cunning. He liked people believing
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  Speaker 1: he could simply command other elements to stop working. But
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  Speaker 1: the ability everyone feared most was the simplest. Breathing. Whole
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  Speaker 1: groups of enemies had fallen unconscious without Breeze ever appearing
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  Speaker 1: to attack them. Dragons had fallen from the sky because
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  Speaker 1: their wings suddenly stopped working. Even the elemental dragon riders
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  Speaker 1: became nervous around him. After all, what good was controlling
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  Speaker 1: five elements if you couldn't breathe long enough to use them?
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  Speaker 1: And that was why, years later.
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  Speaker 1: As Breeze stood atop the highest tower of the air
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  Speaker 1: dragon's stronghold, he wasn't particularly afraid when the dragon king
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  Speaker 1: came to visit. The king, on the other hand, was afraid.
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  Speaker 1: Not that he'd admit it. Fire has fallen, the king said.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze nodded. Water, too. I know. Breeze said. Nature's gone.
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  Speaker 1: The earth dragon stronghold's been defeated. They're freeing more dragons
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  Speaker 1: every day, the dragon king continued. And worst of all,
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  Speaker 1: my daughter is among them. Breeze had heard that too. Autumn,
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  Speaker 1: the dragon princess. a true elemental rider now fighting against
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  Speaker 1: her own father. They cannot be allowed to take the
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  Speaker 1: last stronghold, the dragon king said. If the air dragons fall,
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  Speaker 1: they'll have an army capable of moving faster than anything
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  Speaker 1: I possess. Breeze looked across the enormous mountain kingdom. Wind
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  Speaker 1: dragons floated between the peaks. Soldiers moved along bridges and platforms.
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  Speaker 1: Levitate stood silently behind him. They won't take it, he said.
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  Speaker 1: The dragon king narrowed his eyes. You sound very confident.
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  Speaker 1: I've been preparing for them. Breeze walked toward the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the tower. Their greatest advantage is that their riders
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  Speaker 1: can fight separately from their dragons. They fly. They move
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  Speaker 1: through the sky without needing wings. Yes, the Dragon King said.
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  Speaker 1: That has caused problems. Breeze smiled. Only because no one
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  Speaker 1: has taken away the sky. When they arrive... I'll allow
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  Speaker 1: them to come straight toward the stronghold. In fact, we'll
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  Speaker 1: make it hard to resist doing that all at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. I'll let their entire army take to the air,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll remove the air. The dragon king slowly smiled.
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  Speaker 1: The dragons won't be able to fly. The riders won't
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  Speaker 1: be able to breathe. They'll fall, and then they'll pass out.
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  Speaker 1: No air, no oxygen, no comfort. problem. The dragon king laughed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I believe I can help with that. A large group
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  Speaker 1: of my elementes will be waiting behind, along with, well,
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  Speaker 1: several groups of soldiers. When the rebels fall, they will
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  Speaker 1: appear from camouflage around the edges of your stronghold and
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  Speaker 1: ensure that the rebels don't get back up. The rebels
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  Speaker 1: would never suspect a thing. The battle would be over
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  Speaker 1: before they even knew what was happening. It was a
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  Speaker 1: good plan. Perhaps the best one the dragon king had
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  Speaker 1: come up with yet. Or, well, had his soldiers come
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  Speaker 1: up with anyways. The king walked back toward his dragon.
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  Speaker 1: You understand what happens if they defeat you, right? Breeze
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  Speaker 1: looked toward Levitate. then toward the endless sky surrounding his stronghold.
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  Speaker 1: They won't. The Dragon King climbed onto his elemental dragon.
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  Speaker 1: With a burst of wind, the dragon lifted into the air.
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  Speaker 1: Breeze watched him disappear into the clouds. Then, he looked
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  Speaker 1: down across his kingdom. For his entire childhood... Breeze had
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  Speaker 1: watched dragon knights fly through these mountains. He'd watched them
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  Speaker 1: command an element he could only study. They had been chosen.
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  Speaker 1: He had not. But Breeze had learned something none of
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  Speaker 1: them had bothered to learn. Wind wasn't just wind. Air
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just something that moved dragons through the sky. It
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  Speaker 1: was the thing that kept nearly everything alive. People could
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  Speaker 1: survive weeks without food, sometimes days without water. But they
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even go minutes without the air. And that gave
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  Speaker 1: Breeze a huge advantage. Prepare the stronghold, he announced. The attack...
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  Speaker 1: is coming. And Breeze went to bed. Good night, everyone.
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