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Speaker 1: The Magic Castle. The story you were about to enjoy
Speaker 1: was inspired by Rose. Thank you so much for your
Speaker 1: amazing idea. Abrah could Debrah called out Levia as he
Speaker 1: waved around a magic wand in his playroom, I said,
Speaker 1: Abra coud Debrah. Levi I sounded very frustrated as he
Speaker 1: stood in front of his magic for a beginner's book.
Speaker 1: He kept waving his wand around and around, but nothing happened.
Speaker 1: Levi had recently become very interested in magic after watching
Speaker 1: a magician at a carnival the week before his name
Speaker 1: was Magnificent Marvin. He made a rabbit appear in his
Speaker 1: top hat, made a glass of milk disappear into thin air,
Speaker 1: and made Levi's dad's watch magically leave his wrist and
Speaker 1: end up on a sealed box of popcorn. Magnificent Marvin
Speaker 1: made it look so easy, said Levi in a huff
Speaker 1: as he plopped down on the couch in front of
Speaker 1: Ivy and their friends Rose, Hannah, and Joey. I just
Speaker 1: don't understand why I can't do it. Well, maybe it
Speaker 1: has something to do with the years and years and
Speaker 1: years of practice that Magnificent Marvin had, said Rose. I
Speaker 1: mean he looks older than my grandma. Yeah, Levi added Hannah.
Speaker 1: Don't get down on yourself. You just need some more
Speaker 1: practice and maybe some help from this, said Joey as
Speaker 1: he took out a box from his backpack. Levi, Ivy, Rose,
Speaker 1: and Hannah all gathered around as Joey placed the box
Speaker 1: on the table. I bought it at the carnival after
Speaker 1: Magnificent Marvin show, said Joey. He was selling them out
Speaker 1: of an old trunk that looked like it was a
Speaker 1: million years old. He said it was his last one.
Speaker 1: So cool, said Levi, taking off the box stop that
Speaker 1: read Magnificent Marvin's Magic Quest. How do we play? Joey
Speaker 1: explained that Magnificent Marvin told him the game was all
Speaker 1: about helping the main character find some special magic stuff,
Speaker 1: and there was a wizard or something. It was clear
Speaker 1: that Joey hadn't really been paying attention, so the rest
Speaker 1: of the group knew they'd have to learn as they went.
Speaker 1: Levi was very interested. He listened closely as Hannah read
Speaker 1: the instructions. I love it, exclaimed Levi, who wants to play?
Speaker 1: Levi's sister and all of their friends could see how
Speaker 1: excited he was, so they all agreed to join Magnificent
Speaker 1: Marvin's Magic Quest. Just one game, Levi, then we can
Speaker 1: have ice cream, said Ivy. Sure, whatever you say, answered
Speaker 1: Levi as he sat up the game board and gave
Speaker 1: everyone a metal game piece. He took out the dice
Speaker 1: and sat down a pile of cards in the middle
Speaker 1: of the game board marked Magic Quest. They were all
Speaker 1: set to begin. Levi went first. After moving his game
Speaker 1: to the's four spass. He picked up a Magic Quest
Speaker 1: card and read Abracadabra only gets you so far. Picking
Speaker 1: this card can make things quite bizarre. I see great
Speaker 1: things in you, like me as a child, a magical
Speaker 1: spark that is special and wild. I need your help,
Speaker 1: and your friends can come too. If you're a magician,
Speaker 1: this will prove that it's true. After reading the card aloud,
Speaker 1: leve I had looked at Ivy, Rose, Hannah and Joey.
Speaker 1: They all looked confused and surprised by what he had read.
Speaker 1: What do you think that means, he asked everyone sitting
Speaker 1: in the playroom. It sounds like that card was written
Speaker 1: specifically for you, said Ivy. Yeah, it sounds like Magnificent
Speaker 1: Marvin is talking directly to you, added Rose. He's saying
Speaker 1: you remind him of what he was like as a child,
Speaker 1: and now he's totally magic, said Hannah. So does that
Speaker 1: mean you're two? I don't know, replied Levi. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: one specific card, said Joey. But I mean it's just
Speaker 1: a game, right. Levi started to laugh, and so did
Speaker 1: everyone else, when all of a sudden, the playroom got dark.
Speaker 1: Obviously very surprised by this, they all backed away from
Speaker 1: the table and watched as a bright light began to
Speaker 1: shine from the center of the game board. It formed
Speaker 1: a giant, glowing portal above the board, and before they
Speaker 1: knew it, a strong wind began to swirl around them,
Speaker 1: and they were pulled into the portal one by one.
Speaker 1: Then as quickly as it appeared, the glowing portal was
Speaker 1: gone and the playroom was empty. It felt like no
Speaker 1: time had passed it all when Levi, Ivy, Rose, Hannah,
Speaker 1: and Joey all opened their eyes to find that they
Speaker 1: were sitting in the middle of a forest, a forest
Speaker 1: unlike anything they had ever seen. Where are we, asked
Speaker 1: Levi as he stumbled to his feet. How should we
Speaker 1: know you're the magician in training? You tell us? Answered Rose.
Speaker 1: The group looked around, trying to make sense of where
Speaker 1: they were, until they heard a loud, booming voice echo
Speaker 1: through the forest. They all uncovered their ears and crowded together,
Speaker 1: waiting to see who or what was making such a ruckus.
Speaker 1: They hid behind a fallen tree and waited. In a
Speaker 1: matter of seconds, a puff of blue smoke filled the
Speaker 1: forest around them, and out of that smoke stepped a
Speaker 1: man and that looked very familiar. Hey, guys, who do
Speaker 1: you think stepped out from that smoke?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Is that? Ivy began to say, I think it is,
Speaker 1: replied Hannah, knowing exactly what Ivy was going to say.
Speaker 1: Magnificent Marvin called out the group as the man walked
Speaker 1: toward them, swinging a giant black cape behind him. Who welcome,
Speaker 1: my friends. I knew you would make it here, eventually,
Speaker 1: said Magnificent Marvin. I need your help. The kids all
Speaker 1: said hello, but quickly turned their attention to some very
Speaker 1: important questions like where are we, why are we here?
Speaker 1: What do you need help with? Can I get to
Speaker 1: get to your next magic show? Joey called out, LEVI
Speaker 1: is that it's really important right now? I mean we
Speaker 1: just teleported to a magic force through a light portal
Speaker 1: in my playroom, and you're asking about a magic show tickets. Well,
Speaker 1: he puts on a really good show, said Joey. We
Speaker 1: can talk about all of that after, said Magnificent Marvin,
Speaker 1: trying to refocus the kids. But right now I need
Speaker 1: your help. A wily wizard who loves playing games got
Speaker 1: a hold of my five most powerful magic stones. They
Speaker 1: can't fall into the wrong hands, and I need them
Speaker 1: back before my next show. And if you don't get
Speaker 1: them back, asked Ivy, then I won't be Magnificent Marvin anymore,
Speaker 1: I'll just be Marvin, said the sad looking magician. That's
Speaker 1: why I need your help. Those five stones possess all
Speaker 1: my magical powers, and being a magician is all I've
Speaker 1: ever wanted to be. I devoted my whole life to it.
Speaker 1: Bringing magic into people's lives is the greatest gift I
Speaker 1: can think of, and I don't want it to stop.
Speaker 1: Will you please help me? Of course we will, said Levi,
Speaker 1: answering for the group. But why can't you just get
Speaker 1: the stone back yourself using magic. The longer the stones
Speaker 1: are away from me, the weaker my magic gets, until
Speaker 1: finally it will be gone forever. Magnificent Marvin began. I've
Speaker 1: already looked for the stones for a little while, and
Speaker 1: I need more people on my team to spread out
Speaker 1: and hopefully find them fast. I use some of my
Speaker 1: last bits of magic to get you here, and I
Speaker 1: think I have just enough left to get us all
Speaker 1: to the Wizard's magic Castle, where he's hid in my stones. Levi, Ivy, Rose, Hannah,
Speaker 1: and Joey didn't need to hear one more thing. They
Speaker 1: all agreed to help Magnificent Marvin on this spot. The
Speaker 1: magician couldn't have been happier and whipped up one last
Speaker 1: big teleportation spell to get them all to the Wizard's
Speaker 1: castle and start the hunt for his five magic stones.
Speaker 1: As soon as they arrived, Magnificent Marvin told each of
Speaker 1: the kids to go to a specific section of the castle.
Speaker 1: He told them what his stones looked like and wish
Speaker 1: them all well. Then ready for the coolest game of
Speaker 1: hide and seek ever. They each headed off, leaving Magnificent
Speaker 1: Marvin waiting by the castle gates. He was tired and
Speaker 1: running very low on magic. We've got this, Magnificent Marvin,
Speaker 1: called out Levi, and as the magician in training, I'll
Speaker 1: do all I can to help you out. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Levi and everyone else. Good luck and how fun, called
Speaker 1: out the tired magician as the kids scattered in different
Speaker 1: directions and disappeared into the castle. Remember the Wizard loves
Speaker 1: to play games, so be ready for anything. And when
Speaker 1: you found my stones, run back here as quick as
Speaker 1: you can. Joey was the first to reach his section
Speaker 1: of the castle, the library. He began looking through bookshelf
Speaker 1: after bookshelf, which seemed like an endless task. That's when
Speaker 1: he looked around and saw that as he looked through
Speaker 1: one bookshelf, another bookshelf would pop up behind him. He
Speaker 1: could hear laughing coming from behind the piles and piles
Speaker 1: of books, and knew the wizard was close by. It's
Speaker 1: a never end library, said Joey to himself. How am
Speaker 1: I ever going to look through all these shelves and books?
Speaker 1: Joey thought for a moment and realized one thing he
Speaker 1: had on his side was how speedy he was. He
Speaker 1: was the fastest kid in his class, and decided to
Speaker 1: use that to advantage. He began running around the library
Speaker 1: as fast as he could, and since this was a
Speaker 1: magic castle, he quickly found himself running faster than he
Speaker 1: ever had before. The wizard couldn't keep up with him,
Speaker 1: and before he knew it, Joey was looking through the
Speaker 1: final bookshelf, where he found the first Magnificent Marvin's magic stones.
Speaker 1: He grabbed it and ran back to the castle gates,
Speaker 1: handing the first stone to a very happy Magnificent Marvin.
Speaker 1: While this was going on, Hannah was in the castle's
Speaker 1: portrait room looking around the room very closely at all
Speaker 1: the portraits, and since this was a magic castle, the
Speaker 1: portraits were anything but normal. As Hannah looked around, she
Speaker 1: heard whispers in the room, but no one was there.
Speaker 1: That's when she whipped around quickly and heard the whispers
Speaker 1: coming from a most unlikely spot, one of the portraits.
Speaker 1: The person in the portrait was talking. All the portraits
Speaker 1: were talking. They tried to distract her with riddles and rhymes,
Speaker 1: but Hannah stayed focus. However, as she searched behind all
Speaker 1: of the portraits, thinking that that could be a good
Speaker 1: place for a magic stone to be hidden, she noticed
Speaker 1: something was happening. The walls seemed to be growing higher
Speaker 1: and higher all around her, and more and more portraits
Speaker 1: began to appear in the room, filling the walls. Thankfully
Speaker 1: for Hannah, she could jump really high, and since this
Speaker 1: was a magic castle, she quickly found herself jumping higher
Speaker 1: than she ever had before. She jumped up, checking behind
Speaker 1: each portrait before she finally reached the ceiling and the
Speaker 1: last portrait, and that's where she found the next magic stone.
Speaker 1: She grabbed it and ran back to the castle gates,
Speaker 1: handing the second stone to a very happy magnificent Marvin.
Speaker 1: Well this was going on. Rose was in the castle's basement.
Speaker 1: It was dark, and dreary and covered in cobwebs. As
Speaker 1: she searched around, she heard scratching on the ground and
Speaker 1: the walls. Hello, Rose called out, hello, She heard bath.
Speaker 1: Lucky for Rose and for Magnificent Marvin. She had a
Speaker 1: great connection with animals, from spiders to mice, from lizards
Speaker 1: to cats. It was as if she could understand them
Speaker 1: and they could understand her. And since this was a
Speaker 1: magic castle, she quickly found herself actually talking to all
Speaker 1: the little creators that called the castle basements home. The mice, spiders,
Speaker 1: and lizards ran to her, and as you could imagine,
Speaker 1: they didn't get many visitors in the basement, and they
Speaker 1: liked her immediately. They wanted to help her, but didn't
Speaker 1: know where the magic stone was. However, they all knew
Speaker 1: one animal that would, the Wizard's cat. Once the Wizard's
Speaker 1: cat was woken up from her afternoon nap, she walked
Speaker 1: over to meet Rose. They said they're hellos before Rose
Speaker 1: begged the cat to help Magnificent Marvin and tell her
Speaker 1: where his magic stone was hiding. Well, normally I would
Speaker 1: remain loyal to the wizard, but yesterday he forgot to
Speaker 1: give me my mid morning snack so lucky for you.
Speaker 1: I'm a little mad at him right now, said the
Speaker 1: Wizard's cat with a big stretch, before leading Rose to
Speaker 1: a loose brick in the basement wall. She pulled the
Speaker 1: brick out of the wall, and there was the magic stone.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, called out Rose, before grabbing the
Speaker 1: stone and running back to the castle gates. Once there,
Speaker 1: she handed the third stone to a very happy, magnificent Marvin.
Speaker 1: While this was going on, Ivy was stumbling completely by accident,
Speaker 1: into a secret room by the castle's kitchen. She had
Speaker 1: been wandering around the castle when she decided to stop
Speaker 1: for a moment to rest. She leaned up against a
Speaker 1: wall in a long hallway and just by chance, pressed
Speaker 1: on a secret button hidden behind the wallpaper. A secret
Speaker 1: door opened up before her. As she walked into the room,
Speaker 1: and there, sitting there on a small table covered with
Speaker 1: a blue tablecloth, was the magic stone. Ivy approached it carefully,
Speaker 1: waiting for the wizard to play some kind of prank
Speaker 1: on her. It couldn't be this easy, could it, thought
Speaker 1: Ivy as she looked at the magic stone. Well, it
Speaker 1: was that easy, because just finding the room was the
Speaker 1: hard part. Ivy then grabbed the stone and ran back
Speaker 1: to the castle gates. Once there, she handed the fourth
Speaker 1: stone to a very happy Magnificent Marvin. Just one more,
Speaker 1: exclaimed Magnificent Marvin, thank you all so much. I can
Speaker 1: feel my magic returning. It's all up to Levi now,
Speaker 1: and I know he can do it. He's got something special,
Speaker 1: something all magicians have. He just needs to realize it.
Speaker 1: Magnificent Marvin, Ivy, Rose, Hannah, and Joey all waited the
Speaker 1: castle gates, just hoping everything was going well for Levi
Speaker 1: and hoping they'd see him soon running toward them holding
Speaker 1: that last magic stone. While this was going on, Levi
Speaker 1: was making his way around the spell room. He knew
Speaker 1: it was getting laid and he wanted to get back
Speaker 1: to Magnificent Marvin as soon as possible. He tried to
Speaker 1: focus in and think like a wizard for a minute.
Speaker 1: Where would I hide a magic stone if I were
Speaker 1: a wizard that loved to play games, thought Levi's. He
Speaker 1: looked on the shelves, in jars and behind tables. He
Speaker 1: then sat down to look at things from a different angle.
Speaker 1: That's when he saw it. A giant book, bigger than
Speaker 1: all the rest, on a desk covered bookshelf. It was
Speaker 1: the Wizard's spell book. That's it, said, Levi. The magic
Speaker 1: stone is in the book. He started flying through the pages,
Speaker 1: but didn't see a stone. Instead, he saw a page
Speaker 1: that caught his eye. Written on the top were the
Speaker 1: words hidden magic Stone riddle. He knew the wizard must
Speaker 1: be somewhere laughing at him right now, eagerly waiting for
Speaker 1: him to play his little game. Levi knew he didn't
Speaker 1: have time to waste and read the riddle. Abra cadabra
Speaker 1: only gets you so far. I know this whole game
Speaker 1: is quite strange and bizarre. If you search with eyes
Speaker 1: and also your heart, you'll see what you're seeking is
Speaker 1: right at the start. Sometimes what you seek is right
Speaker 1: there on a shelf, But to find it you first
Speaker 1: must be leave in yourself. Leevi I knew exactly what
Speaker 1: the riddle was telling him. He so badly wanted to
Speaker 1: be a magician that he wasn't being patient. He didn't
Speaker 1: realize how much hard work it took to achieve this dream,
Speaker 1: and expected to be just like magnificent Marvin as soon
Speaker 1: as he started. At that moment, he realized he had
Speaker 1: to start at the beginning. Levi needed to put in
Speaker 1: the work, learn through successes and failures, and soon enough
Speaker 1: he would get better and better at magic the beginning,
Speaker 1: Levi thought, as he looked at the bookshelf. That's it.
Speaker 1: He reached out and grab a book that looked very familiar.
Speaker 1: It was titled Magic four Beginners. He wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: a magic spell book just yet. He had lots to learn,
Speaker 1: and finally knew that when he opened up to the
Speaker 1: first page, he saw a picture of the wizard, and
Speaker 1: since this was a magic castle, the pictures began to talk.
Speaker 1: Congratulate Levi. Thank you for playing my game with your
Speaker 1: sister and all your friends. You did a wonderful job,
Speaker 1: said the wizard. Magnificent Marvin is waiting for his final stone,
Speaker 1: and here it is, Levi. I reached out and took
Speaker 1: the stone from their wizard. Thank you, said Levi. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see the great magician you become, said
Speaker 1: the wizard. Magnificent Marvin will teach you well, I'm sure
Speaker 1: of it. Farewell Levi. Then the picture of the wizard
Speaker 1: turned back into just an image of the book. Levi's
Speaker 1: smile placed the book back on the bookshelf. And ran
Speaker 1: back to the Castle gates. Once there, he was met
Speaker 1: with applause and cheers as he handed the fifth stone
Speaker 1: to a very happy Magnificent Marvin. You did it, Levi said,
Speaker 1: Magnificent Marvin, thank you, thank you, thank you. Now let's
Speaker 1: head home with his full magic back, Magnificent Marvin created
Speaker 1: another portal in front of the castle gates that returned Levi, Ivy, Rose, Hannah,
Speaker 1: and Joey back to the playroom. When they arrived. Once
Speaker 1: the swirling smoke cleared, they sat there unable to speak.
Speaker 1: Their magic quest had left them speechless. As they finally
Speaker 1: began to speak to each other, Joey called out, look
Speaker 1: at these they were five tickets to Magnificent Marvin's next show,
Speaker 1: with a note that read, I hope you'll all join me.
Speaker 1: It would be great to have some extra magic at
Speaker 1: my next show. The kids were all so excited and
Speaker 1: definitely planned to go to the show, But first leave,
Speaker 1: I had some practicing to do. He grabbed his magic
Speaker 1: for a beginner's book and opened it to page one,
Speaker 1: ready to learn. Thanks for joining us today. We hope
Speaker 1: you enjoyed the story and learned a little something too.
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