A rogue lightning bolt split through the sky, slicing through the storm cloud Jack Thunder stood on. He plummeted through the sky, hitting many clouds on the way down as the Emerald Woodland rapidly rose to meet him.
CRUNCH! He crashed through the canopy of the forest and landed in the underbrush below. Lucky, as he had fallen headfirst, and if he'd landed on the ground, he might have not been able to get back up.
Not that he wasn't hurt now. "ACK! I had to hit every cloud on the way down, didn't I?!" the storm gremlin griped as he rubbed his head. "Where the heck even am I?"
He looked around. The trees blocked out most of the wind and sleet, but even they struggled and broke under the brunt of the storm. That's when he noticed a pair of violet eyes peering at him from the shadows.
He grabbed the staff beside him in the bushes and brandished it in their direction. "S-Stay back! I don't want any trouble!" he barked, hoping the quiver in his voice didn't give him away.
The eyes merely stared back at him. Jack Thunder's trembling intensified. He internally cursed himself for letting his fear show in front of a potential enemy. This was not how heroes were supposed to behave. Suddenly, a teal and gold forest dragon stepped from the shadows. It was the biggest he'd ever seen!
"A storm gremlin? What are you doing in these woods? And in this weather?"
"AH!!!" Jack Thunder was not expecting the dragon to talk. "Hff... Oh, goodness, you scared me!" Small tears gathered in his eyes. "I've made a huge mistake! I-I was trying to summon a rainstorm here, but it all went haywire, and now there's a massive tornado headed right for us! If I don't find some way to stop it, it'll tear right through this forest!" he gasped for breath as he finished.
The dragon turned her gaze up to the sky. "Oh gosh... What are you going to do?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out!" The storm gremlin wracked his brain for answers, trying not to freak out. "Wait... I remember something!"
He thought back to a few years ago. He had been trying to clear the clouds out of the field behind their house. Rather than just throw them into the sky like he had been used to doing, he decided to create a miniature whirlwind to clear them out a lot faster. Unfortunately, he hadn't thought about the possibility of it running out of control and chasing him across the yard. Frosti ended up banishing it, but what was the incantation she used?
"Ugh! I wish I could remember!" he lamented. But he wasn't one to give up without a fight. He gazed up at the sky with a determined expression. "Still, I've got to try!"