Alright, Jack Thunder thought. If this really is Stormbringer, I want to see what it can do.
He was standing in the middle of the field near the storm gremlin village where he lived. The staff thrummed with power; Jack Thunder knew that it was at least ten times as powerful than any of the Air crystals that were on Mt. Tempest. But he wanted to know just how powerful it was. He closed his eyes, remembering the incantation for the spell he was working on. Then he held the staff aloft and recited:
"Powers of rain and summer storm, I beseech you; split the skies open and draw down a bridge of colors! Cast it from here to the land of Rainbow Country!"
As soon as he finished reciting those words, the staff once again began to glow and green lightning bolts snaked around its prongs. As Jack Thunder decreed, the skies split open, and a wide rainbow snaked down from the heavens until it touched the ground in front of him. Climbing on top of it, he stood at its highest point. In the distance he could see that the rainbow touched down in Rainbow Country, just as he had decreed. It had really worked!
Emboldened, Jack Thunder tried to see what else the staff could do. Every spell he threw at it, whether changing the winds, directing lightning strikes, or turning the rain to snow, the staff did with ease.
Jack Thunder could hardly believe his luck. He raced home to tell Frosti.
"Frosti! I'm home! And I brought a surprise!"
Frosti looked up from what she was doing. "What is it, Jackie?"
Jack Thunder showed her the staff. "I found this in a cave on Mt. Tempest! I think it might be Stormbringer; I'm not sure. If it's not Stormbringer, it sure looks like it, and it has a lot of the same powers, and- whoa!"
In his excitement, Jack Thunder didn't notice that the staff had begun to glow again. Before Jack Thunder could realize what was going on, a massive green lightning bolt shot out of the staff's prongs. He was tossed to the floor like a rag doll, and a loud CRACK! resonated throughout the room as the lightning bolt drove itself through the ceiling.
When he got his senses back, Jack Thunder saw the hole in the ceiling and sighed. "Aw, man. Not again."
Frosti was not amused. "Again, Jackie?! This has to be the fifth time you've put a hole in the ceiling! That and you could've hurt yourself!"
Jack Thunder groaned internally. It was this lecture again.
"You could really end up hurting someone someday! In fact, if you're gonna treat this thing like a toy, you'd better put it right back where you found it!" She directed him out the door, back towards Mt. Tempest.
The smaller storm gremlin ruminated over the conversation. 'Put it back where you found it if you're gonna treat it like a toy,' he scoffed to himself. No one ever trusts me to do the responsible thing, but I'll show them! Hey, I'll go out and save the day somewhere right now!
It was settled. He would prove he could be trusted with the staff. He would be like the heroes in his story books. They would all see what he was truly made of. But... what should he do? He mulled over it for a while.
That's when it hit him. "I've got it!"