Baragon vs lightning

And then the man stopped beating the drum and set it aside. He rose and lifted a long pole into the air. Eagle feathers blue on the end of the staff. Then Jack began to shout.

"He is calling down the lightning," Teresa said anxiously. "To destroy the monster."

At that moment, a bolt of blue electricity blasted down from the storm clouds and struck the pole in the man's hand. Jack's body was rocked with convulsions, and Teresa screamed. Martin, at her side, but his arms on her shoulders to calm her.

Another boat followed the first. Then another, and another. Each bolt struck the Indian. With each strike, he rocked back on his feet and almost hobbled from his perch. Soon Jack's body was bathed in an electric blue glow.

"No one could survive that!" Toby Nelson cried.

But still, Jack Strongbow stood, and still he cried out his demands to the heavens. It began to rain, then pour. Jack was nearly obscured by the torrents of water falling out of the angry sky. At the base of the shattered tower, Baragon roared angrily, water running off of it in streams. The creature leaped, trying to pull the man from the tower. But something, like an invisible wall, prevented the creature from harming the youth.

More bolts of lightning shot from the sky and struck the staff in Jack's hands. The feathers that adorned the shaft were gone, burned away by the repeated strikes. Jack's cries intensified. Then, suddenly, a single arc of electricity roared from the sky and touch the tip of the medicine staff.

Jack leveled the staff at Baragon's face. The electricity arched again, striking Baragon right between the eyes. The sky seems to open, and lightning poured down, striking Baragon repeatedly.

The monster roared in fear and pain. It reared back, but the rampaging beast could not dodge the onslaught of electricity that flashed out of the clouds and into its body.

Baragon's mouth slackened. Its eyes rolled up into its head. It's tail flailed convulsively, and how old and agony.

"Electricity!" Martin Wong cried. "Baragon is sensitive to electric shock.... Maybe we can defeat it with electricity!"

Teresa leaned back against Martin Wong, fearful for Jack's safety. And she was not wrong. It was obvious to the three of them that the youth was wavering. For another moment, the electricity poured onto the monster. Then, with a blinding flash and a deafening blast of thunder, lightning abruptly ceased.

When Teresa's vision cleared, she peered into the storm. The monster called a Baragon had retreated back into the hills, it's echoing roar reverberating off the nearby mountains. To her horror, Teresa saw that the top of the broken tower was empty.

Jack Strongbow was gone.

Teresa broke free from Martin Wong's grip and burst out of the ruins. Through the rain she ran to the base of the tower with Toby and Martin close behind her.

They found Jack Strongbow lying in the rubble, still clutching the black and remains of the magic staff, which, Martin noted was an iron, not wood. As Teresa fell to her knees at his side, Jack's eyes flickered, then opened.

"I... I tried to make amends," Jack whispered. "But Baragon is too powerful for the old ways to destroy it."

"That's because the creature was mutated by the uranium in the mine," Martin Wong informed the injured youth. As the two men help the Jack Strongbow to his feet, they began to congratulate him.

"You may not have killed the monster," Toby declared. "But you shown us a way to get rid of it.

Now it's up to Mechagodzilla!"