Thunderstorm's screams echoed through the night sky. Blackened flesh and warped lightning intertwined at the stump of his arm, making the wound look hideous. With his right arm and part of his core power gone, the dark energy around him churned and scattered like a beast out of control. He could no longer maintain his terrifying abyss lightning armor. His strength had plummeted, and against Naruto's relentless attacks in Partial Tailed Beast Transformation, he instantly fell into an overwhelming disadvantage!
"Roar!" The scarlet Naruto gave his enemy no chance to breathe. His solid red tail lashed out again like a steel whip, striking viciously at Thunderstorm, whose movements had slowed from the agony and backlash of his power!
"No!" Thunderstorm frantically raised his remaining left arm to block, but without the support of his abyssal power, his defense was pitifully fragile against tailed beast chakra!
Bam!
With a sharp crack of bone, Thunderstorm was sent flying. Like a torn sack, he crashed into a distant heap of rubble, throwing up clouds of dust. Whether he lived or died was unknown.
The formidable Thunderstorm had been dealt with-for now!
But the danger was not over!
With his main target gone, Naruto, still in Partial Tailed Beast Transformation, had nowhere to vent his frenzied bloodlust. His scarlet, slit-pupiled eyes swept erratically over his surroundings before settling on those closest to him: Sakura, who was urgently treating Ling, and Ling himself, kneeling on one knee and barely breathing! The tailed beast's savage instincts were beginning to see every living thing as a threat!
"Naruto! Stop! It's us!" Sakura's face went deathly pale. She shouted desperately while maintaining the Mystical Palm Technique.
But Naruto's reason had almost completely drowned beneath his bestial instincts. A threatening growl rumbled in his throat, and his red tail