Lightning Is the Only Way

CRK!

The sound of a cracking egg echoed throughout the surroundings. The egg was rather hard, and it proved to be rather difficult to break out of it. Yet, the small lizard did its best.

CRRK!

A tiny black and shiny arm broke out of the egg. The tiny arm aimlessly tried to grab something but didn't find anything.

Bonk!

The egg fell over onto its side as the weight inside the egg shifted. The egg fell onto the arm, giving the small thing its first experience with surprise.

CRR!

The claws on the tiny arm created some scratch marks in the soft earth beneath it as it tried to salvage the situation. After a while, the arm retracted, and a small black snout came out of the egg as it took its first breath of fresh air.

Whoop!

The snout retreated as two tiny hands grabbed the edges of the hole.

CRRRRRK!

The power of the arms was quite surprising as they widened the hole in the egg. After seeing that this approach worked, the tiny black thing did its best to free itself from its prison.

CRK!

Half of the egg got destroyed as the small thing felt light for the first time on its face. It had an elongated black snout with some small teeth poking out of its sides. The tiny thing looked into the sun and quickly closed its eyes due to the blinding light. Out of reflex, it held its small hands in front of its eyes.

After waiting for some seconds, the tiny thing looked around, but it didn't dare to look up again. By now, the tiny being could be fully seen.

and had black, glowing scales encasing its entire body. The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all the light. Reptilian eyes looked around their surroundings as the

soft stuff below it? Why did this soft stuff rise further away? Why did it hurt to look

about these concepts, and all of them felt foreign to it. It

Sniff, sniff!

at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison. For some reason,

to eat the eggshells, and the

got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept

BANG! BANG! BANG!

while, it also started using its legs and tail to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know

of its accomplishments as small shards of

Grumble!

looked at the small pieces of eggshells with regret. They had all become dirty,

being's first

eat. The tiny being did its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste of earth, but there was nothing it could do. It simply found no solution to this

being wasn't developed enough to realize that it could simply clean the

to eat anymore. Yet, another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting to close

no time at all, it laid down and

opened its eyes as it looked around again. It felt like no time had passed, but in truth, it had slept

with the nourishment of the egg, it had become a Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a

it couldn't be called

reason, the beast also knew what it was called. For some reason, its mind told it that it was called Aris. It, no he,

knew his own name, but it felt right. For some reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that

as he used his vocal cords for the first time in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with

saw these walls, Aris became enraged again. Was

BANG!

misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him angrier.

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

the walls with all his power, but these walls proved to be much harder than the fragile egg. The walls

reason, there was no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated for a second but then started digging his claws and feet into the