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.

around ten-centimeters-tall and had black, glowing scales encasing its entire body. The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all

hurt to look up?

them felt foreign to it. It had no knowledge of anything and simply tried to make

Sniff, sniff!

all of this was forgotten as it smelled something enticing. It turned around and looked at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison. For some reason, it had the urge

instincts, the tiny being started crunching on the eggshells. It proved rather easy to eat the eggshells, and the tiny being almost couldn't believe that something this fragile and delicious had been able to suppress

tiny being got angry at the broken eggshells. These

BANG! BANG! BANG!

its legs and tail to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but it hated the fact

felt proud of its accomplishments as small shards of egg were strewn all around its small

Grumble!

pieces of eggshells with regret. They

was the tiny being's first encounter

shells. Now, it would become much harder to 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

that it could simply clean the

meal. It finally didn't have this urge to eat anymore. Yet, another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting to close by themselves. It felt groggy and didn't want to look at the world

no time at all, it laid down and

around again. It felt like no time had passed, but in truth,

know was that, with the nourishment of the egg, it had become a Demonic Beast. It

standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore. In just

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

Aris was sure that his

first time in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing

enraged again. Was this another prison!? Aris hated

BANG!

misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him angrier. He started scrambling forward with all his limbs as he charged at the

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

all his power, but these walls proved to be much harder than the fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful, but Aris saw progress

some reason, there was no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated