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 the light. Reptilian eyes looked

soft stuff rise further away? Why did it hurt to look up? What was this strange feeling around its own body? Was this earth?

about these concepts, and all of them felt foreign to it. It had no

Sniff, sniff!

around and looked at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison. For some reason, it had

and the tiny being almost couldn't believe that something this fragile and delicious had been able to

reason, the tiny being got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept

BANG! BANG! BANG!

to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know

minutes, the tiny being felt proud of its accomplishments as small shards of egg were strewn all around

Grumble!

pieces of eggshells with regret. They had all become dirty, and many pieces were

being's first

gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste of earth, but there was nothing it

could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had to eat the

finally didn't have this urge to eat anymore. Yet, another urge appeared. The tiny being opened

at all, it laid

it looked around again. It felt like no time had passed, but in truth, it had slept for multiple hours. Additionally, it looked

egg, it had become a Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a full meter long. In just a couple of hours, the tiny

a human would tremble in fear in front of this black lizard. In human standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore. In just a couple of

some reason, its

he knew his own name, but it felt right. For some reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that what he was feeling right now was called

in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with a growl. Aris looked around

became enraged again. Was this another prison!? Aris hated

BANG!

his movements. Yet, that only made him angrier. He started scrambling forward with

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful, but Aris saw progress as chunks of the wall fell to the

there was no more light falling