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.

body. The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all the light. Reptilian

further away? Why did it hurt to look up? What was this strange feeling

being knew nothing about these concepts, and all of them felt foreign to it. It had no knowledge of anything and simply tried to make sense of its

Sniff, sniff!

and looked at the broken

proved rather easy to eat the eggshells, and the tiny being almost

got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had

BANG! BANG! BANG!

eggshells. After a while, it also started using its legs and tail to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but it hated the fact that it had been held prisoner by these

tiny being felt proud of its accomplishments as small shards of egg were strewn

Grumble!

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

being's first encounter

its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It

simply clean the eggshells. To it,

finished its 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

time at all, it laid down and

It felt like no time had passed, but in truth, it had

tiny being didn't know was that, with the nourishment of the egg, it had become a Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a full meter long. In just a couple of hours, the tiny being had become not-so-tiny

black lizard. In human standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore. In just a couple of hours, it had transformed

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

right. For some reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that what he was feeling right now was called hunger. It wanted

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

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

BANG!

jumped forward but fell over as he misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him angrier. He started scrambling

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

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

sky. For some 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