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.

black that it looked like they absorbed all the light.

below it? Why did this soft stuff rise further away? Why did it hurt to look up? What was this strange feeling

concepts, and all of them felt foreign to it. It had no knowledge of anything

Sniff, sniff!

of this was forgotten as it smelled something enticing. It turned around and looked at the broken

proved rather easy to eat the eggshells, and

at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

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

Grumble!

regret. They had all become dirty, and many pieces were so

being's first encounter with

gather the pieces again and proceeded to

wasn't developed enough to realize that it could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had to eat

The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting to

it laid down

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

the 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.

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

was called. For some reason,

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

used his vocal cords for the first time in his life. His frustration guided him

walls, Aris became enraged again. Was this

BANG!

misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

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

some reason, there was no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated for a second but then