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 around their surroundings as the small beast

to look up? What

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

Sniff, sniff!

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

easy to eat the eggshells, and the

got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept it away from experiencing this

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

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

Grumble!

tiny being felt hungry again. It looked at the small pieces of eggshells with regret. They had all become dirty, and many pieces were so small

was the tiny being's first encounter

the 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

developed enough to realize that it could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had to eat the eggshells

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 eyes starting

no time at all, it laid

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

a Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a full

it couldn't be called cute

some reason, its mind told it

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

vocal cords for the first time in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with a growl. Aris looked around

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

BANG!

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

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

power, but these walls proved to be much harder than the fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful, but Aris saw progress as chunks of the wall fell to the

was no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated for a second but then started digging his claws