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 took the world

away? Why did it hurt to look up?

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

Sniff, sniff!

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

It proved rather easy to eat the eggshells, and the tiny being almost couldn't

angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept it away

BANG! BANG! BANG!

throw the eggshells away. It didn't know

of its accomplishments as small

Grumble!

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

being's first encounter

and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste of earth, but there was nothing it could do. It simply found

it could simply clean the

this urge to eat anymore. Yet, another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting

it laid down and started

the tiny being opened its eyes as it looked around again. It felt like no time had passed, but in truth, it had slept for

a Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a full meter long.

lizard. In human standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore. In just a couple

beast also knew what it was called. For some reason, its mind told it

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 hunger. It wanted and needed

life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with a growl.

enraged again. Was this another

BANG!

fell over as he misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

than the fragile egg. The walls

saw the black sky. For some reason, there was no more light