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

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

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

Sniff, sniff!

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

eat the eggshells, and

got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept

BANG! BANG! BANG!

a while, it also started using its legs and tail to throw the

as small shards of egg were strewn all around its

Grumble!

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

tiny being's first encounter with

pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste of earth, but

it could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt

another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting to close by themselves. It felt groggy and

at all, it laid down

tiny being opened its eyes 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

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

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

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

reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris.

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

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

BANG!

misjudged his movements. Yet, that only made him angrier. He started

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

the walls with all his 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 digging, Aris suddenly got a brilliant idea. He looked upward again and saw the black 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