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.

The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all the light. Reptilian eyes looked around their surroundings as the small

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

it. It had no knowledge of anything and simply tried to make sense

Sniff, sniff!

was forgotten as it smelled something enticing. It turned around and looked at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison.

rather easy to eat the eggshells, and

got angry at the broken

BANG! BANG! BANG!

to scratch and bite the eggshells. After a while, it also started using its legs and tail to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but

proud of its accomplishments as

Grumble!

eggshells with regret. They had

was the tiny being's first encounter

have destroyed 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 like the taste

to realize that it could simply clean the eggshells. To

Yet, another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as

at all, it laid

passed, but in truth, it had slept for multiple hours. Additionally, it looked around in confusion

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

standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore. In just a couple of hours, it

was called. For some reason, its mind told it that it was

reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that what he was

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

enraged again. Was this

BANG!

made him angrier. He

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

around a minute 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