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.

and had black, glowing scales encasing its entire body. The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all the light. Reptilian

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? Was this

and all of them felt foreign to it. It

Sniff, sniff!

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

It proved rather easy to eat the eggshells, and

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

BANG! BANG! BANG!

using its legs and tail to throw the

tiny being felt proud of its accomplishments as small shards

Grumble!

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

the tiny being's first encounter with

The tiny being did its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste of earth, but there was nothing it could do. It simply found no solution

clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had

forgotten as it 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 to close by themselves. It felt groggy and didn't want to look at

time at all, it laid

looked around again. It felt like no time had passed, but in

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 hours, the tiny being had become

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

reason, its mind told it that it was called

his name was Aris. Aris also

he used his vocal cords for the first time in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with a growl. Aris looked around and saw the walls enclosing

walls, Aris became enraged again. Was this

BANG!

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

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

proved to be much harder than the fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful,

black sky. For some reason, there was no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated for