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.

only 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 in with interest and

stuff rise further away? Why did it hurt to look up? What was this strange feeling around its

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

Sniff, sniff!

was forgotten as it smelled something enticing. It turned around and looked at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison. For some reason, it had the urge to eat

to eat the eggshells, and the

angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had

BANG! BANG! BANG!

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

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

Grumble!

regret. They had all become dirty,

was the tiny being's first encounter with

to eat. 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

tiny being wasn't developed enough to realize that it could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had to

this had been quickly 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 the world

all, it laid

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 in confusion as

tiny being didn't know was 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 hours, the tiny being had become

standards, it couldn't be called cute anymore.

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

but it felt right. For some reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris

for the first time in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it

he saw these walls, Aris became enraged again. Was this another

BANG!

his movements. Yet, that only made him

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful, but Aris saw progress as chunks of the

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