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.

was 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

rise further away? Why did it hurt to look up?

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

Sniff, sniff!

It turned around and looked at the broken eggshells, the

rather easy to eat the eggshells, and the tiny being almost couldn't believe that something this fragile and delicious had been able to suppress it until

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

BANG! BANG! BANG!

throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but it hated the fact that it had been held prisoner by

as small shards of egg were strewn all

Grumble!

the small pieces of eggshells with regret. They had all become dirty, and many pieces were so small that they couldn't even properly

tiny being's first encounter with

its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't

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

another urge appeared. The tiny being opened its mouth widely as it felt its eyes starting to close

it

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

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

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

reason, its mind told

was sure that his

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

enraged again. Was this another prison!? Aris

BANG!

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

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

scratched 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 the

no more light falling onto him anymore. Aris hesitated for a second but then started digging his