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.

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

it hurt to look up? What was this

about these concepts, and all of them felt foreign to it.

Sniff, sniff!

all of this 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

rather easy to eat the eggshells, and the tiny being almost couldn't believe that something this fragile

reason, the tiny being got angry at the broken eggshells. These eggshells had kept

BANG! BANG! BANG!

throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but

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

Grumble!

eggshells with regret. They had all become dirty,

tiny being's first

to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them. It didn't like the taste

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

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

at all, it laid down

again. It felt like no time had passed, but in truth, it had slept for multiple hours. Additionally, it looked around in

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 not-so-tiny

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, helpless baby into

some reason, its mind told it that it was called Aris. It, no he, was

sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that what he was feeling right now

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

Aris became enraged again. Was this another

BANG!

that only made him angrier. He started scrambling forward with all his limbs

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

harder than the fragile egg. The walls were quite powerful, but Aris saw progress

and saw the black sky. For some reason, there was no more light falling