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

it hurt to look up?

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

Sniff, sniff!

looked at the broken eggshells, the pieces of its former prison. For some

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

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

BANG! BANG! BANG!

a while, it also started using its legs and tail to throw the eggshells away. It

proud of its accomplishments as

Grumble!

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

the tiny being's first encounter with

much harder to eat. The tiny being did its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to

the eggshells. To it, it felt like it had to eat the eggshells as

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

at all, it laid down and

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

Demonic Beast. It had grown to be a full meter long. In just a couple of hours, the tiny being had

human would tremble in fear 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 from a tiny, helpless baby

it was called. For some reason,

knew his own name, but it felt right. For some reason, Aris was sure that his name was Aris. Aris also knew that what he was feeling right now was called hunger. It wanted and needed

in his life. His frustration guided him into releasing it with a growl. Aris

saw these walls, Aris became enraged again. Was this another prison!?

BANG!

him angrier. He started scrambling forward with all his

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

these walls proved to be much harder than the fragile egg. The walls were

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