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.

body. The scales were so black that it looked like they absorbed all the light. Reptilian eyes looked around their surroundings

it hurt to look up? What was this strange feeling around its own body? Was this earth? Was this

all of them felt foreign to it. It had

Sniff, sniff!

it smelled something enticing. It turned around and looked at the broken eggshells,

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

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

BANG! BANG! BANG!

and tail to throw the eggshells away. It didn't know why, but it hated the

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

Grumble!

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

being's

did its best to gather the pieces again and proceeded to eat them.

could simply clean the eggshells. To it, it felt like

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

at all, it laid down

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

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

be called cute anymore. In just a couple of hours, it had transformed from a

also knew what it was called. For some reason, its mind told it that it was called Aris. It,

was sure that his name was Aris.

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

walls, Aris became enraged again. Was this another

BANG!

made him angrier. He started scrambling forward with all his limbs as he charged at the

CRR! CRR! CRR! CRRR!

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

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