Little Shout-out: Thanks go to BreakawayRepublic for the sudden idea at lunchbreak. Filler story between Theo: Blood Angel and upcoming modern age monstergirl fictions.
** Hawaii, Edge of Mauna Kea **
"Jesus fucking Christ man. I get to spend half my savings on a research mission in Hawaii, and that dickhead Johnson earns the Discovery Prize!"
Under the warm Hawaiian sun lay a pair of men on the chair, next to a small, unpowered drone, an icebox full of cold beer and several electronic devices.
The first one, a young man wearing a stereotypical getup of a Hawaiian tourist exhaled in frustration, reclining on the folding chair. "At least it came with a beach package..." He mumbled, looking at his project at his side. He had spent his life savings for inspecting the newly active Mauna Kea with a special drone of his own making, complete with an inflatable, convection absorbing parachute to look closely and analyze the incredible developments inside the volcano...
...ever since the CERN collider exploded last month.
That event was what shaped the world today.
Ever since the European accelerator blew up in a cloud of red plasma, the world started to experience bizarre phenomena, from ancient myths and legends coming true to statues of Virgin Mary exuding real rubies in lieu of tears. Doomsday cults, religious fervor and scientific theories popped up dime a dozen every day since then...In particular around the staff of CERN who was not harmed in the explosion, now interviewed and venerated by the religiously insane.
Science also changed.
One day, an engineer working in Texas Instruments displayed an anomalous method of superconduction using brass that specifically came from the supposed location of Atlantis. Next day, a weather balloon reported a humanoid female with wings laughing and flying in the stratosphere...
...the pair of amateur scientists, fresh out of an Msc. in Geophysics would find out what the "humanoids" were.
Dale and Earl had come to Mauna Kea, the biggest Volcano in Hawaii which was supposed to be extinct. Yet the volcano started to bubble last month, prompting the population to flee in panic and reorganize...and the two friends decided to travel to Hawaii (the sinking prices due to the disaster helped) and look inside...Who knew, something could be discovered that could make them famous.
Settling in, the pair of young men had designed a drone to look inside the caldera and find out what made the extinct volcano come back to life. Dale pushed a button, and the drone buzzed up, towards the volcano, where it started to watch the fire and smoke...
"Alright, worst case scenario we put it on youtube...The best case is we discover a new lava flow, some tectonic movement and get a prize."
Dale pushed the "RECORD" button on his tablet...
**
The drone was broadcasting the first visual footage from the edge of a volcano... Then the unthinkable happened.
The boys were staring down on someone.
A pair of fluffy, cute dog ears popped from the edge of the crater, making Dale scream in shock as a grinning, adorable face of a... humanoid...girl jumped into sight.
The creature looked like a regular girl wearing extra "furry" accessories for ears, paws, feet and a tail, with fur tufts around her elbows, brow, and ankles. Her skin was black like soot, and she was looking at the camera with a cute grin, her blood red eyes blazing with fire. Dale and Earl would squeak in shock, meeting their first Hellhound girl in their lives staring at the drone. It was a moment they would never forget.
"WHAT THE FU-" Dale's mouth was half open, coming camera-to-face with the cute girl with big, red, blazing eyes, dark black skin, massive dog ears topping her head. They didn't know what Hellhound meant, so the terminology was out of the question.
She nuzzled the drone's transparent lens with a curious smile, pushing her cute button nose towards the white, buzzing robot.
"Whats dis?"
Dale had to pull the joystick in panic and make the drone buzz further away. The strange monster girl tilted her head, blinked, and to the drone's microphone, gave a sound akin to a dog squeaking.
Behind her, several similar "fluffy" monster girls climbed lazily, using their claws to ascend the slick obsidian caldera and lazily lounging along the edge, not even bothered slightest by the convection, heat or soot.
Hellhounds they were, the human pair would learn their name soon. These monster girls were climbing out of the once-extinct volcano, chattering with each other and lounging on the sun.
The drone buzzing next to them had suddenly all of their attention, cute, flaming eyes blinking at the small robotic drone looking at them. Dale would realize the implications of the event the moment he heard the next, confused words in English coming out of the Hellhound girls staring at his drone.
"We live!"
"Didn't we die with Maou?"
"I thought I was done for!"
"What happened?"
"Where are we?"
"Did Theo kill him again?"
"That's an interesting afterlife?!"
Dale and Earl simply stared at the screen in dumb confusion. They had forgotten the microphone was on:
"Dude, what the fuck are these...are these dogs or furries or something? And they speak English!"
The drone blared the sounds from its speakers, startling the Hellhound girls who were lazing after what seemed to be a strenuous event... All of them suddenly stared at the robot.
"WHAT WAS THAT?"
Curious, young, innocent monster girl faces focused on the drone.
"IT SAID SOMETHING IN COMMON TONGUE!!"
Obviously, they were either tone deaf, or the convection of the volcano was disorienting them, speaking in shouts.
"IS WHAT A WISP? A FAIRY?"
Suddenly, the flaming, canine eared females started circling the hovering robot with careful steps, sniffing the drone and giggling when they noticed it was something mechanical.
"MAYBE ITS A GOLEM, SISTERS! YEHUDI HUMANS MADE THEM BACK IN REIK!"
"OOOOH, HUMANS ARE IN THIS WORLD TOO!"
One Hellhound waved at the camera, realizing it acted like an eye. Each waved their thick, fluffy paw in lieu of arms towards the drone.