With Some Luck

You hear a pained yell and something else, a sickening wet noise you know you don't want to see the result of. It's enough to get your adrenaline pumping and you drag your self away as the noises only get more grotesque. As you turn a corner you can see your salvation...though you wish it came in another form.

It's a hole, low to the ground and not very large but light is spilling through the opening, intense enough it has to lead outside. You take several deep breaths to steady yourself before crawling in.

As you crawl through the hole you're incredibly thankful for your short stature for once, if you were much bigger getting through the hole would likely have been painful. Instead it's merely incredibly unpleasant, if it wasn't for the desperation of the situation you might have collapsed in a panic. Instead you crawl on, dragging yourself closer and closer to that light, grasping at salvation until you wrench yourself free...

Into something far more frightening. The landscape you see before you is a blasted hellscape, the ground seeming to be a mix of scorched rock and earth when it isn't oozing molten lava. In the distance you see landscapes and structures that seem to defy your understanding of physics and the sky itself is a swirling, chaotic mass of reds and blacks and purples. There's no possible way you can be on Earth...

Then something impacts your leg, not especially hard but it's enough to snap you out of the daze the scenery had put you in. You look down and see something strange. You see a short figure, well under three feet, with red akin, dark hair, and a pair of horns.

"Ah jeez Bel you gotta watch where..." The figure looks up and you get a better look at them. They're certainly feminine in form, an ample bust and hips give the impression of an adult woman who's been compressed, for lack of a better word. She looks up at you, her eyes are an inuman shade of fiery orange, and her face lights up.

"You! You're here! And here I thought I was done for!" The little imp springs to her feet and begins to run around you, inspecting you.

"Hmm, minor injuries that's good, we can make good time..."

"Uh, excuse me?"

"Yeah?"

"What the hell is going on?"

The imp looks you in the face, wearing a mischievous grin.

"That's a good question girly - Hell is 'what's going on'. And me..."