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In a flash of fire, burning red hot, he crawled out of a crevice in the ground, like a volcano erupting. Smoke billowed out of the hole, thick and black and enough to take one's breath away. And from the pits of hell themselves, a creature was born...

Or so he liked to think.

Brimstone Hellshade was half-hellhound, his sire a visitor on these lands...but his mother was just a plain old Noodle who, despite being a demonic, was a gentle and nurturing soul. So, in reality, Brim was born like any other fox around; he came out of a bowl. A flaming bowl.

Now? Now he was pretty much a bachelor living in the basement of his mom's home, feasting on chili fries and coke and being pretty badass in World of Warcraft--not that he wasn't badass in real life. He was--he just...preferred the solitude that online gaming could bring. At least until his mother mother-henned him about starting his life--meeting a girlfriend, marrying her, having a couple of bowls who would carry on his burning fire.

That was all fine and dandy except one thing. He burned "normal" Noodles. His body temperature was already hot, but if they touched the flames lining his back, flickering like they were birthed from the bowels of hell themselves...well, it never ended up pretty.

So he was single and a little bit bitter--unless he fell in love with a robot or something he couldn't possibly BURN, that's how he was gonna stay.

At least he hit level 83.

One minute Brim was smashing keys on his keyboard, eyes zeroed in on this big bad boss in this MMO world...and the next thing he knew, something white flashed across his screen, so bright that it blinded him. A growl rose from him, eyes pressed shut and ears flat against his head, his sudden anxiety making the flames around his body flare up, burning brightly...

And then there was nothingness. Instead of the cramped basement bedroom, he was sitting in a pile of ashes and sand, the breeze blowing sand across his vision, making him squint. What the... Where was he? Standing up, he gazed around, dazed but not confused.

This had happened before. One time. When he was a kit. He'd somehow portaled into another universe, somehow ended up in a dangerous land of cybernetics and androids... It was strange, especially for a kit of his age. That was why he loved video games so much...but now... This was a wasteland... What if he never got back?

Brimstone began to hack across the desert-like barrens until the shimmer of something--pale and blue and glimmering--caught his eye. And in the center of that spot was something hot. Something as hot as him? His ears perked up--another Hellhound?--and without a pause, he began to sprint towards the oasis. But what he saw instead, was something totally unreal.

"Uh. Hey there," he said, his voice like a rumble of thunder. "Come here often?" Crap, well THAT was cheesy... He couldn't stop staring. He had no clue that she was a princess--his eyes were locked on her flames.

He wasn't alone.