Reggie Olsen burst through the door to Professor Swan’s office with such determination that for a passing second he worried he had knocked the old wooden slab right off its hinges. It slammed hard on the back of the white office wall, where to no one’s surprise was already quite a few marks from the door’s brass knob. Before even taking in his surroundings Reggie stormed into the office with his finger out stretched and the classic ‘Now you listen here!’ Approach.

“You have absolutely no right to fail me!” Reggie felt confident in his delivery. “I did that assignment and turned it in! You have some sick thing against me-“

But suddenly the student Reggie halted himself. His observations finally had caught up with his head. The room was completely empty. There was no professor. There were plenty of books and ancient scrolls and a very unorganized bunch of paper on his desk with tiny scribble all over it. But there was no professor.

There was also something else very strange. A suspended dark blue and black swirling circle, large enough for a single person to step through if they desired. Static electricity veined off of it in light arcs.

Curious, Reggie approached with circle with cautious apprehension. He stood to the side of the circle. It was thinner than paper. He could not even see it. He turned in front of it once more. There stood the circle, big and suspended. He stood behind it and saw the same circle. To the side once more and no sign but maybe a hair thin black line.

“Weird.” He thought out loud.

He walked to the edge of the desk, in front of the circle and grabbed a pencil. He tossed it towards the circle and watched it fold and disappear into the swirling soup of black and blue.

“No way.” Reggie’s eyes widened. “Its like… a time traveling portal. The professor jumped through dimensions! Wicked cool!”

On impulse, Reggie jumped into the black circle. “Im coming professor!” He yelled before he felt a torrent rushing across his non existent body.

Within the blink of an eye he fell upon a black rock surface, hot to the touch. He gasped for his breath, and looked first at his hands, making sure his body was intact. And then he looked up. . .

All around the poor soul was the most foul creatures anyone could imagine, with centipede legs and spider mandibles. They slithered and crawled their way across an infinite plain of lava and desolate rock. They stood on the ground, they stood on the ceiling, and in the eye of any beholder… one look upon it would be enough to shatter the mind.

Standing over him, deep in black shadow stood the most ominous creature of them all. A red boned giant with horns… a tail… picking the abominations right off the landscape like gummy worms and popping them into his mouth… which was no more than another portal of infinite razor sharp teeth spinning around like a blender. Its numerous eyes of all manner looked straight down at Reggie and it let out a deep shockwave groan. Then it reached down with its giant hands and grasped them around Reggie, snapping his bones and burning his flesh in the process.

“Dammit! I just wanted to play football!” Were the last words Reggie would ever say. And no one would hear them against the spine curling sound of teeth grinding together. . .