Levi sneered at the cowering mess on the ground.

"What's wrong? Don't want to fight?"

His gang surrounded the man as they took turns punching and kicking the flattened figure on the ground.

At first, that guy had tried to fight back. Knowing it was inevitable.

But Levi didn't care. He liked it when they tried to fight back.

But when the man gave him a particularly painful shot to the jaw. Levi snapped and kneed the man in the gut.

Gasping, he tried to stand but before the man could recover, the gang were onto him.

After a few painfully placed kicks in the stomach and head, one of them placed a particularly brutal kick to the head after which the man stopped moving.

"Oi oi. You guys didn't kill him did you?" Levi drawled.

He didn't particularly care, but the police would.

Kneeling next to the mans head. He watched the mans body for signs of movement.

Seeing his chest finally move. He snickered. "Seems you didn't hit him hard enough"

Spotting the man's wallet. He slipped his hand inside the man's jacket and took out the leather wallet.

Levi opened it and looked inside. "Looks like we hit jackpot people!"

Laughing, his crew gathered around him as he took out several hundred dollars.

They cheered and jostled each other good humouredly at the good fortune.

Levi took the money out and pocketed it. Turning away for a moment he started walking to the dumpster to dump the wallet.

When it happened.

A deep boom reverberated through the air and the air started to scream.

"What the f-" Levi started as he turned around. But he halted.

A deep dark portal the size of a garage door lay behind the gang. And they were just as stunned as him.

Rippling in the darkness and tendrils of black writhed from the sides. Dark shapes suggested inside that something lived.

His gang backed away in fear as Levi froze, his eyes wide open in shock.

The shock turned to fear as men poured from the portal.

Some carried nets while the others had black metal bats in their hands, dressed in dark leather and barely making a sound as they moved.

If you come across this story on Amazon, it's taken without permission from the author. Report it.

Levi turned and started running. Behind him, one of his gang screamed.

The man slammed the running teens in the backs with their metal bats, knocking them down. And the ones behind them wrapped them in nets as they lay there pitifully.

Seconds after Levi had begun to run, one of the metal bats were thrown at him and smashed him in his head.

Dazed, he fell to the ground.

Behind him, the rest of his gang were brought down and captured. The man they had been tormenting was also taken.

Wrapped in the nets, they were slung over the muscular men's shoulders who turned back towards the portal.

The portal was smaller than it was before, but Levi's mind couldn't process this. Wrapped so much in fear and shock it was.

The next thing he knew, he was inside the portal.

Darkness screamed and cold tendrils slid down his limbs. A low moan escaped his lips. But he couldn't hear it among the chaos of the screams of the damned.

A unknown scream was heard and the man carrying him suddenly started running, as if in fear.

Levi gasped as the darkness suddenly turned to light.

His eyes struggling to adjust, he looked around.

They were now in a red desert, before him was a large semicircle of caravans. To the side lay iron cages.

Shocked, Levi could only watch as they were carried before the cages and dropped.

Levi struggled to remain upright against the shifting sand as the kidnappers surrounded them in a large circle.

One stepped in and started unwrapping them from the nets after which they then started pushed them towards the small cage doors.

One of his gang screamed and bolted towards a open gap in the circle.

Levi took that chance to try escape in the other direction.

Running, he saw the black portal before him, now barely the size of a window and under it two unrecognizable bodies soaked in blood.

The desert stretched before him, rippling dunes towering far above him.

But he barely made 6 steps from the circle before his head was slammed and he knew no more.