For the Glory

Beware Portals Opening Beneath Your Bed

     Jameson lay in his bed, staring blankly at the ceiling. He wasn't thinking about anything in particular, he was just waiting to fall asleep.
    Suddenly, he saw a reflection of colourful lights coming from just near the foot of his bed. Jameson sat upright and crawled to the end of the bed to investigate, letting his legs hang haphazardly from the iron footboard.
     Underneath Jameson's bed was what appeared to be a circle of blazing colours on the floor, closely resembling the portals in various older video games that he played.
     Two hands reached out from the center of the portal, gripping Jameson's ankles firmly. Thrashing wildly, Jameson was dragged into a strange, blinding abyss. Finally, he could see what had snatched him.
     The thing looked for the most part like a human, with a few key differences. First, two scaly wings sat tucked beneath its shoulder blades. Also, the thing's eyes were totally black; no white, no iris, no evident pupil. Just black.
    Raising a finger to its thin lips, the thing muttered, "Come on. You're going to help me settle a bet." With that, he dragged Jameson on through the abyss until they arrived into what looked like a bird's eye view of a large city. It was then that Jameson realized that they had been walking on thin air, and were now in free fall towards the glass buildings.