What Happened When the Portals Opened on Earth

It had been happening for thousands of years, maybe even tens of thousands. A simple little planet somewhere with a sapient species or two or more inhabiting it and then portals will start to appear scattered over the surface and monsters will come through once these portals grew big enough.

If the inhabitants were lucky enough, the mana that spilled through into their world would give certain members powers they could use to combat the monsters and if enough were able to do so, when the masters of the monsters came through, the battle would be joined.

Of course if there were not enough heroes, hunters, warriors or mages, to fight back, well the masters quickly had another planet to harvest and inhabit.

Earth. A small forest in some country, it didn’t matter which one just yet. A glimmer of light started to appear just above the ground and with a sharp crack, a small portal opened up. It silenced everything around the area and when nothing else happened, sound and movement started to pick up again.

A rabbit was hopping along and didn’t take notice of where it was going and when the fox leaped at it, the reaction took the rabbit sideways and right through the portal. The fox was confused as it’s meal had vanished and the smell took it towards the sparkly thing in the air. Curiosity and hunger took the fox through the portal and it too vanished from Earth.

This event was happening in hundreds of places all over the surface of earth. Small portals about 50 cm in diameter opening up and just floating there in mid air and sometimes, something from Earth went through the portal. So far, nothing had come through them to Earth. Yet.

Weeks went by and the portals grew each day. Just a bit but they all got larger and now they were about 150 cm across and a purple mist had been coming out of them and diffusing into the air. This was mana and it was making changes to the plants and animals around the portals.

The plants were growing faster and bigger. So were some of the animals and some of the predators were showing increasingly strange behavior as they slept near the portals as if they were giving off warmth or something.

In the towns and cities, the humans had also discovered these portals and they were being investigated by various agencies and lots of data was being discovered by the day. There was a bit of a problem when they started trying to send drones or cameras through the portals where the signals cut off instantly and ropes, cables and tethers were cut as soon as the drone or cameras went through it.

They hadn’t gotten to the stage of sending anything living through but it wouldn’t be long as they had seen rats, cats and dogs accidentally vanish into the portals.

By the time the portals were almost 2 meters across, something came out of a portal and fell to the ground. This was in a desert area and there was no one around to see this creature appear. It was struggling to breathe and eventually a scorpion came close to it and as it looked on, the scorpion stung it, like they do, and killed the creature almost instantly.

As the minutes and hours passed, more and more creatures would come through the portals and some would almost instantly die after gasping for a few seconds while others would struggle to move across the ground. Others would meet their fate at the stingers, claws or teeth of various animals they encountered. None of the creatures that came through survived more than three hours before dying, but more and more creatures continued to come through the portals.

In the cities and towns that the portals were situated, the same thing would happen. A creature would come through, and struggle to move or they would die on the spot. At the observed portals, the humans were shocked to see these creatures coming through and the police or military took over.