It was a boring day at my job, even though it was Friday and I was going to join my friends for our usual after work drinking session and get hammered for Saturday. Mind you, my friends and I aren't the smartest people but we were a tight group despite our arguments.
Ah but I'm skipping a bit ahead aren't I? Well let me introduce myself a bit, the name is Roland Zhuge Yie Wu. A Chinese American who has a large fascination on myths and legends. However, I also have a basic day job as a accountant in an accounting firm, hey you got to pay the bills somehow. One of my quirks as it were is that I'm also a big Wushu nut, in fact I was saving up to visit the ruins of what is considered the 'Earthly' Wudang-Sha or in English, Wudang Mountian, the 'birthplace' of Chinese martial arts. And don't think I don't see the irony that is my name since it translate to Wild (Yie) Martial Arts (Wu).
So yeah every Firday, I get together with a group of my friends both fron and out of work. Among our group are two whom I considered my best friends, Arnold and Gale.
Now Arnold, despite his rather common name as he puts it is the more insane member of our group, despite being a firefighter. Not in the terms of seeking adventures or some sexual problems or anything but more along the lines he was a HUGE Power Rangers and Super Sentai fan. He was one of those people if you got him talking about it, he would never stop. I didn't like the Power Ranger stuff or the Super Sentai lore but once in a blue moon I pop over to Arnold's place during the weekend to watch whatever Sentai he wants to put on. I like watching the wire-fu and the technics deployed by the suit actors, especially the Megazord actors since they have the hardest jobs of all. If you asked me I would say among all the Sentai stuff that Arnold has shown me I like Dairanger and Gekiranger the most among all of them since they are based on Martial Arts, however loosely.
The other, Gabrielle or Gale as she prefers, was a cook for a hotel and how she got by was, unfortunately for me, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. She was a huge Pegasister and will never forget to watch at least two episodes while hanging with us, claiming it was one of the only times she could relax after work. I'm usually faltered since she was spending time with us but sometimes it can be grating. Since some of the others who I'm not so close with are hardcore Bronies and me and Arnold get left out once in a while. I was never really interested in the pony stuff but I would keep enough attention as to not enure her wrath by miss-naming one of the 'Mane Six' or something. That and to also know what to buy for her birthday present.
Now this time around I wasn't planning on getting drunk with the guys because I had a lunch date with one of my co-workers the next day. Surprisingly both Arnold and Gale were not as well since Arnold said he wanted to go to a convention in town the next day and he had invited Gale to join him. I was rather happy that two of my friends are getting together, or at least I was if it wasn't for the asshole behind me.
"Hey Roland," said the idiot sitting at the table behind me," So big day tomorrow eh?"
"Shut up Steve," I said. That was Steve, a long time rival back in the firm since we both were interns. He and I could not get along even if the world depended on it. Unfortunately, he is also the reason I died. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's talk about Steve for a moment, Despite our long standing rivalry and his asshole-ness towards me, he does has one redeeming quality, he never does anything untowardly to women, even if they deserve it. Thinking about it now, he and I never really did have a good reason to dislike each other, expect for promotions that is. He always joined us at least once a month for these outing and always somehow ends up drunk no matter how much he actually drinks. This was one of those times.
Now this night was pretty fine despite of Steve's jibes at me, and all of us were leaving the bar when Steve noticed this two guys in suits were harassing one of the waitress. Being the gallant idiot he is, and I also assume he was slightly drunk as well, he confronted the two. After a few heated words, one of them pulled out a gun. Before Steve could do anything, the guy pointed the gun at him and was about to pull the trigger. Unfortunately, my last act was to push the idiot out of the way and take the bullet for him.
Now your probably wondering why did I take a bullet for someone I don't like. I still don't know why I did it. Impulse? Some deep connection with my hated rival? I don't know. What I do know? I collapsed, the police and ambulance was called. And I blacked out before they even loaded me into the gunnery.
However I 'woke' up and watched myself get loaded in the ambulance and was driven to the hospital. I watch as the paramedics tried to keep me alive but even I knew that I was dead. By the time we arrived at the hospital, I was pronounced Dead on Arrival.
Now I'm stuck in what I assume is limbo, or something or another... oh hey a light. maybe that's heaven... or Valhalla for all I know. Heck I wouldn't even mind if I get sent to some other place. Who knows what mind need a accountant like myself.
Well you know what they say not to do, go towards that light.