Hey all! I know that I promised bi-weekly updates on ROF, but I had to pull myself out of the gutter with my idea for a story came to me shortly after finishing The Ship of the Dead, and I thought I would put something out to see what reactions I could get about it. On a side note, ROF WILL be updating on a bi-weekly basis once the next chapter comes out, which (no promises) should be out by the end of the month. Enjoy!

Magnus

I was ever so rudely awakened by my good friend TJ, who looked at me and shook me again. "It's Thursday. Get up and get dressed or you'll be late." He was acting a little odd, but that was probably from what was coming. Thursdays were dragon days, and they were not the best times. But Magnus I can hear you saying Fighting dragons as an immortal super warrior sounds amazing! Why would you be sad? Well kind sir or mam, fighting a dragon is not all it's cracked up to be, especially since not everyone wants to hold hands and work together.

TJ still hadn't left the room. "I forgot to mention." he said. "We've got a new hallmate. He's…. Interesting. I'll let you make your own first impressions." He then walked out of my room, muttering about halos.

Needless to say, I was confused. The last time we got a new hallmate, it was Alex, and that was a can of worms that I was not interested to open at the time. You don't talk behind the back of your close friend/partner. Unless, of course, you wanted to find out what it was like to not have the lower part of you body attached anymore.

I grabbed a fresh pair of clothes and showered. I was ready for whatever the gods had decided to throw at me. Or so I thought.

[Wait, Wrong Afterlife!]

As I walked into the hallway, I saw the majority of my hallmates out and about, all staring at this new hallmate. I slowly walked forward to find out who this mystery person was. Boy, was I unprepared.

The new hallmate was relatively tall, with hair that defied gravity and looked vaguely like a palm tree. He was wearing what looked like some kind of uniform, but it was hard to tell, since it was torn to shreds. He had scars all over his body, which was built with muscle that I had only previously seen of people like Halfborn. His onyx eyes were looking at all of us wearily. When he looked at me, it seemed like he was analyzing any threat or moe we could make against him. It probably didn't help that I had a floating sword right next to me.

The strangest thing about him was the thing above his head. It appeared to be a halo, which was strange, because we had none even though we died. It glowed gold and sat about half a foot above his head.

Mallory Keen decided to break the silence. "So, who are you? What's your story?" The man straightened up and sighed. "It doesn't really matter right now. Could you guys direct me to Grand Kai's place? I'd go myself, but I can't quite seem to remember the way back. You guys are obviously dead, I can sense it. So where are your halos?" He gasped. "Wait… did I fall into hell again? Man, King Yemma's gonna kill me...again."

I stared at this strange man. "Who's King Yemma? And who's the Grand Kai?" "Wait hold on." Alex interjected. "What do you believe in?" The man stared at us for the longest time, a very confused look as we began to mutter to ourselves.

His shoulders sagged for a second as he said "Okay, I'll bite. Where are we? This place is definitely not familiar." "You're in Valhalla, the place where Odin's warriors wait for Ragnarok so they can fight one last time to defend the city of Asgard."I expected him to freak out, or at the very least stutter. He started at us for a bit "Huh. That's...not what I expected."

Before he could continue, TJ returned. "Guys, we have to go right now. The fight starts in 5 minutes," The strange man chuckled "If we've got 5 minutes then I might as well go change and wash up. Ooh and eat! I feel like I haven't eaten in ages!" I went a little slack jawed. This guy was crazy.

Apparently Alex was crazier. "Come on, Palm Tree, we've got places to be. You can eat later." "But I just got here!" He said rather indignantly, before giving in. "Hold on. Did you just call me Pine Tree? I have a name, you know." "Well, we'd love to hear it." Alex said, and I could hear the annoyance sinking in. We started on towards the arena.

"You asked me what my story was. Do you want me to give you the long version o the short version?" Mallory grunted "Short version. We don't have much time." The man sighed "Thank Kami. We would have been here for a while if I did the long version."

"Let's get this out of the way quickly. I'm an alien. My race is was known as the saiyans, and we were once a proud warrior race who conquered entire planets to sell to the highest bidder under the command of Lord Frieza. I don't remember any of this, since I was a child at the time. I was sent to planet Earth with one mission: to cleanse all life from the planet. Thankfully, I fell and hit my head, so I forgot about that. I loved my life as best as I could until my brother showed up. Is name was Raditz, and he kidnapped my son and demanded I purge the planet before I could get him back. I teamed up with my former rival and we killed him.I died in the process."

"Well that's nice and all…" "I'm not done." The man interrupted. "This is much longer than that. You see, when i died, I began to train in the Otherworld, and my friends wished me back with the Dragon Balls. More on them later."

This continued on for some time. I payed attention, but it seemed unbelievable. Alien tyrants? Evil bugmen robots? Gum demons of death? That couldn't be true. However, I would've said the same thing about gods before I died, so I guess I had to believe him. I stated to listen again.

"Then me and Vegeta began to fight. It was intense, but it was one of the best fights I've ever had. He the knocked me out after that and preceded to suicide bomb Majin Buu to try and kill him, but it didn't work."

It sounded like he was going to continue, but we had arrived. "So, this is the place where I get to fight people?" He asked. He sounded like a kid in a candy store."Yes, this is the place." TJ said. "Hey,where's your weapon?" Alex asked. "Oh!" the man exclaimed. He preceded to pull a pill-like object out of his pants. He clicked it, and out came a red stice 2 feet long. "This is the power pole!" he said, seeming rather proud of himself.

"More like the Puny Pole." Alex muttered, and the man looked at her. He then shouted "Power Pole Extend!" and the pole became 15 feet long. Alex shut up on the spot.

I waked up to the man. "We never got your name. What is is?" "Oh yea!"he said, and put his hand behind his head and grinned. "My name is Son Goku!"

Well, here's the first chapter. What do you think?