Chapter One - Am I Just In A Dream?

For the last few weeks, I just keep asking myself the same question over and over - is this all a big dream? Being in ancient China without a watch or calendar, I'm unaware of the year or if I'm in AD or BC. All I know is it's not my world. I'm not some sort of super badass in my own world, but in this world I am strong.

I found myself walking for I don't know how long. I found a number of people being attacked by wolves and was completely convinced at that point I was in a dream. So I figured I would wake myself up by grabbing a big stick and attacking the wolves. But then something funny happened. I found myself running faster than I ever had outside of video games. I attacked the wolves and I actually caused them major damage. One of them jumped me from behind, but I barely even noticed it. I swung it to the ground and killed it. The people shouted "You must be a Musou Warrior, what Lord do you serve, have you gone to fight Dong Zhuo?"

I noticed a small irritation on my back. I asked them to look at it and they said I got a small scratch from where the wolf attempted to bite me to death. "Only a small scratch," I said, "it's only a minor scrape especially to a Musou Warrior." I asked them to speak English but they responded, "What's English?"
"It's the language we have been speaking."
"We speak Mandarin," they replied.

I decided yep I'm definitely in the dream. At that point, I started running. I ran right into a tree; it hurt a bit, but I actually broke the tree in half. Some people showed up who I did not save from the wolves, and they were asking me what was going on. The others started saying "The Musou Warrior saved us."

"What country is this and where's the nearest phone?" I said out loud.

One of the townspeople said "You are in China, and what is this phone you're talking about? Is it just something you Romans use a lot?"

Great, I'm somehow stuck in China and I don't know the year. What am I supposed to do now? I said to myself. I started answering the questions they were asking me. "I'm from Canada, over a great ocean. My ancestors are technically from the same land mass as here but I think that continent is actually farther than where my home land is from China. I don't know for sure, I'm not an expert in distance of countries."

After a long and confusing conversation, they prepared a small feast when we got to town. It was a small village, so I had to agree. It was much smaller than my hometown, and there was no technology anywhere. I was thinking if this is my life now, I am going to be so bored, but I got offered a lot of free food. It took some adjustment for me to actually eat things because it was new to me. I was never normal to begin with, as I've always had Asperger's. I'm supposed to take medication but I'm not going to be able to in ancient China.

So I guess nobody knew about the calendar I kept calling the Christian calendar. I never did find out if its AD or BC. And then I discovered the weirdest ability of all - I'm super strong now. When a bunch of heavy wooden blocks were about to smash a kid, I pushed the young child out the way. I'm thinking either I just committed suicide or maybe I'll wake up, but those heavy blocks did not even hurt me. They say "See, you must be a Musou Warrior. Can you protect our small village from the evil Dong Zhuo, great hero?" I told them my name is Mike, and it's probably the best kind of job I can do for now. I told them I never really had a real job, I was on disability back home . They were laughing a lot. They did not believe someone so mighty could be considered disabled where I come from.

I was clearly not from this world, but I managed to do a number of odd jobs around the town with superhuman strength. With all the work I was able to do, it allowed the townspeople more free time. So I entertained them with all the knowledge I gained from watching TV. The kids found me hilarious and adults did tell me sometimes not to go on about certain topics, and I obeyed. I did not want to cause any problems in the town I was living in now. This lasted for about a month, I think, and until the town faced its biggest danger of all. I was actually the first one to notice, because I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. I noticed the fire off in the distance and decided to wake the town mayor. Knowing how dangerous it was, the mayor said to evacuate everyone we can. He started shouting. I knew immediately that the fire was super dangerous and I probably would have run in if I did not spend weeks realizing that I probably was not in a dream at this point.

Due to my loud voice, I was able to get everybody awake in less than 4 minutes. After everyone got out of bed quickly, the mayor immediately told me to grab water buckets, and started getting everything wet around the perimeter of the town. I managed to save the town from catching fire for about 15 minutes. Luckily, everyone was able to evacuate. Money and valuables were able to be rescued by the townspeople before the town went up in flames. Nobody died, everyone had clothing to travel with, but the town was destroyed.

As I saw the town being destroyed by flames, I had no idea what was going to happen next. I turned to the mayor, and asked, "What happens now?"

At that point I felt something pulling at my pants. Looking down, I saw it was the children. They said to me, "Can't you fix this, Mosou Warrior? Can't you make this damage go away?"

I don't have the knowledge to make that decision, and the news came from the mayor. He decided that we will have to move to one of the cities. Some of the people protested, "We will just be putting ourselves in the danger of the Warlords and Dong Zhuo fighting."

But the mayor said, "Only a city can accommodate so many people at once. Our hometown is destroyed. We do not have the resources to build another village before the winter."

We started going towards the city. I figured if I can get everybody to the city, maybe I could earn some extra money and use some future knowledge to benefit Chinese Society in general. Not like I can make democracy happen, but maybe I could increase how much stuff they can plant or how quickly they can harvest. I know a bit about that stuff. We travelled as fast as we could, and I often had to kill animals with whatever I could find. It wasn't really that dangerous. I beat the crap out of them, and they could barely do anything to me. We had to sleep in shelters, but I usually got a good night sleep, despite being the main source of defense. While they decided to have people on Sentry Duty, and to have somebody beside me to wake me up, they had to wake me up a few times. No one got killed.

One day after we left for the day, we went up a big hill and saw the city from a distance. I was thinking nice city, maybe get to look around but we probably should spend at least a few days after I get there with the townspeople who take good care of me. Some of them said I might need to get a job or join one of the military armies. When I asked about it, I wasn't thinking I'd probably do that. I like saving people, but had never really been much for military outside of playing video games. It was going to be a few hours to get down to the city. That's when the biggest action happened, and I wished that this really was a dream. That was when I killed somebody.