"Arthur, I need a cheese sandwich and two coffees for table five."
"Coming out!"
Hey, it's me, Arthur. Guess what? There really is a next life. After dying i found myself waking up was a 20 years old guy in the middle of New York. I panicked, but after calming down a bit and searching on my body I found a wallet with an ID, some cash and memories in my head that didn't belong to me, memories about a house left behind by my dying parents. So i had to accept that i got a new life and finding out where i was.
My search didn't take a lot of time, not with that big tower in the middle of New York with the name STARK on top. Didn't want to believe that I was in the marvel universe. And when i found out, i realised that my wish of an ordinary life was over, and that i wasn't a normal human anymore.
What? You aren't human anymore? How did you find out? Well after i got home, a small apartment in harlem, getting hungry and getting something to eat, it tasted kinda bland… not bad without flavor, just bland. And when i looked in the mirror i saw a white haired, gold eyed man, handsome, much more that my old appearance. The only thing wrong was the damn pointy canines on my mouth. Scary? Yes, I didn't want shield or something even worse to come for me. Afraid? A little, i mean, i don't want to end being a bloodthirsty monster.
But if I found something wrong was that, first, i didn't get affected by the sun and second, i didn't get that urge to drink blood. After some testing in an abandoned factory in the suburbs I found that my physical attributes, like strength, speed and durability were of the charts, and when i mean of the charts, i mean lifting and abandoned train easily, and i somehow could do magic. How do I know magic? I didn't, but when i tried the knowledge just came to me, just it isn't the marvel kind of mystic arts but more like harry potter and fantasy kind of magic.
Took me two days of locking myself home to accept that, but as a fan of MCU I got happy too and to fullify my wish of living and somewhat ordinary life, I had to leave the house, and get a job. Found one in caffe not far from my apartment, not a big one with a huge paid salary but for me who didn't have any experience in working was just right.
The owner was kind, he taught me how to cook like a pro, how to serve the clients and to make a good cup of coffee. With the salary that I got I found myself and dojo for autodefense, knowing well that i have to work hard to survive what is going to come and learn some combat. Gotta say, vampire instincts are amazing, the instructor told me that i was born for it.
And with this, two years passed, it's now 2008 and if i remember right, hulk is going to destroy my job around the first half of the year.
Well…so that i don't lose my ordinary life, gotta stop it, somehow.