Backyard Discovery

Chapter 1: From 1865 to 2022.
Maria Tachimi, A member of the Xiaoying Gang was walking through the backyard of the hideout.

There was plants, trees and even outdoor activities for Akara, Patime and Xiu-mei.

”It’s quiet….but….” She sighed until she heard rustling.

The woman’s ears perked up at the sound.

”Who the hell is there? Did you know that we have zero tolerance for intruders?!” Maria yelled, unholstering a gun, then walked towards the source of the sound.

“Okay…whatever it is…” Maria said until she saw a grisly discovery.

It was a man, bleeding and injured, the woman he was with was shaking and wheezing, once she saw the gun, she lifted her arms in the air, she saw another man and woman who appeared to be siblings, the sister was holding her brother tightly to her.

”Don’t shoot me!” The woman with her hands up exclaimed.

Maria noticed she had an Irish accent, the man groaned in Irish Gaelic, confirming the nationality of the unknown four.

She crouched down towards the man, the man had bullet wounds, a torn and bloodied uniform, her stomach churned at the stench of blood and mucus, she saw pus exiting from a wound on his leg.

At the sight, without saying a word, Maria lowered her gun.

Then they heard the door open.

”Maria? Maria?” Longwei’s voice could be heard, “Are you okay? You’re not out here for this….”

Longwei stopped speaking as soon as he saw the shaking woman, the near dead man in her lap and the two siblings holding eachother.

”What the fuck is that?!” Longwei exclaimed. He slowly picked the man up, he noticed the Roman numeral marking for 13, XIII on his arm, the same place Maria had hers.

The man groaned in response, he slowly opened his eyes, and he began to scream and kick wildly.

”Let….LET GO!” He screamed, panicking.

”Let him go! He’s blind!” The woman pleaded, Maria helped the two inside.

”Hungry….” The other man weakly moaned.

”Sssshhhh…..” Maria said softly.

The older man thrashed in Longwei’s arms until he began to tire, the last thing he remembered was him beginning to lose consciousness and his wife gently rubbing his shoulder.

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The older man woke up hours later, he was in pajamas and his wounds tended to, his infected wound on his leg was wrapped, he saw an old Chinese man walk in and two long haired Chinese women behind him, he couldn’t tell…

”Hello…?” The man spoke, his voice a bit croaky from the lack of water

“Nijūichi found you outside…you were in a fucked state.” One of the ‘women’ spoke, The man did a second take in response, one of them was male after hearing his voice.

“Lei…How do you feel?” Zhao asked.

”Sore….” The man replied.

”You have a name?” Zhao asked, being patient with him.

”Michael….Michael McNamara, My wife is Aofie and my two children….Saoirse and Joseph….” He said, “I don’t know how I ended up here….”

”Hey boss! This guy’s a Confederate States Army soldier! And so is his son!” Longwei exclaimed as he ran into the room, “Like holy shit!”

"Hold the damn phone..." Maria said, "Who are you exactly?"

Lei looked at the man, then at Maria.

”Give me your locket.” Lei said, He noted the man looked like a picture Maria had in her pocket.

"Who is that?" Lei asked.

”My ancestor….Michael….oh fuck…” Maria said before stopping, she looked at Michael before rolling up his sleeve, She saw the Roman numeral XIII tattooed on his arm, she looked at her own marking

”Wait? Are you two related?” Longwei asked.

Maria gave a sharp nod, Longwei noticed that Michael didn’t seem to see anything as he seemed to barely react or even look at her.

”He’s….I think he’s blind.” Longwei said, he waved his hand over his eyes, no reaction.

”Well….My grandfather Mikey did tell me he was blind in hot weather.” Maria said

Michael extended his hand out to her.

”Are you…..The World?” He asked.

Maria nodded in response.

”You must be my daughter Mia’s descendant…the locket you’re wearing…..” Michael said, “It’s yours….?”

”Yes, Mia was my great-great-great grandmother.” Maria said, “So that makes you…holy shit…I think I just exposed my Confederate ancestry….”