A older stocky man with short dark brown hair turning white on the edges , long beard sprinkled with white, green eyes and being 178cm tall. Lost in the pages of a book on his porch of his small house drinking coffee Mr. Quinn hears yelling next door.
"Sigh" (the neighbors are having another argument loud enough for me to hear along with half the neighborhood.)
Thinking this Mr. Quinn looks up to see the yelling pair walk out their front door. The man a averages looking skinny fellow with long brown hair named Jayden is a bit of a narcist and the woman Lacey a short blonde with freckles. They must not want to wake up their new born not that its going to help much with the volume of their voices. How ever looking over Quinn sees the Johnsons kids were playing soccer outside now sitting in the front yard with eyes as big as dinner plates watching the two scream at each other.
Mr. Quinn:( These two are adults and still decide yelling is a good form of communication?) Looking at the scared kids on the lawn Quinn figures he should try to mediate the argument. Getting up while putting the book down he starts to head over to talk to the young couple.
Jayden: Who cares if I slept with Jen at work who are you to say what I can and can't do!?
Lacey: Who am I?! I'm your girlfriend who just had your baby last month!
Jayden: so what you baby trap me and I cant live my life and be happy?!
Lacey: we have been together for three years and you think this is some baby trap?!
Quinn: whoa whoa you two this isn't the place to have an argument like this please go back inside to argue! (not that this need be an argument one of you obviously should be apologizing to the other.)
Jayden: Who the F*** are you to tell me what to do!
Quinn: I'm a concerned neighbor who would like you two to not disturb the neighborhood with all this yelling.
Jayden: What you think your better than me ?!
Quinn: (of course I'm not some guy who would think so highly of myself to think cheating on my partner is ok but I better not deliberately set him off) No I'm not better than you I am simply older than you and been around for a while. You two don't want to have the neighborhood talking about your problems also taking a short breath before replying to each other could help both of you organize your thoughts before one of you say something you shouldn't.
"Jayden glares at Quinn"
Jayden: you know taking a second sounds like a good idea...
Jayden walks into the house for a second as Quinn looks over to see Lacey crying and now stands there awkwardly not sure what to do too "comfort" someone. How does that work being 54 having lived alone for three decades after his last break up at 24 years old his social skills are sorely lacking.
Jayden: You think your better than me prove it!
Jayden is heading to the door with a gun in hand and Quinn notices right away being able to see through the window by the door. Thank god Jayden is dumb enough to call out first and dumber still to come out the door while trying to raise his gun. Most people would have just shot through the window but maybe he thought that coming out to face Quinn would be cool?
Quinn realizes he cant let him point the gun at him but thankfully he is at arms length from the door and Jayden is walking out without the gun at the ready. Quinn kicks the door slamming Jayden's hands between the door and frame instantly making him drop the gun! Jayden screams and barges out the door yelling "I'll kill you" while heading for the gun. Quinn can't let him get the gun so he wraps Jayden in a bear hug to keep him from moving. Even though Quinn is older he is defiantly bigger than Jayden.
Quinn: call the police this fella is nuts!
Jayden: Let go of me! So I can Grab my gun and KILL YOU!
like Quinn was going to do that
Lacey: Let go of him right now!
Quinn: What?! he wants to kill me and you want me to just let him go?!
Lacey: I said LET HIM GO!
Quinn: (baffled but not ready to let go of the deranged fella in front of him) Lacey please call the polic....
BANG BANG BANG!
Lacey must have grabbed the gun while Quinn and Jayden were fighting and decided to help "her man". Jayden finally able to break free of Quinn's weakening arms brushes past to get to lacey.
"Smack"
Jayden slaps Lacey while taking the gun away. With the force of Jayden pushing past Quinn is turned around and falls against the wall by the door so he can see Jayden lift the gun and shoot Lacey twice in the leg while yelling some profanities at her.
Quinn: (well maybe I should have just left well enough alone? but to die for such a stupid reason cause I didn't want them arguing in the street? what kind of un just world did we live in? I hope the Johnsons kids went inside before seeing this... )
The last thing Quinn see's is Jayden turning to him with a sneer and raising the gun again.
"Bang"
As Quinn's life turned to nothing many thoughts went through his mind simple ones like who is going to cover his shift at work on Monday? did he lock the door when he went to read on the porch? is some one going to finish that coffee or is it gonna become cold and poured out? to more real thoughts of what kind of life did I live? Who will remember me? Why didn't I try harder to find love and have that family I always hoped to have when I was a young man?
In darkness it seemed Quinn had all the time in the world to think of all his regrets in his life of all the excuses he had for hiding within his quiet life alone.
Then there was pain! like his soul was being ripped apart by thousands of knives. But why pain is only for the living right? Quinn was surprised by this pain unsure what brought it on. However he knew that an outlet was needed! As a man a good shout should be be enough to shake this pain for a second and re organize his mind!
Quinn: "WHAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAAAA" ( am I crying?)
man: Hush now little one eat more to grow strong.
In a small home a lanky man with wild brown eyes dark hair 190cm tall fed a baby crushed peas while a woman with light brown hair and green eyes lay weeping in a bed near by. The mans name was Bao Quan and the woman was his wife Bao Hua.
Quan: Silence woman! I'm doing this for him I cant train his body yet but his soul can be strengthened!
Hua: "weeping" you will kill him like our first born son! You know that kids who haven't opened their meridians shouldn't be eating soul splitting peas!
Quan: If he doesn't get a head start how is he to bring the Bao family to new heights!
as Quan talked he kept placing any peas that fell out of the babies mouth back in. As Hua returned to weeping.
Quan: I'll only feed him the two spoons then you can nurse him and I wont give him more till next week. (After making sure the baby ate the full two spoons) There he got it all down now look after him I'm going out to train.
Quan left the crying baby by Hua and left but she didn't move to grab the baby thinking it wouldn't be long before the crying stopped. However as Quinn sat there trying to make it through the pain he started to understand he seemed to be trapped in a babies body the pain being to much to focus before. As his body digested the "food" the pain stopped growing and he could start to bring himself together to figure out what was happening.
Quinn: This pain is from something not normal? This feeling of my soul being cut seems to be subsiding right now I'll need to meditate to try something to heal this pain. As he started practicing meditation to relieve his soul with his mind he grew quiet with concentration.
After a time of silence Hua finally stopped crying.
Hua: (when my children turn six months old that monster tries to feed them a food for young cultivators that is to strengthen their divine soul but how can a baby soul survive the splitting? The soul splitting peas literally split the soul and damages the edges and when the soul heals it becomes more robust but a baby cant survive. Will I ever get away from this place?... I better not leave this corpse on the bed.)
As she picked up the baby she realized something wrong the child was quiet but still breathing?
Hua: Why is the baby quiet and still breathing? Is he scared he will be fed more peas if he cries? You poor thing mother is sorry to bring you into that mans house but you still need to eat to live its all I can do for you.
Quinn while meditating was slowly feeling better but then terror struck.
Quinn: I'm eating something what is it? Is my soul gonna be damaged again?! O.... no its just milk well I am a baby so that's alright.
Barely able to open his eyes now that the pain subsided a bit Quinn was able to see snow white peaks and realized what he was "eating". Looking up he could see a woman that reminded you of a farmers daughter with a couple freckles and green eyes framed by light brown hair. A charming woman really but her eyes seemed rather puffy must be the mother of this body thought Quinn.
Quinn was very confused as to what was going on he knew that this was a strange situation to be in and he needed to start figuring out what was happening around him as soon as possible. However now that the pain had resided some and he was being fed normally he felt tiered and drifted off to sleep in this "new world"?