Kenny heeded Aonaka’s words and laughed, he wouldn’t get burned he was already pretty hot! He had it all already and nnothing could take away his momentum, he had Nas, he had Nas’ dog, he was already in search of a Guild and most importantly he had Nas’ dog. Not wanting to waste anymore time with chit chat, he looked down at his watch and panic set in, “I’ve got a date with Nas in 12 hours! We gotta hurry up!” he looked back at Aonaka and tapped his watch noting the time. It was only morning, not even high noon and he was ready to prep for his hot date. Oh what would he wear? Maybe a tuxedo, or a shirt that was a size too small to show off his bulging muscles, so she could see what else he had for her that bulged. “Hurry Aonaka-kun! I don’t wanna be late! I swear if we don’t get through this fast I’ll make you put on a wig and dress and you can be my date!” he half joked, he had a serious tone, but it was mostly a joke… Aonaka would make a good chick, he stood by that claim and he was going to test it one of these days.

Charging up the hill Kenny took note of the guard, who was taking his sweet time stacking wood on top of wood, Kenny shoved him out of the way and picked up a few pieces of timber from the wood pile and stacked them himself, hastily throwing log onto log stacking them up into whatever the beacon might look like not like he cared, “Good work man, you should take a nap or something.” he shook the guard’s arm as he finished, sweat trickling down his face the cold air giving him goose bumps as the two sensations of wetness and coldness ran down his body.”He looked down the hill, and tapped his foot against the ground as he contemplated what to do next, “uuuuh shit the next beacon! Come on Aonaka!” he stormed down the hill and into the forest, he sprinted as fast as he could, his chest was constricting rampantly it felt like his lungs were on fire but he fought on for his darling purple haired vixen. He tripped on what must have been a twig, or a snake, or a twiggy snake and proceeded to crawl the rest of the way up the hill and feigning exhaustion as he laid on his stomach. “*pant* I’m here to- *pant* build the beacon!” he muttered, breathless, the guard was asleep, and Kenny took note of the large Beacon already lit and signaling the others. “Did I just crawl up here for nothing?” he stood up and looked around the area, “Son of a bi-” he thought about the little bat, it was far too young for such vulgarities, thus the Omega stomped his foot angrily and looked for the next path to the other beacon.

Rolling his neck and stretching his arm he ran down hill once again into the woods, with a war cry he charged forth, and pushed his way through the bush, hopefully this wouldn’t be the only bush he’d be pushing the next couple of days, cough cough aonaka’s cough. He needed help, serious help, but that was besides the point, he charged on. He hit a tree in his rush, bumped into a bush, and toppled a deer. None of which stopped his pursuit of his lovely lady luck.It wasn’t until he arrived at the base of the last hill that he would run up the hill and trip on something. When he turned his back to look at it he saw the corpse of a guard, he swore to himself and stood up dusting his pants off, “Oh buddy, someone did a number on you.” he grabbed the guard by his legs and dragged him to what looked like an incomplete beacon. Kenny looked over the last beacon and drew his sword, “I’ll finish it!” he declared running back into the woods and cutting whatever he saw, bushes, twigs, stumps, his sword was resistant for such a cheaply made piece of metal and not too soon after his declaration he returned with a variety of woods, twigs, logs, sticks, leafy sticks whatever he could cut, either way he tossed it all onto the incomplete beacon and saluted the dead guard, “In honor of you, I finished this.” and with that he kicked the corpse down the hill. To be honest he just wanted to watch it roll.

"Wait a dat--" Aonaka had questions, however the next few minutes would be nothing more than a collective amount of blur mixed in with some hazy memories as Aonaka could only run behind his partner who seemed much eager to start. Holding Panthello Aonaka had to increase his pace, decrease his pace, ask quick questions to get answers but of course then wouldn't get answers as his words would be carried away by the wind.

The duo's first destination beacon was still being worked on, Kenny, who was much bigger than Aonaka would quickly shove the guard out of the way and start working on it himself. Panthello would make a happy screech, fly out and try to help the man by bringing building materials to him. "Oh, okay," Aonaka mumbled, just a few minutes ago they were at the gates, no? Kenny would then compliment the guy and tell him that he can rest. Aonaka could only chuckle. He started off the distance and located the new beacon. When he turned to notify his friend he realised that he was already gone. Aonaka showed his shock and the guard simply pointed at a direction. Nodding a thanks, Aonaka would then start to run towards that situation.

The mage would finally catch up to Kenny and his bat, but the remeeting would be short as the beacon was fine and running. Aonaka was out of breath and was exhaling his soul out. He wanted to ask them to rest but the bigger man had already a different idea. Panthello would come back to his shoulders. Aonaka would have to run behind the man once more.

Now, this beacon was the problematic one. The guard didn't have a head and Aonaka could feel cold sweat running down on his body. He wanted to see what had happened but at the same time, he didn't. He had seen dead bodies before, dead bodies Panthello had created but perhaps this one was just so out of place Aonaka couldn't endure it immediately.

Then Kenny kicked the body. And the headless corpse just rolled down the hill while the duo was quiet. Aonaka couldn't find a comment to make.

They'd leave afterwards and go to castle Phantasm. Aonaka would keep telling Kenny to be respectful as he didn't also want to be a headless corpse. Lord Servas would take them to their room, reward them and listen about the dead guard.

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