Morning

"RISE AND SHINE TINKY WINKEYS!" Boops shouted banging around in Jason, Perseus, and Arjuna's headspace.

Jason slowly opened his eyes groaning as he looked around at his surroundings. He was sitting on the floor leaning against the couch.

Sunlight streaked through the windows of the apartment and the sound of birds chirping could be heard outside mixed in with loud snores.

Jason looked back to see Perseus snoring away on the top of the couch. He had a content look on his face as he hugged a pillow and muttered nonsense in his sleep. Arjuna lay on the carpet floor with a blanket covering him. He had a smile on his face as he tossed around and even rolled a few feet away from where he was originally.

Jason stretched his arms up letting out a huge yawn, he debated with himself on whether he should get up or not. And finally, he groggily stood up and walked over to the kitchen. Rubbing his eyes he opened the fridge and grabbed some ingredients.

Soon eggs and bacon were frying in the pan, and the smell slowly wafted through the apartment. Jason flipped over one of the eggs being careful not to break the yoke. He looked out of the window to see the city landscape.

The tall buildings that towered from the sky, the birds flying overhead the bright yellow sun shining down. The cars and pedestrians moving around in their daily lives.

The potted plants lined up on the apartment windows across from theirs, the bright reflection of the windows. A smile passed through Jason's face. He had spent so much time in WOW running through forests and medieval-style cities that he had almost forgotten the charm of modern civilizations.

Jason thought back to the last moment where he had really taken a moment to step back and look at all that he had done. Perhaps it was right before he got out of rose knight training. Man, that felt like forever ago, when the silver wings guild still consisted of just Perseus and Jack. Or when Arjuna was still just gathering herbs and learning alchemy skills.

Now, Jason was a rose knight, Perseus's silver wings guild had exceeded 100 members though most of them were NPCs, they even had a slightly famous party join their ranks, the Parthenon party along with the items and gold that the golden pig group had sponsored them. Arjuna had taken a small trip out of the city of Dawn to continue his quest for the Nightfall Archer skill and had met a trustworthy companion. Jason had joined Perseus in taking over some of the ripper gang's territory and resources.

And the guild house, which Perseus and Jason still hadn't named yet, was starting to look more and more like an actual guild house with a bulletin board with quests and the main hall to rest at.

They also had guild carriages that Perseus could use to transport resources, though the only thing that Perseus had a lot of currently was fish. Jason chuckled to himself remember the pure yell of joy that Natalie gave off when she saw there were more willing hands available to help her with the many projects she had planned to make the silver wings guild more homely and harmonious.

The garden that she was making was already showing its fruit and the wolves though they absolutely hated vegetables were willing to lend a hand and guard the garden against any critters that threatened to eat the precious stalks and leaves up.

Paul the ax-wielding man was already organizing the freed slaves to help around the guild house, Jason had made sure that they were all well-rested, but every single one of them insisted that they were ready to work.

Jason could only helplessly watch as Paul led a group of men into the forest to cut down some trees while the woman and children went to either help Natalie with the garden or play with the guild members and wolves, who welcomed the coming of new hoomans and playmates.

And of course, the Parthenon party was already combing through the woods, Peppers and Uranius were the most passionate each muttering to themselves

"fluffyyyyyy"

and

"cool wolvesssss"

As they looked through every nook and cranny for signs of wolves. The wolves that they had brought paced behind them curious and confused at what the strange hoomans were doing.

Somehow, the guild house which seemed extremely empty and longly started to be filled with noise, light, and people. Gardens bloomed at the sides under the careful watch of numerous people, and many people stood in the courtyard next to the barracks training with loud concentrated yells.

Perseus had also gained the slave merchants' property and money, and to be honest, it wasn't as much as he had thought only around 100 gold or so. But what was really interesting was that the mansion that Perseus and Jack had found the slaves was now in Perseus's name.

Perseus and Jason had a few plans for that mansion. It was situated right next to the slums in Jack's territory but it also was next to the residential area and merchant area, sitting perfectly almost perfectly on the borders of each district. Jason was thinking about using that mansion as a place for player members of the silver wings guild who were too lazy to move all the way out to the guild house could stay, it would also be an excellent place to start announcing their recruitment.

Perseus also thought it could be a great place for Jack to command and order his men around and a hub for his information gathering. He could almost use it as an HQ for his operations in the rippers guild. Speaking of which, Jack using the momentum of the past victories pushed into another territory with the help of the men of Jejeegaboo who quickly switched sides once they saw how easily their former leader was taken out and the funds of Gegeegaboo which helped Jack to get many members to betray their former leader.

Jack had laid claim to another territory leaving only six red territories left out of the territory that the former executive had. Jack was already halfway there to become the next reaper executive.

Once Jack was a ripper executive, Perseus would focus on bringing the rest of the underworld of Herdita under their control. But that was far in the future.

The smell of bacon and eggs awoke the two slumbering twins. Perseus was the first to snap his eyes open and sit up like a certain blood-sucking monster rising out of its coffin. His eyes were half-closed and he squinted at the sunlight. His blond hair shone in the light and his light blue eyes darted around like heat-seeking missiles looking for the source of food.

Seeing Jason flipping the last egg and turning over the last piece of bacon he threw off the blanket covering him and rushed to the kitchen table and sat expectantly folding his hands and looking at Jason with gleaming eyes.

Arjuna, who had gone to sleep much later than the both of them, rolled over across the carpet floor abandoning his blanket and warm comfy spot.

He kept on rolling until he got to the cold tile kitchen floor where he pushed with his arms vaulting himself in the air. He landed with both feet on the ground and then casually walked over to where Jason was cooking the food.

He grabbed a fork along the way and snuck behind Jason. As quietly as possible he made a small reach to the pan and stuck his fork into a piece of crispy bacon.

In a quick burst of speed Arjuna simultaneously moved the fork to his mouth and his mouth to the fork.

Jason was in the middle of getting plates and could only roll his eyes as Arjuna ate the piece of bacon with gusto and relish.

Perseus sat at the kitchen table watching Arjuna with an open mouth. Galaxies and stars whizzed by Perseus's head as he watched Arjuna eat the bacon. Slow realization hit Perseus and he too stood up and walked towards the pan of sizzling bacon grabbing a fork along the way.

Arjuna realized what Perseus was planning and intercepted Perseus holding up his now empty fork in front of him in a fencing position.

Perseus looked at the fork pointed at his chest and then at Arjuna who stood like a guardian in front of its treasure.

Perseus looked down at the fork in his hands and slowly raised it up narrowing his eyes as he looked at Arjuna.

Sparks flew between the two and they took a few steps towards each other and clashed with their forks.

Perseus assaulted Arjuna with a multitude of stabs with his fork

Arjuna was quick and fast parrying each stab that Perseus gave. But in the end, Perseus was the swordsman and Arjuna was the archer.

The fork of Arjuna was sent flying and it landed clattering on the kitchen floor.

With glee, Perseus passed the dejected Arjuna and leaped towards the pan of bacon.

But then an outstretched hand stopped him, the hand grabbed into Perseus's face and held him there as Perseus swung his arms in large circles trying to reach the pan.

A grin passed Jason's face and turned Perseus's attention to the kitchen table with a nod where Arjuna was already sitting with a smug expression covering his face.

"go to the table or else I'll take away a portion of your meal"

Perseus gave Arjuna a look of "we will settle this later" and quietly sat down at the kitchen table waiting for Jason to finish the rest of breakfast.