Being awoken from his meditation by the sunlight was much more relaxing now. It felt so much different than just plain sleeping and waking up completely tired. He actually grinned a little because he liked it. He didn't feel any tiredness and was full of energy right at the start.
He went ahead and took a much-deserved shower to freshen up. He actually did forget about that last night. Shame on him. Glew would have chewed him.
After finishing he left his room pretty much just the way he found it.
Because the inn had more floors he needed to get down to get into the canteen where he could get something to eat. They paid for a full course so everyone could relax until they moved out again.
Taking a seat on a table large enough for all of them he waited for the others.
While waiting he checked the next location of the Dragonballs. He noticed something weird on the green screen. It looked like two of the remaining Dragonballs where already in the same place.
It made Darc think a little about it. There was actually someone lucky enough to find two of them and that without the help of this radar. That was a pretty good feat for whoever got them. Now, did he have to steal them from that person?
He hoped it would not come to that but he had to see what would happen. He put away the radar and looked at the display of food.
His group slowly gathered around and everyone started their breakfast. This time everyone looked much more recharged.
"So, where does our trip go next?", asked Glew and looked at Darc.
Darc looked in thought first "Well, we still have four to go. There is one about two days distance to the east and one about three days to the west. And the other ones are even further away. So which we take first is up to you."
Lite was a little bit displeased after hearing that. "Damn, that's pretty far.", he said.
"Yeah, if we go east first then we would have to retrace our footsteps and travel five days. Well, I am for east first. What about you guys?", said Otamo and asked the others.
Glew and Luffa both agreed on that as well. The distance would be the same anyway.
Lite only shrugged his shoulders since he didn't have a real opinion on which way they should go. He only knew it was far and disliked it.
"It's not actually that far, Lite. Remember how long I took to gather them? Just cheer up. Look at the good side. As long as we travel I will mentor you on your martial arts.", said Darc to Lite and tried to cheer him a little up. It seemed like the one who came with the idea of gathering the Dragonballs became quietly bored by the long driving around.
He, in the end, had no real idea of how big the world is. It's already pretty lucky that they found the first three so fast.
Lite smiled and nodded "That´s true. Alright, then let's get back to driving.", he said and looked at Zarid who only sighed.
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They were already on the road again and traveling to the next Dragonball.
All in all after refueling a few times it took them the estimated two days to finally arriving at their destination. It was a pretty dense forest again with a huge lake in it. And it looked like the Dragonball was in it.
"You sure it's in the lake?", asked Lite while looking all over the lake.
"Yep, look.", answered Darc and showed him the blinking dot right in front of them.
"So who is going to jump in and get it?", asked Luffa. She seemed to become more active in conversations the more they spent time together. That surprised her brother but he only approved of that development.
"Don't worry, I will do it.", said Darc. "I could also test out how long I can keep my breath underwater."
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Darc never came to test out his lung capacity and this would be a great opportunity to do so. He stripped down to his shorts and heard a small yelp from behind and looked back. Luffa turned around and Glew was also looking away. Zarid chuckled a bit and Otamo scratched his head. Lite actually was pretty normal and waited with a stare.
Darc only smiled wryly and went into the lake and dived down. While searching for the Dragonball some bigger fish tried to actually eat him so he punched them dead pretty fast.
The water resistance actually was a pretty good training environment. He should note that down. It wasn´t like gravity chamber but still had restricting properties. He could use them to refine his moves.
Looking at his time he needed to take a breath also showed him that he needed to improve that. Maybe he could develop some kinda turtle breathing technique. Come to think about it maybe Roshi does know such a move? After all, he is the turtle hermit even though he said he never really had any kind of arts besides those foundations he taught Goku and Krillin it would be naive to believe he really didn't have any arts.
Searching the lake up and down he finally found the 7-Star ball and came back up and went back to the others. "I found it!", he shouted at them.
This time one girl shrieked even more "You idiot!", shouted Glew after placing her hand in front of Luffa´s eyes who was still dazed and red as a tomato and directed hers and her own gaze away.
"Huh? What's wrong? Are you still being embarrassed seeing me in shorts?", Darc asked and arched his brows.
Zarid laughed out and Glew didn't even bother saying anything to that. Otamo came over and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"It would have been fine if you actually had your trunks still on you.", he said while smirking.
"What?", he asked while looking down at himself. He actually was naked. ´Crap, one of those fish probably got my shorts.´, he thought.
But really it actually didn't bother him much and he scratched his head. Then he threw a capsule where a suitcase with clothes was in and rummaged to put on some new clothes. He already used his ki to repel any water from his body so he didn't worry about wet clothes.
After being clothed he took everything back into the capsule and smirked to the girls. "It's alright now. I am wearing clothes. You can turn around."
Glew hesitantly looked into his direction and after seeing it was true she started to glare at him. She also had a little red hue on her cheeks. But it wasn't as bad as the red face from Luffa. She still looked dazed into the direction Glew turned her.
"Why are you being all shocked like that? Glew, you saw mine years ago when we were small and bathed together.", said, Lite with a bit of bewilderment why even Glew reacted like that.
"That has nothing to do with that, you dumbass! Don't go around saying stuff like that!!", shouted Glew at Lite with bulging eyes. This idiot is even worse than Darc.
Otamo looked at his sister and sighed.
"I think you broke my sister.", whispered Otamo with a sly smile to Darc. "You better take responsibility."
"What?", asked Darc back after hearing his whisper. These kids really already had only weird thoughts in their minds. Sometimes these guys were scarier than actual adults. Why the hell do they even know about 18+ rated stuff already?
Well, besides oblivious Lite that is. He actually knows what it means to have a girlfriend and what marriage means but doesn't know about anything beyond that.
Zarid was still chuckling. "Alright, since we are done here let's get moving again.", he said to them and tried to defuse the situation.
"Yeah, only three more to go.", commented Lite and showed three fingers from his right hand.
Everyone nodded and went back to the truck. Only Luffa had to be dragged back by Glew. Glew only sighed at seeing her friend like that. Thinking herself about it she still became a little bit angry about Darc just showing them that and even more about that idiot Lite. Even if it was accidental.
Actually, it made her a little bit curious but she wouldn't just go and inspect him. That would make her a pervert and she definitely wouldn't commit to that. And when she was in that bath together with Lite she never thought about it.
After driving for a while the situation calmed down a little bit and the awkward silence in the back slowly became lively again. They even included Darc back into the conversation what was a good thing.
"Hey, should we roast these fish Darc caught in the lake?", asked Lite.
Darc took all the dead fish he punched with him. Letting them float on the lake was a little awful. Like that they still serve a purpose and didn't die in vain.
"Sure, let´s grill them all up nicely. But be careful. One may still have Darc´s shorts in them.", said Zarid loudly. He smirked while looking to Darc.
"Old man, you better stop teasing me.", said Darc in a low and quiet voice only for Zarid to hear.
"Is that right? I say it's a good thing to be young.", answered Zarid back in the same tone.
Darc only narrowed his eyes and looked at him. Is his teacher actually a pervert? And one of the worst kind?
The other two boys on the back laughed a little and the girls became red again thinking about that.
Later on, they made a stop and build up their camp to let the day come to an end. Of course, all that after grilling those caught fish and eating their fill.
It was something else to eat from mother nature. It had a different taste to it every time.
And there were, of course, no clothes inside the fish.
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"It seems the boy knows where all the balls are located....No I am not sure how yet but do we really need to know? We just could steal them when they collected them all...Right, I will wait. I am sending coordinates.", said the stalker and tapped on his phone to probably send the GPS coordinates of his whereabouts. It looked like they made their move.