Coming back to earth, the first thing Darc did, was looking around and deeply breathing in and out after taking in the scenery. Right now he was back at the garden inside capsule corp.
He let go of the little furball Luna and placed her on the ground. "Well, this here is your new home. There should be some caves build in somewhere around that direction. You can make your home there or just suit yourself and do it anywhere you like. Azul should also be lingering around somewhere.", said Darc and pointed at a direction. This garden had many terrains for all the different animals and there was some habitat for little Luna here for sure. "Also, please get along with all the other animals here. I don't want to have to explain to you eating them. You all get your food regularly...", he added to his last words.
Luna only looked at him as if it was obvious that she wouldn't do something like that. "You know. We divine beasts don't actually need to feed. We just do it because we enjoy it...That you actually thought I would harm them."
Darc sighed slightly. "I just wanted to make sure, okay? Now go. I have some things to take care of. I will come by from time to time. After all, there are still 3 guys I need to find. At least I already seem to have some leads to the black turtle.", he said.
Luna nodded and scampered away into the garden. When Darc turned around and started walking away he could hear something that let a wry smile surface on his face. "Azul!! You chickenhead, where are you!!!?", was heard from Luna.
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Walking out of the garden he saw a little boy running around and bumping a service droid that started spinning around for a while until it stopped. The boy watched it for a while and patted it as if testing if it was alright.
Darc smiled and walked over to him. "Trunks, why are you being mean to the droid?", he asked.
The boy that turned out to be Trunks turned his head and looked at Darc. He completely ignored his question and started smiling. He walked to Darc his legs and outstretched his arms. "Daddy!", he said with a little slur in his voice.
Darc picked him up and placed the little guy on his shoulder and held his little legs so he didn't fall. Not that he would actually fall since he could fly. "Are you doing fine, buddy?", he asked him. Trunks only rocketed his head back and forth as an agreement. "That´s good. Say, where is mommy?", asked Darc once more.
"Kitchen.", said Trunks. Darc his mouth twitched at that answer and nearly couldn't suppress his laughter.
"I see...Then let's go there.", he answered back and started walking to the kitchen. Darc actually thought about why she was even there. Normally she was mostly in her lab. And that was mainly because she wasn't a great cook and always blushed in embarrassment when Darc noted that out.
Well, he teased her with it more than anything. He wasn't really mad about it or anything. She had her forte and cooking just wasn't one of them. But he had to say. At least it was edible. Not like Chronoa her abominations or pure diarrhea inducing creations...
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Coming close to the entrance of the kitchen he could already smell something burnt and Darc just sweatdropped at the sight in front of him. Black smoke already started to rise from the oven and a frying pan was on fire.
Bulma herself was moving from one place to another in a panic to stop all this. The droid that seemed to teach her how to cook and was actually the one at duty to do the cooking also looked quite panicky and at loss of its processing powers to tackle this dilemma...
´This is so hopeless...´, thought Darc.
"Fire.", said Trunks and pointed to the frying pan on fire.
"Yeah...Mommy seems to make a lot of fireworks today it seems...", agreed Darc to his son´s words.
With that Bulma finally noticed them and looked at the two. At first, she became red as a tomato in embarrassment. Then her eyes became quite teary and she even started to sniff a little, pleading to be saved. "Help me out, will you!?", she said to him in defeat.
Darc smiled and sighed. Then he put Trunks down and the ground and squatted down to him. "Trunks, daddy will help out mommy now. You go and play, alright? There is a new friend in the garden. How about you introduce yourself to her?", said Darc to him.
"New animal?", he asked back with big eyes.
Darc nodded "Yes, a white tiger cub. She can talk. So you will know who it is.", he said to him.
Trunks nodded and ran off to the garden. Darc himself stood back up and now was going to save his damsel in distress.
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After some time waging war with the kitchen, they finally sat down around the kitchen table. They finally cleared the kitchen of all hazardous things. "I think you should stop it or just concentrate on simple things.", mentioned Darc and looked at her.
Bulma was leaning on the table and supporting her head on her hand in frustration. "I won't give up that easily...", she said back.
"You mean until the whole house is burned down to ashes?", chuckled Darc.
That ticked her off. "Why would you even know when the house burns down? You were gone again. This time for another 3 months without a sign.", she said angrily and seemed to ignore this little dilemma now and attacked him on being away for so long. "You even missed the wedding of Goku and Chi-Chi.", she added to that.
Darc sighed to her accusations. "I know. My little trip just took longer than I had expected. At least I haven't missed our own wedding or anything, right? So, have you set a date?", he explained and asked her.
Bulma became silent and watched him for a while. Not saying anything.
"What?", he asked her with a brow raised.
"Nothing. It's in October this year. You better not go anywhere until that time, you hear me?", she said to him.
"Alright. And about Arkis? Did she join the wagon or is she not sure yet?", he asked now after thinking about her.
"She will join at that date. She said that it's more convenient to do it on the same date. Otherwise, we would need to wait for you when you got the time again...", explained Bulma to him after hearing his question.
Darc laughed wrily "I guess that is true. But for now, my schedule is free...That is what I hope at least. I actually need to recover from my little trip anyway.", he said.
"Alright, so that is settled...Then I will be off and do something I am actually good at..." Bulma stood up and walked past Darc. Darc grabbed her and pulled her on his lap, kissing her. "Idiot...", she added and narrowed her eyes while looking into his eyes.
"I missed you.", said Darc and smiled at her.
"Me or my body?", she snorted lightly while asking back.
Darc chuckled. "Both.", he answered and kissed her again. If he didn't know that Dr. and Mrs. Briefs still were present in the house, he would have probably devoured her right here. But then again the kitchen right now was a complete battlefield.