About 2 hours before the fight with Glaze started. At the time his four goons still tried to kill Darc.
Bulma was somewhat worried after Darc vanished and tried to get some information about the situation herself. So she went to the communication room and contacted Jaco.
Jaco wasn't picking up the call and that made Bulma furious. She left the room and went to the living room where Tights still sat around and was still immersed in her writing.
"It seems I need to tell Jaco to take his job seriously and punish him for being lazy...He is still avoiding my calls. How in the world did that clown get a job at a galactic security company...", grumbled Bulma.
Tights overheard her words and looked at her. "Well, if it comes to danger, Jaco ain't the type to do much.", answered Tights. "Don't worry so much. He always came back somehow, right?", she added.
At that moment Darc appeared close by with Arkis in his hands. Tights saw that and pointed to him with a smile. "See, here he is."
"Darc is everything alright?", asked Bulma after turning her head to him but Darc ignored her a little and put Arkis down and started to concentrate and heal her up. A green light enveloped Arkis.
Bulma frowned after seeing Arkis wounded and approached them both. "This looks bad. Shouldn't you bring her to the hospital?"
"It's alright. I can manage these wounds.", he answered and one could already see that the wounds were healing up. That somewhat surprised Bulma again. She never saw him use his healing ability after all.
"You really are something. What was that just now?", asked Tights after seeing him use his magic ability.
Darc only smiled "Sorry, don't have much time right now.", he gave her as an answer and right at that moment, Arkis woke up.
She looked up at Darc that was still kneeling beside her and hugged him "Darc!"
That surprised all three of them. But especially Bulma was a little bit angry at that scene.
"Hey, what has come into you?", said Darc and pushed her a little bit away from himself.
"Ah, sorry. I was just happy to see you.", she answered with a bright smile.
Darc remained silent as he looked at her. Bulma came even closer to them. "Is that so? Should I know something?", asked Bulma with an annoyed tone.
Looking at Bulma Darc only sighed "I will explain later. You guys just stay put for the time being." After his words, Darc let go of Arkis and teleported away.
"He ran away.", laughed Tights at this moment.
"Shut up, sis!", shouted Bulma at her now.
Arkis only lay her head to the side in confusion. But it didn't take long and another 3 Darc came back with more injured people. That shocked both Bulma and Tights.
"Arkis, start treating them.", gave one of the Darc as an order and vanished again just like the other two as well. Arkis started to move to the injured and also used her ability. This went on until about 40 people were all collected inside the room.
"Okay, that were the last people.", said one Darc and the other two nodded. They vanished again and didn't come back after that.
"What is going on here? Did I just see three Darc?", asked Bulma in bewilderment. Tights only started laughing again. "Well, looks like you will have your work cut out for you if you really want to keep him only for you. Can you even handle four guys at the same time?", said Tights in a teasing manner. "Maybe I should help out?", she added after that.
Bulma only blushed at her words because at that moment a certain image drilled herself into her mind. It didn't last long because her next words made her angry again. "NO! I will not share him with you!", she shouted angrily at Tights.
"Oh, you were going to share? At least you know you can't have him alone.", was the only thing Tights said after that and scampered away to look if she could help Arkis as well as ask her what she did. Apparently, it was healing magic that Darc and Arkis used.
Bulma was a little bit pissed at her sisters teasing word that sounded a little bit more than that. Then she also made herself useful and talked with the people. They were all from the GP and it looked like they had a mission to free a planet. But it was only a trap by Glaze. He waited until we were on the planet and attacked them. Again, she became worried because Darc was probably fighting with that Glaze guy at this moment.
Like that a few hours passed and Darc finally came back. He was completely drenched in blood and his clothing was tattered to some shreds. To be precise only his waist was really covered at this moment because Glaze wanted that to be his last torture. So the clothing there was still okay.
Bulma saw that and ran straight up to him. Looking him up where all that blood is coming from. "What happened? Are you alright?", she asked worriedly
Arkis also did the same and handed him a senzu. Darc took it and ate it to heal completely. After he sighed out he looked at them. "I am alright. It just looks worse than it is. But I gotta say I did nearly die, I guess?", he said with a slight chuckle.
Bulma only hit him in the side. "Don't joke around with something like that you idiot!!", she said to him.
Darc only arched his brows up "Are you alright?", he asked her.
"Huh?", came back from Bulma.
"Your hand doesn't hurt or anything?", asked Darc again and now that he did mention it her hand started throbbing as if she hit a wall. Bulma took her hand back and rubbed it with the other. Darc sighed and took her little hand and healed it for her.
"You and your muscle. How did you even get injured when you are as hard as a wall?", she asked him. Her sentence made Arkis curious and she touched Darc his body with a finger and then hit him as well.
"Urgh!! Arkis!", he shouted at her and held his side. It was one thing if Bulma hit him but another when Arkis did so. The thing is Bulma even smiled and gave Arkis a thumbs up.
´No, don't learn that from her!´, thought Darc. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to let her get influenced like that.
"Don't just go around and hit people. Bulma was just worried and let out her frustration on me. That's why she hit me. It's her way of doing things.", he explained to her.
Arkis thought about it and smiled after she finished to do so. "And so did I. I was also worried. Does it have anything to do with the relationship between men and woman?"
"..." Both Darc and Bulma were flabbergasted by the answer. "...Wrong timing, girl...But you are not that wrong in your interpretation...I guess?", said Darc.
Bulma looked at him and heard his words and looked back at Arkis. "Say, is it just me or does Arkis kind of behave like Goku? She seems so oblivious to things. Especially society?", mentioned Bulma now after knowing her for a while and noticing the similarities.
"In certain aspects, yes.", he answered.
Then another bomb fell "So we can have sex freely now?", asked Arkis. Darc his eyes bulged at that question. How did she come to think of that now?
One of Bulma´s veins nearly popped when she heard the next words "Darc...", she said angrily.
"Wait, it is a misunderstanding! She was running around naked the whole time on the ship because she didn't understand anything and I had to educate her.", explained Darc.
"Educate her...? So you betrayed me already before we did it? No wonder you knew how to do things as if you were experienced!! Bastard!", shouted Bulma and tried to leave.
Darc grabbed her before she could leave. "No, I didn't have sex with her. Besides, she is barely 4 years old!", he said in a haste.
"What excuse is that? Who would believe you that?", asked Bulma back. There were no 4-year-olds that looked like Arkis.
"But its the truth...?" - Darc.
"Humpf", snorted Bulma.
"Calm down, Bulma. Darc, isn't it better that you get yourself cleaned up and meet the people you saved? They are already waiting for you outside in the garden. They are talking with dad at the moment.", interrupted Tights the two. "And you shouldn't be so clingy Bulma. You aren't together, right? Darc already explained it and you still bicker.", she added and sighed at the way these two behaved. But it was a little bit amusing to see Darc getting flustered. He seemed to really care about his reputation when it came to Bulma.
"Thanks, Tights.", said Darc to her and started to go wash up. But before he did so he looked at Arkis "Don't ever mention something confusing like that again, alright?"
Arkis only nodded to him and was a little bit confused. So it was not ok to talk about it?
Then Tights approached her. "Come, I think I will tell you what it's all about. Darc probably couldn't explain it enough for you.", she said and dragged Arkis off. Looks like Tights actually believed Darc right at the beginning. She did wonder what race would be looking like an adult while still being so young.
And while she is educating her she could get some more informations about all those abilities Darc is using. So much stuff she could use in her book. She started to have a big grin on her face.