The guide that was leading Darc and Arkis talked about being careful not to go anywhere else but to the end of the snake-way. If they fell down they would end up straight in hell.
Both nodded and the guide left them to be so they could start their journey.
The first thing Darc did was actually go to the edge of the snake-way and look down.
"What are you thinking about?", asked Arkis from the side and also looked downwards into the clouds.
Darc got a small smirk on his face now. "Just being curious is all. No wonder we couldn't find this place at first with our telepathy. Look", he said to her and stretched out his hand.
Then little energy particles formed an orderly image of a galaxy in his hands. It was a telepathic image of the milky way.
Then this galaxy moved aside and the other galaxies were created. The Andromeda or Tadpole galaxy for example. But also all the other ones were also created and the speed of that only increased. Then they intermixed and became as small as stars themselves until they became a whole.
The universe with its thousands of galaxies just looked like a galaxy itself when made as small as this.
At first, Darc thought it was actually kind of dumb to divert them into north, west, south and east galaxies since it was more like a diversion of a universe and not galaxies but seeing this now he kind of understood what is the rule here. So Darc actually saved the whole western part of this universe instead of just the western "Galaxy".
"Isn't that our Universe? That's amazing. I didn't think you could put it into an image like that.", commented Arkis when she saw the beautiful little orb in his hands.
"It actually helps a lot with Kai Kai and Instant Transmission if you visualize it like this. But to be precise in your movement you still would need to zoom in. Anyway, that's beside the point. Now look closely.", nodded Darc in agreement at first and took heavy breathes again to concentrate further. Now came the harder part.
Around the orb that he already had, another Orb appeared around the one already existing and covered it like a thin layer. Between both layers appeared a slight bluish energy and formed an earthen crust on the barrier of the inner orb.
Then the outer orb expanded slightly and yellow clouds appeared above the earthen crust that already turned redish. The clouds covered the sight into the universe. After that four little green planets also came to existence and positioned themselves equally around the orb.
One of those green planets was smaller than the others and also had a long snake tail moving away from it around the complete globe until its head reached a palace. Darc just thought about Ouroboros, the snake that eats worlds. It was quite a fitting image. But in the Dragon Ball world, it was known as the snake-way.
"Ah! Now I see it!. The otherworld is basically an outer layer of our Universe. Everything still being in the form of an orb.", said Arkis with an excited look after recognizing the things that appeared.
"That's not all, Arkis.", he told her and another round huge planet appeared. "This here is the so-called heaven for souls. Quite large compared to the Universe. Well, it has to have enough space for all the souls in it I guess."
Then another smaller planet appeared near it. The grand kai planet that overlooks the otherworld. Or also known as the planet of otherworld people that help out with hell.
Shortly after a bluish halo started to shine around this complete orb and another 2 smaller orbs appeared in that halo. One was shiny while the other dark.
The dark orb left the halo and positioned itself under the whole universe and connected itself there and became a little spike-like stand that was thin than thick and thin again. If Darc would put the orb on the ground he could spin it now. What that little spike was? Probably the demon realm.
The other orb in the halo remained there and in it, there were two planets seen. One green lavish one and another pyramid looking one. Obviously, it was the supreme kai world and god of destruction place. Around them there were other stars floating around in a shiny cosmos outside the planets.
`Hmm, weird. Shouldn't those places be in the center of all? Oh well, doesn't matter. It explains why Whis needs about ten more minutes of time to travel to earth rather than to north Kai´s planet. Both are not in the halo. Whereas the earth is even further into the universe than King Kai's´, questioned Darc himself after seeing this and immediately negated his question.
"Finished. That took a lot of energy actually.", sighed Darc and was really surprised how much magic he wasted while creating this. "Oh, wait. Something still missing." with a snap of his finger, a staff underneath the orb appeared and let the universe float at its top. It was just like Whis his scepter if one thought about it. the blurry orb also became blue and only when one concentrated again could one see everything inside it.
"Ta-da! Here is our Universe in the form of a scepter. Just like Whis his scepter.", he chuckled as he told it to Arkis. "Now I can probably get anywhere I want if I just search this globe. This trip to the otherworld really was worth it.", he said and grinned while grabbing the new scepter.
"I see. So that is how things are connected.", nodded Arkis in understanding. "Does that mean as long we know the other universes layout we also could travel there?", she asked.
Darc nodded. "Yes, but I still don't dare to travel between Universes...There is, after all, that place I don't want to be...We could get erased if not careful."
What place Darc was talking about was Zeno his place. Darc knew that the place Zeno lived at was the connection between Universes. And nonchalantly moving through it would definitely get his attention. At least if you are not an angel.
Darc was not naive enough to think a childish exterior also pictures the same inner mind of a person.
"Alright, let's get moving. That already took long enough.", said Darc and started to float upwards.
Arkis was confused "Don't we need to walk this path?", she asked.
Darc only lifted a brow. "We can fly. Why bother walking? Now, come one.", he said and started flying and following the snake-way.
Arkis followed up and was right behind Darc.
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It didn't take long for them to reach the end with their speed and just in about an hour, they were at the North Kai´s planet.
Landing on it Arkis noticed the stronger gravity but it was not really anything to be concerned about.
"This planet is pretty small...", exclaimed Arkis after examining this planet.
Darc looked around and saw bubbles approaching them. "Yes, something happened and the planet is somewhat smaller than the other Kai planets. Hey Bubbles, where is North Kai?", he answered to Arkis and also asked his question to Bubbles.
"Uh-Uh (He is inside the house.)", told bubble him.
Darc smirked. Looks like he can understand him. "Thanks, then let's knock on the door and give him a visit, shall we?"
Arkis nodded and followed Darc to the only house on this planet. Bubbles, on the other hand, was pleasantly surprised that he was understood and also moved with them.