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It was a cold, rainy night. Coco was sitting on his bed with the virabot that had appeared in his house a couple months ago. Coco was looking at some cooking recipes with Viv, the virabot. The rain drops hit the window, giving a nice ambiance to Coco and Viv’s night. Viv was perched up on Coco’s shoulder, seemingly looking at the recipes with him.
“Hey, this one looks good." Coco said, pointing at some fudge brownies. “Maybe I can make them for us later.” The virabot gave a skree of approval as Coco saved the recipe to his phone.
Everything was peaceful and relaxing, that was until Coco heard the front door open then shut.
“Did you hear that?” Coco asked, starting to get up from his bed. Viv hopped off his shoulder and stood beside him. Viv was a smaller model of virabot, they only reached up to Coco’s ankles when the biggest of virabots could reach up to his waist. Although Viv was smaller, they were no less powerful. Coco had already seen Viv bite something to disintegrate it. With Viv by his side Coco felt much safer.
They both crept out of the room and Coco checked the door, but it was still locked? Coco heard a scuttling coming from the living room. It sounded like it could have been Viv, yet they were right beside him. Coco grabbed an umbrella that was hanging by the door to protect himself and he slowly crept towards the kitchen. Umbrella in hand Coco flipped on the light, but he saw nothing. “It’s probably just the wind… let's go back upstairs.”
Coco started to walk back upstairs when he felt his wrist get grabbed. Before he could do anything he was spun around and he heard someone speak. “Did you miss me~?”
Coco was stunned, he recognized that voice all too well. “Dark..?” Coco asked hesitantly, almost like he was restraining himself from feeling hope that he was back. Coco heard a chuckle.
In that moment everything that had happened between them didn’t matter. Coco hugged Dark as tightly as he could. “Dark! I- I thought you were gone! I thought you were dead!” Coco had tears running down his face as he spoke.
“Pff- Me? Dead? HA- That's never gonna happen.” Dark was cocky, he always was and probably always would be. Coco buried his face in Dark's neck. “Don’t do that again. Don’t just disappear like that… Please..”
Once Coco calmed down a bit he and Dark sat on the couch, and Dark was still holding onto Coco. “Okay- What happened? Where did you go? I thought you died!” Coco wanted answers. Did Dark just ghost him? Was he in hiding? Was he on the run? Dark had talked about how he had caused multiple catastrophes, but Coco thought he was joking, but since finding out that the Angel of Death was Chosen, Dark's brother, Coco wasn’t so sure.
“Coco. calm down~ I’m here now, aren’t I~?” That wasn’t an answer, Coco stared at Dark, half annoyed, half wondering. “Fine! Fine! I’ll explain.” Viv was sitting on Coco’s shoulder, looking at the other virabot Dark had brought with him. Coco assumed it was Ted.
“A little while ago I got into a fight with Cho.. it was messy and-” Coco interrupted Dark
“Wait- was that beam in the sky- the red and black one, was that you?” Dark smiled “Yup, that was me. Heh, pretty cool~ right?” Coco didn’t react.
“Whatever.. Okay so I was fighting with Cho, but he brought some kid or something to help him? And apparently that froot loop child was like a god or something because he just full on decimated me!” Dark explained.
“What- what does that mean-” Coco knew that his level of fighting and Dark’s level of fighting was very different. A fight for Coco was a few punches thrown, but for Dark it could fully mean leveling a city.
“Mr froot loop apparently could use lazer beams like Cho, and well I was his target. The kid blasted me and I was dead for a couple weeks.”
“WHAT!? DEAD!? WEEKS!?” Coco was in disbelief, sticks do NOT jsu com back from the dead after a couple weeks.
“Eh, it didn’t hurt much. But my virabots were able to piece me back together.” Dark said petting Ted.
“Oh I can do this now!” Dark held out his hand and Coco watched as it shifted from red to black, then it started dripping. It smelt kind of like blood, kind of like metal.
“What the hell.. Are you okay? What is that..” Coco said, reaching out to touch the liquid, but pulling back before he actually did.
“Cool, huh?” Dark said, re-absorbing the substance. Coco wasn’t amused. “You’re no fun.”
“So what now.. Why come here, why come back to me. Why are you here…” Coco still had so many questions, but that was the main one.
“Am I not allowed to visit you?~” Dark squeezed Coco slightly.
…
Coco looked down. Dark had been gone for so long, they both had changed so much. Coco was living on his own now, so his dad wasn’t there to tell him he shouldn’t hang out with Dark.
“Fine, I missed you. Like actually missed you.” Dark admitted. He clearly didn’t really want to say something that personal.
“Sure you did.” Coco was skeptical, theres no way this basically god like stick, who was also probably a terrorist, wanted to hang out with him.
“I did. I don’t like that I missed you, but I did.” Dark was being genuine.
…
Coco just sat there, Dark was right there with him. Coco leaned back into Dark.
“I missed you too..”