Chapter 17 "Cursed Blood"

Jaune and Elisa watched as the scene changed to show a middle-aged Lumière Ark, next to him was a light brown-haired woman and in her arms was a baby and at her feet were two other children. One had hazel eyes as well as brown hair, it was a boy around the age of 5, while the girl next to him seemed to have blue eyes but also had brown hair, the baby in the woman's arm was blonde with Crystal blue eyes.

Jaune pointed to the woman next to Lumière, "who is she?" He asked

Elisa smiled, "that is Selina Berugard, or now Selina Ark"

"And the kids? Who are they?"

"The oldest boy is Louis, his sister is Bella, and the baby in her arms, she is the one who began the beginning of our tainted blood. The baby's name is Salem Ark" Elisa replied.

Jaune had heard that name before, from his other mother.

"I've heard that name before..." Jaune told Elisa

"Yes, I know" Elisa replied "you see, Salem was known as the black sheep amongst the family, she was the only Ark that was birthed by the Dark brother"

Jaune looked at her, "what do you mean?"

"Night had possessed Lumière and had sex with Selina, but since Lumiére was possessed by Night, instead of Lumiére's blood it was the Night's blood, making Salem the first human both possessing Day and Nights blood," Elisa told her son

The scene changed to Salem in her teens, locked in a tower and watching as many heroes tried but failed to save her. She looked in sadness as she could never escape her prison.

"Why is she here? What happened?" Jaune asked

"When Day had found out what Night had done he put Salem in a tower, even if mortal, her powers were far beyond that of the gods, Day feared her power and locked her away without Nights knowledge" Elisa finished

Elisa then showed the events of Salem and Ozma, her dispute with his reincarnation and endless hate she felt for the man. But the scene changed again this time showing a blond man finding Salem.

"Who is he?" Jaune asked

Elisa smiled, "that is Marcus Wright or better known as your great-great-great-great-grandfather"

Jaune then realized something, if this was one 9f his ancestors then shouldn't his last name be Wright, not Arc?

"Yes I thought the same when I was first shown these by my father, but after he had fallen in love with Salem and Salem with him, something she thought was impossible, they had a son, William, but Marcus died after his birth and so Salem gave her son her last name, as well as leaving him in an orphanage to be raised" Elisa replied

Jaune looked at her, realizing what he was and who he was. "Are you saying that the only reason the Arcs exist today is because of... Salem?" Jaune asked

Elisa nodded, "but there is also another reason why we Arc's are one of the most powerful and feared family next to the Silvereyes and the Schnee's"

Suddenly the two were in a place fully white the only thing there was a golden scale on one side was a black ball on the other was white. Jaune stared at it in amazement

"This is the true purpose of why we Arc's were created, yes we were made to be weapons against bothe Night and Grimm but the Silvereyes are better at us in that department," Elisa told her son "the real reason we were created was to be guardians for this scale..."

Suddenly every member of the Arc family was with Elisa, and they all looked to Jaune with eyes white as snow

"This is the scale of life," they all said "this is the scale of balance, this so what the Relics form... And should Salem get her hands on this..."

Jaune was then showed the horrible visions of what would happen should the scale fall into the wrong hands. The Relics weren't just a beacon or a way back for the gods... It was also the end as well...

Jaune fell to the ground with a gasp, he felt as if all the oxygen in his body had left, he looked to see his Mother still next to the scale. He got up and looked at his mother.

"How do I stop Salem? How do I stop her from getting the scale?" Jaune asked

Elisa looked at her son with sadness, "There is no way to kill her because the gods are gone" Elisa replied

"Then how do I stop her from getting the scale?" Jaune asked

"I'm afraid you can't," Elisa said

Something then hit Jaune again, flashes of his friends, destruction, death, love...

he was then somewhere he had never seen before, It was a tropical paradise, Faunas everywhere.

He looked around until he found himself on the doors of a large house that overlooked most of the city, he phased through the door and saw a baby on the floor, the baby had black hair and cat ears, it was playing with a small jingling toy.

It then stopped and looked at him, Jaune looked back at the baby wondering if it could see him

"Pa," She said

Jaune turned to see if the father of the baby was behind him, but there was no one, he looked back at the baby only for the mother to come in the room and pick the baby up,

"we better get you cleaned up! your Father should be coming back home soon" she said with a smile

The mother of the baby had cat ears, short Raven hair, and she wore a black shirt that showed her midriff and a Purple Jacket with white fur around the collar was worn over the shirt, and both her cat ears were pierced, one had only one earing the other one had two or three, she also has lines under her eyes ans she wore a black leggings and black sandals. As soon as the baby was off the ground the baby pointed to Jaune

"Pa! Pa!" it cried

the woman looked to where Jaune was standing, but she looked confused and decided to walk out of the room.

Jaune was then brought back to the blank room with just his mother and the Scale

"W-What was that?" Jaune asked

Elisa looked at him, she to was confused, she had seen what Jaune had seen, but they were through his eyes, and some of the events she saw had never happened...

"Strange... I've only ever seen this in memories of my father, he had some sort of similar experience"

"do you know what it was? or what just happened?"

Elisa shook her head, "No, but don't be surprised, The Arcs have always had rare semblances" she told him "some even have more than one. But I think you understand now. So It's time for you to wake up"

Jaune then opened his eyes again to see himself in his bed and Neo crying for help, he jumped up to stop her. She looked at him surprised and with shock,

"what happened!? how long was I out!?" Jaune asked

Neo looked at him with confusion, "what the hell do you mean!? you just shook violently for 30 seconds and then you stopped, you didn't get knocked out" Neo replied