After Jaune spoke Shad waved his hand making the viewing window to fade away and disappear, as well as cause the seating levels that everyone was sat on to decend and merge into the floor until they were all gone and everyone was standing on the level ground.
As Jaune stood there he began to fidget slightly under his sisters angry look. Saphron then suddenly began marching towards Jaune, who raised his hands in a form of surrender "Whoa Saph, hold on, let me expl-", he was cut short as she slapped him across the face.
After that he turned back to look at her still frowning face, with a guilty look on his. "Yeah, I deserve tha-", he was once again cut off by another slap across his other cheek "-that to-", this time he was cut off by a straight ouch to his the face "-and tha-" and he was cut off one last time by her kneeing his directly in the crotch.
At see this every guy looking their way either groan, or shuddered as they covered their own crotches in sympathy. "Yes...I deserved...even that" Jaune groaned out in pain as he rested his hands on his knees to stay upright.
Saphron then took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, to calm down, her frowned lessend but still remained. "Alright then, now that that's out of the way. Explain to me why I have been lead to believe that you've been dead for the last ten years, little brother!" Saphron yelled at him in anger.
"I would also like and explanation, as to what's going on" Jerome commented as he walked toward them, as if he was simply walking down the road. However he stopped when Jaune put himself between Jerome and Saphron, and her family, in his vampire form as he let out a low hiss that would scare a grimm.
But just as Jerome was about speak again he was stopped by a female voice "If you even show the slightest sign of trying to hurt any of them, I will end you myself!!".
As they turned to look where the voice came from, Jaune and Jeromes eyes widened at the sight of her.
She looked to be in her sixties with light brown hair that had numerous grey streaks in it, that reach to her jaw with side swept bangs. Her eyes were a forest green color, her skin was lightly tanned and she had a few, faint wrinkles on her face.
She wore a black tailored women's suit, with a grey dress shirt and slip on dress shoes with two inch heels. On her neck she wore a round golden locket with a pearl with face, with the Arc symbol centered on it.
"Catherine?" Jerome asked in a breathless voice, as he hadn't seen the women before him in several years.
But as soon as Jerome spoke the women, now known as Catherine, eyes changed to completely black with and making it look as if there was just pits of darkness where her eyes should be.
"Don't start Jerome. The only reason that I'm anywhere near you is to make sure, that my dickless, son of a whore ex-husband, doesn't try to hurt my remaining grandchildren" Catherine growl out at him through her clenched teeth.
This caused many peoples jaws dropped at both the change in Catherine's eyes and the fact that she was Jeromes ex-wife, meaning that she was also Jaune and Saphrons grandmother.
Jerome also had a stunned expression, before his face changed to one of disgust and he scoffed before speaking to her in a mocking and condescending tone "I see you haven't changed, still defending the monster our son aloud to exist and his daughter that ignored said monsters existence".
Just as Catherine was about to say something else, Jaune shot in front of Jerome to look him directly in the eyes, with his crimson eyes intensifying in their glow and the veins from the eyes bulging and gaining more glow as well.
"I would advise against trying to do anything, grandfather" Jaune growled , sounding inhuman and spitting out the last word as is it was rotten food in his mouth.
"If you'd like to settle this, I can arrange that for you" Shad told the two of them as he appeared beside them.
This offer caused Jerome to gain an intrigued look and grin slightly in anticipation, whilst Jaune grinned like a mad man for the opportunity.
"However, I will only be giving to said opportunity after everyone has had a chance to relax and converse for a bit" Shad informed the two of them, caused both Jaune and Jeromes faces to change to ones of irritation and disappointment.
Jaune then felt a chill go up his spine and when he turned around he saw Saphron with her arms crossed and glaring at him with unbridled fury.
However when she realized that he was looking at her again she seemed to forced a smile to form on her furious face in front of him "That sound lovely, doesn't it Jaune, it'll give us some time to talk about certain, things" Saphron said, seemingly forcing the words out, and she put a lot of emphasis on the last word.
Jaune in turn began to sweat, due to his nerves and simply responded in a shaky, robotic like voice "That sounds like a wonderful idea Saphron, my dear sister. Let's go talk, preferably away from those that aren't family".
After that Jaune guided Saphron and Terra to an empty corner to talk, with Catherine following cautiously behind them and Eliza walking quickly to catch up to them after going to get Joan, so she could hear the conversation.
However none of them noticed how Jerome made his way through his sections crowd to get close enough to hear what they were going to say.
When Jaune felt that they were far enough away he turned to face Saphron and Eliza, but as soon as he saw Catherine he frowned "And what do you think you're doing?" he asked with an underlying growl.
Catherine seemed disheartened by Jaunes reaction, but she wasn't shocked as she expected it, she then spoke in a soft and motherly tone "I am here, because no matter what you think of me Jaune I will always be there for you, as well as Saphron too it seems".
The way she spoke and what she said made Jaunes eyes widen as she once again showed love and compassion to him despite his hostility towards her. In moments like this a part of him wanted to forgive and accept her, however when he thought of doing this his mind drifted back to what she confessed to him years ago.
Jaune then shook his head to refocus himself on talking with Saphron, however before doing so he turned to Catherine and spoke to her in a calmer tone "Whatever, just don't interrupt me telling Saph what she wants to know, unless you have something important and necessary to add".
Jaune then turned to look back at Saphron, only to see Eliza talking to her and this caused his eyes to widen and him to gulp.
"Hello, it's great to finally meet you, I'm Eliza Dracul your brothers girlfriend-" Eliza introduced herself, causing Saphron to look at her in surprise and Terra to look at her with intrigue "-and this is Joan Arc mine and Jaunes darling little girl and your niece" this caused Saphron and Terra to gape in shock at this information, while Jaune simply muttered "Shit".
Saphron then manage to calm down as she realized that she should probably being introductions as well "Well I'm Saphron Cotta-Arc, Jaunes big sister. This is Terra Cotta-Arc, my wife. And this is Adrien Cotta-Arc, our son, it's very nice to meet you" Saphron said in a somewhat rush manner, due to her nerves as Terra stifled a laugh at her wife's predicament, whereas Adrien giggled at his mothers awkwardness.
"Well it is lovely to meet to finally meet you Saphron, Jaune has told me all about you from when you were both little" Eliza informed, the girl that she wished would one day be her sister in-law, with a little laugh at the end.
As Saphron slowly started to talk with Eliza more, with them both being oblivious to Jaune who seemed to be having an internal panic attack, Joan slowly made her way towards Catherine who had been watching the whole thing with a sad smile and a longing look on her face.
"Are you okay?", as soon as Catherine heard this she looked down to see Joan looking up at her with a concerned look, and for a split second she was reminded when Jason looked up at her like that when he saw her sad.
"Yes, I'm fine." Catherine said with a small smile. She then chrouched down so that she was more eye level with Joan "It's very nice to finally meet you Joan, my names Catherine and I suppose that I'm your great-grandmother, gosh I really feel old now" Catherine said to Joan as she gently patted Joan's head as she finished.
Whilst they were talking Jaune took notice and watched them, a part of him wanted to get his daughter away from his grandmother, but when he saw Catherine look at Joan what seemed to be love as she petted her he stopped himself.
What happened next shocked both Jaune and Catherine, as Joan suddenly rushed Catherine and hugged her saying "It's nice to meet you to Granny" with a clearly happy voice, this cause Catherine to hug Joan back as tears welled in her eyes, but despite that she a true happy smile on her face and kissed Joan on the head.
This also stunned Jerome, who looked at his ex-wife and remembered the last time he saw a smile like that on her face was when she was with Jason as a child, and with him when they were young, foolish and in love and he smiled despite himself at the resurfaced memories.
But Jerome then shook his head to get rid of those memories and refocus on the fact that Catherine chose monsters over him and what they had.
As Jaune watched his daugter continue to talk to his estranged grandmother a smile began to form on his face as Joan was happy about gaining another family member and no matter how he felt about Catherine, if Jaon was happy to know her then he was happy for her.
Eliza then put her hand on his shoulder and kissed his cheek "There's nothing to worry about Jaune, I can already tell that Catherine cares about Joan so you can ease up. Plus is she does hurt her in some way I highly doubt she could beat the two of us, even if she's renowned as one of the stronger witches in the world" Eliza told him in a calm loving voice.
"Oh and as much as I would love to keep talking with Saphron and Terra, I think your sister is getting a little impatient about getting answers from you" Eliza then added, this caused Jaunes nerves to returned as her turned to look at his sister, only to see her with her arms crossed and clearly waiting for him.
Jaune simply let out a heavy sigh before he kissed Eliza on her cheek and removed he hand from his shoulder, before he turn and walked over to Saphron.
However he stopped and his eyes widened as he suddenly remembered something and look back at Eliza "Actually, I'm gonna need your help with getting Saph to remember", for a moments Eliza raised an eyebrow in question before she realized what he was talking about and nodded.
When they both were in front of Saphron Jaune spoke to her calmly "Okay, lets get started", this seemed to satisfy Saphron as her frown lessened.
Jaune then continued to speak "So first things first, at one point you did know that vampires, werewolves and all other supernatural stuff, but now you don't".
Saphron was stunned by this, after a few seconds of opening and closing her gaping mouth like a goldfish she managed to find her voice "B-b-but ho-how could I forget something so important. Jaune what happened, to me?" she asked in somewhat manic voice as she tried to process that she apparently forgot something so crucial.
Jaune simply took a deep breath as he prepared to tell her this, as Eliza saw him doing this she took his hand to show him she was there for him.
And Catherine saw how the conversation was going so she did what she could to keep Joan's focus on her and away from them.
Jaune simply looked into Saphrons eyes as tears began to form in his and spoke to her in a voice filled with regret "You don't remember because I did something to make you froget all about it, as well as us ever living in Vludania".
This revelation garnered silent shock from Saphron, Terra and everyone that heard ,who didn't know what Jaune did.
Saphrons face slowly shifted from shock to fury and her hands clenched into fists as she spoke in a rage filled voice and through gritted teeth "You did what to me".
Jaune in turn went pale and gulped before and simply thought to himself 'I really should've told her in a more gentle manner, telling her flat out probably wasn't the best idea that I ever had'.