Everyone was either murmuring quietly to one another or staring in awe in the direction of the enormous tree in the room, all the while Saphron continued to stand where she was, both slowly accepting and basking in her power.
Jaune was about to say something as he felt like she'd been stood there for long entsimce she last said anything, but just as he began to move towards her a speak someone began to clap, it started slow as is the person was coming out of a stupor but soon it became a fast enthusiastic one, like someone would just seen an amazing show.
Along with the clapping, that was the loudest sound in the room at that moment, the one clapping then spoke with a slightly aged voice that was filled with a mixture of joy, shock and excitement.
"Magnificent, you Arc's are truly magnificent!!" a clearly male voice exclaimed.
The man speak them made his way through the crowd so that he could get closer to Jaune and Saphron, shoving people out of the way if they didn't move themselves like they were inconvenient obstacles to him.
And once the man was through the crowd he was easy to see. He looked to be just a little shorter than Jaune, with dark brown hair that was neatly combed to right to look professional and with a few hints of grey in his hair, his skin was pale, like he hadn't been outside in a long time and his eyes were haunting pale blue, that were emphasized by the dark bags under his eyes from lack of sleep. His outfit consisted of: black dress pants with brogued black dress shoes, a light grey dress shirt with a black tie and a black vest, that had a golden pocket watch that was looped through one of ht shutting hole and rested in the vests right pocket, and finishing of his outfit was an unbuttoned white lab coat with an emblem on his right breast that looked to be a black hexagon with a grey brain within it that was being struck by two yellow lightning bolts.
As soon as the man saw Jaune he grinned with excitement, but was he turned to see Saphron his grin turned into a joyous smile and he seemingly...skipped towards Saphron.
But just as he got close to her a swarm of bats flew between them, making Saphron and Terra jump, before they crashed into the ground turned into swirling black ash before reforming back in to Jaune, who now stood between his sister and the man, however the man wasn't scared or intimidated he actually looked happy to see him.
In fact the man through his arms out wide before he yelled out "Jaune!!" in excitement, Jaune however looked very unhappy.
The man then moved past Jaune, who was about to grab him before he remember the man couldn't harm his sister in this place and so he relaxed a bit.
Once the man was in front on Saphron he began to circle her as he looked her over, as if he was examining her, Saphron felt very uncomfortable.
The man then stopped and looked directly at Jaune "First you appear Jaune, as the rarest vampire specimen in the world, and now you sister, that you'd hidden for a decade, resurfaces and if what we just saw indicates anything then she could have just become one of, if I had to guess from others that I've observed, the thirty most powerful witches out there. From her raw power alone!" the man exclaimed like someone who found out that a friend was keeping a secret from them would.
Jaune however simply glared at the man before speaking "Y'know Frank, despite how you're acting, you don't actually seemed all to suprised that Saphrons alive but you rather you're surprised by how strong she could be." Jaune said the to Frank in cold suspicious and angry tone.
"Well of course, I've known that your sister was alive for a little over a year now. And once again it's Franklin, not 'Frank', or at least 'Doc' I am a doctor after all, you know this." Franklin said in an easy going manner, before he explained his name and title, with no hidden pride and in a frustrated manner at the end, similar to a certain green haired doctor from Beacon.
Suddenly a green and white blur zipped in front of Franklin, revealing Profes-Dr. Oobleck who grabbed Franklins hand and began shaking it excitedly as he smiled. All the while Franklin simply raised an eyebrow in confusion at the mans actions.
"Hello, I heard you say your a doctor. I am also a doctor. I am Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck, a doctor of history, archaeology and psychology. What are you a doctor of?" Oobleck rattled off at high speed to Franklin, as he wanted to learn what the first doctor he met from another country outside of the four kingdoms.
However Franklin simply stood there looking at Oobleck with a focused look on his face as he was trying to figure out what exactly Oobleck had just said to him, in what could only be described as 'verbal spewing'.
Once Franklin had deciphered what the green haired doctor had said he closed his eyes and grinned as he managed to stop the handshake and free his hand from Ooblecks, before he began to speak to the doctor.
"Well it's nice to meet you Dr. Oobleck, I am Dr. Franklin Steinberg. I myself am a doctor of supernatural history and biology, as well as grimm studies and grimm biology." Franklin explained his credentials to Oobleck with great pride and a somewhat arrogant grin in his face.
At hearing Franklin's credentials almost everyone, that was unaware of him, looked at him with intrigue with how much he most likely knew about vampires, witches and werewolves. Oobleck however looked as if he was about to pop a blood vessel, due to how many questions he wanted to ask Franklin about supernatural history were forming in his head.
Franklin then chuckled before he pointed towards Jaune, who looked very pissed as he knew exactly what was about to be said and he was not happy about it in the slightest, Franklin then bagennto speak.
"However, my current research focus is the invaluable and one of a kind supernatural being that is Jaune Arc." Franklin said in a very upbeat tone of voice, as if Jaunes anger at the information he disclosed brought him joy.
Once again numerous people looked at Jaune, but this time in curiosity as he is apparently 'one of a kind'.
And none were more intrigued than Dr. Oobleck and Dr. Watts as both of their scientific curiosities was captured by the fact that Jaune is in some way different to any other supernatural being, especially Watts as now he really wanted to see just what Jaune and other supernatural beings could do.
Jaune however decided to ignore all of this and turn to look at Shad, with a somewhat tired look on his face.
"Are there any other important revelations, secrets of mine you wanna reveal to world, or can we move on to me kicking the shot out of the the old sunshine bastard?" Jaune asked Shad in irritation, as he really wanted to start fighting before he relaxed with his team and his family.
"I'm sorry to say , but you can't fight just yet." Shad informed Jaune as he shook his head, and just as Jaune was about to question why Shad answered his unasked question, "The main reason why, is because I remembered that you... creatures require sustenance to live." Shad reasoned, this caused many people to realise just how hungry they were.
However both Jaune and Jeromes eyebrows began to twitch in annoyance at the reasoning of the demonic being, even though they were both hungry themselves.
Joan however perked up as she heard people mumbling about being hungry, she then looked at her daddy and saw him frowning at the eye-faced shadow man so she looked to her mummy, who she was in the arms of, however her mummy was simply smiling at her daddy as she said his annoyed face was funny.
Eliza was snapped out of staring at her boyfriends adorable 'annoyed' face by her little angel tapping on her shoulder, so nshe turned to look at Joan before asking her what was wrong.
"What's wrong peanut?" Eliza asked daughter with concern, in case she was worried about Jaune.
However Joans response was a rather simple question that any four year old was ask their mother.
"Mommy I'm hungry. When can we eat?" Joan sadly asked her mommy in sad voice, as she looked at her with big eyes as her stomach grumbled, with Jaune and Franklin looking towards her as they heard her stomach.
Franklin smiled at what he heard and looked back at Jaune, who was rather surprised by how loudly Joans stomach could grumble.
"Goodness. Well at least you know your daughter has a healthy appetite." Franklin said to Jaune in a somewhat overly friendly manner, though Jaune only frowned at him in response to him.
Jaune then made his way over to his girlfriend and daughter, as Eliza stroked Joans head and smiled and their daughters cuteness.
Once Jaune was beside them he petted Joans head as he spoke to her "It's okay peanut, we're gonna get something to eat in a minute." Jaune explained to her with a kind smile on his face.
Joans response to that information was a simply, cheery and adorable "Yay!!" with her arms in the air.
Jaune chuckled at that, before he looked toward his... grandfather, good Oum that was not the word he'd use to describe the man but this was the longest either of them had been near each other with out them trying to kill each other.
But Jaune took a deep breath and spoke to him, in a clearly forced manner "Well, at least you get to a last meal beafore everyone gets to see me kick the ever loving shit out of you." Jaune finished up with a big grin on his face.
Upon hearing this Damien growled and began making his way through the crowd, however before he could make a move toward Jaune he was stopped by Jerome putting his arm out to stop him.
"Let him be Damien, I'll be teaching him a lesson soon enough." Jerome ordered him with complete confidence in his own abilities.
Damien simply responded to these orders with "Understood." in a calm and focused tone of voice as he stared at Jaune with anger.
Jaune simply snorted at Damiens angry look, after doing that and making Damien even angrier he look towards Shad to ask him something.
"So where are we gonna get food? Because, no offence this place doesn't seem to have a whole lot in regards 'interior layout'." Jaune questioned their host as he wanted to know more about where exactly they where and how it worked.
In response to Jaune question, Shad simply chuckled before he gave Jaune an answer.
"It's quite simple. All you have to do is get into the group, no more ten in each, that you plan to sit and eat with and once everyone have done that I will give form to some table and chairs for everyone to eat at." Shad informed everyone in a slow and simple manner, as to avoid confusion among the masses.
After being told this everyone began to separate of into their groups. Jaune grouped up with, Eliza, Joan, Saphron, Terra, Adrian and his teammates. And with the adults Markus, Jack, Alex, Jasmine, Samantha and Chloe, as well as Catherine, all chose to sit together, close to Jaunes group.
With those of Beacon team RWBY, the remenats of JNPR, along with Sun and Neptune, who had made their way towards them, grouped up to eat together.
After about fifteen minutes of people figuring out who they were gonna sit with everyone was sorted out into groups and then looked towards Shad, waiting for him to give them chairs and a table to eat at.
And Shads response to everyone looking toward him was simply "Alright then."
After that the red glow of Shads eye intensified, after that everyone found themselves unconsciously lowering themselves into simple black chairs without arms rest, with infants and small children being gently placed into chairs that brought them up the be level with the table by careful shadow tendrils. And once everyone was seated in their new, and admittedly comfy chairs, black round tables formed between each group and then expanded outwards to the right size for each group.
When all of the tables had finished expanded to the right size for the groups that would be sitting at them, the tops of all of the table flashed red. And once the red flashed died down infront of each person were utensils that consisted of: a fork, a butter knife, a steak knife and a spoon, with all of the seemingly being made of regular stainless steel, but with the infants and toddlers utensils begins made of plastic. Along with them there was a circle cup mat that had a black edge with a faintly glowing red center, along with a plain white ceramic plate that had a solid black, domed plate cover with a handle on the top of it over the plate covering whatever was on them.
"Well, that's a rather unique way of setting the table." Markus comment in both a surprised and impressed tone, as his only eye widened as he looked at new table in astonishment.
"You got that right." Jack responded to Markus, as he readjusted his hat whilst looking at the set table infront of him.
However whilst both Jasmine and Eliza were surprised, they weren't shocked by it in fact they were impressed by the somewhat showmanship like manner in which the tables, plates and utensils were presented to them.
"Okay, I'll admit that was rather impressive. But, and I don't mean to be rude with this, where the food?" Kol asked Shad in a polite manner.
This question was eventually echoed by many others, as they were all growing hungry and a bit impatient.
Shad simply remained where he was and waited for them all to shut up and he could wait as along as he needs as he didn't need to eat or drink to survive, plus their winging did nothing but mildly irritate him.
And after about five minutes with the people realizing that the complaints wouldn't get them anything they all quieted down and waited.
"Well now that you've all kindly shut your mouths, I can begin explaining how you get food whilst here." Shad said in a tone that was both frustrated and tired, though this caused many anger with how he spoke to them like disobedient children.
Once again Shad paid their anger no mind whatsoever.
"In order to get the food, that you all so desperately desire, all you have to do in take ahold of the covers handle and visualize exactly what meal you want and it will appear just as you desire. And regarding your drinks, all you have to do is touch the cup mat and simply visualize what you wish to drink and it too will appear." Shad explained to each of them, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world to think of when getting food.
Upon hearing this Demitri decided to try it out, so he grabbed the handle of his plate cover and visualized what he wanted. After he did that he felt that the plate cover give and allowed him to remove it from his plate.
And after he removed the cover on his plate he saw what he wanted: a large burger bun that was filled with barbecue pulled pork, along with salt and pepper seasoned fries and a buttered corn on the cob. At this Demitri quickly touched his cup mat, causing a whisky glassed filled with a mixture of whisky and pop to appear on it for him.
After all of this was infront of him Demitri looked up to see everyone looking at him in shock, as he grinned and chuckled at this.
Demitri then chose to share his thoughts on the hosts food delivery method, with silmply saying "That is sick!" in a joyous tone as he pointed at his meal and drink.
At that everyone else began to grab their plate covers and visualize their desired meals, as well as drinks.
With Jaunes group they all had their meals and drinks in front of them in a matter of seconds: Jaunes meal consisted of a large crispy chicken steak, that was topped with bacon, barbecue sauce and smokey cheese that melted on top of it, with fries that were seasoned with salt and pepper, along with mayonnaise for them and his drink was the same as Demitris but he had spiced rum instead of whisky; Eli had a large, medium rare T-bone steak with wedges that were seasoned with salt and pepper and a tankard of beer for his drink; Kol had a meal of venison stew with dumplings and his drink was a mixture of cherry brandy and pop in a brandy glass; Eliza had two red peppers stuffed with couscous, that had bits of beef in them and her drink was a simple glass of red wine; Joan however managed to a plate with a pile of peanut butter and fruit flapjacks and a glass of milk.
Everyone looked at Joan in shock at what she got, as she got her favorite snack rather than an actual meal. Both Terra and Saphron, who both got pasta bolognese for their meals, then looked at Adrien who had managed to get himself a plate of nothing put orange and raspberry jelly.
And after a few seconds Jaune spoke up "Y'know, I'm not even angry, or disappointed, I mean I would have done the same." he told them an understanding tone, as he knew everyone else would have too, even if they didn't openly admit it.
Though Demitri did as he nodded at Jaunes statement at the kids choice for sweets for their meal as he knew he would have done it at their age, hell he would have done it just now if he knew it was an option.
However Eliza simply sighed, in understanding, before she looked at Joan with a strict look.
"Okay, you can have the flapjacks for your meal, this one time, but next time you will have a proper meal. And I'm letting you have this because you've been a good girl since we got her, okay?" Eliza told her daughter before making sure she understood that this meal was a one time treat for her good behavior.
At this Joan simply nodded giddly, with a big smile on her face a she got to eat all the flapjacks.
After hearing this Terra looked at her wife, who was frowning at their son before she put her hand over hers and spoke.
"A one time treat won't hurt anyone Saph." Terra told her with a smile as she felt that Adrien also deserved a treat for being so well behaved also.
Saphron simply sighed a few seconds and gave Terra a kiss on the cheek and Adrien a kiss in the head before she said "You're lucky I love you both so much." in a happy tone a smile on her face.
After that they all fell in small conversations about different subjects ,as Jaunes, his team and Eliza worked on getting to know Saphron and Terra better and they in turn worked on getting to know each of them, especially Eliza and Joan better. However Jaune knew that he, Saphron and Cathrine would have to talk about their families past and future in private at some point.
Though none of this prevented them from settling into enjoying their meals and drinks, all of which were delicious, as they each got to know a bit more about each other and catch up as they began talking of each other in a more relaxed manner as time went on and soon they were all smiling and laughing at the stories that they were each telling.
But despite that Jaune wasn't just smiling about having a meal with his new family and his sisters family, after wanting just this for so long, and hearing some funny stories from his sisters life. He was smiling because he was looking forward to the fact that once the meals were done he would have a chance to beat Jerome into the ground, before all those that follow and respect him.
And yet despite the fact that he couldn't wait to kick the old mans ass, that could be taken very much out of context Jaune realized, he didn't want this moment between his new family and the last of his old family to end too soon.
So Jaune would savor this moment and use the knowledge that his parents and other sisters weren't here with them, because of Jerome, as more reason to destroy him in their upcoming fight. And this caused his smile to widen slightly, as he couldn't wait for it.