As everyone continued to eat their, admittedly delicious, meals and savour their drinks, people began to talk to each other about what they'd seen and learnt since being brought to Shads realm. In particular team RWBY, the remaining members of team JNPR, along with Sun and Neptune.
"Did you see how fearless leaders dads team took down all those bad guy, it was awesome. You know besides all the killing, that was kinda bad. Oh, and the way that Jack guys semblance made it so that all his weapons exploded, it was like he could turn things into grenades. Hey do you think, if I aksed him, that he could try and do the same to one of my grenades and make into a double grenade?" Nora rattled off to the others, with a large pile of syrup covered pancakes on the plate in front of her and a big glass of orange juice for her drink, as she let her 'double grenade' question hang in the air.
However everyone else at the table just looked at her with confusion, cocked eyebrows or amused grins.
"I can tell, that you have a very fun mind." Sun comments as he figured Nora's mind would come up woth some brilliant ways to mess with people.
Though Ren just glared at him for that, before turning his attention towards his oldest and closest friend "Nora, I don't think it's possible to make a 'double grenade." Ren explains to Nora in a calm manner, as the thought of Nora getting ahold of a 'double grenade' genuinely scaring him.
However, this response saddened Nora as it ruined all of her plans for the magnificent explosive device.
Though when Ren noticed Nora's saddened expression he decided think of response, that would reassure her.
"Though considering that we just found out that our former leader is actually a vampire, who is dating another vampire, has a vampire daughter, is close friends with another vampire and two werewolves and who's sister is a witch, so there's a good chance that I may be wrong in saying that." Ren explained to his dear friend, after thinking of all that had been introduced to them since Shad brought them here, wherever here is.
After Ren thought about everything for a few more seconds, he eventually just gave a tired sigh before he picked up and took a sip of his green tea. After that he put his tea down and looked back at his meal, which was a good serving of simple and tasty super salmon parcels.
Once Nora had brightened back up and she was about to start rambling again she was stopped before she started by Weiss coughing, to get their attention.
"Sorry to interrupt your... riveting conversation Nora, but I believe we should discuss the fact that we just found out that Arc, someone that spent quite a lot of time around each of us, is actually a blood drinking vampire. And just as Ren mentioned earlier, there is a good chance he may have drank blood from some of us at some point when he was at Beacon." Weiss explained, as she rubbed her neck towards the end of her explanation.
Everyone else also rubbed, or touched their necks and throats in some way, as they also subconsciously imagined fangs, like what they saw Jaune had earlier, sinking into them and sucking out their blood for food.
"It's still hard to believe that someone so close to us and who was seen as the weakest student in all of Beacon, was actually very strong, from what we've seen, and the same kind of monster you tend to read about in stories." Blake commented, as she was the first to respond to what Weiss said to them.
"Yeah that was something I never expected to find out about, or see at any point in my life." Yang told the others, as she had always thought that things like vampires were nonsense that only exist in stories for people to read and yet it turns out that her little sisters first friend at Beacon was actually a blood sucking monster from such stories.
Ren then once again spoke up, after eating a bit of salmon that he'd just put in his mouth as Yang spoke.
"You know, based of how we saw Jaune fight against Damien earlier, there's a good chance that Jaune was holding back, not just his magic but his strength, significantly whenever he fought against students and grimm when he was at Beacon." Ren explained to the others, after he thought about how Jaune fought earlier in comparison to at Beacon.
This comment caused Pyrrha's eyes to widen as she realized that the entire time that she and Jaune were practicing on the roof at Beacon, to better his supposedly mediocre fighting skill, were all lies as he could already fight but chose not to.
However she couldn't figure out why he held back so much, she understood why he chose to hide his magic as that would cause a lot of commotion, but she just couldn't figure out why he'd hide all of his fighting ability.
Pyrrha just started poking at her meal, spaghetti bolognese, with her fork as she tried to figure out why Jaune would choose to be seen as the weakest at Beacon when he seemed to know how to fight, based off of what they'd seen him do so far, in his earlier fight against Damien.
Yet before she could voice her thoughts Yang spoke up first.
"That makes sense. I mean we did see Vomit Boy pick up and through Cardin with one hand, even though he never beat the jackass back at Beacon." Yang said, as she realized how Jaune was undoubtedly holding back whenever he went up against someone at Beacon.
And this realization also made her wonder why Jaune would hold back as much as he did, just like Pyrrha she, she couldn't figure out why someone would choose to be seen as the weakest student in a school of fighters.
"Yeah, I didn't know this Jaune guy like all you did, but I'm guessing that he had a reason. I mean I haven't a clue what it could be myself, what about my blue-haired, nerdy friend." Sun said after listening to the others talking, however the last part was aimed towards Neptune however.
Neptune however just glared at Sun for a few seconds, before he just gave a defeated sigh knowing that it wouldn't stop Sun form calling him a nerd. So he just decided to give his thoughts.
However Neptune decided to have a dig at Sun, for the nerd comment, before he gave his thoughts.
"Intellectual. Please Sun, don't be bitter just because I've got both looks and brains, where as all you've got are the abs." Neptune said to his partner, in an attempt to get back at him for all of the nerd comments.
However Sun simply gave an over dramatic hurt look and a short chuckle before responding to Neptune dig at him.
"Actually I have: the looks, the humour and then the abs. And those are just the the first three evident things about myself, but not just that I just one upped you with the abs." Sun said to Neptune, whi just looked a bit confused as to what he was talking about.
"How!?" Neptune questioned as he couldn't figure out how exactly he'd been one upped.
Sun simply smirked as he knew he had the upper hand and it was pissing his partner off to no end.
"Simple. You said that you had: looks and brains, where as I said I had: looks, humor and the abs. Meaning you've got two evident traits that are desirable, whilst I have three." Sun explain in an over the top manner, solely to piss Neptune off even more.
However just as Neptune was about to explode, just as Sun wanted, Blake decided to cut in and get them back to discussing what they had found out about Jaune.
"Alright enough of this, or do I need to get you two a ruler?" Blake questioned to them with a focused look, showing that she wasn't joking with them.
At that questioned Sun and Neptune, along with Ren, blushed in embarrassment and coughed awkwardly.
Yang and Nora on the other hand just laughed at the implications of Blakes questions, whilst Weiss looked both embarrassed and disgusted, and Ruby looked confused as to what they would need a ruler for.
"Ah-hem!" Weis emphasized as she wanted both the heavy hitters at the table to calm down and focus.
"Despite how you did it, thank you for getting us back on track Blake." Weiss begrudgingly said to her team mate, even though she really didn't like the dirty implications of Blakes question, and thank goodness it went right over Ruby's child like head or Yang would be furious.
Blake simply gave a small nod in recognition of what Weiss said, before she went back to eating her seared tuna steak, with nothing else just tuna steaks taking up her entire plate and she ate it slowly as she wanted to savior what she saw as a heavenly flavor, she simply had a glass of water for her drink.
Seeing as she wouldn't get anymore out of the cat enjoying her meal, Weiss decided to get back to what they were originally talking about.
"So, back to the question Neptune, do you have any thoughts as to why Arc would choose to make himself out as the weakest student in Beacon when he's clearly strong enough to have a place there." Weiss inquired the blue haired boy, who in her opinion was rather charming.
Neptune gave his partner one last, quick, angry look, before he took a few seconds to think about it. And after about thirty second he gave a thoughtful hum before sighing and giving his thoughts on the subject.
"I don't know about Jaune holding back the entire time he was at Beacon, but bad off what we heard earlier I'm pretty sure that it's tide to the reason that he was sent to to Beacone in the first place." Neptune summarized after thinking about the conversations he heard from the people from Vludania earlier.
After hearing that Ruby spoke up, after quickly stuffing another cookie into her mouth. As for her meal she got a pile of chocolate-chip cookies, with a large glass of strawberry milkshake.
"So does that mean... Jaune was pretending to be our friend the entire time?" Ruby asked the others in a hesitant manner, as she didn't want to believe it.
At Ruby's question all of the Beacon students stopped either eating or drinking and then looked at Ruby, who was looking in a certain direction with a sad look in her eyes. When they all turned to follow where she was looking and they saw that see was looking toward where Jaune was sitting with his team, girlfriend and family.
Jaune himself was smiling whilst Demitri was telling them something with a big smile of his own and the rest of the people at the table, besides Joan and Adrien, laughed at whatever Demitri was telling them.
But unbeknownst the the others when Pyrrha saw Eliza put her hand on top of Jaunes, as she laughed at Demitri's story, she frowned in annoyance.
After they had watched Jaunes table continue to talk and laugh for a bit Ren voice his thoughts on the matter.
"I'm not sure. We know he was faking his weakness in combat, but I doubt that all of his time with us was completely fake. Some of it had to be real, even if it was filtered by his weak and dorky facade." Ren said even though he doubted, yet another deep part of him hoped what he said was true as he liked to think that Jaune was his first true gut friend and he wasn't faking it.
Even though it wasn't what she wanted to hear Ruby gave a short, sad nod before she went back to eating. After a little bit everyone else went back to eating as well, with them eventually starting to talk about over things in order to take their minds off Jaune and how all of their interactions and friendships could have been fake.
However unbeknownst to all of them another pair of eyes, that were a golden yellow colour that reflected anger, were focus in watching Jaunes table. More specifically they were also focused on Jaune and Eliza, the person watching them soon spoke.
"Purple haired, bunny bitch. Taking my place." a clearly female voice spat out like venom.
And near by the the students table, a table full of adults was located.
At the table was: Ozpin, Glynda Goodwitch, Leo Lionhart, Dorothy White, General Ironwood, Winter Schnee, Taiyang Xailong, Qrow Branwen, and even surprising there was also the newly introduced Dr. Franklin Stienberg sitting with them.
The even more bizarre thing was how Franklin chose to sit directly across from Ozpin and look directly at him, with his arms on the table and his chin resting atop his hands, with somewhat disturbing smile on his face.
Ozpin himself simply stared right back at Franklin and took a sip of his fresh cup of coffee before he spoke to the doctor.
"I have two questions: first- why did you decide to sit with us, people that you don't even know?; and second- why are you staring at me?" Ozpin asked, with him asking the second question in a more annoyed tone of voice as he didn't like being stared at so much.
In response to, Franklin simply gave a shrug and a chuckle before he answered Ozpin's questions.
"To answer your questions: first of all, I'm sitting here because you and your 'condition' intrigues me, and the reason that I am staring at you is because I am wondering what would happen if I could kill you." Franklin answered Ozpin in clear and precise manner, that left no indication that he was joking, he even continued to smile as he answered and finished.
The moment Franklin had finished speaking everyone else at the table stopped what they where doing and looked towards him, expecting him to start laughing at his joke. But he didn't, so each of them began to get ready for him to attack.
However as soon as Franklin saw them readying for an attack he started laughing hysterically, causing everyone else at the table and on other tables around them to look at him rather oddly.
After a few seconds Franklin calm down and managed to stop laughing, once he did so he took a deep breath before he spoke again.
"Oh, you're a funny group of fools. Remember our host said that no one can harm or attack anyone else here without his express permission, meaning no matter I'd like to kill you in order to see what happens I can't." Franklin explained to them, before he started eating his meal.
His meal consisted of a large pile of barbecue ribs and a second pile of fries that filled his plate. Franklin himself picked up a rib and began bite into it.
However before could finish eating it he was interrupted by Ozpin asking him a question.
"So why exactly do you want to kill?" Ozpin questioned him, as he wa curious was sitting someone that he'd never met wants to kill him.
Franklin sighed before dropping the rib he had back onto the plate, he then sucked to barbecue sauce off his fingers from the rib before answering.
"I simply want to observe how your reincarnation ability works." Franklin answered before picking up a fry and eating it.
Once again Franklin's answer stunned may of them, especially those that knew about Ozpins reincarnation.
"How do you-" Ozpin tried to ask Franklin, but before he could really could Franklin cut him off, as he already expected the question.
"Know about that? Well when you live in a place that is full of supernatural things, it makes it rather easy to identify and locate supernatural things in a place where they not typically found." Franklin explained, as if it was an incredibly simple thing to figure out.
Ozpin and his circle... accepted that answer, no mater how much it angered them that the secrets they worked so hard to keep where incredibly easy for those of Vludania to figure out. Though Ozpin belived that Franklin had looked more into his 'condition' than he was letting on.
"So you simply want to kill Ozpin, in order to see how his reincarnation works." General Ironwood deduced from what Franklin had said and how he acted.
Franklin simply smirked at that before responding "I'd called it, professional curiosity." he answered, with his smirk turning into a worrying smile.
Franklin finally managed to start eating one of the ribs he got, savouring it as he watches this at the table that didn't know about Ozpin's little secret look at the grey haired man oddly. He knew he was right to sit here, they were gonna give him some good dinner time entertainment.
However he decided to give them something, since me was using them for a laugh, so after he finished a rib and pit the bone down he began loudly sucking the sauce off of his fingers to get their attention.
And once they had all turned to look at him, primarily in annoyance due to how loud he was purposefully being, he spoke again.
"While I do hate spoilers, I'll give you this little hint. If you think a reincarnating coffee addict, a grimm queen and what you've seen so far since coming here were as bizarre as it was gonna get, well you ain't seen nothing yet." Franklin told them with a smirk, that turned into a concerning towards the end as he spoke in more sinister tone at the end as well.
After that he resumed eating his food, all others at the table looked at him for a bit longer before they came to realize that he was done talking to them for now.
Slowly each of them went to eat their food as well, except those outside of Ozpin's circle who were now demanding answers from those that were in.
They were soon squabbling and arguing, just as Franklin wanted them as he quietly watched them do so. He was enjoying this trip so far he gets to see the life of the vampire that intrigues him the most, there's great food and he has all the dinner time entertainment he needs right here.
At their own table Alex, Markus and John were taking amongst themselves whilst Jasmine, Samantha, Chloe, along with Catherine, watched them and waited for the life long friends to finish reminiscing about what they had seen in what Shad had shown them.
After nearly five minutes of the there of them talking about the stuff they did when they were younger, and with Jason, they eventually realized that all of the ladies at the table with them were looking at them in mild irritation for having to wait so long.
They were especially concerned by how Jasmine was glaring at them in anger, for how they continuously interrupted her when she tried to talk with Samantha and Chloe for the first time in a while.
"We're sorry." the three grown men muttered out, much like children who were caught doing something they shouldn't by a parent.
However Jasmine, Samantha and Chloe all simply laughed at how the three, supposedly brave and powerful, men coward beneath the rabbit Faunus's glare.
Catherine herself simply stared at them with clear confusion, mainly because if she hadn't been shown the past earlier she wouldn't believe that these men were the ones that have been causing Jerome trouble for years and who have beaten several silver eyed warriors each.
Samantha simply chuckled at the three men trembling before she began speaking.
"Isn't it fun to see three of Vludania's best Guardians cowering before one of the best, female, Guardians in Vludanian history?" Samantha asked Chloe, as she watched Alex attempt to calm his wife down.
Chloe simply chuckled in response to the question. Whilst back home she would also be trying to calm Jasmine down in order to avaoid a fight, here she could just let it happen and relax as Shad told them they couldn't harm one another without his permission
"Yeah, it's pretty funny." Chloe answered her friend, as she saw Jasmine calming down and the men relaxing.
"It'd be best for you three to remember that even though I can't harm you currently, either when we return home, or if I ask Shad for permission I can kick you asses as punishment, just like I did when you were younger." Jasmine informed the men in order to get the point across of not interrupting her or being too loud.
"Tha-that's not very accurate to what I remember." Jack attempted to respond when he saw people that didn't know how it happened look in their direction at Jasmines statement/threat.
However Jacks response just made Jasmine, Samantha and Chloe either glare at him, whilst Alex and Markus looked at him in shock, for seemingly making the situation worse. And Catherine just watched them with fascination, as she'd heard about the vampire queen being a very powerful warrior but she'd never seen it herself.
"Yes, yes it is. She has beaten each of us several times, I mean the only one that she's beaten the least out of the three of us is Markus." Alex jumped in as he wanted to end the argument and just change the subject, as well as eat.
Alex then looked down at his meals: that consisted of a large serving of cheese topped spaghetti bolognese with meatballs, along with a whole garlic bread and a large glass of scotch for his drink.
"That is true, and I take great pride in the fact that I managed to beat Jasmine more than anyone else did during our time at the academy. And they were hard earned victories, specially after she started planning specifically how the kick my ass." Markus said, though he muttered the last to himself as he remembered how she made a show of beating him in their youth.
At this Jasmine nodded, as she knew he was right and smiled as she remembered how fun it's was to beat up the kid that everyone else said was untouchable because of his semblance.
Whereas both Samantha and Chloe were laughing amongst themselves as they remembered how funny it was to watch the cocky teenage Jack get annihilated by Jasmine.
However Jack just looked at his friends, expecting them to back him up, only to see Alex take a very long sip of his scorch, just like Markus who was taking a long and drawn out sip of his mint tea. And as the two of them continued to sip they looked at their third teammate in a manner that meant both 'Shut up' and 'Just leave it alone.'
After realizing that he wasn't gonna get any support in this argument Jack simply gave a sign of defeat and muttered "Just forget it." loud enough for all at the table to hear.
And as Jasmine smirked over winning the argument Jack lifted the cover off of his plate to reveal that he had nothing but a large pile of fried chicken wings, he also chose to get a whiskey glass that was full, nearly to the brim, of tequila.
Jack then picked up his glass and down the entirety of the alcohol in a single go, he then slammed the glass back down on the the cup mat as everyone looked at him him differently: Alex and Markus looked at him in a somewhat bored manner, as they'd seem him drink far more than that in the past, and they knew such a small amount would do absolutely nothing to him; Jasmine and Samantha looked at him with smirks, as they knew he was trying to drink away the pain of losing the argument so badly; Chloe however looked somewhat shocked, whilst she knew that Jack was a good drinker she didn't expect him to show no reaction to drink that much neat tequila; whereas Catherine looked rather impressed by Jack, it actually made her wonder of Jason was as good as drinker as she was in her youth.
Jack however was looking at his cup and how it seemed to start filling back up as soon as it was back on the cup mat. Needless to say this revelation made him very happy, as well as forget the sadness he felt from loosing the argument with Jasmine.
Though just as Jack was about to tell the others that their drinks auto-refilled he saw Catherine, who had hardly touched her meal of roast chicken, with mashed potatoes and chopped carrots, covered in gravy, and she seemed to be looking down at the table and daydreaming with a small smile on her face.
Jack then picked up one of his chicken wings and started eating, not taking his eyes off Catherine, as he couldn't figure her out. Jason always said she was a good women who fell in love with the wrong man, and Jaune told them that she said she was the reason that Jerome found Jason and was able to kill him.
So once he'd eaten five of him wings he decided to try talking to her.
"So, what's with the smile Misses Arc." Jack asked her, as he heard how angry she tends to get whenever anyone addressed her as 'Mrs, Solis' instead of 'Misses Arc' as she apparently proclaimed that she was only the mother of Jason Arc and no longer the wife of Jerome Solis.
So luckily for him she smiled smiled a bit more as she wasn't reminded of the man she once loved, by one of the only people that she could talk to about her son.
"I'm fine. I'm just wondering..." Catherine seemed like she wanted to keep taking, but she was hesitant to do so as she feared angering or offending them.
"Wondering what?" Jasmine asked her gently, as she and everyone else as the table were now looking towards her wondering what she wanted to to say to them exactly.
None of knew what to think about the women, as none of them had ever met her before the only things they knew about her where based off of her reputation, along with some rumors that were usually unreliable.
Catherine herself simply and slowly took a deep breath in through her nose and then exhaled through her moth before she spoke again.
"I was wondering if you could tell about Jason's life, before he died." Catherine asked the others in gentle tone of voice, that was filled with sadness and underlying anger at the end.
Her request stunned them for a few seconds, as they knew that she never really spoke about Jason due to how painful it was, and yet here she was wanting them to tell her about the years of her son's life that she wasn't there for because he was with them.
And after a few more seconds of stunned silence from the table, everyone besides Catherine looked at each other and gave small nods of agreement.
They'd seen how much she hated Jerome earlier, so she was good in their books for that, so they decided that there was no harm in telling her want she wanted to know.
So of course after they all silently agreed to tell her Jack was the first one to jump in and start telling her stuff.
"Alright then, how about I tell you the story of how Jason and Ophelia first met?" Jack asked her, even though he was sure she'd like to hear about that.
And she obviously did as she visibly perked up, as she sat up straight and looked at Jack with a happy and relieved look on her face.
"Yes, I'd love to hear about how Jason met his wife." Catherine said with a big bright smile on her face, the happiest that she has looked in a long time.
Jack, along with the others at the table had to force themselves to not grin, chuckle, or snigger as this story always made them laugh. So Jack was force to tap on Markus's arm, for him to take over telling her, as he doubted he could stop himself from laughing as he tried to tell Catherine the story.
After realizing why Jack was repeatedly patting him on the arm, Markus slapped his hand away and started to tell the story.
"In all honesty they met in rather peculiar fashion, in a drinking establishment and Ophelia kicking Jason in the head." Markus told her in a clear voice, that wavered with a laugh at the end but was still devoid of lies.
At this Catherine's eyes widened as she was not expecting to be to than, of all thing when hear about how a couple that married and had eight children met.
Whereas everyone else, besides Catherine and Markus, were red in the face as they were forcing themselves not to laugh, with Jack and Alex looking as if they were about to explode with laughter, as they remembered how Ophelia knocked Jason on his ass with that kick.
Meanwhile at the table with Jaunes group, Jaune himself was smiling with clear happiness.
He was smiling at how Demitri, Eli and Kol were trying to tell his sister and her wife about all to dumbest things he either did, or got himself into, he also chuckled at their faces when they heard the stories. He smiled at how Joan was playing with Adrien and how she gave him some of her flapjacks to try.
Jaunes smiled widened a bit more Eliza leaned over and kissed him on the cheek right before she rested her head on his shoulder, with her ears seemingly curling around his head.
Though Jaune couldn't help but think about how he hasn't had a need to feed since he got here, so he decided to ask Eliza whether it was the same for her.
"Have you by any chance notice that you haven't had a need for blood since we got here?" Jaune asked Eliza in a quite tone, as he didn't want to ruin the joyous atmosphere at the table.
Eliza gave a hum to signify that she'd heard him and gave the table a quick look over, and smiled as she saw Joan petting Adrien on the head, before she answered Jaune.
"I have yes. In fact before we came here me and Joan were about to feed and yet as soon as I arrive I was no longer hungry, and Joan didn't tell me she was hungry meaning that it's most likely the same for her as well." Eliza told Jaune, as she still had a small smile due to how peaceful it was.
Jaune then sniffed the air a few times before he looked towards Shad and eye the entity with great suspicion, he then spoke to Eliza again.
"I can smell a little bit of blood in the air, so at least that means we can get blood, however that means that the ones drinking it are doing so even though they don't need any blood. I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that this place is making it so we don't need to feed." Jaune told Eliza, with his eyes narrowing a little at the end due to how the space that they were in continued to puzzle him.
However Eliza just gave a small nod before she stopped leaning on Jaunes shoulder and gave Jaune another kiss on the cheek before she spoke.
"Jaune, we can ask Shad about why we don't feel like we need to feed on blood whilst we're here later, but for now let's just enjoy this meal and tell Saphron and Terra some more stories." Eliza told Jaune in a firm but gentle tone.
Jaune just nodded in acceptance before he went back to eating and Eliza started to strike up a conversation with Saphron and Terra.
However as everyone at the table were having a good time, Jaune couldn't stop himself from glancing towards a certain table.
At that table there was Jerome, who was sitting at his table with Damien, along with four other people from their seating section.
And Jaune couldn't stop the excitement and anticipation from welling up inside of him as he couldn't wait to make this the perfect day. First he met up with his girlfriend, daughter and friends earlier then he thought he would, then he got to reunite with his sister and officially meet her wife and son, and now he was gonna get the opportunity to kick the shot out of his grandfather.
Sure he was upset that the entire world was gonna see his life, but that was a price he was willing to pay in order for this fight, as well as see when he was gonna get justice for his family.
So Jaune was gonna sit at the table, enjoy his meal and the company of the people that he loved at said table, wonder exactly what Shad and what he's capable of, and then he was gonna wait patiently for everyone to finish up and then he'd get the fight that he's wanted for years.
But for now he had food to eat, rum to drink, stories to tell/correct and a sister he hasn't seen for almost a decade to tell said stories to. So his fight could wait a little bit, he'd already waited nearly ten years, so waiting a few more hours wasn't a real issue.