After about about two hours of remaining stationary Shad felt that everyone had ate their fill of food, so he dicided that is was time to get things moving along.
Shad's eye then flashed brightly for a second, causing a pulse of red light to sweep across the area. The pulse caused all of the remaining food, plates and utensils to glow red and vanish, however all of the people's drinks and cup mats remained on the tables.
However the sudden disappearance of food resulted in more reactions than Shad had expected. The reaction were primarily either shock, general confusion, or for a few anger.
The last especially applied to a certain wolf faunus, who stood up before talking.
"Who in the fuck, stole my fuck'n pork!" Demitri roared out for all to hear, causing many children from the four kingdoms and Vludania to look scared as he let out a low growl when he got to his feet.
"Demitri! Calm down!" Kol yelled at his teammate, as soon as he heard a near by child whimper because of his teammates behavior.
"Just sit down and calm your ass down!" Eli growled at his friend as he grabbed his arm and pulled him down into his chair.
As Demitri continued to growl, ingnoreing Kol and Eli's words, Jaune decided to speak up.
"Demitri, all you lost in regards to food was a handful of chips and about a third of your fourth pulled pork burger." Jaune explained to his partner.
After hearing that Demitri realized that it was quite a silly thing to complain about, considering how much he'd actually eaten before the scraps were taken away.
"So I'd recommend that you calm down and apologize for being so loud that you scared the children, because I'm pretty sure that the maternal instinct at this table could very easily kill you." Jaune explained, though was grinning towards the end at the look of shock that appeared on his friends face.
Demitri slowly looked around the table and noticed a few things: Joan and Adrien looked scared, with watery eyes due to his outburst, making him feel like an asshole; Eliza, Saphron and Terra were all also glaring at him so hard that he thought he'd explode, quite literally in Saphrons case as her eyes had unconsciously shifted to the pure black eyes of a witches, were as Eliza had shifted to her vampire form and looked deadly and Terra just looked really pissed off, but still rather scary in her own right.
Demitri then looked at his teammates, who didn't seem like they were gonna give him any help. In fact the look on their faces told him either 'Don't look at me' or 'You caused this, you fix it' respectively.
He then slowly look back towards the three angry mothers that were glaring at him, causing his wolf ears to droop as he gulped, before he spoke to them in a gentle and quiet tone to offset how he exclaimed earlier and caused this mess to begin with.
"I'm sorry." Demitri whimpered out in a manner that was like a scared puppy.
At seeing how much they scared him the three mothers stopped glaring at him, with Eliza and Saphron shifting back to their regular forms, but they still looked at him in a disappointed manner due to how he scared the children. The children however giggled at how scared and small Demitri looked infront of their mothers.
"Uncle Demitri's scared of Mummy!" Joan exclaimed as Adrien continued to giggle uncontrollably at Demitri's face, which had shifted to shock at how his niece just mocked him but he couldn't talk back to her cause he new that was really piss Eliza off.
And luckily for Demitri, upon seeing the children laughing the mothers calmed down even more, as Saphron and Terra smiled at Adrien's laughing, and Eliza stroked Joan's hair as Jaune smiled at his daughter laughing at her a uncle along with her cousin.
However Jaune and quite a few others realized that Shad removed their food and access to it because he was planning to move things along, meaning that it was most likely time for Jaune and Jerome to show their world just what they were capable of when up against one another.
"So I take it that it's time for promised fight between Mr. Arc and Mr. Solis to take place?" Ozpin inquired before he took a long sip of his coffee.
"You would be correct in that... Ozpin." Shad answered the headmaster, though many notices the pause he had before saying the mans name.
However no one knew that Shad paused like he did as he was debating wether or not to call Ozpin by his true name of Ozma.
At that many of the more curious people began mutter amongst themselves.
The people of Vludania were discussing who they wanted to win, with a vast majority of the hunters choosing Jerome out of necessity and loyalty, however there was a small number of the hunters that were quietly rooting for Jaune as they wanted Jerome gone for one reason or another.
The supernatural population, as well as the none supernaturals that were against the hunters ideology, of Vludania however was completely on Jaunes side, though there were somewhat conflicted about it, but they'd rather root for someone they don't like than a mass murder.
Whilst most of the people from the four kingdoms, that were unaware how of Vludania's history, were unsure who they wanted to root for, on one hand Jaune was a criminal who escaped from the law to them and hated his grandfather enough to try and kill him earlier, but they also didn't know much about Jerome other than the fact he apparently killed Jaunes family and hated Jaune as well.
Yet as most people continued to mutter amongst themselves a few people notice that both Jaune and Jerome were staring at one another from their tables, both with frown on their faces and looked ready to attack the other.
Jerome had his left hand clenched in a white knuckled fist and his dark blue eyes looked even darker, as if they had lost all of their blue colouring unless you looked close enough
Whereas the face veins that bulge and glow red that come from Jaunes vampire form continuously bulged out at random for only a second before reseeding, as if he was forcing his vampire form off of his face when it was obvious he wanted to shift.
Shad then focused on all of the people as small wisps of what seemed to be pitch black smoke began to emanate from his form, startling many of the civilians and making the fighters wary of a possible need to defend themselves.
"Let's get started then." Shad told them all, just before the wisps exploded off of his body and swallowed everyone up in darkness.
And within the darkness everyone could feel themselves become weightless and begin to float, as if they were suddenly in water, however despite that feeling they could still breath but the darkness prevented them from seeing or hearing everyone panicking around them.
After about five seconds of being inside the darkness everyone found themselves feeling grounded once again and seated, bit not at the table they ate at beforehand.
Instead they were not sitting within an enormous colosseum that was large enough for everyone to sit in, once again in divided into sections for the people of the four kingdoms, the people of Vludania and the hunters from Vludania.
And everyone was also seated in the same kind of black leather seats they were in when watching the past.
And at the center of the colosseum their was a large open space, with two entrances on opposite sides that were sealed shut with heavy metal doors, and the ground of this area was covered in what appeared to be light grey sand, something that stud out rather greatly against the black colosseum.
This sand covered ground of the area was also about fifteen feet above this area was were the lowest set of seats were located, and along with the solid black walls that surrounded the area there was also what seemed to be a transparent wall of red light that reached all the way up into what could be seen as the 'sky' of where they are.
The cylinder shaped wall that encased the area in the center of the colosseum seemed to be just like the dome that Jaune and Damien 'fought' inside of earlier.
And above the colosseum everyone could see another enormous rectangular window with an ethereal crimson outline, that was exactly like what they had been watching the past on earlier. And just like the window from earlier everyone seemed to be able to see it perfectly, regards of the angle that they were looking at it from.
"What, in the name of fuck, just happened?" Demitri questioned as he gripped the arm rests of his seat, in an attempt to stabilize himself after what just happened to get him and the others to their, somewhat, new seats.
"I don't know, but I hated it." Kol said as he let out a heavy sigh and leaned his head back into the headrest of his chair, as he was also put off by how he got to his seat.
"Yeah, I feel like I was just in the Oum damned washin' machine." Eli said, as felt as miserable as the other two.
The three of them were sat next to each other on the row of seats closest to the edge of the fighting area, with Eliza sitting next to them as Joan was once again sitting on her mothers lap.
And Joan didn't seem to dislike how they gat their seats in the colosseum as much as they did, in fact she seemed to like it.
"Mummy, mummy, that was awesome! Can we do it again?" Joan stated, before she asked Eliza, as she asked Eliza in the same way a child would ask to go on ride they enjoyed once again.
Eliza however looked rather dizzy as she was slowly swaying from side-to-side in her chair, as tried to steady herself to look at Joan before responding to her.
"I-I don't think so sweetie." Eliza 'regretfully' to her daughter as she really didn't want to do that again, any time soon.
Joan simply groaned in disappointment, but she quieted down when Eliza gave her a hug and kiss on the forehead.
However Joan quickly perked up as she realized there was someone else she could ask, so she turned to the seat next to Eliza, expecting to see Jaune, however she instead saw her grandfather instead.
"Mummy, daddy isn't here!" Joan exclaimed, causing Eliza and Jaunes team to quickly look around for any sign of their blonde boyfriend/friend.
When they confirmed that he indeed wasn't with them they all started trying to look for Shad, so they could ask their host where he was.
After a few seconds of looking around for Shad, a small wisp of what looked like black smoke appeared infront of them and the small wisp seemed to grow out into tendrils that began to form a sort of, familiar, bossy with elongated arms and hands. The final piece to form was his eye/ face, that formed in a dull flash or crimson light.
"How can I be of assistance?" Shad asked them, as he knew they wanted to see him, and when he is wanted he comes.
At first everyone looked a bit shocked by Shads sudden appearance, but they quickly regained their composure.
"Tell us where Jaune is you eye faced fuck." Demitri growled at the host, not worrying about swearing due to the censoring abilities of where they are.
However Shad didn't really hive a reaction to how Demitri spoke to him, except for him fixing his eye at the hot headed wolf faunus.
"Jaune is perfectly fine, in fact he's waiting to enter the arena for his fight with Jerome to begin." Shad calmly explained to Demitri and the others that wanted to know wher Jaune was.
This answer pacified them as it meant that Jaune was perfectly fine and they were going to see him teach the old Solis bastard a lesson soon enough.
However Joan was still a bit nervous about where her daddy was, she was happy that her mummy was still here but she still wanted her daddy with them since they just got him back after he'd been away at a different school for a while.
However the eye faced being seemed to sense the young faunus girls worry, so he decided to attempt to 'comfort' her. He'd observed it before so how hard could it be to emulate for a child.
"Worry not little one. You will be able to see how powerful and skilled your father really is shortly, and then he will be back by your side after he works off some stress and rage." Shad explained to the young Arc girl.
Everyone that heard Shad looked at the host with looks that seemed to be mixtures of confusion and shock with varying degrees. It was truly a bizarre sight to see the eye faced, demon being that anducted all of them attempting to cheer up a young girl.
Joan was quiet for a few seconds as she cutely tilted her head trying to understand what the eye man was telling her, but she eventually figured it out.
"So... after daddy beats up the bad man who was mean to him, he'll comeback and we can have fun?" Joan questioned as she smiled brightly.
Shad seemed to nod, or rather bob his eye head up and down, to answer the little Arc.
"Yay!" Joan exclaimed in joy, as her bushy squirrel tail wagged ever so slightly.
Eliza then hugged her daughter to her chest and kissed her head glad she was so happy, her little Joan always got upset when Jaune had to go away for an assignment and she was always so happy when he came back home to them.
Seeing this Demitri chuckled, while Eli smiled brightly and Kol hummed at the sight of their niece being so happy.
However Eli remembered he wanted to ask something "So then Shad when will this long anticipated fight begi- Oh for Oums sake." he started curious and ended in frustration.
Everyone look up and saw their host was once again gone.
"The battle will commence shortly so please do not do anything to stop or interrupt this battle, or their will be reproductions." Shads voice once again seemed to project itself into the heads of everyone, and many people shivered at the implications of what would happen if they were to.
"Now then, I believe the expression is, let's get ready to rumble." Shad said to everyone.
Quiet a few people had to hold in laughter as they heard the face fight announcement being said in such a monotone voice was very bizarre.
However the restricted laughter ceased when the two gates in the battle areas of the colosseum began to open.
But the fighters didn't emerge immediately instread a paint of brightly glowing crimson eyes could be seen and a faint sound could be heard reverberating that was a mix of a growl and a hiss came out of the entrance closest to Eliza and Jaunes team. However from the other entrance an intense, but cold white glow emanated from it and it seemed to highlight a single figure standing there.
This sight made many realize that the two fighters weren't just standing around waiting they had been preparing for their battle the entire time, and now thet were both ready to go all out in this battle.
[I know I promised a the big fight between Jaune and Jerome, but upon reflection I realized that putting this arena prep section as well as the fight would result in a very long chapter. So this is, as the title suggests, the fight prep chapter and the next chapter will be the fight in its entirety. And when the fights over the watching will resume.]