42 Winter Break Part 4 (1/2)

Jaune laughed and waited for them all to be out of sight, he then waved his hand before he pulled in all the broken cup fragments off the ground and into his inventory.

”Cool, now I can see what happens when Idiscard something from my inventory.” Just as Jaune was about to test it out, he saw his father's car pulling up in the driveway, Jaune smiled as he saw his father step out of the family car, he saw a beauty of an elderly woman step out as well.

She had bright blond hair with a couple of grey stripes running through them, blue eyes that shined with a hint of power behind them. Jaune noticed as she walked, that it was still like a warrior in their prime, and even though she was in her sixties, she only had a couple of crows feet around her eyes with no other noticeable wrinkles to show her age.

She was a bit short though, only around 5 feet 7 inches, she walked up to Jaune and stared at her grandson with a smile, You're the spitting image of your grandfather,” Joan D'Arc ran her hands across Jaune's cheeks.

”Hey, Granny, where is that old coot?” Jaune asked as he pulled her into a quick hug.

”He'll be out tomorrow, he had to settle something back with work,” Joan said as she looked at her son come charging over towards Jaune and stepped back.

Jaune held out his arms expecting his father to embrace him, however, at the last second, his father balled his fist and shouted, ”You idiot!” as he punched a defenseless Jaune straight in the face.

Jaune fell back onto the ground and rubbed his nose as he shouted, ”What the hell old man!?”

”Do you have any idea what you've done!?” Jaune's father picked him up by the collar of his hoody, ”Why, why did you have to unlock your Aura!?”

That was the last straw, Jaune loved his father to death, but he couldn't take it any longer, the questions that plagued him long after their deaths, the same questions that he died with came bubbling to the surface, Jaune grabbed his wrist, ”Yes dad, I unlocked my Aura, so what?! I'm following my dreams!”

Jaune's aura erupted, a clear and beautiful white light surrounded his body and gave him the strength to push his father off of him, ”Do you have any idea the suffering you caused me, I always felt like I wasn't good enough! Every time I asked you to train me, you always shot me down, will I never good enough to earn your approval? Why? Why did you squander my talent! Why was I the only one who wasn't allowed to have their Aura's unlocked!?” Tears were falling from Jaune's eyes.

”I...” Jaune's father frowned, ”I had a reason Jaune, I didn't want you to...”

”Lance that's enough!” Joan shouted.

”No mother, he wants to know, then I'm going to tell him.” Lance pulled his jacket off and pulled his button-up shirt open to reveal terrible wounds and sword scars across his chest.

”I wanted to keep this from happening to you!”

Jaune's eyes widened, ”Those weren't made by Grimm.”

”No,” Lance buttoned back up his shirt, ”This was made by your great-great-grandfather, I was lucky enough to survive, your 6 uncles, on the other hand, all perished at that things hands.”

”How?” Jaune shook.

Joan sighed, ”It's a form of inheritance made by your ancestor, all of his skills, all of his Aura is contained within some kind of specter; if someone is worthy they will inherit a gift.”

Lance spat on the ground, ”Gift my ass!”

”Lance that's enough! Your grandfather's gift was a bloodline that ensures the birth of those with unnatural Aura Levels, and you know what your gift was!” Joan yelled.

”What does any of this have to do with why you wouldn't train me?” Jaune shouted.

Joan let out another sigh, ”The test can only be taken once, and only the males of the Arc Bloodline that have had their Aura awakened can...will be forced to take the test. As long as you didn't have Aura, you could live a normal life.”

”That's it?” Jaune said with a look of disbelief, he then grabbed his father by his jacket and squeezed so hard he cracked his knuckles, ”That's it, the world it tittering on the edge of destruction, and you wanted to protect me from some test my ancestor set up! Everyone we know and love...” Jaune punched his father in the face and surprised him by knocking him down.

”Do you have any idea what I've been through! The shit I've seen! The times I wished, begged to any god that would listen, just for the strength to protect my loved ones.” Jaune seriously confused his father, he knew something was very different about his son, you can't fake the kind of pain Lance saw in his eyes.

”Jaune! What's going on!?” Gwen's voice called out to see Jaune standing over his father looking particularly pissed.

Ruby and the rest were standing beside her as well, Jaune took a deep breath and said, ”In less than 7 years in the future, I died, in battle, against a hoard of Grimm so massive, that all of Humanity and Faunus kind risked global extinction.”

Before everyone could ask if he had gone crazy, Jaune revealed his title to everyone, ”This isn't my Semblance, but a gift from our Ancestor, it shows my status, condition, and grants me powers beyond my comprehension, first off, Magic is real, second off, a very powerful spell was used to send my soul back into my old noodly body, third, this title is only one bit of my proof.”

Everyone looked shocked as he revealed his Reincarnated Title, ”I watched this world burn, and I lost everything that I ever cared for,” Jaune looked to Ruby and pulled out a copy of the comic he was working on.

”This is a chronicle of what happened in the previous timeline...the timeline, we were married in.” Jaune dropped the bomb that made Ruby's knees go weak, her face lit up as steam started to rise from he cheeks.

Jaune took one good long look at everyone's face, and when he stopped on Ruby's he smiled, ”It's funny, you don't doubt me at all, yet most of my family does, I really love you, Ruby,” Jaune said as he looked to Sun.

”Hey, I believe you too!” Nora shouted.