Prologue

"The snake only crawls on the ground because when it tries to stand, its head gets crushed."

"Its okay, Seti, you don't need to cry."

"But its not fair!" Seti cried, as Apophis held him close, "Why are they so mean?"

"They're all idiots," Apophis answered gently, "Don't let them get to you." Seti sniffled as he looked up.

"They kept calling me a 'stupid snake', and that I was a monster," Seti said, "Am I a monster?"

"Never even think about that," Apophis said, grabbing the younger boy's shoulders, and making Seti look at him, "Carry yourself with pride. If you don't, you'll never be able to properly live." Seti sniffed again, as he wiped his tears slightly.

"Why did they do it?" he asked, "They're Faunus, like us."

"No, they're not," Apophis said, "They're nothing like us." He then smiled. From his back, came a long scaly tail, which wiped one of Seti's tears away. From Seti's back, emerged a tail of his own, only with dark grey scales, as he intertwined his with Apophis'.

"You and I are reptiles, and we will hold our status with pride and dignity," Apophis explained, "We will shed our skin, and emerge greater than they can ever hope to be." He then got to his feet, pulling up Seti as he did.

"These mammals resign us to crawl on the ground, stepping on us as we do" he said. He then held up a clenched fist. From his head a scaled hood spread out.

"But one day, they will be on the ground, and we will step on them. And they will know the fear we do," he continued, "We will emerge from the shadows, our venom will course through their veins, and the mammals will soon realize the terror that they gave to us." Seti smiled big at that.

"I want to help!" the ten year old said, "I want to hurt mammals!" Apophis smiled right back, but it was not as warm.

"And you will," he said, "The dragon rises."

(Seven Years Later)

Seti let out a gasp as he suddenly woke up, sitting up in bed. He looked around. He was in his one room apartment, consisting of only a bed, a toilet, a shower, a sink, and a TV.

"Damn," Seti said as he sat up from his bed, taken a breath, rubbing his forehead, "What's with all the memories now?" He walked across his one room apartment to his sink, and splashed some water in his face. Seti then looked at his face in the mirror, at his grey slitted eyes, and the matches of dark grey scales around his eyes, and on jaw. He got out his toothbrush, and quickly brushed his teeth. After doing that, he opened his mouth, revealing then black inside. Seti lifted up his lip, taking a quick look at one of his fangs.

"Leaking venom again," he muttered, "Can't show that at school." Seti then turned on the faucet, filling up his sink, after which he quickly washed his hands. He then walked over to his bed. Seti's tail then reached over, picking up his bag. He then promptly packed his clothes up, and once that was done, he knelt down, and pulled out one of the floorboards. He then picked dual khopesh out of the space beneath it, with black hilts. They were his personal weapons, Wadjet and Nekhbet. The swords then folded in on their blades, forming what could be almost described as a pistols with bayonets. He then hung both on his belt.

"The dragon falls," the black mamba Faunus muttered as he slung his bag over his shoulder, and left his room, saying sarcastically, "Look out Beacon, here comes Seti Kemet."

Note: I figured we need more reptilian faunus fics. I am aware of the "rules" of Faunus in-universe, so no on needs to tell me about them. For the sake of this story, I'm going to have to bend the rules of Faunus slightly; I'm not necessarily changing the standing rules for Faunus, so much as I'm adding onto them for reptiles. But I think we'll all live.

I know this was short, but its a prologue. There's a lot to come later. The pairing in this story is undecided, but I would like there to be some if possible.

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