Of all the numerous realms and universes Reptile had visited, Remnant was Reptile's least favorite. It wasn't hot enough, the only forests were filled with Grimm, creatures that tasted particularly bad, and the only delicious people to eat were in the cities. These concrete and steel monstrosities that made Reptile feel anything but secure in this new environment. Reptile was still the apex predator here, at least in his own eyes. Sneaking into the beacon academy wasn't much trouble due to his invisibility ability and incredible agility. It was late at night and the students who weren't celebrating their victories in the first rounds of the local tournament were asleep. This made Reptile's mission so much easier. He had already killed and mutilated at least a dozen of students in their sleep and he had no intention of stopping.

Reptile had just visited the dorm of team CRDL and had already killed Russel by snapping his neck and proceeded to open up his body to reveal his insides. He did so very carefully as to not wake the sleeping Sky, the only other living being in the room. Reptile took pleasure in taking out the young man's organs and placing them in various spots in the room. The reaction on his teammate's faces, or anyone who entered the room in the morning, would be priceless. The idea to purposely mutilate the bodies was not his idea. His dark master had specifically instructed him to make the murders brutal to crush the spirits of the other students and to ensight panic amongst their ranks. Reptile would have eaten the organs himself if hadn't filled up on the heads and hearts of many other students. When he finally turned to Sky, he decided that he should have a little bit of fun killing this one. After all it had been a long night and while the process of murdering innocents was enjoyable, he had done it mostly out of fear of the mighty sun god he served.

Reptile sprang onto Sky's bed, pinning Sky's arms with his legs and covering Sky's mouth with his hand. Sky immediately awoke and tried in vain to get free, but the superior strength of being a Zaterran made Reptile's hold far too strong. Reptile then opened his mouth and allowed a large glob of his green, and extremely acidic saliva slowly drizzle down his face. Sky tried to scream, move his head out of the way, anything to save himself from his horrible fate. As the silva barely touched the top his forehead it already ate away the outer layer of his skin. His screams of agony were muffled as the the acid burned through his flesh and bones, caving in his skull and eventually disintegrating the contents of his head. Reptile enjoyed watching the acid eventually eat through the bed and blood pouring through the hole in the bed. At that instant the door to the dorm opened revealing one of the only two living members of team CRDL, Dove.

The shock of the horrors inside the dorm gave Reptile just enough time to spring into action. Reptile leaped off the bed a gabbed Dove's face. Reptile pushed Dove against the hallway wall, forced his mouth open, and began engulfing the insides of Dove's mouth with his acid. Dove half screamed half gurgled in unbearable suffering as the acid corroded his mouth and went down his throat. The acid ate all the way down to his stomach. Reptile was surprised by how long Dove had survived, and was pleased by how long he suffered. Reptile let Dove's body drop to the ground with a thud, and suddenly realized his mistake. Reptile quickly looked around to see if anyone had witnessed the murder. At the end of the hallway stood the poor rabbit faunus, paralyzed in fear. Every fiber of her being told her to run, but she couldn't muster herself to do so until Reptile began to run at her.

Velvet ran blindly down the hallway, not knowing where to go or what to do but to get away from the beast at her heels. At her top speed and her head start, she was keeping away from Reptile's reach, but even as she burst into the cafeteria, her stamina began to dwindle. Reptile opened his mouth to allow his massive and long tongue to catch up to Velvet and rap around her throat. Velvet desperately grabbed at the tongue as it dragged her to Reptile, but to no avail. Reptile decided not to eat Velvet, afterall faunus just didn't taste right. It was like eating an animal and a human at the same time, not nearly as tasty as it sounded. Suddenly Blake leaded out of the shadows and with her Gambol Shroud, and severed Reptiles tongue with it. Reptile reeled back in pain, the green blood from his tongue spurting all over Blake and everything else near.

"Velvet! Get out of here and get help!" Demanded Blake as she unsheathed the Gambol Shroud. Armed with her sword and her sharp sheath, she thought she was prepared to face this new monster. She was wrong. Reptiles tongue retracted into his mouth to heal while Reptile prepared to face this new threat. Reptile looked at the two bladed weapons in disgust. True warriors didn't need such toys. Reptile sprang into action, dashing forward and striking at Blake with his full might. Blake jumped back and created a shadow clone with her semblance while infusing it with dust to make it out of pure stone. Reptile was far too caught up in the thrill of combat to notice in time so his strike hit the clone in head, knocking it off. Blake fired a quick shot from her sword, not having time to take perfect aim but still hitting Reptile in the throat. A lesser warrior would drop down and surrender or just plain drop down and die, but Reptile was not a lesser warrior. He did cover his wound with his hand to help stop the bleeding, before he decided to change tactics.

Reptile focused intensely as he began to warp his body. In an instant Reptile became completely invisible, and crept around the headless clone. Blake was surprised and maybe even scared by the creature's disappearance, but she would not succumb to fear so easily. Her cat ears began to twitch as she tried to pick up any sound that could help her locate Reptile. Reptile began to take a closer look at Blake, to see if he could find any weaknesses. She seemed fragile in her physical appearance, but Reptile knew that meant nothing with these Remnant dwellers. She was quite beautiful, even Reptile could see that. While Reptile found humans and anything extremely similar weak and soft, he couldn't deny how much better they were than him when it came to their appearance. Her eyes were like that of a cat, that of a true predator. Reptile wished they could have met on better terms. In her eyes Reptile could see fear, but her fear was not nearly enough to drown out her obvious courage. Reptile looked deeper to see… pain. Not physical pain, something much deeper. Loneliness. Like no one truly understood her. Reptile tooked harder into her eyes until he saw what he had feared to see. Reptile saw himself. Someone who was couldn't truly let anyone, someone who buried their pain deep down, never letting on how much it can hurt. Reptile considered his options. He could run, leave her and go back to the Outworld emperor a failure, or he could kill or be killed by her. Reptile spent so long observing and thinking his invisibility began to ware off. Blake saw Reptile beginning to reappear and fired rapidly in Reptile's direction. The sound of gunfire made Reptile snap to attention, but he was too late. Three of the bullets directly hit their mark into Reptile's chest while the fourth grazed his head.

Reptile tried to call out to Blake but he couldn't speak clearly due to being shot in the throat. As hard as it was to accept, the faunus had to die if Reptile had any chance to survive. Reptile focused his body to access another natural ability, but a more aggressive one this time. Everything began to slow down in Reptile's eyes as his mind and body sped up. Blake took another shot directed directly for Reptiles head but Reptile easily moved out of the way before she even fired the bullet. He began to sprint at her, arms ready to tear her to shreds. When he reached her she tried to cut him down but Reptile easily caught the sword before it hit him. With his free left hand he jabbed his clawed thumb into Blake's right eye and guzzled out acid saliva all over the left side of her face. Blake howled in agony and dropped her weapons as she flung her hands on her face to try and rub out the acid. Blake weeped as with every time she felt her face she could feel her skin and flesh being eaten away. Reptile felt a little sick as he watched her beauty be eaten away or at covered in her own blood. She fell to the ground, trying to keep her face from falling off. Reptile couldn't bare to watch her suffer any longer. He knelt down to give her a quick and painless death. Blake, now blind, desperately grabbed at the ground with one hand desperately trying to find her sword while holding her face together with the other. Reptile's enhanced speed wore off as he looked at the barely recognisable girl with pity and regret. Could this have gone differently? Should Reptile have just let the bunny faunus go? Reptile's eyes widened as he remembered the little girl who ran to get help. Reptile turned to the cafeteria entrance where he could hear the thundering footsteps of someone coming.

Distracted, Reptile didn't realize Blake had picked up her sword. With both hands she stabbed her sword into Reptile with all her strength. She didn't know exactly where Reptile was so she thrusted with all her might in front of her. The blade pierced through Reptile's chest, going through Reptiles longs. Reptile stared into the face of Blake to see the horror he had caused. Her face was covered in pink and red flesh, her right eye was crushed by Reptiles thumb and her left eye was almost completely eaten away by the acid. Pieces of bones could been seen and even her skull had gotten thinned a little. Almost no untouched skin remained and what little did was covered in blood. She twisted the blade inside Reptile's body and made him screech in pain. Reptile winced as he tried to pull the himself out of the blade. The amount of blood Reptile had lost was finally taking its toll. The noise of footsteps grew louder and sounded closer. Who ever was coming was big, and angry. Reptile knew he'd have to be quicker. He grabbed the sword with his hands and tried to rip it out as the doors slammed open. By the time he got the blade out though it was too late. Reptile turned around to see Cardin swinging his mace. It hit Reptile on the side of his head and made sickening crack as Reptiles neck bones broke and his skull cracked. The force of the hit sent Reptile straight to the ground, his neck snapped. Unfortunately for him though, Reptile was still alive and Cardin wasn't finished yet.

"You murdered my team you bastard!" cried Cardin, with tears and unbridled rage in his eyes. Cardin had seen what Reptile had done to his team, his friends, his brothers in arms. Cardin didn't even notice Blake curled up on the ground, quietly weeping as her life faded. Cardin raised his mace high above his head. "This is for Rusell!" Cardin screamed as he hammered the mace into Reptile's head. Reptile's skulled cracked again, much worse this time that before but it still held strong. Reptile prayed to the elder gods that he'd get to die before the next blow hit him. The elder gods ignored Reptile's prayer. "This is for Sky!" Cardin roared as he brought his mace down again. This time Reptile's head caved in, almost crushing his brain, but Reptile wasn't granted the gift of death just yet. Reptile coughed up mouthfuls of his own blood as he cried out in agony. Reptile knew he would not survive another hit. In his last moments he let go of his pride and wept. He wept for himself, for the pain he went through and that his life would end without ever knowing happiness. He wept for his people, being the last of his race he had failed to let their legacy live on. And finally, he wept for a faunus he caused so much pain, even though in the end they were one and the same. "This is for Dove!" Cardin cried as he dealt the final blow to Reptile, sending the contents of his head all over the floor and the mace.