Authors Note:

This fic is based on "Venom" by StallionWolf. It was a fun little read but sadly was never updated after it was released. If you want to see where I got the idea for this fic go check that out.

For Jaunes weapon... I changed it to be Sasuke's sword from Naruto, I really don't like the whole Knight Schtick in the show and how he is just not competent at all in a fight, sooooo I made him... y'know, not a complete idiot when in a fight. Apologies if you like canon Jaune though.

Without further ado... Here is "Serpent!"

Chapter 1 Introduction:

Jaune had faced many things with his huntsman training. Facing down a goliath head-on? Easy. Sitting under a giant powerful waterfall for mediation purposes? No problem. Discrimination because he's a little creepy? Walk in the Oumdamn park. Riding on a giant, metal, demon? Get the fuck out of here! 'But... I digress, just going to beacon to be a huntsman, no issues here.' A whisper of a hiss escapes his mouth as the number of people around him agitates his aura. Grabbing a small case from his pocket he opens his mouth revealing a pair of one-inch-length fangs and sinks them into it. A soft running sound plays as his venom gets deposited drawing the attention of a girl with a black bow atop her head. He looks over with his slitted ice blue eyes to gaze into piercing Amber ones. He stops in fear as they make eye contact.

"Are... are you a Faunus?" she asks quietly, taking the bow from atop her head to reveal two black and purple cat ears.

"Uhm... yeah?" he cautiously responds as she looks over him, seeing the slitted ice-blue eyes, bullet silver scales around his eyes, on his hands stretching to his mid-forearm, and surrounding his collarbone, a forked tongue that sticks out every few seconds to smell she assumes, and finally the pitch-black gums with fangs jutting out with a little bit of poison still dripping.

"Sorry, I've just never seen a snake Faunus before" She quickly says back.

"Eh, it's fine" He shrugs it off. "Not that surprising, there's not a whole lot of us on Remnant, to begin with." They sit in silence for a few seconds before he realizes something.

"...Quick question?"

"Yeah?"

"Who are you?"

She flushes a bit at the bluntness in his voice "Um... Yeah sorry, I'm Blake Belladona, Cat Faunus and this is my weapon Gambol Shroud." Gesturing to her weapon at her side.

He nods at that "Jaune Arc, Black Mamba Faunus and this is my weapon Shinigami, it's reaper in Mistral." He says taking his sword and sheath from his belt to show a roughly four-foot silver blade with a black rectangular handle and sheath. "I've uh... also got some Kunai infused with my poison on the blade of it." Pulling out a single Kunai from a black and gold Kunai pouch on his pants to show off a black-bladed Kunai which is a bit shinier around the edges of the blade.

She looks in awe at the blade. "How powerful is the venom?" She asks.

He nods "So quick Snake lesson, the Black Mamba has one of the most toxic venoms in the world but the snake themselves are really timid and cautious in crowds from fear and by instinct produce venom in case they need to defend themselves, I just use this as a time to collect venom for fighti-"

He stops when he hears a woman speaking from a screen. "Hello and Welcome to Beacon."

"Who's that?" Some blonde next to a short black-haired ask.

"My name is Glynda Goodwitch"

"Oh."

"The bullhead will land shortly, please make your way towards the auditorium after you step off for information about tomorrow."

He turns his attention back to Blake and nods who nods back. Beacon has now officially started.


"It's bigger than I thought it would be." He whistles looking around the auditorium after changing into his pajamas which consisted of black sweat pants and a tight white tank top with a snake made of smoke design showing off his lean build.

He looks around and spots Blake leaning on the wall reading a book, he walks over and takes a seat next to her.

"Hey"

"Mm"

"Is it cool if set my stuff up here?"

"Mhm"

"Cool... What are you reading?"

"A book about a man with two souls."

"Huh... Interesting...'Why do I feel a sudden sense of foreshadowing'" He thinks as a shiver goes down his spine but shrugs it off. The conversation stops and goes into a comfortable silence from there.

As he starts to set up the two girls from the bullhead walk up to them.

"Hey! My name is Ruby Rose, I'm Fifteen and this is my sister Yang!" The red one, Ruby, greets with a wave.

"Sup" The blonde one, Yang, nods.

Still a little in shock at the appearance of them he slowly responds "Uh... Jaune Arc and this is Blake Belladona" He says gesturing to Blake.

"Mm" Blake confirms, ever the conversationalist.

"Nice to meet you Blake and Jaune!" She exclaims, 'Oh I can tell she's going to be fun in the future.' "What are you reading?" Turning her attention to Blake.

"A book about a man with Two souls"

"Mm! I really like reading, I always liked to fairy tales with heroes as a girl, I always wanted to be on growing up." She speaks.

"Isn't that a little naïve?" Blake asks with a raised brow but her sight still locked on the book.

"Yeah, a bit, but that's what we're here for! To help people!" She chirps happily, He feels a bit of fondness being reminding of his own little sisters himself as the blonde one grabs her in a headlock.

"Aww! Look at my little prodigy of a sister growing up so fast!" She exclaims.

"People are trying to sleep! Will you stop talking!" A shrill voice screeches from a white-haired girl not too far away and then turns and looks at Ruby and Yang.

"You!" Both Yang and the girl yell out. Noting the situation Blake sighs and blows out her candle signifying everybody to go to sleep.


"636...636...636...Why is it this far?!" He exclaims walking past the plethora of lockers in the hall until he sees the white-haired girl from last night and a red-haired girl with bronze armor in front of his locker. He walks towards it and tries to squeeze in between them "Excuse me."

"What do you think you're doing?!" She screeches, He jumps back a bit and turns, and hisses on instinct. "Ah! Stop that you animal! What do you think you're doing here?!" A tired scowl forms on his face as he drags a hand down the left side of his face, tiredly responding "I am trying to get to my locker to get my equipment for initiation."

"Do you know who you're speaking to?!"

"No, I don't Schnee, who have I dared to speak to?"

"This is Pyrrha Nikos!"

"Hello!" The girl, Pyrrha, greets.

"She graduated at the top of her class at Sanctum!"

"Congrats," He said getting his weapons and hooking them to his combat outfit out which consisted of a short-sleeve black muscle shirt with gold twin arcs on the chest, black cargo pants, black combat boots, a pair of gold-trimmed Aviator-style sunglasses, a silver-chained pocket compass attached to his belt and shoved in his pocket, a gold-colored belt with a silver belt-buckle with a pair of piercing golden snake eyes with a hook for his Shinigami, and finally a black with gold-trimmed Kunai pouch hooked onto his cargo pants.

"She's a four-time champion in the Mistral Fighting Tournament!"

"Sounds boring" Putting his sword on the hook.

"After a while, yeah" Pyrrha responds.

"She is on the Pumpkin Pete Cereal box!" Throwing her arms up in anger.

"Kukuku... Yes, the epitome of fame" He said chuckling, checking his Kunai and shutting his locker. "Having your own face on a box of cereal." Seeing the Pyrrha girl giggling and the Schnee fuming he smirks a bit.

"Welp...See you girls later" He says walking away with a lazy two-finger salute not noticing the large grin and glint in her eye as he walks away.

"I HAVE to get him as my partner!"


This was chapter one of my first fic "Serpent!" Please R&R!

Ciao!