Pythor woke up with his face pressed up against the wall, as usual. He was lucky in the sense that his family owned a house. Even though the house was nothing more than a bungalow that was falling apart. His father had found the house in the hills, it was abandoned… Pythor could see why. Most of the Serpentine either had small shed-like shacks or caves. The higher class serpents lived in abandoned houses or in Ouroboros.

"Shall we tell him?" he heard his mother, Adder, ask his father, Arcturus.

"We should let him figure out himself." Chuckled his father in reply. They were obviously talking about Pythor. Tell him what?

"He deserves to know." She said, giggling. Pythor quietly got out of his bed and stood in the shadows behind his door.

"Nah. Let him guess."

"Arcturus." Warned Adder, laughing. Pythor avoided his parents that morning, they were acting weird around him. He hurried around and made out that he was going to play with Fangtom and Skales. Fangtom would probably still be asleep and waking him meant certain death. Skales, however, wasn't as bad.

"Hey, Skales!" shouted Pythor, the Hypnobrai jumped down from his tree.

"Hi, Pythor. It's really early. What do you want?" he asked with a smile. He had obviously woken up on the right side of the tree. Unlike last week.

"My parents have been acting weird around me. My mum wants to tell me something, but my dad doesn't." said Pythor, "They've never acted like that before…"

"Maybe you're adopted." said Fangtom, approaching them.

"Fangtom! What a horrible thing to say!" replied Skales, making Fangtom smirk.

"Really?" said Pythor, with a mixture of emotions.

"But you look like your parents, so you can't be adopted." Skales told him.

"I don't know. He looks more like his mum than his dad to me." hissed Fangtom, cheekily.

"What are you implying?" asked Skales.

"You can't say that in front of Skales!" hissed Pythor with wide eyes.

"Say what?" asked Skales.

"Oh, yeah, Skales is too young to understand." teased Fangtom.

"We're the same age, Fangtom! What are you talking about?"

"We're talking about that time Acidicus lent us the wrong 'manga' comic. He accidentally gave us a very naughty one." laughed Fangtom

"The look on our parents face when they saw that!" laughed Pythor.

"… Let's go see what your parents want to tell you." said Skales, changing the subject.

"Yeah, alright then." they all went to Pythor's house.

"Hello, boys!" said Arcturus in an unusually happy mood.

"We have some news for you!" said Adder, "I'm going to have a baby!" Pythor's jaw dropped to the floor. Skales clapped.

"I knew it!" said Fangtom.

"No, you didn't." replied Skales.

"So, I'm going to be a brother?" asked Pythor.

"Obviously." sighed Arcturus, rolling his eyes.

"Awesome." said Pythor. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Pythor answered it.

"Hey, Pythor, What's up?" asked Acidicus, with Skalidor beside him.

"Just found out that my mum is having a baby."

"Well, congrats!" said Acidicus.

"Cool, bro!" said Skalidor.

"I've got some, ahem, 'fake' swords we can play with. Would you care to join?"

"Sure, love to! Skales! Fangtom!" the five serpentine slipped off to the lake.

"So, have you discussed names yet?" asked Acidicus.

"How about Jimmy?" asked Skalidor.

"Dude, really?" laughed Fangtom.

"They only just found out. So no." said Skales.

"I cannot wait to be a brother!" said Pythor. Adder and Arcturus watched with smiles.

"He's going to be a good brother." said Adder.

"Of course he is." Arcturus lowered his voice to a whisper, "I'm proud of him really."

I hope you liked this. This chapter was for my friend, Leah. I think it could've gone better, but oh well. I'm probably going to start writing more chapters for this fanfic. But right now I'm writing a Gravity Falls fanfic called "Souls of the Cipher Wheel". You've probably heard of it if you've looked at my other fics. So, I'm taking requests for scenarios that could happen this fic. I'm also accepting OCs to use, since I've already used a few of mine. The next chapter coming up is about relationships. Warning, there may be some yaoi. No smut. No. None ever. Not in a Childhood fanfic, I'm not dirty. Thanks for reading :)