Chapter 26: Two-Headed Snek

Location- Zebuth, Hotel owned by the Naja

[Third POV]

"We finally met Grandson, Cahaya. We heard a lot about you. Especially what you did to the lion gang of this city.", the two heads of the old cobra said simultaneously. 

Their voice was low, soft, and grandfatherly in nature but it carried an authority that demanded respect, both were perfectly in sync.

Cahaya looked at his two-headed grandfathers, his gills twitched as he slithered closer, he supposed that it might have been a possibility, the bicephaly, but it still slightly surprised him. Reality is different from the imagination.

"My name is Ruhin-", the left head introduced himself his hood slightly showing itself, then it was the turn of the right who did the same action, "-My name is Rihan-", then the two spoke together, "We are the current and first Patriarch of the Naja, it was Our grandmother and your great great great grandmother the first Matriarch. The Rules of the Family don't care about who rules it as long as Our blood flows through their veins."

The two-headed snake calmly explained. Cahaya was more or less anticipating this to be the case or they were gay, Rokume knew a lot, probably too much. She already knew of the Naja and his grandfathers' names. Not that it mattered at the moment.

He rapidly flicked his tongue out, earning a barely noticeable smile from Ruhin and a slight glare from Rahin. 

'Noted, this is probably impolite.', the hybrid frowned a bit and thought, it might be just like canines, not in public, or maybe something this serious. And they indeed were related, smelled like his mother if a bit different due to age, sex, etc.

"Hahaha, you don't have to worry Cahaya. This isn't a meeting between the Blessed Families or the Beastars. It's just you and Us, you don't need to worry too much. Though a certain level of dignity is needed, you are a Naja. An important individual, someone above the mass. You will need to act like one.", Rahin lowly laughed at the hybrid's sudden seriousness. A good quality that is for sure. 

Ruhin completed his twin brother's word by doing just what his Grandson had done. And yes, he was indeed their Grandson, the eyes were a good indicator, with the different research they did about the hybrid teenager but caution was one of their motos. And they trusted themselves more than anyone else, Kayaku coming second.

Also, the only reason that Rokume was still in the world of the living.

"Okay… Grandfathers, nice to meet the two of you for the first time too.", Cahaya said, while also hiding his awkwardness, he remembered his Dad talking about the Blessed Families and their relation with Ceto, they were the ones where their whole genus or nearly their whole genus went extinct during the last world war, and most were now dead. 

For obvious reasons. 

Wars between different families and also in the family or dozens of other different reasons. It was said that Ceto believed in survival of the fittest but disliked needless violence to a certain degree. 

He gave each of them a sort of compensation, a second chance, for what happened to them in the Human War and then the Herbivore-Carnivore War as he judged that losing more species was a saddening sight and great loss. 

That was what has believed anyway. Nobody knew what the 400 years old blue whale thought nor why he was forbidden access to the American Continent.

Then they made a small gesture with their tail. Immediately after that, a butler arrived. He was an Arabian sand boa, his scales were yellow and his back was long with a black stripe. 

He was wearing glasses adapted to his species' peculiar facial structure. His name was indicated with a small pin next to his black tie, and his name was Ghabi. Cahaya barely contained a chuckle at the poor sod's name.

"Everything is ready, my Lords.", Ghabi politely said with a small bow. On the other side of the big room, a door opened. 

'Humans as freaking maids?', the hybrid thought surprised, they were rarely seen, the ones seen were usually quite rich and not forgetting they were loved by canines. It showed again the power and influence of the Naja.

All of them were females and wearing white sharara suits. They were aesthetically pleasing to the eyes but that was all. He found them a bit worse in appearance than Juno, one of the things he would have never thought of as a human and he was conscious of it.

One of the things he was happy about his hybrid puberty was the apparent lack of libido he has. He still felt pleasure, for example; masturbation something he practically never does, but he just didn't feel the craving to have sex, like a horny teenager of his age would or like Bill.

They were holding housewares plateaus filled with food, mainly meat. Raw human meat to be precise.

They placed the food on the table, deeply bowed, and scurried away. They smelled of fear. Understandably so.

"Humans are fascinating creatures, their strongest point is their cowardice and the ability to spread it to others. Don't you think so too?", asked Ruhin to Cahaya. Rahin was also looking attentively in the teen's direction.

"Probably. Humans were dangerous with, yes, their fear of the different sapiens species. The capacity to unite themselves together as if they were one organism with the unique goal of exterminating everything non-human and their intelligence or as I prefer to say, the capacity to innovate weapons of mass destruction such as the lost, infamous but now mostly unknown hydrogen bomb.

Not that most animals aren't currently like the Humans from the past fearing what they don't like, that make them in fact worst at least humans tried to understand the others species, not for a benevolent reason but at least they made effort.", Cahaya joked earning a chuckle from Rihan and Rihun took a pensive look. He only said things he was sure the two knew.

He might not really like the family but he was part of it, whether he liked it or not, and he will take advantage of that fact. But he will ask one brutally honest question.

"That might be a sudden and incredibly improper question. What are your thoughts on my status as a hybrid? You both are very good at hiding the fact that you are not pleased with this fact.", the hybrid asked, showing his hood but not in a menacing way, simply to make a point about his hybrid status.

The two heads have anticipated this question, honesty between members of the Naja family was important, for the one outside that is a different story. One of the reasons they were disappointed in their other offspring.

Both of the pair of lavender eyes of Ruhin and Rihan go noticeably wider. The symbol on the hood was, well, incredibly important for them, as silly as this sounds it was believed that it was deeply tied to who they were or an important part of the cobra in question. It wasn't an exact science, far from it but beliefs were not based on science or logic.

They weren't the only species with these types of beliefs, wolves speaking to the dead mostly their relatives or big cats such as lions often used their whiskers for divination. (Cannon for lions and Legoshi did an out-of-body experience where he talked with his mom, maybe it's tied with something else and the moth acid dream.)

'A human skull in putrefaction?', the elderly snake twin thought at the same time before regaining their composure of grandfatherly leader. It was a very unique and foreboding mark but they have seen other shocking things in their life.

"We are going, to be honest. We are greatly displeased about this fact. You aren't pure-blooded Naja Mossambica like us or your mother. But We aren't biased, We can get past this defect. 

However, as a hybrid, you will need to show your worth. Overuse of Our family background has shown how big of a mistake We made. Tonight you shall officially join the Naja.", they declared with authority. Their hoods show their unrecognizable and faded marking.