The rule of Midgar was under a family of Nagas, the old Queen Jenova with her four sons Kadaj, Loz, Yazoo and the dominant son Sephiroth taking place as King after the death of his father. The family was known in many kingdoms for their beauty, their scales like polished pearls, silken silver hair and bright teal eyes left them unlike any of the other nagas who were naturally colored with greens, browns and reds. Their father had been a target of an assassination and after the kings death Sephiroth sought out more humans for protection of his kind, going as far as offering payment to neighboring kingdoms to send humans trained in combat.
Though what Sephiroth got were young recruits with not much experience at all. So much with helping thy neighbor. But luckily humans in his own kingdom also stepped up to join the ranks. Their kingdom wasn’t as lush and fruitful as others, the dragons had a bad habit of burning and digging up the land where even the nagas had a difficult time asserting their control over the beasts. This made life hard for those that lived outside the great stone castle. Farming and ranching were the most difficult jobs in the kingdom, but out of the two ranching had more protection as the nagas were carnivores and the grown food was left for human consumption. Most found it easier to steal what was needed from travelers, keeping what they needed to themselves and reselling anything else.
For the royal nagas Queen Jenova was mostly retired and presence was just a symbol of power, Loz was in charge of training the knights and guards, Kadaj was the strategist and distribution of supplies among the humans, Yazoo was the youngest with no real duties and spent his time with the other nagas looking for potential mates. That left Sephiroth with the king’s duties to make sure everyone was taken care of. Though as newly appointed king and still young wanted to enjoy the spoils to pamper himself first and everything else can come later.
With the new recruits been at the castle for a week training Sephiroth had come down to pick a personal guard who wouldn’t leave his side. He was laying across the stone bench near the outdoor training area, basking in the warm sunlight as he watched the humans practice their using different weapons. Some humans had permission to use spells with the help of materia but only senior guards were given that. One of those warriors was Zack who had been training a young blond recruit. Sephiroth got up and slithered over to the pair once their sparing session had ended.
“You’re quite strong for not being as big as some of the other human males. I would like to have you as my personal guard. You’ll be moved from the guards barracks and live in the castle with me.” Sephiroth declared and stared down at the human with his intense teal gaze.
