Well its been a while since we did one of these but here is Telcam Mitick's back story! enjoy and don't forget to review and follow/favorite if you like what you are reading. Without further ado, lets peer into Telcam's past.

"Okay Tel let's try that again but this time focus on your aura." Telcam's father stood behind his son helping him master his semblance

"Okay Dad." Okay focus on your aura and you'll do just fine. "Okay" Tel let out a deep breath. "Here goes nothing."

"Remember Tel focus it all the way around. Spread it throughout your body. Then feel the coldness of the shadows and embrace it to become the shadows."

Telcam stood still and silent having his aura travel through his whole body. A coldness rushed through his body. Then it was gone, he was gone.

"You did it Telcam and you did it so well. I'm very proud of you."

Why does it look so weird. It's like everything is foggy. "Hey why do you look so weird dad?"

"Hmm, what do you mean?"

"It's like you're blurred out."

"It's because your eyes are still adjusting to seeing through nothing."

So weird, I don't even think my eyes will adjust to this.

"Boys, time to eat." Telcam's mother called from the kitchen window.

"Tel turni back to normal and let's go eat."

Telcam stood still focusing on turning back to normal. Heat rushed into his body making his blood hot as the sun in the middle of July. The cat became visible to his father who stood in front of him.

"Good job Tel. You are getting much better at this maybe a couple of more days and you'll have it down completely." Oh

"You really think so!" The kitten was excited by this news his father gave him.

"Yes I do but it's time to eat. So let's go eat before it gets too late to train more."

"Okay" Telcam nodded and the two went inside.

"Okay men we know what the boss wants done so let's get it done." Twelve Men with rifles in hand stood at the front gate to a faunus neighborhood. They were sent by their employer Mr. Schnee the owner of the Schnee dust company but better know as Kalt Schnee to the faunus.

"What we looking at."

"Twelve houses an average of three per household. Now you know let's get this done. Two per group now let's move."

The mercs split into six groups going house to house. The first group reached there mark. A small house in good condition. The yard was well taken care of. The mail box read "Home of the Miticks" it had black cat ears on the roof of the box.

The man held up his fist making his partner stop. The man pointed his left hand fingers to the right telling his partner to go that way. The other man went to the back door. The merc had something vibrate in his chest pocket. He broke down the door when this happened and so did the one in front.

"Clear" man in front yelled from the living room.

"Clear" man in back yelled from the kitchen.

"What is going on down here!?" Telcam's father stood at the bottom of the stairs.

"Ice him" the merc in back shouted. The one in front put two rounds into the faunus head. The faunus dropped to ground his head pointing to the door the man had kicked open.

"Oh my word. Tel turn invisible and run don't come back for anything. Do you understand me Tel, Tel?" The little cat faunus just nodded his head. There was gunshots in the distance from the rest of the neighborhood. "Run Tel, run." The cat faunus jumped out the window. When the kitten hit the ground he turned invisible and ran for the front gate. What's going on, why did dad fall down the stairs, why did mom tell me to run and what's all that noise? More gunshots went off behind the cat. That sounded like it came from my house. No doesn't matter gotta make it to the gate and meet them when they make it there. The cat made it to the gate. He finally looked back at his neighborhood. It was engulfed in flames with twelve men standing in the middle of the neighborhood. "All is done right men?" One of the men off to the side answered.

"Yes sir. All houses burn down and all dead inside."

"Good let's go home."

Why did this happen, why. The kitten broke down in tears. His invisibility began to fade. He was exposed to the men in the middle of the neighborhood. "I thought you said all were dead inside."

"Yes I did sir. All were dead inside this one's outside." The boss pulled out a pistol from his side and shot the man in his forehead. "Now kill that cat so we can leave." The rest of the men agreed at the same time. "Yes sir." The men started to walk over to the kitten. "Men stop."

The boss spoke out from behind him. "I'll deal with the cat." The man drew his sword walked over to the kitten. The man spoke to the kitten. "What's your name cat." The kitten just looked at the man in absolute fear but that kitten was able to say his name. "Telcam"

"And your last name."

"Mitick" The kitten was shaking in fear as man stood in front of him.

"Here's the deal little one. I'll let you live if can survive a single swing from my blade."

"What are the rules, sir?"

"There are none you can do whatever you can to survive one swing from me and I do mean only one swing. If I miss you live and can do whatever you want. And of course if it hits but isn't a kill, you live. These are the rules. So do we have a deal?"

The kitten looked at the man. He stood up and nodded his head. "Deal"

The man swung his sword as the kitten said deal. The kitten was able to move his head in time but the blade still grazed his cheek. The kitten began to to bleed. The man put his sword back in it's scabbard. "I am a man of my word. Go ahead and leave. I'll make sure no one stops you." The kitten ran away as fast as he could into the darkness.

Two years later

Telcam was resting at a bench to catch his breath after his morning run. The sun just finished rising when three humans walked by the cat faunus and pulled his tail. "Ow, what did that?"

"Oh, look boys fresh meat." There was three heavier set boys looking at Telcam. "Why you here cat shouldn't you be at home in bed?"

Telcam just shooked his head at the boy in the middle who asked the question. "Hey I asked you a question you damn animal at least have a enough backbone to answer me."

"Why does it matter to you? If you don't mind me asking." The cat faunus just stared at the boy. Hoping he wouldn't answer the question and just leave him alone.

"I'm the one asking questions. You stupid cat!" The boy punched Telcam in the mouth sending him to the ground. "Now give me everything you have on you or I'll beat you to a bloody pulp. Do you understand you peace of trash?"

"Can't we just stop this? I would rather all of us leave in one piece." The cat faunus looked up at the boys hoping it wouldn't escalate any more than it already had.

"What do you mean by we all leave in one piece? Is that a threat?"

Bad choice of words. Now how do you get out of it? Two choices fight or run.

"What, you just gonna stand there? Get em boys."

Dang no other choice but to fight. Yin, Yang I'm counting on you. Telcam disappears right in front of the boys. The left and right boys collided into each other. While the one in charge looked for the cat faunus.

"Where did he go?"

"What you think I know?"

"Hey idiots." The one in charge made the two boys look at him. "Spread out he couldn't of gotten far."

The boy in charge couldn't have been any more wrong as the cat faunus was already 5 blocks down the road. Phew, that was a close one. I thought I was actually gonna have to fight there. Maybe I should stick to the shadows more? Whatever, I still avoided the fight. Now let's find something to eat. Telcam turned invisible and searched the nearest food stand. He was able to get a couple apples and a hot dog. Man what breakfast. Okay time to eat. After Telcam was done eating. He went to the inner city to see what he could pick from unknowing travelers. The faunus found his first mark it was a tall man in a gray suit. Easy mark, time to disappear. He disappeared in the crowd. As he walked to the man he felt uneasy about something. Why am I worrying he doesn't know that I'm coming, right? Stop doubting yourself get his cash and walk away. Man I hate doing this but I need to survive. Shake It off Telcam, you got this. Okay let's get it done. The cat watched his mark for sometime until the right moment showed itself. He saw that man was clumsy almost as if he was drunk. He took the opportunity and walked right behind. He examined the man in the suit trying to find where he had his money. Telcam saw the wallet in his back left pocket. This is going to be easy. Why was I even worried? The cat took the man's wallet without hesitation. But the man put out his arm almost like he knew that Telcam was there. What? He can't know I'm here. I'm completely invisible. It must be coincidence, I hope. The man stopped letting Telcam run right into him.

"Got you." The man was very observant of his surroundings. He knew the cat had been watching since he went invisible.

I gotta run and now. Telcam bolted through the crowd at full speed not slowing for any reason. But the man was behind him the whole time. How is he keeping up? I should be faster plus he's drunk.

"Kid just stop running. I really don't want to tackle you. So will you just stop running." Telcam was thinking about stopping until the man tackled him to the ground. He hit the ground with the man on top of him. The cat faunus started to panic and began to yell

"please don't-please don't kill me I beg of you p-please!" People started to look at the two and started to cheer wanting the man to kill the faunus. A man in the crowd stepped forward.

"Here take my sword and run it through him." The man in the grey suit stood up and looked at the massive crowd.

"What are all of you cheering for I will not kill this faunus." Everyone was shocked by what the man said.

"Why won't you just kill the pest. It deserves to die. It's nothing, it's just a worthless pile of shit."

"Why are all of you so mean to faunus they did nothing to you. But you all still treat them like trash." A girl walked out of the crowd to help the man and the faunus from these blood thirsty humans. The cat was laying on the ground shaking, waiting for his death. The girl spoke to the man in grey. "Hey I'm gonna get the faunus out of here can you deal with the crowd."

"Ya, just get him out of here before they decide to take matters into their own hands."

The girl grabbed the faunus. And waited for the right moment to go. "Get me an opening."

The man drew his sword and swung at the crowd making an opening. "Go, now!" The girl bolted through the crowd with Telcam. Now it was all up to the man in the suit.

The girl and Telcam made it to an alley. "Are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help? Hey can you hear me." She started to shake the cat faunus to try and snap him out of his fear.

The cat faunus came out of his fear filled state but still was quite shaken. "Hey are feeling ok?" The faunus just nodded his head. "Where are your parents?" Telcam began to cry uncontrollably. The girl hugged the cat faunus. Telcam was shocked by the girl doing this. It was the first act of kindness a human ever did for him. The one from before found the two in the alley.

"Am I interrupting something?" They both looked at the man. When Telcam saw the man he started to panic again. "Whoa calm down kid I'm only here to help. Have you found out his name yet?"

"No I haven't he's been in a state of panic ever since I got him here." The girl's parents arrived at the opening of the alley. "Oh I need to get going."

"Wait what's your name girl?"

"It's Zawaz. It was nice meeting you and good luck calming the faunus down."

The man walked over to the cat faunus and knelt in front of him. "What's got you all riled up? You can trust me. I'm not here to hurt you. I just want to help."

The cat looked at the man's eyes seeing if what he said was true. "My family and my neighborhood was slaughtered by humans who hated us faunus. I was able to use my semblance and get to the gate but began to cry. My family, my friends all of them killed and I was the only one left. They noticed me on the ground crying. There boss walked over to me after he killed one of his men. He drew his sword and made a deal with me. Saying if I could survive one swing I would live and be able to leave. I agreed and was cut across my cheek right as I did. The man let me go and I never saw them again. With you tackling me it brought back what happened that night." Tears were rolling down Telcam cheeks as he finished his story.

"I'm sorry for what happened. Let me help you."

"How are you supposed to help me."

"I'll teach you how to fight and protect yourself. If you come with me. Do we have a deal."

"Deal, but what is your name, mine is Telcam Mitick."

"The names Qrow."