Ricky took out one of his pistols and transformed it into a tomahawk. He grabbed on to a branch and sung onto another landing perfectly. He looked around to see the other students each with a landing strategy of their own. He began to free-run jumping from tree branch to tree branch. He remembered the frontier where Conner taught him the basics of free-running. 'Keep track of your surroundings and follow nature's path through the trees' he remembered Conner telling him. He easily kept moving on passing anyone or anything under him. Until the tree he was on was cut down. He tried to jump quickly but ended up sliding down a tree trunk to the forrest floor. He was met with multiple Beowolves all surrounding him. Ricky channelled his Aura and stared directly into the eyes of the leader. His eye flashed and the Beowolves went fleeing into the Forrest, 'thought so' Ricky thought and tried to find a good start to continue his free-run. He found a tree with a slanted trunk going up and ran up to continue his free-run. After a while he made it to the ruins of the Forrest temple. He took a look at the 'relics' witch were just chess pieces. He took a seat in the middle and meditated channelling his Aura once more and creating a sorta force field around the temple that scared anyone or thing that came near.

Yang had already became partners with Blake and the two were making their way to the temple when Blake stopped. "What's up?" Yang asked.

"I sense a strong Aura coming from the direction we're going."

"Let's check it out"

"That may not be a good idea"

"It's not like its a monster or something"

The two continued walking cautiously through the Forrest until they came across the temple ruins.

"I guess this is the place"

"I think so, the Aura is definitely strong here"

They walked down with their weapons ready, but were surprised to find another student just sitting in the center. He had a white hood on and his head was down so they couldn't see his face.

"Hey is this the forrest temple?" Yang asked but the student just continued to sit there.

"Hello!?" Yang raised her voice this time and it seemed to get to Ricky. He opened his eyes and lost focus. Blake could feel the Aura around disappear. Ricky was rubbing his head trying to stand up. He began to talk "I'm sorry I, I couldn't hear you I was so focus I , uhh just give me a sec" he got a headache from the quick interruption.

"You ok?" Yang asked.

"Yeah just, I, my head just hurts it'll go away just give it some time"

"Was that your Aura creating a force field" Blake asked.

"Yes, my semblance allows my to input fear into anything or one, it's easier with direct eye contact, but creating a force field takes time and focus" Ricky answered. "Names Richard by the way."

"Yang"

"Blake"

"So is this the temple?" Yang asked once more.

"I thinks so ,the so called 'relics' are just chess pieces"

Yang walked up to them and saw they were black and gold. Ricky simply leaned against a pillar and waited for them to choose. With some time Yang finally choose the golden Knight piece and Blake seemed to agree with her choice.

"You gona pick one Rick?" Yang asked Ricky.

"I'll wait until I get my partner."

"Suit your self."

After a loud scream was herd from throughout the forrest Yang responded with "some girl's in trouble! Blake did you hear that!?" She asked again "Blake did you hear that? What should we do?" Then Ruby came out falling out of the sky screaming "heads up!" Then Jaune also came out of nowhere but in a different direction and collided with Ruby and the two went into the tree line. "Did your sister just fall out of the sky?" Blake asked Yang then an Ursa came out of the woods but there was a pink explosion behind it and it fell on the ground revealing a ginger girl who was riding on it. She seemed to be upset and was looking at the Ursa when another student clad in a green tunic came from behind the Ursa's body. The ginger girl quickly made her way to the temple and grabbed the golden rook piece and was singing "I'm queen of the castle" when the guy in a green tunic called out "NORA!" And she replied with a simple "coming Ren" and skipped off. Blake asked "did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Before yang could answer a death stalker came out of the Forrest chasing a red haired girl. She called out "Jaune!" Then Ruby came out of the trees and landed next to Yang who questioned "Ruby?" Ruby responded with "Yang!" the two were about to hug when Nora got between then and said "Nora!" Then Blake asked "Did she just run all the way here with a death stalker on her tail?" Then Yang literally exploded yelling "I can't take it anymore! Can every one just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again!?" Ricky seemed to enjoy watching this unfold, he wasn't sure if it was because he wasn't a part of it or that someone else was suffering. Then Ruby said "um Yang" and pointed up.

Ricky herd "I said jump" from Ruby,"she's gona fall" from Blake and "she's falling" from Ren. He then saw Jaune fall and the girl with white hair fall on his back. Then the red haired girl landed in front of them. Yang then said ,"great the gangs all here now we can die together" sarcastically. Ruby responded with "Not if I can help it" and charged the death stalker. She was nocked back and landed on the ground. She got up and yelled "don't worry totally fine!" She turned to see the death stalker behind her. She was running away when a Nevermore came in and shot a barrage of huge feathers. One caught Ruby's cape and stopped her in her tracks. Yang tried to help but was stopped by the feathers. The death stalker was about to strike Ruby when the white haired girl moved and froze it's stinger. Ricky herd Ruby call "Weiss!" and 'weiss' gave Ruby a monologe. Then Yang went and hugged her sister.

The Nevermore flew over head. When they all gathered Jaune asked "guys that thing's circling back, what are we gona do?"

Weiss responded with "look there's no sense in dilly-dallying our objective is right in front of us."

Ruby then said "She's right our mission is to grab and artifact and make it back to the cliffs there's no point in fighting these things."

"Run and live that is an idea I can get behind" Jaune responded. Ruby grabbed a golden Knight and Jaune grabbed a golden rook. The death stalker was moving it's stinger and the ice was cracking. "Time we left" Ren said. "Right lets go" Ruby said. They all began to run Yang stayed and stared into space when Blake came up to her and asked "what is it?" Yang responded with "nothing" and began to follow. "You coming?" she asked Ricky. "I still need a partner" he answered. "Okay" and Blake ran with the others. Awhile after they left the death stalker broke free and tried to attack Ricky who gave it a deep stare and it began to go in the direction the others went. 'Ah great there gona need help' Ricky thought as he grabbed a black pawn piece and ran in the direction of the others. He couldn't keep up with the death stalker and it soon left his sight. After a long time of running and hearing buildings fall he finally made it to to the cliff and found Jaune, Ren, Nora, and Phyrra watching Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang try to take down the Nevermore. Ricky saw the plan they had and saw how Ruby was using too much ammo for it to succeed. He took out a blue marked collapsible arrow and held it up until is shone yellow he drew with his bow and took aim. "Your never gona make that shot, even if you had a rifle!" Jaune said "he's right" Ren supported. Ricky simply keepted aiming and focused on where Ruby would stop. She ran out of ammo three fourths of the way up the cliff. 'There' Ricky thought and let go of the arrow that went speeding towards the Nevermore, it left a trail of yellow and hit directly on the center of the back of the blade on Cresent Rose. That gave Ruby the boost she needed and she landed on top of the cliff while the Neevermore's body and head fell down. "Wow" was all Jaune said as he saw the Nevermore dead.

They all headed up the cliff and when they all got up Blake asked "what made you come?"

Ricky responded with "I saw the death stalker make its way to you guys I couldn't keep up with it, but luckily I got here in time to help with the Nevermore."

"And how exactly did you help?" Weiss asked.

"When I got here I saw your plan in action, I also saw Ruby use to much ammo at the begining giving her speed but it also died out at the end."

"soo?" Yang questioned.

"soo that arrow I shot gave Ruby the needed boost to finish the job." Ricky grew annoyed with the girls and was activating his sembalance causing all of them to move back a little execpt Ruby who walked up to him and held out her arm "thanks" she said. Ricky's looked down but didn't move his head, with his hood still on no one could see his face. He walked away from them all with his sembalance still activated to keep them away. They all got back to the main hall were their teams were given. Ricky was waiting for his name until he heard Ozpin say "And finally..." 'What!?' Ricky thought. He wasn't assigned to be on a team. At the end of the ceremony all the students were given their dorms but Ricky was called to Ozpin's office.