The first few weeks of school went on in a pattern. Ricky kept to himself most of the time and scored just above average on assignments for his classes, but no one knew how as they saw he spent most of his time in the retraction center slouching in a tree. He sat alone at lunch and breakfast and stayed in his room when he wasn't in the recreation center or at class. On one piticular day during luch Ricky was sitting alone as always when Ruby came to the table he was at. She walked over next to him and asked "mind if I sit here?" Ricky had his hood on, he looked at the table where team RWBY and JNPR sat. They were engaged in their own conversation and didn't see Ruby with him. "Go ahead" he said he was wondering why Ruby was unaffected by his aura. She sat next to him, Ricky was eating his lunch and Ruby was just looking at him trying to see under his hood. Ricky could feel her stare and took of his hood to see if she would say anything.

She asked "is there any reason you have to be a 'lone wolf'?"

Ricky swallowed the food in his mouth and answered "no."

"So what keeps you from away from everyone?"

"It's complicated... I don't want to talk about it."

Ruby stayed quit as she continued to look at Ricky.

"Not here at least... I can tell you more another time when not that many people are around."

"Can you at least sit with your team?"

Ricky smirked and said "you just had to asked nicely." He got up and Ruby followed as he took a seat where team RWBY and JNPR were, Ruby sat next to him.

"So the lone wolf makes his way to the pack, what'd my sister do to get you to come here?" Yang asked Ricky.

"She asked" Ricky answered.

Team RWBY and JNPR continued their conversations and when Ricky was asked questions he kept the answers short and simple.

"So where did you live before you came to Beacon?" Yang asked.

"The Davenport Homestead." Ricky answered .

"Isn't that outside the border of Vale." Jaune asked.

"yes it is." Ricky replied once more.

"How has that community stayed functioning with Grimm literally surrounding it?" Blake asked.

"A few individuals like my mentor keep the town safe, there is also low Grimm activity in the area."

"What made you leave?" Ruby asked.

Ricky thought hard for an answer, there was no reason for him to leave the homestead. Conner told him he was free to go were he wants do as he wants.

"I had lived there for ten years, guess I just wanted to see the rest of the world."

The bell rang signaling the students with class after lunch to start heading to them. They all went to their classes and after Ricky returned to the recreational center like he always does. After an hour or so Ruby came to remind him of training and he would go with her to train with the rest of team RWBY.

Training usually started with a simulation of certain Grimm, Beowolves and Boarbatusk mainly. After the simulation ended sparring would pass the time left. Ricky only sparred every three sessions or so each time was some what more challenging then the last. This day in particular Ruby wanted to spar against Ricky one on one. No matter how many times they fought Ricky couldn't understand why Ruby was unaffected by his semblance. They would make direct eye contact, but she still went on without hesitation. Ricky took his usual stance and Ruby seemed to change her's to a lower attack stance. She attacked first swinging Crescent Rose horizontally at first, Ricky had no trouble dodging and blocking. Then Ruby started to attack diagonally and vertically. This caused Ricky to use his sword and tomahawk to block the downward strikes. Ruby made sure to keep Crescent Rose from locking with Ricky's tomahawk so she wouldn't be disarmed. She swung from the left and low, Ricky saw what she was doing as he himself did this. She was trying to sweep his feet to knock him down. For some reason something in Ricky said just let it happen, so he blocked left at normal height and felt the back of his right foot get pulled first then his left. He fell to the ground and saw Crescent Rose pointed at him. He herd a mechanical sound and leaned up to see Ruby with her hand towards him, she was smiling. Ricky grabbed it and got off the floor. He looked over at Yang and Weiss who were shocked at what they just saw, Blake just kept reading her book. Yang then walked over and said "first she gets you to sit with us at lunch now she beats you during a one on one match?" Ricky looked over a Yang and smirked seeing her watch what she thought would be impossible. "I guess she took notice in my fighting style and changed accordingly" Ricky said. Ruby's scroll beeped and then spoke, "training time over." They left the training room and put their weapons in their lockers and returned to their dorm.

That night Ricky sat on the roof, the questions he was asked at lunch made him think about Davenport, about his past. Ruby came to the roof to find Ricky alone as always. She walked over and asked "can we talk about it now?" Ricky looked around with his eagle vision activated, he didn't see anyone hiding trying to listen in. Ricky took his hood off and began "Ruby... I'm actually a Faunus these grey spots... it's fur." Ruby looked at him in silence. Ricky held her arm and moved it so her hand would touch his spots. She felt the fur just like a wolf pelt. He let go of her arm and moved back to where he was. He sat in the corner of the roof leaning on the raised edges, Ruby took a seat at his feet and continued to look at him. Ricky started from the beginning "My father was one of the few Wolf Faunus in the world, my mother was a human who my father fell in love with. They married and had me, but I wasn't born with ears like my father or other Faunus. At first I was thought to be human, but as my hair grew so did my fur. when I was sent to school I didn't have many friends... No one wanted to be around me, and those who did made fun of me, called me names, they said I was different. But at first it didn't matter because I would come home to my parents who loved me no matter what. My mom said that I was special by not having ears, well she said not yet, my parents thought they might sprout when I was ten... But they never saw me turn ten..." Ricky looked down and Ruby had moved next to him her hand was on his shoulder he looked back at her and continued. "When I was five the white fang didn't exactly like my father for some reason. They came to our house one night and set fire to it. I remember waking up to smoke and darkness I went out my door and saw the flames from out living room, I called out for my parents, but got no response. I was alone and I was scared. A white hooded man appeared from the other side of the hall and ran to me. He picked me up and jumped through the flames of our living room. We made it outside and he put me down next to a fireman who kept watch on me. He ran back into the house and a few minutes later he came back out his cloths were black and singed from the fire. He looked at me and then ran away. I was sent to an orphanage after. I thought I'd be used to the name calling and bullying, but there was a difference, there I didn't have some one to say I was special, to comfort me,to know someone cared. I spent two full weeks of name calls and discrimination in there. Then one day I was adopted by someone. I first saw him tall and broad, he had white robes on with some straps on, his hair was shaved into a Mohawk and tied back in a pony tail. He put his knee down and stared into my eyes and all he said was 'I'm sorry'."

Ricky had a tear fall down his check remembering the cruel world of his past. How the white fang took his family from him. How he was told he was different by humans and Faunus alike. The two sat on the roof for awhile longer before Ricky got up and went to his room. He lied down and thought, he had just shared his past with Ruby something he never does no matter who asked. But Ruby was different to him for some reason he couldn't tell why. He closed his eyes and fell asleep.