The next day Ricky went through his daily routine and finished his first class of the day. Then at lunch team RWBY and team JNPR were once again conversing on different subjects. Nora was talking about a dream she had.

"So there we where in the middle of the night"

"It was day" Ren seemed to be correcting her.

"We where surrounded by Ursi"

"They were Beowolves"

"Dozens of them!"

"Two of them"

"But they were no match and in the end Ren and I took them down and made a boat load of lien selling Ursa skin rugs."

"She's been having this recurring dream for nearly a month now"

Not everyone seemed interested in the story. Jaune was a bit off and Pyrrha was concerned about him.

"Jaune are you okay?"

"Hm oh yeah, why?

"It's just that you seem a little..."

"Not okay" Ricky said finishing Ruby's statement.

"Guys I'm fine seriously, look" he held up his thumb and gave a sheepish smile with a small laugh.

Actual laughing was herd from a nearby table and they could see Cardin and his team poking fun at velvet, a Faunus girl with rabbit ears. Everyone turned back at Jaune who was looking away.

"Jaune, Cardin has been picking on you since the first day of school" Pyrrha once again started.

"Who Cardin Winchester naa he just likes to mess around you know practical jokes"

"He's a bully" Ruby said

"Oh please, name one time he's 'bullied' me"

"He put you in a rocket locker and sent you flying away" Ricky said.

"I didn't land far from the school"

"Jaune you know if you ever need help you can just ask" Pyrrha stated.

"Oh, we'll break his legs!" Nora proclaimed.

"Guys really it's fine besides it's not like he's only a jerk to me, he's a jerk to everybody"

"Ow that hurts!" was herd from Cardin's location everyone looked to see him grabbing one of Velvet's rabbit ears. "Please stop" she pleaded.

Cardin looked at his team that was laughing with him and said "I told you it was real."One of his team mates said "what a freak."

That made Ricky snap as no one noticed him get up from the table and move to Cardin. He grabbed Cardin's wrist and said "let her go Cardin."

"And what are you gona-" Ricky stared into Cardin's eyes and this time both of his own flashed. Cardin began to tremble and let go of velvet's ear immediately. Ricky then turned to the rest of Cardin's team and his eyes flashed once more as they began to shake as well. "Now what was this I herd about 'freaks'?" Ruby held onto Ricky's arm when he look over at her, she had her head shaking. Ricky closed his eyes and took a deep breath, Cardin's team stopped shake and were questioning 'who is that guy?' Ricky returned to the table with the others. "Atrotious," Pyrrha began "I can't stand people like him."

"He's not the only one" Blake said.

"It must be hard to be a Faunus" Yang said.

Jaune left the table and Pyrrha watched still concerned. Ruby thought for a while and looked at Ricky who had his hood on she couldn't see his eyes. She remembered what he told her the night before about how he lost his parents at a young age just because his father married a human. After some time everyone left to change back into uniform but Ricky went straight to his next class. The day went on as usual with training and classes.

About a week went by and Jaune became more scarce around school, he'd be out really early and come back to the dorm realy late. There was a field trip planned at the end of the week witch got Ruby and the others somewhat excited. The night before as Ricky walked to his room he over heard a conversation between Jaune and Ruby when he turned the corner he saw Jaune sitting on the floor infront of his team's dorm.

"Something wrong?" Ricky asked.

Jaune just looked down and said "I'm a failure."

Ricky looked at Ruby as she just said "nope."

"Nope?" Jaune asked.

"Nope" she said once more "your a leader now Jaune your not allowed to be a failure."

"But what if i am a failure at being a leader?"

Ruby once again gave a simple "nope"

"You know your not the easiest person to talk to about this kinda stuff."

"nope" Ruby said again and took a seat next to Jaune and Ricky took a seat I front of Ruby and took off his hood.

"Jaune maybe you were a failure when you were a kid," Jaune moaned slightly, "you might of even been a failure the fist day we all met," another somewhat louder groan, "but you can't be one now, you know why?"

"uhh because-"

"Because it's not just about you anymore" Ricky said entering the conversation.

'Mmhum' Ruby then said "you've got a team now Jaune we both do and if we fail we'll just be bringing them down with us," Ruby put her arm around Ricky, he smiled and she said, "we have to put our teammates first, and our selves second." Ricky and Ruby both got up as Ruby continued "your team deserves a great leader Jaune and I think that can be you." Ruby went back to her room and Ricky said "goodnight Jaune" and he entered his own room. He changed and once again fell asleep.

The next day was the field trip, it was to the Forrest of Forever Fall. The teams all followed Professor Goodwitch into the Forrest, they all marveled at the beauty of the red leaves constantly falling of the trees. The Professor started "yes students the Forrest of Forever Fall is indeed beautiful, but we are not here to sight see Professor Peach has asked all of you to collect samples from the trees deep inside this Forrest and I'm here to make sure none of you die while doing so." She stopped and turn facing all the students, "each of you is to gather one jars worth of red sap," she held up an example jar full of red tree sap, "however this Forrest is full of the creatures of Grimm, so be sure to stay by your teammates, we will rendezvous (Ron-de-vu) here at 4 o'clock have fun." Jaune went off with Cardin's team for some reason while the rest of team RWBY and JNPR went on into the forrest. After some time everyone agreed on a place to start collecting sap. Everyone easily collected some. Ruby asked Ricky "does the Forrest remind you of home?" Ricky was slouching against the tree Ruby was collecting sap from. "not this one it's much more... Beautiful then home" Ricky said looking around him all the red leaves falling the scent of tree sap it was peaceful.

The peace was broken when a loud Ursa scream was herd throughout the forrest. Ruby stood up and asked "did you guys hear that?" Then Team CRDL were running one of them was yelling "Ursa! Ursa!" He bumped into Yang and she held him up by the collar and asked "What?! Where!? He pointed behind him "back there it's got Cardin!" Pyrrha dropped her jar and realized "Jaune!" Ruby ordered "Yang you and Blake go get Professor Goodwitch!" Pyrrha ordered "You two go with them there could be more." Pyrrha, Ruby, Weiss, and Ricky took out they're weapons, Ricky kept his bow out with a red tipped arrow ready to fire. They ran towards the sound of the roar. They found Cardin on the floor moving away from the big Ursa. It was about to strike when Jaune blocked the swipe. Weiss took her stance and Ricky drew his arrow, but Pyrrha said "wait." They watched as Jaune slashed the Ursa causing it to stumble back. It tried to hit Jaune but he rolled out of the way. It swept low with its right claw and jaune jumped up to dodge. It quickly punched him with it's left and Jaune went flying back, but he got up instantly and charged the Ursa. He jumped to strike, but the Ursa smacked him away with it's left claw. Jaune went rolling away and slowly got up to face the Ursa. He and the Ursa charged each other. Jaune had his shield above him blocking the Ursa's attack and he jumped up to slash it's head off. Pyrrha had her hand up and slowly moved it down. Ruby looked at her and asked "uhh, what?" Weiss also asked "how did you...?" Pyrrha began with "well Ruby has her speed, Ricky has fear, you have your glyphs, my semblance is polarity."

"Whoa you can control poles" Ruby said in awe and confusion.

"No you dunce it means she has control over magnetism" Weiss corrected.

"Magnets are cool too."

Pyrrha began to walk away when Weiss stopped her with "wait we're are you going?"

Ruby continued with "yea we gotta tell them what happened."

Pyrrha answered with "we could... or perhaps we could just keep it our little secret."

She walked away as the three of them saw Jaune give a hand to Cardin. He pulled him up and told him something before he began to walk back with them.

"Welcome back Jaune" Ricky said to him.

"It's good to have you back" Ruby added.

"Thanks guys" he said and they walked back to the school.