Finals week came and went pretty quickly as the tests were generally easy for Ricky. Time also passed as he would tutor Ruby on some subjects she had trouble with like history. All in all everyone passed their classes and the first semester at beacon was over, finally. Even though classes were over training was still a necessity among teams, although not mandatory. One Thursday after training Ricky was in the locker room about to put his gear away. He took out his right holstered pistol and looked at it. He took out the magazine and saw that he had standard bullets even though he modified them an entire semester ago. He also saw his mini quiver with half it's arrows missing. He decided to finally get those dust rounds and he thought he would 'open up' to his team more by inviting them to go into town. He walked over to where the rest of the team was.

"Hey, I need to go into town to get some supplies, any of you wanna come along?" He asked his team.

"I'm good on dust for awhile" Weiss replied.

"yeah I'm kinda loaded with shotgun rounds, but thanks for asking" Yang also said.

He turned to Blake and Ruby "what about you two?"

"Thanks but I'm good" Blake answered.

"I actually need more .50 cal. sniper rounds, so I'll go" Ruby said.

"Alright then we'll see you guys later" he said as he and Ruby exited the locker room with their weapons. They took a ship into town and made their way to 'Dust till Dawn' to see if the shop was going to be re-opened. It was planned, but it seems the old man had trouble with the shop after all the dust was stolen. They instead went to another dust shop. Ricky was surprised by the prices just last semester a small red crystal was ten lien now it was thirty-five plus extra to get it custom cut. Ricky looked into his wallet, he had enough to get one tube of refined dust and three crystals uncut. Ruby in the mean time was looking at the 'Weapons of Today' magazine. Ricky bought what he could with some lien to spare. He then walked over to Ruby and looked over her shoulder to see what she was reading. There was a picture of some sort of rifle with a whole bunch of statistics about it. She noticed Ricky looking over her shoulder and asked "cool, isn't it?" Ricky went 'mmm' "it's no bow and arrow I'll say that much." She giggled a little witch put a small smile on Ricky's face. She put the magazine back and the two made their way to the ammunition shop in Vale. On their way Ricky noticed a stage that was set up near the docks, it seemed like there was going to be a concert for the early arrivals to Vale for the Vytal Festival. He saw a poster that showed the band that was going to be performing, it was one known as 'Of Monsters and Men' this got Ricky thinking.

He asked Ruby "hey Ruby do you like music?"

"Who doesn't?" She replied.

"What kind?" He asked trying to get as much info as possible.

"Imagine Dragons is a good band, but my favorite is Of Monsters and Men."

"Interesting" they continued to walk to the ammunition store.

When they got there they both were greeted by the store keeper who they both knew.

"Ahhh Ruby, Richard my two youngest customers, come in come in" he insisted in a deep but friendly voice.

"Hey Niko" Ruby greeted.

"So what can I do for you two today?"

"Dust rounds .9mm, two mags please" Ricky said as he put the tube of dust on the counter.

"Dust eh? stuffs getting expensive now."

"Tell me about it" Ricky replied.

"And for you?" Niko asked Ruby.

".50 cal. High velocity Sniper rounds, one mag" She answered.

"Let's see here now..." Niko mumbled as he looked inside the counter, "hunting tip, .55 cal." He mumbled. "Ahh! Here we go .50 cal. High velocity, one mag left." he said as he put a red cartridge on the counter. Ruby put some lien down and put the cartridge in her pouch on her belt. Niko then looked back under the counter once more before coming back up.

"Sorry I don't got dust rounds pre-made, come back tomorrow and I'll have them ready."

"It's cool, oh you still have the Dust crystal cutter right?" Ricky asked.

"Yup, right in the back, need more arrow tips?"

"Yeah" Ricky put a pouch on the counter and Niko picked it up to see a white crystal and two red crystals.

"Just wait here it shouldn't take long to get these cut."

"Cool."

Niko went into the back of the shop and a machine was herd turn on. Ruby was looking at the snipers on the wall, each was a different size. Then music was herd from outside as the concert began, Ricky looked at his scroll 5:56pm. Some time past and Niko come out with three arrows that looked like Ricky's, he put them carefully on the counter and Ricky handed him some lien. Ricky then grabbed them and shrunk then to put them in his quiver.

"Thanks Niko!" Ricky called back as he and Ruby walked out.

"Anytime!" He called back.

Ruby and Ricky were walking back when they got to the outer edge of the crowd that gathered to the concert.

"Hey, you wanna stay for like one song?" Ricky asked sheepishly and he put his hand behind his head.

"Sure but we won't be that close" Ruby pointed out.

"Leave that to me" they walked around the crowd until they got to some buildings near the stage.

Ricky saw a pulley-system that had a box lifted to the roof. He stepped on the raised platform and grabbed the rope. He held his hand out to Ruby who grabbed it and stepped on. Ricky put his arm around her and said "hang on" he activated his right hidden blade and twisted his wrist so it cut the rope. The two of them shot up and landed on top of the roof. Ruby stumbled a little, but Ricky held her up.

She asked, "where did you learn to do that?"

"Well I was what you call a 'roof runner' when I left the homestead" he answered.

They moved to the other side of the roof and sat on the edge where they could see the stage and whole crowd of people gathered around.

Ruby asked "how did that work out for you at the beginning?" Then the band started to play another song it was one of the few Ricky knew. (Listen to Mountain sound to get a better picture, DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN MOUNTAIN SOUND OR OF MONSTERS AND MEN)

Ricky thought of an idea, he took his hood off and loudly said "well if I had to put it in a song it'd probably go like this!" He began to lip sing the lyrics to the song.

"I herd them calling in the distance, so I packed my things and ran."

Ruby giggled at what she was seeing and decided to go along with it.

"far away from all the trouble, I had caused with my two hands-alone we traveled armed with nothing but a shadow, we fled, far away"

Ruby Began to lip sing the main lyrics while Ricky lip sang the chorus.

Ruby: "hold your horses now" Ricky: "sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we ran" "deep into the mountain sound"

"Hold your horses now" "Sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we (both) ra-a-an-a-an-a-an"

Ricky: "some had scares and some had scratches, it made me wonder about their past, and as I looked around, I began to notice, that we were nothing like the rest."

Ruby: "hold your horses now" Ricky: "sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we ran" "deep into the mountain sound"

"Hold your horses now" "Sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we (both) ra-a-an-a-an-a-an

*they stood up at this point*

Both: "whoa-oh-oh-ohoh, we sleep until the sun goes down, whoa oh-oh-oh, we sleep until the sun goes down"

Then the slow part of the song came on. Ruby put her arms around his neck and Ricky put his around her waist as they swayed slowly.

Both: "whoa oh-oh-oh, we sleep until the sun goes down"

the song regained speed and they let go of each other and continued to lip sing.

Ruby: "hold your horses now" Ricky: "sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we ran" "deep into the mountain sound"

"Hold your horses now" "Sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we (both) ra-a-an-a-an-a-an"

"hold your horses now" "sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we ran" "deep into the mountain sound"

"Hold your horses now" "Sleep until the sun goes down"

"Through the woods we (both) ra-a-an-a-an-a-an"

Both: "la-la-la, whoa oh-oh-ohoh, la-la-la, we sleep until the sun goes down, la-la-la, whoa oh-oh-oh, la-la-la, we sleep until the sun goes"

The song ended and Ruby and Ricky were laughing on the roof top. Ricky had never enjoyed himself so much before, his life had been so serious until he met Ruby he began to act like a normal boy and not some cold blooded killer. They carefully made their way down the roof and took a ship back to beacon. It was 6:56 by the time they got back to the dorm. Before Ruby entered she turned to face Ricky and said, "We should do that again sometime."

"ok sure, I'll keep an eye out on concerts" he joked.

Ruby giggled a little "see you later" and she gave a kiss on Ricky's cheek before entering her room. Ricky stood in the hall way, what was he becoming, what makes Ruby so different? These questions filled his mind as he went to his room and laid on his bed, before he went to sleep.