A few days pat and before everyone knew, it was Friday. Ricky spent a little more time with Ruby making up for his absence when he first received his team. It was mostly in the Recreational Center and the time they spent their was in silence. He almost forgot that a week ago he gave Ruby his right hidden blade. Today he made sure she was wearing it. They where under the same tree as always and Ruby was resting her head on Ricky's lap when he asked.

"Are you wearing it?"

"Yup."

"Good… I'm guessing in the time you had it you already learned how to use it?"

"Well, I know how to deploy it, using it in combat still no."

"I understand."

Ricky was thinking of asking Ruby to the dance that was going be held in a couple of weeks. He decided against it and instead continued to enjoy the quiet time.

When he got back to his dorm Cyrus was standing alone in the center. He didn't seem happy.

"Hello Cyrus" Ricky greeted when he walked in.

"Your lucky I'm generous and wont tell the creed what you've done."

"What did I do?"

"You know exactly what you did!" Cyrus silently shouted at Ricky moving towards him with his finger pointed at him.

"No, I don't" Ricky said moving Cyrus's hand away.

"You revealed us!"

"Ok I did, what are you gona do? Kill her!" Ricky silently shouted back.

"You know what the creed says Richard"

"I know! How did you even find out?"

Cyrus dematerialized into smoke; he reappeared in the left side of the room with his eyes glowing purple then they returned to their normal shade of brown.

"I was wondering what your semblance was," Ricky said.

"You should be executed for what you've done!" Cyrus said moving closer to Richard and again pointing his finger at him.

He grabbed his hand and said, "I'm team leader, I'll call the shots"

"Is that who you think you are, a 'leader'? Have you forgotten what you are? You're not a hunter Richard you're an assassin."

"You think I chose to be an assassin?"

"I think you should follow your creed." Cyrus said jerking his hand away from Ricky's.

"And I think you should act more like a brother to your sister"

Cyrus grabbed Ricky by the collar and raised him up to eye level with him.

"Don't talk to me about family!"

Richard definitely hit a sensitive spot for Cyrus. He knew Cyrus and Iris never talked to each other and Cyrus turned down the childish things Iris did. Iris was after all his only family.

"My family is dead."

"Then they can't see how much you're failing them right now."

It was on.

Ricky clenched his fist and struck Cyrus right in the jaw he let go of Ricky and held his face. He looked at Ricky with his anger clearly showing. He went to punch Ricky in the face, but Ricky ducked and punched him in the gut. Cyrus kneed upward hitting Ricky's chest. He stumbled back and got into a fighting stance. Cyrus did the same. Ricky went for another punch to the face, but Cyrus grabbed his arm and used his other to hit him in the gut. Ricky pushed Cyrus's arm away. Cyrus went for an uppercut, but Ricky stepped back to dodge and retaliated with a downward strike to the head and uppercut combo. Cyrus pushed Ricky so his back hit the desk. He tried to strike high, but Ricky ducked and tackled Cyrus to the ground. Cyrus rolled them over to be on top of Ricky. He began punching him while Ricky tried his best to cover his face.

Then Harper and Iris entered the room to find them on the floor fighting.

"Whoa, whoa!" Harper called out as he tried to hold Cyrus back and pull him of Ricky.

"Why are you guys fighting?" Iris asked.

"Let go of me!" Cyrus yelled releasing himself from Harper's grip.

"Hey man, we're a team we shouldn't fight one a-"

"No! We're not a team, we never were and never will be, we trained to fight on our own, without relying on teammates."

"Then leave! No ones keeping you here!" Ricky told him.

"Ricky!" Iris hushed him.

"Fine! I'm done with you and this so called 'team RICH' good luck fighting the white fang without me." Cyrus walked out the room.

"Cyrus wait!" Iris called and ran after him, but he was gone as soon as she looked down the hall.

"What did you say to him?" Harper asked Ricky who was sitting up with his arms on his knees. He wiped some blood from his mouth and looked down at the floor and stayed silent.

"So thats what got him? Harper asked.

"It's my fault he left, I started the fight" Ricky said.

"Its no ones fault, he just needs time, he'll come back" Iris said trying to lighten the mood.

Harper and Ricky just sat in silence.

"He wasn't wrong though, it is stated that we keep ourselves hidden."

"We will stay hidden Ruby won't tell anyone" Ricky replied to Harper.

"You trust her?" Iris asked.

"I do" Ricky answered.

"Then we better start looking for our teammate." Harper said standing up.

"Right" Iris said standing with him.

"He shouldn't have gotten far, well check downtown Vale" Harper said walking out of the room with Iris.

They stopped at the doorway, Iris look back at Ricky "You coming?"

"You guys go on ahead, I need sometime to think."

"Alright lets go Iris." They left Ricky alone in the room.

Ricky put his head down and stared at the floor. "not again" he mumbled to himself. he remembered when Blake had ran away, he just hoped Cyrus would come back like she did. He only said what he did because of his anger.

He walked out to after about 10 minutes to join Harper and Iris. They searched all around Vale, from the streets to the roof tops but couldn't find Cyrus anywhere. They searched all through the afternoon without finding a hint of where he could be.

"It's almost 8, we should head back, if he doesn't comeback tomorrow we'll search again Sunday" Harper said.

"Alright" Iris replied. They all headed back to Beacon for the night.

Saturday seemed to last a lifetime for Ricky. Nothing to do but wait for Cyrus. He spent all day in the recreational center thinking about what he'd say to Cyrus when he came back, if he came back.

Ruby came along at the usual time to find Ricky with his head facing the ground.

"What's wrong?" she asked taking a seat by his side. Ricky looked up to see her and sighed.

"Cyrus and I had a fight and now...he's gone" he answered once again putting his head down.

She leaned her head on his shoulder to try and comfort him, but Ricky couldn't help but feel guilty for Cyrus's departure.

Night fell on the city of Vale and Cyrus stood atop a roof looking into the ocean, wearing his crimson trench coat. Maybe he just let his anger get the best of him and Ricky. Maybe he was right though, Ricky did break the creed and just accepts the fact. Either way he couldn't decide if he should just go on his own, maybe he should just leave the creed if people like Ricky are accepted, they don't have the discipline to follow rules. Then again that would mean he would want there to be a system were everyone is controlled that is what the templars want, maybe thats just what he wants.

A figure joined him on the roof.

"What do you want?" Cyrus asked still facing the ocean.

"Now, now Cyrus I only want to talk" she said in a calm voice.

Cyrus turned to see her, she was wearing a red dress with yellow accents on it. Her eyes were glowing yellow.

"How do you know my name?"

"I know many thing my dear, I also know why you are here."

"And whats that?"

"Because you feel like you don't need a team to help you, you want to show you power and input discipline in those who can't follow simple instructions."

"I..." she was somewhat right which left Cyrus speechless.

"Come now Cyrus and join us so we can finally bring this world to peace, under order."

Cyrus turned to look back at the sea, he pulled his scarf up to cover his mouth. He turned back and said "If i join, you better make sure she doesn't suffer." He implied that the stranger knew he had a sister.

"Of course, and also since you've been so cooperative I bring a gift."

Cyrus turned around and saw a dark red scarf in the stranger's hand. It had the templar cross in white with a black blade going through it. He held onto his current scarf and gripped tight before pulling it off. He threw it in the air and the wind carried it into the city. He grabbed the new scarf and put it on the same way he put his old one. When he did, he pulled it up to show the symbol on it.

"Perfect fit" the stranger said with a sinister smile on her face. "You'll be an import part of our plans."

"Our? Who else is part of this?"

"Oh Cyrus," she began moving closer and put her hand on his cheek, "you'll now what you need when you need to know."

"Very well, how do I get started?"