Yang watched the first fight open up. The first fighter was named Samuel Ramsey. He was a tall man with a bald head. As he walked to the octagon a song that Yang didn't recognize played. Due to its rap like nature she had a hard time hearing the words as well. He made his way tot he cage and when arrived the doctor looked him over and sent him in.

There was a pause as a new song started playing. Yang recognized it as being from the band Sabaton. She had heard it playing as background music in the Judo and she knew that it was called "Bismark" and that it was one of James' favorite songs. This meant that she was not at all surprised to see James make his way from the locker room to the cage. He was emotionless. Cold like an otherworldly being. The song was getting Yang heart going and if she was right it had James' heart pounding too. He was putting on a cold face but he was a tornado of feelings inside.

The doctor sent him in and the referee gave them their final instructions. The announcer said that this was non-enhanced league fight that would last three rounds or until there was a stoppage.

The ref started the fight and James and the Samuel rushed at each other. James threw a strong lead over hook with his right hand and Samuel slipped under it. He was loading up his own counterpunch when James kept moving turning his lead foot around and twisting his shoulders counterclockwise. He used the spinning power this gave him to throw a left spinning wheel kick that landed clean on Samuel's head and lifted him off of his feet.

Samuel landed face first on the canvas. With his right hand under his body. He was out before he landed and the ref jumped in to stop the fight.

Yang was shocked, to say the least. James had always shown that he was a grappler but she had never seen him do so much as throw a punch. And now he was landing a spinning back kick that was as good as her own.

For the next fight, she skipped the intro since she didn't care about who James was fighting. This time it was a man who was about as tall as James. The man also appeared to be carved from granite and that worried Yang.

She had heard about what happens when a non-enhanced person was hit by someone who looked like the opponent James now faced.

The muscle-bound man slowly made his way to the center of the ring. James for his part took off like a bat out-a-Hell. The other man was clearly not expecting James to attack like he had. In response, his opponent tried to throw a right leg front kick in order to stop James' advance.

James reacted by dropping to his left knee and sliding his right leg under the other man and cupped the inside of his left ankle with his right hand.

As he did this James brought his right shoulder to rest on the man's left foot and after tucking his head he rolled from his right shoulder to his left.

During the roll James' right leg turn so that his heel was on the back of the man's thigh. Next James placed his left leg over his right and pushed.

It was a variation on something James had called an imanari roll.

The man rolled to his back to escape the toe hold James was going for. James then released the hold and instead he hooked his right hand into the back of the man's left knee. The man tried to kick at James but when his leg was pulled back James blocked it with his left foot as he planted his right foot on man's left hip.

The man tried his best to escape but James had a tight hold on him and getting out wasn't going to happen. The hold also wasn't dagerous. It posed no threat to the man unless he had very inflexible hips.

This man didn't but he still tried to escape. It was a bit of trickery. The hold made you think that you were in danger when you really weren't, it made folks work to get out when James' could just let go at any time.

After thirty seconds of thrashing the man was gassed out and was panting hard. James released the leg and quickly scrambled into mount.

Yang knew that the end was near. James was an skilled grappler and he was now on top of an exhausted opponent. Sure enough he soon had a hold of the man's arm and was locking it into an armbar that the man had no answer for.

But he refused to tap and Yang watching in amused horror as the man's arm snapped at the elbow.

The ref stopped the fight and got the doctor to the injured fighter. Yang went to the next fight and skipped to the start of the actual fight.

Yang had to look away at times with the way that James was getting hit. He kept getting knocked down by strikes but he never stayed down and the opponent, A man named Cain Valasquez. Kept trying to follow up his knockdowns with ground and pound but James managed to survive and get back to his feet.

Not that it mattered since almost every time Valasquez got inside of boxing range he would through a four-punch combo that normally ended with James stumbling to the canvas and Cain trying to TKO James and the cycle would start again.

It was a brutal fight and by the end of it, James was covered in swelling and blood. But he also had a smile on his face.

It wasn't hard to see why. He had just spent the last fifteen minutes having the shit kicked out of him and in spite of that. He never stayed down, and he just kept coming. He may have lost but the way he and Cain hugged after the fight told Yang that they were proud of their work.

It also told Yang why James would occasionally forget what he was talking about. He problably got brain damage from that pummeling.

There were a few more fights but Yang was finally ready to go to sleep so she laid her head down and closed her eyes allowing rest to take her.

…

Yang found herself in an old looking cottage. She saw Jaune sleeping on a cot. She had no idea how she got here or where she was. But that didn't matter now. Jaune was having a nightmare. She could see it on his face in spite of the darkness of the room that was split only in a few places by moonlight.

She gently touched his face with her left hand as her right lifted the blanket Jaune was using. He flinched when her cold hand brushed on his cheek. She slipped into bed and snaked her arms around him.

That seemed to wake him up since Jaune tensed up and then in an instant relaxed. Without thinking he moved to hold Yang close and once he had her in his arms he froze. Yang felt a wave of saddness wash over Jaune.

"What's wrong?" she asked him tightening her grip on him.

"This isn't real I know it isn't but it keeps happening." he said. In spite of his words he made no move to release Yang or to make her release him.

Yang took this as an opportunity to change the subject. "Where are you?"

At this Jaune laughed. " great now my dreams are trying to get me to compromise operational security."

"You're on a mission, what are you doing?" Yang asked him.

Jaune didn't answer instead he snuggled deeper into Yang's chest and made a mildly happy hum. Yang felt a warm sensation flow through her starting at Jaune's head.

Jaune seemed to be on a mission but she would get more out of him in the morning. She looped one of her arms about the back of his head and held him close. She felt his breath on her skin and for the first time in a few days, she felt truly at peace.

A peace that was shattered when she woke up the next morning and realized that it had all just been a dream.

Yang knew that she was going to get a bad funk about her if she didn't get her mind off of her dream soon so she opened her scroll just as an announcement from Jorge came over the PA. it called team Coco Adel to the headmaster's office. Yang smirked at the thought of whatever Coco had done to warrant her being called up like this but that wasn't her main concern.

She checked her scroll and saw that she had no new messages so she read the last of the letters she had from Jaune.

Dear Yang,

My life, if you could call it that has been going good. Jorge has been sending me on more and more team ops recently something about me needing teammates.

Either way, I know that if you are reading these then you may have been worried by some of the things I have said. In hindsight, it wasn't a good time to be me. I don't know if it is a good time to be me now but I think it is better now than it was then.

Since you may have been worried I haven't taken to drinking,and I am keeping myself fed. But I will admit to occasionally forgetting to brush my teeth.

Other than that there isn't much happening right now, I am waiting for my next orders. I may be getting a long term partner soon.

Yang folded the letter up and put it with the others. Jaune may not be here but having his letters helped. She looked at her schedule and saw that she had a class on room clearing with someone whose name simply read Cpl Thadeus. She hadn't had a class with him yet but he came highly recommended by the other students.

Yang got herself dressed in clean clothes and head to class.

…

Coco entered into Jorge's office with her usual swagger. She had no idea what she was being called in for but she wasn't going to show it. She took a seat in one of the chairs facing Jorge's desk.

"Headmaster how can I help you?" she asked. Doing her best to sound like she wasn't nervous that he had found out about the still she had going in the basement.

" I need you and your team to be on a bullhead heading to Haven Academy as soon as possible."

Coco had no opposition to this but she still wanted to know what she was getting into. Before she could ask Jorge once again began to speak. " I have a mission in Haven that it going to cause no small amount of chaos. When that happens I need you and your team to be on call in case the Grim attack."

Coco still had some question so when he stopped she asked. "Sir, what is going to happen in Haven?"

Jorge rose from his desk and walked over to the window it faced westward to Haven. He looked outside and said. " Headmaster Lionheart it a traitor and he needs to be removed. Jaune is going to be doing it tomorrow. So I suggest that you and your team get going."