A/N: This chapter is not to be taken seriously. It's not relavant to the plot in any way, shape or form, so you can just skip and ignore it :) This is just a silly story of them all being dressed up for the day. (And then I thought I couldn't leave it just being that, gotta add some mystery or something scary! And so there's neither, instead it just turned sad...)

Just a fair warning; I'm terrible at descriptions so I apologize in advance. _:(´□`」 ∠):_

Two people were stalking through the hallways of the castle with purpose, silently and carefully sneaking around as to not draw any unwanted attention. Reaching their goal, the first person listened at the door for any noise before looking at their partner in crime. "Do you have everything ready?" they whispered.

The other looked around nervously. "Yes. But is it really necessary?" they whispered back before handing over the stack of fabric they carried in their arms.

"Of course it's necessary! Don't chicken out now."

"It's not like I can, you're my superior," the more nervous one muttered in resignation.

"Come on, it's not like I forced you into coming with me," the leader shot back as they carefully opened the door and slipped in.

The unwilling accomplice sighed. Next time they will leave their superior to die alone, they thought not for the first time that night or week.

When Levi woke up the next morning, a neat stack of clothes sitting on top of his chest of drawers caught his attention. He frowned in confusion, cocking his head to the side. Where did it come from?

He walked over, picking the black piece on top to look at it. To his horror, he realized it was a short, black on the outside, red on the inside cape with a horrifyingly ugly high collar. When he was inspecting the rest of the clothes with wide eyes, unveiling a red cravat, a white and red shirt, a black vest, black gloves and pants, a piece of paper came fluttering to the floor. He picked it up to read it.

Please wear this today! If you don't I will tell everyone the reason why you hold you cups weird and I don't care if I have to make something embarrassing up! 3

PS: Look into the mirror, before going down!

"...Fucking Hanji."

Nothing could have prepared Nile for what he saw when he came down for breakfast after the night he spent at the Survey corps' headquarters. Why was everyone dressed... weird? Practically no one was in uniform and... were those pumpkins? What?

Wait, was that guy dressed as a horse?

He walked to the officers' table, twisting his head all the way over, staring at everything and anything. He dropped into the empty chair next to Erwin who was eyeing him with obvious amusement.

"Erwin Smith, excuse me, but what the fuck is going on."

Erwin chuckled as he put down his steaming cup before answering, "Squad Leader Hanji is pretty enthusiastic about Halloween, isn't she?"

"'Pretty enthusiastic'? Are you telling all of this is her work?"

"Yep! Impressive, right?" came the response from behind Nile and when he turned around, he had to blink a few times as he came face to face with a white sheet with two holes for eyes. "What the..."

"Hanji, why do you have that sheet?" Erwin for once sounded as confused as Nile felt.

It seemed Hanji spread her arms under her costume as the white fabric raised at the sides. "I'm a ghost!"

"If I may ask..." started Nile in awe. "Why, if you did all this and it's so elaborate, are you dressed only in a sheet?"

Now it looked like Hanji was scratching her head awkwardly. "I might have been so busy coming up with everyone's costumes that I forgot to make mine and only realized when I woke up?"

Nile only blinked, not comprehending but then movement caught his attention and he watched as Captain Levi stomped over to the ghost – Hanji – angrily, dressed in what seemed like what you would wear to those big shot parties in black and red colors. Only there was... something... up on his head...

As soon as he was close enough, Levi grabbed Hanji by her pony-tail even while it was hidden by the ghost costume and forced her to face him.

"Oh, Levi, you're actually wearing it!"

"Cut the crap, Shitty Foureyes, what the fuck are these?" he growled, gesturing to his head.

"Oh! Bat wings! You're a sexy vampire and have bat wings to symbolize the night and darkness!"

"And why exactly are those things fucking glued to my hair?"

"What do you mean?" Nile thought she probably tried to sound confused and scandalized but she only sounded on the verge of laughing. "They obviously grow from your head!"

Levi grit his teeth as Hanji actually burst out laughing. "Stop shitting with me, or I'll break your last glasses."

"You wouldn't! I wouldn't be able to see anything! Fine, if you have to know, I did it because I knew you'd never put them on otherwise!"

Nile looked back at Erwin helplessly, but the blond only shook his head. "Ignore them, this is normal."

Nile was still skeptical but did as suggested and instead took a good look at the Commander. "So why exactly are you dressed as the Grim Reaper? And where did the scythe come from?"

Erwin shrugged, "We found it in the tool shed when we first moved the headquarters here. I completely forgot about it until Hanji brought it to me. And I have it because Hanji suggested it and I fully embrace the irony of it."

"That's morbid," mumbled Nile, making a face.

"I don't deny that," Erwin said with a smile, watching as Levi stomped off in the direction of his own squad's table and Hanji sat down in her chair opposite of Nile looking kind of ruffled but with glasses intact.

"He agreed not to rip them off," Hanji announced, sounding a little out of breath but satisfied when she managed to untangle herself from her sheet so she could eat and converse normally. She still kept it around her shoulders though.

"Good. He would probably hurt himself before getting them off."

"True; I did a good job!"

At that moment Nanaba arrived, closely followed by Mike. "Do I want to know?"

"It's just Levi's costume... Wait, why are you in your uniform?"

Nanaba shrugged a slight blush on her face. "I have the cat ears, isn't that enough? Mike is in his uniform, too."

"But... But..."

"Hanji, leave it. No one would want to wear a cat costume all day."

Hanji grumbled a little but luckily listened and Nanaba shot a grateful look to her Commander, who only smiled back.

Nile on the other hand kept staring at Mike. He was indeed dressed in his uniform but on his head, there was some weird contraption. It was black and covered his whole face, only with holes for eyes and around the general mouth area, there was something like a beaker with holes in the bottom. Nile had no idea what he was looking at.

"Um, Mike, what are you supposed to be dressed as?" he asked hesitatingly.

Mike looked at him with a sniff and then shrugged, looking at Hanji instead.

She got the message and began explaining. "Oh, some time ago I read an old story about this young man who could sense danger and when he wore this gas mask thing, this ability got stronger to the point of seeing the future. I thought that Mike was a little like that so I tried making him his own 'gas mask'."

Everyone stared at the gas mask on Mike's face in contemplation.

"So what is this mask for?"

"No idea! Also I didn't fully grasp what it was supposed to look like so I used my imagination."

"Well, when you know the story behind it, it doesn't look as stupid anymore..." mumbled Nanaba into the ensuing silence.

Everyone could only nod in agreement and then laugh at the picture Hanji made as she jumped up with loud protests, her hair a mess and face flushed still from when she was hidden under her sheet, and said sheet dangling from one of her shoulders.

Levi managed to school his expression to one of cool indifference before he arrived to his table and sat gracefully in his seat.

Still, the brats stared at him, in silent astonishment and Levi suspected he knew why. "Why are you staring like a bunch of idiots?"

"Because you look like one," he could hear someone, probably Ymir, mumble, though it was swiftly covered by somebody else loudly clearing their throat.

He narrowed his eyes but didn't comment. Instead waited for a proper response.

"Sir, we're just surprised Hanji managed to rope you into dressing up as well," Jean tried the diplomatic approach but still kept blatantly staring at the top of his Captain's head.

Levi still didn't say anything.

"Um, sir?" Sasha raised her hand, "What's with those wings on your head?"

Everyone around the table gasped loudly. Ah yes, you can always count on Sasha to say the things that should be left unsaid.

"Whatever could you mean, Sasha?" Levi asked in mock confusion as he adjusted his fancy cravat. He was dead set on ignoring The Things until he could take them off.

He could hear Mikasa snort on his left and he resisted the urge to glare at her. Instead he picked up the cup that Eren put in front of him like he did every morning.

"Honestly, it really ruins the whole cool image of the costume," Reiner said thoughtfully.

These kids really didn't know when to shut up. The Captain ran a slow once-over of the whole group, trying hard to let it show just how much he was judging them. Finally, he looked into his cup and calmly stated, "I really don't thing you guys have any right to talk shit about other people's clothes."

They looked down at themselves and then looked back up with a shrug and nodded, agreeing Levi had a fair point.

If Levi was being honest, he almost felt sorry for Jean in his centaur costume and Bertholt in his tree costume. They had it worst. Reiner was arguably right there with them; however, he looked like he wore his skimpy maid dress with pride.

On the other side of the spectrum Levi placed Sasha and Connie, who acted in tune with their costumes beautifully, though it very much disgusted him. Sasha was dressed as a zombie and Connie as her victim. Connie even had his buzz cut shaved off completely and in its place was a painting of broken skull and leaking brain. Levi would bet all his tea it was Moblit's work. Both their costumes were pretty impressive, the only problem was how they were acting in character – Sasha had Connie's arm in her clutches and was using it as a platter, making it seem like she was eating him when in fact she was eating actual food. It was disgusting on too many levels.

The rest of the squad was somewhere in between. Christa as the goddess Sina, Ymir as the devil, Mikasa as a witch with a giant hat perched on her head that Levi had to admit suited her well even in its weirdness, Armin as... a pumpkin human? He looked funny but it seemed he didn't mind it much. Eren was dressed as some kind of werewolf and he would look pretty good if it weren't for the atrocious brown and orange striped pants. And were those fake furry paws on his feet?

In the end, the small alpha came to the conclusion that none of them had it quite as bad as Moblit, the poor guy who probably had to do most of the work and then ended up in a titan costume.

The rest of breakfast passed in a good mood, everyone commenting on each other's costumes. As you listened to them, you could see that most of them actually took pride in what they wore and were protective of it. It was no surprise Jean wasn't one of them.

"Brats, today we're going out for our maneuver gear training so go prepare your gear and horses as soon as you're done eating."

A chorus of yes sirs was his response and Levi almost nodded in satisfaction when he noticed Mikasa raising her hand. He raised his eyebrows at her in question.

"I can't do maneuver gear training today, sir," she said matter-of-factly.

Levi frowned in confusion. "And why the hell not?"

She gave him a serious look and pointed to her head. "My hat will fall off."

Levi could only stare at the girl in stunned astonishment before Armin burst out laughing and Eren started passionately lecturing her in his place. The alpha only shook his head when he noticed the tiny smile Mikasa couldn't hide as she was missing her scarf today.

Levi was the last one in the mess hall that morning. He just sat there in his fancy vampire costume in silence, eyes closed, cold tea in front of him. It was a long time before he could hear the door open and someone walk in. The quiet tapping of fake claws let him know it was Eren.

The boy didn't say anything until he was standing next to his superior, and even then he spoke almost in a whisper as if afraid he'd break the serene atmosphere, "Sir, the horses are ready. I told Connie to prepare yours so we can leave anytime."

Levi opened his eyes at the sound of his voice and looked up at the omega expressionlessly. Still, Eren frowned, walking closer. He ran one of his hands through Levi's hair, concern plainly visible in his eyes. "Are you okay?"

Levi nodded, leaning into his light touch. "Yeah. Just thinking."

"About what?" Eren asked in a whisper.

Levi sighed heavily. "Do you know why Hanji insists on doing this every year?"

Eren shook his head, now confused.

Levi smiled mirthlessly. "Because she's trying to divert the attention away from the true meaning of the holiday."

Eren's hand stilled in Levi's hair. Now that he thought about it, it made perfect sense. Just what kind of place would the Survey corps be if they spent the day remembering their dead, feeling like the ghosts of their fallen comrades could jump out at them at any time since today was the day the world of the dead and the world of the living were the closest to each other?

Eren tried looking into Levi's eyes to see how he was doing but Levi wasn't looking at him anymore. He was looking at the table and only when he followed his gaze did Eren notice the four tea cups sitting untouched in the chairs closest to Levi, safe for the one his left – Eren's old seat.

Eren wanted to cry.

"I saw some flowers still blooming behind the training grounds; we can go visit them in the evening." Eren felt his voice break a little by the end of the sentence.

Levi closed his eyes again, nodding silently. After a few seconds of stillness he got up abruptly, his Captain demeanor back. "Come on, Eren. Gotta get you brats in proper shape before winter."

"Yes sir!" Eren said loudly, saluting his superior before quickly following him out of the mess hall.

As he was shutting the door closed behind them, Eren shot a quick glance at their table and the five cups still sitting there. For the split second before the door obscured his vision, he felt like he could see Petra smiling at them from her seat.

A/N: I'm sorry...? :D

Anyway, if you were wondering, the story Mike's "costume" is based on is the story of Terror man, a Korean webtoon. I thought it was fitting... ^^;; And the costumes of Levi, Eren, Mikasa and Armin are the ones from the SnK video game because I'm still not over them half a year later.

Fun Fact that didn't make it into the story #1: At first, Krista was the one who was supposed to wear the maid outfit but Ymir... strongly opposed. Reiner volunteered after that.

Fun Fact that didn't make it into the story #2: Levi had to wear the bat wings for a week before they came off.