Mikasa waited impatiently for Christa and Ymir to finally leave and for Levi to return. Now, she could finally get her revenge for that day in court. She clenched her fists as the famous Titan-killer closed his door, before confidently stalking up to it and pounding a fist against it.
Unlike the others, she refused to cower in the face of a death more gruesome than anything the Titans could come up with. The black-haired girl tensed in anticipation, but there was no movement behind the door. Frowning, she tried again, with the same result. You're kidding me! He can't have gotten tired already!
Or if he's purposefully ignoring me…she growled aggressively, a sound not lost on Levi.
The Captain knew who was last and was tempted to ignore her completely. I don't have time for her petty bullshit.
Levi had seen the way she had looked at him during the court session and had no doubts that it would have gotten ugly if the small blond boy hadn't stopped her. But from the way the door was creaking on its hinges, Mikasa would probably break the door into a thousand pieces if he didn't open it.
"Ugh!" He groaned as he got up and grasped the door handle, preparing for the worst. The knocking had finally stopped, and it was all quiet. Slowly, he turned the doorknob, his other hand gripping his sword handle tightly. You never know what those crazy cadets would do, especially after all those interesting stunts they pulled in the last few hours. He had barely opened it a centimeter before it was blown wide open, smashing into the wall. The screws popped off and clattered to the floor. Unfortunately, at least to Mikasa, Levi had managed to dodge it and was about to throw one of his blades at her but she was gone, flying down the hall.
What the Hell?
The Captain frowned in confusion as she sprinted gracefully away; he had honestly thought she was going to come into the room and attack him. He shook his head and chased after her, weaving through the hallways until he followed her through the door to the entrance of the castle, where she stood waiting on the other side in the middle of the courtyard.
Hearing the commotion, Erwin and Hange followed the noise to the window, where they could see Levi and Mikasa trying to glare the other down.
"Hey look!" Connie called out to Bertholdt, being the first to notice. "Go get the others! They won't want to miss this!" Bertholdt nodded and ran off to gather the others, where they watched through a window on the second floor, not too far from where Erwin and Hange were. They stuck their heads out and climbed over each other to try to get a better look from the one window, forming a massive pile of bodies. Reiner, thankfully for everyone else, was stacked on the bottom, next to Bertholdt who had begun to sweat like a faucet. Then Jean and Eren were squished next to each other, nearly standing on top of the two on the bottom, trying to shove the other out of the way for a better view. On top, Connie and Armin were struggling to not fall as the boys on the bottom staggered because of Jean and Eren's bickering.
"Hey move over horse face " Eren growled, shoving him into the wooden frame.
"No! Why don't you asshole?" He accidentally squished Reiner's face into the window sill, while Armin squeaked as Eren began to wriggle around.
"Can we not do this right now?" Connie yelped as he nearly fell off, clinging onto the curtain, which began to rip.
"Ugh you're such a bitch!"
"Big talk coming from you Jeanie boy!"
"Come on guys!" Bertholdt whimpered as Jean's foot struck him in the head.
All the ruckus drew the attention of the girls, who were trying to sleep in their own rooms.
"Are you kidding me?" Ymir grumbled angrily as their shouts echoed down the hall. "What the Hell are they even doing at this time of the night?"
"Maybe we should go investigate," Christa suggested.
"Fine by me if it'll make them shut up." Ymir sighed.
"Where's Mikasa?" Sasha asked, emerging from her own bed.
"Who knows? Probably going at Corporal Shorty or something."
They followed the boys' voices down the hall, where they found a scene of complete chaos. Eren was hanging out the window by his fingertips, kicking against the castle and screaming bloody murder while Reiner and Armin tried to fish him back in. Bertholdt was laying on the ground with a large bruise on his face, spread-out like a giant rug while Connie and Jean, the latter whose shirt was half ripped, were arguing in the corner. Most of them were only half dressed or in their underwear. The girls gawked at the spectacle in front of them, but the males didn't even seem to notice.
"Armin pull!" Reiner urged, half his body hanging out the window giving the girls a full view of his ass. Well that's something I never want to see again, Ymir mentally groaned.
"I'm trying!" Armin squealed back, nearly joining his friend dangling from the window. The poor boy was trying his hardest, leaning on the tips of his toes and sweating so much that he rivaled Bertholdt, who was still clutching his face on the ground. But there was only so much you could do when your arms were as thick of strands of spaghetti.
"Don't step on me!" Connie's foot landed right where the gentle giant's head was, but luckily, Bertholdt was able to dodge in time. "Watch out!"
"Sorry big guy but some horse-faced asshole is trying to kill me!" Connie glared out Jean.
"Big talk coming from you cue ball!" He retorted, taking another wild swing.
"Don't you dare drop me!" They heard the Titan-shifter's scream coming from by the window.
"You know what let's just go back to sleep," Ymir whispered. "They're all insane."
"Agreed."
They tiptoed back into their rooms, oblivious to the storm that was about to blow.
"What do you want?" Levi asked, his eyes narrowed as they circled each other like sharks. He already knew the answer.
"Revenge for that day in court," Mikasa snarled. "You should remember."
He scoffed, only angering Mikasa further. "You're too attached to that idiot for your own good, it's really a shame."
Hange and Erwin watched in trepidation as two of the strongest members of the Scouting Regiment were about to pounce on each other.
"This is gonna be amazing!" Hange squealed, while Erwin watched silently, though he too was anxious to see what would happen.
Mikasa lunged with a fist at Levi, who twisted out of the way to grab her arm. They had no doubts in their minds that the force behind Mikasa's punch would have been enough to knock out a wild raging tiger. Levi let go and she retaliated by swiping at his head, missing by an inch. He ducked and threw her over his shoulder by the arm, flinging her a good twenty feet away from him but Mikasa twirled midair and landed on her feet.
"That's it!" She roared, going berserk and charging at him. Levi met her halfway, where they clenched hands and began pushing each other, trying to make the other one back down first.
"I'm not losing to you!" She snarled, veins popping out her forehead. Any normal person's bones would have been instantly crushed by the force between their hands, but neither of them was normal by any standards.
"Oh, is that so?' Levi mocked coolly. Faster than a blink of the eye, he swept her legs out from under her and forced her down onto the ground. "You become reckless when you're angry. And besides," he narrowed his calm gray eyes. "You might be strong, but I'm still Humanity's Strongest."
No matter how she thrashed, Mikasa couldn't break free of his iron grip.
Levi raised a fist high above her head, and she struggled harder than ever, her heels gouging deep scars into the ground.
"Go. To. Hell!" Mikasa groundout. The Commander and Hange held their unconsciously held their breaths in anticipation, and the air seemed to still as they waited for the finishing blow.
"HELP!" A screech suddenly pierced the air like a bullet, distracting them from their fight. Both Ackermans snapped their heads around to find Eren's hand gradually slipping out of Reiner's as the blond boy tried desperately to hold the weight of both Eren and Armin, who had also tipped out the window. Bertholdt was desperately reaching out for his other hand, but both Levi and Mikasa could tell that he wouldn't make it in time.
They separated, and both began sprinting towards the window, blades of grass flying through the air underneath their boots.
"Hold on Eren!" Mikasa shouted.
"Damn shitheads!" Levi cursed, only a couple meters away.
Eren's hand slipped, and then everyone was screaming. Hange from a couple rooms over, leaning so far out the window that Erwin had to pull her back so that she didn't join them, and Bertholdt, Reiner, Armin, Eren, Jean, and Connie creating a harmony of horrible teenage shrieking. Least to say, no one in the castle was asleep anymore.
Mikasa tumbled to the ground with Eren in her arms, though it took a couple seconds longer for him to stop yelling like had seen a titan taking a shit on his house.
Levi caught Armin a little more gracefully, immediately dropping him like a sack of potatoes and leaving the terrified boy to crawl away uttering a small thanks.
"Ugh!" Levi huffed, shoving a finger in his ear. "They should really push up the recruitment age up a couple years, so I don't have to deal with your horrible pubescent voices."
After the three were reunited in a huddle on the ground, Levi turned on them, a dangerous glint smoldering in his eyes. Eren swore he saw the tortured ghosts of the other countless recruits that the Captain had probably forced to scrub the floors until they died, burning in a Hell full of fiery brooms and boiling laundry detergent.
"Now," Levi said slowly, and Armin could feel his soul withering up and dying inside of him. On the second floor, all the boys shrunk back out of sight. "What shall your punishment be?"
For the next couple of days, all the girls excluding Mikasa could hear was the sound of furious scrubbing throughout the halls, day in day out. And the occasional sob and cuss word that they whispered when they thought no one was looking.
Not too surprisingly, Levi figured out who was responsible for unleashing a bunch of slobbering teenagers upon him at 4:00 in the morning, and least to say, he got his revenge. Erwin now had no eyebrows and all of Hange's equipment had mysteriously disappeared, sending both of them into hysterics.
"Uh are those draw on eyebrows?" Sasha whispered to her friends in the dining hall two days after the incident.
"Yes," Levi replied coyly as he waltzed by, a small smirk on his face.
Life was always interesting in the Survey Corps.