~ Sup peeps, woo, two chapters within a year of each other, I'm improving, as with always, tell me what ya like, what ya don't and anything else really, anyways enjoy ^^~

After about a month, and with much fewer mishaps Dan was able to adequately use the 3DMG, he wasn't as good as the others, but at least he could use it, he instead found himself better at other tasks, he performed almost at the top of the class in shooting, due to an hobby of target shooting in his world.

Another thing that he discovered had carried over was his previous martial arts training, he had never been excellent at it, but it was enough to set him out from a lot of the other recruits, unfortunately this also meant he attracted the attention of two others. The first time he was challenged was from Mikasa, he had been sparring with Armin when he felt a hand rest on his shoulder, and he turned to find her staring at him.

"Spar" was all she had said before dragging him off for the rest of the session. Dan had learned something that day, and that was even with friends, Mikasa did not pull her blows. The second time was, in his opinion, much worse. Not long after Eren had started sparring with Annie, he found himself sparring with Marco, suddenly his opponent stopped and gave Dan a warning glance, he turned to see the tiny blonde approaching him, Eren was stood behind her giving Dan an apologetic look.

"Help me" Dan mouthed before Annie threw a straight punch at him, he managed to lean out of the way of it, and gave a quick uppercut to her stomach, he heard the gasp as the air escaped her lungs, she swung with a right punch which he managed to block with his forearm, he then swiped her legs out from under her with his own, and pushed forwards with his right arm. Time seemed to freeze, he could see the shocked look in her eyes, he knew that if she had been expecting it that move would never had worked, but he saw something behind the shock, something terrifying, a look that he would never forget. Pure. Unbridled. Rage.

The slamming noise as she hit the floor seemed to be the only noise for miles around, and he could practically feel the collective clench of everyone who had seen.

"Ah shi…." He didn't finish as the girl was up like lightning with an uppercut to his jaw, if his tongue had been between his teeth he would have lost it. Then she punched him hard in the stomach so he doubled over, and finished him off with throw, He slammed into the floor hard, he wanted to yelp in pain, but his jaw hurt too much to move, he saw her stomping off. And he felt several people trying to pick him up, the only noise was the sound of Shadis laughing.

Dan looked down sadly at his food, after training had finished, he had spent the rest of the day without talking, purely because his mouth hurt too much to move, once they had gone to the mess hall for dinner he counted himself lucky that today it was some form of stew, which he had managed to eat easily, however he was left with a few potatoes and a lump of bread, his stomach was still growling. He was about to offer both of these to Sasha when the tray was taken out from under him, he looked behind him to see Annie standing there holding his and hers. Eren and Mikasa were already half way out of their seats. However she replaced what she had taken with her tray, of which he noticed all the solid food had been removed, leaving only the stew. She turned back the way she came and went to sit at another table, Dan's mouth would have been hung open, if he could move it.

"I think that's her way of apologising" whispered a Mina to him, she was sat to his right. Dan nodded in reply before standing and walking towards her, he felt an hand wrap around his arm, he looked down to see Mikasa shaking her head at him, he wanted to pull his arm loose. But she was a lot stronger than him, he used his other hand to pry her fingers off of him, there were a few stifled laughs at the display, he managed to free himself and continued to walk, Annie had noticed him now and had put her spoon down. As he got closer he could see a sad look in her eyes, she was expecting him to start something. He raised his arm towards her, a little too quickly perhaps, as she was halfway out of her seat with her fists raised. She soon noticed that his hand was open though.

"No hard feeling" Dan managed to say, she accepted the handshake, this was the second time today that he had seen her normally passive face stunned, a small smile broke out across her face.

Later that night, about an hour before bed, Dan and a few of his friends were sat around the bunkhouse.

"Yeah I could totally take Annie in a fight" Connie said puffing out his chest "I mean, I just gotta do what Dan did, but better"

"Yeah, sure baldy" Sasha responded "You can't even beat Eren." Both parties took offence with this statement and began arguing. Dan wasn't paying attention to them though, he was staring out across the training grounds. He was lost in thought again. It was now winter, he wondered if they could expect snow soon, did this world have a holiday akin to Christmas? He couldn't ask, he hoped someone would bring it up at some point.

"Why do you always look like your deep in thought?" Mina asked him, he turned to face her and smiled.

"I just daydream a lot" he lied

"What about?"

"Uhhhh… you know stuff like the future" she kept looking at him, his answer must not have been good enough "like stuff that's coming up, and things like fighting titans and.." he brow furrowed "…Love I guess." His mind was screaming 'WHY THE FUCK DID I SAY THAT.'

"oh" she smiled, he could have sworn he saw a little bit of blush "yeah I think about that too"

~Sweet, can I do the crazy thing and get a third chapter before the year is up, find out next time on, Dragon. Ball, wrong thing. Meh probably~