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Day 8: Eren

Eren saw the perfect opportunity to get revenge on Jean for an argument they'd had the other day when it began snowing one morning. The brunette prepared some snowballs and waited for Jean to exit the dorms. Eren had planned an ambush along Jean's regular route to the Mess Hall for breakfast. When his archenemy finally appeared, Eren was hidden behind a bush, a pile of snowballs at the ready. While Jean walked past the bush, Eren silently held up a snowball and aimed it. After he released the snowball, he watched it hit Jean's back before quickly ducking behind the bush again.

Jean jumped when he felt the snowball hit his back, before hurriedly turning to face his attacker. There was no one in sight, but Jean was sure Eren was somewhere in the vicinity, so he decided to wait until Eren judged it safe to come out of his hiding place again. Then, Jean decided with a smirk, he would give him a taste of his own medicine. Jean quietly grabbed some snow and began forming his own snowball while he waited. While he was preoccupied with this task, Eren silently tossed another snowball at him, which hit the back of his head.

Jean spun around, snowball ready to be thrown at Eren, but the brunette was already out of sight again. Jean scowled, before deciding to just go to the Mess Hall. It would be easier to get payback on Eren later, when he wasn't expecting it, anyway. Before he had even taken two steps, however, yet another snowball crashed into him, this time hitting his arm. Seconds later, another snowball hit his other arm. At this point, Jean decided to just find Eren's hiding place rather than wait for him to come out. Armed with a few hastily made snowballs, Jean approached the bush that he was 99% sure Eren was hidden behind. Just as he reached it, a snowball flew over the bush and hit Jean in the face.

"Ugh! What?!" Jean screamed in fury.

Eren flinched slightly from behind his hiding place. Jean must have been headed towards the bush, and the snowball he'd aimed at the back of his foe's head had hit Jean's face instead. Eren was not one to apologize, though, so he just tossed a few more snowballs for good measure before darting out from the cover provided by the bush, heading for the Mess Hall. Jean recovered sooner than the brunette had expected, and threw some snowballs in retaliation. Due to the snow in his eyes, most missed their mark, but two snowballs actually managed to reach the fleeing brunette.

In surprise, Eren turned on the spot, grabbing more snow and forming spheres with it in an instant. "It's on now, Horseface!"

Jean stifled a gulp. That was not what he had intended, but he may as well go with it. Jean armed himself with more snowballs, ducking as Eren threw his latest batch. Somehow, he had dodged all of them, but Eren already had more ammunition by the time Jean stood to return fire. Instead of bombarding Eren with the snowballs he had made, Jean found himself being pelted with snowballs. A few minutes later, both boys were covered in snow, and had begun yelling battle cries which quickly awoke pretty much everyone else. While at first most people were irritated at being woken up by the teens' feud, many ended up joining in.

Mikasa had of course sided with Eren, and Armin joined them as well. Everyone else, on the other hand, treated the impromptu war as more of a free for all, though a few made alliances (though only Krista and Ymir actually remained in an alliance throughout the entire fight). Sasha, who was in an alliance with Connie for approximately one and a half minutes, ended up attacking him anyway when she got tired of waiting for him to form snowballs. Connie wanted to make a bunch of snowballs and then attack rather than making them throughout the fight.

Hanji joined in at one point, and then no one was safe. The girl was like a ninja when it came to snowball fights. To be honest, at any given point in time, no one really had any idea of where she was, despite the fact there were not a whole lot of places to hide nearby.

Isabel and Farlan joined the fray when they left the Mess Hall and saw the commotion, dragging Levi into it despite his attempts to avoid the battlefield completely. When Commander Erwin happened to walk past the area about two thirds of the way through the battle, he even joined in for a few minutes before leaving to deal with some paperwork.

In the end, Hanji and Krista were tied for being hit the least - each had been hit only once. Krista had been hit by Jean, who immediately regretted it as Ymir proceeded to practically bury him under a barrage of snowballs. After that, no one had aimed for Krista. Hanji had actually gotten hit by Krista, who had been trying to hit Jean but her aim was off and she somehow managed to hit Hanji instead. Rather than being annoyed, the brunette had congratulated her and joined her and Ymir's alliance.

Eventually, the participants of the battle headed to the Mess Hall for breakfast (besides Levi, Isabel, and Farlan who had already eaten), chatting happily about the snowball fight.