The trainees stood around, training over for the day. It was extremely boring having nothing to do. "I've got an idea! Remember the game we used to play as kids, Bertholdt?" Reiner announced, standing up.
Bertholdt grinned, the que for Reiner to continue on with what he was about to do.
"What are we doing, Reiner?" Armin asked.
The tall blonde merely grinned in response. "Shoulder wrestling! Choose a weapon!" Reiner scooped Mikasa up, and set her on his shoulders.
"Yes!" Eren quickly lifted Armin onto his shoulders.
"I call the giant!" Connie whooped, climbing onto Bertholdt's shoulders.
Mina climbed onto Annie's shoulders and Annie allowed her pigtailed friend to get comfortable.
Ymir made sure no one else got to Christa by setting the tiny blonde girl on top of her shoulder.
Sasha climbed on Jean before yelling, "Giddyup Horsey!" Jean neighed like a horse just for her. Eren sniggered a small ways away from them, and Jean pretended not to notice because Sasha was on his shoulders.
"All right! The rules of this game are simple!" Reiner stood proudly in front of them, Mikasa perched on his shoulders. "Everyone will try to knock the ones on the shoulders off. Every team will only be considered out if the person on the shoulders completely falls off. If both people go down, and then are able to get back up without the person on their shoulders falling off, then they are still considered in. Everyone good?" Nods spread through the group.
"All right then! Everyone get ready, and...GO!"
Everyone charged each other. It was crazy, people trying to knock others off of shoulders. Christa and Ymir held on pretty long, most people scurrying away when they tried to approach Christa from the looks Ymir was giving them. In the end, it was Armin who accidentally managed to push Christa off when Connie and Bertholdt had come at him and Armin. Ymir took it pretty well, seeing how Armin was as gentle as Christa.
Armin and Eren were out when Mina and Annie came for them, Mina apologizing as she gently pushed him off. Mina and Annie were swiftly taken down by Reiner and Mikasa, the latter radiating an aura of a murderer.
Connie and Bertholdt were taken down by Sasha and Jean. The two of them put up a pretty good fight, but nothing stood in the way of Sasha shoving Connie off hard. The team fell over and would've managed to stay in, if it weren't for Bertholdt's tallness. Connie couldn't hold on being picked up over six feet into the air on shoulders and fell off, claiming defeat.
The Sasha-Jean team and Reiner-Mikasa team were the last two teams still playing a couple minutes later. Neither of them could seem to shove the other off.
"Fight Mikasa! If you don't fight, you can't win!" Eren was shouting at Mikasa. Connie attempted words of encouragement but was quickly shushed by Sasha.
Suddenly, Mikasa's usually expressionless eyes widened half a millimeter. Sasha looked to where she was looking. Reiner surged forward, and Mikasa succeeded in shoving Sasha off Jean's shoulders and onto the ground.
"And the winners of this round are the Reiner-Mikasa team!" Mina and Christa shouted together.
"Does anyone wish to go up against us?" Reiner shouted, putting his hands on his hips.
"No. We all know you would win again." Jean stated, just as the dinner bell rang.
"Dinner! We're not doing another round! It's dinner time!" Sasha screeched, running for the dining hall.
Reiner refused to let Mikasa off his shoulders, so they could brag about their victory. She stayed there until the girls and boys separated to shower or the night and then go to bed.
Reiner was proud of their victory and suggested it the next day to play again. Everyone agreed, and he snagged Mikasa again.
Needless to say, they won again that day.
A/N: I felt so bad about not updating for nearly two months that I wrote two chapters to post instead of one. I wrote two chapters for a friend of mine that really likes this story. She reads it as a guest, and kept asking when I was going to update again, so I wrote this one. Mostly just for her, because she's such a great friend. You know who you are, S. And know that this chapter was written especially for you! And I felt kinda bad for everyone else that reads this. I love everyone that supports this story! Without you guys, I probably would've stopped writing this long ago, and not be at twelve chapters already! Thank you everyone! Thanks so much for reading!
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