Snow.
That was the first thought that crossed all of the trainee's minds when they woke up in the morning. The weather had steadily gotten colder over the past couple months until they woke up to a fresh covering of snow.
"Why are you guys all standing around staring at it!?" Sasha yelled, running out from the dining hall, closely followed by Connie.
"Come on! Let's not let this snow go to waste!" he shouted at them.
An hour later, all of the trainees were running around in the snow, laughing. Eren and Jean were trying to cause each other as much pain as possible with small amounts of snow (that gradually turned into five foot twenty pound balls of the fluffy stuff.)
Mina and Annie were making small little things out of the snow which ranged from very vague snowmen to rather well done snow piles.
Christa and Ymir were laying in the snow, making snow angels. Christa had begged and eventually convinced Ymir to make them with her, and the brunette had finally given in. (Because she realized she really wanted to, she told people. Not because she wanted to make snow angels with her angel).
Reiner and Bertholdt were having a mock snowball fight with Sasha, Connie, and Mikasa. The latter wanting to join in was seen as strange when she's stepped up in the first place, but they allowed her to. It was finally agreed on that she would go against the four of them. Mikasa was also winning the snowball fight. Snowballs kept appearing from trees and hit all of them with deadly accuracy. They were impossible to dodge.
Armin and Marco stood off to the side, idly watching everything their friends were doing. They were making intricate snowflake designs out of snow and avoiding everyone else when they ran past them. It was quite peaceful to sit there in the powdery snow and make things that required brain power to create.
Shadis had been fully expecting all of the trainees to be lined up, conducting themselves in an orderly manner when he showed up. He had not, however, expected them to be acting like complete children playing in the snow. They froze when they saw him walking up. Save for Braun who ran behind him. A snowball came from the trees and hit him squarely in the face. Shadis felt his eye twitch. "Your punishment!" he bellowed, and they all cringed, "is to continue on with this disorderly behavior in the snow until lights out tonight with two breaks for meals." he could see the confusion clearly written on their faces. Shadis turned on his heel to leave. "Oh, and Ackerman!" he could just barely see her pale skin moving through the branches of a tree as he turned back around. "Nice shot."
Shadis left with that, and the fun in the snow continued. He went back to his office and observed them from the window. He remembered how much it was to play in the snow back when he was a trainee with his friends. He could see the others continuing on with their fun and Blaus, Springer, Braun, and Hoover running around crazily and snowballs coming from the trees with deadly (and quite scary) accuracy. Ackerman was not letting up on them at all. Just like his friend had done all those years ago.
A/N: I can't believe the last time I updated this was in September. It surprised me. I meant to write something for Halloween or Dia de los Muertos since I missed Halloween, and it comes after, but that didn't happen. And then since Thanksgiving is celebrated here in America, I meant to write something for that, but it didn't happen. But if I didn't write something for Christmas... I have to write something for Christmas, I told myself. So I have a lot of chapters that I'm working on. After this one, I've got ten other holiday/Christmas themed prompts that I've got planned (and about four of them have already been written). If you've got any Christmas- or holiday themed prompts or ideas just shoot me a message or comment. I'm sure you guys can think up some different ones than I have. Thanks, for reading!
See you later!