Things went crazy as soon as Sasha shouted 'go'.
As crazy as they can get for no one moving at all.
Snowballs flew from one snow fort to the other. "Take that, Team Springer! Team Sasha will destroy you!" Sasha yelled, hurling snow towards Connie's head.
Connie ducked, and his team retaliated and threw about twenty snowballs at Sasha. She ducked behind the snow fort.
"Armin! Is your plan ready to go?" Sasha whispered at Armin, not wanting the other team to hear them.
"Yes, we can start it at any time." Armin whispered back.
"Okay, good."
"Plan Trees is now in effect!" Armin informed the others. They made their way to start the plan.
"Marco! Are we ready to start our plan?" Connie asked.
"Yeah, it's all ready." Marco replied.
"Team Springer!" Connie shouted, throwing more snowballs at the other team.
"Start Plan Tunneling!"
The two teams continued to throw snowballs at each other until Connie popped up out of the ground right in front of Christa. Christa shrieked and hit Connie in the head, hard. It only made him dazed until - whack!
"And that's for scaring my angel!" Ymir yelled at the unconscious Connie. She'd hit him over the head with a tree branch.
"Tie him up! He'll be our prisoner!" Sasha shouted. She looked up into the trees and could just barely see tiny drops of snow falling out of trees over top of them.
"Plan Trees is working right now!" Armin reported.
"Good! Keep making snowballs guys. We need to stall the other team until Mikasa and Reiner can finish the plan." Sasha told her team.
"What plan?" Mina asked, coming up from the ground in front of Eren. Eren grabbed her, and they tied Mina up too.
Annie looked up at the other team. They were hanging something in the tree behind them. She looked closer at the tree. Sasha had climbed into the tree holding onto a very long piece of rope. She and Eren had then proceeded to tie something on the ground with the rope and then they lifted it up into the air before they secured it and ducked back down behind their fort. Annie squinted at the thing they'd left dangling in the tree for them to see. Wait, no, was that a person?
"Sorry guys!" Mina called out to them. Team Sasha had left her hanging down from the tree. Her hands were tied behind her back, and there ropes around her shoulders and hips securing her in the tree. She was just dangling there, idly watching everything going on.
"I'm not tunneling over there." Annie informed her team.
"Why not? You're the smallest person over here now. You're the only one that can tunnel over there anymore." Jean told her.
"Mina is dangling from a tree branch, and Connie hasn't come back yet. I'm not going."
"It'll be okay. We'll just have to think of something new." Bertholdt cut in.
"Right." Marco agreed.
Team Sasha was feeling like they had victory in the bag. Connie was still unconscious, and Mina was hanging from a tree, like a war prize. They all could see little pieces of snow falling off the trees above the other team's snow fort and knew exactly what stage they were at in their plan.
Mikasa and Reiner jumping down from the trees up above them was unplanned. Reiner grinned at Team Springer while Mikasa merely looked at them.
"Have fun!" Reiner called as they both climbed back up into the trees and promptly proceeded to dump all of the snow in the trees on them, effectively burying the entire team.
"WE WON!" Sasha hollered at the other team, wondering if they could hear through all of the snow. "Tie Connie up to the tree." Her team members hefted up Connie and then wrapped ropes around the base of a tree and placed him in the ropes before tying them tightly to the trees. Mikasa and Reiner jumped down from the trees and landed in the snow fort.
"Don't count your luck just yet!" Jean yelled, and the entire team popped out from the snow underneath their feet. The other team shook the trees, burying Team Sasha. Just like they had done to Team Springer. They forgot one simple fact: they were standing in the midst of Team Sasha. The enormous pile of snow that came from the trees buried everyone.
Except Connie who was still tied up to the tree trunk, and Mina who was still dangling from the tree.
Shadis stood in the lunchroom, observing how empty it was. "Where is the 104th?" he asked the other soldiers in the lunchroom.
"We don't know sir." the soldiers in the lunchroom were also Shadis's subordinates. They had graduated from their training and stayed to help with training.
"Go find them." he ordered.
"Sir!" they exited the hall.
"Are you part of the 104th?" they asked the girl dangling from the tree, and the boy tied to it's trunk.
"Yeah." the boy answered.
"Where are the others?"
"They're this pile of snow." Mina gestured to the pile of snow with her feet.
"It's lunchtime, and Shadis is wondering where they are."
"Lunch!?" came from the snow pile.
"Yes?" Sasha burst out from the snow pile first. The others followed her. They untied Connie before heading off to the dining hall.
"Hey, guys? Are you going to let me down?" Mina called after them. They didn't hear her; the argument over who won too loud.
They were all laughing about the snowball fight over lunch when Shadis walked in. Everyone froze and it feel silent as they looked at him. "Springer! Blaus!" he barked.
"Yes, sir?" the two of them asked, jumping to their feet and saluting.
"Are you two forgetting something?" he asked.
"No, sir." Connie replied just as Sasha said, "I don't think so."
"Carolina is still outside dangling from a tree. Go let her down." he ordered.
"Yes, sir!" they replied and left the dining hall. Shadis reached his office before they reached Mina. He would never admit it to them, but it was quite hilarious about how they'd just left her in the tree. She'd been wriggling and yelling for the past ten minutes. It was something Shadis knew his own friends would have done that to him and left him there all night. Springer and Blaus untied the knot from the tree branch. They accidentally let the rope slip from between their fingers and Carolina fell straight to the ground. The two of them fell out of the tree and the three of them hit the ground hard. A white cloud of snow momentarily blocked them from sight. They were covered in snow when they stood back up again. Shadis nearly cracked a smile at that.
A/N: I had a lot of fun writing that. I've never actually had a snowball fight, and that's what I would imagine it's like. This is the longest chapter so far at over 1,000 words. I feel very accomplished right now. Team Sasha and Team Springer tied (actually neither of them won, but neither of them decided to admit that, so they declared that they had tied.) Happy holidays and thanks for reading!
See you later!