I finished eating and left the others to finish their food. I headed over to Pixis and Shadis to see if they needed help setting up and where this would take place. I thought they might decide to do this down in the training area, but they could also be deciding to do this in the sparring area. When I walked up it seemed they answered that question for me as they talked about getting the sparring area ready.

When Pixis looked at me I could tell there was a slight change of plan before he even told me. "So for the hand-to-hand combat we aren't going to use Sasha's doubles anymore," He said and I stared at him confused.

"Why not?"

"Well, Sasha's doubles can o0nly do as much as Sasha. So to accurately gauge everyone's skills we have to be the ones to do it," Pixis said looking to Shadis.

"So everyone has to fight you two?" I asked.

"Either us or Nanaba, she also offered to help."

She walked over to us not long after to help us set up. "So we were planning on doing the hand to hand demonstrations first and then move to the power demonstrations. We've already asked Sasha to stand by for some of those. She's the only one who knows you will be handling some of them too," Pixis said and I nodded.

"You haven't told Eren?" Shadis asked me.

"No, and I don't plan on telling him until I have to," I shrugged. I don't plan on telling him at all, I plan on him just finding out when they call me up.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" He asked.

"No, but it's better than getting killed before doing the demonstrations," I shrugged before going to check how many people were still eating. We had everything all set up so now it was just bringing everyone over to us.

There were only a few people still eating, everyone else was just chatting. "When you're done please come over to the sparring area," I said and people started heading over already. The rest finished up their food and joined the others.

We all lined up as Pixis explained to everyone else what we were doing. "Would anyone like to go first?" He asked.

"I'll go first," Erwin volunteered.

"Alright, step into the circle."

"The goal is to get Pixis out of the circle or pinned to the ground without using your powers. If the spar goes over 3 minutes we will call it a tie," he said and they both waited for the count down.

"I'm not gonna hold back on you, you should know how to fight," Pixis said as the countdown started.

"I wouldn't have it any other way," Erwin smiled as the countdown ended.

As the last few seconds were approaching we started counting down from ten. When we hit zero both of them stopped. It was a tie. They were both out of breath but shook each other's hands.

"Don't worry, not all of these will be as long or as hard as this one," Nanaba said, reassuring some of the others.

One by one people started going up against them. Only a few people were pinned down so far. Armin and Christa were both pinned by Nanaba. We didn't worry too much about them being pinned since we knew both of their powers could save them if that happened.

Eren went next and I watched this match closely. He was going up against Pixis.

"Don't hold back," I heard Eren whisper. Shit don't ask that.

"Wish granted," Pixis nodded.

They counted down and Eren's first move was to put his guard up and stay low to the ground. Pixis stayed mostly on the defensive at first. He was waiting for Eren to make the first move which obviously is a trap. Eren saw right through that and kept his distance. Waiting him out wasn't an option though it was too easy and would get them nowhere. His mind was working hard to find an opening that would make it easy to strike without Pixis having an easy counter strike.

Eren found his opening and got close enough and in that moment Pixis let out a right hook. Eren ducked under and did a quick jab to his ribcage. While Pixis was still trying to pull his block up Eren managed to get behind him enough to hook his leg and push Pixis off balance. While Pixis tried to catch himself Eren tried to start pinning him.

Pixis got free and gave a nod, "that was a nice try," he said, impressed at Eren's quick thinking. "The real question is if you can get that close again?" he asked and I saw the determination flash in Eren's eyes.

The room was dead silent as Pixis took the offensive and swung again this time keeping his guard up in case Eren tried to pull the same stunt. Eren used his arms to block Pixis's punch as he thought of another way around his guard.

Pixis swung again and Eren moved his arms to block this new attack. He saw his opening as Pixis pulled his arm back and Eren quickly landed a kick causing Pixis to sh all of his attention to blocking. Before Pixis could readjust from the block Eren quickly switched legs and swiped Pixis's legs out from under him.

He hit the floor hard and Eren quickly got on top of him and pinned him to the ground before looking up at Shadis and Nanaba who were left speechless. "Well alright then," the said nodded.

Pixis smacked Eren upside the head and when he turned back around to see why Pixis just laughed, "don't take your eyes off your opponent even if you think you already won.

"Fair enough," Eren laughed before getting up and helping Pixis off the floor.

Jean volunteered to go next. He was going up against Shadis. Eren walked over to me with a proud smile on his face, "did you see how I took him down?" He asked excitedly. He reminded me of a kid looking for approval from their crush.

"Yes I did, you did amazing baby," I gave him a kiss on the cheek. If he wants approval he gets approval.

They gave the countdown and the second it ended Jean gave the first punch. Shadis was easily expecting it and caught his arm and pinned it behind his back. "You can't be that predictable boy," he shook his head trying to give Jean some advice during the match.

Jean gave a quick elbow back with his other arm and managed to get free. "Hey old man when you pin someone's arm behind their back make sure to keep a better distance," he said, giving Shadis some tips too.

Jean took Shadis's warning and decided to switch it up a bit. He always led his fights with a punch so watching him step back and take more of a defensive stance was a little odd. He waited for Shadis to make the next move before countering it. Pixis kicked and Jean rather than fully blocked actually caught his foot. While holding his one foot he used his other to sweep his other leg out from under him bringing him to the ground.

Even though Shadis was on the ground he still wasn't pinned. Shadis made no attempt to get up and Jean knew he couldn't get in close enough to pin him to the ground without he himself being brought to the ground. He waited for Shadis to make a move as they stood at a stalemate. Jean finally found an opening and instead of pinning him the normal way he came closer to him so that when Shadis reached out to grab Jean's leg to trip him Jean used his other leg to step on his arm. While that arm was pinned he dropped down and pinned his other arm and stayed clear of his legs.

"I guess that works," Pixis shrugged. It's not the cleanest pin, but Shadis can't get up, so I guess I'll count it."

Jean gut up and helped Shadis up before apologizing for stepping on his arm.

"Don't apologize, you guys are demonstrating your skills whatever it takes to bring us down do it. You don't have to worry about hurting us."

"That's why we have Hanji on standby," Pixis laughed.

A few more people went before I decided to step forward. I was going against Pixis who gave me a weird look. "You don't have to go, we all know you can fight besides your arm is still in bad shape." I needed to fight against Pixis cause he is the one person whose mind I can't read.

"You think I'm going to let you guys have all the fun," I asked. I was at a big disadvantage with my arm being messed up. Not to mention I don't have my knives either meaning I was missing a key feature I had in my normal hand-to-hand combat. However, even with all that against me, I think I can still do this. I mean I've been in plenty of fights before so how is this any different.

Pixis let out a sigh and nodded. "Don't you dare hold back," I said already knowing he was planning to. He took a deep breath almost as if to keep his sanity, but he didn't bother to protest my request.

I saw Eren giving me a worried look from the sidelines, but when he saw me look at him he just gave me a big smile and nodded before thinking to me you got this! He was done doubting my abilities. He's seen me beat the odds again and again and today is no different.

The countdown finished and normally I would keep a more defensive position and wait to see what the other person was planning but without my advantage of knowing what he's thinking I had to think outside the box. Not to mention throw him off. He was expecting me to take the defensive so I went straight for an offensive play. I quickly used my leg to sweep at his feet. It caught him off guard and nearly worked. I knocked him off balance as he hastily tried to jump out of the way.

He backed up and tried to get his balance back but I struck again to keep him off balance. This time throwing a quick double jab. I threw the first punch up high by his face which he blocked before pulling my arm back in and without a second hesitation throwing another punch towards the gut. This one hit him and he stumbled back and tried to catch his breath.

Before he could have a second to catch his breath I threw a decoy punch just past his face he went to block but it was just an excuse to get closer to him and while he wasn't watching my leg I used it to hook it behind his and kick the back of his knees. He fell to his knees and caught himself with his hands but it wasn't enough to stop me from coming behind him and putting him in a chokehold. I looked up at Nanaba and Shadis wondering if that was enough of a pin.

They nodded and Pixis tapped my arm. I let him go and walked out of the circle over to Eren while Everyone had their jaws to the floor.

"You beat him without him even throwing a punch," Eren said with pure shock.

"I couldn't let him throw a punch if he did he would have aimed for the side I couldn't block as easily," I shrugged.

"That was amazing," Pixis said when he was able to catch his breath. He rubbed at his throat which was probably still sore from the chokehold.

"Thanks," I nodded.

Everyone else went and we wrote down the names of the people who would need more practice. Basically, anyone who got pushed out of the circle or pinned. So far the only people who needed practice were Armin, Christa, Thomas, Marlowe, Hanna, Mina, and Eld. Surprisingly that's a lot fewer people than we thought.

We told Petra she didn't have to partake in the hand to hand combat training, but she thought it would be fun since she never got to do this before and it wasn't to actually hurt people so she decided there was no harm in it. She took Shadis down before anyone even saw what happened. God forbid the day she ever decides to actually fight on a mission.

"Alright moving on to Power demonstrations," Pixis announced. When Pixis announced that Sasha would be using her doubles for people to demonstrate on Eren's hand shot up.

"How are some people going to practice on Sasha's doubles when some people's powers won't work unless it's an actual person?" he asked.

"That's a good question," he asked before looking over at me. Don't do it don't do it don't you fucking dare do it. I thought over and over again. "Why don't you as Levi?" he did it that asshole really fucking did it.

Eren whipped his head around to face me. "You didn't," he glared me down.

"I did," I whispered.