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Most people would do an introduction at the beginning of a new story so I guess I should too. My name is Maria Clinton, I'm seventeen years old and I live in Dauntless and share an apartment with my boyfriend David, we both decided this recently and we just said 'What the hell?'. About a year ago Erudite, who at the time was lead by my sister Jenny, controlled Dauntless and had them attack Abnegation, so me and my friends went to deactivate the simulation, but along the way my best friend Alec was shot and killed and we learned that our friend Joseph was a spy sent to spy on me because I'm Divergent. During the year we've been rebuilding and things are getting back to normal. And just a month ago was when this years initiation ended, and let me say, I'm glad to see the new batch of Dauntless. Now I'm probably boring you with the introduction, so lets just get to the story.
I was at the tattoo parlor, where I work, and was giving Dia a recoloring for her eagle tattoo. Dia worked here too so that's good, having your best friend work at the same place as you do makes work more fun. "So how's living with David so far?" Dia asked, she moved in with her boyfriend Vincent, who's also one of my best friends, a couple months after initiation ended. "Easy actually, we both have some rules like whoever gets home first makes or go gets dinner and stuff like that." I said. A while later, we were heading to the cafeteria to go grab lunch, and man I am STARVING! We get there and grab some food and head to our usual table, where Danny, Clare, Vincent, David, Abby, Max, Natalie, George, and Sam were sitting at. Sam was in this years initiation and was ranked Third. We sit down and I kissed David, the others groan. "So how's your guys days so far?" Dia asked and everyone said good. "How was the meeting Danny?" I asked, Danny took the job as a Dauntless leader, he goes to each meeting and stuff like that. "Not that good, main topic of the meeting was about how the Factionless are starting to rise up." Danny says, again? Recently the Factionless have been raising trouble and the factionless people say 'The Factions will fall', which at first didn't matter until they even started attacking people randomly, so of course leaders are talking about this and wondering how to handle it. "I don't know guys, the factionless are crazy and would do anything for attention." Clare says. She took Joseph's death and betrayal worse since they had a thing going on, we all did our best to help her out and pretty soon she got back on her feet.
"The thing is, they seem to be planning some kind of war, they keep rebelling on us and won't stop." Danny says, nobody really knew what caused the factionless to start going crazy, but hopefully it'll end without a bloodshed. Lunch ended and we all head back to work, when I walk over to my locker to grab my water bottle that I put in there, I see a note in my locker. 'The hell?' I thought and took the note out. I opened it and started reading it.
Dear Maria Clinton,
You don't know me, but that doesn't matter for the moment. I know a lot about you, including about your gift. You're probably confused on what this letter is about so I'll cut to the chase, the Factionless are after you. They blame you for destroying the simulation a year ago, they thought a war between factions would end the factions, but it didn't. Once they found out who stopped the attack, they've been wanting your head on a silver platter. What I'm saying is you need to watch your back, you don't know what'll happen, but I advise you this; don't lower your guard.
A.
I stared at the letter in confusion, the factionless are after me? This is probably some dumb prank Danny made, he's always pulling pranks on us. I crumble up the paper and throw it in the trashcan and went back to work.
The day goes by and next thing I know I'm walking into my apartment, seems like David wasn't home yet so I just go over to the freezer and put a oven pizza in the oven. I walk to the living room and flopped down in the couch. A few minutes later I hear the door open and I look over to see David walking in. "Hey Maria." he says and I said hey back. "Pizza?" he asked and I nodded. He sits down at the end of the couch, I sit up. "So how was work?" I asked, he shrugged. "Same old same old, nothing really happened on the cameras." David says, he works on the cameras along with one of our other friends Max. "What about you?" David asked, I shrugged. "Meh was a bit slow, some wanted their tattoos recolored and that's about it." I said, we chatted some more until the timer goes off and we get the pizza and started eating. Someone is pounding on the door and I walked over and opened it to see Dia and Vincent standing there, both wide eyed. "Something happened?" I asked, they just said to follow them and David and I followed them. We get to the hall that leads to the building of where the Dauntless leaders work at, there was some Dauntless members standing there and we had to push a bit through the crowd and once we saw what they were staring at, I stopped dead in my tracks and I thought my heart was going to stop.
A bloody Dauntless member, who I couldn't even recognize, was hanged with the rope tied to one of the pipes on the ceiling, and the wall behind him was what also something that also catches our eyes. It was written in red, guessing it was blood of the Dauntless member.
THE FACTIONLESS WILL NOT STOP ATTACKING
THEY WILL NOT STOP UNTIL THEY GET THE GIRL
THE GIRL THAT STOPPED THE ATTACK
THE AMITY GIRL WHO SHALL PAY THE PRICE
Whoever A is, they were right, the factionless are after me. What am I gonna do?
Hope you guys liked the first chapter! Leave a review of what you guys thought of the first chapter, and if you haven't read my first story then check out the first story 'The Amity Girl Named Maria' so that way you wouldn't be confused about the characters and what happened during the first story! Until next time, be brave!