A/N- Hiiiii
I'm really bored right now so here is the prologue to my next fanfiction.
i don't have many other chapters written, so the actual story won't start for a while since I have track, but it's Easter break and I hopefully will get a bit of writing done over the next week until I have to go back to school.
I hope you enjoy this and I hope I'll have more up soon, but I don't want to start posting the chapters until I have enough written that I know I will be able to update every day.
Thats it. Thanks for reading. Bye.
Disclaimer- I don't own Divergent.
-Prologue-
I smile as my blood sizzles over the Dauntless coals at the choosing ceremony.
"Goodbye." I whisper to myself, ready to start my new life as someone who I truly am, and not have to fake everything to make my faction happy.
I am not Abnegation.
I am selfish. I am brave.
I know I will miss my family, but I don't belong in Abnegation. I need to be free. I need to be daring. I need to be Dauntless.
I don't care if my Aptitude test says I am fit for Dauntless, Abnegation, and Erudite.
There is no way in hell that I would ever go to Erudite. That left just Abnegation and Dauntless and I need a new start.
I am also the first Abnegation to ever transfer to Dauntless. No one would ever expect one me to transfer anyway.
As I walk off to where the Dauntless are cheering for me, I notice the disappointed look upon my fathers face.
Next to my father, my mother has her usual warm smile, watching me join my new family happily. I'm glad at least she is accepting of me.
My brother who is two years younger than me, Caleb, is watching me with a shocked look on his face.
Turning away from my family, I join the Dauntless.
When the choosing ceremony finishes, the Dauntless and I head to the train.
We climb up onto the rails where the train always passes by at the same time each day. Only a few minutes pass before the train comes speeding by. I hear the roar of the train and I notice the Dauntless start running. I run along with them as the train comes nearer and nearer.
I grab onto the handle of one of the doors and pull myself onto the moving train. It is a lot harder than it looks, but somehow I managed. I let out a sigh in relief and lean back against the train wall, before sliding down into a sitting position.
I find myself sitting in the train car next to a girl from Candor.
"Hi." She says. "I'm Christina."
I smile, glad to be finding my first friend. "I'm Beatrice."
"Is it just me," Christina begins, "or are they trying to kill us?"
I laugh a little. "I think they might be."
She smiles as well. "Do you know where we're going?" Christina has to shout over the wind, which blows harder through the open doors by each passing second as the train picks up speed.
"Dauntless headquarters?" I guess. "I don't know where that is though."
"Does anyone?" She shakes her head. "It's like they just popped out of a hole in the ground or something."
We stay in silence for the rest of the train ride. I watch the Abnegation sector slowly fade away as the train speeds off to our new destination.
My thoughts keep tracing back to my old life. What is going on at home now? My mother looked happy. What about my father? Is he mad at me? Does he now hate me because I chose to leave? Did they know all along that I wasn't planning on staying? I don't see how they could've known, though, for I wasn't even fully sure myself.
And then there's Caleb. What is he going to think now that his only sister left? Is he going to follow in my footsteps at his choosing ceremony two years from now?
I sigh, my thoughts defeating me, and I begin to pay attention to what is going on around me on the train, once again. The Dauntless initiates that are choosing to return to their faction are standing up and looking out the train door opposite me.
Christina is watching them as well. I glance over a her and she shrugs and stands up. I follow her as she walks to see what the Dauntless are looking at in the distance.
The train is nearing a building with a large, flat roof. It must be at least ten stories high. The Dauntless at the front of the train are cheering and practically hanging out of the door. When the roof is near enough, they jump.
"They're jumping!" I exclaim.
"Do we have to?" She asks.
"Yes." A Dauntless born with a snake tattooed around his ear says. "If you don't, you're stuck with the Factionless."
"I'd rather be Factionless than dead." An Amity boy says, stepping away from the train door.
Knowing I won't be able to stop him from staying on the train, I take Christina's hand in my own. "Together?" I ask. She nods and we jump out of the train just a few seconds after the Dauntless born does.
The pebbles we land on sting my body where the contact was hit hardest. My grey Abnegation dress is now ripped and covered in holes from the rough landing. Looking up, I notice that we weren't the only ones with a hard land. Other initiates, even Dauntless borns, are limping as they stand and go over to where one of the leaders of the faction stand.
Christina and I go over to the rest of the group and the leader begins to talk.
"Welcome, initiates." He greets us. "My name is Max. Right below us, the Dauntless compound lives." We all look over the edge of the building, to a large hole a few stories below us that leads into another building. "You have to jump to enter."
All of us become so silent, you could hear a soft sound of excited voices from below.
"Is there a water or something down there?" An Erudite boy asks.
"I guess you'll just have to find out." Max stares at the Erudite intimidatingly. "Well? Who's first?"
I notice everyone looking away or down at their feet, kicking around the pebbles, nervously.
"I will." A voice says. It takes me a second before I recognize the voice as my own.
I step forward, trying not to show my fear. I take off my grey jacket and drop it on the roof. Climbing up onto the edge, I look down to the hole, several stories below me. I take a deep breath, and I jump.
I'm only falling for a few seconds before my back hits something hard. A net. I sigh in relief, letting go the fear I had of instant death I felt I might have as I let myself fall. I look up at the hole where the sunlight is coming strong, seeing the tiny figures of the other initiates.
Th net is pulled and I begin to roll off. I grab the hand that is helping me down. A young man is there.
He smiles at me. "What's your name?"
I hesitate. I don't want to be known as 'Beatrice' anymore. This is a new faction. A new life. "Tris." I decide on.
"First jumper! Tris!" The man yells. The large crowd of Dauntless cheer loudly.
"My name is Amar." He says. "Welcome to Dauntless."
Little did I know that those words would be the start of the greatest thing that's happened to me.
I will gain several new friends that are better than anyone could ever ask for, a great job of being a faction ambassador and torturing the new initiates, the freedom I've always wanted, and what ended up changing my life most of all- someone to love.
A/N- I hope this didn't suck.
I think that the other chapters will be longer than this but I'm not completely sure yet.
Okay that's all. Bye.
-dauntlessquiddich
