I do not own Divergent in any way! All credits go to Veronica Roth!

Chapter 1 (Skye's POV)

It is the day of the Choosing Ceremony, only I will not be choosing today. My sister Lynn will be choosing. Will she stay? Will she leave? I ask myself these questions as I walk through the door with my family; Shauna, Lynn, and Hector. We are all split apart by one year. Shauna is 18, I am 17, Lynn is 16, and Hector is 15. Our parents never really were cut out to be Dauntless, and when I was 13 they were asked to leave Dauntless. Nobody in my family really talks to them anymore. I find it kind of depressing.

This year I will be training the Dauntless born initiates with my friend Zeke. My best friend, Kassie, will be helping Four train the transfers. I am so glad that I do not have to train these hellions by myself. If every single one of the Dauntless born 16 year olds stay, Zeke and I will have 10 people to train.

They are calling names for everybody who is choosing today to come up and choose their faction. Of course, all of the Dauntless born decided to stay, but what shocks me is that an Abnegation girl transferred to Dauntless.

"I hope she can handle it" I whisper to myself.

She looks way too weak to be able to swing herself on to the train, let alone fight somebody.

The Choosing Ceremony is almost over now, and we have a pretty good number of transfers. We have 4 Candor, 3 Erudite, and 1 Abnegation. All together we will have 18 initiates this year. Lynn and I are the first Dauntless to stand up as the Choosing Ceremony comes to a closing. All of the Dauntless are running for the train tracks. The transfers all look confused. I guess they forgot the part about jumping on and off of the train. If any of them fail to do this task, they will have to live factionless. Last year in my initiate class, an Erudite boy failed to make it onto the train. Even though I was Dauntless born, I still felt bad for him.

All of the Dauntless born jump on the train with ease, and so does an Erudite girl and to my surprise the stiff. Everybody made it onto the train, and I let out a breath that I did not know I was holding in. I smile as I remember what we have to do next. Even though I am not an initiate this year, I still love what we have to do. The Dauntless born begin to jump off the train onto a building.

I hear an Erudite boy shout "They are jumping!"

He sounded a bit confused about the whole jumping thing. I jump off just after he says it and I land on my feet. I turn around and see one of Uriah's friends looking over the edge at a body. She starts to scream and cry as I look over the edge to see who it is. It is Rita's sister, a 16 year old Dauntless born initiate. Uriah pulls Rita away, and as soon as everyone is calmed down, Eric starts his famous "Initiate Speech."

Eric yells as loud as he can, "Listen up! My name is Eric! I am one of the Dauntless leaders! Now after jumping on the train and onto this building, you will be asked to do something else to get into the Dauntless compound!" Eric pauses for a moment. "Down there is a hole in the ground! You have to jump off of the side of this building and fall into the hole! There may be a net, there may not be! It is all about bravery here in Dauntless! If you refuse to complete this task, then we do not want you here! You will be asked to leave immediately and live factionless! Got it!" Eric finished his speech by saying, "So, who's first?"

All of the Dauntless born look scared out of their minds, and so do the transfers. Zeke and I look at each other, knowing that we can not go first since we are trainers. Little do the initiates know, there is a net at the bottom where Four and Kassie are waiting for them. Then the unexpected happens, the stiff raises her hand.

The Abnegation transfer walks over to the ledge of the building, and steps up on it just as Eric jumps off to let her through. With a little bit of hesitation, she jumps not even letting out a scream. Now that she has done it, all of the others want to do it so badly. Zeke and I have to go last since we are not initiates, but trainers.

Everyone has jumped now, it took up most of the day. When we get down there, Four and Kassie introduce themselves along with Zeke and I. Zeke explains that him and I are training the Dauntless born and Four and Kassie will be training the initiates.

"Well, without further time consumption, the transfers will be going on a tour. We assume that the Dauntless born do not need a tour, so if you could follow Zeke and Skye to the training room." says Kassie.

Uriah runs up to Zeke shouting "Bro! You should so give me a piggy-back ride!"

Zeke allows Uriah to jump on his back as they run around. All I can do is smile at Uriah. It is pretty obvious to everybody, but Uriah, that I have liked him ever since we were little kids playing Candor or Dauntless together. Zeke knows this and tries to give Uriah little pointers about it, but being the dork that Uriah is, he never picks up on them.

We lead the Dauntless born into the training room and Zeke allows me to explain the rest.

"Okay, listen up! There are 3 types of training you will endure through the course of initiation; Physical, Mental, and Emotional." I pause to catch my breath. "With the remainder of our time today, we will be teaching you how to fight, and the techniques you use while fighting. Zeke and I will demonstrate, and you copy us after we are done."

Zeke and I demonstrate all of the moves, and right away the Dauntless born can do them perfectly. Just like I had anticipated they could. Some are better than others, but overall, they all can kick and punch really good.

Training is over as Zeke, Uriah and I walk out of the training room and head for the cafeteria. Zeke and I share a stare moment as Uriah runs to catch up with us, for he is a couple feet behind.

"Don't" I mouth the word to Zeke, but he does it anyway.

Zeke puts his hand up in the air just as Uriah runs through the middle of us. Uriah's face smacks against Zeke's hand and I can't help but laugh. Uriah recovers from his daze, and smacks Zeke's arm and then smacks mine.

"Hey! What was that for? I didn't do anything!" I say.

"Uhh yeah you did! You laughed!" says Uriah as he pokes my cheek.

We walk all together until we reach the cafeteria, and we sit down at our normal table with everybody. Kassie is sitting next to Four so, I sit on her other side. Uriah surprises me by sitting by me. Everybody stares at him and then me, but nobody says anything. Zeke sits by Shauna since they are "dating," and Lynn sits next to Marlene who is one of her friends. Hector sits on Lynn's other side. We are all like one big, happy, unusual family that some are dating and others are crushing on.

I see Kassie and Four laughing and smiling a lot at each other.

I nudge her side and whisper in her ear "What's going on with you and Four?" She responds by mouthing the word "Nothing."

Something is definitely going on with those two even though they won't tell me anything. After their little episode last year, I wouldn't be shocked if they were dating.

Uriah comes back from the line shouting "I have Dauntless cake!"

He always finds ways to make me laugh.

Halfway through lunch, Uriah turns to me and taps me on the shoulder. I turn to face him, and he touches my nose with Dauntless cake on his finger. I take part of his cake and smear it across his cheek. Before we know it, almost our whole faces are covered in Dauntless cake. Everybody is laughing, but Kassie is giving me a weird look.

I mouth the word "Nothing" to her, but something tells me she doesn't believe me the way that I don't believe her.