I am quit new at this fan fiction stuff, so hopefully this won't suck much for you guys. I really would like it if you reviewed this story and gave me feed back. You can say it sucked or you can say it was good. But review please!=) Oh and I DO NOT OWN THE DIVERGENT SERIES

Chapter One

Brave. A simple five letter word. And yet, it has so much meaning to it. The dictionary definition is willing to make a personal sacrifice. But my faction has a different meaning to it. We see it as a way to live. If you aren't brave, then you are weak. Not all of us see it that way, but the majority do. The other factions see us as outsiders. I know I shouldn't care what they think of me, but it bothers me to see people look at me with a scared look in their eyes. I'm born Dauntless, so I should be used to the staring, but I'm not.

I'm about to take the aptitude test which will decide which faction I belong in. We don't have to listen to the test, its just to help us decide better. Most of the the time you choose the faction you are born into, but sometimes there is a faction transfer, and the former faction is in shame and never can talk to that transfer, only their family on visiting day. Anyway, sorry to bug you about boring stuff you probably don't care about, but this will help you understand my story a little better.

Enough of the boring stuff, now my day at school. I go to school on a train everyday. All of us Dauntless do. But we jump off the train, while its moving. This is another thing that makes us different and 'weird'. All of my classes are cut short, so we will have time for the aptitude test. I have no sibling to wish them luck, and honestly I have no friends for them to wish me luck. I mean I do have a few people I talk to that are in my faction and jump off moving trains together(just normal dangerous stiff us Dauntless do), but they don't speak to me in school. Come to think of it they never do really talk to me. But I don't let it bug me much. So I walk to all my classes alone and run in to an Abnegation girl. I'm twice her size so she falls down hard onto the ground, but her being Abnegation, she gasps and says," Oh my! Are you all right? I hope I didn't harm you?" I shake my head no and help her up. "Thank you so much for helping me up!" She runs off ands looks back with a frightened look. Most people do look at me like that. I have multiple piercings in my face and have a tattoo of a fire spreading from my lower back up to my chin. And off course I wear black clothing. But what seperates me a bit form the other Dauntless, is that I'm not loud or obnoxious. Not saying they are all like that but the ones I see are. My parents worry about me because I am so quiet. Its not that I don't love being loud and crazy, but I think we can show bravery without so much of the craziness.

I finish all my classes and go to the lunch room. I eat alone and people stare at me when they walk by. I'm used to this but today it really bothers me. My cheeks get red when a pretty Amity girl stares at me. She sits across from me, which surprises me.

She frowns at me and ask,"Why aren't you sitting with your faction?"

My face gets even redder when some of the other Dauntless look over and start to whisper. "I'm not very good friends with the others," I respond. She frowns again. "But they are your faction. You are the same so you should get along with each other."

I sigh and say,"I just don't fit in with them I guess. Why aren't you with your faction?" She looks over to her table full of Amity girls. "You looked lonely over here so I decided to talk to you. And anyway you don't look that scary like the rest of you. She glanced to my piercings and tattoo. "My name is Amy. What's your name?"

"Brady." She smiles. "I like that name. What's that tattoo of?" I glance down at my fire tattoo and say,"Its a fire starting at my lower back and it goes up to my chin." She smiles again. Then a serious look replaces it. "Can I tell you something without you telling anyone?"

I shake my head yes."I think I'm going to choose Dauntless for my faction tomorrow." I take that news in. I frown a little. "But your Amity and that's like the opposite of Dauntless." She sighs. "I know but I feel like Dauntless is calling me and after talking to you I feel like I should." I think about this for a moment. "Aren't you worried about your family and faction shunning you?" She shakes her head. "Not at all. I'm getting tired of being so nice to people when those who don't deserve it. I want to be free and be care free and be brave enough to stand up to people and speak my mind."

Now its my turn to smile."I can honestly see you as Dauntless." She raises an eyebrow but smiles. "I should get back to my 'friends'." She adds air quotes at the word friends. I smile as she walks away. I really hope she chooses Dauntless tomorrow. I'd like to get to know her.

Lunch ends and we all gather in the lunch room. We are called by factions. And are led into a hallway full of rooms just for the aptitude testing. So we have never seen them. We aren't allowed to share our results with anyone either.

It takes awhile for them to call my name. I walk down the hallway and go into one of the rooms. There is a chair in a room full of mirrors. The test giver isn't allowed to be from the same faction so mine is Abnegation. It's not that I hate all Abnegation, its just I see them as pathetic little creatures. That seems harsh, but if you grew up with the people I did, you'd think the same. She smiles at me. "Would you please sit in the chair and get comfy." I roll my eyes at her niceness. I sit in the chair and lean back to get 'comfy'. She hands me a vial of white liquid and tells me to drink it. Since me being Dauntless and all, I drink it without even a raised eyebrow. She hooks wires onto her and to me. I go under the stimulation and I appear in the cafeteria. In front me are two things, a knife and a block of cheese. I hear a voice telling me to choose. I immediately pick up the knife. Then I hear a growl behind me. I slowly turn around and come face to face to a dog. A big dog. It runs towards me and I prepare myself to stab it in its neck. It leaps at me and I move a bit to the side and bring the knife down on it. It falls to the ground and I shove the knife deeper in it. I hear a whine escape from its mouth.

I then get put on a bus with no one on it. Except there is a man sitting a few seats away from me reading a newspaper. He shows me the front of the newspaper. "Do you know this man." I look at the picture. I frown. I know I have seen this man before. But I simply lie to the man. "No I haven't."

"You're lying!"

I just stare back at him and say,"I am not. I have never see that man in my life."

I am sent into another room with a little girl in it. She turns to me. She is crying. "Will you help me search for my lost teddy?" I frown and say no. She cries now. Then its done.

I wake back up to me sitting in the chair. The Abnegation woman smiles at me and says,"Your result is, Dauntless." I smile and get up. She opens the door for me. "Farewell Brady." I wave and go back to the cafeteria. I search for Amy. I really hope she got Dauntless. But I guess I will find out tomorrow at the choosing ceremony.

I am scared for her though. She does seem to be tough and strong, but I heard the Dauntless initiation is hard. I also heard that the Dauntless initiation is the hardest to beat. While I jump on the train to go home, I day dream of Amy and me falling in love and starting a family together. But I quickly snap myself out of it. Even if she was Dauntless, she wouldn't find me as a love interest. I sigh and stare at the buildings past by in a blur while I wait to go home.