Tobias's POV

My name is Tobias Jonathan Eaton and I live in a country called Divergence. It's split up into 6 parts, or factions as we call it. There's Candor, Amity, Erudite, Dauntless, and Abnegation. There's this little village called Factionless right in between Abnegation and Dauntless, that's where I live with my mother. We used to live in Abnegation with my father, Marcus. But he abused us and got executed after my mom had almost died one time from it and I got help. Queen Natalie and King Andrew are the rulers of Divergence. There's a tradition where a prince or princess is old enough to be married and must choose a person to wed. There will be 5 people called from each faction and 1 person from Factionless called to live in the castle for a month or so. They will fight for the heart of the royal of their choosing. The Queen and King put people's names in a bowl and whoever they pick will participate in this event. You must be 16 years old to 20 years old to be able to enter. My mother has been entering me for years and now I am 18, this is my last chance to make my mother proud. It is turned into a "TV show" and televised. The Erudite invented the "television" 100 years ago for such events.

"Tobias, they're announcing who they picked now." my mother says. We head to the village TV and see who gets called.

"Hello everyone. Tonight is the night to reveal who the princes and princesses are. We will also be saying the names of the people who get picked." the King says.

"Now for our children. We have Prince Peter, future king of Candor." Queen Natalie announces. An average height guy comes out. He has dark green eyes and jet black hair. "Next we have Prince Robert from Amity." A boy about an inch taller than Prince Peter comes out. He has curly blonde hair and sky blue eyes. "Here we have Prince Caleb of Erudite." A boy a couple inches taller than Robert comes out. He has light blue eyes and neat blonde hair which is parted to the left side. "Princess Susan of Abnegation." She has blonde hair in a bun and has sky blue eyes like Robert's. She is a little shorter than Peter. "And last but not least, Beatrice from Dauntless." A beautiful girl steps out. She is petite but has a strong build. She has wavy dirty blonde hair that reaches the small of her back. Her eyes are the lightest. They are blue but almost grey, they show determination but kindness. I instantly have this urge to meet her.

"Now, the people from Candor are...Christina Kravitz. Rosalina Kravitz. Molly Anderson. Albert Anderson. And Drew Anderson. What are the chances? Two groups of siblings." King Andrew says. "From Abnegation there's Katie Jennings. Katrina Karamakov. Flora Green. Mark Cooper. And Olivia Wright." King Andrew moves onto the Erudite bowl. "From Erudite we have...Cara Adams. William Adams. Penelope Nelson. Fernando Lopez. And Callie Rivera." Next is Abnegation. "From Amity we have...Spencer Shay. Gibby? This just says Gibby. Okay then. Carly Shay. Samantha Puckett. And Fredward Benson." (A/N:ICARLY!) Second to last is Dauntless. "From Dauntless we have...Uriah Pedrad. Ezekiel Pedrad. Marilynn Williams. Shauna Williams. And Marlene Thompson." Last is Factionless, fingers crossed. "Now we have...Tobias Eaton from Factionless."

Everyone in the village looks at me and erupts in applause. My mother hugs me and I smile. I'm gonna get to meet Princess Beatrice. I run home and mother helps me pack. I fall asleep thinking about what tomorrow has in store for me.

TIME SKIP

After I've arrived at the palace I go in and stand there in awe. This place is huge and beautiful. The others arrive and I see that the friend groups have already formed. Amity just hangs out with each other though while everyone else is mixed. I go over to a group with all the Dauntless, 2 Candors, and 2 Erudites. They seem the nicest. They introduce them selves as Uri, Zeke, Lynn, Shauna, Mar, Chrissy, Rose, Will, and Fernando. The Queen and King come in and we settle down.

"Welcome to the castle. You will choose which prince or princess you would like to pursue. If no one interests you we will not send you back. You will be able to choose some one of the same gender and become friends. If you do not become friends you will be sent to another person of the same gender. We have 5 bowls in front of us. You will take a knife and cut yourself. You will drop your blood into the bowl the prince or princess you will be pursuing is standing behind." King Andrew explains. In the end it's like this.

Prince Peter's Pursuers

-Molly

-Penny

Prince Peter's Friends

-Drew

Prince Robert's Pursuers

-Katrina

-Flo

-Livi

Prince Robert's Friends

-Freddie

-Spencer

Prince Caleb's Pursuers

-Cara

-Callie

Prince Caleb's Friends

-Fernando

Princess Susan's Pursuers

-Gibby

-Mark

Princess Susan's Friends

-Katie

Princess Beatrice's Pursuers

-Uri

-Zeke

-Will

-Toby(me)

Princess Beatrice's Friends

-Chrissy

-Lynn

-Mar

-Shauna

-Rose

-Carly

-Sam

Wow, Beatrice has a lot of friends. The queen and king explain how this is gonna work. We can't ask them out they have to ask us. We get settled in our rooms and we're free to do whatever we want.

"Hello." I say as I walk into the garden. They all say some form of greeting and we sit down on the grass. We talk for a while and then we hear a beautiful voice. It sounds like a girl's. We decide to follow the sound of the singing. We see Princess Beatrice sitting by the river putting flowers in the water. She's the one with the angelic voice.

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom, for me and you

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

We start to clap and she stops abruptly. When she turns around we see a knife in her hand and immediately stiffen. She sees us and puts the knife back in her boot. She's wearing a black sundress and brown leather boots.

"Sorry, you scared me." she apologizes.

"We are very sorry about that Princess Beatrice we-" Rose gets cut off by Princess Beatrice.

"Call me Tris. Don't be so formal. I'm not like my stiff sister, happy-go-lucky hippie brother, smart ass brother, or smart mouth brother." she says. "What are you guys doing here anyways? I thought only I knew about this place."

"We heard singing and followed the voice." Uri says.

"You have a very beautiful voice." I compliment her. She blushes and looks down. She says, "I'm not that good. It's more of an Amity song anyways. Damn hippies. Wait, none of you are Amity, are you?"

"Nope. Uri, Mar, Shauna, Lynn, and I are Dauntless." Zeke says.

"My sister and I are Candor." Christina says.

"I'm Erudite. There are 2 Amities that are your friends but they're playing banjos by the pond to the ducks." Will informs her. She laughs.

"I swear. Amities are like Santa Clause on steroids combined with the Lucky Charms leprechaun." she says. We all laugh. I think I really like this girl.