I stood in front of the door, for some reason I was nervous. Normally I would come each day to get my lazy friend for school, but today was a special day. Today we would take our aptitude test, and it would be the day we would leave each other. From behind me I heard Ganon groan and he reached over my head and rapped on the door. I shot an aggravated look at him and he laughed.
"Hurry it up Zelda," Ganon could be a jerk sometimes, but for the most part his heart always seemed in the right place. Ganon was incredibly large -he was 16- but he was already larger than many of the other adults, and working in the fields has made him stronger. Despite the Amity usually wearing earthy reds and yellows, Ganon had somehow gotten his hands on darker colors, and it really made him look intimidating.
My attention snapped back to the wooden door in front of me. Marks around the frame noted my, Link's, and Ganon's height. It seemed a couple of years ago Ganon left us in the dust, with Link only being slightly taller than I. The door in front of me opened and, Link's sister, Saria, a green haired girl a couple years older than us, opened it. "Is Link ready to go?" My voice was shaky with nerves.
Saria looked us over as if it was the last time she would see us. "Nah he is still asleep, I'll run up and go get him." She had a bounce in her step as she darted up the stairs. Saria was always full of energy and incredibly active. We stood in the cozy kitchen waiting for them. The house wasn't large, but it never felt small no matter how many were here. Link and Saria's parents used to invite us for dinner but never really said much to us. The room was always bright, and smells of delicious food would waft in the air, and I suddenly realized how hungry I was.
There was a scream of terror from upstairs followed by a thud like a body hitting the floor and then there was laughing. Saria must have scared Link, because he came stomping down the stairs in a huff. He tried fixing his hair, but it just stuck up in weird places. He shrugged and grabbed a green beanie. "Oh c'mon Link don't be upset! It wasn't actually a chicken I threw at you!" Saria begged forgiveness in between her gasps of breath as she recovered from laughing.
"Link, quit fooling around, we have to get going or we will have to walk," Ganon was impatient. He seemed like if he didn't leave immediately then they would miss some big moment. Link rolled his eyes, grabbed a biscuit, and hugged his parents before leaving.
Ganon was right; we did in fact miss the truck to the city, so we walked. We walked and walked, Link who couldn't talk, could whistle, and he loved doing it. He always whistled these oddly mysterious tunes. He even made me a lullaby once. It took about two hours for us to get to the city. We were lucky when we got to the gate; some of the Dauntless soldiers were willing to give us a ride into the city. Anything to escape the monotony of guard duty I suppose.
We ended up getting there just as classes ended and we got caught up in the hustle to the cafeteria. We sat there for hours. It was a slow process as we waited to get our tests taken care of.
My test led me to Abnegation but Link's was more interesting. It started just like mine, however, in a mirrored room with a chair. I remember the fear I had of that chair, like it was responsible for my life and I could blame it for everything, but it was just a chair. However, to Link it was his chance to move forward. He sat in the chair for a little while, before his proctor came in. She was a tall blue haired beauty of an Erudite. Her name was Ruto.
"Alright sweety, just sit back on the chair and relax," Her voice was very low and gentle, she remembered this day herself and was trying to relax him. She began to attach various wires and sensors to the skin around his chest and head. She moved away from him and came back with a small vial. "Please drink this and count backwards from 100." He followed her instructions and soon he was in some state between asleep and awake.
He was suddenly placed inside a room, much like the one he was recently in. The room seemed to be endless but also incredibly tight. It made him feel uncomfortable. In front of him was a large table and on the table were two plates. One held a lump of cheese and the other a knife. Between the two knives was a small note that said, "Please take an item." He raised an eyebrow at the note and it changed. "You will need one of them." He shrugged and picked up the knife.
As the knife rested in his hand, the table disappeared. Behind him he heard a small girl giggling. He turned towards her and instead of looking at her; he locked eyes with the snarling beast behind her. It resembled a dog, but it was no dog he had ever seen. It was monstrous, large and black. It seemed if shadows danced around the beast, and in its cold red glassy eyes, Link could see the reflection of the small girl.
Without wasting another second, he lunged between the two as the dog jumped. He landed with the beasts teeth around his arm. He shoved and shoved and when the beast wouldn't budge he sheathed the knife into its side. The dog whined and simply disappeared, and so did the room.
Suddenly he was planted on a bus. He looked around, confused and trying to figure out what was happening. He grabbed a paper from someone and looked through it. He let out a guttural growl and threw the paper on the ground and just sat down.
After riding for a moment, the bus stopped and an elderly old man came on the bus. Without a second thought Link offered him a seat. He held onto a pole looking over his arm where the dog had bitten him. There was no blood and no marks. "Hey boy!" The old man shouted at him. "Hey! Hey boy! You seen this girl around? Rumor has it she killed a guy!" He examined the picture and it was Zelda, he didn't think she would do something like that but shrugged and nodded that he had seen her.
With that the simulation ended. He woke up back in the same room. Ruto, however, was shocked. She rushed to his side and checked him over. "Are you ok? Does anything hurt? What happened in there?" It was too much at once and Link, out of some old habit, opened his mouth to speak but only a croak came out. He grimaced for letting it slip. He finally just shrugged, he was fine; he was how he always was.
"You need to be careful, ok? You can't let anyone know about…this." The secrecy she exhibited by dancing around the word interested him. "Look, Link you are what we call a Divergent. Essentially it means you don't easily fit into anyone faction. Divergence isn't uncommon, a lot of people may fall in one or two, but you... you can easily fit into four," Her voice was rushed and in a whisper as if they could be heard.
"Look, Link, don't tell anyone at all," she bit her tongue at her words but pushed forward. "Your results are going to be put in manually. I can't, in good faith, mark your test as divergent, which would bring you and your family a lot of pain. However this is kind of a blessing. While it is dangerous being divergent, you will succeed really well in just about any faction.
"In the first room you showed an absence of fear by facing the dog, but you also showed selflessness by protecting the girl at cost of yourself. On the bus, you showed curiosity and honesty, as well as selflessness. So with all that information, I am forced to say, you could be in any faction except maybe Amity, but that's where you are from, so who really knows. Whatever you do, lead a happy life. You can leave if you want, but you really don't seem like you care about this revelation." It was true; Link was still studying his arm and looking around the mirrored room. She sighed and shooed him off at last.
