silly me! i forgot the disclaimer thingy! well so i dont get sued i just wanted to say that although i do own all the characters i DO NOT own anything that you recognise, they belong to the author of Divergent whose name i cant remember right now and dont feel like looking up. also a heads up, i did not read Insurgent soooo yeah. if anything isnt right then please forgive me! just be a brave and keep reading! :D


I wasn't welcomed in Dauntless. They others only eyed me and my dress with distaste. The majority were definitely made for dauntless as they didn't even try to conceal their 'wispers.'

"Look at the stupid dress, she looks like a fucking princess!"

"I bet you 20 points that she won't even make it on the train!"

"I bet you 30 points she won't even make it down the stairs!" they scoffed, but I didn't care I didn't even look at them. I just focused on Liz and matt, the loving looks they kept sharing, I hope one day I could have that.

Only one dauntless initiate didn't sneer at me, he only watched me curiously as he sat with his friends. They all continued to talk about me, about my dress, my family, what I must be like, why I transferred, and most often how far id get into the initiation before I quit. But the boy never commented, just listened and sent me more curious glances from his seat a couple rows ahead of me.

After the ceremony we had to go to our new faction. Amity always used the elevator, but not the dauntless. We ran down the stairs full speed cheering and whooping the entire time. I had trouble at first because of my dress and the 4 inch heels I was put in but I kicked those off and tore my dress so that it was only knee length. Thanks to the time it took to do this I was always a few feet behind the dauntless stampede. When it came to jump onto the train I almost didn't even make it, jumping a little too late but I managed to get a good grip on the frame and pulled myself in. the other initiates didn't miss this chance to taunt me.

"awww did the pretty princess rip her pretty little dress?" sneered a Euridite girl, its seemed she already found herself some cronies because the few people around her laughed along, but I just ignored her and went to sit against the side.

"Awwww the pretty princess hurt herself getting on the train? I think I see some bruises" mocked a red haired Candor boy as he eyed the part of my legs that my ripped dress didn't cover. I stiffened but still ignored them and soon they got bored with annoying me and instead just started talking to each other about whatever the hell they felt like talking about.

"Everyone better get ready, we have to jump off the train soon." Announced the guy who led us here in the first place, Bobby I think his name was. He was pretty scary looking even for dauntless with all of his tattoos and piercings he was more metal and ink then actual human. Even his actual skin was too pale for a normal person, add in his bright red contacts and he wasn't even human. The only thing I liked about him was that he didn't only give me a dirty look but every person there.

Bobby was the first to jump off and I wasn't far behind, I wanted to get away from those ass holes, especially the Euridite chick who was the last to get off. Bobby lead us to a square hole in the roof of the building we were now standing on, it seemed so deep that I couldn't see the bottom. Other initiates gathered around the hole too but I noticed the Eurodite hanging back away from the hole, must be scared, I snickered quietly and Bobby seems to have heard as he was almost immediately in my face.

"what's so funny princess" he snarled "to pass this part of initiation you have to jump into the hole, since you think it's so funny why don't you go first."

I glared at him, hoping I wasn't blushing from the way I had to tilt my head almost completely back to look at the much taller boy. The other initiates watched me with excitement waiting for me to back down, but I am dauntless now and I'm not going to back down over something so simple. So without a word I walked over to the hole and jumped. I was able to hear some people gasp before I was gone and the wind was rushing through my hair.

I closed my eyes waiting to be pancaked into the floor, damn my stupid new found dauntless pride, but if I didn't have that I would end up factionless and that is something I never want to experience. Finally, I felt something solid beneath me but it wasn't cement, it gave way and bounced around. A net! They had a net set up, I knew they wouldn't kill us!

Soon after the impact hands reached out and grabbed me, I couldn't help my blush as I realized my dress had bunched up some. A girl with short black and blue hair was the one who pulled me off and she cheered as she clapped me on the beck, I couldn't help laughing.

"So you're our first jumper! Who would've thought amity would have it in them!" she laughed as she toyed with her scissor shaped earrings, "what's your name?" she smiled down at me, got this almost everywhere I went as I was only 5"3 so a lot of people towered over me just like with Bobby.

"Carnelian" I blushed again as she quirked an eyebrow.

"kind off a long name huh… hey!" she grabbed my hands in excitement, "how about we call you Carrie?" she smiled and jumped up and down, obviously accomplished with her nick name.

"Carrie? Hmmm…." I pretended to think it over, a slight frown on my face but couldn't help laughing when her entire mood dropped, her eyes going wide. "I love it!" I yelled as she cheered again, happy to have found someone nice and a little hyper from the jump.

"Wooohoooo! Okay FIRST JUMPER IS CARRIE!" she yelled out for everyone to hear and I had to cover my ears from the deafening cheer. "Oh I'm Avry by the way" She smiled again as she draped an arm over my shoulder, "and if you ever need a tattoo or piercing done just come to me, I'll even give you a discount" she winked and I rolled my eyes. I think I might actually like it here after all.

After everyone had jumped, the Eurodite girl last of course, we were led through what Bobby called 'the Pit' and it's just that. It is a large underground cavern with uneven rock walls that rise several stories high. Built into the stone walls I could see all different kinds of shops where black dressed, tattooed, bright haired people shopped, none of them seemed to be very old but I guess living the way the dauntless do if you even live to be that age you would probably avoid the crowded and rowdy Pit.

We walked the narrow paths and steps carved from the rock and above us I could see the roof is made of glass panes that let in the fading light from outside. Blue lanterns dangled above the narrow stone paths that have no railings, because we are dauntless and all so falling over the edge just isn't a real concern. Bobby led us to the first railing I've seen since I entered dauntless territory, and it was there for good reason. Over the railing was a steep drop off into a black river several stories below.

"This is the Chasm, and it represents the fine line between bravery and idiocy. A daredevil jump into the chasm isn't brave, it is stupid. It isn't survivable, so don't even think off trying and try to remember this next time you decide to do something dangerous. Just think to yourself, is this survivable. If the answer is no then 9 times out of 10 doing it anyway isn't a sign of bravery but idiocy."Bobby, of course said all of this while standing on the wet chasm railing, real smart Bobby.

We were soon led to the dining hall that was beyond packed. Tables lined the wall with plates of food in the middle, not that I could really see the food as almost every table had so many people joking and yelling that it was a literal sea of people. When I sat down I was on the extreme edge of the bench next to the curious dauntless boy from earlier. Soon Avry found her way to the table and pushed me so far over I was halfway on the boys lap. I blushed and avoided his dark green eyes but all he did was laugh understandingly.

"Heeeey Carrie! How you liking dauntless so far?" she cooed as she reached for a hamburger, "oooh and Eli too! Hi!" she called across me to the boy I was shoved against, Eli.

"Hey Avery, having fun harassing the new initiates?" he smirked as he bit into his own burger.

"Aww I'm not harassing anyone!" Avry pouted "you don't feel harassed do you Carrie?" she gave me her huge blue puppy dogs eyes and I couldn't not tease her.

"Well…" I looked away and pretended to think about it when she punched me in the arm, "hey!" I laughed "that's harassment!" I exclaimed and Avry pouted some more as Eli at laughed at her.

"See Avry! You do harass people" he looked down at me, "so your names Carrie? I'm Eli as Avry so kindly shouted in your ear." He gave me a sarcastic smile and I couldn't help but laugh.

"yup I'm the ooh so preppy Amity transfer" I scoffed, looking down at my food I couldn't help but notice a tattoo poking out of his long sleeve grey shirt.

"What's that?" I pointed to his wrist.

"A tattoo."

"I know that! I mean what is it a tattoo of!" I rolled my eyes and he rolled up his sleeve, Avry and I crowded to look at the interwoven words and pictures. "What's it say?"

"Bravery is being the only one who knows you are afraid" he blushed sheepishly, "its something my mom used to tell me…"

I kept staring at the black and grey tattoo, the way it wrapped its way up the whole length of his arm, at least until disappearing in his sleeve. The words were beautifully scripted and entwined with fire, the dauntless symbol, and birds that remind me of the phoenixes that I had read about in my fantasy books. I loved phoenixes, they gave me hope that I might be reborn from the ashes of my Amity life. I was still staring at it when Avry started shaking me.

"Oh oh oh Carrie! Do you want a tattoo too? You know, I work in the tattoo shop!" she pleaded and Eli scoffed as he rolled his other sleeve up like the first.

"Avry you've only been doing tattoos for how long?" he shook his head.

"I've been apprenticing since last year!" she defended.

"Yeah but how long did you spend actually tattooing?" he quirked a dark eyebrow as Avry stuck out her pierced tongue.

"Well I've been tattooing for almost 5 months and Jimmy says I'm a prodigy! And I've been piercing for 8 months" she gave me another significant look and I sighed.

"I'll come by your shop when I have time so you can show how good you are…"

"Oooh yey! You won't regret it Carrie! So are we talking tattoos or piercings?" she wiggled her eyebrows.

"I don't know yet… ill think about tattoos and the piercings ill look at when I get there."

"You probably shouldn't get a piercing until after the first stage of initiation or you might mess it up" Eli offered and I shrugged as I finished eating.

Eli and I joked around as we were escorted to the initiate dormitories where we had to split off. I went with Bobby as he led the way to the transfer dorms and Eli went off with a nicer looking guy. Avry on the other hand had gone through initiation the year before so she got to go to her own home somewhere in the Dauntless compound.