Chapter 2
"Jackson, Perseus!" i snap out of my daydream, confused. I had been dreaming about...swimming? I shrug, and slowly make my way up to the platform.
"Choose!" I take the knife and let my blood sizzle on the Dauntless coals.
I take my seat next to a pretty blond with princess curls. "Percy, and your name?" she blushes slightly before replying with "Annabeth."
"Annabeth, gorgeous name, almost as georgeous as those stormy eyes."
She rolls her eyes. "Got nothing better to do than hit on innocent girls?"
"Hmm, no." i say picking my cuticles. She punches me lightly in the arm and turns back to the choosing ceremony. "That was pathetic, sure your cut out for dauntless?"
She turnes her head sharply and somehow manages to knee me in the groin without moving her upper body. She leans her head in close and whispers " call me weak again and youll remain innocent forever, understand me?"
I grunt in undestanding and she slaps my cheeck before turning back to the ceremony. I personally cant stay focused, mostly because of my ADHD, but try my best out of respect.
Finally the ceremony is finished with Melark Peeta to Abnegation. i turn to the leaders and expectantly wait for instructions. with a loud cheer from the Dauntless memebers we have turned and are running towards the exits. We run down the flights of stairs and out into the fresh air, whooping and cheering as we go. We near a train track elevated by steel poles. Suddenly the Dauntless begin to climb those poles, obviously expecting us to follow the example. What? Climbing poles? But i dont want to turn factionless so i reluctantly climb the pole, surprised at my upper body strength. I dont remember training my body in my small Abnegation home. Hmm. I reach the top of the platform and see a train approaching from my left. With more cheers the Dauntless begin running and are soon jumping on to the train. i roll my eyes at the stunts being performed and jog in line with the train before grabbing the bar with my hand and pulling myself in easily.
A hand clasps on my upper shoulder and i turn my head to see a boy standing there looking; well, golden. He has golden hair that hangs just above his eyes which are also gold and his skin is tanned so it looks to be glowing. He smile and helps me up, before holding a hand out.
"Im Jace. Strange faction isnt it? Jumping on trains, who wouldve thought of that? Anyway, im a-sorry, was a Candor."
I shake his hand, worrying about if i did it well. Abnegation dont usually shake hands. "Percy. Abnegation transfer." He smiles again and sits down on the ground, preparing for a long ride.
A surprisingly short 20 minutes later we see a dauntless leader stand up.
"Initiates! Lets jump onto the building." upon hearing a compaint he holds his hand up. "You do not have to, of course, the factionless are always recruiting." He turns and jumps out of the carrige. We all gasp and rush over to see him standing on a rooftop. about 1 meter away. i gasp. "We have to jump off a train."
Jace looks at me and smiles pleasantly. "Great observation." He leans back, building momentum and literally springs out of the train car onto the roof top. He turns back waving us over. It cant be that hard can it?i gulp, and take a few steps back. i take a deep breath, run foward and launch myself out of the car. i feel the sensation of falling before my feet slam into the concrete. Damn that hurt, but at least i didnt fall over like many of the transfers did. Once we have all jumped the same guy stands up in front of us to make a speech.
"My name is Eric! To enter Dauntless, JUMP!"
We all looked around at eachother. dauntless like to jump. Finally a pretty blond girl stood up and went to the ledge and looked down. she eyed Eric suspiciously before turning back. she took a deep breath, and jumped. We heard a surprised squeal as she hit something, but that was it. Eric sat there looking bored while we all stood there.
"Do i need to tell you twice?" Eric asked, his voice deathly quiet. I took a deep breath and walked foward. I looked down, damn that was deep far down. no backing out now though. i took a last look at the initaiates to see Annabeth smirking at me and jace encourgaing me. i turned and jumped. I experienced the sensation of falling, again, before hitting a net, hard. i winced and rubbed my lower back where the pain was strongest and grabbed a hand hanging over the side. I used itas leverage to pull myself off and ended up facing a girl. She smiled warmly. "Name?"
"Uh..Percy?"
"You sure?" she asked laughing.
"Yes, its definately Percy." i added with a grin. She turned and yelled Percy to a crowd of dauntless and it was met with a chorus of cheers as i was ushered off towards blondie.
"Hey, im Percy."
She looked sideways at me. "Yeah i heard."
I look towards her expactantly, waiting for a name. She sighs, "my name, is Maren Elizabeth." I try to cover my laughter but fail majorly. "Exactly why i didnt want to tell you." she said with a frown. We continue awkward small talk for a while before everyone has jumped and is gathered in a group. "Initiates, listen up! Go to your dorms and meet me in the pit in 10 minutes!" he turned to leave, before Maren piped up. "But, um how are we going to get there, we dont know our way around." Eric gives me a smirk.
"Not my problem, sweetheart."
She stands there gaping at his back. I chuckle under my breath "Come on sweetcheeks" she glares at me and stalks off in front.
"Terrorizing more innocent girls are we Jackson?" I turn to glare at Annabeth to find that shes already dissapeared in front of me to laugh with Maren. I hear a chuckle to my right and turn to find a boy standing there with dark hair and a smirk on his face. He gives me a nod. "Stanley, grew up next door to Maren, shes a fighter for sure."
I laugh, glad to finally be on speaking terms with someone that wants to talk to me. "Im Percy, Abnegation transfer." He nods and we walk on in silence till finally we come to our dorms. Annabeth steps on a bed and yells above to talk to us. "Guys as transfers we should all tell our names." There was a few murmers and eye rolls but Annabeth would take no for an answer.
"My names Annabeth. Im from, obviously Candor." She turns to a biy standing next to her. "Im Gale, and was Abnegation."
"Jason, Erudite."
"Isabelle, also Erudite."
"Im Jace, and this is Johanna, and we're brother and sister from Candor."
It was now my turn. "Um, im Percy, Abnegation."
"Im stanley, Amity."
"And lastly im Maren Elizabeth but you can call me Maren and im from Amity also."
Annabeth steps down, "Awesome, we should probably head over to the pit now."
