A/n I do not own the Divergent Trilogy or the Twilight Saga
Chapter Two... Welcome to Dauntless
Two weeks passed and Bella finally able to leave the hospital room, she carried her new shoes in one hand and a notebook in the others, her memory from before her arrival was getting worse so she had started to write done any little fact or name into the book in hopes it would remain in her mind. She circled words of importance though by the next day she couldn't remember why.
Eric had passed through a few times during the week, his tone of voice was cold but his eyes seemed to say differently when they were alone. He was convinced she would be Amity or Abnegation, apparently she had a kind aura around her, but she didn't want to be kind, and she didn't want to be Selfless, those two words were in her book and circled. Her heart pounded as she passed a line through those words… She wanted to be brave.
Jeanine offered her a room in the tower and gave her neutral clothes to wear until choosing day the next day. She was wearing black jeans, a blue shirt and a formal grey jacket. She was holding flat shoes because she recently found out how clumsy she truly was and she had her hair cut and tied back tightly.
"Heeyy Spark" Bella smiled hearing Eric's sarcastic tone, he started calling her Spark a few days after arrival, apparently he saw a spark in her that mad her different.
"Hello Eric" he smirked as he walked next to her.
"Are you ready for Tomorrow?" He asked "going to become a Banjo Stringing Softie, or a Stiff"
"I believe everyone is going to be quite perplexed by my choice tomorrow" she said as she sat down in a hallway chair and started pulling her shoes on.
"I feel like your continuously changing attitudes and vocabulary just to confuse me Spark"
She chuckled "maybe I am" she stood up again stumbling slightly and right into his arms, her cheeks darkened with embarrassment as he stood her up straight.-
He laughed loudly before smirking at her. "Let's get you to your temporary room before you trip over a balcony or fall down some stairs and out a window"
"Hey! That only happened once" she defended herself before showing a confused face and the pulling out a pen and wrote –
-Fell down stairs and out a window?-
- before putting the pen away and tucking the notebook back under her arm.
Eric gave her a confused look "sooner or latter your going to have to give up on your past right, it's not like your going to be all to leave, no one has survived the barren wasteland"
Bella sighed "I know, but I'll keep going till I can't remember a thing…. And then I'll let it go… Into a pit of fire, with ashes flying off the wall"
Eric laughed again, getting strange looks from many people "I have to go, I have a meeting soon. I wish I could be at the choosing ceremony… And if I don't see you ever again. Thanks for putting up with me Spark"
"I should be saying thanks, I would have gone crazy without the company, and I'm sure we will see each other again, it just matters when" she reached up on her toes and kissed his cheek softly before walking down the hallway to her room. She dropped the notebook on the table and sat down on the bed looking at the clock,
9:37pm
She sighed and pulled her shoes back off wondering why she put them on in the first place before taking off the jacket and laying down on the bed a falling asleep promptly.
BANG BANG BANG
"Whu?" Bella mumbled as she opened her eyes
"Bella, ceremony is in an hour, I brought you some more clothes" she said
"You can come in" sitting up Bella stretched her arms up and Jeanine walked into the room with a pile of clothes.
"Here you go" she place a pair of light blue jeans, black running shoes and a grey shirt on the end of the bed.
Bella smiled "Running shoes?"
Jeanine winked "just remember to come visit me, your smart, I like the conversations"
"I promise" she whispered as the Erudite leader left the room and Bella pulled the new clothes on knowing she would need the shower latter and not now.
Bella looked into the room mirror and tugged nervously on her shirt hem before pulling her hair back with a red and white ribbon.
"Be brave Bella, be brave" she said to herself before following the rest of the crowed towards the hub, she watched a crowd of grey take the stairs leaving the rest to take the Elevator, she looked back and forth before walking towards the stairs only to have her arm grabbed softly and she looked up at Jeanine "no darling, take the Elevator"
Bella smiled and walked into the Elevator with Jeanine, noticing that no one else got on except for Jack Kang, Johanna and another man completely dressed in black.
"You must be Spark, I'm Max" he said holding out his hand
"Bella, I'm guessing Eric told you about me" she said before shaking his hand firmly
"I'm one of the other leaders of Dauntless, and yes Eric told me about you… Nice shoes" he said with a smirk as they got out of the elevator.
Jack walked over to the crowd of White and Black and he sat down at the front, Johanna did the same to the crowd of Red and Orange clothed Hippies, Max to the sea of Black and Jeanine and Bella to the crowd of Blue.
Marcus walked up to the table of bowls and waited for everyone to quiet down before speaking.
"Welcome to this years choosing ceremony, for generations this has been our system, our way of life. The founders creating the Factions as a way of keeping the peace with each an ideal to live by.
Erudite thirst for knowledge, the give us our medicine, our education and our technology.
Candor run our legal system, they believe in honesty and the truth above all.
Amity, our farmers, providers of food. Kind in there nature.
Dauntless, protectors, soldiers brave warriors. Keep us safe and guard the fence and our streets.
And abnegation, head of our government, the selfless who feed the factionless and help others."
He pointed to each bowl in turn, slowly each teenager took there turn, cut there palm and choose either there home Faction or choose a new one. Finally once the were all done and people started to stand Marcus held his hands up.
"One moment" they all sat down, including Marcus and Jeanine took the stage.
"Two weeks ago a girl from the outside walked into Amity, bones broken, skin burnt, skinny from lack of food and throat dry from no water. We believe she was apart of a small group of survivors on the outside. We took her in, helped her to get better and decided to give her a chance of a new life in our city" there were cheers and a few whispers and Jeanine held out her hand to Bella.
She whispered in Bella's ear "Bella or Spark" she asked..
Bella but her bottom lip for a moment "only Eric and Max call me spark… Izzy, I'll go by Izzy"
Jeanine smiled "this is Izzy, she will be choosing today as well"
Everyone looked at the girl with brown eyes and hair. Wearing a colour from each Faction as she picked up the knife and took a deep breath and cut into her palm. She took a few more deep breaths to make sure she didn't faint as she looked over to bowls, her eyes lingered on Erudite for a moment before stretching her arm out over the burning coals and watched a drop of blood drop and sizzle.
"Dauntless" Jeanine shouted out as the sea of black stood and cheered loudly, a few walked forward and grabbed her hands pulling her with them as the all started to run down the stairs, jumping at points or sliding down some rails. They soon let go of her hands and started running through the streets and Izzy sprinted to keep up, she tried to keep her breathing even and stumbled a few times as they reached the train tracks. They started climbing up the scaffolding of the track and she followed eagerly not wanting to be left behind for a moment. She pulled herself up with the help of a dauntless-born, she nodded her thanks and took deep breaths with her hands resting on her knees.
She watched as they started running down the track fast and turned her head to see the train common before she to started running, praying that she would trip or fall off. She could see them jumping onto the train with ease except for a few transfers. Finally there was only her and and a Candor boy running, two Amity girls stop running and gave up before. She reached up and grabbed onto the handle and put her foot in and pulled herself onto the train clumsily just as the runway ended, she felt sorry for the Candor boy but she was happy that she made it.
"Good to see you made it" a guy in blue spoke up.
Izzy laughed "only just"
"I'm Leonardo"
"Like Di'vinci?" She asked
"Who?" Izzy gawked for a moment and shook her head "never mind" she stood up and rested against a nearby wall.
The train ride went on for about thirty minutes until she heard one of the guys call out saying people were jumping.
"What?" Izzy stood and looked out the door.
"There insane" some girl in black and white said
"This should be fun" the transfers took a few steps back and started jumping out the train, Izzy went last and jumped quickly, she landed on the edge but slipped backwards. She opened her mouth to scream when the Dauntless-born from the train tracks pulled her forward and away from the edge.
"Careful outsider, don't want to die that way" he said "I'm Chris"
"Izzy" she shook his hand and the followed him and Leonardo over to a very familiar face by the other edge of the roof.
"I'm Eric, the is Max, were two of the leaders of Dauntless, behind is down there is the entrance to the compound, to get in you have to jump"
"Is there a foam pit or something?" And Erudite boy asked
"Or something… Who wants to go first?" People mumbled and took steps back. Izzy watched them all back away except for Izzy, Leonardo and Chris.
"Well, if no one else will, the I guess me… Can't be worse the Cliff Diving" izzy said looking at the moment of shock on Eric's face when he saw her there.
She walked to the edge and climbed up looking down at the hole in the ground.
"Today Initiate" Eric said with his tone that he used around other people.
"Really? I thought tomorrow might be great, better weather" she smiled at Eric's raised eyebrow.
"Jump" he said simply and she smirked.
"Geronimo!" She said before jumping off, the wind rushed past her and her heart beat fast as she just realised what she did, the thought didn't last long as she felt herself hit something and go flying back up for a moment before settling back down and staying still.
"Holy shit, I just jumped of a roof, that's a new one even for me" she said to herself, she felt the net weigh down and she rolled to the edge. She looked up into the eyes of the man, he didn't seem as handsome as Eric… In her opinion.
"Name?" He asked as he helped her off the net
"Izzy" she said deciding to stick with it.
"First Jumper, Izzy" he looked over her clothes.
"Where did you transfer from?" He asked confused
"The outside, she said with a shrug before walking towards some other people, moment latter a flash of blue dropped down into the net with a scream.
Izzy laughed watching Leonardo shake slightly.
"Name?"
"Oh, umm, I'm Leo" he said as he got out of the net and walked over to Izzy.
"Nice scream" she said
"Shut up" grumbling as they watched Chris drop into the net.
Soon all were down including Eric and Max as she watched the other man talk.
"I'm Four" izzy raised an eyebrow but stayed slightly. "I normally work in intelligence and in the control room, but I will be your instructor for the time being… Lauren will be taking the Dauntless-born, transfers with me"
Izzy waved to Chris as he left and Izzy followed after Four and Eric.
The Candor girl held out her hand "I'm Kiki"
"Izzy" she said shaking her hand firmly.
After a quick tour of the compound and a warning of the Chasm the reached a room full of beds.
"This is where you'll be staying during your time here"
"Boys or girls?" Kiki asked.
"Both" Izzys eyes widened. "And you'll love the bathroom" the all almost ran to the end of the room, toilets and showers with no curtains or walls.
"Great" Izzy mumbled.
"Get dressed and get to the mess hall in twenty minutes, bring your clothes" Eric said and with one last look at Izzy he left with Four.
Izzy walked to the bed in the corner of the room where a stack of clothes laid and she quickly without trying to think about it, stripped down to her underwear and pulled on the skin tight pants and shirt.
"Nice legs outsider" another erudite boy yelled.
She flipped him the bird before pulling her jacket on and pulling her shoes back on and picking up the clothes she left the room with Leo.
Eric was waiting by a fire pit and indicated for them to toss their clothes, Izzy threw them in straight away but Leo held his for a moment before tossing them in as well. As they walked past Eric slipped a note in her hand which she put straight in her pocket for latter.
"He scares me" Leo admitted
"He doesn't seem to bad" she shrugged as they sat down.
"Hey Outsider" Chris said sitting across from them.
Kiki sat down next to him and the rude erudite sat Down on the other side. The table filled up quickly with transfers and a few dauntless-born, it took her a while to realise Four was there.
"So, where are you from?" Kiki asked " I know their Candor, Erudite, Dauntless and an Amity… But you were wearing clothes from all"
"Weren't you listening At the ceremony Kiki?" Another Candor said?
"No" she admitted.
"She from the outside, beyond the fence, beyond the farms" Leo said, Four raised his head as he looked at her strangely.
"I don't remember much other then that, but I do know I was raised in a place called Phoenix, but that's it" she said as she started eating quickly wanting to get out of the room.
"Four, there you are, Max wants to talk to you"
"Tell him I don't want a new job, I like the one I've got"
Eric scoffed before looking around the table "going to introduce us?" He asked
"Erudites are Leo, Matt and Milly. Candors are Kiki, Phillip, Billy and Amara. The Amity is Tom. Abnegation are Dylan and Lilliana. The outsider is-"
"Spark, we've already met, I was one of the guards called in when she was found… Were they… What was the word… As Perplexed as we thought they would be?" He asked her with a smirk.
"Startling so"
"Welcome to Dauntless… Training starts in an hour"
He walked away and Four looked at Izzy "I'd avoid him, his not good company" he said before he too walked away.
Chris looked at Izzy with wide eyes
"What?"
"Nothing"
After eating they all went to the pit and sat down as Eric and Four pushed in a large bored with numbers.
"This is the ranking board" Four started "at the end of this week will will start ranking you, this will help decide what your jobs will be at the end of initiation"
"It will also tell who is cut at the end of each stage"
"Cut?"
"What happens if we're cut?" Kiki asks
"You become Factionless" Eric simply says"
"What?!" Leo asked angrily "why weren't we told this?"
Eric walked over and looked him down "why? Would you have chosen differently? Out of fear?"
Leo looked down from the glare
"You chose dauntless now we choose you" he gave Izzy a worried glance before going cold again and turning away with Four.
"Get some rest, training will start in the morning instead" they walked of after that leaving the transfers just sitting there.
"Well… Shit" Leo mumbled.
Transfers.
Erudite
Leo/Leonardo/Lock
Matt/Matthew
Milly
Candor
Kiki/Caitlin/Key
Phillip
Amara/Echo
Bill/William
Amity
Tom
Abnegation
Dylan
Lilliana
Outsider
Izzy/Bella/Outsider/Spark
Dauntless-born
Chris
Mary
Tim
Oliver
Evert
Alex
Cami
Kitty
Rick
Donny
Nate
Alyssa