Hi again. Its me... again.
So, as always: I don't own anything. If I did then less people would die. Seriously. STOP KILLING THE BLOODY CHARACTERS THAT DON'T NEED TO DIE! :'(
Anywhore, this is the chosing ceremony. Hope you like it.
And I am well aware Candor and Amity aren't meant to be friends...
Rosetta's POV:
Rosetta stood infront of the mirror in the hallway of her house. Her two older siblings Rebeka and Ashton, and one younger sibling Loretta were already downstairs. Rosetta placed a flower crown on her head and smiled I look... cute? she thought, survaying her outfit. A pair of wide red pants, a pair of brown leather sandels and a bright yellow tee shirt with bright red flowers printed on the front.
"ROSETTA?! ARE YOU READY TO GO?" Her mother Nina Luck, called.
Rosetta plastered a smile on her face and cheerfully called back. "YES MOM!" before repositioning the flower crown, and going on her way down the hall.
With Loretta racing ahead and both Rebeka and Ashton smiling at everyone they passed and Nina and Carlton wishing everyone happiness, Rosetta was slightly on edge dispite her perpetual smile and the bounce in her step.
Sitting with other Amity Rosetta watched everyone file in, the Dauntless were chattering amung themselves, climbing over chairs and each other, and then sitting to be quiet. A few people stood and spoke and then... It was time.
They went through the list until, "ROSETTA LUCK" And the short brunette stood. People turned to stare at her as the Amity girl took off her flower crown, set it on Loretta's head, pressed a kiss to the young girls forehead, and then set off towards the front.
Before her stood a pannel, five bowls. One knife. She made a cut in her hand and held the droplet for a moment. Then let it fall to the coals. Dauntless.
"DAUNTLESS!" A few muffled gasps and an audible cry came through the crowd like a ripple. The first Amity-Dauntless transfer in ages.
Rosetta glanced towards her old faction, confused faces, slightly accusing looks and most of all, slight sadness in her family's eyes dispite the smiles forever on their faces. As Rosetta crossed to Dauntless she was welcomed by a cheery looking black boy who clapped her shoulder firmly, people were still cheering, giving her thumbs up as Rosetta sat.
She didn't regret transfering.
~o0o~
Hana's POV:
When her name was called, Hana stood up, she didn't look back at her family as she left them. Though she could hear her sister shuffle around, probably with tears in her eyes. Hana dearly wished she could bare looking at them, but the looks from Casey, Thom and Mark would be enough to send her to tears. She didn't need Carmille's sadness on top of that.
Taking the knife the youngest Broke made herself bleed, then squeezed a droplet on to the bowl of coals. An uproar followed. Cheers, whistles and clapping all came from Dauntless, people were standing and beaming. Hana risked a quick glance towards her family. Camille's jaw was hanging in the air, Casey was waving, Thom smiled and gave her a thumbs up, but sadness was there in his eyes. Mark looked shocked, but proud. He was fighting back tears, and quickly looked away. Hana followed suit. Her parents looked betrayed in a sort of strange manner, yet proud. Hana had to stop herself from running to Dauntless, the black and maroon clad members greeted her joyously, and didn't seem to mind that she was dressed in a black and white striped dress and heels.
She watched Carmille walk down, give her a sad smile before choseing Abnigation, not to many people's surprise.
Watching the rest of the Ceremony Hana drew a surprised breath when an Amity chose Dauntless. She'd seen the girl, Rosetta, following the Dauntless at school, watching them, yet hadn't thought anything of it, in fact, as most Candor's did she'd plainly ignored the happy-go-lucky girl.
Hana remembered when she'd been younger, standing near the train tracks, watching the Dauntless jump, there had been an Amity girl there, watching, but the girl had been rushed off quickly, her parents urging her not to think of such dangerous and deadly things as leaping onto moving trains. 'Its not for us' they'd said. The girl hadn't looked happy about it.
Rosetta plopped two people away from Hana, and watched the teens go through the ceremony with wide eyes. Hana rolled her eyes, but ignored the girl mainly.
As the Choosing Ceremony finished the Dauntless and their initiates raced through the streets towards the main train platform. They climbed and then stood, Rosetta and Hana next to each other, grinning happily to themselves. The train blew its whistle and Hana leapt onto a carriage. Rosetta sprinted along, reaching out. The platform was nearing the end and Hana leaned out, gripped the Amity girl's hand and hauled her aboard.
"We. Are going. To Die." Rosetta panted. "Thanks."
"No problem." Hana chuckled. "I'm Hana Broke-"
"Rosetta. Rosetta Luck." The dark haired girl responded, smiling. "Candor?"
"Amity?" Hana replied. "Not the normal transfer."
"They're to damn peaceful over there! Singing songs and clapping hands, its gets boring!" Rosetta complained. "Ugh."
The two girls laughed and talked between themselves until everyone begain shifting. "Whats going on?" Hana asked the nearest Dauntless born.
"We're Jumping." He responded, following the other members, leaping off the train.
"Together?" Hana asked, offering her hand to her unlikely new friend.
"Together." Rosetta nodded, taking it. They raced, and leapt off the train, summersulting through the air and landing roughly on the ground. Rosetta pushed herself up and followed Hana as they ran to join the other initiates.
"Welcome! Welcome!" A man called, "I'm Will! And this is one of the main entrances to Dauntless. It's the 'back entrance'" He looked over the group. "Who's first?"
"To do what?" A voice called, an Erudite girl with flaming red hair.
"Jump." Will's voice held a 'duh' in it.
"Is there water at the bottom?" A boy with short cropped black hair wearing Erudite clothes called.
"You'll have to see." Will responded. "Now, who's first?"
Rosetta and Hana looked at each other. Hana gripped Rosetta's hand. "We will!" Rosetta called out, her voice stronger than she thought it would be.
"'we?'" Will questioned.
Rosetta pulled Hana to the front. "Yeah. Thats what I said." She responded.
"Very well. Off you go."
Hana stepped onto the ledge, and helped Rosetta up. "Ready?" The Amity girl nodded, though she looked a lot less sure of herself than she had done.
Hana, still holding Rosetta's hand, stepped off the ledge and pulled the Amity girl with her, though Rosetta didn't seem to mind.
The two girls crashed onto a net, and lay there, laughing at each other. "AWESOME!" Rosetta laughed. The net was pulled down and the two girls tumbled off.
"T-two?" A man, rather tall, and tanned, questioned.
"Yes. You can count." Rosetta seemed to have gotten her snark back.
"Names?" The man seemed to have moved on, though he sent a scolding look at Rosetta.
"Ros-"
"Ros?" The man asked. "Do you have a hard name. You can change it if you wish. But only once, so make it good."
"Venus." Rosetta-Venus- Corrected.
"And you?"
"Hawk." Hana replied smoothly, smiling.
"FIRST JUMPERS VENUS AND HAWK!" A crowd cheered.
Hawk and Venus stood to the side as the Erudite girl who'd first spoken jumped, "PHEONIX"
"HENRY!" The erudite boy.
An Abnigation girl "Jaz!"
An Abnigation boy "ELLIOT- Sorry. ELI!"
Another two Eruidte "JAMES!", "ANNIE!"
Three candors, "LUCY!", "VARITY!" and "GREG!"
One more Abnigation, "ZACH!"
The Dauntless born, 'Amanda' 'Laurna' 'Karta' 'Maz' 'Max' 'Jono', 'Xeba' 'Zae' 'Ilia' and 'Salt'
"Dauntless born go with Christina." The man who was shouting out the names instructed. "Initates, you'll be with Tris and I."
Hana- Hawk. studied the pair intently, they were close, that much was certain. "My name is Four, this is Tris. We will be your instructers for the next while."
"Great." She heard Henry mutter. Pheonix glared at him.
"Issue Henry?" Four questioned, crossing his arms over his chest. Henry quickly shook his head. "Thought not." Four lead the group through the narrow walkways to a large area. "This is the pit." He announced, broadly waving his arms. "Follow me." The tour lead the group to a large room, filled mainly with beds. "This will be your home for the next ten weeks."
"Both girls and guys?" Eli asked.
"Yeah." Tris nodded. "If you have an issue with this, you'll love the bathrooms." Eli winced at the sarcasm in her voice, but turned his head to the direction Tris gestured, and cringed.
"Hey, the Candor will be used to it- keeping everything in the open-"
"Shut it Nose." Venus snapped.
"Ooh! The pansycake has some fire in her!" Henry laughed.
Venus moved to lunge at the boy, but Hawk's arm held her back. "No Venus. The know-it-all isn't worth it."
"He, he called me a PANSYCAKE!" Venus exploded, spluttering. "I-"
Hawk smiled appologetically at Four and Tris, leading Venus away. "Rosetta Luck!" She whispered. "You CAN'T let them get to you!"
"Its-"
"Venus. I know. Sorry." Hawk squeezed the ex-Amity's hand. "You aren't a Pansycake. You're Dauntless."
Venus smiled weakly at her friend. "I- I- Thanks." She stuttered, letting herself be dragged back to the group.
~o0o~
Venus's POV:
To be honest, the Ex-Amity probably would have ripped off Henry's head if not for Hawk's arm stopping her. The Candor girl was actually pretty strong, and she had a stern look in her eye. "No Venus." Hawk told Venus, begging her not to kill the boy.
If Venus knew the girl better, she might have known that the care and pleading in Hawk's voice was more than just a 'please. I don't want to clean up the mess'. But she didn't. So she huffed and glared at the floor.
"Rosetta Luck!" Hawk growled quietly, catching her attention.
'I'm sorry! I'm sorry!' Venus thought, I know I shouldn't let them get to me! But pansycake really?' Of course she'd been used to the teasing all Amity kids endured due to being perpetually happy and peacefull, especally from the Dauntless who were rather rough and violent. She'd heard Pansycake on multipul occasions. But never from an Erudite. Perhaps he was trying to suck up to the instructers by being 'tough' and 'macho' and using their insults. Venus huffed softly again. Realising she'd zoned out of the lecture from her friend Venus smiled.
"You aren't a Pansycake. You're Dauntless." Hawk told her.
"I- I- Thanks." Venus stuttered. She didn't hear the bit before the 'you're dauntless' bit. But she assumed, going off hawks face, that thanking her and being at a supposed loss for words, satisfied the ex-Candor.
Venus tried paying attention. They were left alone to change, then had to be at the pit in five minutes.
A pair of black pants, a black sports bra and a maroon t-shirt sat on her bed, along with a black jacket. Quickly Venus swapped her colourful clothes for the darker ones, and happily tugged on her new black boots, shrugged on her jacket and smiled at Hawk, who was pushing her blond locks out of her eyes.
"Ready?" Hawk asked, gathering her clothes up.
"Ready." Venus responded, copying the act.
As they found Four and Tris the group burned their old clothes, much to the joy of Venus, and started learning what they would be doing for the initation.
"Follow me. We'll learn the basics of fighting before dinner." Four shouted, leading the group through a walkway to the training area.
Hawk and Venus stared in awe, taking in every little detail. The two fighting area's, the row of punching bags, and the targets with tables of knives behind them were only a few of the area's.
"Alright, Over to the Punching bags. Tris, I'll let you have this one." Four offered, smiling at the woman.
"Thanks Four." Tris responded, rolling her eyes. "Okay. So this is a punching bag. Stand in front of one and we'll get started."
"No technique? Nothing?" Henry objected.
"I highly suggest that you stay quiet and follow my instrutions Nose. If you don't, there will be conciquences. Are we clear?" Tris's voice was level, and it held a sound of command in it. "Good. Now get to a punching bag."
Hawk and Venus waisted no time in standing in front of an oddly shaped orange bag. They learned punching technique and different ways to punch, how to kick, and the best stance to stand in. Then they practiced. And practice they did. It was only exactly when the bell signifying dinner rang and Venus's knuckles were red- raw from punching the bag- and she was covered, dripping, in sweat, that they finished. The group hurridly raced back, showered and changed before heading to the dinner hall.
Table after table was filled up, and Hawk and Venus slowly made their way through the crowd, trying dearly not to throw everything over people. A table with only Tris, Four, Christina and Will on it was spare. Hawk, Venus and Pheonix sat down, quietly followed by Eli.
"Hi. I'm Pheonix. Sorry about Henry, he will never learn to shut his mouth. Ever. His gob whole is forever open." Pheonix introduced herself. "And if you aren't lucky he'll spurt annoying facts at you at any given moment."
Henry, at that moment, sat down between Will and Pheonix, "Who's this?"
"You." Pheonix replied, chowing down on her food.
"Me?"
"Yeah, You." The girl retorted blandly. "That is what I said right. Or are your ears malfunctioning again?"
"They've never 'malfunctioned' they experiance momentary lack of hearing as my brain blocks out useless comments and processes the more important ones-"
"Which I hope inculde the training you learned today." Four interupted levely, making the Dark haired boy jump.
"Don't make the Nose jump Four. It isn't nice."
"You're Christina!" Hawk exclaimed. "You were a candor! I used to see you around."
Christina smiled. "I used to be Candor. I'm Dauntless now uh.."
"Hawk." Hawk smiled, "This is Venus,"
"The famous Amity who was rather daring. Is she a good pick?"
Hawk had to stop herself from choking and glaring at the older woman. "Venus is perfectly capable of holding her own." She practically growled.
Venus blushed. "Hawk, you're talking me up. Christina will be bitterly disapointed if she ever see's me fight the way you're going on about me! She'll think I could beat the best fighters here by the end of the night!" But the green eyed girl was smiling non-the-less, and a soft laugh escaped her plush lips.
Will's hand found Christina's. "Perhaps with a little tuterage from Four and Tris you'll be able to do exactly that." He told her. Venus didn't reply. Her mouth fell open instead.
"Shut your Gob Ven, you'll end up like Henry if you don't!" Hawk laughed, pushing her friend's jaw shut.
"Hey! I heard that!" Henry grumbled, but didn't put up a fight.
"Good! You were meant to!" Hawk returned, laughing slightly.
Venus snickered.
"For an Amity you're really violent." Eli observed in his quiet voice.
Venus shrugged. "I'm not Amity." She replied, the words coming out harsher than were meant, but she didn't realise until Eli stared at his plate and mumbled something. "Uh. Oh, Sorry. I didn't offend you did I?"
Eli looked up, smiling slightly. "No. No, it's okay." He replied, but turned away so the conversation was cut off. Hawk saw and heard the conversation from one side, and she smiled at the two.
Eating Dauntless Cake was possibly the best thing that Hawk had ever done. The taste was litterally heaven, and the texture. "If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life-" Hawk managed between bites. "This cake, would be the thing I ate. Its- Ugh- Delicious." She was practically fawning over the cake. Four was grinning at Hawk and Tris was rolling her eyes at Christina, much to the amusment of Will.
"What?" Hawk asked. "It's not a lie!"
Christina laughed. "No, but you may be Four's new favourite Initiate because of that comment."
"Why?" Hawk asked, confused.
"Dauntless cake is the Best thing... EVER!" Tris mocked Four, laughing. "I swear, those were your exact words."
"Shut it Six!" Four replied, winking. "I'll-"
"Not with the initates around Four! They don't need to know." Will shuddered. "And nor do we."
"Hey! We know exactly what you and Christina do when ever she mocks you!"
"At least we don't tell you right out. At the table." Christina returned, teasingly.
Venus pulled a face at Hawk, earning a merry chuckle from the blond in return.
Hawk woke when there was no light entering the Initate's dormitaries. Not a single noise, save the breathing of sleeping new comers. Why am I awake? Hawk wondered, sitting up, wincing when the springs squeeked loudly, luckily no one, not even Pheonix- the lightest sleeper, stirred.
Hawk stood, changed into a simple outfit of black pants, a black sports bra and her jacket before grabbing her shoes and running from the room on tip-toes. Creeping into the training room Hawk slipped on her boots and made her way to the punching bags, as she passed the score board she saw the gradings. She was third, higher than she expected, and only one level above Salt, and two above Venus. Pheonix was second, and Henry seventh. Jaz was, surprisingly, first. Though the other spaces were mainly taken by Dauntless initates.
Turning away Hawk focused on beating up the humaniod shapes, pummeling it until her knuckles turned a light shade of red and she could hear the faint stirrings of life begin around her. Finally, panting for breath Hawk returned to the dorm, and lay under covers when Four burst in. "UP UP! INITATES UP!" He shouted, when there was very little response he and Tris went around shaking intiates awake, much to the annoyance of the members.
"UP! UP! IN THE TRAINING ROOM FOR GUN SHOOTING IN THREE!" Four shouted one last time before leaving.
Hawk stood slowly, groaning, her hands hurt, ached rather, and shooting a gun, again, wouldn't be the best.
Sup!
I know it's long.
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-MM