A/n- Hi everyone, this is the second chapter of my story, 'Welcome to Dauntless', I'll be honest, I don't really like the title, so if you guys have any ideas for a title than please review it or pm it to me! But for now, on with the story. This chapter may also be a bit boring as it is mainly just getting to know the initiates, speaking of which, I will only be doing initiate POVS upon request so yeah! Enjoy!
Disclaimer- I do not own the 'Divergent' series, or any other brand things that are mentioned in this chapter and all rights go to their respectful owners!
Welcome to Dauntless- Chapter 2
"Ahh!" we hear screaming coming from the giant gape in the ceiling, quickly followed by a loud gasp as the initiates back hit's the net and bounces. Four and I both pull on the net, as the kid, clad in black and white (oh great, a Candor), rolls off the net by force of gravity, and jumps off. He stands there looking at us.
"What? You get pushed?" Tobias asks the kid, as he shakes his head 'no', and considering he's a Candor, we know he isn't lying.
"What's your name?" I ask him, as I recall the vacant memory from the back of my mind, when Four asked me the same thing, just a year ago.
"Alexa-" I could see the stutter as he begins to talk, as Four speaks up.
"Is it a hard one? You can pick a new one if you want, but make it good. You don't get to pick again." Tobias says, his 'instructor Four' voice coming through, which I have to admit, is damn sexy. I hide back the smile, remembering that is the same exact thing he said to me, replacing my smile with a smirk.
"Uh okay, AJ, my name is AJ" he finishes, it must stand for something. Although, it is a very dauntless style name.
"first jumper: AJ!" Four says, when we hear several hollers of 'alright AJ!' and 'yeas!' coming from the dauntless crowd behind us.
"Welcome to Dauntless" I say, as he nods and walks over to where all of the initiates stand. Seconds after we dismiss AJ, we hear 2 more screams coming down from the cavern. A flash of red and yellow beams by, before the net bounces. Four and I continue the ritual of pulling down the net, causing the initiates to fall off.
"Brother and sister?" Four asks, with a raised eye brow, that I find he does quite often.
"Um, we kiss so that would be weird…" the boy trails off.
"So boyfriend, girlfriend. Cute" I mumble sarcastically. "What are your names?" I ask, finally speaking up, using my 'instructor' voice, which I have to say, sounds kind of intimidating.
"Um, I'm Chase, and this is Maddie." the boy, chase replies. The ritual continues until the very last jumper is off the net.
"Alright, dauntless born, you go with Chris (Christina's nickname, as you might have guessed), transfers, you stay with us." Four instructs to the 11 dauntless born initiates.
"Alright, you pansy cakes, I'd hope you wouldn't need a tour around the place, so we'll be showing you the dorms, and lunch, which guys will not be getting dauntless cake!" Uriah yells at them, walking backwards.
"Oh shut up, you guys are allowed to have the cake, you're the pansy cake Uriah!" Christina retorts. Rolling her eyes as they all walking towards the dorms, Chris traveling in the back, and when they are a safe distance away, she turns around mouthing 'help me!' as I give off a chuckle, but turning back towards the initiates.
"Most of the time I work as a dauntless leader, and she works as a tattoo artist. My name's Four, and this is Six" Four begins, but being cut off by an initiate, a Candor, of course.
"Wait, like the numbers?' The Candor girl asks. And I nod, Christina had this conversation with four last year, and it didn't turn out so well.
Four give a slight now before replying. "Exactly like the numbers"
"What happened, one, two, three, and five were taken?" the Candor girls retorts, with a smirk plastered to her face, with several snickers in the back ground. Oh she thinks she has won this. Four looks down for a split second before replying.
"What's your name?" he asks, his voice haunting, as the mean side of 'instructor Four' comes out.
She sucks her teeth before responding, "Zoë" she responds.
"Well… Zoë… The first thing you'll learn from me, if you want to survive here, is keep your mouth shut. If I wanted to hear what ignorant Candor's' had too say, I would have chosen that faction, but your in Dauntless, so I suggest you go by our rules. Do you understand me?" he says, menacingly, walking closer to where he's just inches from her face.
"Yes…" she mumbles as a reply, as Four walks back from her.
"Does anyone else have anything to say?!" I finish, crossing my arms, I didn't really like that remark about our names. There are several subtle 'no's' and people simply shaking their heads.
"Okay, follow us." I finish, turning around, as Four turns with me. That is when I finally release a small smile, thinking back to when Christina had that same conversation with Four.
In the end, we have a total of twelve initiates. 4 candor, 4 erudite, 3 amity, and 1 abnegation. Which go as following,
Zoë- Candor, you've already experienced her attitude, short black hair.
AJ- Candor, better than the other Candor's, his facial features remind me of Tobias.
Jack- Candor, least favorite Candor, him and Zoë were made for each, long black hair.
Logan- Candor, Ajs' brother, a lot like him, kind of cute (but I'm with Tobias).
Mason- Erudite, pretty smart, shy, really short hair, he wont make it.
Cameron- Erudite, medium length straight brown hair, prissy and annoying, has eyes for Tobias, tall.
Ava- Erudite, hangs out with Cameron, also prissy and annoying, short.
Olivia (livi)- erudite, long curly blonde hair, really nice, hangs out with Maddie, definitely belongs in Dauntless, nothing like Erudite, about my height.
Chase- Amity, Maddies' boyfriend, short spiky brown hair, very nice, protective.
Maddie- Amity, Chases' girlfriend, medium length auburn hair, friend with Olivia, very sweet, medium height.
Liam- Amity, medium brown hair, has a bad past with Chase, mean and rude, tall.
Tayton- Abnegation, hangs out with chase, medium black hair, medium height, has four structure, an outgoing personality.
I don't know the names of the Dauntless born, and honestly I don't care too until they are official dauntless. Which we then continue our tour, starting with the pit.
"This is the Pit, center of life here in Dauntless" I begin, as the initiates all look in, mouths agape as they watch the fights going on, or the bystanders socializing, or the occasional couple or two that are making out, which may or may not be Tobias and I sometimes. Wink, wink. "This is also where you'll find any essentials, as far as clothes food, and even the tattoo parlor I work at, which is a big part of Dauntless." I finish. They all turn away from the pit, when Four begins to speak.
"That is if you make it into Dauntless" Four says with a smirk, evident on his face.
"Wait, what?!" Cameron, the prissy Erudite, exclaims.
"Yes, only fifteen initiates, of both Dauntless born, and transfers, make it into the Dauntless compound" he says, crossing his arms.
"Why didn't we know this?!" she replied, with an enraged look in her eyes, with several agreements lingering in the background.
"Is that a problem?" I ask, stepping forward towards her, "Would you have chosen differently if you knew that? because if you were a true Dauntless, it wouldn't matter to you, because you'd have the confidence and bravery that you'd make it. If there's a problem you can become faction less now… or later?" I ask, with the same menacing voice, Four used earlier, and it actually cam out well. I hear a faint 'no' make it's way out of her mouth. "That's what I thought." I finish, turning around and continuing our tour.
"This is the chasm." Four begins, "this is where you will find the fine line between bravery" he looks over to Chase, "and idiocy" he looks over to Liam. "you step over that line and your gone, for good. No ones knows what's at the bottom, and I don't think you'll want to find out." Four finishes, and continues the tour to the dorms. But I stay in my trance, not being able to get out all the horrid memories of this place out of my head. When Drew, Peter and Al had my life in their hands, as the hung me over the chasm, threatened by my rank, or when the dauntless leaders pulled up Al from the bottom.
When Tobias finally noticed that I hadn't been following them his voice peered through, breaking me out of my trance, "Six, Six lets go." he says, using his 'Instructor Four' voice, we had agreed that we would keep our relationship from the initiates, at least until they found out. I nod, and jog to catch up with the group.
"These are the dorms. This is where you will be staying for the next 10 weeks" Four starts, walking through a big room, with about 20 beds.
"Boys or girls?" Logan, a Candor transfer asks.
Four stops in his tracks and turns around, "both." he states, as we heard mumbles of grief from the girls, and excitement from the boys. Typical boys. "Oh, if you like this your going to love the bathrooms" he said walking over to the restroom and shower area, as we go more similar mumbles to the last ones. "You should feel right at home Candor, everything out in the open." Four mumbles sarcastically, looking specifically at Zoë.
"Lights off at ten, but everyone is to be in dorms by eight thirty. Training begins at seven." I say, turning around until one of the initiates speaks up.
"Wait, at seven, in the morning?" The Erudite girl, Ava asks, as it is evident that she is confused, and before Four or I can reply, one of the initiates does it for us.
"No, seven in the afternoon… yes you dimwit, seven in the morning. For an Erudite, your pretty fucking stupid, I may not be the sharpest knife in the box, but that's because I hated Erudite with a dying passion" one of the other Erudite girls, Olivia, retorts, which makes me smile. She is definitely a Dauntless.
"…Moving on." Four says, walking over to the spiraling steps, jogging up, as the initiates follow closely behind him. As we pass, several that will be used for fear landscape simulators. Leading the way to the ten large training rooms, all used for several different things, but we just stopped in the middle, between all of the rooms.
"Training room two will be where we meet tomorrow morning, Dauntless born will be in room one." Four instructs already taking off down the hallway, towards the mess hall. We make our way to the mess hall to get lunch, as we get to the entrance of the door we stop.
"Alright, go ahead and get lunch and take the rest of the day off, to get clothes, tattoos, socialize, you get it, and if you don't… too bad. Oh, and I know it's good, but don't got raping the Dauntless cake" I say, in a harsh manner. No one takes my cake and gets away with it. And when I finish, they all run off, as Tobias and I stay at the door.
As we get our lunch and eat, I notice that the initiates begin to form groups, and one of the groups distinctly represents ours; Olivia, representing myself. Logan, representing Will. Tayton, representing Tobias. Maddie, representing Christina. Chase, representing Uriah. And AJ, representing Al. It's quite funny, I must admit.
Then of course there's the other group containing, Zoë, Ava, Cameron, Jack, and Liam. Then Mason, kind of off on his own, it's really sad honestly.
I spent almost my entire lunch, studying the new initiates. I noticed that, once we finished, due to Tobias dragging me up towards our apartment. Once we got up to the apartment, Tobias unlocked the door, opening it, and closing it, with my back against it, faster than what I thought was humanly possible.
"you know your so god damn sexy, right?" he states, rather than asks, placing a feather light kiss behind my ear trailing them down my neck. As an answer to his question, all I can release is a subtle whimper. I trail my hands to the bottom of his shirt, mumbling 'off' as a whisper in his ear, as I attempt to get it over his broad shoulders. He nods, peeling his shirt off the rest of the way, then trailing his hands down to my thighs, before picking me up, wrapping my legs around his waist in the process. He turns and lays me down on the queen size bed, and before anything continue, there's a knock at the door.
Tobias leaves a peck on my lips, releasing a huff, when he goes to answer the door. Messy hair (sexy), shirtless (much sexier), and all. He shoves the door open, as I begin to straighten out my clothes, and fixing my hair, assuming that whoever was at the door will need us for something. And before I know it. Christina and Uriah are walking in, handing us both paintball guns.
"what?! You guys couldn't wait 2 weeks, or 1 day to play with guns?" I ask them, crossing my arms. They are really ridiculous. I mean, we are playing with guns tomorrow, and we will be having the annual Dauntless capture the flag, but no, of course they couldn't wait.
"a paintball war broke out in the pit and mess hall, its us against pretty much everyone else, the rest of our team is already out. If you hit elders is minus 5 points and if you hit initiates, plus 15 points. We've got to go like now, before they think we forfeit so go get dressed lover boy. NOW" Christina says, trying to give Tobias the same intimidating look I gave her. Key word, TRYING.
"yeah pansy cake" Uriah says, as an attempt to make them look like the stronger one, well he failed epically. Tobias gave them, probably the meanest 'Instructor four' look, for a few seconds before the both backed down cowardly. And I inwardly chuckled.
You see, there's this soft, caring, sexy as hell, Tobias. Then there's this strict, secluded, mean, also sexy as hell, Four. I'm in love with two guys in one.
Tobias went over to our tiny little closet, pulling out a black v-neck T-shirt, and pulling it on over his head, covering his giant tattoo of all the factions, that I can trace by heart by now. He grabs an automatic paintball gun, loading it, and handing it to me, then doing the same for him self.
"let's go!" Tobias finalizes, before walking out, me following closely behind, followed by Christina, then Uriah.
We walk out, into the hall way, all lined up against the wall, Tobias peeks around the corner, leaning his gun in the direction as his body. One he finally inspects it seeing it is clear, he runs across, signaling us to come with him, as we walk Tobias checks around the corners, I keep guard of the front, Christina, watches the hallway we passed, and the side, and Uriah watches the back. Yeah, we've got this down to a science, considering the rest of our team has already gotten out, hence why Christina and Uriah came to get us.
We come up to the next corner, which is a four way, the hallway that crosses into the mess hall. Tobias checks around his right hand corner, the one by the wall we are leaning against. Once he checks that the hall way is clear, which it is, he signals with his hands for Chris and I to go to the other side, I know he wants me to show the skills he has to me, as I tend to do so.
So I ease around the corner, doing as Tobias did, taking my gun with me, and once I realize it's clear I give them all a thumbs up and we, all walk steadily to the mess hall doors, lined across the door. Tobias holds up his hands, I know this is a count down
Three. We are standing by the doors, Christina and Uriah keeping guard of the side hall ways, while I keep guard of the front hall way.
Two. I peek inside the sliver of a crack between the 2 heavy metal door, and I see a few of the initiates in there, yes bonus!
One. We see Zeke turn the corner in the front hall way, guns up. And was instantly shot down by Uriah and Christina, falling down, and landing with an almost silent thud, considering can be a bit painful if hit enough times.
Zero. Let's do this!
We went in there, guns blazing. Right off the bat, Christina and Uriah shoot down, Tori and Marlene who were stupid enough to take guard right by the door, to the sides. Tobias and I both shoot in front of us, at the people by the food lines. Both scoring a few initiates along the way. BONUS!
As I look around, I see many of the native Dauntless, just laughing, or a few of the elders shaking there head at what they'd call 'Childish ruckus'.
Welcome to Dauntless people!
After Christina, Uriah, Tobias and I both make sure that all of the other team is out, we turn our heads to see Peter, Drew and Molly. We all look at each, exchanging many glances, thoughts, and smirks, as we read each others mine, then turn towards their cowardice group and bombard them. I see my hot pink pellets hit Peters chest and the side of his head, and Hitting drew where the sun doesn't shine. I see Tobias' black pellets pretty much every where, as he holds the trigger down and sprays. Christina's purple pellets practically covering Molly. And Uriah's, along with Tobias', are everywhere, as he also just holds down the trigger.
The war ends soon after, we just sit around the mess hall enjoying our selves, and having the occasional breakout of paintballs or two. But luckily, we wont have to clean it, actually Tori loves this as I quote 'it adds a spruce of color, in this damn dark place'. Her words, not mine.
It gets to about eleven and the only remaining people in the mess hall is our little group, but it's the group I am thankful for, it's the group that helped me through Dauntless. That welcomed me to Dauntless, and I couldn't be any happier.
A/N- alright, this chapter isn't exactly as long as I please, but the next one will be posted on Friday or Saturday, and it will be a bit long, as we get into the real action, and I cant wait! I apologize for any grammar or spelling issues, I didn't have time to reread and correct today, but the next chapter will be better! Alright well, 10 reviews for an update so please, please, please, I'd love to reach my goal! Thank you guys for reading!
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