A/N- I forgot to mention that this will be the initiation after Tris's year. Which means there was no war and no conspiracy with Erudite.
Chapter Two:
Stepping off the stage and walking towards Dauntless, Arabella sees them clapping and smiling as she makes her way towards them. Looking over to where her parents are sitting she sees her father glaring at her and her mother clearly looking disappointed in her choice. She turned around just in time to see her sister choose, and just as expected, she chose to stay in Amity.
Ariana turned around, catching Arabella's eyes. She scowled at her sister and headed back towards her parents, flipping her hair behind her shoulder while doing so.
As Arabella reached Dauntless, an over enthusiastic man shook her hand and seated her with the other transfers. Suddenly feeling nervous, she keeps to herself, itching her forearms. Her dress is long, and yellow, her dark black hair is pulled back, and her green eyes were wide and wandering around, looking at everyone in thought.
"Well at least it isn't a Stiff this year." She heard someone mumble from behind her. She didn't bother turning around. She sighed and ignored the whispers made about her amongst the crowd.
She knew people were going to make assumptions about her since she was raised in Amity. They're going to view her as weak, and someone they can take advantage of, and she simply wanted to just prove them wrong. She just wasn't sure if she was able to do so.
After the ceremony ended shortly, she found herself running with the Dauntless. Running around Amity wasn't a very common thing to do, but she found herself doing it more often than none. So catching up with the rest of the Dauntless wasn't too hard, but it also wasn't easy either.
She tried catching her breath by slowing down her pace. She found herself jogging next to a girl who seemed to be from Erudite. She was wearing a blue blazer with a white button down top under. Her hair is long and brown and she had an olive skinned tone with deep doe brown eyes.
The Erudite girl looked over her way and smiled politely, "Hi, I'm Savannah."
Arabella nodded her head and introduced herself breathlessly, "Arabella."
Savannah laughed, "I know. People can't stop whispering about you."
"Great." She replied sarcastically.
Looking on, they saw a large silver train come by. The Dauntless-borns started running towards the train. Arabella closed her eyes, she had a feeling she knew what they were going to do.
Savannah groaned loudly, "Don't tell me we're doing what I think we're doing."
As the Dauntless-born started jumping onto the train with no problem, Arabella said, "I think that answered your question." And then started following the Dauntless.
Savannah groaned yet again as she followed Arabella in tow.
Jumping onto the train was not as easy as it looks. Arabella ran as fast as she could, she leaned over to grab the handle, and with all her might, she pulled herself up from the ground and jumped, landing inside. She looked across and saw Savannah was already inside. She furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, how did she pass her up? Then she noticed Savannah's hand in a Dauntless born's one, and a love struck expression taken over her features. Arabella had to bite down a smirk.
They boy was tall, with light brown hair and green eyes.
"I'm Damian." She heard him introduce himself. Savannah blushed.
"I'm Savannah...uh, thanks for helping me out there."
"Anytime." He winked and went across the train where his friends were at. Her eyes never left him and Arabella chuckled to herself.
Savannah noticed Arabella and rushed over to her. "Did you see him? He's-he's-"
"Very nice looking?"Arabella smirked, helping her out.
Savannah's eyes widened, "Nice looking? Are you blind? He's hot!" She exclaimed.
Arabella laughed. "I'm not blind. He's just not my time." She shrugged.
Savannah raised an eyebrow, "Really? Perfect looking boys aren't your type?"
Arabella rolled her eyes, "I'm more into...muscle kind of guys, I guess. I don't know, probably because there aren't those type of guys in Amity like that."
Now it was Savannah's turn to smirk, "Well don't you worry about that. There's plenty of men like that here." They both laughed together, there worries of initiation falling away for a short while.
Arabella looked around the train and noticed the different transfers. There was ten of them all together. Four Erudite, five Candor, and then herself, one Amity. The rest hadn't made it on the train, and she couldn't help but frown at that thought. They were dauntless for all but two minutes, and now they're remaining factionless.
Three Erudites stuck together, all three of them being boys. Listening and observing around her while Savannah stared out the window in awe, she realized that their names were George, Christian, and Michael. Christian seemed to be the meanest in her opinion. He kept making fun of people in their former faction and she heard him say a few mean words about her thinking she wasn't listening.
Two girls from Candor stuck together, they were both glaring at everyone, especially Arabella. She noticed them laughing and pointing at her with each other and she instinctively crossed her arms, feeling self conscious. She didn't know what their names were yet. Then there were three other boys, who looked fairly scrawny. She knew their names were Josh, Kevin, and Steve.
As the train started making it's way it it's destination, Arabella noticed it wasn't going to stop. That was when she saw all the Dauntless jumping off the train. A moving train.
She mentally groaned.
She didn't mean to be one of the last ones to jump off, she was just really nervous. So she told herself not to think and just do. It helped ease her mind as she ran from the back of the train, jumped off of it, and ended up landing on her hands and knees on the hard gravel.
Savannah followed right behind her.
Catching her breath she looked up in amazement. She did it...she can't believe she just jumped off of a moving train!
She pulled herself up and her and Savannah both gathered around where everyone else was. She went on her tippy-toes and looked over a tall person's shoulder-she's only five-foot-two- and saw a dark skinned man with gray hair standing on the ledge, "Listen up! My name is Max and I'm a leader here at your new faction!" He shouts loudly.
She was already intimidated by him. "Down below us is the entrance to our compound. Don't want to jump? Become factionless and good riddance, you don't belong here then. Initiates jump first, of course." He smirked.
One of the Candor girls spoke, "We're going to jump off a ledge? Just like that?"
"That's what I just said didn't I?" He spoke in annoyance.
All the transfers looked at each other, wondering who was going to go first. She saw the mean Erudite, take a step back, waiting for someone to go first obviously. She mentally rolled her eyes.
She wanted to fit in. She wanted to prove herself, to show that she does belong here. So she took a step forward, causing all eyes to be on her.
Max looked over her as she stood up onto the ledge. She didn't bother looking down. She knew she would end up freaking herself out and then not bother jumping and become factionless for the rest of her life.
So she closed her eyes, didn't think about anything that she was doing, and jumped, ignoring the sudden gasps being heard from behind her. She was free falling, and oh was it exciting. She bounced into the net flying high up into the air and falling back down.
A large smile is spread across her face. She's never had so much fun in her life.
A hand leans over the net and pulls her up and brings her out.
"Name?" He asks roughly. His eyebrows raised when noticing her attire. "Amity, huh?"
The girl beside him smiled. "Well this already seems like it's going to be a fun year." She laughed. Arabella didn't get it but smiled politely. "What's your name?" She asked her.
"Oh, uh, Arabella." She spoke and he nodded his head.
The long haired girl smiled as she announced loudly, "First jumper- Arabella!"
Cheering is heard all around and she finally notices the crowd of people. A laugh rumbles from inside of her.
"Welcome to Dauntless." They both spoke in unison.
She heard a scream and saw that one of the Candor boys had made their way down. She laughs again.
When all the initiates had finally made their way down, they all follow the two Dauntless instructors. They lead them through a tunnel and Arabella couldn't help but let her eyes wander. She's always thought the Dauntless were interesting and had always wanted to be one. She never thought that she would ever get this far one day.
The girl turned around, "Okay, so now we're going to divide. Dauntless-born will go with me. By the way, my name is Tris for the rest of you Transfers." She smiled and the dauntless-born detached themselves from the transfers and started to follow her.
Arabella noticed how Savannah and Damian gave each other sad longing looks and mentally rolled her eyes.
Tris turned to the other instructor before leaving, "I'll meet you at dinner." He nodded his head and smirked at her slightly before she walked away.
He cleared his throat, grabbing all of their attentions. "I usually work in the control room, but for the next few weeks, I'm your instructor." He introduces himself, "My name is Four."
Arabella continued to stare at Four and she couldn't help but wonder why he was so familiar to her. Had she seen him before? She isn't sure, but she knows she definitely knows him from somewhere.
He showed the tour around the compound. The Pit was the place everyone usually hanged around, and then he showed the chasm, a place you definitely do not want to hang around. They all shared a dorm and the bathroom was pretty open...But other than all that, she still couldn't help but already love this place. It was like a dream to her and she was so excited.
Her and Savannah stayed close together, both not used to being around new environments.
They end up burning their old clothes and getting new all black Dauntless ones. Arabella hated that yellow dress.
At dinner time the two of them end up finding empty seats across from Four and Tris who are sitting next to each other.
"Hi," Tris smiles kindly and Four just nods his head in acknowledgment. They both reply with the same greeting.
They grab their plates and gather food on it. Arabella bites her lip to stop herself from talking. She's never seen food cooked like this. She was used to the plain crops and meat simply chopped to pieces. Nothing in the form of a hamburger, that's for sure.
The doors to the cafeteria open and there was a sudden quietness that felt eerie to Arabella. She looked over and saw a man with dark hair and a menacing feel of him. His eyes are cold and he looks around the room, at every single person sitting there.
"Who's that?" Arabella asks, her eyes never leaving sight of him.
"His name is Eric," says Tris, "He's a Dauntless leader." She spoke as if it annoyed her.
Both Arabella and Savannah's eyes widened. But he's so young, Arabella had thought.
Eric's eyes land on Four and Tris. He makes his way over their table. She diverts her eyes back down to her own plate of food. A sudden nervousness she's never felt before takes over her.
He stands behind the both of them and his hands land on both their shoulders, she sees them visibly cringe. He lets go and gestures to Savannah and Arabella. "New initiates? Care to introduce me?"
Tris mumbles, "Well doesn't this feel like deja vu."
Four sighs, "This is Arabella and Savannah."
Eric's eyes find Arabella's and she suddenly felt the coldness of them become even colder. "I heard you're from Amity. Well I learned my mistake last time, maybe you'll actually make it past initiation, or maybe not, I don't really care." He shrugs.
Arabella tried to ignore his mean words as they sliced through her. What type of place is this when the leaders don't even care if you succeed or not? It's like they all like to watch people fail right before their eyes.
Tris sighs, "Is there a reason you're here, Eric?"
Now he was smirking. "Actually, yes. Max needed to talk to the two of you. Something about a technical problem in the control room, I don't really know." He rolls his eyes.
Four and Tris sigh in unison, but they stand up anyways. "Alright." Says Four ,as by Savannah and Arabella's surprise, takes Tris's hand and the two of them head towards the cafeteria doorway.
Savannah blinks and Arabella's eyes widen. She asks to no one in particular as she speaks aloud, "Are they together?"
Eric who is still standing there answered her, "Yes, and it's as disgusting as it seems." Then with that he walked away from the two of them and went and sat down where there were older people who looked like other Dauntless leaders.
Savannah turns to Arabella, "Okay, number one; Tris and Four? We should have seen that coming. And number two; Eric is seriously the scariest person I've ever met."
Arabella couldn't help but nod in agreement. Even if her eyes kept somehow moving their way towards the dark hair Dauntless leader across the room from time to time.
