Chapter 5 is here! I wanted to thank everyone who reviewed on yesterday's chapter. I read them this morning and I was really happy with what you said. It made my day :) Now on to review responses!
Cameja333: Thanks for your review! I love Izzy too and I am glad someone else likes her as much as I do. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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Love-Falling: I would give him a nickname, except I don't know if I can make one out of Sam. I don't really want to nickname him something else. I love his name as is, so I hope you don't mind. I might need help with the initiation fight scenes, so I may be coming to you in PMs for advice. As for the fluff, that might actually be interesting to read...
liveforambrose: Aww I'm glad you like the story so far. I work hard to bring interesting chapters for you. As for your Four request...well this may be a good chapter for you ;)
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Chapter 5: Meet Four
"We have to jump."
"What?! With a gap like that?! We'll die!" Olivia exclaims, gulping. I look to Sam for help to convince her.
"She's right, Olivia. We have to jump or we fail initiation. Do you want that?" he asks. Olivia quickly shakes her head. I can't say I blame her. The factionless life isn't great at all.
"On three, we all jump. Okay?" Sam asks. We nod and I grab his hand while Olivia grabs my other hand. I take a deep breath.
"One…two…"
We suddenly see the roof we're supposed to jump onto.
"THREE!"
We push off with our legs and for a moment we are in the air and I feel weightless. This ends when I land roughly on the rooftop separately from Sam and Olivia. I sit up slowly and rub my head.
"Are you okay?"
I look up and see Olivia standing over me with her hand outstretched. I nod and take her hand, brushing myself off while I stood up.
"That was kinda fun." Olivia comments. I laugh and then we walk over to where the group of other initiates are gathered.
"Hello initiates. Welcome to Dauntless. My name is Jason and I am one of the Dauntless leaders. This is the member's entrance to the compound. So, who would like to go first?" He asks. We look around at each other.
Suddenly I hear Olivia sigh.
"I'll go." She says. Everyone laughs and Jason raises his eyebrow.
"You sure about that, Amity? It's a long way down." He taunts. Olivia nods and walks to the edge. Jason moves out of the way and lets her step up to the edge. She looks down and I see her gulp.
She doesn't move for a second. She stands there motionless, probably scared out of her mind.
"You can do it, Olivia!" I encourage her. Jason shoots a mean look at me telling me not to do that. I gulp as he glares at me, showing his superiority. I shut up after that.
She takes a deep breath and bends her legs. When she jumps, I can hear her screams all the way down. The rest of the initiates run over and look down, and we look for any sign of her. We suddenly hear cheers and Olivia's laughter. I sigh in relief because now I know that she's okay.
"Who's next?"
We all look at each other again. I make eye contact with Sam and he gives me a nod. I know what he means by it.
"I will." I announce. Everyone goes quiet and I step up to the ledge where Olivia just jumped. I take a deep breath and take off my jacket. I throw it backwards towards some snickering Dauntless-borns and bend my legs.
And before I know it, I am in the air. Falling.
I closed my eyes on the way down and seconds later I finally land on something hard. When I open my eyes again, I am bouncing on something. A trampoline, maybe? No. It was a net.
I roll over onto my stomach after bouncing four or five times. I then feel a warm, rough hand grab mine. When I look up, I see a guy just staring blankly at me.
"Well, are you going to sit there and stare at me, or are you going to jump down before you get hit by the next jumper?" He asks. I respond by jumping down.
"What's your name?" he asks as I brush off my pants.
"Isa-"I pause again because I am still unsure if I want to be called that or not.
"Make it good. You can't pick again." He comments with a small smirk. I give a small smile back. I wasn't keeping my factionless status name.
"Izzy."
He grins and nods in approval then yells to some bystanders.
"Second jumper: Izzy!"
Everyone yells and cheers and I can't help but smile. So far so good. I just hoped I could survive the rest of initiation.
"All the Dauntless-born initiates go with Katie and all the transfers go with me."
Everyone quickly divides up into our initiate classes. I am walking over to my group when I feel a cold hand grab my arm.
"I better see your name on the board of new members after imitation is over." Sam says. I nod and give him a small smile.
"Promise."
He smiles and lets go of my arm, then walks away with the other Dauntless-born initiates. Finally, I go and stand next to Olivia as our new instructor introduces himself.
"Welcome everyone. My name is Four. I'm normally work in the control room, but for the next 9 weeks, I will be your instructor." He announces. That's when a girl behind me laughs.
Four looks at her and raises an eyebrow.
"What's so funny, initiate?" he asks.
She tries to stop laughing but can't. I roll my eyes.
"Sorry but I could have sworn you said your name was Four. Who's named after a number?" she scoffs. That's when I realize she's in black and white clothing. Oh great. A Candor.
Four walks over to her. When he reaches her, he is literally towering over her. She smirks as he crosses his arm across his chest.
"A Candor, I see. I had an initiate in my group last year just like you. She learned quickly to keep her smart mouth comments to herself. I suggest you do the same." He taunts. She rolls her eyes.
"Whatever. What could you do to me?" She shot back. I close my eyes and sigh. I feel bad for her. She was taught all her life to say everything on her mind. But with Four, that probably wasn't a good idea.
"What's your name?" He asks in a monotone voice. She stares at him for a minute and smirks.
"Cecilia Nichols." She replies. Four continues to glare at her.
"I didn't ask for your last name. But Cecilia," he says her first name with some disgust. "To answer your question, I could easily make you factionless right now." He threatens. Cecilia doesn't say anything. She just stares at him.
Well that shut her up.
"You understand?" He inquires. Cecilia nods and steps back, attempting to get away from him. Four wasn't messing around.
"Good. Now follow me for the tour. Stay close, so you don't get lost. Our headquarters are easy to get separated in." He orders. We all obediently follow him, now scared of his power over us.
This was going to be an interesting 9 weeks.
Hm...so Izzy finally gets to meet the legendary Four. Awesome :)
I wanted to know what you guys think of my OCs so far. That includes Izzy, Sam, Olivia, and Cecilia right now. If you could leave your thoughts in the reviews, I would really appreciate it. ^-^
I will try to update again soon, but I am starting on some school projects this week, so I am not sure when I can update again. So please be patient!
Thanks for reading and please review!
-Dauntingjay
