A/N Please read the notes down the bottom xx
Katniss POV
I jumped out of bed and chuck my clothes on scowling angrily. Last night I had a dream, about being kidnapped and then some random guy saying we had friedns to find. I was furious, because some part of my brain figured out that it was real. That that had happened. That I had to find my friends. I was annoyed because I couldnt remember who I was looking for, just that I had to find 4 people. I went downstairs out of the dorm and get into the kitchen to grab a glass of water. Hazel shoots me a smile from where shes sitting at the table sipping coffee and I try to smile back but pretty sure I just grimanced at her. He looks at me questionably. "Whats wrong Katniss?"
I look up, "Oh, no nothing really. Are you ready for the essay today on the faction histroy?"
She looks at me curiously but answers anyway. "Yeah, as ready as I could be. What about you?"
I laugh, "No where near ready." I mentally slap myself for choosing the smart faction. What was I thinking? I obviously belong in Dauntless, maybe Abnegation. Definately not Amity, Im way too rude and angry. But Erudite? What was I thinking? Anyway obviously I wasnt thinking because I didnt have my memories. I grabbed an apple from the fridge and sat down at the table next to Hazel. "Hazel- uh, have you ever realized that you have uh, been missing something?"
"Like a person?"
"Um, kind of."
My eyes light up. "Really?"
"Yeah, I feel as though Im meant to be close to someone but Im not."
"Oh, yeah, ok."
"That wasnt what you meant was it?"
I chuckle, "Not quite, but it helped me out still. Are you looking for to the end of the week, just 2 more days and we can hang out and explore." I finish with a smile.
"Yeah, I cant wait, I'd love to go see the Dauntless headquarters, I think it would be interesting."
"Yeah, same, well Id better go have a shower but I'll meet you at the entry to the dorms in 10?"
"Maybe 15, I'll have to wait for the shower to be free."
I smile, "Of course, see you then."
As I walk back up the stairs I cant help but think that maybe Hazel is apart of this somehow too. She doesnt seem to know many other people either. I guess I'll find out when the time's right.
Percy POV
I walk into the training room to find tables with guns on them spread around the room, with targets in front. 4 steps up. "Initiates! Today you will learn to fire a gun correctly and learn to aim well!"
6 steps foward. "Everyone stand in front of a table and pick up your guns!"
I go to stand with Jace, but he veers away and sits with Isabelle. I sighed and turned to partner with Stanley but he was paired with Maren. Everyone else was paired leaving me with the option of Johanna or Annabeth. It was a tough choice, but I decided on Annabeth because she wasnt displeasing to the eye, even though she was a pain in the arse. I slyly step in beside her and pick up my gun. "Hello Annie,"
"Shutup Jackson," she glares at me. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, im far to dumb for Erudite, to rude for Amity, tell to many lies for Candor and shooting guns sounded more appealing to me than community service."
"Thats not what I meant idiot, I meant why are you standing next to me?"
"Because I want to."
"Well I want to shoot you, doesnt mean I do that does it?"
I scowl"that's not-" but I cut off when 6 approaches us. "So, Annabeth I understand your need to shoot macho males, but your not allowed to, and these guns wont cause major damage because the bullets arent real. Kind of like paintless paint-guns."
"Paint guns are for pussies," Jace inputs coming to stand behind 6. "They dont even hurt."
6 cocks and eyebrow. "We'll see."
Jace looks at her curiously. "I hardly think that will be nessecary. I'll do it now," he says sighing dramatically. 6 looks up at him in alarm. "What are you on initiate?"
"I'll take my top off so you can see my abbs, which you obviously want to," he leans in close and bites his lower lip, "although I will expect payment."
6 squares her shoulders and looks up into his eyes. "Jace. What. The. Hell?"
He chuckles,"just being annoying, it natural. Anyway I wanted to see you get all flustered Beatie."
"Beatie?"
"Fine shortstuff, doesnt worry me." He says turning around to shoot his bullets. 6 fists her hand repetively before turning back to Annabeth. "As you can see, some males act like complete arses and deserve to be shot where it will hurt them, but generally we have to restrain, altough I sometimes allow exceptions." she says, her tone annoyed and irritaed. Annabeth smirks at me and turns to shoot her gun, hitting the inside circle, just outside the circle. I laugh and feel a slap on my arm. "Annabeth, that was a pathetic slap. Come on, slap me properly."
She raises an eyebrow and slaps me squarely in the jaw. She can seriously pack a slap, to be honest I would hate to be punched by her, but I just smirk and turn away.
"Jackson, just because we got tattoos together, DOES NOT mean that I like you. No in the slightest."
"That. Hurts. Annie."
"Ohhh, I swear, I'm going to -"
"INITIATES! Start shooting!"
"Annie, watch your language!" I scold and turn and shoot my first bullet. By some miracle I hit the centre and turn to laugh at Annabeth. She looks confused as to how I did it but just flips her hair and turns back to her target. We stay shooting until lunch time, and leave to eat. "Man, my arm is ringing, and so sore!" I complain to Jace who walks beside me. He smirks,"No previous training with guns?"
"What? Of course not."
"Oh shame, so what's for lunch food-boy?"
"Food-Boy?"
"Yes, now answer me, I cant take a surprise right now."
"Um," I smelt the air as we drew closer to the lunch area. "I belive, that it's hot dogs and nachos."
"Really?"
"Yep, man I hope they have cheese sauce,"
"Cheese sauce? That sounds disgusting."
"Yeah, I guess, but you cant have nachos without it."
"You eat cheesy nachos with cheese sauce?"
"Yeah," I say with a shrug.
"By the angel, your strange food-boy."
I shoulder him into the wall, "Whatever goldilocks."
We laugh and walk into the dining area. We both grab platefuls of nachoes and hot dogs and sit down at our table. 10 minutes into lunch 4 & 6 come over, and stand at the head of our table. "Okay initiates, we want you to meet us at the traintracks in 15 minutes, we're going out to visit the fence and the jobs associated with Dauntless."
We mumble a response and turn back to finish our lunch. When the time comes around we all gather arpund the train tracks and jump on after 4 & 6 join us.
**page break**
"Man that sucked so bad, hopefully I'll be long gone by then."
"Long gone?" I asked confused. Jace looked away uncomfortably,
"Stanley! What's up my man?"
He scowled, "Jace, I'm not your man,"
"Some day Stan, some day." He said with a grin.
"Anyway, Jace what were you saying?" I asked turning back to Jace.
"Oh nothing Percy, dont worry about it for now." I want to go get food so I just follow him around to the dining room. We ate dinner, which was lasagne and then went back to the dorms to chil out. After a while 4 came in. "Initiates! Iwould recommend getting a good nights sleep because you will have a very long day tomorrow. Just a reccomendation though." and with a smrik leaves the room. We keep talking until around 11:30 when the girls come in, and we decide to get some sleep. Its takes another 20 minutes, but eventually we're all in bed and I listen as peoples breathing becomes regular and sleep eventually pulls me under.
I wake up to the sound of horns, torches and yelling. When the torch shines in my face I wake up and get a fright to see 6's face right there. "Time to get up sleepy head."
I blink away the sleep and check the time. 2 AM? What. Finally 4 stands up on the top stair.
"Initiates, meet us at the train track in 5 not be late." And with that he and the other trainers leave, bathing us in darkenss once more. Theres a flury of movement and soon people are up and trying to get dressed before rushing out of the room. I groan and roll over, enetually rolling off the bed. I sit up groggily and throw a hoodie and sweatpants on, some shoes and then make my way out to the trains. Everyone's already gathered there and I make it just as 4 yells "TIME" He glares at me. "Close call initiate. Very close." He then turns and hops onto the train. We slowly trickle in, and are greeted with crates full of guns and vests.
"Initiates," 6 calls out, "capture the flag with paint ball guns. The paint disolves after 30 seconds, so if you've been hit you have to wait for it to finish disolving, otherwise, your team will get a 10 minute penalty, which would almost definately loose you the game. 4 and I will be team captains, and will choose the teams. 4?"
"Okay, Annabeth."
"Maren,"
"Jason,"
"Gale,"
"Percy,"
"Stanley,"
"Izzy,"
"Johanna,"
4 scowled. "Jace."
Jace clutched his heart. "I am offended! I was last picked, what did I-"
"Shutup." 4 cut in.
"Okay, everyone gather in your teams and gear up."
4 gathered us around. My team consisted of Annabeth, Jason, Izzy, Jace and myself. 4 handed us out a safety vest and then our guns, and extra ammo. He then pulled out a shimmery purple flag.
"So we want to hide this as well as possible. Any ideas?"
Jace put his hand up. "How about at the ferris wheel?"
4 smirked. "Maybe not, Tris may expect that."
"Bummer. What about..at the carousel?"
"Yeah I guess.."
I had an idea. "What about on the platform in the middle of the water? Then when they go to get it we can shoot them and they'll have to wait."
"I like this kid." Izzy pipes in.
I grin, "Thanks."
"Yes yes he's brilliant," Jace began, "but whose going to swim out to the middle of that platform and put it there?"
I grit my teeth, "I will."
"Really?"
"Yup?"
"Well, fine then but we need a plan," Annabeth says joining the conversation.
"Fine, Shoot." She shoots me in the chest.
"Gee, thanks Annabeth, I love being on your team."
"I know. Now heres what we'll do. While Percy's out dying of phenomia, we have 3 people out scouting for the flag - Jason, Izzy and me. When we find the other team? We shoot people, and then use them as shields to attack the rest of their team, and while we're attacking and keeping them occupied; maybe even make them surrender, but whatever, anyway Jace and Percy go around behind them, after we shoot a bullet into the air, as the signal. Otherwise they stand here and protect the entrances."
"Right, yeah totally." Izzy agrees.
"So, lets stop talking shall we, and get to it?"
"Of course. Just wait a moment, 6's team gets to go first, then we wait 10 minutes."
"Oh." I grumble, I never liked waiting.
"Yeah, so just sit tight."
We wait around for 10 minutes, until 4 gave us the ok to jump off and go to the lake. We ran towards it and Jace and 4 stood guard around me as I jumped into the water and swam to the centre. The water was freezing and practically black in this light, and very murky, but for some reason I felt very at peace, and calm in the water. I couldnt explain it. I swam as fast and as quietly as I could to the platform, and pulled myself up onto it. I turned on the flag,making it glow, and hit it behind some metal box thing in the centre of the platform. I made sure it was as hidden as possible and jumped back into the water. I swam to the shore and pulled my tee-shirt on and my hoodie, jumping around from the cold. I shook out my hair and pulled my sweat pants back on. I then pulled on the safety vest, to protect me from the paintballs. They didnt look like much, but they did hurt like hell. Jace motioned me over and he told me that the others had alreay left. I shrugged. Awesome. Game on.
A/N I'm sorry for the long wait, but here it is! I hope you like it! Sorry for the cliffy, even though its not very dramatic. So Percy's going to remember soon, I promise, but it wont be until the weekend and its currently a Friday in the story. Yeah, I've changed a lot to suit me, and Im sorry for that but I hope you still like it. So I really need suggestions, because Ive got the main idea planned but I need 'space' fillers. Also, I know its been a while, but I wont abbandon. And if I do abbandon the story I will post an A/N explaining that, so if I havent updated dont just assume. But thanks for reading, please R/R and follow and fav!
Thanks guyzz xx
-Demonpoxjohnnyboy
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