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CH 15: POV TRIS
Earlier today, it was announced that we would have a school wide capture the flag game after school. Even though today was a b-day, everyone was distracted from their classes, including me. I've never played capture the flag before, but I'm not unfamiliar with the game. The way our teams are chosen will be by faction. Every faction will have two team leaders, which the seniors have elected. These teams leaders will pick a player, one by one , until everyone is chosen. It seems a little intimidating to me, especially since the team leaders in Dauntless will probably chose the burliest of us first. While Dauntless will chose brawn over brain, while Erudite will chose brain over brawn. Amity and Candor will chose their friends, and Abnegation will chose who they believe gets the least attention. Even if I will be chosen last, I'm still exited.
"Tris! Are you ready yet?" Christina calls from the living room.
"Sure." I reply, coming out of our bedroom wearing a tight black t-shirt and black jeans with my black tennis shoes. Christina and I both agreed that it would be best to not wear anything worth ruining, due to the fact that by the end of the night we'll probably be splattered with multicolored paint.
We walk down stairs into the parking lot where the faction buses are waiting. Each faction has their own bus for times like this when we need mass transportation. Every bus is unique to its' faction. Our bus is black and covered in graffiti. Erudite's bus is a simple no nonsense blue, Candor's is white with black accents, Amity's is yellow with red accents with pretty paintings covering the bus, like our bus, only the Amity's looks much more inviting. The Abnegation's is simply grey everywhere.
Each bus is a double-decker and can carry 100 plus people. They are more than fit to take us to where ever our paintball location may be.
I search the crowd and find Tobias, his eyes searching as well, but stopping when they meet mine. He waves me over. Chris and I waft through the crowd as fast as we can and finally reach him. Along with Tobias, Will, Lynn, Marlene, Zeke, and Uriah are here.
Before I can even make a move towards Tobias, Uriah rushes forward. I half expect him to pull Tobias away from me but all he does is give me a big hug. Eventually I hug him back. After a few seconds he pulls away.
I'm about to ask what this is about but he answers my question early. "Tris, I just want to apologize. I acted like a dick, and I'm sorry. I still do want to be friends " He says this uncertainly like he expects me to reach out and slap him and reprimand him from doing the right thing.
Instead I hug him again, this time tighter that before. "Of course we're still friends."
He pulls back and gives me a big smile. "Yeah!" He says and walks back over to his original spot next to Marlene, who takes his hand. I hope something is going on between them, they're perfect for each other.
I walk over and take Tobias' hand. He looks down and gives me a genuine smile, the kind that he reserves only for me.
The Dauntless ended up stopping by an extremely large grove of trees. We we're told that our boundaries are from the trees to a lake, which is about a mile and a half from the trees. Between the trees and the lake is a long stretch of tall corn looking grass along with many rocks and bushes that would serve as excellent places to hide the flag.
Upon departure from the bus, we we're each given a paintball gun and two boxes of ammo. I stand with everyone else who isn't a team captain, and I, unlike everyone else, doesn't seem to enjoy the pressure the strap of the gun applies on my shoulder.
I was happy to see that one of our team captains is a girl from my track team. Her name is Silvia, and she thinks more logically than most Dauntless so I'm confident that she will have a good team, so I'm hoping she'll remember the short fast sophomore on her track team, and not leave me as the last person waiting to be chosen.
The team captains began choosing. As expected, Travis, the other team captain begins choosing all the big surly boys, while Silvia begins choosing her friends, all of which are slender and fast looking. It's getting down to the last 50 of us. The only people I know that have been assigned a team are Uriah and Bryce who are on Travis' team, and Christina and Tobias who are on Silvia's team.
"Ingrid."
"Tris." Yeah! I got called! I head over to Silvia's team and stand next to my friends.
Five minutes later, both teams head in opposite directions. My team, the red team, heads off into the corn-grass and begin to discuss a strategy. Everyone is talking and no one is being heard. I'm about to yell at everyone to shut up when a tall girl beats me to it.
"Guys, just be quiet of a second, no one is listening to you! Just go one at a time. Silvia, you're the team captain, you chose who talks."
Silvia looks around before calling out a name. The boy, Kyle, begins talking and saying his idea when people start interrupting him.
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Silvia screams. "Thank you. Now I'm aware most of you don't like Kyle's idea, so who has a better one?"
I raise my hand up cautiously. "Tris." Silvia says, indicating I say my plan.
"Alright so I think that because we have such large teams we should split into groups of about 16, three groups total. So what one group does is stay with the flag, but hide so that if someone walks by the hiding spot they won't know it's where the flag is because they won't see the guards The second team would be scouts, or whatever you want to call them. They will go out individually or in pairs or whatever and they will look for the other teams flag. If they find something, they come back and report. The other group would be offensive, they would just run around trying to disarm everyone in the other team."
Everyone nods their approval.
Tobias leans over and whisper's to me, "Nice plan, I didn't know you where such a little strategist."
I look back up to him, "Yeah, there's a lot of things you don't know about me." I say mysteriously.
"I'm hoping I'll find out some more soon." He replies with a wink. I chuckle and take his hand.
Soon we split into groups. 16 girls stay and guard the flag, which is hidden under a large rock. You can't see it unless you know where you're looking. The girls go into their hiding places. Ten boys and four girls are the offence. Boys found pleasure in the thought of running around shooting people just because. The rest of us are scouts. We decided to go individually so we wouldn't be seen as easily. I'm a scout.
I, with the rest of the people who aren't guarding the flag, head out towards the trees. After five minutes of trudging through the tall grass, I can't see or hear any members of my team. After another five minutes I hear Zeke shout in victory and a group of several people groan in annoyance, I guess Zeke got them all out.
Every three minutes or so I hear a shout of pleasure or a cry of annoyance, each time it brings a smile to my face.
Soon I enter the trees. I wander around for a while before I run into another member of my team. She was also a scout. "Find anything?" I ask. She shakes her head. "You?" She asks me. I shake my head. We both continue in opposite directions before I hear a commotion about 50 feet to my right. There's yelling and shooting. I sprint in that direction and see all the boys that we're the offensive group blasting the blue teams guards. Most of the blue team is soaked in paint while only two or three of the red team was hit. I sneak around to where I see the flag. I look away for a second to make sure no one is about to shoot me and when I turn back around I'm greeted by an unwelcome face.
"Thought you would get my flag that easy, huh?" Bryce asks with a sneer. What an idiot, you hasn't even shot me yet! In response I shoot him in the chest. He's out. In shock he trips backwards, falling.
Without paying any more attention to him I rush forward and grab the flag. When I turn back around to show everyone our victory, I see Bryce still hasn't gotten up yet. In fact he's out cold. I see a thin trail of blood leaking from the back of his head. I see that his head landed on a rock.
"Oh god," I mumble. I rush out of the clearing where the flag was and yell to my team to stop.
"Guys! I got the flag!" Everyone cheers. Then I pull Zeke over to where Bryce is.
He laughs and I stare at him. "You did that?" He asks me.
"No! I shot him and he fell, then that happened." I respond, gesturing 'that' with my hands. We go back and get two strong looking boys and get them to pick him up and lead him out of the clearing.
I walk in front of everyone, holding the blue flag up, so everyone we pass knows the game is over and that the red team won.
"So... how is he?" I hear Kayla ask. I don't really care about Bryce but I want to know if he's dead or hurt, or whatever might be wrong with him, so Uriah, Christina, Marlene, Tobias and I wait outside of the nurses office listening to the conversation.
"He's fine. He has a concussion, though I'm not sure how severe, and is in a coma. We need to bring him to hospital..." We've heard enough so we leave the door and head back up to our dorms.
The next day, the hallways are filled with conversation about the Dauntless capture the flag game. Everyone is talking about how not to mess with Tris, and how Tris knocked Bryce down and put him in a coma because he was guarding the flag. They make me extremely frustrated. The first few people I heard talking who said that I was the person who put Bryce in a coma I went over to and told them that he fell, and that I didn't hit him as they said I did. They just rolled their eyes and walked away. It doesn't help my case that I'm also known as the girl who gets revenge.
so how was that? I used someones idea on capture the flag and also on Bryce getting in a coma! I thought those we're lovely ideas and I hope I did them justice!
So tell me how you think I did, and any suggestions for future chapters would also be appreciated Also please read my other fan fiction, Competition. It'll be over in the next few chapters but I still would like some support for that story as well!:)
So thanks for reading! I'll update before the end of July, just don't expect a super fast update because at the moment I'm pretty fixed on finishing my other fanfic.
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