This whole chapter is in Renella's POV, for your info.
Initiation day makes the Dauntless insane and chaos. There are people everywhere, and they don't seem tired. Unlike Abnegation. I twirl my fork around my pasta, finishing the last bit of it. Then, I move on to plain chicken breast. Today, in respect of our ex-factions, the Dauntless leaders have given us the special delicacy of our ex-faction. I envy Brudus. He got Dauntless Cake.
I move to the dormitories. Seven. I could do the fear landscape test tomorrow well if I have a good rest. I close my eyes, and eventually fall asleep.
(Page Break)
I wake to Jessica accidentally falling on my legs. It was painful, but I forgive her. At least it woke me up.
We walk to the Pit that connects to the glass building. I move into the glass place. I can't see the sun because there are too many shoes upstairs. I stop to look at the screen. I see a Dauntless-born girl with blonde hair - Elliot - move, her eyes wide, but I don't know what obstace she's facing. Thank Father Jesus they won't see my fears.
The middle screen shows her heart beat rate. It picks up for a second then decreases, reaching a normal rate. Elliot slowly wakes up, and leaves the room.
I move my attention away from the screen, instead running towards Jessica and Brudus. Tobias stands outside a door I don't think ever existed before. I go inside and realise there are many chairs, some gold, but mostly black. On those 7 golden chairs the Dauntless leaders are seated, their heads connected to wire and their eyes blank. Only Tris and Uriah's expression is awake. Divergents, of course.
I guess the Dauntless leaders are observing the simulation. What else could they do, sitting there blank-eyed?
After about 2 hours, it is my turn. Tris stands in front of me, I am the last to go in. "Renella, your turn, at last."
I nod, and Eric walks in, his pierced face showing. He holds a needle, and presses the plunger down on my neck.
"Be brave," he says, and curtly exits. What a jerk.
(Page Break)
The ground beneath me changes, I am in the Dauntless train car, in my Abnegation clothes. When it is time to jump off, I intend move, but my legs stay still. Oh yeah, my fear of becoming factionless. I stand still, refusing to move at all, and do not even resist simulation-Jessica. Then, I sink inside the metalplace, arriving in a new place.
Dark room with black fire. Smart idea to combine my worst two fears. I run around but fire surrounds me. Simulation, I think. I run straight into the darkest fire, landing in another fear. How they connect fears so perfectly makes me shiver.
I am standing on a stage. People are throwing eggs at me. Somebody throws a rotten banana at my leg. I don't wince, but another rotten fruit throws. I am afraid of punlic humilation. To face it, I must be in the limelight.
I grab an egg, a bunch of rotten flowers and kick it back into the simulation-audience. The spotlight falls on my face, and in a flash, I land in the ice room.
Snowflakes fall from the sky, and for some reason, they are extremely cold. The land is soon covered in solid ice, and I am getting frostbite. I lied about fire and darkness being my worst fears, this is truly my worst.
The ice spreads all around my body. They are casued by the simulation, I shouldn't worry, I'm not supposed to worry at all. Frost spreads all the way to the cenre of my body, near my heart. I am going to die of this.
As the ice grows colder, gigantic ice blocks fall from nowhere, jagged ice crystals leaping up wherever I move. I don't scream and cry like the first time. Instead, I close my eyes. This is a simultaion, I can't die inside a simulation. The coldness starts to make me freeze. I shiver.
Thunder roars above my head, and I scream as a sub-zero ice block falls onto my head, I lower my head and focus on the ground beneath. I am afraid of fire, but that is the only thing that can counter ice. I guess the only way out is to calm down.
Sheets of snowflakes fall, and I just catch them. I see the snowflakes start to disappear. I smile, relieved, as the snowflakes all start to fade. The icy landscape falls away, and I run my hands through my hair as the ice melts and I fall into the water.
I am in the Abnegation sector of the city. Strange, I'm not afraid of Abnegation?i enter my house and look around. Blood. Cold drops down my spine and my body goes rigid. Blood. I blink, and blood monsters start creeping out of the dark red liquid.
For a moment, the blood monsters stay still, and then they start creeping towards me. Not two, not twelve, but a hundred of them.
Simulation. This is a simulation. My heart hammers painfully into my chest. I don't shift my eyes from the blood monsters. They could kill me anytime. I bite my lip and start throwing random objects at them, but it is useless. They will become normal blood but then regenerate back into blood monsters. I sigh.
One of them manages to grab my wrist. I scream.
I have to calm down.
I sit on my bed and literally sleep. Sleeping makes it calm down. I feel someone touch me, and I feel like someone is devouring me. Of course though, it is just a simulation.
Thank you for reading! I would really appreciate if you could check out my other fanfiction, A Collage of Selections? I know it is not a Divergent one, and some of you may not have read "The Selection", but please just try to understand everything through the prequel. If you still don't understand check out this website: " .com". Thanks!
