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Chapter 26
Tris' PoV
"LET THE FIGHTING COMMENCE!" Marlene yells. She is having too much fun with this. Lynn charges at me first. She swings her arm and follows up with her other. I dodge both and kick her in the side of the stomach. She quickly recovers, but not quickly enough, so I grab her head and ram my knee into her head. She falls on the floor. "LYNN IS KNOCKED OUT! HOORAY!" Marlene yells, smiling. Blue crosses out her name. Next. Will. He doesn't make the same mistake as Lynn and tries to tackle me. I block and pull his leg. He falls and I stomp him in the stomach. He groans. Everyone cheers. Except Virginia of course. "THE AUDIENCE HAS DECIDED; WILL IS OUT! HOORAY!" Blue crosses out Will's name. Two down, three to go. Zeke's next. He doesn't tackle, nor does he punch, he is waiting for me to act first. Smart, but not smart enough. I act like I'm going to do a uppercut, so he prepares to block it, but before I do the uppercut I kick him in the shins so he is knocked off balance. He doesn't catch the uppercut and it hits him right in the jaw. He falls to the ground, but tackles me while he's down. I fall, but quickly stand up. He hits me in the jaw, but I shake it off and see him protecting his stomach too much. I throw a punch at his head and his side at the same time. He doesn't know what to protect and I hit with both. I immediately follow up with another kick on the same spot on his shins and he falls to the ground. The audience cheers. "THE AUDIENCE HAS DECIDED; ZEKE IS OUT! HOORAY!" Uriah's up next. He's smarter than his big brother, but weaker. I know if I hit him at two places at once he will block both. So I need to do three at once. I uppercut at his jaw, throw a punch at his stomach, and knee him in the crotch at the same time. He blocks the uppercut and the punch, but I hit him with my knee. He falls to the ground groaning and I kick him a couple of times. He is knocked out. "URIAH IS OUT! HOORAY!" Now, Four. It's one on one from now. He throws a punch at my jaw. I duck and try to tackle him. He evades and tries to kick me in my face. I turn away, stand up and immediately punch him in the face. This catches him off guard. He quickly recovers and punches me in my stomach. I charge at him, dodge his fist and knee him in his crotch. He bends over and I elbow him on the side of his head. He falls down, knocked out. I throw my arms in the air. "THE LEGENDARY FOUR IS KNOCKED OUT! SIX IS VICTORIOUS! HOORAY FOR SIX!" Everyone cheers. Once again, Virginia is silent. She looks at her watch and walks away. Probably to the dining hall. Yasmin runs up to help Uriah – a little bit too eager if you ask me – together with Shine, Cinda, Blue and Rachel help Four, Rick and James help Lynn, me and Marlene help Zeke, and Will can walk himself. Lowell, Pierce, and Christopher stand back and do nothing. Assholes. We all (except Virginia and Lowell & co.) march over to the infirmary. The looks on the faces of people we pass are hilarious.
We arrive at the infirmary. The desk lady looks at us like we exploded before she notices that it's me, Zeke, Uriah, and Four and she understands. Meanwhile Christina joined us. "What happened?" She asks. "Battle brawl. Me against everyone else except the initiates. Marlene was the judge." I smile. "I won." She looks astonished and after a couple of seconds calls in a couple of doctors and nurses. They bring us to a large room with six beds and we lay everyone on a bed. They ask me to lay down as well. I shake my head. "I'm fine. Maybe a bruised jaw and stomach. I didn't get hit anywhere else." They look at me just like the lady behind the desk. "But you fought Four! And Zeke Pedrad!" One of them protests. I smile. "Yep. Knocked each of 'em out in seconds." They look astonished. "Did the same with Eric once." They look even more astonished. "Max is next on my list. I wonder how long he will take to be knocked out." I say while walking away. I stop in the doorway. "Initiates, follow me. We have a lesson to attend to. Seeing the events of today, we will do the scoring tomorrow. You will have the rest of the day to train for tomorrow. Use that time wisely. This does mean however that we will have to do the fighting faster, but that will concern us at a later time. For now, let's focus on knife throwing." I smile, and walk away, with the initiates and Christina following me one step behind.
We walk past the dining hall to talk to Virginia, Lowell, Pierce, and Christopher. I motion all the initiates to go to the training room, with Christina supervising them. The dauntless can probably handle themselves. I walk over to the initiates in the dining hall. They are all at one table. "Initiates!" I say. They look over. "Since you were such assholes with helping out, the rest of the initiates will have a chance to train the rest of the day, while you will not." They look angry. "You're just trying to get us out of dauntless." In some ways that is true. In other ways it isn't. "Maybe I am, maybe I am not. You will never find out." I smile and walk away.