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Phoenix and Andie both let out a shriek as they landed on the hard ground of the rooftop, Phoenix almost somersaulted when she touched down but she managed to prevent it and instead landed roughly on her knees.
"Ow!" Andie groaned out from where she had landed on her bottom up ahead of Phoenix and then she laughed, "Good thing I had something soft to land on!"
She pushed herself up then put both hands on her behind and rubbed it hard, Phoenix couldn't help but laugh at her as she did, "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm good, you?" Andie said with a grin and Phoenix pulled back her ripped skirt to observe her knees, one was good but the other was bleeding in two places with a little bit of redness and there was also purple bruising forming around it already.
"I'll live." she replied and pulled her skirt back into place before she stood up.
Phoenix wasn't sure but looking around she noticed that almost everyone had managed to jump from the train and they were now gathered in a group in the middle of the roof of the building, there were maybe a couple of faces that were missing but she pushed that thought to the back of her mind, there was no point looking back now, no matter how sorry she felt for those transfers that were now factionless.
As the girls looked around they noticed that there were some dauntless members waiting over the other side of the roof next to a small wall and one of those members was stood atop that wall looking out over everyone, he called out to them in a loud, deep voice, "Gather round."
Something about his tone of voice just screamed authority and nobody disobeyed his order, everyone moved swiftly to where he and the other members were.
As they approached the wall Phoenix managed to get a clearer view of the man that had spoken, he looked to be in his early to mid twenties and even though he was stood on the wall it was obvious that he was a tall man, it was also very obvious despite the padded jacket he wore that he was very muscular, his big broad shoulders were more prominent because of the 'V' body shape he owned.
Shaved at the sides and cropped short on the top of his head was dirty blonde hair, both his ears were pierced along with the spot above his right eyebrow.
He had matching tattoos on either side of his neck just below his chiselled jaws and they ran down his throat, stopping just above his collar bones.
Phoenix was surprised at herself for the thorough observation she gave the man and she felt a blush creeping it's way up her neck at that thought.
Throughout her life in abnegation she'd always observed other people, dauntless members in particular...they weren't exactly hard to miss, especially with their tattoos, crazy hair styles and wild personalities, she could never take her eyes off them whenever she saw them...women or men, she found them to be fascinating.
Her observation of this man however was different, admiration was what she had for the previous dauntless members but for this man, it was a bit different, he wasn't just someone that she envied because of the faction he was part of as she herself was now apart of that very faction, he was also nice to look at and she'd never thought that way about anyone before.
His gaze seamed to find each individual face of the transfers as he looked out over the group infront of him and when his eyes landed on her she swallowed uncomfortably.
His gaze lingered on her undoubtedly the longest and she wasn't the only one that noticed, others followed his stare.
When she looked back at him she found him looking her up and down with what could only be described as distaste and she suddenly felt very stupid for the thoughts she'd just had.
"My name's Eric." he said and then he looked away from her so he was addressing everyone, "I'm one of your leaders."
He began to move back and forth along the wall slowly whilst looking over the group once more, he stopped a beat later and glanced over his shoulder and down.
"This is the entrance to dauntless." he said and then looked at them all again, murmuring began around Phoenix at his words and she looked up at Andie.
"We have to jump off the roof?" the amity girl whispered and Phoenix looked back over at Eric.
"Who's first?" he said to all of them a beat later and looked around them briefly before he spoke again, "Transfers...this is an opportunity for you in particular to prove yourselves."
Nobody said a word, there was only silence and it kept growing and growing, it was probably only a minute that passed by if any at all but it felt like a lifetime.
"I don't have all day." Eric announced in a bored and impatient tone.
Eventually after more moments of nobody doing anything passed by a dauntless boy sighed loudly then shoved his way forward through the crowd, "I'll do it...man, what a bunch of pussies."
Phoenix frowned at the crass word whereas other dauntless sniggered in response, that word wasn't one that she was used to hearing but she knew what it meant.
Eric hopped down from the wall as the boy approached him and stepped back, the boy then jumped up onto the wall, looked down briefly then turned around to look at the group that were gathered infront him, he grinned at them and said, "See ya!"
He let out a loud yell then threw himself backwards in a flip and disappeared from the ledge, some people including Phoenix gasped and ran to the wall to look over, there was a giant hole of darkness several stories below the building they were all stood on.
The boy was nowhere to be seen but Phoenix heard what she thought was laughing followed by cheering coming from inside the hole.
"I guess you're our next jumper." a deep voice said low in her ear and her body jolted in surprise, she didn't have to look at the person to know who the voice belonged to, there was really no doubt.
A beat passed before she turned her head slightly and saw that his face was very close to hers, she knew that already though because she'd felt his warm breath on her skin when he'd spoken.
His face looked expressionless as he stared at her and she swallowed under the intensity of his gaze, she then leaned her head back and looked over her shoulder at the group she'd been standing with moments ago, they had all stepped back whilst she was still looking over the edge, thus, volunteering her to go next.
She looked at Andie briefly then back at Eric once more and he looked as if he was looking right through her, she looked down briefly then slowly took a hold of the wall infront of her.
Her heart was now thumping in her chest at the anticipation of what was waiting for her inside that hole and her stomach was doing somersaults, the fact that there hadn't been screams of pain heard from the boy was a very small comfort for her but she still wasn't looking forward to jumping off a roof.
She hoisted herself up onto the ledge so she had her good knee on it and the other leg dangled below her, she took maybe a second to take a breath then she pulled her other leg gently up so she was crouched on the wall.
A wolf whistle suddenly pierced through the air and she looked back at the group, her eyes immediately found a candor boy with his fingers in his mouth, "Not bad for a stiff."
Phoenix noticed his gaze was lowered and as a bunch of people laughed at his words she looked down, her full leg was now exposed because of the rip in her skirt, she quickly pushed herself up to standing and turned her back on all of them, she wobbled a little as she stood but she managed to regain her balance almost immediately.
"Maybe abnegation isn't so bad after all." she heard the same candor boy say which received more sniggers.
"Quiet." Eric's voice suddenly said over the laughter which stopped instantly.
Phoenix tuned out what the boy had said and looked down, the hole looked so much further away standing above it, she swallowed as she lifted her head and then she closed her eyes briefly, she began to take deep breaths before she shuffled forward ever so slightly.
"Today stiff." the same boy that had spoken before called out to her, his tone was no longer teasing but impatient and unpleasant.
She took another tiny step forward and looked down into the hole once more whilst mentally coaxing herself to just do it, to just get it over with, she had managed it from the train...why should now be any different.
It shouldn't be...it wasn't.
She bobbed her head in a nod of encouragement to herself, inhaled a deep breath and prepared to hop off.
"Screw this man, I'll get her moving." she heard the voice of the candor boy say from behind her followed by a scuffle then there was a few shocked gasps just before something hard hit her in the back of the knee.
Whatever it was that hit her was enough to throw her off balance and she found her body was falling sideways then forward which caused one of her legs to get caught behind her and scrape down the edge of the wall, a scream started in her throat then died away immediately as she plummeted fast through the air.
Her body twisted as she was falling and she found herself plunging down fast and head first.
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Her head and left shoulder touched down first on something soft and springy and it immediately threw her back up into the air and her body flipped over so she was now heading face first into what she realised was a huge net.
Her body bounced once more then came to a halt so she was lying star fished, she was met by loud cheers which made her lift her head up, there were other dauntless members stood a few feet away from the net on the other side of some train tracks and amongst them was the first boy that had jumped and he looked surprised to see her.
"The stiff? Didn't expect that." he called out with a grin then he saluted her and she found herself smiling back at him because...she had entered dauntless, she was now in her new home, she hadn't jumped down herself despite being about to but nevertheless she was here.
She took a couple of deep breaths to slow down her heart rate from the fall before she began to push her body up, the material of the net scraped against her cut knee as she did which caused her to wince slightly.
"What's your name?" a tall dark haired man asked her as he approached the net from the crowd of dauntless that were watching her, he didn't give her time to respond to the question though as he grabbed the edge of the net and yanked it down so she slid towards him, she gasped when she came face to face with him...he wasn't a bad looking man, he was quite handsome, despite the fact that he looked angry.
"Well?" he pressed as he grabbed her under the arms and pulled her out of the net to set her down roughly on her feet infront of him.
She looked up at him then briefly over at the dauntless that were watching her before she looked back at him, she then opened her mouth to say her name but stopped, Andie's conversation about her name earlier had stopped her from what she was about to say.
Abnegation was her old faction, Phoenix was who she was, who she still was but now...she was no longer abnegation, she was dauntless.
She needed a new name.
"I'm Nix." she said to the man and he stared at her for a moment before he called out her name to everyone and they all cheered for her, she smiled at the members of dauntless then looked back at the man but he wasn't looking at her, she followed his gaze and found he was looking at her legs or rather...her exposed leg, which was now scraped from her calf all the way up to her mid thigh.
"You hurt?" he asked her whilst looking at her leg still, he then looked back up at her face and raised his brows questioningly, she shook her head in response, "Go and stand beside Mark."
She didn't hesitate, she nodded and moved over towards the dauntless boy who she assumed was Mark just as she heard the excited yells of someone else echoing through the air as they jumped from the roof followed by the squealing of the nets springs as they landed safely.
"Yo, Nix!" Mark said as she approached and he held his fist out towards her, "Bump it girl."
She raised a brow at him then looked at his hand, a beat passed by before she made a fist herself and indeed did bump his.
Mark beamed at her then pulled her in for a tight hug which took her completely by surprise and she stumbled slightly.
"Put the girl down Benson." one of the dauntless members called out from across the room and some of the others laughed.
"Hey I'm just showing some love to a fellow initiate." Mark called back to the person as he slung his arm over her shoulder, "She's got bigger balls than the rest of them up there."
Some of the dauntless members were amused by what he had said and others were cheering for the person that had just jumped from the roof.
Nix looked over at the net and smiled, the person that had jumped was another dauntless born, Mark's voice caught her attention though as it was lower and directed at her, "Not literally I hope."
She saw him drag his eyes up and down her body slowly and he openly let them linger on the area between her legs.
She stared at him in disbelief after he winked at her then she quickly ducked out from underneath his arm, he threw his head back and laughed at her reaction.
"Once a stiff always a stiff right?" he said and then he slapped her hard on the behind.
Her mouth fell open in a gasp at his actions as he ran over to the guy that was hopping out of the net, they high fived one another whilst laughing then made their way back across to where she was stood.
They paid her no mind when they stood beside her but that didn't stop her from moving a few steps away from them, she glared at Mark and then as subtly as she could gave her bottom a rub as it stung from where he hit her.
After a moment had passed she crossed her arms over her chest and looked up at the hole in the roof to wait for Andie to jump down.
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Almost ten minutes passed and the ninth jumper landed in the net, it was Andie, Nix smiled at her and laughed when she jumped out of the net without help then started jumping around whooping.
Almost everyone laughed at her reaction then cheered loudly when she was asked her name which she responded to by shouting in a very loud and excited voice, 'I'm Andie!'.
When she looked around the crowd briefly her eyes eventually landed on Nix where she stood near the back, she waved at her with a beaming smile then began to jog towards her, Mark however stepped infront of her and cheered with his arms open.
Andie responded to this by cheering back and practically diving into his arms, he was clearly surprised at this but he wrapped his arms tightly around her anyway and began jumping up and down.
Nix covered her mouth with one of her hands to stop her laugher escaping at the sight before her, the girl was SO amity.
"Hey! Watch those hands!" Andie said loudly to Mark who had just openly without shame copped a large feel of her behind, it was clear this guy had a thing for women's bottoms.
Mark laughed and set her down on her feet, "Welcome to dauntless hippie."
"Thanks." Andie said with a wink and walked around Mark then she immediately broke into a run towards Nix and engulfed her in a hug.
"Whoa." Nix said in surprise then she laughed, she wasn't used to showing this much affection, of course she hugged her family every now and then but it was never anything like this.
She found that she really liked it this way better and she then tightened her own arms around Andie and hugged her back.
"We're in dauntless! We made it!" Andie said excitedly in her ear and then they broke apart.
"I know, it feels good." Nix replied with a grin and she glanced over at the net just as another jumper had come down and it was the candor boy that had been saying things to her on the roof.
Andie followed her gaze and made a noise of displeasure, "It's him."
"What did he throw at me?" Nix asked as she watched him scrambling to get out of the net, she noticed also that his left cheek now was red and puffy looking, "And what happened to his face?"
"Other than the fact he was born with it?" Andie asked and Nix looked up at her with a brief smile before she looked back over at the boy.
"Yeah...besides that." she replied and after she had spoken the candor boy looked over at her and scowled, "What's his problem?"
"It was that scary guy...Eric." Andie said and Nix looked up at her.
"What was Eric?" she asked.
"His face...it was Eric." Andie replied with a shrug and a grin.
"He hit him?" Nix asked with furrowed brows and Andie nodded, "Why?"
Andie shrugged again, "Well after the rock that he threw hit you and knocked you over, Eric marched over to him and BAM!"
Nix's mouth opened slightly in surprise and Andie made a fist and hit her other hand with it, the candor boy walked away from the net to stand beside some dauntless members and turned his head in the girls direction and glared at Nix.
"Why would he do that? I mean, I was supposed to jump anyway." Nix said whilst looking at the candor boy, she then turned her body to face Andie.
"Something about it being dangerous and a lot of paperwork for dead initiates or something." Andie replied.
"Really...and jumping from a moving train onto a rooftop isn't dangerous?" Nix asked with a raised brow.
Andie shrugged and grinned, "That's some shiner though right?"
Nix looked back over at the candor boy who was no longer watching her with disgust but looking at the net as more people jumped down, his injury did look painful and she couldn't help the feeling of satisfaction that built inside her at that fact, serves him right for what he did to her.