Stone Cold Heart

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"You are a force to be reckoned with."

Chapter 2

The rest of the ceremony passed by quickly and I found myself sprinting out of The Hub with the group of lively Dauntless born and transfers.

The air was thick and cold and I felt it filling my lungs, bringing me to life, a new life. As my feet muscles started to heat up I came to a stop and realized I had to climb on the foundations of the train tracks that sat above. I gripped onto the metal and began to escalate, thrilled by the dauntless experience.

The train moved fast and the crowd started to run, some already jumping onto the moving metal machine.

I fastened the pace and took a leap as I extended my arms to grip on the handles. My left hand grabbed it forcefully and I helped myself with both of my arms, tensing my muscles as I got inside the train and took a seat on the carriage floor.

The adrenaline that filled my system gave a good, invigorating feeling as I felt myself drifting away from my abnegation life more and more.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned to see a girl with beautiful, long copper hair and bright blue eyes. She gave me a smile and extended her hand to shake.

"I am Jessica." She chirped in a girly yet confident voice.

"Aviana," I answered in my smooth, calm voice and returned her the smile.

"You must be from abnegation." Jessica continued looking at the plain, grey dress I was still wearing. The wool kept myself warm and as I touched the material, memories of the life I have just left filled my head. I shook the thoughts away as I answered.

"Yes, and I suppose you come from Amity." My modulated voice said as I took a look at her yellow skirt and red shirt, a common amity outfit.

"Ugh, true. Thank God I left!" she singsong picking with disgust the red material of the shirt and letting out a musical laughter.

We exchanged a large smile before we heard a raspy voice saying.

"Hey, we have to jump!" said a tall boy with authority before he took a few steps back and jumped from the moving train on the roof of a towering building.

"You have to be kidding me!" Jessica hissed and rolled her eyes annoyed.

I shot her a small reassuring smile as I grabbed her hand in mine and gave it a tight squeeze.

"Together?" I asked as the strong wind was hitting me in the face roughly.

"Together!" concluded Jessica, wearing her self-confident smile and we ran a few steps back preparing our leap.

A pitched squeal left my lips as I felt myself bouncing through the icy air and the well-known adrenaline rush flooded my body once again.

As I landed on the rocky stones on my bum I let out a sniffled laugh and soon I was joined by Jessica's fruity laughter.

My cheeks burned, and my lungs were heated but for the first time in my life I felt free and careless.

"Alright, listen up!" a hoarse voice boomed through the crowd with clear authority and all the murmurs died down as we all looked up to the man climbed up on the ledge. He was big build with large, strong arms, tall and imposing. His face looked smug, as he wore a bored smirk and watched us with superiority, his hypnotizing grey eyes shot cold daggers at each and one of the initiates. He had two piercings above his left eyebrow and several tattoos on his arms and neck. The man just emanated dauntless through his pores.

"I'm Eric, one of your leaders." I stared at him in bewilderment, you could tell he was young, he must be very good.

"If you want to enter dauntless, this is the way in." he said gesturing with his hand towards the edge of the roof. Jump, again? I said to myself this time annoyed by the series of jumps we had to do today.

Jessica let out a miffed sigh and rolled her eyes for the second time.

"We have to jump again? And what is waiting for us at the bottom?" asked a tall boy with baby blue eyes. He seemed scared as he was nervously playing with the hem of his blue shirt. Erudite, I thought

"You will have to jump and see." Eric answered clearly annoyed by the boy's question. "And if you don't have the guts to do it, you might leave just now. We don't need cowards in Dauntless." He spat the words giving a cold glare to the Erudite boy.

"And that's available for all of you." His voice hissed and his eyes locked with mine for a few seconds as I felt my body tense and breath hitch.

"So, who wants to jump first?" Eric asked already bored by the unwilling, terrified crowd.

I contemplated for a few seconds and raised my hand. I'd rather go first and get it over with than to stay here and die of nervousness.

"I want to go first." I tried to sound determined, but I sounded like a terrified cat, just great.

I made my way fast to the edge of the roof although, my legs felt heavier than ever and the pounding of my heart echoed through my ears.

I climbed onto the ledge and looked down into nothingness. There were probably 1 thousand feet and at the bottom I could spot a huge hole, a hole with what? I thought scared.

"Are you scared, stiff? I can join you if you want." I glanced back to see a guy with dark, brown hair and a stupid smug smile on his face.

"At least, I am brave enough to jump first while you hide behind your friends." I spat looking at him, an arrogant smile playing at the corners of my lips.

"Ooh, the stiff got you, Keith." laughed, probably one of that douche's friends while the other initiates burst into laughter.

I took a last glance down and then I jumped closing my eyes. The fall seemed to last forever, I was free falling and the thick air felt like sharp knives on my skin. I hit something hard which caused me to jump a few feet in the air before I landed roughly on a net.

The intense rush of adrenaline died down and I felt strange tingles on my skin. A strong arm grabbed the net while another grabbed mine and pushed me on my feet. A tall, tanned man with brown eyes stared at me before asking monotonous.

"What's your name?"

"Aviana." I breathed out.

"Sure? You can change it if you want." He answered with a smile. Dang it, all this dauntless guys look handsome. I said to myself, my thoughts drifting off to a certain dauntless guy.

I shook my head, clearing my mind before I answered.

"I'm sure, my name represents me; I don't want to change it."

"Alright, first jumper Aviana!"

I made my way to the back of the room waiting for the others.

After 10 minutes, all of us gathered waiting for other instructions.

"My name is Four. I usually work in intelligence, but I will be your instructor."

"Now follow me, I'll show you around."

We were following Four when I felt a playful shove in my arm.

I looked at Jessica, actually, Jess now as she shortened it to sound more dauntless like. She shot me a cheeky smile before whispering and pointing towards Four.

"He really has a strange name."

"I actually, kind of like it." I said, honestly.

"Of course you do, your name is weirder." Jess chirped before hugging me like a child who just did something wrong.

"Whatever, my name is unique and fabulous just like me." I said while we both started to laugh.

Four showed us the pit, also called the center of life in dauntless, the chasm, I really don't want to hang around there, our bedrooms, the bathroom and the cafeteria.

Ugh, the same bathroom for boys and girls and the showers don't even have curtains or something.

He let us change our clothes and burn our old ones and then we had to go to lunch.

"That bathroom terrifies me.'' I said to Jess while pulling on some black leggings.

"I know, that's just gross!" she shivered while she zipped up her black vest with red stripes.

"Nice bum, stiff!" Keith said glancing at me with a large smirk. Perv

"Don't you have better things to do?" I spat growing tired of that ignorant prick.

Jess grabbed my arm and we went to the cafeteria.

The place was huge but filled with dauntless members sitting casually, eating and laughing. They all seemed to have fun and enjoy life here.

I smiled at the thought while Jess tried to find a table for us. I followed her a few feet away and she took a seat on the bench and motioned for me to sit beside her. I took the seat only to regret it a few seconds later. Eric was sitting right beside me as he was having a heated argument with Four. Just my luck

To be honest, Eric's presence tensed me terribly, not only his hoarse voice, steel look or imposing posture; I just felt strange in his presence, I don't even know how to describe it.

However, I was awakened from my thoughts by Jess's disgusted voice.

"Ew, is that a burger?" she said pointing to the fried piece of meat from a metal bowl.

"I suppose; I never ate one."

"Me neither, we used to take care of animals not slaughter and eat them." She answered with tears in her eyes.

"Well, dauntless have a diet based mostly on proteins as they make so much effort."

"Unlike, amity and abnegation who eat mostly vegetables, plain food."

Said the boy who asked Eric what's waiting for us at the bottom when we were on the roof.

"Did you swallow a book or something?'' Jess chirped while she let out a laugh.

"No, I come from Erudite. My name is Alex, by the way." He answered in a calm voice while he smiled at us.

"Nice to meet you Alex. I am Jess and this is Aviana." Jess said pointing to me while she smiled back.

Another boy, Marc from Candor joined our conversation about our old factions. We laughed as Alex made a cheeky joke about Candor and Marc gave him a similar answer referring to Erudites.

My heart jumped a little when I heard a loud smash on the table from my left side.

"That's enough about your old factions, you came to dauntless. You should be more concerned about making it here and proving yourselves." His voice was hoarse as he looked in my eyes intensely as if he was referring specifically to me. I hate it when people underestimate me

"You don't think I can make it into dauntless?" the question left my mouth before thinking, although, I really wanted to say it anyway.

I expected him to smash or throw something even hit me or at least shout but instead, he answered in a calm voice.

"What I think is that until you show what you're capable of you'll remain a weak stiff who made the wrong choice."

"Well, you're wrong and I will prove myself to all the people who think that I am just a weak stiff just like you do."

I answered while looking him right in those cold eyes that seemed to have a certain glimmer that confused me.

"Good." Was all that Eric said before giving me a large smirk and leaving the table. Alright, I expected a much different outcome

I heard Alex and Marc let out a big gasp of air while Jess turned to face me, sheer shock written all over her face.

"Okay, Aviana, do you have a death wish or something?" she asked with confusion and amusement at the same time.

"Not exactly. Why?" I laughed while the three of them joined me, Although, I knew very well what she was referring to.

Let's say there is more to me than abnegation. Well, much more…

The rest of the day passed quickly and we all went to get some sleep before the real hell that will reveal to us tomorrow.

To be honest, I was scared, actually terrified the least. At the same time, I felt an uncontainable desire to prove what I am capable of and make it into dauntless.

Before drifting off to sleep, I heard his words echo through my ears causing me to shiver.

"What I think is that until you show what you're capable of you'll remain a weak stiff who made the wrong choice."