A/N: I'm back! Soooooo so so so so sorry I haven't updated in agggessss! I did NOT forget I just had sooo much going on and I will try to update much more often! Please enjoy this chapter, it is a bit longer to make up for the wait. Read and REVIEW please! Hope u enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Divergent or the characters. I'm sure Veronica Roth is not organised than me!
Divergent Fanfic - Island
Chapter 7
Four's POV
I wake up first. I carefully get up, trying not to wake Tris and decide to go to the pond for some water. I take both water bottles out of Tris' backpack and head down to the pond. Yesterday Tris and I came down here so she could show me where it was. I like it because it is pretty much the only thing on this island that feels natural and sometimes you can even see small fish in the water. Our fishing skills have got better. Together, the 10 of us have managed to catch 3 fish! Big fish too! We were all so happy with our achievements until Lynn said, "I don't actually like fish. I just find it disgusting". She had to find her own food. Uriah has found a new hobby of digging since he saw something glowing under the sand and dug it up to find it was a gun! Not a real gun, just one with plastic bullets but still, a plastic gun! That could give us hours of entertainment and we could even try to use it as a weapon! We have had no further contact from Jeanine. We don't know what we are supposed to be doing. We miss dauntless and our friends there but we are having fun here. My only worry is that everything seems to be working out a bit too perfectly at the moment. I get the feeling something is going to go wrong. For now though, we are happy here.
I finish filling the bottles and head back to base camp where Uriah has woken up. I find him next to the sea, digging in the sand.
"Found anything?" I ask him quietly.
"Not yet" he says.
I leave him to dig in peace and sit on the sand next to our tent. Staring at the waves, I decide to try to fish so I take the fishing rod from the tree that it stands next to and head down to the sea. Soon, Tris wakes with a start. It even makes me jump and I'm not even in that tent. She walks over to me and it's not long before Peter and Marlene are awake from the noise. I continue trying to fish and continue to fail. Eventually I turn to Tris and say, "Maybe you should be doing this instead. I haven't caught a single thing since we have been on this island". At this she just laughs. Before she can answer, Marlene has skipped over here and said, "Can I do some fishing?"
"Sure. You might actually catch something." I say back and she smirks. I hand her the rod and get up. Tris decides to make another fishing rod since that one seems to be in demand at the moment. I help her.
Once everyone is awake and we have another fishing rod, we eat a breakfast of bread and the fish Marlene managed to catch which is quite big. We decide to split into two groups like most days. Half of us will stay around "base camp" and the part of the island we have already explored and the other half of us will go to the other side of the island and explore.
I am next to the lake filling up our water bottles. Tris, Christina, Shauna, Zeke and Uriah stayed near our tent and are trying to get resources in the half of the island we have already explored. The rest of us are exploring the rest of the island. At least, we assume it's an island. I was nominated to spilt off from the rest of the group. Filling up the bottles is now a boring and mindless task which no one wants to do. It was my turn today. I look around the area as I'm doing it. I notice a lizard-y looking animal on top of a rock on the other side of the lake. It's quite big for a lizard. We stare at each other for a while and his heads turns as he tries to work out what I am. He jumps into the lake and swims to my side. I stand up. Can lizards even swim? What is this thing? It gets out of the lake and lands on the grass next to me. I stare at it for a while, puzzled. Suddenly without any warning, it pounces onto my chest and seems to grow to ten times it's previous size. It jumps over my head and grabs me in it's arms. I desperately struggle against it's firm grasp. It wraps it's arms around me and blocks my vision. I'm trapped, one of my worst fears: claustrophobia. I try to take deep breaths and slow my heart rate but it doesn't work because this isn't a simulation. It's real. It tries to pull me closer, briefly loosening it's grip. I seize the opportunity and wriggle out of it's rough, wrinkly arms. I take off running and with it's size and legs it can hardly keep up. I'm screaming for help and I wonder if I'm dreaming, if this was all a simulation. I don't even know where I'm running to and I begin to think about direction when it dawns on me that it can jump. High. Far. At this moment. It soars into the air and lands in front of me, pins me to the ground whilst making some sort of horrible, high pitched screeching noise I can only think of as a victory shout, but it hasn't won yet. He scratches my face with huge claws that came out of nowhere and I only just realise the pain in my leg, probably from being used as a landing point by a huge lizard monster. I hear rustles in the trees around us and I try to release his arms from pinning my shoulders. Suddenly, Zeke and Tris burst through the trees and I'm worried. What if this thing gets us all. Tris has a knife and Zeke has Uri's plastic gun. They exchange a nod and before the lizard even notices them, Zeke has put a bullet through his eye. The beast roars in pain and starts to try and attack them. I scramble to my feet and I watch Tris take aim. She throws the knife and it lands right where it's heart would be. The beast falls to the ground and he is as good as dead. Tris digs the knife out of it and checks the pulse. She shakes her head and a loud, "phew" escapes me. Tris suddenly looks concerned and she jumps over to me.
"Are you ok? Do you want to go back to the tent? Where are the others?" She explodes into questions.
"The others are fine, I think. I went to go and get water and that thing appeared!" I tell her and we limp back to base camp, her asking me questions all the way.
