Hey guys chapter nine is her for your eyes to read! All rights go to Veronica Roth!
Tris POV
"So Tris come with me and we will head downstairs to begin training," Natalie says turning on her heel and walking over to a... Wall? She places her hand in the centre of the creamy wall. A quick, fluro green light flashes and a door sized section of the wall pops out and Natalie pushes it aside and walks into a glass elevator. I jog a little to get into the elevator. "Now Tris this is the way to the training is where you will learn to control your power but it also has other qualities it is also like an indoor sports centre I will enter your hand matrix later so you will be able to come in when you want," Natalie states.
The glass panel slides away revealing... Well a sports centre. There is a lap pool, a spa, a knife throwing platform, a boxing ring, punching bags, treadmills, a yoga section and a field for outdoor sports. It's as amazing as the house above us. Natalie walks over to the yoga area and sits on a pink mat. I walk over there as well and sit on the black mat I front of her. "Okay tris let's start with something simple, to shape shift you have to imagine what it looks like in your head and focus on that image until you feel different which is a sign of transformation, so imagine yourself with short, curly, blue hair," Natalie says.
I shut my eyes and imagine what I would look like. I concentrate on that picture for a while. When I am about to give up I suddenly feel a scratchiness at the lower section of my neck. I open my eyes and Natalie holds up a mirror at my face. "I did it!" I shout admiring my blue ringlets. "Okay Tris since you did that in record time we will try something harder, to change back just remember what you looked like before," Natalie instructs me. I shut my eyes and imagine my old self. I feel the ratty ends of mIy hair again sitting around my waist. I open my eyes and grin. "Okay since this is too easy, I want you to try to turn into an animal of your choice," she explains. I shut my eyes and imagine the animal. I feel smaller than before. I open my eyes and see my snowy white feathers I am now a beautiful swan.
I go to ask Natalie something but my voice comes out in a clear single quack. I start to panic and flap around honking suddenly I am in the air and soaring around the room. Natalie can see my distress and starts telling me to calm down. Calm down! How can I calm down I am a freaking bird and can't communicate with human beings.
Suddenly my body is falling through the air an fad I land in the icy waters of the pool. I slowly pull my drenched body out of the deep water. As soon as I am on firm land I pull my knees up to my chest and bury my head. I soon feel a pair of warm hands drag a fuzzy towel around my body. I sigh. "It's okay Tris no one is able to communicate in an animal form just to let you know and that sort of freak out took your mind to far from the swan so you just shifted," she comforts, " I think that's enough training for the day, but you can stay down here just scan your hand on this device so I can enter your hand matrix."
I place my hand on the device and it scans my hand. Natalie gets up and leaves. I decide to stay behind to try out the knife throwing station. I get up and walk over to the knife cabinet and pick four suitable knives. I walk over to a target and position myself. I let the knife fly and it lands dead centre. I throw the rest and they land a breath apart from each other. I guess I have just always had good aim. I finish packing everything up and take the elevator back to the house.
Hope you liked the chapter I enjoyed writing it. There will be more scenes where tris shifts from now on. See ya
-Katris Everprior
