4: Tris

I wake up to my door opening. I have stopped caring again. I don't move but listen.

"Can't get past this one Tris, time for another mission, but this time it doesn't have a time limit."

I roll over to look at Uriah standing in my door way. "They sent you to pull me in again?"

"No, I showed up and was handed a mission, which includes you, if you like it or not. You are coming with Marlene, Will, and me. We got assigned to work within a city."

This got me up. "What's the mission?"

"What Dauntless do best, be brave and reckless," he grinned like before hell broke lose in Chicago. "Plus they will give us the need gear."

I pushed the blankets back, grabbed my bag next the the nightstand, and I was out of bed ready to go besides needing shoes. Uriah lead the way down and out the front door with the minor wait on me for my shoes. At a decent pace, we made it to the portal building of Valhalla. Once we walked in, I noticed Marlene and Will talking a bit before they noticed us.

"What did you get us into Uriah?"

Uriah shrugged at Will's question and looked at me. "Do you have an idea?"

I shrugged as well. They could have given me any mission but this was beyond me why these three would get dragged down with me for my actions this morning. I am hoping it's because they need me to help the team and not because I screwed up this morning. I walked with the group to one of the debriefing rooms before doing a jump to where our mission is. Marlene, Will, and Uriah chit-chatted while we waited for our Captain to give us more details for this mission. The door open and I didn't watch our Captain, I watched the Goddess walk in. I sat up and watched her like a cat watches danger. She quietly sat down, and waited to be noticed. It was about five minutes before Uriah started to ask me a question, he more than likely noticed that I was too focused to hear his question and I did noticed him go extremely rigid when he noticed the Goddess of Valhalla. I had the feeling this mission was more important or she really did take an interest in me.

"Good afternoon," her voice as light and quite.

We returned her greeting and waited for what she would like to talk to us about. She seemed like she was debating on how to tell us something.

"There is trouble in my father's home town. I would like the four of you to find out what is happening for me, please," she didn't seem mad, she didn't seem like she was desperate, she seemed worried more than anything else.

"Why us?" I was still not understanding why she would want us to help her.

She gave a small smile, "Because, Tris, you were able to get out without us noticing. Because you four have a special set of skill that none here in Valhalla have learned at your age. Because you four have a unique position here, by all rights you four are too young for most things but are so aware that you deserve more than being silly messengers."

I finally relaxed into my seat. She wasn't lying. Her face was young but not terably young, I know she has great secrets, but I know it's not my place to know. "Why send us when you could just walk in and ask?"

She had a little smile on her face like she had been waiting on the question. "For dragons, when an heir takes over, it's after their parent has died and will never come back. Between my father, my sister, my brother and myself, we all live. Before I awoke and became truly me, my father was presumed dead, and the clan fell to my brother, who never wanted it because he had other responsibilities to take car of."

"While the clan looked to my younger brother, he went looking for me. I am the first born, but I was asleep and hidden within time it's self. When I awoke, thus started learning and using my powers, that was when my brother was able to find me. Once he found me, he brought me before the clan and said I was the oldest, therefore it was my rightful place to take our fathers role. Because I was more or less and outsider in the clan, there was much I could do or understand. After years, I found my father and brought him back to rule the clan, though, nothing has been right since I took over the clan. Something is wrong and we need to understand the problem to give a solution to this problem."

"This is why I would like you four to take up this mission. We can give you the knowledge of our people and give you the basics for the mission. It would be a week of prep work, then I will let you do what you do best."

"What is the worst that could happen?"

"Death that I couldn't bring you back from." The goddess of the end of time stood and left the room.

I say back and groaned. I looked over at the others who just staiered at me.

"What did you do this morning?" Asked Marlene.

I groaned more and out my head on he table, "I went and saw Tobias this morning,"

I could hear them breathing. It felt like they where looking at each other, wondering how it was possible for me to slip out of Valhalla. I sat back up and looked at then. "I got banned from going there while people I love and know are still living there." That didn't stop the looks that they each gave me. "What?"

"We can't get past or even get off planet without help, I've tried a few times when I first got here, and more recently after know how everything operates around here. They let me get to the point where I can't do anything on my own, I have to have help to leave," said Will, like it was useless to try and leave, that he had given up hope altogether.

I reached out and touched his arm, "I don't know how frustrating it is, but I know she would have loved to see you." I kept my hand on his arm, then I did the unthinkable, I stood up and gave him a hug. He jumped at the contact, but didn't reject it either. I let go of Will, "I'm sorry Will, I would have thought smarter faster."

He smiled up at me, "If I was angry at you, you would have never given me that hug."

I smiled back, "Alright, what do you guys want to know of what I have done?"