6: Tris

We walked into the training room as a group since we all agreed to help the Goddess of Valhalla. I stretched as we waited. Will chatted with Uriah about whatever they had been talking about for the past hour. They both went really quite whenever Marleen of me got close to hear what they were saying. I ignored them as we waited. Marlene walked over to me and gave me a questioning look. I shrugged and looked at the boys. She rolled her eyes.

"So, do you know what type of training they are going to put us through?"

"No idea and I bet it won't be easier than what we have already done." It felt like a pressure had been building up and it wouldn't leave us alone. I looked around, hoping someone would walk in to talk to us soon, I hate waiting.

"Part of me hopes you are wrong, that nothing is harder than Dauntless training, but you could be right and then the real fun begins," Marlene smiled at me.

"Hey! Tris! Who is cuter? Will or me?" Uriah smiled at me like he knew the answer.

I rolled my eyes and grinned. "Will is. You have a great smile but I've seen Will in action, nothing beats him."

"Except a bullet to the brain by the smallest Dauntless trainy."

"Hey! I wasn't taking it there and you know it!" I yelled at will, frustrated at how brought that up. It was unnerving watching his smile spread across his face.

"Well, aren't we in high sprits today?" I looked over to see the Goddess had walked in with another man behind her. I rolled my eyes are the question and I felt a serge of happiness and joy run through my vains. The Goddess stood there, with her hands covering her mouth and her body wiggled with laughter. She tried to suppress it as she walked up to use, but it was beyond me why she was giggling.

"Nee-san, can we stopped this absent laughing?" The man asked in a low quiet voice.

"I'm sorry Nii-san, but her look and the eye rolling, was too perfect," she smiled back at him. She looked back at us, with a bright smile on her face, "So, this is my Nii-san, Logan, who will also help train you four. I will be working with Tris and Uriah. Logan will train Marlene and Will."

My heart felt weird, it felt like it was trying to escape my chest. I took a deep breath and exhaled. Why was I thinking this had to do with something with being a divergent? I took another deep breath. One. The panic ran through my veins. Two. I let the want of knowledge scream through my mind. Three. I closed and opened my eyes, ready to move forward. The Goddess tilted her head like she was inspecting something interesting. She glanced a look at Logan then went back to looking at me. I raised an eyebrow.

Logan cleared his throat and brought the Goddess' attention to him. "Alright, since we are splitting into two groups, Marlene and Will can follow me, we will be going to another area for your training." He moved away from the Goddess and impatiently waited at the door for Will and Marlene to accompany him.

Marlene look at me for something, I shrugged my shoulders at her. She let go of a breath and walked with Will to follow Logan wherever they were going. We waited till the doors were closed and the foot sets faded before we look at each other. Uriah shifted his weight between his feet as he waited for someone to speak. The Goddess looked younger, like the power around her was let go and she was letting us see her.

"Umm…" She bit her lip and she thought about something. "I'm not sure how to explain this to you, but I need to teach you how it works as well."

"Alright, what is it?" I asked since knowing what she wanted to teach us would be the easiest.

"Magic… But it isn't quite magic, but it is, but it's like energy around you that you can use… Um…" She seemed to trying to come up with an answer for us, but it just slipped away.

"Alright, for now, lets call it Magic. Why are you going to teach us Magic?"

"Because it will look very odd if you go to live in Elvana if you don't know how to use it. It's like living somewhere and not learning to speak the language. For you. by your age you should have learned the basics about Magic, but not everything. Just enough knowledge to live away from your parent's protection, but enough that you still have a lot more to learn," she seemed to be looking at something that was very complete and try to read it aloud to us.

I took in a deep breath. "So, in this place called Elvana, the people know magic and not knowing magic is like not knowing the language?"

"Yes, but not everyone can use Magic like I can teach you," she gave an odd pause, like what she was saying wasn't quite right. "Like any race, we each have our differences. There are some like Marlene and Will that will learn a bit of Magic, but only a specific type. There are a few that are beyond that, they can do more but not to the level the elite few can. With those few, they know as much as the rest plus more that they learn on their own and through different people that can train them with what they know."

I took a breath, "So, there are three classes of people in Elvana?"

"Yes."

"One group uses a bit of Magic, the second group uses more Magic like money, then the third uses it like it's just who they are?"

"More or less, every person looks at it differently like hair color," she giggled at the last part. "So, people with brown hair, blond hair and red hair, kinda simple like that. They either have the color of hair or they don't!"

I paused, "Alright, I'm following."

"So, if the basic people are brown haired, then second people are blond hair, the third bring redheads!" She smiled as if she was proud of finding a simple way of explaining the complex society. "And you two are redheads like me!"

My breath catch, I tried to clear it away, but it wasn't working. How are we anything like YOU!?

Uriah finally cleared his throat, "You mean that we have Magic powers?"

"Uh… Yes, but I think you have limited access to it till you have more training. If you guys are like I was when I first learn, then you have used your power, but there is a lot more you can do once you know how to access your power. As of now, you more than likely have been running off instinct," she said. "It's hard to learn, but you have faced a lot already with more to come. I think it's time you learned you history and more about yourselves."

"How are we even similar? How is that possible? You are the Goddess of Valhalla, we are science experiments from Chicago!" Uriah's face was pale and eyes wide.

She let go of a breath, "It's not that simple, but yes, we are similar."

The groan from Uriah was a frustrated sound. "Then explain it to us…"

"Well, this all started when I was 16, and I started learning about my powers, over time they grew and I could use them more. After a while, I was able to break past what we call the Vail. The Vail is what makes it so it is highly difficult to use your powers on Earth. Earth is the planet that you both came from." She took a deep breath, "The Vail has a lot to it and if you can break through it, that just causes a lot of problems."

"Alright, Chicago is this tiny place on Earth, we have seen a lot of the land around Chicago, but there is more to it than that?"

"Correct, the area around Chicago, that is in the middle of the Area called North America."

"I remember David saying something about the United States of America, but never really made sense," I said.

"Because there is a lot geographic info you would learn before hand. A lot of what they told you is true, except for how the war started," she slowly sat down, like she was settling in to tell a story. "Before the Purity War, there was not peace, but conflict that was world wide. The world was on the brink of war for years, a war that was heading to be fought over money and resources. About a hundred or more years before that, in the United States of America, people came up with this idea of genetic defects. People at that time were just starting to understand genetics. Slowly people started to recognize Genetic Defects within the society. When GDs were noticed, people believe in removing them from the breeding pool by making it so they could not have children. People thought that was better than killing the people. It went like that for a few years before the rest of the population protested saying it was inhumane to make the choice about what someone could and couldn't do."

"After the United States of America stopped the trial run of removing GDs, another country named Germany started up, except the people of the country didn't stop the removal of GDs from the breeding pool. It got to the point where the world got involved with stopping the killings of GDs, but once the war ended, there was a rift in society that was unseen, but still there. There was a lot issues with society from that war to the Purity War. I was 24 years old when the Purity War took over the world."

I watched the Goddess, and my heart seemed to changed with her last words. It felt like we could feel what she was feeling, and I never wanted to know those feelings again.

"I'm sorry Tris, I didn't mean to give off my feelings," she apologized.

She apologized about letting her feelings out? "Why do you apologized?" I asked. I took a glance at Uriah, but he seemed not to be feeling what I was.

"There are feelings that I never want to share with another, and knowing that you don't know how to protect against this, I am sorry that I am not being more careful," she gave a small smile as she looked up at me.

"Friends don't worry about showing who they are to each other," I said it and I knew I meant it. I reached out and touched her face, "We all go through hell before we know who we are."

Note: Sorry about that to anyone who read this chapter. I don't know how that happened, but it did. I hope having the correct chapter helps. :)