-Elodie's POV-
I launched myself out of the train car, my stomach churning. Please, God, let me land on the ground alive and unscathed. I felt my feet hit the ground and I continued to run, trying to get leverage to stand up straight. As I stumbled, a Candor girl reached her arm out steadying me. "Thank you" I gasped as I stood up.
"Its alright, just mind how you go, you're going to launch yourself of the edge" She chuckled.
"What edge?" I asked, confused. I looked past her, literally half a meter from where I was stood, the edge of a building. I walked past her and looked down, I had to take a deep breath. God, if I she hadn't been there to catch me I would of gone over.
I wlked back over to her, before I passed out from vertigo and got my first good lok at her. She was average height, she had dark mixed race skin and brown-black eyes. "What's your name?" She asked
"Elodie" I replied, still a little breathless. The Candor girl snorted.
"That's a bit eleqouent, isn't it, for an Amity" I clenched my fists, I may not be Amity anymore, but how dare she?
"Eleqount? What are you, an Erudite?" I asked through clenched teeth. She arched an eyebrow at me then smiled.
"You talk back! I like you. I'm Johanna" She stuck her hand out for me to shake, I took it, after all, she had stopped me from plumeting to my death. I heard a little huff coming from behind Johanna. Another Candor girl stepped beside her, she was a lot taller than the rest of us, she had a little dust of freckles going across her face and she had gentle green eyes.
"Honnestly, Johanna, you can't just go around insulting people!" She scolded.
"Oh, come one, Piper-Leigh I saved her life first, so it balances itself out right?" Johanna said.
Piper-Leigh just rolled her eyes.
"Look, will this help- Elodie, I'm sorry I insulted your faction" She said, she looked sincere about it aswell. I just laughed.
"Yes its fine, and besides, I'm not Amity anymore. I'm Dauntless now." I grinned. Johanna grinned back.
"I don't like you, Elodie, I love you!"
I opened my mouth to reply, but Piper-Leigh shushed us and pointed behind Johanna and I. On the ledge furthest from us, stood a young Dauntless woman. Johanna elbowed me and Piper-Leigh, "That's my sister, Christina!" She whispered. she paid rapt attention, while she spoke.
"Alright, intiates, listen up!" She shouted "Below here, lies the member's entrance to the Dauntless compound. There is only one way to get down there, can anyne guess what it is? I'll give you a clue- there is no ladder." She finished, smirking. The first to catch on was a Dauntless-born girl with dyed red hair.
"You want us to jump down there? Into the darkness?" Before Christina could reply, another Dauntless girl inturupted, saying.
"Yeah, Althea's right, what the hell?" Christina just raised her eyebrow.
"Well, Althea, Camden, you choose Dauntless right? Prove to me that you're brave by trusting me with your life." She challenged. She was smirking now, as Althea and Camden both fell silent. For a minute, nobody moved, all you could hear was the soft whistle of the wind. Then, as if they a had a life of their own, my legs started to move towards Christina, towards the ledge and towards the seemingly endless darkness.
"You, Amity?" She asked, she didn't seem suprised thought, as if she had seen someone else who was far less likely to do this than me jump. I just nodded. I knew if I spoke, I would back out and stay up here, where it was safer. But I couldn't cower away anymore. I am Dauntless, the brave. I took a deep breath an launched myself of the ledge, my stomach churning as I freefell towards the bottom.
-Tris's POV-
About five minutes after I heard Christina yelling the instructions to the intiates, I saw a bundle of yellow and red drop into our net. Tobias and I helped her out, her hair had been blown into a rats nest from where she had thrown herself of the ledge,her face was scarlett and she was grinning ear to ear.
"What's your name?" I asked
"Elodie" She said breathlessly.
"Make the anoncement, Four" I shouted over my shoulder.
"First jumper, Elodie!" The deafening din of Dauntless applause filled the alley. Once it died down I turned back to the net, just in time to see a spiral of black and white crash land in a net. A Candor girl untangled herself and stepped out of the net. She looke familair. Dark skin, brown hair.
"Johanna?" I asked. The Candor looked taken aback.
"How did you know my name?" She gasped. I smiled.
"Your sister doesn't shut up about you"
Johanna smirked.
"Why wouldn't she? I'm delightful!" She grinned. Then, from behind her I heard a soft thud and an
"oof" It was another Candor, this one was pale an tall, I saw as I helpe her out of the net.
"Name?" I asked
"Piper-Leigh" She replied. She ran over to Johanna and Elodie, the three of them chattering excitedly. After Piper-Leigh, it started to rain intiates. Into total, we had seventeen intiates. Eight transfers; Elodie, Johanna, Piper-Leigh, Jem, Ruben, Sophie, Corey and Alex. And eight Dauntless-born; Althea, Everett, Dustin, Rebel, Camden, Conrad, Valentina and Imara. Once the last jumper, Imara, had landed we lead them inside the darkened halls that lead to the place I called home.