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Tris's POV
I try to tell her (through this weird eye communication that we do) to choose the faction that fits her best and in which she will be the happiest. She looks so much more confident than I did, but I can still see the worry and fear in her eyes. The communication only lasts mere seconds and I hope I got my point across, though my urge for her to choose Dauntless might have shown through a little bit. I see her cut her hand and (unlike I did) she goes straight over the Dauntless bowl and lets a drop of blood fall on the glowing embers. My brain didn't even have time to processes what I was doing, and before I knew it I'm standing up and cheering. When she comes down, I embrace her in a quick hug then tell her that I have to leave but will see her in a bit and that Tobias will make sure she makes it back to the compound. Then I look at Tobias and say "You will make sure she makes it back to the compound." And with that I leave, trying not to cause a disturbance. I try to tell myself she will make it on the train herself. I cannot baby her. She made the choice to come into Dauntless and she will have to go through everything every other Dauntless member had to go through will no lenience. It just scares me to think that she has to jump off the train on to the building and that triggers the memory in my brain of the girl who missed the building last year and died. No Olicnaveen is better than that. She will make it with no help. I tell myself she will be strong like I was, last year.
I jump off with so much ease that I barely remember what it felt like to tumble forward and fall every time I get off a train like I did in the beginning of last year. I run off the edge and flip into the net like I wasn't falling three stories into what looks like a pit of nothingness. I wait impatiently for the train to arrive, I start to hear screams of laughter and terror and wonder if Olicnaveen is still among them. When I first realized they expected to jump onto and off of a moving train for the first time with no help I thought they were insane but now I realize why they had us do that, to show we are confident in ourselves and make ourselves believe we can do anything that we put our minds to doing. I hear Tobias's voice and that calms me. It always does, even when he is using his instructor four voice, which now kind of amuses me. I hear the first scream and see a flash of red and yellow tumble into the net. I give a helping hand and ask her what her name is.
"Cara, Cara Pleasant" she says it, getting the feel for the new name she chose. I remembered her face from the ceremony she was a couple of kids before Olicnaveen.
"You know you only choose once, so from now on you're Cara." I make it a statement, not leaving her an option to look back or second guess her new name. She nods confidently and I yell: "Cara the first jumper!," just as Tobias did for me last year and Cara gets the same response, a huge dauntless roar, but I'm on a different side this year. Next thing I see is a flash of gray, but no scream comes along with it and I'm awestruck to see the person is actually alive when I help her out of the net. She looks up at me and I see her beautiful blue eyes and it brings me back to our child hood memories.
"Hello, Beatrice. Are you in there?" Olicnaveen says.
"Yes," I respond. "and I go by Tris now, but during training you will call me Six understood?" I reach out a hand and ask what her name is even though I'm fully aware of what her name is.
"Wait you can really change your name?" she asks.
"Yes. You can think about it if you need more time."
As she is finally fully out of the net she says, "Oliveen, Oliveen Prior, my name is Oliveen Prior," she sounds very sure and confident in her choice.
"Ok, Oliveen second jumper!"
Another Dauntless roar erupts. After the second jumper we stop making the announcements because we believe anyone who jumps after isn't as daring, they aren't venturing into an unknown, playing it safe. I am writing down the gender, name, faction in which they transferred from, and number in which they jumped. I want to do a study over the years on which faction feeds into Dauntless the most and least and what the success rates are for the transferred factions.
Jumper #
Name
Gender
Transferred Faction
1
Cara Pleasant
Girl
Amity
2
Oliveen Prior
Girl
Abnegation
3
Ben Verduchy
Boy
Candor
4
Franklin Whitney
Boy
Amity
5
Juan Pablo Aviles
Boy
Erudite
6
Jeremy Jones
Boy
Candor
7
Melissa Rodrigues
Girl
Erudite
8
Carmen Doubletree
Girl
Amity
9
Karen Bush
Girl
Amity
10
Jayshon Deli
Boy
Candor
Five boys and five girls. Wow, that's pretty small. I'm surprised Amity is the highest transfer in the group. I understand more why Candor kids transfer to Dauntless than other factions, because it takes courage and dauntlessness to tell the truth always and to tell other people they're lying. Once all the Transfers have gone the Dauntless born start to jump. But they don't just jump, they jump in pairs and triplets doing flips. They're insane, I think to myself. They haven't even become Dauntless yet; they're as reckless as one. Then I remind myself they were born here. Christina is helping me train the transfers this year and Will took over training the Dauntless born, along with Tobias. She finally shows up with Will just as the last group of Dauntless born jump. Tobias follows them doing a series of tricks. Once he reaches the net I say to him quietly so only he hears,"Show off." He just chuckles and reaches out his hand. I grab it and pull him out. That's when all the girls just look at him very deeply, and I break their stares by kissing him.
Tobias's POV
I can tell Tris is mad when all of the initiate girls stare at me, but she should know by now there won't ever be a girl in my life besides her. Just as I'm about to do something to break their stares, Tris leans up and kisses me just lightly to get her point across that I'm hers and vice versa. After she pulls away and hugs me I can't help but laugh at the girls faces. Christina breaks the tension by saying, "Well that was eventful I'm Christina this is Will, Six, and Four we will…"
"Wait did you mean their names are Six and Four, like numbers?," Jeremy says and I use the same line as I did last year.
"Yes," I say. "Is there a problem with that?"
"No."
"Good. Now let's move on with the speech Christiana the show is all yours," I say in a sarcastic tone that Christina rolls her eyes at and continues where she left off.
"As I was saying, we will be you instructors, Six and I will be the transfer's instructor and Four and Will will be the Dauntless born instructor."
"Since I don't think any of my initiates need a tour of the place we will split up here," Will adds, and with that we are gone running down the hall hooting and hollering. This will be much more fun than last year other than the fact that I won't get to see Tris most of the day. Although we will see each other from 5 pm to 7 am and at lunch, so who am I kidding? I'll see her a lot, and that makes me smile. I wipe that smile away fast though because right now I'm intimidating instructor Four.
Tris's POV
"Ok," I say "I will…."
"We," Christiana corrects.
"We," I continue, "will first be showing the pit, a place that you will learn to love."
Another Candor chimes in "The Pit, it must stink in there" a couple of kids chuckle but stop when I get right in his face and say,"Ben is it?" he gulps and nods quickly. "If I wanted to put up with Candor smart-mouths, I would have joined their faction," I say remembering the lines Tobias used on Christina "The first lesson you will learn from me is to keep your mouth shut. Got that?" he gulps again.
"Yes," he says, in a shaky quiet voice.
"Ok, great. Moving on, then. As I was saying, this is the place you will learn to love. The cafeteria is on the right all of the stores are on your left if you keep walking straight that is where your dorms will be, which I will be showing you in a minute." As we walk through the pit we bump into Eric. Ugh, great. What does he want?
"Well hello, Tris and Christina. I see you are giving a tour of the place be sure not to let any of them fall into the chasm that would just recap what you did to Al."
"Shut up," I tell him. "Al made the choice himself to fall into the chasm it was not my fault. Now, if you excuse us we have places to be other than next to your dirty face." With that we leave a mad Eric behind us.
"Wow you really went off on him. Who is he?," a girl asks from behind.
"He is a jerky, no good, cruel man who just happened to be my instructor last year and the youngest Dauntless leader." After I say a Dauntless leader, she just stops in her path.
"Did you step in glue or something?" Christina asks sarcastically.
"You would talk like that to a Dauntless leader?" the girl asks awe struck.
"Trust me, the head of Dauntless would give anything for me or Four to take his place, but neither of us want that much power," I say in an irritated tone. "Now if you don't mind can we continue on with the tour?" she nods and keeps walking.
"So is your real name Tris?," Jayshon asks me.
"Yes," I clearly reply, "it is, but if anyone ever calls me that I would not want to be around to see who I was fighting that next day. Am I clear?," and everyone nods vigorously. I smile, Christina chuckles and we keep walking.
"This is the chasm!" Christina yells over the roaring water, "It marks the line between daring and stupid. One daredevil jump over the railing and you'll be dead. So don't be stupid. You have a perfectly good view of the spiky rocks and rushing water from here."
Most of the kids stand near the side but a couple have joined me in looking over the railing down at the water. As we are walking away from the chasm, I see out of the corner of my eye a kid running towards the railing. I sprint after him, he looks like one of the candor boys I think it's Jayshon, and dive towards him.
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