Ariana's POV
We take off down the stairs and towards the train. Oh Crap. I never learned how to get on a train, but right now I don't care I'm having too much fun. In Amity we were allowed to run but only in the fields where we could not run into anyone because that would not be very nice it we did. But with Dauntless we run and shout and push people out of the way. The train come around the corner and I start to run parallel with it along with everyone else. Once I am equal with a handle I am three feet till the end of the platform, if I don't jump now, I will die. I brace myself and with one foot left I leap onto the moving train and go tumbling inside. I lay on the grown laughing my head off while a girl sits in the corner hyperventilating. I get up, brush myself off and walk over to the girl.
"Hey, just breathe it's going to be ok." I sit down next to her and try and calm her down. By the time she calmed down it's a good five minutes later.
"Thanks," she says "I'm Carter, you?" Umm I think to myself. I'm starting a new life so I should have a new name, or at least a nick name.
"Ari, that my nickname." I finally say.
"Nice to meet you Ari, do you know where were going?" she asks, "We're probably going to the Dauntless Compound, I've never been there but I heard it's pretty far out so I think its going to be a while." We sit down and enjoy the train ride.
Tris POV.
"Tobias come on were going to be late we have to be at the net at 9 and its already 8:50!" I yell into the bedroom from the kitchen.
"Calm down, I'm coming." He sluggishly says. I look up from my breakfast to see a shirtless Tobias coming towards me with his shirt in hand. I stand up and walk towards him, place my hands on his chest and stand on my tip toes to kiss him slowly and full of love. And yes I love him. "Well that was nice, are you ready to go?" He asks me again but not before giving me another kiss.
"Yup" I sadly let go of him and grab my black leather jacket to go with my dark red shirt, black skinny jeans and combat boots. Once were at the door I look up at him. "Race you to the net!" and I take off without giving him a chance to respond. He passes me within a minute, I've gotten stronger and faster since I was an initiate a year ago but I don't think I will ever be as fast as him. We reach the net within seconds of each other. "Dang it Four you know someday you're going to have to let me win!" I yell at him.
"I hear them starting to jump, ready Six?" He asks and looks at me
"Ready Four." I return the look and give him one last sweet kiss and with a little nod of the head, we both put on our instructor faces and watch as they start to fall.
Ariana's POV
"Get ready!" I hear someone yell from the front of the car. Ready for what? I ask myself and then its answered by people starting to jump off. I pull Carter up.
"It's time to jump," I say, "Onto that," I point
"A roof! We just had to jump onto a moving train and now they want us to jump off of one onto a roof!? Seriously!" She yells
"It'll be ok, we can jump at the same time." She nods and I count. "1...2...3...JUMP!" We leap out of the car and onto the roof, for a second in midair I feel like I am flying with my long blond hair in the wind and like I can do anything. I see Carter roll right next to the edge and get all scraped up and land on my feet then fall, the impact was too much. I once again laugh as I look at my bruised elbow and once again I see Carter hyperventilating by the edge. "What wrong?" I ask her.
"It's…the… Height…" She manages to stumble out. OH she's afraid of heights, that unfortunate. We walk over to the rest of the group to see a man standing on the edge of the roof, what would happen if he fell? He could die. Then again this is Dauntless, the brave so I guess he doesn't care.
"My name is Max; I am one of the leaders here at Dauntless. Today you will be meeting you're instructors and your fellow initiates. The reason that you are on this building's roof is because this is one of the two entrances of the Dauntless Compound. This is the one that requires bravery, you will jump off the roof, not know what is below. It could be ground, it could be water. Now, who is going to jump first?" He steps down and waits for someone to step up. Everyone looks around silently asking if they were going to it. Finally after a couple of minutes I step up.
"I will." I say. I climb onto the edge of the seven story building and look down at the hole below all I see is darkness. I don't think, I just jump. I step off and I fall through the air and instead of screaming I laugh, all the way down until I hit something that is soft and hard at the same time. How is that possible? I look around to see that I'm lying in a net and I laugh even harder. I find the first hand to help me out. It's attached to a very good looking man.
"What's you name?" He says with no emotion. I hesitate, "Choose wisely, you don't get to pick again." I decide to go with my new nickname I gave myself on the train. "Ari" I say firmly.
"Make the announcement Four." Says the girl standing next to him.
"First jumper, Ari!" He yells into the seemingly empty space above but then a crowd appears and starts to cheer. "Welcome to Dauntless." The girl and him say at the same time.