The Next Morning...
NOBODY'S POV (3rd person)
When they woke up, Tobias and Elizabeth got dressed, brushed their teeth, and did pretty much everything else to get ready for the day. Since it was initiate day Tobias had a full-time job and Elizabeth would get to stay with Christina because school was now over. Dispite her pleading and begging to help with initiate training, Tobias took her for breakfast and dropped her off at Christina's place and went to watch the choosing ceremony from the control room.
ELIZABETH'S POV
"It's so unfair! I wanna help too!"I half yelled at my dad as he left me with Christina. I turned around and she looked at me appologeticly. "Sorry Liz, but it's only for full dauntless members. Also, you're only ten. What do you know about training initiates?"she asked. "I could if i tried."I mumbled, annoyed and sat down on the couch in the appartment. I was so bored. There was nothing to do here. Ever. "Hey,"Cristina said, "do you wanna go play pranks on people?" I sat up quickly. "Really?!" I asked. Pranking was my favorite. "Yeah, prank to death." "Where do we start?"I asked mischeviously. "So here's how we do it." She began explaining what the best pranks were and how to do them. I listened intently, absorbing every detail. Ohhh... this was going to be fun.
TOBIAS'S POV
"Hurry up Four you're gonna miss it!"shouted Zeke from the control room. I was running now. I couldn't miss the choosing ceremony! This was how I knew who to expect for training. As I entered, I saw that it had just begun. "One kid so far. Erudite. Stayed the same."Zeke said. I nodded my thanks. I watched the screen. An amity transfed to erudite, a candor stayed, erudite to candor, an erudite to dauntless. Alex was his name. I kept a note of that. Dauntless, dauntless. Erudite, erudite. Amity, amity. Candor, dauntless. Great. Another smart mouth. I watched all of this, memorizing the transfers to dauntless' names. There was a total of 8 this year. When the ceremony was over, I left the control room and began making my way to the net where the new members would jump, and waited.
The first thing I saw was a blue blur falling down to the net. I reached out my hand with the others and watched as the girl laughed and crawled over to the other side to take someone else's hand. "First jumper," I heard them shout, "Megan!" We all cheered. Then there was a black blur. Dauntless born. Then another dauntless, a candor, a dauntless, an erudite, 3 more dauntless, 4 candors and erudites, another dauntless, and an amity. That was extremely rare.
I walked over to where all the initiates had gathered. "Welcome to dauntless." I said as they all looked at me. "Dauntless born, go with Lauren. Transfers, stay here with me."I commanded. The dauntless born left with Lauren and I stood before the tranfers. "I'm Four and I'll be your instructor during the initiation training." A candor girl looked as if she were about to say something, but closed it from a sharp glare from another. Her brother I remembered. "Follow me." I said and began walking towards the pit. "This is the pit,"I announced once we arrived, "the center of life in dauntless." I continued walking. "And this is the chasm. A chasmreminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy. Every year, someone looses their life here." I explained. Almost all of the initiates had looks of fear or saddness on their faces. I continued showing them around the compound. Last stop, where they sleep. I opened the door and walked in, the initiates following. "This is where you'll be sl-" I was cut off by gasps and screaming from behind me. I turned around, only to be smacked in the face by something. I heard giggling and opened my eyes to see a group of 10 year olds throwing ballons filled with black and pink paint from outside the door. I told the initiates to stay here and ran after the younger kids. They were going to pay.