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Time stops once my blood hits the coals, the entire room goes silent. An Amity transferred to Dauntless," Dauntless!" The older Dauntless man shouts out and the Dauntless section bursts into cheers. A smile is on my face as I look over to my parents, they aren't even fazed. Tears start to build in my eyes as I turn and walk over to the Dauntless section, then the rest of the ceremony goes in a blur. At the end, the whole Dauntless section jumps out of their seats and run out the door. I stand to follow them but my shoes start to fall of, damn these shoes! I kick them off, " You go Amity!" Yells one of the Dauntless and a smile comes back to my face and I start sprinting to the front of the transfers, " How you so fast?" Asks one of the Dauntless guys. I smile towards him," Let's just say, Amity is really boring when you have no friends," I yell to him and he nods while smiling back to me.
We run to the train tracks poles that hold the iron rails three stories up," Are you too afraid Amity? If you are there's no shame in quitting," Says one of the Candor. I scowl realizing that we have more Candor than any other transfer, I begin to climb. The wood is becoming splintered like my house was back in Amity and I feel the bottoms of my feet getting covered in splinters already and I'm not even half way up, I decide to keep going and once I reach the top I feel confident I can do whatever they throw at me. I hear the train horn go off and the Dauntless start running, I run after them wondering what their doing. When the train starts to pass them they jump to reach the handle that's on the outside of the door, I'm still running after the train when I jump up to reach the handle. I grab it with the tips of my fingers and my other hand comes up to get a better grip on it, when a hand comes out to help me in. I decide to trust it and put my free hand into it, once I'm flat on the platform I see a familiar face," Thanks," I say smiling towards him," No problem, I'm Jace," He says holding another hand out for me to shake. I take his hand, " Hi, I'm Ala-" I start to say my name but I realize it sounds too Amity," It's okay, you can change your name since you in a new faction," He says as we shake hands, " It's Ana," I say. " Ok nice to meet you Ana," He says as he jumps out the door. I rush to see where he went when I see he jumped to a roof about four stories down, I realize it's about to pass so I back all the way back and sprint full speed to the opening and jump./span/p
My body feels free, light, and I jump through the air. It is stopped short by the gravel on the rooftop hitting my already splintered feet, I look around to see that only four transfers made it when we started with eight. " Over here transfers," I hear a man yell and we all run over to the voice, we see the same man that hosted the ceremony, " I'm Max, the head leader here at Dauntless. Here we believe in ordinary acts of bravery in the courage that drives one person to stand up for one another, the Dauntless manifesto. You must follow it in order to stay here. Right behind me is the entrance to Dauntless, the only one," Max says. Max looks around the crowd until he lands on me, a small smile shows on his face," Transfers get the lucky opportunity to go first," Max says as he steps aside for anyone to go. The rooftop is quiet as no transfers move to go first," Not everyone at one time," Max says with a stern look on his face," If no one goes-" He starts to say before I step forward, " Go Amity," Yells a Dauntless and everyone chuckles even Max. He makes a hand motion that tells me that I can go, I climb up on the side of the roof that brings me to a gigantic black pit in the ground.
I take a deep breath and look behind me, everyone has amused looks on their faces. I don't let my emotions come into my eyes as I learned to do in Amity and let my body go limp and fall to the darkness below m/span/p
The feeling from when I jumped out of the train comes again and I close my eyes and enjoy the feeling before it ends again, Then I feel myself propelled into the air again by something rough. I open my eyes as I fall back down and eventually stop bouncing, I lay there on the net feeling thing and smile like an idiot. I see a hand in the corner of my eye and I grab one of them, I land on the cold concrete floor with a thud and look up to see dark blue eyes. The man has brown hair and is really tall," Name?" He asks with a deep voice, " A-Ana," I say. He grabs my hand and holds it in the air, " First jumper, Ana!" Four yells through the hallway and every Dauntless member that could hear him cheered, " Go stand over there and wait for everyone else," He says. I walk over to the side of the hallway and stand while watching everyone else jump down.
After all the initiates have jumped we follow the man from the net down a grey, cement hallway only light by blue chandeliers hanging from the ceiling adding slight color to the dark hallway, he leads us out to a large room that looks like it is the heart of Dauntless. The gigantic room is filled with Dauntless members and shops built into the walls that go all the way up to the big skylight in the center of it all on the roof bringing the only sunlight into the compound, there are pathways and stairs leading all the way up and to all the stores but they don't have any guard rails. It's Dauntless I guess," Okay, this is where we split up. Transfers will be trained separately, so transfers with me. I'm pretty sure the rest of you don't need a tour of the place," Says the man and we follow him away from the rest of the initiates.
" This is where you are going to live for the next six weeks," The man named as Four says showing us a multi-gender room with metal bunk beds lined up along the plain cement walls, " And the showers are the same as the sleeping area, multi-gender," Four says with a smile. I sigh, I have to share a room with the Candors… Greats. " Okay there are clothes in the baskets in the corners of the room, the ones near the bathroom are the guys and the ones over here are the girls," Says Four pointing to the baskets in the corners of the room that I would have never noticed if he didn't point them out. " Find your size and get dressed, meet me out in the hallway with your old faction clothes," Four says leaving the room.
I head over to the one closest to me and I notice I'm the only female transfer that made it through the beginning tests, shit. I eventually find my size and get dressed, I'm in a tight black tank top with black legging and some combat boots that go halfway up my calf. I also have a black jacket that when I put it on it zips all the way up my neck and blends to the curves on my body but I figure I didn't need it right now so I pick a bed and put it there. I leave the dorm and I look behind me to see I'm the only one changed yet, I walk out with my old clothes in my arms to see Four leaning up against the hallway wall. I notice on how attractive he is when you can see his features in the right lighting," Are you really the only one done?" Four asks looking up, I blink to break my stare and nod," Yes," I respond looking down to my feet. " Okay," Four says pushing up off the wall," Follow me," He says and starts to walk down the hall. His basic walk is a jog to me as I struggle to keep up with him, we stop at a door not far from the dorm," Put your clothes in here," He says as he opens the door. It reveals a furnace and a smile comes to my face," You didn't like Amity did you?" Four asks looking at me with a confused look. I look at him then look back done to my feet," It's a long story," I say throwing my clothes in the furnace and turn to go back to the dorms.
When Four comes back outside the dorms no one else is done yet," Let's go to dinner, follow me," He says but then stops abruptly," And what is on you back?" Four whispers to me and my face goes pale, I run back into the dorm to find everyone is gone. I sigh and grab my jacket, throwing it on but not zipping it up. I come back out to find Four giving me a concerned look and I looks away from his gaze, I guess he gets the hint and continues down the hall to the dining area. I try to memorize the way to the dining area but there are too many turns and doors that it's going to take me awhile to memorize just how to get to the dorms.
As me and Four approach the dining area we hear mixed conversations with some laughter, we walk through a doorway to see a big cement room with thousands of Dauntless members in the room. When we walk in the whole room goes quiet and everyone turns towards us, more specifically me. I look down and blush and try to avoid their gaze as we walk through the room and their gaze stops as we get to the food and grab trays. I grab one of the weird things Four grabs with some veggies and a bottle of water and follow Four to one of the empty tables and sit next to him.
" Where are all of the other initiates?" A man asks behind Four, he looks to me annoyed," I don't know they somehow left the dorm and I have no idea where they are. And I don't care where they are because if they don't come to training tomorrow they are kicked out," He says turning back to his food. " Ok well," The man says sitting down next to Four. I decide to not look at him because this isn't my conversation and try to eat the meat that is shoved between two pieces of bread and has ketchup on it. I'm skeptic to eat the bread and the man next to FOur grabs my food," It's called a hamburger hippie, it's fine," The man says and I look to him with a death glare. The man has blonde hair shaved at the sides, he has two silver metal balls above his eyebrow and is built. " What? You weren't going to eat it anyways," He says. " How do you know? Maybe I like to know with it is before I eat it? Is that so bad?" I ask leaning on one of my elbows so I can look him in his face," Well it's called a hamburger if it wasn't obvious and second I don't like your tone Amity," He says taking another bite of of my " hamburger "," Does it look like I care? You took my food," I say with a glare still on my face. " Well, I don't think you want to talk to a leader like that Amity," He says leaning closer to my face.
" My name isn't Amity," I say back and Four clears his throat," This is Eric, the youngest Dauntless leader, Eric this is Ana the first jumper," Four says awkwardly while he starts eating again. " I don't care if she was the creator of Dauntless or the last jumper, she doesn't need to talk to a leader like that," Eric says backing back into his seat and I do the same, " One hell of a leader," I say and Four almost chokes on his food. Eric looks to him then glares back to me," See you at training Amity," Eric says with a smirk and leaves the room with my hamburger still in his hand.