Percy POV

By the time everyone else wakes up I've already put in a good 40 minutes in the training room, punching, kicking and hitting the punching bags. Eventually 4 comes in and stands behind me.

"Good training initiate, although I recommend you take a break and go have your breakfast, you're going to need your strength today."

I nod through the sweat dripping down my face and return to the dorms, a towel draped across my chest. Walking in, I grab my clothes to change into and head to the showers. After a quick shower which leaves me feeling refreshed I walk back to the dining area where the rest of the initiates are sitting having breakfast, and joking around. I grab some toast and sit down next to Jace.

"Ready for the final stages today?" He asks as I sit down.

"Yeah, I'm not living factionless, never. Even up early training today."

He looks at me and cocks an eyebrow. "Training was it?"

I look at him. Could he know? Surely not, he was above me. "Uh yeah, what else would it be?"

He grins at me and stands up to go get more breakfast. I flinch when he leans down and whispers "I think we both know," in my ear. My cheeks earn a pink tinge, and I'm afraid that we've been caught, even though nothing happened. I turn back to my toast, eventually tuning into the conversation at hand.

"-get smashed today."

"Who?" I ask, interested.

Annabeth scowls. "Don't worry, but you should know the fights have been posted."

"And..."

"You are versing..." she looks over her shoulder and squints, "Jason."

"Oh. Who are you versing?"

"Maren."

"Oh," I look around the table at everyone else," who are all of you versing?"

Stanley looks up. "Maren and Annabeth, you and Jason, Johanna and Izzy, Gale's out and me and Jace." He says the last part smirking.

"Awesome. So what time are we starting?"

"10 minutes." Says 4's stern voice as he comes and stands behind me. "And don't let any of you be late, otherwise we will deduct points."

We all nod, and he walks away towards the table where he sits with 6 and Uriah.

Tobias POV

"Dammit," I say sliding into the seat next to Tris. "We're going to have to make some factionless."

"Why?"

"Because if we don't Eric will get suspicious and we can't have that. It will only be one person though so..."

"Tobias, we can't just kick them out. We're meant to protect them and watch them while they're here."

"Yes, Tris, but it won't be protecting them if Eric and the other leaders find out who they are. We're going to have to make one factionless."

"What about if we…if we sent someone to Abnegation? Like under the radar, they could stay at my parents' house?"

"Yeah I guess." I think about it for a moment. "Wait that's a good idea. We can still send the lowest ranking initiate off. And then we can ask John to protect them."

"Who are you thinking will be lowest ranking?"

"Well, at the moment I think that Johanna will be pretty low, along with maybe Izzy, I don't really know though, they are all very strong."

"Yeah I agree. Well, I guess we'll know tonight. Do you want me to go see my mother now? Then I can be back in time for rankings."

"Yeah good idea." Tris smiled at me and pecked my cheek.

"Hey we don't want-"

"Between the people that have regained their memories I think that a majority of them have seen us in much more compromising positions than a slight peck on the cheek."

I smirk. "Very true, very true. You'd better get going though, I need to go scare the hell out of some initiates." She smirked and gave me a quick peck on the lips, and got up and walked away. Finishing my breakfast, I cleaned up and went to the training room to prepare for the evaluation. Finally the initiates began to trickle in and I had them warm up, with some punches. After half an hour, they were finally ready.

Jace POV

"Initiates that's enough warm up! Let's get going!" Fours voice cuts across the room and we all gather around him.

"Considering the small group this year, only 1 person will be factionless at the end of stage 1. You'll have to fight your chosen opponent, throw some knives, shoot a gun, everything you've learnt. At the end of the day, someone will be factionless."

We all nod glumly and go to where we're assigned. I'm in a group with Percy, Stanley and Jason and we're going to each of the stations together. We will start at knife throwing, move to shooting and finally to the physical part. We arrive at the knife throwing station where we're greeted by Uriah. He smiles at us and explains what will happen

"Here, you have to throw 5 knives, slowly getting further and further away from the target. I will give you points depending on how well you throw. Order will go Jace, Jason, Percy and Stanley."

I nod and walk up to the starting line with a smirk on my face. Picking up a knife I throw it without thinking and it sinks deep into the center of the target. I move back 1/2 a meter and throw again, hitting center. I continue on until I've thrown from each of the markings. I hit all of them dead center and I'm not surprised. I'm a natural at it, practically been throwing knives since I was born. I smirk as Jason goes up looking distinctly pale. He shakily throws the first knife, and it sticks just off center, missing by centimeters. He takes a deep breath and throws the next knife, this time landing it just inside the center circle. His third and fourth make it well inside the center and he misses by inches again on his fifth throw. With a scowl he comes and sits next to me on the bench.

Percy walks up to the first line and throws. It flies out of his hand and land in the ring just outside the center circle. He grabs another knife and throws again, getting closer but still not hitting center. His 3rd throw makes the circle just skimming the edge, and his last 2 throws are dead center. He shrugs his shoulders and also joins us. Stanley goes up last, not even bothering to look scared or nervous. He simply throws, and even though it looks as though it will miss manages to hit dead center. Surprise surprise. His smirk tells me that he obviously controlled it, and Uriah knows by his eye roll. Stanley continues, hitting dead center every time.

"Good job initiate," Uriah says sarcastically, "really used your natural talent to give you an edge."

Stanley smirked again, and sat down on the bench next to us.

"Okay, you can move on to shooting now."

We all nodded and headed in a small group over to the shooting area. In a little room area were 5 human dummies, all with a target somewhere on their bodies. We just had to shoot each target within 10 seconds. Kind of rapid fire, and we had 3 attempts.

Once again I went first, and I managed to hit them all dead-center within the time frame on my 2nd go. Jason got it on his second go as well, and Percy got it on his third go. Stanley, obviously cheating again, got it on his first go in 5 seconds-a record. That was one target each second. He was so cocky. When Stanley sat back down, Uriah nodded us over to the combat part of the assessment. Me and Stanley were up first. 4 told us to begin, so we both entered the ring and started circling each other.

Stanley threw a punch to my jaw, which I dodged and ducked under, grabbing his arm and twisting in the process. Annoyed, he used his arm to flip me over onto the mat where I had the wind knocked out of me. Gasping for breath, Stanley sauntered over and went to elbow me in the gut but I rolled to the side causing his elbow to slam into the mat. He took a deep breath, obviously trying to keep from crying out and stood up, steadying himself. I jumped up and into a defensive position again. I aimed a kick to his shoulder-the same one as his elbow, and as he tried to defend his already injured arm I swung around and kicked his other shoulder.

His hand flew to the other shoulder and I punched him in the gut, causing him to kneel over. When I was trying to catch my breath he swung his leg out and tripped me, and I ended up doing a summersault and landing on my feet. By now he too was on his feet and had a bit more colour in his cheeks. He went to kick my face but I ducked, standing back up only to bang straight into his fist with my jaw. I gasped and cradled my jaw, and he took this moment of weakness to elbow the back of my neck. I stumbled forward and when I sensed him moving forward I reached back with my leg and kicked out, connecting with flesh.

He let out a gasp of surprise and was again on the ground doubled over, this time protecting his balls. I smirked and punched the side of his face, and then, going for the final blow kneed his already injured elbow, causing him to roll over onto the mat temporarily unconscious. I stood up and grinned, looking at 4 who just smirked and wrote something on his clip board. "Good fight initiates, next pair up!"

Percy POV

I nervously walked up to the ring, where I stepped onto it and waited for Jason to enter. He came on, looking nervous as well. We stood there staring each other off, trying to see who would break first. Someone cleared their throats from the sideline and we assumed a fighting stance, arms up and knee's bent. Jason looked nervous and lunged, without thinking, to try tackle me to the ground. He caught me around the waist but I used his momentum to twist us around so that he ended up pinned under me on the mat. I went to punch him in the jaw but he twisted around under me so that my fist slammed into the mat.

Pain shot up my arm but I ignored it and went to punch him with my other hand. I managed to clip his shoulder but, using his legs, he pushed me off him. I fell back on the mat, quickly scrambling to my feet as he did the same, the two of us facing off. I swung my leg around to hit him but he pushed my leg away, and from the momentum I went crashing into the mat. I heard laughter outside the ring, and turned to see Stanley on the ground rolling around laughing. "Way to show him Perce!"

I glared at him. I knew he wasn't trying to make fun of me personally, but of what had happened, but I was still pissed. I jumped off the ground, and tried to block out Stanley in the background but he just wouldn't shut up. Jason threw a punch, and I tried to dodge but in my anger I ended up running towards him instead. He swept his legs around and I hit the ground hard. I cried out in pain and think I may have passed out a little from the pain, or had a very surreal daydream.

I had a dream about these two kids, no older than I am, fighting through a dark landscape. There was a giant with them at times, and lots of attacks on them. The girl had blonde princess curls and the boy had dark hair. The girl got struck by some monster and I woke up from the dream. That dream shook me, and I felt as though it somehow connected to me. I didn't know how though. Even though the dream seemed to last 10 minutes it had only been a couple of seconds, not long enough for anyone to notice I was unconscious. I slowly stood up, and was practically shaking from anger.

That dream did something to me. Something funny. I didn't know what it was but seeing how helpless they looked, and Stanley's taunting, made me extremely angry. I was really pissed. I braced myself and put all of my effort, all my anger, into a punch. I punched Jason's gut, as hard as I could. The effect was immediate. Jason hunched over, clutching his stomach, and bending on the mat. At the same time, the water pipe powering the small bubble tap in the corner burst open, showering everyone with water. The water was going in directions all over the place, water pooling on the floor. In the chaos I picked up on a few things. Stanley was being yelled at by 4 and Uriah, while he was trying to claim that he didn't do it. Do what? Everyone else was either messing around in the water or trying to make their way to the door way, where it was dry. In the panic I noticed one other thing. Annabeth.

She was on the ground in a ball, her knees curled into her chest and she was pale, very pale and staring at me. Hardly even blinking. I looked around confused. Why was she looking at me? Hearing a groan at my feet I look down to see Jason still on the ground groaning and trying to get up. Crouching down, I sling his arm around my shoulders and help him to the doorway. Nearing the doorway, I stepped into a puddle of water and immediately felt better. I felt calm, and not nearly as sore. I frowned, and continued to help Jason to the infirmary. We struggled in and I set him down on a bed, where a nurse came in and started fussing over him. She shooed me off and I made my way back to the training room, where they were trying to sweep the water away, into the grate below the bubble fountain which was now flooding over. I went and helped them and in no time the water left. 4 frowned, and opened his mouth to say something but though better of it. "Initiates, sorry to disrupt your assessment, although it sounds as though everyone had finished anyway. The rankings will be up later this evening, in the training room at 9:00 pm sharp. The rest of the weekend will be yours to spend as you choose, although from a numbers perspective, one person will be factionless. Best of luck to you all."

We all file out, our clothes in various states of dryness. As we approach our dorms, everyone goes silent and we enter quietly, occasionally a murmur here or there.

"So, guys, we've finished!" I say trying to cheer everyone up.

"Yeah, but one of us will be finished completely." Says Gale glumly from the corner.

"Come on guys, let's celebrate and worry later on! How about we all go and get a tattoo so that whoever leaves will still be part of the team." I say with a flourish of my hand indicating the team. I hear some snickers and notice a few eye rolls. "Thankyou captain cheerful, who's next to comment on the rainbow ride!" Stanley calls out sarcastically.

I glare at him and he grins. "Just kidding Percy. How about we go get so drunk, that we'll forget why we're here and then we really will be a team because we'll end up naked on a random rooftop with no clue on how to return." He smirks. "Not that it's happened before." He pauses, "At least not to me anyway." He laughs to himself. "Good memories. Anyway, who's with me?"

It ends up being Stanley, Jace and me who agree to go out. Jace is smirking at Stanley, who notices and begins to scowl at him.

"It was only this once goldy locks. Don't let it go to your head."

"Ah yes, well it is my NINTH attempt to beat you isn't it? NINTH time lucky wouldn't you say? Mind you, I never liked the number NINE," he smirks.

"You just think your hot shit because you know something. Your still stupid and weak goldy locks."

"You just called me stupid."

"No shit Sherlock."

"What, are we in kinder? Stupid, really?"

"Hey, well at least I-"

"Guys come on. Stop? Let's just go –"I check the time. "How about we just go to dinner, and go out after the rankings?"

"Whatever, maybe another time. Not really in the party mood. No offence lads, but I do prefer lady company." Stanley remarks. I roll my eyes and we turn around to head back to the dining area. Grabbing dinner, which is a roast, we sit at the table where other initiates are beginning to trickle in.

Upon seeing us, Annabeth snorts. "How was the night out boys?" The other girls laugh and we just glare at them.

"Awesome, Thankyou very much." Snaps Stanley.

"Finally using some manners Stanley. Awesome, congratulations."

Jace and I laugh, and eventually we're back to ourselves again, everyone laughing and enjoying the last time that we'll all be together, before someone leaves. After half an hour, 4 enters the dining room and approaches our table. "Initiates, ranking's will be posted in about 20 minutes." And he walks and grabs his own dinner.

"Wow, he knows how to put a downer on everything," Stanley jokes, but no-one really responds.

There's silence for the rest of the evening. Barely one word is said as we all finish our meals and slowly make our way to the training room, no-one wanting to be late to the ranking reveal. We end up having to wait 10 minutes, and finally Tris, 4 and Uriah walk in and stand next to the large board in the corner. They flip the board around, giving us our first view of our rankings. I hear a gasp come from behind me.

A/N CLLLIIFFFYYY! YAYAYAYAYAYAAYAY!I'm so sorry it's taken so long, I've had a very busy couple of weeks, and it's still busy coming up, but I'll try update at least weekly. So first of all, shout out to Sarah (I think it was a guest,) who has supported me in all of my fan fictions, it means so much to me. Also, my dad finally got Microsoft again, so my stories should be better edited now! So I have a fair idea of who's going, but anybody want to suggest or guess? Please send suggestions in, and review/fav/follow! Also, really sorry that this chapter is so slow especially after a low wait, but the next chapter is where stuff will begin to happen. Hopefully anyway. Thanks guyzz

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