If your name has been chosen, please walk to the front of the room.
Tris glances at Uriah with an expression of disbelief.
It's me. It's me. Out of everyone, it's. fucking. me. She thinks to herself as she weakly gets up and commands her feet to move away from the table.
A boy the same age as her stiffly walks to the front of the room as well. Peter.
They both glance at each other and though Tris sees the wariness in his emerald green eyes, she also notices the disgusting and murderous mischief in them.
Yes, he will do what it takes to win this. She tells herself.
Walk into the doorway that will appear- Everyone else, go into the Observation Room which is in the back of the cafeteria.
Tris looks behind her to see Marlene flashing her a small smile of reassurance. Uriah does the same.
Four catches her eye and though he has a concerned look for a flicker of a second, he masks it into a reassuring smile and gives her a thumbs up.
Near the front, the wall glows a white color and a door slowly slides to the right, revealing a dark hall to which they can see no more.
Tris tightens her jaw as she hears a door close, which means everyone has probably left, and is now monitoring both herself and Peter from the Observation room.
"Do we enter?" Peter asks, though his eyes give a chilling stare.
Tris immediately turns on her intimidation mode.
"Well, let's see, I mean, we probably shouldn't go even though the instructions were, walk into the doorway that will appear." She replies sarcastically, offering no kindness.
Tris doesn't wait for Peter, she simply walks ahead and into the doorway.
When Peter finally enters as well, there's a loud click and then, advanced pitch black darkness.
Tris holds her breath as she waits for something to happen.
Then, without warning, the whole place lights up, and it's like she has entered another world.
Whatever they enter is no room, it's like, a new land or terrain.
Grassy fields, water ponds, trees, bushes, flowers, rocks.
"Oh my God, this place is immense." She whispers under her breath, but it comes out louder than she meant it to.
What the hell are we supposed to do? Tris thinks dreadfully.
"What now!?" Peter calls out loudly, voicing her thoughts.
There's a loud screech and Tris closes her eyes and winces from the noise. When she opens them again, there's a sign that has appeared in front of them with...
Tris pauses in surprise.
There's a sign with 2 guns resting in front of them.
Here, you have entered an area where you have been given 2 loaded guns, one for each Group member. You may do whatever it takes, to slam that hidden red button, and claim victory.
Even if acheiving it means death.
Peter, wastes no time after finishing the last sentence.
Neither does Tris.
At exactly the same time they both snatch a gun and run the opposite way from each other.
Tris immediately jumps over a couple of rocks and rolls behind a large tree.
She atleast thought that Peter would be a bit lenient on her, but damn, he doesn't give a fuck, he'll obviously kill her to win.
And she needs that attitude too.
However, it's also a time to be strategic with planning.
Her thoughts immediately go to Caleb, and the first instruction materializes into her mind.
First, she needed to know her surroundings.
Tris looks up and studies the tree she's hiding behind.
The branches are pretty low, but sturdy, and there are many leaves so Peter would probably not be able to see her.
Okay, all you'll do is climb the tree, scope the area, and get back in the game. Tris tells herself.
After a taking a deep breath, she stands on the biggest root to give her a slight boost, and then jumps for the branch.
Tris immediately tightens her hands on the branch as soon as it comes in her grasp, and she let's out a deep breath because she is relieved that even with her short height, she managed to grab it.
She slowly swings her legs up and pushes herself up until she is straddling the branch.
After leaning against the trunk, she slowly stands up and climbs a bit higher.
As Tris climbs, she is surprised to see, that actually, this area that they are in has an obstacle course.
And Peter is ahead of her.
Before her brain tells her to jump off and run, she quickly studies the course, there's a river with rocks, a wall to get over, and something that she can't make out!
Tris quickly climbs down and fixes her gladiator sandals. It was not the best to be running in, but it would and could do.
Tris's quickly begins a jog and runs in the direction of the obstacle course.
No later than 2 minutes of jogging, she is met with a huge gushing river with rocks scattered throughout, as a path.
Tris ducks down to grab a long piece of grass, and ties her hair into the sloppiest ponytail.
After a deep breath, she jumps over to the first rock. Thankfully, she doesn't slip down and she continues her speed until she reaches the other side of the river.
Next, was a really tall wall.
Tris looks around and sees that the wall must continue forever, so running around it was no option.
Frustrated and frantic, Tris spots a vine hanging from the wall.
Stupid, stupid. Wasting too much time. She yells at herself.
Tris crosses one arm across the other and does a quick stretch.
Then, she begins to climb the vine.
It felt so weird to her, she could easily do the course like it was made for her.
After getting on top of the wall, she quickly slides down.
And that's when she sees Peter pointing a gun at her.
"Well, you seem pretty fast at this course." Peter hisses at her with a wicked smile.
Tris reaches for her own gun at the back of her pocket, and pulls it out.
"You know, I'd be real surprised if you killed me now. I mean, that'd just mean you're a coward and that you were too afraid of me beating you. Because, well, let's admit it. If you haven't realized, whoever made this game is obviously expecting me to win. Not you." She simply answers, knowing she's got him all angry and fuming.
That's good... Or maybe bad, because with anger comes a mind that does not control his thinking properly.
Tris immediately dives for the ground as Peter fires the first shot.
It's loud and hurts her ears, but she ignores it and begins to run.
Ahead of her, she can see that she'll need to be rock climbing.
Tris can hear Peter's furious steps running after her, and she quickly puts on her harness and helmet.
Peter laughs. "Let's see how you climb with one arm."
Before Tris can react, there's a bang and the bullet connects with her shoulder.
She stuffs her shirt into her mouth and gives a muffled scream of pain.
Tears brim at her eyes, but she pulls her gun with her left arm and tries to focus from the searing pain.
Peter is no longer paying attention. So when the bullet she fires connects with his foot, he screams loudly and drops his harness.
This is when Tris stuffs her gun into her back pocket and begins to climb.
Her shoulder is making her vision blurry, and it's so hard for her to focus, but she rips a piece of her sleeve and uses her teeth and left arm to tie it at her shoulder.
Instead of using her right arm to climb, she leans against the rope that's connected with her harness and uses her left arm to carry her body weight.
She doesn't look back at the sudden silence, she's afraid of what she'll see.
Then comes a point where the wall has a huge hump, and Tris has to use both arms to climb over it.
She takes a chance to stop climbing and look at her shoulder that's gushing with blood, even through the cloth.
Fuck it, I can't waste time. She tells herself, then she clenches her teeth and uses both arms to pull herself over the hump.
She feels a tear from her shoulder, but she ignores it and finally makes it on top of the hump.
Her vision now has black spots swimming in front her and her head feels so light, she thinks she'll faint, but she continues to climb until she makes it over the wall and to a new level of terrain.
Tris rips off the harness and helmet, then starts to run like there's death chasing her.
Because it actually is.
And that is when she sees a beautiful, ruby red glow coming from a mile away from her.
Tris takes this opportunity to look back, she doesn't see Peter, so after having that reassurance, she pictures herself in school where she's trying out for Track, and she needs to run the mile under the time of 6 minutes and 30 seconds.
Kneel, deep breath, look up, and 3, 2, 1, run.
Tris runs as though she's never run before. deep breath deep breath deep breath. She chants in her head.
1 minute.
2 minutes.
3 minutes.
4 minutes.
5 minutes.
The beautiful button awaits.
Just 10 more steps and she'll-
A bullet sears through her skin near her hip and she screams as she weakly slumps to the ground.
Peter is crawling as fast as he can towards the button with his gun thrown to the side.
They only have 3 bullets, and she has 2 left.
Tris can't seem to use her senses, any minute, she'll be knocked out, but whatever would happen, she could not let Peter win.
Wiping away her tears and trying to regain control of her self, Tris grabs her gun and points it at the moving figure a few feet away from her.
A pull of the trigger, a kick of the gun, and she watches as wood explodes into pieces from the tree she hit.
No no no no no! Get up and SHOOT! Come one PLEASE! Tris begs herself.
Tris pushes herself into a standing position, stands with her feet apart, shoulders loose, and she forgets her pain.
This time, the bang and scream of pain is so satisfying, that Tris even begins to laugh.
She was going mad, but she didn't care.
Finally, as Peter clutches his stomach, Tris falls to her knees and begins to crawl toward the button.
She couldn't believe it, she was going to win.
When she was right in front of the button, she forces herself to sit up and reach for it,
Peter slams himself on top of Tris and holds her struggling body down.
"You Bitch. I will kill you before you black out, I will make sure you feel the pain." He seethes.
Tris screams as he slams his hand into her shoulder.
The pain is so unbearable, she wanted it to end.
She wanted to die.
Peter gets up into a sitting position and forces his knee into her hip where her bullet wound was.
That's it, I don't care, I'm dying, it's too unbearable. I am on fire. Tris tells herself.
Her vision is now a dark grey, everything is now in a Black and White filter.
As her vision swims with shades of black, white and gray, there's only one thing that stands out.
The red button.
Tris slams her fist into Peter's face and rolls out of the way.
He grabs for her leg, but she pulls it away from his grasp and kicks his stomach.
He screams like a dying animal, but Tris can literally no longer hear, her senses were shutting down, but she needed to get to the button.
And she does, Tris slumps to her knees, but she forces the last of her energy into her left arm, just to slam that button.
In the last second possible, at the same time her hand presses into the cool surface of the red beauty, there's an extra force as the button presses itself down, and makes a loud siren.
Tris doesn't care anymore, she lies her head into the cool grass and wonders why there's so much red on herself, and everywhere around her.
As her eye lids droop closed, she hears faint voices of yelling and crying, and many pairs of arms wrap around her small frame, but someone pushes them away and a strong pair of arms gather her into his arms, and she is lifted from the ground.
But the chaotic noises are bothering her, and the only way to get away from it is to fall under the sleepless darkness.
And so she lets herself do just that.
A/N- Ummm, wow. Phew. That was instense. Speechless.
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