"So, I wanna know who wants to jump off this here ledge?" Eric gestured to the ledge right behind him.

There were murmurs and whispers of "He's crazy!" or "I knew I should've stayed with my faction."

"Any takers?" Eric asked, looking at all of us expectantly.

"I will." A girl in Dauntless clothing with black and red hair walked over to the ledge.

"Ah, a fellow Dauntless is going to jump. This is going to be great." I could tell Eric was being sarcastic.

The girl with black and red hair got up on the ledge and looked down. She sort of froze.

"We don't have all day." Eric said in a loud, intimidating voice.

The girl jumped. She screamed until we couldn't hear her.

"Next victim, get up here." I heard more whispers until I heard something.

My voice. "I'll go." I walked to the front of the group. "I'll jump." I raised my hand.

"A stiff? Going to jump?" I can hear Eric questioning my wanting to jump. I can feel the stares of the other initiates on the back of head.

"Yeah. So what?" I get up on the ledge. I took off my light gray cardigan and my dark gray scarf. I heard someone do a catcall behind me.

I turned around and said, "Shut up." I threw my stuff on the ground and turned back.

Then, I jumped on a silent count to three.

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I fell through free fall for a few seconds in silence. I felt something cushion my fall. I moved my arms around and felt that it was a net.

"Give me your hand." I heard a deep voice tell me to the left of me. I gave them my hand a felt a strong grip grasp my hand. I looked up and the person that grabbed my hand had dark blue- almost purple- eyes with dark brown- almost black- hair. He also had lightly tanned skin. He, also, had a very defined facial structure.

The guy helped me out of the net and set me down. I, then, realized that he was ay taller than I was. "What's your name?" I hear him ask me.

"My name. Oh, my name is Ari." I answer after a second.

"Six, you know what to do." I saw him tell a woman who is about two inches taller than me. She had short, blonde hair that looked like it shone in the dull light from the hole in the roof. She had big eyes and a long, thin nose on her narrow face. She was wearing a tank-top that showed a Dauntless seal tattoo on her shoulder.

"Second jumper, Ari!" The crowd below cheered in chorus.

"Go to Six and she'll tell you were to go." The man gestured me to Six.

I walked over to Six and asked, "Where do I go?"

"Go down those stairs," she gestured to the set of stairs beside us, "And follow them and you'll see the first jumper, Clarissa."

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I had to wait for what felt like forever for everybody to jump. Out of eighteen initiates, I was the second jumper and Sierra was the eighth. They split us up into two group: the Transfers and Dauntless-borns. Out of those eighteen, thirteen of them were transfers., the other five were Dauntless-born.

The guy that helped everybody of the net and the woman, who was 'called' Six, were talking in a corner, then they walked over to us initiates. They came over with a woman who had dark brown hair that looked like it was lightning with age. The woman also had an eyebrow piercing, a mouth piercing, and an ear piercing.

"Welcome to Dauntless, transfers. And welcome back to Dauntless, Dauntless-borns." said the guy who helped everybody out of the net. "At the moment, I need the Dauntless-borns to go with my friend, Lauren, here." Lauren was the girl with the three piercings and dark brown hair. She waved the Dauntless-borns over to a hallway that they walked down.

"Now that the Dauntless-borns are gone, I'm going to introduce myself. I am Four." I wonder why he's called Four. "And this is my companion, Six." Four gestured to Six. She went and stood by him and she only came up to his shoulder. She was somewhat short.

"Four and Six? Like the numbers? Seriously?" asked Jinx. She was from Erudite. She was wearing a light blue dress, a dark blue jacket, and dark blue flats. Her raven black hair was in side braid with her bangs covering her left eye.

Four gave Six a smirk and walked over to Jinx. He was at least six inches taller than her, but that was nothing unless you were either Sierra, Six, or me.

"Yes, like the numbers. You have a problem with that, initiate?" He gave her what looked like a very well executed death glare. Jinx started to cower in fear.

"N-n-n-no, s-s-sir." She responded, stuttering.

"Very well, then. Six would you like to tell them about what's going to happen?"

"I would like to. Okay, initiates, Four and I are going to be your trainers. For you to make it into Dauntless membership, you have to pass our initiation. There are three stages to initiation. Physical is Stage One. You learn how to fight and then after a few lessons in fighting, you are pitted against each other. The Dauntless-born are not training or fighting with you in Stage One. Stage Two is emotional and Stage Three is the final stage. Four and I will explain what will happen once you get to those stages. Whoever doesn't make it past this any of the stages will live factionless."

"Wait, if we don't make it past Stage One, Stage Two, or Stage Three will be forced to live factionless?"

"We don't make the rules, we follow them." stated Six with some hesitation. "Now, if you all will follow me, I'll you guys where you'll be staying."

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Before we started going through a lot of corridors, Six told us to memorize the way. She also showed us where we will be training.

I counted at least six corridors before Six told us that we have arrived at our dorm. That's where we found out that girls and boys would be living in the same room.

"Are you kidding me? I'm not even used to sharing a room." Sierra whispered to me.

"I know the exact feeling." I replied in the same hushed tone.

"I know some of you aren't used to sharing a room, much less with another gender, but you're going to have to deal with it. This is your living space for who knows how long any of you are for here." And with that, Six left the room.

Sierra and I chose two beds that were in a corner. We were trying to get comfortable when two of the boys came over.

"Hey, I'm Jordan Smith, but I go by the name Jay." He extended his hand to Sierra, who blushed and accepted it with shyness. Jay kind of blushed as well.

The other guy turned towards me. "Hey, I'm Tony Grayson."

"Hey, I'm Ari Michaels and this is my friend, Sierra Richards." We gave each other pleasantries.

"We were wondering if you wanted to go and by some Dauntless clothes?" asked Tony.

I looked at Sierra and she looked back at me. She gave me the silent go-ahead to accept for both us.

"Yeah, we would like too." I responded after a moment.

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A/N: I feel like I'm getting better at this writing stuff! Three chapters in a week, I can't believe t! Now, there is a possibility that I won't be able to write next Wednesday thru Saturday, possibly Sunday. I'm going to my state competition for FCCLA next week and I don't know if the hotel we are staying at has internet or not. If it does, hopefully it is free internet!

-Megara The Jedi

May the Force be with you!