Chapter 15

When we reach Dauntless we immediately head off to meet Max. we meet Max in his office. This is my first time of being in Max's office. It is quite a plain office which is mainly a dirty white colour it only really has a desk, chair and a computer with a keyboard.

"Hello Four."

"Hello Max, this is Natalie, Bella and Isaac. These are Becca's siblings."

"Hello!" they say politely.

"Well hello." Max says and they go and talk to Becca. "Four, where are they going to stay?"

"Under normal circumstances I would recommend any spare beds in the transfers dormitory but given the 17 transfer initiates that we had this year we had to put the Amity and Abnegation transfers in the transfers dorm and the dauntless, candor and Erudite in the dauntless-borns dormitory. We have got three beds in the transfers dorm which is enough for one each of her siblings but they have nothing except what they are wearing. We need to givethem credits. Not as many as they would get if they were dauntless-borns or adults but some so they can get new clothes etc."

"We can certainly arrange that. So they can sleep in the transfers dor and they can go to school but I will need you and Tris to go out this afternoon and teach them the basics of dauntless life like tranis, giving them a tour of the place and anything else you think you might need to survive here. Okay?"

"Yes." Says Four. And then he looks at me "You up for that?"

"Yes." I reply. We turn around to find Becca in the middle of an enormous bear hug. "Right, Becca we want you to go and get back to training and we will take care of your siblings for the afternoon. They will be staying in your dormitory because that is probably the safest place to be and we are going to teach them the basics of everyday dauntless life. Ok?"

"Yes." Becca says and she gives each one of her siblings a hug and a kiss and then she is off to training. She has a spring in her step now.

Becca POV

Well training can't be that bad. I mean, Christina andUriah are nice and all but they aren't quite as nice as Tris and Tobias. Yes I know his name but I don't want anyone to know that. I am so happy that my siblings are here. Especially Natalie, she is really small and really doesn't look like any of us. She also doesn't look her age either. She is 16 now but she was just a day or so late to be in my year at school. She doesn't look 16 she looks about 13. Training is a bit dull compared to jumping off trains etc.

Natalie POV

When Mom and Dad died I was almost tearful but I know that I am the oldest one left of us. Becca will be at training for most of the time and I have always been used to playing a mother figure. Becca was always out. I know that she was going to the park most of the time. I followed her once, she was there with a Dauntless boy. I couldn't work out what they were doing but I think that he was showing her something. He was doing tricks and all that stuff and I think that is one of the reasons she has transferred. I know the other reason is Tris. I met her today and I can see why she would transfer if that is what you become.

Tris POV

When Becca has gone off to the training room I tell the others to come with us. "Natalie, Isaac and Bella. We are going to teach you the basics of dauntless life. First off, we are going to teach you to jump on and off trains. Ok so it doesn't really take much teaching all you have to do is run along side the train for a few steps and then just throw yourself to the side. Got it?" they nod in response so we go. We see the train coming and I start talking "Right so you know what to do?" They nod. "Good we will get in the last carriage and then we will talk about what we will do next." And we start to runn. They are fast for 15 year olds but I suppose if you have been brought up in Abnegation most of us are quite fast runners, if only to get to help in time. I make sure that we are all on and then I continue. "So, you can all get on a moving train, now you will need to get off. We will get off when we get to the grassy area by upper levels school building. Basically, just jump off the train." They look interested. Especially the boy, Peter and the girl, Bella. I think that Isaac and Bella may join Erudite but I think that they could join Dauntless. "Right. On my count. 3… 2… 1… JUMP!JUMP! JUMP!" And we all jump out of the train. "So you have got on and off a train. Now I am goin to give you a piece of life advice in dauntless. Forget your abnegation instincts. What I mean by that is forget the always put others first and the don't be loud and all that stuff, the opposite is true here in dauntless. In dauntless you will only survive by being loud and playing games, finding out about each other, trying new stuff and expressing yourself. So we will give you credits," I start saying as we walk away, "credits are like money in the comound so with them you can buy clothes, get tattoos," I show them mine at that, "and anything else you could buy. In the compound you can be you as you want to be and you can wear whatever colours you want to wear. Bella and Natalie, me and Christina and possibly your sister are goin shopping tonight. Do you want to come?"

"Yes. But can I ask, who's Christina?" asks Natalie.

"Oh yeah. Christina is one of the other initiation instructors. The instructors are Me, Four, Christina and Uriah. Peter, Four, Zeke and Uriah are going shopping (in a less girly way) tonight as well. Want to go with them?"

"Yeah I guess. Who's Zeke?" asks Isaac.

"My best friend here in dauntless. Uriah is an initiation instructor and Zeke's brother. You might have seen him on tv, he was on there about a year ago now. He was dancing to gangnam style in a unicorn costume if I remember correctly." Says Tobias.

"We saw that. They showed it to us at school, they were saying something about this is what goes on in the dauntless compound or something stupid like that." Says Isaac.

"Good, so you know who I am on about now?"

"Yup." He says

3 hours later – 6:00pm

"Tris!" I hear from across the cafeteria. It is Christina.

"Hey Christina. Ready to shop?"

"Oh yeah."

"I kinda agreed to do something for one of the transfers…"

"What?" Christina says slowly

"Becca, an Abnegation transfer, well, recently her parents have just… well you can probably guess. Her siblings are coming to stay in Dauntless until their choosing ceremony. I said that they could come and get some new clothes with us tonight and then go to Zeke's with us. Okay?"

"Yeah sure."

"There is more."

"Kay."

"We are going to need to take a bit of time off training the initiates. Just an hour or so every day so that we can train Nat, Bella and Peter. Okay?"

"Yeah definitely." And we go off…

First of all, Christina, Becca and Bella drag me and Natalie off to the main clothes store here. It seems that me and Nat share the same view on shopping which is that it is a bit boring.

"Nat, you will like Christina's makeover efforts. I hate shopping but she picked out what i am wearing now so she can't be that bad huh?"

"I guess not." she responds reluctantly. "Becca and Bella have always loved stuff like this but I have always hated it. I like the novelty of new clothes etc. But i just don't particularly like shopping for them. What about you?"

"Yeah, same with me. My brother was always the selfless one but he transferred."

"Where to?"

"Erudite." I say almost sadly but not quite. "But I guess it was his choice. If you ask me what I think of his choice then I think that it was a stupid choice but actually quite a smart one. I know that me made it through initiation with brilliant marks in fact I believe he came first in his group. I still love him to bits though."

"Tris, Natalie! Come on. Shopping"

"Oh god." says Nat and then we go in. Christina has already picked me out some stuff and Bella and Becca have already picked some stuff up for Nat. We look at each other and then we look at what they are handing us and we look at each other again because they are very similar.

"Don't forget, there is a truth or dare party at Zeke's place tonight. We are all going and you will need layers. Get choosing." then me and Natalie go off to look for stuff together.

"Tris, what's truth or dare?"

"Well it's a game. The normal version is that you ask someone truth or dare and then they either do what you want or you refuse. But the version we play here in Dauntless is perhaps a little different. We play strip truth or dare. Basically what you do is choose either truth or dare but if you don't want to do it then you have to take off and item of clothing. Get it?"

"I think so." she says whilst looking at something similar to what i am looking at. I am looking at a checkered shirt in blue and black. She is looking at the same thing in orange and Black. "How long did it take you to get used to dauntless life?"

"Im not sure. I think it was during initiation. Some bad stuff happened to me in initiation but i have left most of that behind me except for the reality of what happened and my feelings of what happened."

"What happened?" she says whilst looking at jeans and stuff like that.

"Well, my friend Al and my enemies Peter and Drew hung me over the chasm whilst i was blindfolded, gagged and bound up. I try not to think about it now."

"Im so sorry Tris. What do you think of this?" she says holding up a black and red checked shirt, black skinny jeans and a grey strappy top.

"Yeah i love it." and its true. She puts it in her basket and says

"What would you recommend i wear tonight?"

"I don't know." but we help each other pick out some clothes from here and we buy them and are then dragged off to the next shop. Same thing happens, and keeps happening until we reach the tattoo parlour. Tori is in there tattooing some guy's arm.

"We are all going to get tattoos." Nat looks at me

"Do you think i should?"

"Yeah, come on i'm gonna get the word Natalie done for mine. It will be ok. I am taking some time off initiation to help train you for everyday dauntless life. Christina is as well. Tattoos are an important part of dauntless life. We will show you how to shoot, fight and throw. Sound ok?"

"Yeah. Im gonna get the word Hope on my collarbone with five ravens going from it. One for each member of my family."

"See my ravens?" she nods "I got them to represent each member of the family i left behind. You know, I am going to do something tonight. You can come back to mine tonight. Not for long but Four and Zeke always go for drinks after a party like this so you can come back to my place afterwards and i will do something for both of us. Okay?"

"Yeah." we head off to my apartment to get ready after she has got her tattoo. I changed my mind and i got the words Natalie, Christina, Will, Andrew, Caleb, Uriah and Al in a large heart on my forearm. When we get to mine i decide to do my part early with Christina's help. Natalie comes and has hers done with me. We both look kind of worried but it is me leaving my Abnegation behind me and Nat doing the same. We both get Purple and Blue streaks in our hair. She has purple and I have blue. My hair has grown darker lately and now it is dark brown. It looks beautiful. I help Nat get ready in her new clothes. We wear similar clothes, checkered shirts, strappy tops (three each!), skinny jeans with leggings underneath and we put our hair up in a very similar way because Christina does it for us. "Let's go to Zeke's."…