Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Twilight or Divergent. Those rights are reserved for Stephanie Myer and Veronica Roth.
Writer's note:Welcome to Bella Swan: A Dauntless Tale!
[Four Days Later]
Bella's fist pounded the bag hard in furious sweeps. The bag swung under the weight of her hits and it impressed Four that Bella's strength had risen amongst the recruits. He saw a burning fire in her like he had never seen before and that was making waves. The Abnegation girl was swinging hard and she wasn't missing.
Tris on the other hand, struggled with being Dauntless, though she faired well with some of the physical tests, like running, sit ups and pushups. But nothing compared to her sister, Bella. Tris was still in the red and that concerned Bella, but Tris was pushing to work hard.
"Alright stop. Take a breather, drink some water." Four said and everyone broke from the bag, except Bella. She kept hitting it. It forced Four over to her where he stopped the bag with his hand and looked at her. "Bella, get water."
"I'm fine." Bella said and launched a roundhouse kick into the bag that rocked Four a little. The power was surprising and Four hadn't anticipated the power behind the kick, but he held the bag again.
"Do that again." Four said, but this time he held firm, preparing for the kick.
Bella swung her leg again, the round house kick landing into the back, pushing Four back a little.
Four was appalled. He let go of the bag to study her. "Where did you learn to kick like that?"
"My dad." Bella said with a shrug. "He liked to teach me things."
"In Abnegation?"
"Yeah." Bella said, raising a brow. "Not all Abnegation were 'stiffs'."
Four shook his head. "I didn't think Charlie Swan had it in him."
"Andrew Prior was my dad." Bella said, confused. "Oh, you meant my biological dad. Yeah, I don't remember much of my other parents."
Four crossed his arms. "You're telling me… that Andrew Prior, taught you to kick like that. But not Tris?"
"Tris, was more… reserve." Bella said. "She helped our mom more with stuff. Me and Caleb, we hung out with dad more. And dad thought it would be fun."
"Interesting." Four said. "Go get water." He said.
Bella sighed and resigned, going to grab water like Four had instructed. She picked up her water bottle and lifted it, drinking it down fast, not realizing how badly she needed it.
"Alright, you'll have a cooling period tonight. Go to the bazar, have fun. Get drunk, whatever, but know that in the morning you have an important marksman test and Eric isn't going to go light. I know it's been almost two weeks and we have had only three live fire training, but Eric wants winners, not losers. If you're in the red right now, you can earn some big points if you do good on your live fire tomorrow. That's all I have. Have a good night." Four said and left the training room.
Tris groaned as she walked over to Bella, laying her head on her sister's shoulder. "I'm so sore."
"Well, that's a good thing. It means the training is working. "Bella teased.
"Four is strict, though he's not an ass like Eric. Eric has been extra overbearing the last four days."
"Eric is an ass, Four can be too and all of Dauntless leadership is pressuring us because they only want our best. I figure once we make it, then we can slack off." Christina chimed in.
Bella smiled. "Yeah right. Can you see how stressed Four and Eric are. There's not time for slacking off. We're getting the easy stuff right now, I imagine it's harder once we make it."
"If we make it." Al whined.
Bella reached a hand up, patting Al's face gently. "Atta boy, that's the right attitude you need to make it far in Dauntless." She teased, but then pinched his cheek. "You'll get there. Just you know, when you aim your gun, always shoot a little higher than what your eyes tell you. I've seen your shot, you need to learn to aim better."
Tris laughed a little. "Yeah, I just have to get my gun to shoot straight in order to begin to aim."
"Use your shoulder." Bella said, patting Tris's shoulder. "Place the butt of your gun into your shoulder. Gives it stability when you shoot. Then all of it is aiming and pulling the trigger. Breathe out when you shoot, not in. Helps with your aim and the tremor if you have one."
Will smiled wide at Bella. "Look at you. How did you get this smart?"
"I read a lot of books." Bella said. "There is a communal library for a reason."
"Yeah, not all of us thought about the choosing ceremony fifty years before our time." Jasper teased Bella. He had become a part of the group. Bella and Jasper were placed higher on the board than the rest of them, but they had all became quick friends. A clique if you may, but Bella laughed at Jasper and then they all linked arms and headed out of training, laughing all the way towards the bazaar.
[Dauntless Bazaar]
Bella broke away from her friends to hit up the tattoo shop again. She wanted to check in with Tori, and to get more ink done. She opened the door and walked in, seeing Tori cleaning the table. "I came at the right time."
Tori smiled at Bella. "Yes, you have impeccable timing. Hop up, we doing another sleeve today?"
"I'm thinking of keeping it on this side." Bella said, pulling her shirt up, revealing her ribs and side. She unzipped her bra, letting it fall to the floor.
Tori smiled. "You are certainly Dauntless."
"What? We're both women. But yes, I am." Bella smiled as she lay on the table.
"What sort of designs are we doing?"
"I'm thinking cherry blossom and oriental." Bella said.
Tori waggled her brows. "My favorite. I got just the design. It's one of my new ones, so you'll be the first to wear it."
"I'm honored." Bella said with a smile and then lay there while Tori stenciled her first.
"So, how is training going?" Tori asked as she fired up the tattoo machine and moved it over towards Bella.
"It's going." Bella said sighing. "I have discovered that apparently I kick very well. Four was shocked that I could kick like that. He was equally surprised to learn that I learned it from my father."
Tori raised a brow. "What's so strange about a father teaching their daughter how to defend themselves?"
"My father is Andrew Prior." Bella said with a smile.
"Oh, well that is strange." Tori agreed.
Bella felt the slight sting of the machine as it tattooed her. But it wasn't anything she couldn't handle. "I utilized the communal library a lot. I know, probably too much, about the factions."
"It'll help you blend better. It's still early in your training now, but when the simulations start, you'll have to pretend your Dauntless. You can't react the same way you did with your aptitude test. Divergents know that the simulations aren't real, so they can tell themselves that to break the simulation. You have to react like you are Dauntless. That means that no matter what is in your fear landscapes, you have to react how Dauntless would. It was after the landscapes, that my brother was found out." Tori supplied.
Bella thought about it. She knew that there had to be a way to figure out who was Divergent, in order to flush them out. "The other factions go through similar trials. Each faction has their own simulations. I don't recall anyone ever mysteriously dying before."
"You're right. Because Dauntless is the only faction that kills Divergents. Believe it or not, but Jeanine Matthews is really the one pulling the strings here. Max is so entwined with her, that he can't see what she's doing. Eric is a lacky. He follows orders, I don't believe he's that far at the top yet, but he's headed that direction. Eric is Dauntless. If you look in the dictionary and look up the word Dauntless, Eric's picture, is right there." Tori explained.
"But why kill Divergents?"
"Like I said before. They threaten the faction system. Jeanine wants to control everything. She wants power and the only thing standing in her way of that is Abnegation. If there were enough Divergents that understood what they were then they would wise up, see that the faction system is unstable and can easily be dismantled."
Bella was quiet a moment. "Why would Divergents want to break the faction system? I have no desire to do that?"
Tori shrugged. "I don't know. It's a paranoia I guess for those that run it. Jeanine feels threatened, so she instead of just sitting down and talking with the Divergents in the system, she lashes out to snap back her control, when she can, before she can lose it." She said and then moved the machine back to look at the ink plastered onto Bella's skin. "There. All done." She said with a smile.
Bella leaned up off the table and then hopped up to marvel her new tattoo in the mirror wall. She smiled. "Looks amazing." She said. The cherry blossom tree tangled with her skin, with a white tiger entwined with it. It was elegant, and powerful. It was large, taking up her entire side from under her armpit to her hip. The oriental letters etched in her skin seemed elegant as well. "The words?"
"Fierce, Strong, Power." Tori relayed. "That's what you are."
Bella smiled and looked back at Tori. "Thank you."
"Anytime." Tori said, watching Bella put her bra and shirt back on and leave her shop. She had worried initially for Bella's safety there in Dauntless, but it was clear now, that Bella could handle herself and perhaps Bella was the sign they all were looking for. To lead the resistance against Jeanine Matthews and the faction system.
Bella made it back to the bar and ordered some drinks. She downed the first few shots, before she took a beer from the bartender and left the bar area. She spotted Tris and Christina dancing with Al, Will and Jasper. She smiled, watching their naughty behavior. She sat down at a table and sipped the beer. She felt the affects of the shots swimming through her system and it was a pleasant feeling. Her gaze changed from her friends and she swept it across, her eyes locking on to Eric's. He had been watching her and she arched a brow, smiling a little with a tilt of her head.
Eric smiled back, leaning away from the table he was sitting at. He finished his beer and then he left the bazaar, heading back through the training area. He stopped, waiting a minute, before turning and seeing Bella, as she attached herself to him, her mouth consuming his. It was hungry, he could tell and so he pulled her with him up to his room, which was above the training area. He closed the door behind them and she ripped at his shirt, pulling it off in a hurry. His hands moved over her body, undressing her quickly and before long they tumbled back onto the bed, her straddling him. It was a dominant position and when he started to raise up, Bella's hand stopped him as she forced him to stay on his back. She pulled her hair loose and if fell like a curtain past her shoulders. She was a goddess and he was under spell.
Bella shifted, reaching beneath her to stroke Eric's hard cock. It pulsed under her touch and then she lifted up, teasing the tip against the lips of her vagina, getting a moan from Eric, before she slid him inside. She sat down on him, his cock reaching inside her fully, buried to the hilt. She moaned, feeling the pleasure ripple over her of having such a large, hard cock inside her. She began to dance her hips to Eric's and he moaned again, the sensation great against his sensitive dick. His hands gripped at her hips as she continued her dance. The roll of her hips were slow at first, but they picked up their pace as she grinded towards her pleasured orgasm. It sprang free and she moaned in ecstasy as her orgasm pulsed through her and covered him, making is slick. She bounced then, faster and faster, riding Eric hard.
Eric groaned, the pleasure building so fast in him and it was an explosion waiting at his tip as she sunk over him repeatedly. It was nothing he had experienced before and he was convinced that Bella was truly a goddess in this instant as she cried out her second orgasm and shuddered over his cock. She was furious storm that he didn't want to stop as she continued to wash over him. Sweat popped up on their bodies, like dew on spring grass in the morning, as they meshed together fast and hard. Bella's body trembled as she approached another orgasm and Eric sat up, his lips moving to hers, kissing her, breaking her from the fantasy in her head, which included Eric. Her arms wrapped around him as she rode him still and his arms wrapped around her, their mouths vying for dominance, but it was Bella that won in the end. She felt her orgasm shake her and at the same time, Eric's cock hardened, so hard that she was sure it was too full to stop and he exploded inside, layering her insides with hot ropes of semen. He bathed her inside with his seed and it sent sensations through her she couldn't explain, she moaned and gasped at the same time. This type of orgasm, was different than the rest and she was purely satisfied in every way. It was as if they had transcended.
Bella sat there, panting a little as her heart raced in her chest. She didn't want to move, fearing that the sensitivity between her legs would send her spiraling again. Eric leaned his face against her sweaty chest, hearing her heart race in her chest. He took a few deeper breaths to catch up his breathing. Bella was a whirlwind and it had sucked his air supply away it had seemed. He kissed her chest, one over each of her breast, before he kissed her throat and then under her chin, before his mouth made it to her lips. It was a drawn out kiss, one that steadied their breathing finally and when the kiss broke, they looked into each other's eyes. They only stared, not uttering a word, before his hands lifted her off him. She moaned when he did and his limp cock sloshed to the side. His body quivered, but it yearned for her touch.
Bella moved from the bed, testing her legs and their ability to stand.
Eric sat there, staring at her radiating beauty. He saw the tattoo on her side, matching the sleeve she had on her arm. "Beautiful art."
Bella smiled. "I thought so too. Your ink is plain, tribal."
Eric smiled. "Well, I'm not that exciting of a guy."
"I would beg to differ." Bella said and she retrieved her panties and pulled them on.
"Oh? You find me exciting. I'm flattered." Eric said, smiling wide.
Bella smiled back. "Only in bed. You fall flat outside these walls."
"Ouch, my pride." Eric feigned pain and then he stood, his muscles rippling when he did. He walked towards Bella and reached for her, pulling her against him. His mouth came down and kissed her again.
Bella smiled against his lips. "You can not be ready for a second round."
"I'm spent, though I enjoyed this. Very much." Eric murmured against her lips.
Bella kissed him one last time. "Hmm. I did too, but let's keep this," she motioned between them. "Only in the sheets." She said and then found her pants and pulled them on before retrieving her shirt. She couldn't find her bra, so she just said screw it and pulled her shirt on, her nipples visible through the shirt, before pulling on her boots. She looked at Eric and smiled. "Have a good night." She said and then she left him standing there naked.