Born Dauntless

The Initiates

Tris Pov

After Zeke's 'fabulous' fall, we head back to the cafeteria laughing about it and talk about how the initiates are. Once we get there we all grab a slice of the most famous, dauntless cake, and sit down at our table.

"That stiff isn't gonna last a day. He looks too scared of everything." Lynn blurts out.

"Yea, but it looks like Zeke was talking to him. They may become friends and we will have to be nice to him." Mar says in return.

That subject drops and we continue random conversations like, what new tattoos are in, how good dauntless cake is, and what pranks we should pull on the new transfers, while we finish our cake.

"We should get tattoos!" Uriah shouts, almost too loud, as usual. We laugh and agree.

"Uri!!!" I shout. "Give me a piggy back ride!!!" I then jump on his back and surprisingly he doesn't fall like usual. Lynn hope on Mar's back and we run off to the tattoo parlor, laughing and shouting for people to get out of the way. We arrive and immediately start searching through for the new ones deciding what to get. I already have a dauntless symbol in my right shoulder blade and that's all. I'm really not one of those dauntless freaks whose whole body if made up of tattoos.

While everyone else is getting there's done, I find this amazing tattoo that I know is perfect for me. I run up to Tori and give her the stencil and she puts in my tattoo. It only hurt a bit but not much.

Once we all have ours done we show each other ours.

Mar got the symbol for dauntless on her back, Lynn got the word DAUNTLESS written in fiery flames on her forearm and Uri got a tattoo of a slice of dauntless cake on his shoulder blade.

"What did you get Trissy?" Uri asks me and I glare at him since he knows I don't like being called that.

I show them my collar bone and reveal three birds flying towards my heart.

"Each one represents Zeke, Uriah, and mom." I say. My dad died in a training accident after Zeke was two, so me and Uri never got to meet him.

"That's really pretty Tris. Yours is my favorite. None of ours have a meaning" Lynn says smiling.

"Mine does actually." Uriah says.

"And what is that?" I ask.

"It shows how much I LOVE dauntless cake and how I want some right now." He says and then sprints off towards the cafeteria.

We laugh and chase him there.

As we enter the cafeteria, there are new faces who are staring at us like we are crazy, which we kinda are. These must be the new transfers. I give an evil look to the gang and they return it. We grab our dauntless cake and sit in our regular seats, but with someone new. The stiff. He sits next to Zeke, who is across from me. Mar gives us all a 'I told you so' look and I sigh.

"Guys this is Four. Four this is my friends, Lynn and Marlene, and my brother, Uriah, and annoying sister, and Uriah's twin, Tris." Zeke says and laughs.

"I'm the annoying one? Little Uri over here got a tattoo of a dauntless cake!" I say.

"Uh... I'm actually older than you by a minute. So you can't call me little. Plus, you are really short." He laughs out. And I blush and laugh a little.

This was all true. I'm shorter than others, so I am underestimated, which is an advantage since I'm a great fighter. I also am the twin of Uriah, the younger one by a minute I should say. Although we are pretty much the same age, Uriah is as protective of me as Zeke is. There was a guy that was flirting with me a year ago, and let's say that Uriah and Zeke put him in the ER for a few days.

We eat our cake while Zeke and Four eat lunch, since we already ate. The whole time,a Uriah has a concentrated look on his face. After a bit, I start laughing.

"Hey. No laughing I've been thinking hard and can't find an answer. Why is your name Four?" Uriah asks.

"Because he has Four fears." Zeke answers instead. "Amar gave him the name."

"FOUR fears?!?!" I practically shout. "That is like a new record!!"

Four looks up from his plate and smiles shyly. His eyes meet mine and I realize they're a gorgeous ocean blue. They shine brightly when light hits them and they match with the rest of his facial features.

Ok I'm not boy crazy but he is really cute.

"Yea I can see that being the case," he replies then looks back down at his plate. Shy much?

"Hey we need to go back to training," Zeke says out of nowhere and they both stand up and head to the training room.

Once we finish eating we have nothing else to do so Uriah and I follow them. Lynn and Marlene decided to go shopping, and since I HATE shopping, I wanted to check out how the initiates are.

"For your second part of training today, you will be learning the methods of combat. Uriah and Tris, would you mind showing these initiates how to fight?" We nod and take off our shoes and step into the arena. I haven't always been the best at fighting and Uriah usually always wins because Im so small and haven't properly built my muscles. Although I am strong for my age. "Go!"

I put my arms up to cover my face and we start walking in a circle slowly. Uriah, as usual, starts walking towards me, and again, as usual, he takes the first punch and I duck quickly and grab his legs and pull them out from under him. He lands with a grunt and gets up before I can make my next move.

"You should probably work on changing your first move" I say and punch him unexpectedly in the side and and punch more till he grabs my waist and flips me over causing Me to land on my stomach and hitting my head on the ground, making me dizzy.

"Yea but I learned some new moves." He says holing a hand out. I take it and am lifted off the ground.

"Point Uriah!" He yells and punches his fists in the air. I laugh along with everyone else and step off the arena and sit down holding my head as everyone scatters to practice. Uriah sits beside me.

"Did you hit your head?" He says becoming the overprotective brother.

"Yea but I'm perfectly fine." I say and go over to the punching bags.

I punch the bag for awhile until a transfer comes over.

"Hey. I saw you hit your head in the fight. Are you okay?" He asks. "My names Eric by the way."

"Yea I'm fine. Happens all the time. And I'm Tris if you didn't already know," I respond and he puts his hand on my shoulder but I push it off.

"You know, I can go talk to him and tell him to apologize. Someone like you should need someone to protect you." He says and steps forward grabbing my waist.

"I don't need protecting." I say and shove his hand off my wrist. "Go back to your
training otherwise I'm telling Amar your messing around. I can get you kicked out of here faster than you can say Dauntless cake."

"Ooh. Playing hard to get huh." He says and steps forward but I punch him in the jaw and he falls to the ground.

I hear footsteps and see Uriah running over to me.

"What's going on here?!?" He says looking down at Eric. "Why are you trying to flirt with my sister?"

Eric doesn't say anything and stands up.

"Answer my question!" Uriah then punches him again. By now Four, Shauna and Zeke are over here too, but not Amar.

"You better watch yourself Tris. You will be mine. Your brothers and friends can't help you forever." He says and walks away.

AUTHORS NOTE

Ooh what does Eric have planned?? TBH I never really liked him so I'm emphasizing that in this story 😂 hope you guys don't mind that!
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Hope you enjoy my story!!