The sleep that I so desperately wanted did not come to fruition and meer hours later we were woken with a shout. Startling out of bed I let my confusion be known "What the hell is going on?"
An answer was shouted back, "War games!" but it didn't help to clarify things in the slightest.
Deciding to just copy what everyone else was doing I stumbled into my training gear. Kali, the fucker, was already dressed and helping Archie into his jacket, how she had managed to remain graceful when definitely still somewhat intoxicated, baffled me.
Once everyone was dressed the Dauntless born lead the way and we began to run through the halls not bothering to stay quiet for the other members. We burst through the entrance and assembled outside on the grasser side of the tracks. I spotted Four and Eric walking over and was surprised to find them both looking within some semblance of happy. We heard the train coming before our leaders had made it over to us. It went rushing past just as they arrived and I let my feet take over, starting to run alongside the carriages. Archie jumped up and opened the door, I followed next, finding it far easier than I remembered catching the train the first time. Definitely an effect of the training.
Once we had all piled into the single carriage, Eric addressed us. "Hello, Initiates. Good job to you all for making it thus far. As of next week 5 of you will be leaving us, however, today you will be stimulating your first ever shoot out with a game of capture the flag."
Oh, war games, now I understood.
Four held up what was clearly a gun, but looked like it was made from plastic rather than metal. "This is your weapon, each one is stocked full of sim darts, which cause the same feeling of pain and a normal gunshot wound, the only difference being no lasting damage. Any questions?"
Nobody said anything so he turned to Eric "You want to choose first?"
"Alright. Persie, you're with me."
"Eh. What?" I couldn't help the exclamation of surprise, everyone knew I was the worst shot and this was a game of guns.
Eric didn't give an explanation but simply stared me down, personally, liking him liking me and wanting it to stay that way, I didn't say anything else but made my way over to him taking the gun he handed me.
Four looked just as confused with the choice as me, surprisingly when looking out at the crowd of initiates, I could see a few nodding at the decision. Odd.
"Andrew." Four picked a Dauntless-born who I guessed was the current best at shooting, seeing as Delphi was still the top overall.
"Archie." Eric chose him, which must mean Archie is the second best at shooting within the whole group. Interesting .
Delphi went to Four.
Eric chose Brad next, then Four called out a different Dauntless-born. It went on until everyone had a team. Cassius and Kali ended up on Four's side.
Our team had myself, Brad, Archie, Zane, Lo, Emma and 6 other Dauntless-borns, including the one girl Kali had been flirting with last night. Once we had our teams, both leaders held up their flags. Four's was yellow and ours Green. Eric told us to jump off the train, and the game began.
It was supposed to be a team exercise led by the initiates with input and guidance from the instructors. So after leaving the train, Kali's Dauntless-born, who I found out was called Talea, took charge and led us from the tracks through the grass until we made camp by a strange metal structure that Archie called a rollercoaster. Zane joined Talea up the front and with input from others, they started to plan the attack.
It was pretty dark out, with only the light from the moon, which was covered by clouds at the moment and would probably stay that way. Our flag was a beacon in the night and it was quickly decided it would be placed at the top of the roller coaster.
