Resurgent

Part 4

I wake with my arm draped around Sam’s waist, I don't want to move but I also don't want anyone to see us in the same bed together. I walk around the dormitory for a little bit, then a woman comes in.

"Everyone get up! Training starts in 5 minutes!" Then she leaves.

We go down to the training room, and find four people standing there. I recognize Uriah and Four, but I don't know who the two women are.

"I assume you know Four and Uriah, this is Christina and I am Tris." She she says while handing out guns, "Today you will learn how to shoot a gun, then you will learn how to win a fight." Tris grabs the gun and shoots, hitting the target right in the middle. "Here is a twist to choosing dauntless. You chose us now we have to choose you. Only the top ten will become dauntless members, the rest will leave dauntless and return to your old faction."

"There are two parts of training, physical and mental. Push your bodies to the breaking point and beyond. We will push you until you break and then push harder." Four tells us, while Tris is still shooting and every bullet hits the middle.

"Tris will you not shoot while I talk?"

Tris turns around and presses the barrel of the gun to Four’s head. Everyone is frozen in fear but Four is smiling. “I’m just kidding,” she says planting a kiss on Four’s lips.

"Now everyone watch as Tris demonstrates." Four says laughing. I don't really pay attention to what Tris is saying.

"Are they expecting us to do that?" Sam whispers to me.

“Take your stance, and start shooting,” Uriah yells.

Everyone tries to mimic Tris’s stance but nobody comes even close to hitting the target.

After almost a hour of shooting some of the initiates have hit the target, just not the middle.

“Come on Stiff, don't you know what a target is?” Ryan says.

"Yeah maybe you should try actually hitting it," Khloe says.

That next shot i hit the target right in the middle. I shoot a few more rounds, and most of the bullets hit the middle.

Then Ryan comes over and punches me in the jaw. I was taught that fighting is a selfish act therefore i have never needed to know how to fight, but obviously that isn’t the case here. I try to dodge his fists but he knees me right below my ribs, i wince and almost fall to my knees.

Four runs over to Ryan and holds him up by his collar. "What the hell do you think you're doing? Your outburst was unprovoked, unnecessary, and therefore an act of cowardness."

"I think this would be a good time to start the second part of stage one," Uriah says as he saunters over to us.