Riona Zycks had a wonderful childhood with her siblings Rocko and Reyna and her parents Ronald and Rebecca. They lived happily and peacefully in Amite.
But then one day everything changed. Three years ago when Riona was 15 her whole family died in...
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Lissy gently woke me up by shaking my shoulder. I opened my eyes but closed them again because the light was so bright in here. When I adjusted I opened them again. "How're you feeling?" she asked me. "Really good actually." I said and pulled up my shirt to see the wound almost gone. "Oh my god." I said in astonishment. "Yeah. Four requested to inject you a serum that heals wounds faster than usual." she told me. "Why?" I asked. "Probably because he wants to see what you got during training today." she told me.
And then he suddenly walked in. "Come on we gotta go wake the others and you need to get dressed." he said walking towards me. "Alright." I breathed out and slipped into my slippers. He was walking fast and hard and me being small it was hard to keep up. "The wound must be almost gone, right?" he asked. "Yeah I feel pretty good." I said. "Great. I had to give you the serum to see if you just act tough or if you actually are." he said and I scoffed. How arrogant.
Once we entered the dorm he turned on the lights and pounded a metal cup against the metal stairs before everyone groaned. "I want everyone in the pit. In two minutes." he said and walked away again.
"Ouhh so you snuck out and spent the night with tough guy." Elijah said. "Yeah you'd like that wouldn't you." I said while walking down the stairs and to my bed. "Well where else would you have been enlighten us." Peter said. "Yeah I mean you did walk in together." Will added. "I was in the nursery." I said fake smiling while holding up my shirt so they'd see my wound.
"Ready for training?" I asked Lizzie with a grin while I took off my pajamas, everything but my underwear. The five guys were all staring. Thats what I get for having big boobs and a fat ass. "Want me to strip naked?" I asked sarcastically. "Yeah." they answered. "Want me to come over and kick your asses?" I asked. "No!" they said going back to changing clothes. Unbelievable. I quickly got changed and put my hair in a ponytail before I walked into the bathroom and brushed me teeth. "Come on." I gestured Liz to follow me. And behind us was the rest.
Once we walked into the pit we saw Four already standing there waiting for us. "There are two stages of training: the first one is physical. We'll push your bodies to the breaking point. The second is mental again breaking point. You'll face your worst fears and conquer them. You'll be trained separately from the Dauntless born but you'll be ranked together. After Initiations ranking will determine what jobs you will move into: leadership, guarding the fence or keeping the factionless from killing each other." Four explained.
"The ranking will also determine who gets cut." Eric added. "Cut?" Marcus asked. "At the end of each stage of training the lowest ranking Initiate will be leaving us." he said walking towards us. "To do what?" Al asked. "There's no going home to your families so you'd be living with the factionless." Eric explained. "Why didn't we know that?" Will asked. "It's a new rule." Eric smirked. "A new rule? Somebody should've told us that." Lizzie said. "Why? Would you have chosen differently? Out of fear? I mean if that's the case you might as well leave now." Eric said bluntly. "If you really wanted us it won't matter to you if you might fail. Alright you chose us. Now we get to chose you." he said.
