Born to be Dauntless

Chapter 43

CONGRATULATIONS KEULI! Also I totally didn't forget to update or wrote this before school...

"You okay?" Four said with his normal mumbling voice as I tried to catch my breath.

I nodded since I couldn't get any words out of my mouth. All I could do is gape like a retarded fish.

Four clicked on some new files and opened something that looked like an empty form.

"How did you think it went?" he asked and turned to me.

I looked up with a bewildered expression. How did it go? I opened my mouth to answer but instead closed it again to think it through. How díd it go?

"Uh..."

Four nodded and typed some things in the form. "Well your time was sixteen minutes and you have ten fears total." he said as he submitted his results to my file.

I nodded again and tried to stand up. My legs were wobbly from the amount of adrenaline that had coursed through them and I steadied myself by grasping for the chair.

"You okay to walk or should I call for someone?" Four asked again.

"I'll walk."

"Okay. Oh and about your sleeping situation, I've discussed it with Eric and he'll come up with something but tonight you're welcome to stay another night at Tris' and my place."

"Thank you" I breathed out still shaken up about my fears.

Four walked to the door and opened it. He let me out and waited at the door for the next initiate.

The people who were waiting for their turn all stared at me. On my left I saw Daniel look shocked and terrified. Next to him sat Mike but Liz had already had her turn.

"Rogue..." I heard Mason whisper. My eyes shot up at him from the daze I was in but I kept walking. He too looked shocked at my expression. For just a second I felt like my first fear began all over again.

That's bullshit. It was a test. It's over now. Just keep on walking.

I left the test room behind and roamed around Dauntless. Most of the initiates, if not all of them, went to the dormitory after they had their test. I considered going to the Dauntless born's dormitory since I knew some people there but I realized that I didn't wanted to talk about it.

I ended up walking to the place I'd found a while ago. I climbed to my spot above the chasm and just stared into nothing. 

What would the other initiations be like? I know that Erudite has a test with time to study and stuff. Abnegation is the easiest. Just doing some volunteering for a month and you're in. Candor has things like being on truth serum for a couple of days. god knows what kind of random shit Amity came up with.

I hope Kayli chooses wisely. She'd die in Dauntless.

I hope I'll never see her again because that means that she'll be safe.

I buried my face in my knees. I sat like that until the sun passed it's highest point. A lot of people passed the chasm in that time. It had quieted down in the beginning but it was close to the shift change so the amount of people had increased significantly.

I climbed down after I'd heard my stomach grumble. Most people that passed me were in a hurry. All except one. It was a girl of around the age of 25. She had black long hair and wore a black tank top with black tight jeans. 

She was tailing me. She'd been following me ever since I got closer to the pit. I subtly changed my direction to see if she really was just walking in the same direction with the same speed. I unconsciously headed for Four's and Tris's apartment.

The girl kept walking with after me. Every turn I made, she made. She also kept a safe distance of about 3 to 5 meter between us. Everything she did was by the book.

She's tailing me alright.

I walked around the corner and pressed myself against the wall. I heard her footsteps accelerate since she'd lost sight of me. Her head appeared around the corner. For a second I saw pure horror and surprise in her eyes when she saw me staring back at her. Then it changed into a knowing angry look.

I was about to ask her why she'd been following me but she dashed away. 

Like hell you're getting away!

I sprinted after her. She was fast but obviously hadn't been training herself to be fast. I could easily catch up and jumped on her back. We fell to the ground and I could hear her skin scrape against the ground. She groaned in pain but managed to kick me off. Instead of running, she turned around ready to fight me.

Without hesitating, she swung her fist at my face. I managed to dodge it at the last second.

She's set on not getting caught.

I got in fighting position and stared at her. She froze for a second but quickly recovered and tried to punch me again. I dodged it.

Counter the next one.

I saw her feet shuffle around waiting for me to attack her but I didn't give in. After a few seconds she grew impatient and lashed out at me. She threw a punch at my shoulder. I quickly stepped aside and tried threw a punch to her face. Before I knew it she'd dodged it and had pushed my arm aside. Shit shit shit!

She used her free fist to punch me on my lip. The entire left side of my mouth became numb and I felt some blood on my tongue. 

I managed to get my leg in between hers and pushed her back. She lost her balance for a second and stumbled back. In the little time I had, I managed to punch her in her stomach. She hunched over.

I threw my knee up at her face but she caught it and pulled it. She tackled me and I fell back. I landed on my back with a thud and held my hands in front of my face. 

She kicked me in my side before I could block anything. I felt the air escape my lungs as she kicked me again.

"What's going on?" I heard someone shout at the end of the hall. My attacker got distracted for a second so I quickly rolled and jumped on my feet. When she looked to her side where I was she jumped in surprise.

I punched her on the eye. She groaned in pain and kicked me on my shin. Instead of it going numb, it began to hurt excruciatingly. I tried to keep my face straight but she'd obviously seen it. I couldn't even stand on it anymore. She smiled wickedly and kicked it again.

I shouted out in pain and dropped to the ground. I held my leg as if it helped, which it obviously didn't. 

Next to me, Tris and Four appeared. They'd been running and jumped in the fight. The girl saw her obvious defeat and ran away. Four sprinted after her but he also hadn't been training on his speed lately.

"Are you okay?!" Tris said as she dropped on her knees at my side.

I wanted to say something like 'yeah, I'm fine.' but the blood in my mouth prevented me from talking. She looked at me with wide shocked eyes so I spit it out on the ground next ot me and turned to her.

"I'm okay."

"You don't look okay." she argued.

"Well that's not nice." I joked back. I tried to push myself to my feet but my leg hurt like hell and I fell back.

"You're not okay. You're going to the infirmary." she said firm.

"Yeah, yeah."