Chapter 9

It's fighting day, Tris gets a bye today, but Christina has to fight the tank, Molly. Christina talks about how Peter, Drew, and Molly have all been inseperable since birth, she hates them. Peter is pure evil, has always been a liar in the Candor community, but no one ever would think he is one because no one is suppose to lie in Candor. This makes me wonder what they do to those who don't follow the rules of their Faction? throw them out? is their a prison?? Drew is Peter's sidekick and Molly is also evil! Will and Al fight first, they go at it for quite sometime, making eachother bleed and bruise. They wait for Four or Eric to call the fight off but they never do, Eric says it ends when one of them can no longer continue... does this mean death? Four argues with Eric, someone can concede. Eric argues back that those are the old rules. Four says that "A brave man acknowledges the strength of others." Eric says, "A brave man never surrenders." I agree with Four of course, Eric is an idiot!! It takes a lot of bravery to surrender to someone, swallow their pride, which I can tell Eric has never done such a thing. Tris says she feels like she's waching two kinds of Dauntless, the honorable and the ruthless. Maybe the two could combine so that the intiates would understand what Dauntless really is, and not be confused by what their leaders are trying to teach them. Eric has the overall authority though, which seems so weird to me because he is younger then Four! It would be like a Freshman bossing around a Senior, strange but age doesn't matter in the Dauntless community. Al soon finishes the fight with one punch to the jaw.  Four carries Will out leaving Eric with the rest. Molly and Christina fight next, a good long fight ends in christina begging for mercy. She tells her to stop, that she's done! Eric is upset by this and grabs Christina, he tells the rest to follow. I knew Eric would be upset by this considering his ruthless idea he stated during Will and Al's fight. Where is Four to save the day??? Eric leads them to the chasm, tells Christina to climb over the railing, he tells her if she can hang over the chasm for five minutes, that he will forget her cowardice and if she can't, he won't let her continue initiation. What a physco!!!!!!! The narrow metal railing is soaked with the spray of the river. Determined, Chrisitina is fine for the firts minute and a half, but then her back is striked by the river water and her face strikes the barrier, she hangs by her fingertips and can't get a better grip because the railing is so wet!! Four minutes, Al and Tris cheer her on, Tris contemplates saving her but knows she will experience the same fate. Selfish, but that doens't matter anymore because she is Dauntless. Five minutes is up, Eric tells her to get up by herself, Al says no (GO AL!!!) and he helps her up, along with a little help from Tris. It seems that Al is Dauntless, winning that fight, but he is also very selfless, for what he did for Christina.

"I guess I haven't really had a friend, period. It's impossible to have a real friendship when no one feels like they can accept help or even talk about themselves. That won't happen here. I already know more about Christina than I ever knew about Susan, and it's only been two days. -Tris (okay now she is just making Abnegation sound miserable, like prison. I can't imagine how many rules are established there, and it makes me understand why they are the government, but do they put people in jail for not following the rules? or would that be selfish?)