One x One: Vampicorn & Nightshade2012

[Vampicorn]

Nathan's eyebrows shot up at her not-so-amity reaction
"I'm sitting here because I can, and the other Erudite transfers are all going to be debating quantom physics instead of trying to figure out what we're goign to be doing"
he said, returning her cold eyed glare

[Nightshade2012]

"Fine, whatever,"
Beth growled, turning to face him with a dark look in her eyes.
"Look, I'm not sorry that I've p*ssed you off somehow, okay? My past as an Amity means nothing to me here, so get that through your thick skull right now. I never have acted, nor will I ever, like a child of Amity. I belong here, and I'll prove to you and everyone else against me that I plan on staying here."
That said, she turned away from him, moodily picking at her food.

[Vampicorn]

A tidal wave of snide comments came to Nathan's mind, but half of them would get a knee to the crotch, but he settled for a practical approach
"You may 'plan' on staying here, but you're already that awkward little puppy with the limp wandering behind the crowd of pit bulls. You may think that you have everything planned out, but you, Beth, will have to work your butt off to even stay here a week"
Nathan said bitterly, leaning foward and staring at her
"And acting like you know everything doesn't help you either, you're no smarter than those bull headed Candors"

[Nightshade2012]

"It's not about smarts,"
Beth hissed, eyes down.
"It's about brawn in Dauntless, and how much you can take."
She stood up abruptly, taking her try with her and stalking away. His words had shaken her, even though it didn't show. He was right. In their eyes, she was nothing but a peace loving dove of a person who was out of her league.

[Vampicorn]

Before he could even pick through his remarks to find his best, Beth had left the table abruptly, leaving him alone and bored. Grabbing a slice of odd looking bread, Nathan looked around the room to size up the other initiates. Most sat with their fellow initiates from their old faction, and showed it quite well. Analyzing their behavior could only help him pick apart their strategies when the time came; personalities would dictate actions, and that was someone's worst weakness

[Nightshade2012]

Beth forced herself to finish eating, even if after that the food tasted dry and really had no taste. She would need her strength. Once she was done she set her tray with the other dirty ones, walking to the dorm and changing not into pajamas, but into her clothes for tomorrow. She wanted to be ready. That done, she lay down on her bunk, awake for a long time before she finally fell asleep.

(( You can skip to the morning when the wake up. I can't remember what stage one of the tests is... ))

[Vampicorn]

{{ I'm going to skip the whole going to sleep part too; unimportant details }}

Nathan woke up to a, thankfully, not-so-sore arm. Stretching out his arms and legs, he got up to go to the mens room. Showers, though they seemed to be a more femenine thing, always relaxed him, and his nerves were on fire. After his long, drawn out shower, Nathan walked back into the dorm room to find most of the other people up
'Thank goodness I decided to put a shirt on...'
he thought nervously to himself. As usual, Nathan's internal clock was reading 'it's way too damn early, go back to sleep', so he assumed that everyone else would be asleep. Putting on a pair of heavy-duty army lace up boots { the manly kind }, Nathan navigated his way through the labrynth of passages to find the training room. Filled with guns and punching bags, it was all but dainty looking

[Nightshade2012]

Beth was sitting on the floor of the training room, Lizbeth and the guy that had taken the Dauntless-born initiates yesterday off to one side of the room. There was also another man, one the transfers didn't know yet. She looked up as others started to filter in, smirking slightly when Nathan finally made it. She'd been up early due to a rough night, and Lizbeth had let her into the training room early without a problem.

[Vampicorn]

Nathan noticed a smug Beth relaxed on the floor. Ever since her petty little outbreak last night, he'd be nothing but annoyed at her, and showed it quite well with his one finger salute, and choice to sit as far from her as possible
"So, are we going to beat the crap out of eachother, that's what I've heard is going to happen?"
he asked the instructors as the other initiates slowly trickled in, each one's old faction easily shown through their seemingly meaningless habits of the occasional hair mussing or finger drumming

[Nightshade2012]

"Yes, actually,
Lizbeth said calmly, despite some of the shouts transfers gave at the news.
"You will fight one another one on one and be ranked by your wins and losses. The top ten at the end of this round of training will move on. The rest of you will be dropped out of Dauntless."
"Who is first today?"
Beth asked, eyes bright. Fights. Amity may be the faction of peace lovers, but because of that, it hadn't been hard for her to go to the Erudite library near by and read up fighting techniques, nor had it been hard to watch Dauntless fight one another and jump on trains.