May's POV:

I knew I had to pull myself together for the others but I had never expected Max to flip out on me as he did. He still hasn't come back yet and I had numbly wondered back to the site about six hours ago, watching and waiting for his return. What family does he have on this island? We had to leave in two hours for our next trip, one or two days and I would no longer have the brother I only just got back. Jason left to speak with the guards about the safety of the group while everyone else hung out and ate their dinner.

Leaves rustled and I looked back to see Amanda take a seat in the spot next to me. "Listen Naomi I. I can't say that I know what your going through but well I. I don't really know what to say anymore, we were best friends and so much has happened recently. I just, I just want my best friend back." Her voice broke and she leaned on my shoulder as she began to cry. I ran my fingers through her hair in numbness while she sniffled and calmed down a bit. We weren't fixed but we at least found each others company calming at the moment.

Once our hug ended, we sat quietly until it was time to leave. We were alone in the back corner of our little campground when I noticed that a few of us were missing. "Amanda stay here and do not move, I'm going to check something out." I said and I guess she could tell that something was wrong in my voice so she looked around and nodded. Crystal had been at the edge of the other side of the woods with Sage, but I couldn't see either of them. I would have assumed they went for a walk but Kole wasn't by the edge anymore and his food lay on the floor. Kole wasn't one to waste food or just leave it laying around.

Julian and Jason were speaking with Randy and Ricky at the moment meaning that they were too distracted to see what was going on around them but I didn't have time to alert them of my suspicion. The jaguars had all left with Max last night and so my security system wasn't exactly operating correctly. Our guards had all been drawn in on the boys conversation and were a good fifteen feet in from their given posts.

Something was off and I couldn't tell what it was, I just knew that there was something going on. I began to walk along the west side of campus when I heard Amanda grunt and I knew there was no one close to her when I left so I sprinted back to her location. "Amanda!" I yelled while sprinting through the woods and jumping over fallen logs. I heard something, I just couldn't tell what it was and knew I needed back up. "Jaso-" something happened, I wasn't sure what it was but something happened and everything went black.

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Jason's POV:

The guys and I had been discussing guarding plans which is why I didn't mind the guards coming closer to hear ahead of time what it was that they were supposed to do. After our discussion ended, I looked around and frowned. "Where's Naomi?" I asked and this caught everyone's attention. People searched all over our little campus and people started realizing that even more of us were missing.

Just when things couldn't get any worse, Max arrived. "Where is she?" I glared, my hatred for him growing every second. The way he treated Naomi was uncalled for, yes she asked a lot of questions but it was because she cared about him and what he has been through. He stopped moving and looked around the camp.

"Where are the rest of your people? Where is Naomi?" He asked and I was annoyed at the question being given back to me.

"I wouldn't have asked you where she was if I knew where she was! She was upset and sitting with Amanda one minute and so we had a group conversation; but, when we finished she was no where in sight. We didn't see the others go missing either." I said and he nodded.

"Is it possible that she left without you? Took the strongest and bolted, trying to get off of this island quickly and without those to slow her down?" I glared at him as well as the others who knew of his explosion on Naomi last night.

"She fights for all of us, she doesn't leave anyone left behind." Glared Randy.

"She risked her life and fought a shark to save me. We fight with each other not against, so don't get it twisted. She keeps us all together as a family and not just mere people." Spit Ricky, obviously ticked at the assumption of her up and leaving us.

"She broke into the enemy compound to save her people, got captured and wouldn't leave the two girls behind. She only left when I came in and carried out one while she carried the other." Firmly said Julian, honor towards her shown in his voice.

"She could have been tired of saving you people, what are two girls versus a whole group?" Said Max, trying to reason still that she may have left us.

"Those two people show how far she's willing to go to save everyone! The one girl she carried was Mina, she was already dead and yet Naomi wouldn't part ways. The other was Mandy, a girl she is no longer friends with and yet she wouldn't just leave them to burn in the building that was slowly crumbling. She carried Mina's body all the way back to her base to give the girl a grave next to her brother who had also died on this island." Julian seemed touched by this and looked saddened at the memory.

My eyes portrayed sadness in the memory before fury arose. "Siblings Max, doesn't that mean anything to you? Naomi, Rose is missing and you stay on the fact that she may have just left us. She loves me and I love her, don't you think she would have said goodbye or taken us with her and look at who all is missing. Sage, Amanda, Kole, Crystal, Naomi." I looked around to see where they all had been sitting.

"The only people who had been sitting at the edge of the woods around our little pitstop. She didn't even take any guards, she's smarter than that so I'm telling you she didn't just run away. Whether you help or not, I no longer care and so this goes to you all." I said, turning to my guards. "Scan the areas and check for any clues of abduction."

The guards quickly hopped to the orders and began to search around. We found little clues that would suggest them to be strange compared to the peoples behaviors but Naomi's spot was the biggest. At first it was the usual messed up dirt that all off the other spots had; but, it was only a spot big enough for one person and I doubted that Naomi would do such a thing like capturing people.

As we stepped out a bit farther, a big amount of shuffled dirt, meaning that someone had fallen and been dragged away like that while all the others seemed to have been sitting up. The only one's to have made sense of this were Max and Julian but Julian was the one to speak. "She must have been trying to do a perimeter check and they got to her before she could get to us." Said Julian and I nodded in agreement.

"Why would she not have alerted you all of the danger." Asked Max now seemingly tense and concerned.

"She must have wanted to make sure there was actually something wrong instead of getting the whole group alerted." Panic now rose through me when realizing that I had no way of knowing where she had been taken too and how long ago she was taken. I should have been paying attention, I shouldn't have left her all alone like that. Max began to move around before freezing and looking around.

"These were my people. Why would they do such a thing knowing that I was guarding this group? I don't understand, they know she is my sister and they know-" He suddenly stopped talking and and I shook him angrily.

"They know what!' I yelled, only letting go when Julian pulled me back.

"They have a deal with the bad men to keep the bad men away from us. They know she's the one they want most. They are going to give her away to them through ceremony and ritual. They will have moved to our second home, the home I first met them in. We must hurry, it is more than a days journey and she may not have that long. Your people are safe here for now so grab your best soldiers and follow me." He said and I was quick to do as told. I left a few of my closest friends to watch the group with the new guards before taking my main team. Randy, Ricky, Matt, Julian, and I all stalked off once realizing that Liz was missing as well.

Matt had been sleeping but was awoken not too long ago and saw that his girl was missing. We all caught up to Max and began our journey to save the girls. We are not sure what will be ahead of us but we were willing to give it our all. We took our weapons and little stashes of food for later and quickly ran through the woods in search of Max's home.

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Naomi's POV:

My eyes slowly opened and I groaned at the pain I felt in my head. What happened? I thought as my vision began to clear. I saw that we were all chained up to the sides of a wagon and tears strolled down my cheeks. Liz was next to me and staring straight ahead at the wall, looking non responsive. "Liz?" I asked, not really sure how I could have missed the fact that she was missing.

She slowly turned her head towards me and stared into my eyes with the empty pits of sadness that her own eyes held. "You need to go Naomi, this won't end well for you. I heard what they are saying and you mustn't stay, get as as from here as you possibly can." She seemed panicked and I had no way of comforting her since her words were really scaring me.

"You know I can't leave you, I refuse to leave without you all." I said and she began to weep as the other began to wake up and panic. I tried to quiet them down but they were being too noisy and my heart stopped when the truck stopped moving. The back doors opened and a man climbed aboard. He seemed native, reminded me of Max in a way.

"Quiet down or you will be punished!" He yelled and slapped a few girls before looking Kole over. He pulled him by the hair to make him look up at the man. "We will make a fine man out of you." He laughed and lightly slapped Kole's cheek twice before looking around at us. He smirked when he saw me and bowed his head before leaving. What was that all about? I thought as the truck began to move again.

I hadn't realized that they took Sage's people too and so their was at least twelve of us all chained up to the truck. I wasn't sure how long we had been traveling but it was dark out and I could see little torches every ten feet or so now that lit up a path for the truck. "I think were almost there." I whispered and a few nodded, I kept fear off of my face now which seemed to calm them down at bit.

The pace of the truck slowed down more and I tried to peek out of the truck to see what all was going on. We were deep in the forest now, the trees were huge so I could only guess that we were in the deepest part of the forest. The truck slowed to a full stop and we heard a gate open before I continued on. I could see faces now and I knew just who these people were.

Sage looked at me with the same recognition and we knew something was wrong here, but we didn't want to make assumptions until we knew exactly what we were dealing with. When the truck stopped for a final time, my heart stopped at the opening doors. A man came in and undid our cuffs before throwing us out of the truck.

I was last to go and grunted at the impact of the floor before being helped up by the others. I faced the man with a glare and he slapped me but my glare did not leave my face so he smiled. "She's the one." He stated proudly and the others cheered while we all looked around confused, all but Liz who shed a tear. Woman came and took us all to a small hut behind us before cutting off our clothes. We tried to fight, but were hit by the strong women and they threatened to bring in men if we didn't behave.

I didn't want a man to see me naked and shivered at the thought of one of those hungry men. Some girls sobbed and I leaked tears as I was left nude with the rest of the girls. "What are they going to do? Why are we naked?" They cried and I hushed them before another man would come. A little while later, the women came back in with horse brushed and buckets of water.

They cuffed our hands and legs to keep us from moving before scrubbing us with the brushes. Girls screamed in pain at the rough brushes touch but I bit my lip in defiance. "Why do you do this?" I yelled angrily to stop myself from crying.

"We must rid you all of the illness your bodies carry on themselves, we clean you." She said before they left us all in pain once more. They came back with simple white gowns and let us put our underwear and bras back on. When we left the hut, our bodies burned but that would be the only pain we endured tonight.

"We must cleanse you all before our guests arrive tomorrow." They said and they walked us down to a river. They held is under and brought us up, just a little before drowning us did they leave us be. We were then paddled to "remove the rest of our illness" and then dried off before getting put in our own little cot.

Girls began to cry as they lay in their little beds, Liz, Amanda, and Sage all smushed onto my bed with me in fear. The gown clearly showed my rose through my back and I was scared as too what they wanted us for. A man came in and took two of Sages girls while we all tried to fight for them. As a result of our "defiance", we were punished.

The two girls were given too us but instead of sleeping in our cot, we slept in a pit they had made for prisoners as though we weren't already that. We didn't dare sleep during the night in case they came for one of us and so when they pulled us out in the morning, we were all very tired. "Come now children, our guests arrive tonight and we need you all to be ready." Said a man and we all huddled together while waiting for our next torture.

We went through yesterday's torture once more and sadly one of Sages girls did actually drown and another tried to jump away and was paddled in the head, leaving us with ten girls. I hadn't seen Kole since we were all taken off of the truck and I was worried about him. I don't think he was being punished but there was little evidence that he was even still here with us.

The day went on with various torture and tasks before the sun began to set and we were ushered into the cot. "Our guests will be here shortly and you all must look your best." Said the woman sadly as she left to get supplies. We all were huddled in the back of the cot with me in front when Kole came in. I smiled and he ran into my open arms before I saw he had tears in his eyes.

"Just listen to whatever they tell you to do, please! I had to see you guys and apologize ahead of time, I don't want to hurt you but they will kill me if I don't do as told." He wiped his tears away before sneaking back out of the cot. What was that about? I thought and I had little time to think since woman came back in. They stripped us of the gowns they gave us and put on form fitting colored ones. Our hair was brushed up into different styles and light makeup was applied to us.

"You all look wonderful, they will be pleased." She gushed and the other woman followed her out before men came in. They pulled us out of the cot and lined us all up in the center of the area they had cleared. The men I had fought earlier stood there along with a few others, smiling down at me evilly. I glared and the girls all trembled in fear. He and his three men, one being Butch all stared at us while Kole stood well dressed along with the man from the truck.

"We have brought you a fine selection yes?" Asked the leader and the men laughed and smiled which the people did in return. "Shall we start the ritual or do you intend to greet your treasures first?" He asked and the men nodded while Kole looked upset by the answer. Blindfolds were tied over our eyes and clothes was tied around our mouths too keep us from "defying" in front of their guests.

We were all being pulled though I assumed in different directions and I began to panic at the sounds of doors closing and music playing from inside a building or outside of the buildings. I couldn't tell if I was inside or outside or what was going on. "Do you want to die?" A voice asked and I couldn't remember who it was but I knew I didn't want to did and shook my head no. "Do you want your friends to die?" He asked and I shook my head no. "So you will behave then?" The voice asked and I nodded my head in fear.

"This is just a greeting time so we won't be here long, we still need to do the ritual." I heard something get set down and footsteps approach me. "I must ready you for the ceremony so do not fuss." He said before holding me shoulders and guiding me around until I was next to a big solid object. I felt it and he grabbed my hand. "Do not fuss I said, I'm just painting you." He growled before I heard I clink of what I assumed was a paint pallet and felt his thumb trace a line down each of my arms. The rose was traced and a few symbols were put on my legs before he painted tiny symbols on my face, neck, and chest.

I fidgeted at his touch and I heard him laugh. "Are you afraid of me?" I shook my head no. "Do you like me?" I shook my head no. "Oh but you will be mine soon so you will have too." He said before kissing me through the cloth and laughing at my disgust. "We will have our fun later but the ceremony must start now." He said before grabbing me and pulling me back outside. I heard the girls whimpering and knew I was back with them.

My hands were tied and I was hanging by them for a good fifteen minutes while I heard people eating and laughing. Some of the girls were taken down but I knew that Sage, Amanda, and Liz were still with me. Crystal has bad shoulders and have in willingly as long as she was brought down and I felt bad for her. The rest of us were brought down at the same time and lined up.

"These are the top four contestants and your prize treasurers. The ceremony will now commence." Someone said and I heard drums bearing and music while I was being pulled around my some maniac trying to dance with me while I was blindfolded. I was hit with a whip until I danced along and when it was over, I felt a hand yank me to it. "Young man have you and your treasurer unified?" They asked and I heard Kole and the girl say yes before cheers erupted.

A strange noise went off and Kole screamed. "You killed her!" As he was dragged off somewhere in tears.

"Kole!" I yelled and was punched in the face.

"You will not call out any other mans name other than my own, do you understand?" Screamed my capture and he pulled me back up to my feet. "You belong to me and no one else's name will come out of your mouth but my own, you will obey me and my rules or be sentenced to death until I figure whether I want you as my pet or on another island. Now hush now so we can finish our ceremony now that a fresh innocence blood has been laid on our contract." A tear slipped down my cheek and his finger caught it which made me flinch and it only angered him more.

There was yelling nearby and the chief quickly called out to the men who had us. "You may go and unite you and your treasures while I deal with an intruder problem." He called and my man laughed before roughly