Recap! May and Ethan kiss! Also, May has another vision
Take a step into Evia's POV! This is an early birthday present to the Inspiration of Evia's appearance.
We have 2 ships to name! Methan? Maythan? Ebell? And Cali and Kya, Kyli? Caya? Do you ship anyone?

May and Ethan kissed, it was beautiful, they were mates, and they loved each other. Kya and Cali were mates, too. It was supposed to be a celebration. But I was swallowed in sadness. A darkness my magic can't get rid of. I know my mate is somewhere, and I will find them. We will be happy.

I didn't realise how long I had been hiding, until I heard Ikasi yelling. "Evia! Where are you? It's been Hours! Please come out! We need to go." I crawled out, using my wings to stabilise. Ikasi grabbed me and ran back to the others. "I got her!"

I kept thinking about my mate, and I made a list of the things I wanted in him.
1. Strong
2. Brave
3. Not manipulative
I knew mates could be forced to do something, but it took skill, and I hoped he wouldn't be like that. He wouldn't be like that.

We got to the ship, and everyone, except May, who went back to get the 6 earth warriors, went in, expecting nothing more than a plain ship. We walked up the stairs to the captain's cabin, and we all gasped as we caught sight of him, the 'bunny man'. I stumbled backwards, bumping into Alen. "You okay?" He whisper-asked me, steadying me before letting go and getting back to his protective stance.
"He's..." I was going to say more, but Ethan cut me off. "Real?" They finished for me. I had mixed feelings on what I believed from what May's visions told us. Ethan was, no doubt, counting the eyes. They were doing this to get the amount of eyes exactly correct when they drew him. The Bunny man pulled a lever, triggering the door to shut. Walls began to form around us, keeping us in. The ugly thing grabbed Kya, and she screamed. He slammed a magic detainer on her bare, brownish skin. He threw her at a wall, and she let out an 'oof' as she knocked her head and slipped out of consciousness. Nobody struggled, except Ethan, who punched him square in the jaw, they too, were thrown against a wall. I was trying to open the door as he drew my hand away from the door and slapped the final gold-ish bracelet on my left wrist.
We were shoved in a truck everyone got a seat, and I lay Kya down on the spare few. "So Ethan, how many eyes?" I asked the still conscious person. They contemplated it for a while, thinking their answer. "I counted 69. Must be the worst coincidence to live with." I held on tighter to Kya, who would have made some snarky remark about the situation. I wanted more than anything for her to say 'your mum.' It was the weirdest thing she could say, and yet she always says it, and it's cute. "What do you think he wants?" I nodded to Alen, not sure if any of the 69 eyes were watching, but we both knew who I was really talking about. Ethan was the only one with their power restriction band on their right hand, and it was a tiny bit strange. "Don't know, my guess is he's gonna do what he did with the 25 missing people. The captain's container is empty." They're calling it 'the captain's container?' That really sucks. They should give it a proper name, like 'The place we will spend the rest of our lives in, just like the original serpentine captain' or 'TPWWSTROLIJLTOSC' either way, it is a mouthful. "I hope May's safe." Ethan couldn't help themselves. They just had to bring up their mate. "Oh you bastard. Not all of us have our mates, you can stop rubbing it in our faces that your childhood bestie is your mate, got it?" Alen felt like being that one tiny rock in your shoe that you can never get out. #AlenSux.

We got rather nice accommodation. 6 beds, 6 chains connected to the ceiling in the centre of the room, and only 5 are in use. He prepared for this, he knew this would happen. He knew we would come, because he is the antagonist in our story. May is definitely the protagonist, all the bad things happen to her. "We should stop referring to him as 'the bunny man.' It fucking sucks. Anyone got ideas, because we all know my name ideas suck." Everyone thought about it, and gave up. "Ok so... if you could go to any African country, which would it be?" Josa changed the subject. I had to think about it, I didn't know of many. "Uganda..." Kya mumbled from the bed next to me, and I jumped out of bed to talk to her. "Ok, how many fingers?" I asked, holding 3 fingers in front of her.
"3!" She answered, and I flicked my other 2 fingers up.
"Wrong, it's 5." I pulled her in for a hug, glad that my close friend was ok. We all laughed at my joke as Kya pulled her left hand up to her face, to push the long strands of black hair out of her face. She caught sight of the chain, and followed it to where it was tethered. She tried to throw fire at it, but failed. "May will come back, right? She'll help us?" She changed moods from happy, to concerned. "Of course, she has to come back for her mate the nerd." I acted strong, but underneath, is just a scared little girl, who doesn't know if her one hope is really coming.

I spent the next hour thinking. "Hey, do you think we could still link?" I asked them curiously. We can't shift, so I don't see why we'd be able to link. 'Hey, Kya? Josa? Alen? Ethan? Can you hear me?' I linked them, before looking up at the others. "Could anyone hear me?" I asked, and everyone shook their heads. I lay down, defeated. We had no way to call Maybell, and we were stuck here. "Alenor, no chance you have a pen?" Ethan asked, and Alen chucked him a pen. "We might not be able to shift." They said as they scribbled on their arm. "But May can. And if she'll shift to anyone, It's going to be me." They lifted their arm to show us the message:
Magic restricter, can't link, third corridor, last room - left side.
"It's okay, but we should tell her to check everyone else." Alen pulled out his sharpie, the one 'dedicated to sniffing' because 'sharpies smell good' and wrote on his wrist:
Might die, might not, put a bowl of M&Ms, skittles and easter eggs on my casket.
He sniffed the sharpie, then chucked it to me, and I wrote my own message:
Feed Tofu for me, and I want my money to go to charity.
I sniffed the ink, and chucked the pen to Kya, who also did the 'write, sniff, chuck' routine, until we all wrote a message. Ethan added something else to their message. Do something wild, like riding a dragon, or a migratory bunny. I could have added something else, something more useful, but I decided if I lived, i'd tell them.

I started softly humming my favourite song, 'I'm good' by David Guetta. And Kya heard me, and started quietly singing the lyrics. "I'm good yeah i'm feeling alright, baby imma have the best fucking night of my life and wherever it takes me i'm down for the ride, baby don't you know i'm good yeah i'm feeling alright, cause I'm good yeah i'm feeling alright, baby imma have the best fucking night of my life and wherever it takes me i'm down for the ride, baby don't you know i'm good yeah i'm feeling alright. Don't you know i'm good, yeah I'm feeling alright." For a moment, I thought we'd be ok. I thought this would all be ok, until the bunny man came.

He didn't turn to see us. He went straight to the door parallel to us, and pushed a few buttons with long, pale fingers. Inside was another, female bunny man. She looked frightened. "Mian, you don't have to do this." She opened her mouth to long, sharp teeth, but nothing in her screamed 'scary'. The bunny man, Mian? Removed the thin pain of glass, and shot her through the head with a knife-like tongue, then, he cut the hole larger, did his tongue have different settings? 1 for punching holes in sculls, one to cut things, man, he must be good at cooking. That's something I like in a man. "Guys... I- he's... he's my mate. I'm so sorry."