The witches gathered around the trio, Eva, Damon and David. Eva was holding Damon's arm and when she watched the angry faces she held him tighter. Suddenly she realized that she was relying on the wrong person so she slowly tried relieving her grip but Damon held her hand. He moved his fingers smoothly over her palm giving her relief stating everything is fine. They reached in the middle of the ground and got to one side while the witches made a joint group staring them took the other side.
" hello witches... long time no see", Damon said.
His venom filled words were enough to increase the heat of tension, rage and fear.
" well since you guys dont really seem to be happy with my comeback let's come to the main point, your leader is my wife and thus I speak here on behalf of her", Damon said.
Eva's jaw dropped again while others closed their fists in rage. Lavender took some guts to come forward holding her boyfriends arm and spoke,
" she is not our leader "
The moment Lavender said that, her red hairs blew with the sudden storm. Everyone noticed the sudden storm against Lavender. Eva was baffled because that was not a good sign by nature and Damon stepped forward with a vicious side smile and cold eyes. He bowed coldly in front of Lavender and Lavender gulped her saliva as she didn't dare to look back into Damon's blue eyes,
" you see this is what happens when you speak against the leader", he said.
Then he stood straight and spread his arms around as he spoke,
" Noman is dead and can't be brought back. The only Phoenix alive now is Eva and she is the leader. My presence into the restricted land proves it that she is no different" Damon said.
Lavender took her step back in fear and hung up to her boyfriend. Damon smiled and looked at each baffled faces and said,
" if there are no objections then shall we start with the ceremony?"
Many of witches wanted to fight Eva and prove that she is just a witch not worthy of anything here but due to the fear of Damon, nobody dare spoke. Since there was no objections, David came forward holding the snake on his shoulders. He used a knife and held it in the sky. The dark sky turned clowdy and smoky and the thunder light struck the knife as he picked up the snake and cut him in between saying the dark arts spell,
" veto ras pack sa sul power ... veto ras pack sa sul power....", he kept humming the spell.
He cut the stomach of snake and let the blood flow from it. Damon held Eva's hand and bought her at the centre. The burning candles length increased and the wins turned into huge storm. Eva stood watching the blood flow into ground through her feet while David uttered the spell. Finally he ended speaking,
" from the power of the sky and the power from earth... we thus bestow the new leader of the coven", he spoke followed by a thunderous lightning and its noise.
David got on his knees and held Eva's hand and made a cut on her palm with the same knife. Her blood flew back into the ground before her wound sealee back. David got up and went and sat with the other witches,
" let the celebration begin", he said.
The other witches out of zero choice ans walked to their leader and bowed in front of her. They then brought the food and switched the music on. Eva stood still. She was still processing the events that changed her life in a single night. One by one the witches came and bowed in front of her. Though there was no smile on their faces but just anger byt they had to complete the ritual. When the ritual was done, Damon walked to her and spread him palm in front of her. With a sexy smile he said,
" I told you .. we are dancing"
Eva took Damon's hand and walked with him at the center of the coven. Damon held her waist and Eva kept her hand on his shoulders. Both their finger of other hand was interlocked. Eva took courage to look at his face while Damon's eyes were on Eva with a beautiful smile as they started moving their legs right and left dancing. Slowly other witches took the dance floor too except for some who were fuming in anger.
Eva took some courage and asked,
" why... why did you do it?"
" did what... the coven needs a leader and only a Phoenix can be one", Damon said simply.
Eva was still confused but knew that rest of her answer will be lame to. As the dance floor intensified, Damon pulled Eva closer placing her head on his shoulder and hugged her. Eva danced maintaining the closeness with him. The night looked beautiful while Eva was still in dilemma. When she was done with the dance and took over the dinner she walked to Lavender in private,
" ooh look the leader is here... what do you wnat us to do for you...I thought your husband is sufficient", Lavender's boyfriend spoke in rage,
" look I didn't know how this happened. I did try to kill myself but the sudden change of events brought Damon back. Look I am locked again and I want my freedom back. I know that you want Damon dead too. I have killed him once and I can do that again but this time I will need your help. So only if you could negotiate...." Eva said.