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Amaya stood on the sidelines as the three Harvest girls were carried through the quarter on chairs before they were lowered to the ground and brought to a stage where Genevieve stood.

''Now, in accordance with the Fêtes des Bénédictions, the witches of New Orleans, bless you all.'' People then started to cheer as they watches Monique summon a minor earthquake.

The second Harvest girl then summoned wind before backing up leaving Davina her turn.

Davina then turned around and trusted her hand towards a sign that stood behind her. The sign then started to smoke before it started to go off into fireworks making the crowd cheer much harder than they did with the two other Harvest girls.

When she turned back around Davina made eye contact with Amaya who gave her a thumbs up before disappearing into the crowd and joining Elijah.

''Elijah,'' Amaya said once she joined his side.

''Amaya.'' He said before taking in her attire. ''You look ravishing.''

Amaya smiled before saying ''Thank you.''

''Strange. I thought you'd be in the company of your colourful friends.'' Elijah said as he let a smile slip on his face.

''Oh. You asked for a representative for the werewolves, so.. take me or leave me.'' Hayley said making Amaya let out a snort.

''She got you there pal,'' Amaya said as she patted Elijah's back before leaving the two of them as she walked through the doors of the after-party.

Genevieve tapped her knife on her glass to get everyone's attention as she said ''Welcome. As is our time-honoured tradition, you are all welcome to deliver your offerings. It is our custom that no one should be turned away, No blessing be denied.'' She then raised her glass before walking away.

As everybody went up to give their gifts anyone who tried to give a gift to Davina was told to give them to one of the other girls.

When it was finally time for Amaya to give her a gift she headed straight for Davina only for someone to touch her and tell her to give the gift to someone else.

She turned to the person and held their arm with as much pressure as she pleased before using her magic to melt their skin.

No matter how much trash was under her hold she kept her grip tight until she saw fit.

And when she let go of her arm she looked up at the girl before pouting ''Aww. You might want to get that checked out. Next time keep your hands to yourself.''

Amaya then turned back and walked towards Monique before taking the gift that Hayley was going to give Davina and handing both of them to Davina whose face light up when she saw Amaya.

''Follow me.'' She told Davina who picked up both of her gifts and followed Amaya.

''Josh. What are you doing here?'' Davina asked.

''He has a gift for you,'' Amaya said with a smile.

''No way I'd miss out on your big day. Besides. music, wind, fire. The club kid in me is, like, in Heaven.'' Noticing her sad expression Josh said ''You don't look like you're having much fun tough. Hey. Come on. Let's get out of here.''

Amaya watched with a smile as they walked away but that soon turned into a frown when she heard a family voice come from behind her.

''Joshua,'' Klaus called out as they turned to look at him in fright. ''What a fortunate coincidence finding you here. We have unfinished business.

''Klaus what are you doing?'' She asked him but he simply ignored her.

''You need to leave here. Right now.'' Davina said as she took a step forward.

''Now, to be fair, you're not quite as powerful as you once were you? You're in no position to give orders.'' Klaus said as he smirked at Davina.

Klaus then sped behind Josh and grabbed him by the neck. ''Come on, Lad.''

''Hey, can we talk about this?'' Josh winced at Klaus's grip.

''Niklaus, what the bloody hell are you doing?'' Maya asked as she blocked him from passing making him roll his eyes.

''Get out of my way, Amaya.'' Klaus said.

''Or what? You can't hurt me'' She said as she took a step forward. But Klaus took that as his opportunity to walk around her and lead Josh to the bottom of the stairs.

''Josh!'' Davina called out as she and Amaya followed after Klaus.

''Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please,'' Klaus called out to the crowd earning their attention. ''We are gathered here today to pay homage to our beloved witches, but one very special witch had been utterly ignored. That seems a little unfair to me.'' Klaus then whipped out a small box with a bow on it and handed it to Davina who looked at it suspiciously.

''No.'' Davina shook her head. ''I don't want your gift.''

''I understand why you would reject me, given our past. In truth, many of us here today have been wronged in the conflict in which my brother's treaty ended.'' Pointing to Josh Klaus said ''Your friend Josh was involved in a plot to kill me. It would be well within my right to execute him. Here and now. ''

''But.'' He raised a finger. '' In the spirit of solidarity, and for your favour, Davina, I hereby pardon him. Josh...'' Amaya watched as Josh tensed under Klaus's touch. ''From this day forward, you have nothing to fear from me.''

Klaus then once again pulled out the gift and showed it to Davina ''Please.''

She hesitantly took the gift earning a smile from Klaus.

Amaya watched as Klaus walked away from Hayley before walking up to her. ''What was th-''

She was suddenly cut off by a group of men dressed in white coming down the stairs playing some sort of beat.

''Happy Fêtes Des Bénédictions.'' One of them yelled as Amaya saw Elijah join Hayley's side from the corner of her eye.

''We have a message for all of you.'' He pointed to the crowd. ''From Marcel Gerard.''

All of the men then proceeded to take out knives and slit their wrists making the vampires around lose control.

''Control yourselves,'' Elijah told all the vampires. ''This is a vulgar trick. We do not violate our agreement.''

The lights then shut off earning yells from everybody. Vampires from all around the room started draining everybody they could find.

Maya was being pushed all around as she tried to move around. That proved unsuccessful when she was shoved so hard that she fell to the floor.

Maya tried to get back up and she would have been able to if everybody wasn't running around like madmen preventing her from being able to move.

''Shit'' She winced as someone stepped on her hand when she placed it on the floor.

When the lights finally came back on dead people laid scattered on the floor and others ran up the stairs to save themselves.

Amaya caught a glimpse of Hayley who was also on the floor with blood trailing down her head.

''Klaus.'' She called out making Klaus race towards her. When Klaus helped her stand up the first thing he did was check her for injuries.

''I'm fine.'' She said as she swatted his hands away.

''You can never be too sure.'' Klaus said as he sent her a weak smile.

Amaya looked around the room before her eyes drifted to one of the walls that were covered in blood.

''Nik.'' She said as she softly tugged on his sleeve to gain his attention. ''Look.'' She then pointed to the wall.

On the wall written in blood was

𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁𝙴𝚆𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙱𝙴𝙽𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙰𝙲𝙴

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