№33|DeVille Cup Finals: A Battle For The Ages!
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Mama gave a swift punch to the punching bag causing it to freeze over, with another punch the punching bag broke in smithereens.

"Sergio!" Mama yelled, Sergio jumped up off the couch, standing at attention, "get me another punching bag!"

"Honey, that's the 5th one you've broke, I don't think the gym downstairs is gonna let me-"

"Sergio!" Mama glared at him. Sergio gulped, shaking in his boots.

"Yo-You know wha-what! I'm sure the-they'll let us borrow another one!" Sergio quickly darted out of the hotel room to grab yet another punching bag.

"What's up with Mama?" Eponine asked, sitting at the table as the Golden Dragons watched the mother break yet another punching back.

"She's no Mama right now," Sergio sighed, sitting down in the empty chair next to Eponine, "she's turned back into ultimate fighter Emma."

"Excuse me, what?" Cruella chuckled slightly.

"Before Mama met Sergio, she was an ultimate fighter, she would go around to tournaments all around the world to compete. Her wrestling name was 'Ice Queen'." Hex explained.

Emmanuel laughed, "that's why her necklace says Ice Queen?"

Emma turned around, a dark aura surrounding her, "are you laughing at me?" she advanced on Emmanuel, pinning his head to the table, "cause that be the worst mistake you ever made!"

"Laughing? Wh-What?! I-I woul-would never!" Emmanuel stammered.

Emma smiled brightly, "good," she released her grip on Emmanuel, grabbing her cup of coffee off the kitchen counter. She noticed everyone staring at her, "what?"

"You were so mad a second ago...now you're all happy...?" Diane's mind was reeling.

"I'm pretty in control of my emotions." Emma sipped her coffee.

"Sure you are..." the group laughed nervously knowing that if anyone disagrees with her they'd end up like the punching bags.

Emma placed her coffee mug on the counter, "well, why are we sitting here? We got a witch to kill."

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"Welcome folks to the finals of the DeVille Cup!" Keiko announced, the viewers were confused when they didn't see Keiko in her regular announcer box, "if you're wondering where I am, just look up!"

The viewers looked up to see Keiko thousands of feet above them in a hot air balloon with Damien.

"Why did you drag me along with you?!" Damien scolded, trying his best not to look down.

"Because," Keiko turned around to face him, "this is a historic event and I want the best view possible!"

"What does that have to do with me?!" Damian flung his arms above his hand in anger.

"I just think my boyfriend should have the same view," she came in close, smoking at Damien "but if you're too chicken you can happily jump out now, I'm sure the cement will soften your fall."

"We've been dating for almost a week, and you decided to bring me up in this death trap," he sighed shaking his head, "thanks hun..."

"You're welcome," Kieko giggled, "NOW LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!"

"Now this match is unlike any other! Juniper herself has requested to allow her opponents 2 substitutes while Juniper gets none. Also, this match is for all the marbles folk! Winner gets the DeVille Family fortune!" Keiko shouted, watching as the crowd went wild.

"Now, let's meet our contestants! You know her, you love her, she's more of a wicked witch than Elfba herself! Juniper DeVille!"

Juniper smiled and waved at the fans as they faced her presence, "thank you, lovelies!"

"And her opponent! The leader of the Golden Dragons, undefeated ultimate fighter, the woman who was too cold for even Elsa! Emma "The Ice Queen" Perez!"

There were some cheers mixed with boos, but Emma didn't care, her eyes going wide when she spotted Edgar, Jasmine, Dizzy, and Shawn in the audience.

"Kick her ass little sis!" Edgar cheered.

Emma laughed a little, "oh trust me," her laugh turning into a scowl when she faced Juniper, "I will."

"So, the undefeated 'Ice Queen' thinks she's a woman enough to step to me?" Juniper flipped her hair, "please, don't kid yourself."

"Honey," Emma chuckled cockingly, "you have no idea what I can do to you. I was raised in a fighting ring."

"That might be so but can your little Ice Magic keep up with my many, many, magis?" Juniper questioned with a smirk.

"I guess well never know unless we fight," Emma said, getting into her fighting stance.

"With that being said, contestants are you ready?!"

"Yep." Juniper and Emma replied in unison.

"Audience are you ready?!"

The audience erupted in cheers, bringing a smile to Keiko's face.

"THEN LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!! BEGIN THE MATCH!"

"Freeze Lancer!" the snowflake tattoo on her palm began to glow and created a lance made of ice that was fired at Juniper in multiple directions. Juniper, however, dodged, making sure to take note of the attack.

"You're not gonna get away that easily!" Emma yelled, creating a massive intricately-designed hammer made of ice, with ice spikes at the head. The giant hammer was brought down on Juniper, creating a massive impact upon contact.

Much to Emma's disdain, Juniper dodged again, remembering the attack and muttering something.

"What the hell are you muttering about?!" Emma scolded, her anger bubbling.

"Not that your simple little mind would know but one of my many magics is Copy Magi," Juniper began to explain, "I'm kinda like that weird copy ninja guy in naruto everyone likes. What's his name...ah!" she snapped her finger, finally remembering the name, "Kawaki!"

"IT'S KAKASHI! Get it correct!" Rosemary and Gillian shouted.

"Nerds," Juniper scoffed, "anyways, it's like that, with Copy Magi I can replicate any magic I see and even combine magic to make it stronger, like this," Juniper placed her hands together, "Black Ice Lighting Lance!"

Sevel bolts of black lightning dropped onto Emma, once the lightning made contact, it froze, turning into spikes of ice.

"What the hell?!" Emma yelled, trying her best to dodge the move but ultimately got hit.

"Here's another example! Tornado Fang!" Juniper thrusted her arm towards Emma, sending a series of tornadoes in her direction.

"Shit! Ice Shield!" a large shield was made in front of her made of multiple pointed segments that connect to form the shield. Once the tornadoes hit the shield, it shattered, enveloping her in the wind and sending her flying, inflicting heavy damage on her.

"You can't defeat me," Juniper cackled, "just forfeit now, it'll be better for all of us."

"That's it!" Emma yelled, she tore off her shirt, leaving her in a sports bra and her pants. She pointed to the Golden Dragon mark on her left breast, "you see this! This is the mark I got 20 years ago when I joined the Golden Dragons! I made a promise not to let anyone hurt my gang as long as I live!"

"Awe, too bad, I guess you're gonna have to erase that mark." Juniper shrugged, "oh well."

"For all that you did to Cruella, Marmalade, and Gillian, I'll make sure all that pain is repaid in full!" the snowflake on her palm glowed brightly as ice began to emit from her palm. With remarkable shaping speed, a vast amount of swords are created, all made of ice in various shapes and sizes.

The weapons were connected by a large chain of ice that spiraled around Emma several times with the blade pointing outwards. Emma then swung one arm forward and one backward, sending the large chain of weapon towards Juniper.

"Try to copy this!" Emma cackled, hitting Juniper with the spell. She became trapped with ice spikes around her.

"Cute, but let's see if they can hold up against the heat! Burning Land!" Juniper touched her temple with her finger to set the ground ablaze with a mere touch of her hand. The inferno grew larger the farther away it gets from Juniper, before ultimately striking Emma from below with a massive flame.

Smoke covered the view of the audience, once the smoke cleared, Emma laid on the floor, badly burned. Sergio leaped down from the stand, running to Emma's side.

"Emma! Emma! Emma! Open your eyes." Sergio shook her slightly, trying to wake his wife.

Emma opened her eyes slightly, "sorry..." she muttered as the nurses loaded her onto the stretcher.

"For what?"

"I promised you that I would keep our gang safe...losing to that bitch is the opposite of all I promised the gang." Emma frowned. Sergio kissed her forehead.

"Hey, Hey, it's okay," Sergio intertwined his fingers with her, "Marmalade is going up next, and if she can't do it, I'm sure Cruella will finish her."

"Let's go Marmalade!" Dizzy yelled, "kick her ass for the Ruby Rebels!"

Marmalade laughed, waving back at Dizzy, "hi Dizzy, hi Shawn!"

"Come on Miss Marmalade! We're all cheering for y ou!" Summer yelled, munching on popcorn as she sat back down next to Christppher.

"Everyone here?" Emmanuel whispered into the ear piece.

"Yep, we got members lined along the arena just in case we don't win, we promise everyone's coming home." Dizzy promised him, winking at her Big Brother.

"Awe, Marmalade," Juniper clasped her hand together, "you're as beautiful as ever, I already have men lined up by the hundreds waiting for just a little time with you."

Marmalade gulped, her mind flashing back to those dark moments.

"Don't you listen to her, Marmalade!" Emmanuel yelled, clenching the railing of the viewing box, "you're not going back there! We're both going back to New York!"

Marmalade nodded with passion, "you have no idea how long I've waited to kick your ass."

"LET'S BEGIN!" Keiko announced.

Marmalade bagn the battle by giving a powerful punch to Juniper which created a giant storm but Juniper grabbed Marmalade's hand to stop the attack, Marmalade then gave Juniper a punch to the face and ended up attacking her, but Juniper countered the attack and sent her flying.

"You're a lot different since the last time we fought. What were you...13, no 14!" Juniper cackled. Marmalade didn't respond due to her wrath state, but they continued to fight as Marmalade kept creating things with her animalia.

When Juniper was attacked by Marmalade's snow leopard claws, Juniper easily dodged it and sliced Marmalade. "I hope she wasn't sliced in two," Juniper shrugged, "if she is, oh well, sounds personal."

"Hehe..." Marmalade laughed, the dust clearing, "a little hit isn't gonna knock me down. During all that abuse you put me through, I had to learn how to use my animalia as a shield."

Marmalade flew towards Juniper, but Juniper used her whip which followed Marmalade and hit her. Juniper pulled the whip that was wrapped around the bird wings Marmalade used to fly towards her, pulling her to the ground, forcing her to land.

"Dosen't this bring back memories Marmalade? Being tied down?" she pressed a button on the whip, making it scorch Marmalade's skin.

"Can the pretty little animalistic scream from me?" Juniper cooed, flicking her chin.

Marmalade shook her head, biting her lips, Juniper turned up the heat, Marmalade muffled a scream as the rope turned white.

"Fine, regular heat might not hurt you but I know for sure white chain will!" Juniper smirked as Marmalade slammed her foot on the floor, trying to distract herself from the pain.

"Don't you dare scream, Marmalade!" Emmanuel shouted from the stands.

Marmalade but the chains, breaking them, she quickly spit them out, surprising the crowd and Juniper.

"That's better," Marmalade smirked, her claws returning as she leaped forward and attacked Juniper.

Juniper continued to dodge Marmalade's attacks and stopped one of her claws with her hand "it's been so long since we fought and you're still not strong enough to beat me."

She extended her hand towards Emmanuel, "Steal," a purple bubbly mass of poison Magi came out of Emmanuel's chest and into Juniper's palm "let's see you come back from this!"

"Poison Fang!" Juniper created a number of large poison spikes and launched them at Marmalade in a devastating barrage which fatally wounded Marmalade, "didn't think I'd use your boyfriend's move against you, did you?"

Juniper tried to finish her off but Cruella, who was right in the nick of time, intercepted her animalia shield. Juniper looked at the eldest DeVille Kid in disbelief, "ah yes, that's who I've been waiting for." Juniper smirked slyly.

"I'm sorry Marmalade," Cruella turned towards her sister, ignoring Juniper completely, she stroked Marmalade's cheek, smiling brightly at her, "let your Big Sis-Sis take care of this."

For a brief moment, to Marmalade, Cruella became her guardian angel.

Marmalade nodded, holding her sister's hand, "please...please beat her..."

Cruella kissed the top of Marmalade's head, "I will."

As Cruella was conversing with her little sister, Juniper attempted to attack Cruella from above, "you were always too late to save anyone!"

Cruella growled, Juniper's last statement provoking the animalistic to viciously attack Juniper all out. "Animalia: Soul!" Cruella chanted as a black panther made of bright pink animalia grabbed hold of Juniper while the latter tried to slice it.

Cruella displaced the soul to form many spikes with her Porcupine Animalia which attacked Juniper and sent her flying through the walls of the arena.

"Acana Magi: Protect!" a protective shield formed around Juniper to protect herself from Cruella, but Cruella once again sent her Soul Animalia to punch her out of the arena.

"You're a lot better than you were back in the old days." Juniper said, recovering from such an assault.

"I'm not the submissive little preteen you could beat anymore, Juniper." Cruella cracked her knuckles, "why don't you come at me with your full strength and stop messing around."

"That wasn't her full strength?!" Eponine shouted.

Gillian shook his head, "at most it's 50% for both of them."

"Both? That means Cruella's using only 50% of her strength?" Hex questioned.

"Yeah, that Soul Animalia though is way past 50% though, it's also hella rare, only a handful of animalistics can use Soul Animalia. It's when you project your spirit animal into the real world and use it for combot."

"So what's it gonna be? You gonna use full power?" Cruella smirked, "cause I will if you will, only to make it fare of course."

"Shut up!" Juniper angrily yelled as she raised a giant root from the ground to attack Cruella. Cruella blocked this which only made Juniper angrier.

Juniper summoned more roots to kill Marmalade, but Cruella flew there in time to protect Marmalade.

"Animalia: Swordfish Sword!" a swordfish sword appeared in her hands, which she used to attack the roots, but the sword was proven useless against the roots as Juniper summoned more to repeatedly attack Cruella.

"Cruella, I know you want to side with me, so just do the right thing and come back to mommy. Remember; mother knows best." Juniper spread her arms out wide.

"Mother?" Cruella crunched up her fist, laughing mockingly, "you think, after everything you did to me, Marmalade, Gillian, my mother, and my father, I would ever call you mother?! You're the devil!"

"How dare you say such rude things about your mother!" Juniper summoned all of her roots to ruthlessly kill Marmalade as Cruella watched.

As the smoke cleared up, it was revealed that Marmalade was protected by Cruella's Soul Animalia. Juniper was shocked that Cruella used all her power to not attack Juniper, but to protect her half-dead sister.

As Cruella ran towards Juniper to continue their battle, Juniper scrambled to lift her hand towards the viewing box of the Golden Dragons, "Steal!" she shouted, taking all their powers and giving them to the mad witch.

As the two summoned their magis to battle, they fought each other with their full power, while clashing their magis all around the arena resulting in massive destruction.

"GIVE UP!" Juniper ordered.

"NEVER! I'M ENDING THIS!" Cruella yelled, "Animalia Soul: Black Panther Crushing Fang!"

Her soul animalia grew larger than a building before coming down on Juniper and slamming her into the ring floor, creating a massive creator.

Cruella, Gillian, and Marmalade stood over Juniper, "any last words?"

Juniper could barely open her eyes, but she glared at the three DeVille Kids, "you're all...devil children..."

Cruella looked up at her soul animalia, nodding slightly, "sick her."

And just like that, the panther got to work, ripping Juniper's body limb from limb and before long, Juniper was nothing more than a head.

Cruella picked Juniper's dismembered head by the hair, raising it up high, "and the winner of the 2020 DeVille Cup: The Golden Ruby Dragon!!!" Keiko announced as confetti cannons covered the arena in sparkling confetti.

Cruella looked up to the sky to see colorful fireworks going off to celebrate their victory. Tears streamed down her face, she felt Hex's hand grab hers.

"I'm sorry about the fireworks, I know that reminds you of bad times. I can tell Edgar to call them off." Hex apolggized.

Cruella grabbed the sides of his face and kissed him passionately, "these aren't tears of sadness, Hexy," she laughed loudly, "they're tears of joy! We won!"

Hex and Cruella hugged each other tightly, Hex spun her around, "that we did my love, that we did."

~A/N~

Soooo! How was the finals?! Worth the wait? Huh? Awesome right!!! Next chapter will be like a little celebration chapter and then after that will be the beginning of the final arc of DeVil's In The Name!!

That's right. We have one more arc after this! So buckle up! It's gonna be a wild ride!

Stay sweet,
Sugar ❤️