№34|Celebration!
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The sound of a champagne popping could be heard as cheers erupted from the ballroom of the DeVille Compound, now owned by the DeVille Kids.

"Alright, Alright," Hex raised the bottle of champagne high, "I wanna dedicate tonight to my lovely girlfriend." Hex kissed her lips, Cruella giggled, her tongue lacing with his.

The crowd began to 'ooh' and 'awe' as they watched the couple making out on what used to be Juniper's throne.

"You're gonna keep making out or continue the speech?!" Emmanuel laughed, taking a sip of his beer as he wrapped his arms around Marmalade's waist.

Hex rolled his eyes and flipped him off before disconnecting his lips from Cruella, "as I was saying I would like to dedicate tonight to my lovely girlfriend, her sister, Marmalade, and my mother for all doing their own part in defeating Juniper!"

"I would also like to welcome back my dad to the Golden Dragons!" Hex smiled widely, Sergio ruffled his hands, walking up beside Hex.

"Enough with the chit chat!" he popped another bottle of champagne, "LET'S PARTY!"

"So this is the famous Eponine who stole my brother's heart? It's a pleasure to meet you, my name is Alonzo," Alonzo shook her hands, before motioning towards Clair, "and this is my mate, Clair."

"Pleasure to meet you Princess," Clair bowed, Eponine sweatdropped.

"You don't need to bow, or call me Princess." Eponine chuckled nervously.

"I don't want to be rude." Clair shrugged, standing up straight.

"You're not, while I'm away from the kingdom I just want to be treated like a normal person." Eponine explained, "I'm just regular old Eponine."

"Speaking of your kingdom, are they gonna be okay while your away?" Alonzo questioned.

"I hope so, but I'm sure my parents can handle things while I'm away." Eponine smiled brightly.

"You're parents? What...that means...!"

"I'm staying in New York," Eponine's smile only grew.

Matias hugged her tightly, "you're gonna love New York! It's amazing, sure the streets smell like pisss, but there's some good stuff there too! I can finally show you the butterfly exhibit! Oh - and you can see Times Square! And the mechanics! It's gonna be amazing, Eppy!"

Alonzo laughed, "I've never seen him like this,"

"What do you mean?" Clair tilted her head.

"So...happy! Look at him," he motioned towards Matias who was still rambling about all the things he would show Eponine in New York, "he's practically a whole new wolf! I guess it's true what they say; having a mate really changes you."

Clair intertwined her fingers with his, "did it change you?"

"Buttercup," he lifted up her chin, placing a kiss on her lips, "you turned my whole world upside down, and I love it."

"And...done!" Diane announced, signing the last form for her Eloise adoption, "Eloise Perez, you are officially our daughter!"

Eloise felt tears fall down her cheeks, she quickly wiped them.

"Why are you crying? I thought you wanted us to adopt you?" Gabriella asked, rubbing Eloise's shoulder.

"I-I do, I-I'm just so happy." Eloise smiled, tears still falling.

"Finally! I have a grandbaby to spoil!" Emma cooed, hugging Eloise tightly, "oooh! I can't wait to spoil you!"

"Can't...breath!" Eloise croaked.

"Um...Mama, can you not crush your granddaughter?" Gabriella chuckled nervously.

"Huh?" Emma looked down to see she was smothering Eloise, she quickly let her go, "oh my gods and goddesses! Sorry, hija!"

"It's...fine..." Eloise sweatdropped, getting her breath back.

"I don't have to join the Golden Dragons gang yet, right?" Eloise asked, Gabriella and Diane shook their heads.

"Of course not! We don't accept anyone under the age of 18, but when your 18 you can join if you want, for right now you can still hang out at the mechanics, you just can't take any missions." Gabriella explained.

Eloise left out a sigh of relief, "thank gods..."

Diane kissed the top of her head, "now that you don't have to worry about Helena, you can make a whole new life in New York, you can go to school to learn magi, live with us, have a family. It'll be great, Eloise, I promise."

"I can't believe you all found mates!" Glinda cheered, hugging her children, "and you finally took down Juniper! I'm just so proud of you all!"

"I'm just so glad to see you again," Cruella chuckled, "we haven't seen you since we escaped."

"I know! You've grown up so much!" Glinda sobbed, "I missed out on so much! I'm a terrible mother!"

Cruella, Marmalade, and Gillian sweatdropped, "n-no your not! It's alright! Really!"

"You sure?" Glinda wiped her tears, her children nodded, "good, with that being said, it's about time you start making some grandbabies! I'm not gonna be here forever ya know!"

She pointed her fork at Cruella, "you're the oldest Cruella, why don't you and Hex get cracking on some babies?"

Cruella and Hex blushed hard, "hehe...um..."

Marmalade laughed, "yeah, Cruella, get cracking on some babies." she mocked.

"And what are you laughing at Marmalade?" Glinda smirked slyly, "last time I checked, you've been with Emmanuel for 4 years and still no kids."

"I don't think we'll have kids for a while." Emmanuel laughed slightly.

Glinda glared at him, "and how long is a while?"

Emmanuel gulped, "you know what, I'll get working right away, miss!"

"Whipped," Gillian snorted.

"And you," Glinda turned towards her only son, "you are my only son! Would it kill you to start making a little baby boy for me to spoil? I always wanted another boy..."

"Thanks, mom," Marmalade and Cruella looked at their mother with deadpanned emotions.

"You know I'm just messing with you," Glinda smiled, "me and your father love you all equally."

"Speaking of dad, where is he?" Cruella questioned, looking around for her father.

Glinda sighed, "arm wrestling with Sergio."

Sergio and Santos were locked in a heated arm wrestling match when Sergio slammed down Sergio's arm, "ha! I win!"

"Best out of 10?" Santos smirked.

Sergio smirked as well, "your on! You've gotten a lot stronger since the last time I've seen you Santos."

"I can say the same for you," Santos laughed loudly, "although it looks like Emma has you wrapped around her little finger."

"Oh like Glinda doesn't have you in the palm of her hand?" Sergio shot back, "who is awesome by the way! Did you see how she chugged down an entire barrel of beer?!"

"Yeah, apparently animalstics don't get drunk." Santos shrugged, "must be nice."

"Yeah." Sergio agreed.

"Wanna know what else is nice?" Santos said, clutching Sergio's hand slightly.

"What?"

Santos slammed down Sergio's hand, "I just won."

"Are you done wrestling now, dad? I want you to meet Hex." Cruella pushed Hex forward.

"Oh," Santos examined Hex up and down, "so you're the man who stole Cruella's heart."

"Yes, sir." Hex smiled politely.

"Great," he patted Hex's shoulder, soon clutching it tightly, "if I find out you hurt Cruella or her siblings in any way," he tightened his hold on Hex's shoulder, Hex gulped in fear, "I will hunt you down and kill you where you stand."

"Hehe...okay Santos." Hex trembled under Santos glare.

"You will call me Sir." Santos stated.

"Y-Yes Sir!" Hex chuckled loudly and nervously, "Cruella...help.."

"Dad," Cruella took his hand off of Hex's shoulder, "I know your protective of me but Hex is a great guy so can you please not break his shoulder?"

Santos smiled at his daughter, "fine," he ruffled her hair, "you're all grown up, it's so cute."

Cruella chuckled. Santos looked towards Emmanuel, "same goes for you Emmanuel! You hurt my daughter, I'll kill you!"

Emmanuel smiled awkwardly at him, "of course, s-sir!"

As the party went on, the Golden Dragons and the Ruby Rebels basked in their new found victory, unaware of the new threat bubbling under the surface.

Tangerine snuck into what used to be Juniper's office, she tiptoed over to her desk, rumbling through the paper frantically, "dammit, where the hell is that file!" she opened the last draw, finding a file labeled, In Case We Lose, and I Die, Call Him.

Tangerine opened the filled, dialing the single number that was in it.

Somewhere along the Bahamas, a man's phone rang. Tawny beige hands wrapped around the IPhone, he looked at the number, "private caller?" his rustic voice questioned, swiping the answer butting and putting his phone to his ear, "hello?"

"Is this Salis Reyes?"

*pronounced as s-uh-i-ees

"Speaking," Salis replied, sitting down at a local cafe, "coffee, black," he said to the waiter before turning back to his conversation on the phone, "what is this about."

"My name is Tangerine DeVille," Tangerine introduced, she was about to continue but Salis interrupted her.

"What does the DeVille Family want with me?" Salis sipped his coffee, soon placing it back on it's saucer.

"It's not what we want with you, it's what we can offer you." Tangerine sat back on the office chair.

Salis interest peaked, "I'm listening."

"We have recently come into contact with someone you know~" Tangerine cooed, her fingers trailing down the file.

"And that would be?"

"Your baby brother, Hex Perez," Tangerine smirked, "we know you've been searching for him, we can tell you the information if you want?"

"What's the catch?" Salis questioned, not taking Tangerine's words at face value.

"Let's just say his family hurt mine so now I want you to hurt him." Tangerine crushed the pencil in her hands.

She calmed down, "so, what will it be, Salis? Do you want this address or not?"

Salis crushed the coffee cup in his hands, "send the address to this phone, I'll call you when it's done." Salis hung up on Tangerine, anger fumeing in his eyes, "finally...I'll get what's rightfully mine!"

As Tangerine sent him the address, Salis left the cafe, a tail of fire left behind him, "I can't wait to see you again, little brother, oh what a firestorm it'll be."

~A/N~

And that's a wrap on the second arc! As you can tell, the next arc will be about our newly introduced, Salis, and is relation to Hex. It's about to get heated up in this story.

Literally, because Hex uses fire.

Lmao! I don't wanna spoil to much but this upcoming arc will be the last on of the book 😥. But it's okay! Don't get sad! It's gonna be an amazing arc! I promise!

In better news; DeVil's In The Name won 1st place in the Coronation Awards in Adventure and 1st place in general fiction in the Summer Time Awards!!!

And we're on 1.57k reads!!! Yay!!! Let's get that number going high folks!!!

See u next update (which is Wednesday)

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Sugar ❤️