Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader

Chapter 46: The Five Rules

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"I don't understand," Sophie whispered to Y/n. "What does all this have to do with getting into the boy's school?"
"Sophie, not now," Y/n said, looking at Helga the Gnome, bound to a frilly rocking chair long white hair covered in kale flakes.
"Either you tell us how you do it, Yuba, or we give you to the Dean," Agatha said.
"I find your charges deeply offensive," Helga retorted, her voice tight and pitchy. "All males have been evicted–"

"We saw you, Yuba," Hester said, crossing her arms next to Dot. "We saw your face."
"Yuba? Me? Preposterous," Helga scowled, struggling for white staff out of reach. "Now leave at once, before I call the Dean myself."
"Please! We need your help," Y/n begged–
"But how can she help us with boys? And why do you keep calling her Yuba?" Sophie badgered, pointing at the dowdy gnome. "I feel like I'm missing something–"
"A brain," Hester murmured.

With the butterflies generally dormant at night, the girls had waited until after midnight before each took a turn sneaking into the Blue Forest (Anadil was caught by Pollux and had to abort the plan.) There was no way to squeeze through the tiny gnome hole, but Dot turned the ground around it into kale and the rest stomped through, stunning Helga i her lair.

While the witches tied the gnome to the chair, Y/n and Agatha poked around the tiny furniture and bookshelves for signs of a male inhabitant, but the doily lines, abundance of flowerpots, and lavender wallpaper all had a decidedly female touch.
Sophie frowned as she sniffed a flowerpot. "Strange though," she said airily. "Never met a girl who liked hydrangeas."
Agatha and Y/n humphed at Helga, as if this idiocy would have to suffice as proof.

"We know about Merlin's spell, Yuba," Y/n said. "We saw it in our bok. We know you used it."
"The Dean has revised all her brother's texts to reflect her own agenda," Helga shot back, reddening. "Besides, what do I know of Merlin's spells?"
"Only what you taught Merlin yourself," a voice said. They all swiveled to Dot, holding up a book she got from Yuba's bookshelves, My Life in Magic by Merlin of Camelot. She held up the first page in the book.
To Helga and Yuba
My greatest teacher.
"Should be teachers, should't it?" said Dot.

The den was quiet.

Y/n kneeled down in front of the old gnome. "Surviving Fairy Tales. That's what you teach," she took Helga's wrinkled hand. "And we can't survive ours without you."
Helga's gray pupils glued to the ground, unable to look at her students for a long time. Slowly, her long whit hair retracted into her skull, growing scratchy and short. The grooves her face magically deepened and the skin hardened to a leathery tan beneath a growing white beard. Her cheeks hallowed, her nose flattened, her eyebrows bushied, her body burlying to a barrel shape... until at last Yuba the Gnome gazed up at his former students, in the same lavender dress and wobbly heels.
"Do you mind if I change?" he asked quietly.

Sophie gawped at her old Forest Group teacher, morphed from a girl into a boy. She twirled to Y/n and Agatha, appalled.
"That's how you want us to get into the boy's school? By turning us into gnomes?"
Y/n sighed and Agatha banged her head against the wall.

On a dusty wool couch, Agatha, Y/n Sophie, Hester, and Dot held mugs of turnip-root tea, eyes flicking back and forth as Yuba paced the room in his belted green coat and orange cone hat.

"The irony of teaching is we often teach what we can no longer do. Thought I have been teaching students for 115 years how to survive in the Endless Woods, I could hardly survive a day outside these gates anymore," the gnome said, no longer straining to disguise his voice. "When the Eviction happened, I needed to remain here safely until the balance was restored. Disguising as Helga was the only way. No one would ever find me out. No one would have a clue." He glowered at Sophie, Y/n, and Agatha, squished next to each other. "But given what you've done to the ruled of Good and Evil, I'm not surprised you're back to ruin the ruled of Boy's and Girls."