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

Chapter 50: Death in the Forest

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Every muscle in Y/n's body froze as she watched Agatha and Sophie's name light up on the girl's board over the Blue Forest.

They're inside.

Sophie and Agatha are inside.

All the fear and self-loathing Y/n had bottled up for the past day, since she'd seen their red lantern blazing, since she'd trapped herself in this execrable Trial, rushed out of her like a wind, and she nearly buckled to her knees. Whatever she'd done to bring them all here, at least they were all alive and in the same place.

How could I pick Tedros! Y/n abused herself. She could hear Sophie's voice, telling her that she trusted her. How could she betray her friend like that? Just because she fell in love with the same prince again! Tedros wants to kill my girlfriend! And he also thinks I'm a boy! Y/n screamed at herself in her head.

Y/n looked out at the dense Forest in front of her, lit up for the Trial with flowers giving out light glows, like a psychotic spring blooming. Everything in her wanted to scream out for Agatha, to run away and hide with her... and Sophie of course–

"Hurry up, Filip," Tedros frowned, glancing back as he waded through the tangled Turquoise Thicket, round steel and sword Excalibur in hand, the sewn T on his black-and-red cloak collar spotted with blood. "You've almost killed us both already. Try to keep up."
"Oh, I would not say that was my fault," Y/n said with a playful roll of her eyes. Thirty minutes into the forest and they had stepped into the nests of Harpies. Tedros was 18, and they ignored him, but they went straight for Y/n, who had yet to have her birthday. "Can't help I'm younger."

They had spent the entire day planning, once Tedros managed to kick out Hort, Tedros sharpening his father's sword (which Manley had grudgingly returned) , Y/n drawing up a map with her magic to mark spots off, Tedros talking strategy.
"We'll be our own group, Fil. Let Aric and the princes take on the other girls while we go Straight for Sophie, Agatha, and Y/n. We need to separate Y/n from them, protect her. But there's no doubt they're fighting together, just like you and me," he said. "We'll have to slay Agatha and Sophie on the spot, or they'll kill us first."
"Do we have to kill anyone, we could just hide it out," Y/n said, crossing off spots on the map.
"That sounds like something a girl would say," Tedros said, elbowing her.

Now that girl, trapped in the body of a boy, followed her would be forced husband through a tangled blue thicket. Tedros peered up at each turquoise oak appraisingly before jumping onto the tallest trunk in the batch.
"What are you doing?" Y/n asked.
"Agatha and Sophie just entered the west gate," Tedros said, monkeying up the tree. "First thing she'll do is cross the Fernfeild and find Y/n. Come on, we'll have a good view of the ferns up here."

Y/n had never climbed a tree before, she wasn't exactly allowed as a kid. But the thought of seeing Agatha sent her bounding up the oak even faster than Tedros. She found her footing on the highest bough, a cold breeze numbing her face, and tried to squint over the dense treetop as the prince climbed up next to her.
"Can't see anything," she grouched.
"Here, take my hand."
Y/n stared at Tedros' open palm.
"Relax mate, I won't let you fall," he said.
Y/n put her big hand in his firm grip as he inched forward towards thinner foliage, pulling up his cellmate behind him. Y/n's stubbled face heated up, remembering the feeling of Tedros holding her hand, the way he had over a year ago.

"You sweat like a hog, Filip," Tedros snorted, letting go of her clammy palm.
Y/n shook herself out of her trance, silently screaming inside her head again, and grabbed onto a branch hard so she would fall.
"Can't see any of the girls," Tedros said. "Can you?"
Y/n peered through leaves at a wide view of the north Forest. The Fernfeilds, Pine Shrubs, Well Clearing, and Turquoise Thicket were amply lit with the same blue glow, but she couldn't see any of the girls' sapphire uniforms– just a few shadowy boy cloaks prowling through the shrubs. She felt a sharp sadness at not seeing Agatha and Sophie, then relief that Tedros couldn't either.