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

Chapter 64: Peer Pressure

(Sophie's new outfit)

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Sophie dreamt of the strange man again.

She was in the same pitch-black tunnel, her path barred by the two towering golden rings. Only this time something waited for her beyond the ring. It was Tedros, only he now had h/c hair and e/c eyes, a king's crown of silver and diamonds upon his head. Bathed in sunlight, he stood before a white-rose altar in a royal blue jacket, the spires of Camelot rising behind him. Between his hands shimmered a matching queen's diadem, casting sun flares on his cheeks. The young king met Sophie's eyes and smiled.

Sophie lost her breath, gazing at the crown in his hand. This was it. Her heart's wish come true. All she had to do was destroy the rings. Without thinking, Excalibur was suddenly in Sophie's hands, the jeweled hilt warm against her clammy fingers. Lifting the blade over her shoulder, she crept towards the giant gold circles...

But as she drew closer, she was a familiar reflection in the two rings, blocking her from her p̶r̶i̶n̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ prince. It was the dark, fiendish man she'd seen once before, with untamed hair, skin like rawhide, and a bulbous nose. Sophie bared her teeth at him, undaunted. She hoisted Excalibur higher, poised to shatter the ring and the stranger inside it--

But the man's eyes stopped her cold: two onyx pools, dead and devil-like, as if daring her to strike. Sophie's hands weakened on the sword.
"W-w-who are you?" she whispered.
The stranger grinned cryptically.
Paralyzed, Sophie looked between Y̶/n̶ Tedros and the devil man... between a queen's crown and a gold ring...
Do it!
Do it now!
With a rousing cry, she raised the blade over the ring–

Two hands stabbed out and caught Sophie by the neck. As she choked, the dark man smiled sadly from inside the ring, as if she'd given him no choice.
Then his eyes turned punishing and he ripped out her throat.

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Y/n woke up, gripped with terror, wheezing for air. peeking down at her ripped clothes, it took her a few frantic breaths before she realized she was still alive and stopped in sweat on a hard, thin mattress. She looked up, but her surroundings were washed out by blinding red-orange light. She squinted into the fiery glow–
A fat face shoved into it, splotched with rouge and emanating bacon breath.
"I ate your breakfast and there ain't no more, so don't bother asking," Cinderella spat and trundled away.

Y/n jolted to her knees. "Good thing I can make my own then," Y/n mumbled, giving the woman a glare, conjuring some bread for herself. Just as she did, Orion perched on her leg. "Good morning bud." She patted his head and shared the bread with her bird.

She looked around in the League Headquarters, the burnt-red glare coming from a silver of sunrise through the cave hole. The muggy, dust den was a hive of activity, with all thirteen League members packing up and stripping the cave bare, readying for a company move. On one side, Hansel and Gretel were magically storing furniture in Merlin's hat, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell were stuffing a dozen satchels with sacks and tins of water, and Pinocchio and Red Riding Hood were scrubbing the last of the breakfast plates clean. On the other side, Yuba studied a spread of open storybooks, Princess Uma and the White Rabbit swept up scraps pf black satin scattered on the floor, and Jack and Briar Rose pretended to be working while huddling over a notebook, finalizing their wedding guest list.

Amidst all this chaos, Hort lingered in front of the moth-eaten curtain, shrouding the far cave wall. He was eerily still, biceps folded over his chest, as if standing guard over something. He was looking at her, but when he noticed she caught him, his face turned bright red and he looked away.