(Last chapter of book 4 guys!!)
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Y/n dashed out of the archway and into the courtyard, trying to catch up with the rest, only to see a slaw of scims shoot for her head—
Someone tackled her to the ground, making the scims miss, before the eels circled around and savagely killed a dwarf right in front of her.
Y/n lifted her head from the dirt as Rhian grabbed her and pulled her into an archway behind a stone pillar, where Tedros, Sophie, and Agatha were already hiding.
Across from them, Hester, Anadil, and Dot crouched behind a second column, with Beatrix, Reena, Nicola, and Hort's man-wolf behind a third. Reena had a gash in her thigh, her shield dented. Hort let out a growl of pain as he ripped a spasming scim out of his calf muscle and crushed it in his hairy palm.
Y/n took a step out from the pillar to see the once-quiet field in front of the castle turned into a deathzone, with soldiers trampling each other across muddy grass, desperately seeking cover in the dark while scims stabbed them left and right. A Son of the Lion took a scim to the arm a few yards in front of Y/n before one of his friends yanked him behind a bush. Tedros yanked her back again before she could be spoted.
"Are you crazy!" he hissed at her.
Y/n never answered, her heart hammering in her chest as she tried to think clear, but her argument with Tedros clouded her head.
"It doesn't matter anyway," Beatrix said, watching scims easily take down a giant before they went off to search for fresh pray. "They're going to find us. All of us."
"We have to kill as many as we can," Rhian urged. "The scims are his armor. We can strip it away. Kill enough of them and he's nothing but flesh and blood."
"We need fire! It's the only way to kill them!" said Agatha.
"Where will we get enough fire to kill that many scims?" Sophie retorted.
Tedros jolted straight. "From oil," he spun to Rhian. "Cover for me."
Rhian took Reena's shield and blocked Tedros as the two men moved towards the courtyard. As soon as Tedros was out from under the archway, he tilted his head upwards and whistled between two fingers—
Bogden and Willam peeped over the edge of a Blue Tower balcony, their bodies hidden behind a fortress of barrels.
"Use the Oil!" Tedros called as Rhian smashed scims away.
"How?" said Bogden.
"How?" Tedros barked.
"No one told us!" said Willam.
Tedros seethed. "It's oil! Just take it and—"
Rhian snatched Tedros by the arm and flung him back behind a pillar.
"Why'd you do that!" Tedros berated, starting to get up again—
He froze still.
Four scims peeked around the side of the pillar at him, Y/n, Agatha, Sophie, and Rhian. Their sharp, eyeless tips squiggled with glee, before they looked past the king's group and saw Hester's and Hort's teams across the archway. The scims murmured high-pitched gurgles, taking in the bounty of flesh. They hewed together like a single arrow, drifting between targets, as if they couldn't decide who to kill first...
They flew at Tedros.
"Tedros, move!" Y/n gasped, shoving him left just as Rhian shoved him right, trapping Tedros straight in the scim's path—
A gush of amber liquid suddenly slopped down from above, drenching the eels and splashing to the ground.
The scims looked up, startled. So did Tedros.
Bodgen and Willam gaped down between the pillars. "Bogden thought we're supposed to pur it," said Willam.
Tedros groaned.
But now the oil-soaked scims had turned back to the king, their lethal tips glowing green. They slashed towards him—
Tedros lunged forward with his gold fingerglow just as the scims hit his chest, and with a lion's roar, he swiped his fingertip across them, setting the eels aflame.
Instantly the scims detonated into a fireball, shrieking and sizzling before they crumbled into dirt.
Anadil's three rats set upon them, scarfing them up like they were crisped bacon.
The entire group slumped with relief.
Rhian squeezed Tedros' shoulder. "Good thinking, Your Highness."
Tedros glanced at Y/n. "Occasionally I can think like a king."
Y/n flinched. "Tedros—"
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Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader
FanfictionY/n was a normal village girl living in Gaveldon with her two best friends, Sophie and Agatha. Who could imagine how life would change for her when she was kidnapped to a school for the good and evil.
