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

Chapter 113: Into the Crystal World

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Y/n watched the crystal ball sink into the water.

"Nothing's happening," said Tedros next to her.
"Good. Because if you expect me to get wet, you're sorely mistaken," Sophie huffed.
Hort pushed her into the water, making the boys laugh hysterically.
"You barbarians!" Sophie shouted, gripping both Hort and Tedros and pushing both of them down too. Then she quickly clutched the edge of the tub, she still couldn't swim.
Now Y/n was the one laughing.
"You find this funny, huh?" Tedros huffed.
"Extremely," she said.
Tedros then gripped the leash connected to her collar and pulled her down too, right into his chest.
"Wow, you push a poor, helpless princess into the water?" Y/n asked.
"Not so sure you could be described as helpless," said Hort.
"You act like I am," Y/n pointed to the collar still connected to her neck.
"Just because we care," Tedros said, his face in her neck.

"We don't have time to play around," Reaper said, at the edge of the giant bath.
Agatha turned to her cat, the only one still dry. "You said the portal opens when the crystal is underwater—"
"And turned on," said Reaper.

Their voices echoed through the Crown Royal Regis' bathroom, appointed with a grooming station of jeweled brushes, fragrant oils, and milky creams, along with a sparkle-dusted sand litterbox and a heated blue-stone bathing tub big enough for an army of cats, the steamy water sprinkled with orange blossoms. When Reaper had shown them into the room, lit by panels made of blue and orange fireflies, Y/n had been mystified. The Reaper she knew itched with fleas, peed only on gravestones, and nearly killed her and Agatha once when they'd tried to clean him.
"It's my father's old bathroom," Reaper explained, seeing her and Agatha's faces. He climbed onto the edge of the tub, which was practically a small pool. "This is the first time I've been in here."

Now Y/n watched as the crystal ball finished sinking into the hot bath, mist rising off the surface. The orb drifted down and settled on the blue-stone floor, the crack in its glass refracting through the water, seeming bigger than its actual size.

Y/n meanwhile, felt like she had a crack in her head. Dovey dead... Reaper, a king... the crystal ball a portal into a secret world... Tension pounded through her skull, her lungs sucked of air as if her head was already underwater—
Sophie touched her arm. "Darling, are you feeling fine?"
She gazed up at her, then back at Tedros, at Hort, and at Agatha.
She wanted to say no... that it was all moving too fast... she wanted to turn the story back to when she was just a simple girl... when she lived blissfully unaware in a bookshop... when she had a father...
But then she took in all of them again, her princess, her prince, her witch, and her weasel, and Y/n realized she had another family now. A family she'd chosen. That she loved, more than anything. And after all they'd been through, just to be together at all, it was all Y/n needed to wrench out of the past and find the present.
"I've never been better," she said with a smile, body relaxing in the warm water. Then she turned to Reaper.

"You said the crystal is a portal," said Y/n, composing herself. "A portal into what?"
"Merlin called it a 'crystal of time'," said Reaper vaguely, skirting the edge of the tup. "We must get started—"
"How did Merlin and Dovey even discover this portal?" Hort cut in.
"I told you. By accident," said Reaper impatiently. "After you failed to pull Excalibur, Merlin and Dovey tried to use her crystal ball to understand why. Given how poorly you were treating Y/n and Agatha after your botched coronation, I wanted you to pull the sword soon, for their sake, so I joined Merlin and Clarissa in their efforts. At first we had little luck. But during the summer, Professor Dovey's office grows insufferably hot. Studying the ball one night before Dovey activated it, Merlin left a sweaty handprint on the crack in the glass. The crack grew softer, the glass spongy. The change made Merlin curious. So he and Dovey put the ball in the Groom Room pool to see what would happen when the Dean turned it on. Now, if there are no more question's, it's time for all of you to get into the bath."