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

Chapter 121: Vault 41

(Home sick today, having a cough. But that means there might be multiple chapters today if I feel motivated enough.)

(Also my horrible ADHD short term memory forgot something extremely important!! Check out this gorgeous fanart of our dear MC in the wedding dress Evelyn's dress made her, made by BvnnyBabbjt123 here on Wattpad. Again, thank you so so so much! And I want to remind people that BvnnyRabbjt also had a SGE x Reader book, two actually, and you all should check it out! Also, if anyone else wants to make fanart, feel free to do so. It will always be welcome and I will cherish it very greatly.)

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The witch was back.

Y/n strutted through the feather-strewn streets of Putsi, her hair transformed into a blood-red bob, her white now skintight and beaded with sharp red spikes, carrying a bag with a cat, black as soot.
It was listening to her now, Evelyn Sader's old dress. Helping to disguise her. Melding to her desires. Doing exactly what she wanted it to do. She didn't trust it, of course. But as long as it was on her side, she would work with it.
Putsi's hoggishly pale citizens shot her looks, yet no one recognized her. They'd all watched the same spellcast. As far as they knew, Y/n was still a h/c colored angel, playing house at Camelot, tending to the king.

She knew Japeth was willing to take things far, but going as far to hijack her mind, to control it, it had filled her with an undeniable rage. Maybe it was because the last few years she had tried to prove her own free will, prove she couldn't be controlled, and for one person to then do it so easily, it scared her.
But no one controlled her.
No one.
Rhian had at least played on even terms. But Japeth was not above cheating. Then again, that almost made all of this more fun in a way.
Because she wasn't above cheating either.

Her ears still throbbed where she'd ripped out those scims.
The reckoning was nigh.
That's why she'd come to Putsi.
To find him.
To find whatever it was he wanted, and made sure she got it first.
He's probably expecting her to play her part as a Good soul, so chase after her lovers, to join up with them and fight for them, to fight for Tedros.
But she was more than just a Good maiden.
She was a sorcerer.
A sorcerer willing to fight for herself.
Because this fight was personal now.
This was not simply a fight between a Lion and a Snake anymore.
No, this was a fight between two souls, similar yet so different.
And she'd make sure she'd win.

But how to find him?
All she knew is that he and Kei had set course for this bird-nest yesterday. Luckily, when you're following the teachings of Merlin, you've learnt to teleport, which means she should have caught up at this point. Even if she'd had to teleport to the Four Point and take a ride on a friendly deer through Kingdom Kyrgios to get to Putsi.

Wedged on the sea between Kyrgios and Glass Mountain, Putsi was less a kingdom and more a port of entry, managed by cantankerous goose guards with shiny green hats, who registered new ships at the docks and patrolled the crowded streets, stopping and frisking passerby. ("Foreigners on the rise! a goose squawked. "Can't trust anyone!") From what Y/n could glean, these "foreigners" were arriving via ships, from lands far, far away: a different side of the Endless Woods, beyond the mapped realms, with names like Harajuku and Mount Batten and Tsitsipas.

"Name. Kingdom. Buisness," a goose blared at each new body coming off a boat.
"Bao of Vasanta Vale," said a muscled boy with a pet griffin. "Here on royal business for the Sugar Queen."
The goose cuffed Bao in a metal collar. "Sugar Queen has no power here. King Rhian is ruler of these Woods. You're restricted to Putsi's borders until your hearing. Attempts to cross into other kingdoms will activate your collar, causing instant death."
"When's my hearing?" Bao asked.
"A hearing will determine when your hearing is," the goose said. "Next!"