(As I'm publishing these last chapters, I'll also go back and edit the older ones, so if any of you accidentally gets a notification for an older chapter, you know why.)
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In the storybooks Y/n had read back in Gavaldon, the land of Aladdin was a feast of color and fragrance and earthy delights: loafing camels, dusty spice markets, places veiled by storms of sand.
But in real life, that's not what it was like at all.
As the Shazabah Skiander had neared its homeland, Y/n caged in the bowels of the ship, peered out a porthole at a fertile metropolis lording over the desert. Jewel-green palms bowed to each other over paved streets. Sleek red-and-gold buildings speared through the sky, with a controlled traffic of magic carpets transporting citizens, squads of them, military-garbed and precise in their march, patrolled the city while also guarding the imperial palace as its center, a pyramid of red-and-gold glass.
It was deep within this palace that Y/n found herself now, imprisoned with her friends, looking out their cell's only window at the royal camel pastures, where the camel that had turned them in was now happily grazing, reunited with its family.
"Still trust that thing?" Tedros growled at Agatha from Y/n's right, staring at the black haired girl, all in the same cell.
If Agatha ever answered, Y/n didn't hear it, too deep in thought. As soon as they'd reached the palace, the guards had stripped Merlin from her. She had no idea where they'd taken the five-year-old wizard. With each passing second, her skin went clammier, her stomach sicker.
"Mama!" Merlin had cried. Again, the wizard was prescient. Because she felt like she'd lost her child.
Despairing, Y/n tried to appeal to the camel through the window, but it offered her only the calmest of nods, as if everything was as it should be. As if it hadn't betrayed her. As if this was the way to Tedros winning the second test. For a moment, Y/n wondered if she should still have hope— if the camel had a larger plan in motion...
Then she saw Hort glaring at her across the cell. "Don't you go trusting that camel too, the fact Agatha did was enough."
Sophie let out a long sigh. "You know, Aggie, normally I shield you from boorish boys, but I did warn you about that camel. Animals aren't our friends. Especially ones with humps."
"Only a Never would say something so foolish," Princess Uma muttered.
"Oh?" Sophie retorted, nursing her bandaged wrist. "Then why can't you do one of your bird whistles or wolf calls and summon your friends to help us?"
"Not in Shazabah," Uma said vaguely.
"Well, someone better help us," Hort said, standing up. "We've been dumped in jail a million miles from home and Rhian and the Sultan were chums, so the Snake's surely on the way to kill Y/n, win the second test, and then kill the rest of us." the Weasel paused. "The only solace I have is that at least Agatha will die."
"Hort's right," Agatha confessed, her face in her hands. "I've doomed us."
"Fine, the camel might have betrayed us, maybe you were wrong," Y/n said, still thinking about Merlin. "But we can't give up now and just let ourselves die."
"What should we do, then? Wish the Snake away? Stick a doll with pins? He's out there and we're in here," Tedros said, clearly frustrated.
"We've gotten out of prison before," said Y/n.
Tedros shook his head. "We shouldn't have tried to run away. I knew it was cowardice. Dad doesn't want me to hide from my own test." He slouched against the wall. "They'll probably give Merlin to the Snake too."
The thought of Japeth claiming Merlin chilled Y/n's blood.
"Sounds like Aladdin's Cave is your only hope now," a voice chuckled.
Y/n held up her finger, lighting up the ceiling in f/c.
No one there.
"Up here," said the voice.
Y/n cast her glow towards a ceiling pipe—
Hanging by his boots was a young man, with smooth brown skin, thick eyebrows, and strapping physique, doing stomach crunches upside down.
"Too bad only my father knows where to find the Caves of Wishes," he said.
Princess Uma rose slowly. "Kaveen?"
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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.
