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

Chapter 128: Love. Purpose. Food.

(We're reaching the halfway point of book 6 and I again wanna say my regular thanks to everyone who is so kind and commenting and liking and reading this story. You all make my day by just reading my silly little story, and I'm very grateful for everyone still here, almost at the end of this story. But I promise this will not be the end of my writing. I will continue to make SGE fanfics. For starters I might do oneshots and scenarios for this story. And then I'll also do another SGE x reader story, this one with a Never and boy reader instead. Tho to be clear, you don't need to be a boy to read that fanfic, just like you don't have to be a girl to read this one, I don't like gate keeping stories like that. You can identify as whatever you want and still read my stories, you don't have to be a certain gender to be let in.)

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Sophie had always found Reena vaporous and dull, a fog of fruity perfume hovering around Beatrix at all times. But just like Beatrix had proven herself to be more than a pretty face, so now had her sidekick. The Storian might not be able to tell the tale of every soul; but even those it didn't choose could find their way into its light.

The Shazabah princess led them out the prison door, Y/n badgering her: "We have to find Merlin!"
"Leave him to me," Reena answered.
Y/n frowned. "But we need to—"
"What we need is to get to Aladdin's Cave," Reena countered. "Do what I say and you and the baby wizard survive. Try to control things like you always do and we all die. Got it?"
Y/n was speechless.
"I'm loving New Reena," said Sophie.
"Me too," said Tedros.
"Certainly," said Agatha.
Y/n shoot them a look, then glanced at Hort, as if to ask if the weasel agreed.
"Well..." he said, looking away, avoiding answering.

Reena, meanwhile, was locking the door to the prison, sealing her brother and guards inside, along with her palace hawk, who would keep an eye on both. Beatrix and Kiko had already sprinted ahead. Quickly, Sophie, Y/n, and the rest followed Reena through a dark corridor.
"The wishes in the lamp are our best hope to keep Y/n alive and make Tedros king. We just have to make the right wishes," the princess explained.
"Just use the wishes to kill the Snake!" Tedros argued. "Wish one, wish two, and wish three!"
"That isn't the answer," said Agatha thoughtfully, as if it had been on her mind since Tedros declared his intentions to kill the Snake back at school. "I know you want to keep Y/n alive, but killing Japeth means you'll never be king. Not to the people, at least."
"She's right," Sophie agreed. "Use magic to kill your opponent and the Woods will have even more reason to believe Japeth was the Lion and you the Snake."
"There has to be a better answer," said Y/n. "And we have to use the wishes to find it."
"But how else can wishes make me king?" said Tedros. "Second test is to kill you. That's not going to happen. Whole Woods knows it. How can a genie change that—"

"Listen up," said Reena, halting in the corridor, which led into a palace wing. "Y/n, take Tedros, Agatha, Hort, and Uma to Pasha Dunes. Mostly sovereign clans there; they won't bother you. Find a pub called the Mirage. The rest of our team will be waiting."
"What team?" asked Y/n, but now they could hear bootsteps in the distance, marching in unison.
Reena spun to Sophie. "You come with me." She pointed her finger at the two sets of red-and-gold robes, pooled on the floor: Kiko's and Beatrix's. Reena thrust one at Sophie. "Put this on." She grabbed Sophie by the wrist, dragging her into the light—
"Wait!" Y/n whispered, yanking Reena back. "How are the rest of us supposed to get out of the palace?"
"Same way you got in," Reena said.

Y/n followed her eyes across the way, where behind glass doors, a family of camels waited in an alley. Two baby ones carried Beatrix and Kiko, who wore pearly chainmail and veils, while a familiar camel smiled right at Agatha, grunting a repeated phrase. On the head of said camel sat a pure white cat, one with gigantic eyes.
Y/n gaped, before looking down at her bag, she opened it to check— Empty. She glanced between the cat and the bag.
"You've got to be kidding me..." Agatha said.
"It's back," Hort grumped. "I'm starting to think this fairy tale is just a ploy to torture all of us."
"Tell me it's not saying what I think it's saying," said Tedros.
"'Trust is the way'," Uma sighed.
The sounds of marching were getting closer now. Sophie could see shadows approaching their hiding place—
"Wait for my signal!" Reena ordered Y/n, before grabbing Sophie.
"No! I can't leave Y/n behind!" Sophie said, but Reena had already pulled her in view of a dozen well-armed guards coming towards them, along with...