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Ten minutes earlier, Y/n panicked as Tedros and his mother disappeared inside the Cave of Wishes.
The moment the door sealed, Y/n whirled to face Merlin. "Merlin. What 'big job' did Tedros give you to do?"
The six-year old clasped his hands behind his back, as if unsure how much to share. Then he pointed at the armies charging across the dunes. "Tee Tee said wait 'til horseys."
"Wait 'til horseys?" Sophie frowned, her and Agatha sliding beside Y/n.
Hort joined in with the other three. "Then what?" Hort hounded the wizard.
Merlin beamed up at them, "Choo-choo! Choo-choo!"
Y/n exchanged looks with Agatha, Sophie, and Hort. Meanwhile, Princess Uma and the Knights of Eleven clustered together, the Snake and a thousand men storming closer, closer...
"Are we really going to stand here and let him kill Y/n?" Agatha demanded, steel in her voice. "Didn't you all say you had a plan?"
"We do," clipped Maid Marian, nodding pointedly at Merlin.
"Knights, take your position!" Jaunt Jolie's queen ordered, eleven armored women fanning into a frontline.
Sophie grabbed Merlin. "You little brat, tell Auntie Sophie exactly what Tee Tee told you—"
"Choo-choo!" the young wizard repeated.
"I'd give him a spanking but we're about to die," Sophie growled.
Y/n searched through her mind frantically, trying to find a spell to help them out in the moment. But how would they even manage to escape? There was no way she'd be able to teleport this many people. Nor turn them all invisible, not like invisibility would help at horses and camels charging at you. Was there any partner spells she could do with Lepus that would help? Not really. Over Agatha's shoulder, she could see Japeth riding for her, like an arrow to a target. She felt her dress morph into something armor like, as if even Evelyn knew she was doomed.
"How could Tedros just leave you out here!" Agatha hissed, sheltering her girlfriend. "He should have taken you inside there instead of Guinevere. What kind of a prince is he?"
"He said to follow the others. That he had a plan," Y/n insisted as Japeth drew closer. But deep down, she had the same question about Tedros, while also feeling guilty about them, as if it wasn't a boy's job to play bodyguard for his girl. And yet... if their positions were reversed, she would never have left her prince alone in a fight. Nor would she have trusted him to survive a fight with Japeth without her help. Then again, it was exactly this lack of trust that had put them in this mess to begin with.
"Well, he had a plan and we don't," Sophie conceded, squinting back at the cave. "For once in our lives, maybe we should give him the benefit of doubt."
She didn't look convinced. Neither did Agatha. Nor did Y/n feel very convinced either.
"Remember this..." Hester exhorted her fellow knights, her eyes glinting through her pearlescent veil. None of those bastards touches Y/n."
The Knights of Eleven grabbed swords off their belts, brandishing them to fight.
"Because that's how you beat an unkillable Snake. Swords," Hort groused, exploding in a puff of smoke into a hulking man-wolf. "Not only will he win his test if he kills Y/n, her blood heals him."
"Mmm, not anymore," said Y/n, racking through her head deeper. "Rhian told me of a pen's prophecy. About him and Japeth. One would marry me and be king, the other would be healed by my blood. But not both. Once Japeth killed Rhian and stole the crown, he lost my blood's powers."
"Pen's prophecy?" said Agatha, the trampling horses and camels so loud Y/n could hardly hear her. "Which pen? Lionsmane or the Storian?"
Doesn't matter," Sophie dismissed. "What matters is Japeth's mortal now. He can be killed."
"Plus, the Sultan's army still thinks Japeth is Rhian, so Snake can't use his scims. Not without giving himself away," Nicola surmised. "This is our best chance to beat him."
"Only thing standing in our way is a thousand pirates and armed soldiers and fire-spitting camels," said old Dot, fatally.
"And our best weapon is a six-year-old," Anadil echoed, "Who seems to have disappeared."
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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.
