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

Chapter 132: Snake Eyes

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"Where are we?" Y/n asked.
Tedros couldn't see anything, his arms still around his princess- There was no sun-gold light this time. They'd fallen straight into darkness before sliding into dry, scratchy earth. It smelled oily and rank, like fish gone bad.
"Ugh, my nose," Hort said, turning back into a human, clutching his nose which was still more sensitive than most.
"We're inside his secrets," said Tedros.
"Huh?!" Sophie said, shooting up. "What do you mean 'inside is secrets?'"

Y/n held up her finger, letting it glow—
They were in a tunnel.
Made of scims.
The ceiling, the floor, the walls... all of it was a mass of dead, desiccated eels, black and briny, packed like mulch.
Tedros rose, shining his own glow behind them. No visions or clues. No window into the Snake's heart. Just more endless tunnels. More darkness and scims.
Is something wrong with the mirror? Tedros worried. Did it not work outside the cave? Was that the genie's revenge? Trapping them inside someone else. with no way out? A someone else that just happened to be their worst enemy?

"Okay, so how exactly are we inside his secrets?" said Agatha, still in a fog.
"A magic mirror I picked up from the genie's cave," Tedros said quickly, masking his panic, trying not to tell his princess or friends that he just locked them inside the Snake's soul. "Supposed to show you a person's greatest secrets. Things they want to hide."
"Well, I guess this had told us his deepest secret," Sophie said. "That he's a slimy snake."
"Supposed to?" Y/n said, eyes narrowing.
"Like it showed me the genie's secret word to escape his cave, and it showed me my mother was so happy with Lancelot that she never really wanted me back in her life." Tedros rambled. "Explains a lot, actually—"
"But where are his secrets, then?" Hort questioned. "According to you, we're supposed to be seeing the Snake's, but there's nothing here."
Tedros swallowed. "Right."
"So how do we get out?" Hort pressed.
"Heh, the funny thing about that..." Tedros chuckled nervously.
The other four waited for him to say something else.
He didn't.

Y/n gaped at his, cheeks flushing red, as if about to unleash on him, for his foolishness, for his failure to think through things, a big, fat, I-told-you-so speech that she surely was holding in about his impetuousness and poor instincts and all his other shortcomings as a man, the same speech Tedros had waited so tensely for his dad to give him before he died, the speech that never came, but instead lived in the prince's own head day after day, not at last to be spoken out loud by his princess...
Instead, Y/n took a deep breath, and smiled at him. "Still alive, aren't we?"
"That's all you're going to say to him?" Sophie asked, looking both appalled and exasperated. "Really? Because I have many words I could give out right now, like how Tedros is a—"

"So, how did you see your mother's secrets?" Agatha asked.
Tedros watched Y/n sleuth around the cave. "They were just here, clear as day—"
Y/n's gaze fixed past him. "Hey, what's that?"
Somewhere, at the end of the darkness, a tiny green light beamed.
Y/n moved towards it, but Hort pulled her back. "Are you really just gonna walk straight into some random light?"
"What other choice do we have?" Y/n asked with a shrug.
"I guess you're right," Agatha said, though sounding hesitant.
"As long as we get away from this disgusting place," Sophie said, no hesitation at all. "This is worse than Camelot's dungeons."
Tedros cut in front of them. "Stay behind me."
His princess did as she was told, but he could see an annoyance. If there was one thing about Y/n, she really didn't like to be coddled and led.

"Wait," Agatha said, stopping. "The others, they're still up there—"

"When I went in the mirror before, I returned without losing time. The same way time moves faster when you're in a thinking place. Which means our friends are safe as long as we're here. Speaking of which, Japeth looked like he'd been boiled to a pulp. Your doing?" He looked at Hort.
"Partially," Hort groused.
"Well, I did most of the heavy lifting," Sophie said. "My scream almost killed him, if Y/n hadn't stopped me."
Tedros simmered. That Japeth tried to kill Y/n and he wasn't there to save her, leaving the rest to do the job... He forced a light tone. "Vintage move! Not surprised you still have it in you. Once a witch, always a witch. Wonder what would happen if we went into your secrets. Better not. Might find out you're still in love with me."
"Oh, get your egotistical head out of the clouds," Sophie huffed. "I'd rather marry Japeth than you. Someone who's sadly still alive."