A/N: Sorry about this chapter being so short. I'm not feeling all that well today so not much inspiration is coming. I promise that after this, the chapters will be much longer as I get into the real story.

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It was over two years since Will last saw Lyra, not much has changed since then. He went with Mary Malone to get his mom back from Mrs. Cooper who was kind enough not to pressure Will to answer why he had taken so long and what he was doing. He stayed with Mary for about half a year while things calmed down. He told his mother everything hoping nothing would happen to her fragile state of mind but not only did she not get worse, she got better knowing that everything was over and what really happened to her husband. Will had been going to the designated bench in the botanical garden on Midsummer Day for two years and it would be three in two weeks. He was going to school like a normal boy, he was finally able to make friends but didn't start dating or even thinking of girls because of Lyra. Only Kirjava was there to comfort him. Until that one day when everything changed.

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"Don't look back, just keep running" shouted Giakobsik to his sister, Illana.

"They're going to get us Gia, they are, they are" Shouted his sister through the tears.

"Ill find someway to save us, Illana don't worry, I promise."

"I know you will Gia."

"There you see that small tunnel, we're small enough to get in but they aren't, once we're there we can concentrate."

As Giakobsik shouted that, the two twelve-year olds ducked into a tunnel.

"Cover both entrances, they're just kids, they'll have to come out soon." Shouted a guard outside.

"They don't know our powers, we'll be safe while we make plans." Said Giakobsik and started to wipe the strange mix of tears, sweat and blood off his sister. "We need to sleep now and regain our strength, we'll decide what to do later."

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"I'm going to be able to do it, Pan, in less than a year. We'll prove that angel wrong and find out what we've been wanting to know for two years." Said Lyra looking at her alethiometer. "I can't wait"

"It will be wonderful, I hope it will happen soon." Lied Pantalaimon, her pine marten shaped daemon. Secretly, he was hoping it wouldn't happen. He realized that Lyra's biggest reason for studying the alethiometer is to find out if she would ever see Will again. It would devastate her if she found out that she couldn't.

"Midsummer Day is in two weeks, I love feeling so close to Kirjava." Said Pan, trying to change the topic. "Think of all we've done since last year."

All they've done really wasn't much. Lyra had been studying the alethiometer while going to St. Sophia's since she parted with Will. Looking forward to the day she could finally get the answer to the question about Will. She stopped her rebellious ways and wasn't friends with the kids she had fun with before. According to her, she was never in the right "mood" to do anything fun. She hadn't made many friends and didn't go to any parties. Nothing happened to her.

Before that day.

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"I wish that angel never came, Illana. Everything would've been so much better." Said Giakobsik when his sister woke up.

"I'm glad the angel came Gia. Everything is bad anyway with Wig. I mean HIM in charge." Said Illana, almost forgetting the first rule of the rebellion, HE doesn't deserve to have a name. "The angel gave us a chance. Don't you remember what happened then?"

"You're right Illana. Perhaps she did give us our only chance to defeat him. I remember than day as if it was yesterday. That awful Tuesday."

** "Get your shoes on, it's time to go." Yelled Giakobsik five months earlier. "You don't want to be late, this meeting is for our group in the rebellion against HIM"

"I'm here!" Yelled Illana and then stopped, looking behind Giakobsik. "G. G. Gia, look behind you!"

A glowing light appeared behind him. He turned around and realized that it's possible to see a figure if you look the right way.

The figure spoke to them. "You must not go."

"What why not, do you work for HIM?" Said Giakobsik. Now scared of the figure.

"No, I'm the angel, Xaphania and I am trying to help you. It is a trap he has set up for your group of the rebellion. He will lure you into an abandoned factory with bombs planted inside which he will detonate once everyone has arrived." "Why are you telling us? Why are you on our side?" Asked Illana, always suspicious,

"I am here to protect the balance. The Republic of Heaven must be built in each and every world."

"The Republic of what?"

"Forget it child, you will learn eventually. Now, sit down, I have much to teach you."

"But what about the rest of the rebellion? We must warn them!"

"You will do no such thing. It is their fate to walk into the trap."

"But it's not fair."

"But it's fate. You can disagree with it, but not challenge it. Now sit down, how can an entire world depend on such children, I don't know."

"I'm sorry for my sisters arrogance angel. She was friends with many who will die and is upset." Giakobsik stepped in, "Now what is it you must teach us."

"You two have been born with expanded minds. Your parents died giving you this gift as your mom died giving birth and your dad killed himself right after. I'm going to teach you to control wild animals and to travel through worlds."

And she did, for five weeks until officers came in a raid and the siblings had to make a run for it.

** "It's too bad the angel never finished teaching us." Said Illana

"I agree, but we have no choice but to attempt to use our powers. Eat up, after dinner we will do it." Giakobsik said and started to eat.

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A/N: Okay, so I lied. I didn't realize how complicated the story of Giakobsik and Illana would be. I promise to finish in the next chapter and begin Susan's story in chapter 4. Send me an e-mail to make sure I don't get lazy. I want both chapters 3 and 4 up by October 6th. Oh, and I forgot to mention at the beginning, I do not own Mary, Mrs. Cooper or Will's mom. Giakobsik and Illana are mine.