Chapter 5
A New Evil
Will walked to the botanic gardens. He didn't know what he would be able to accomplish there, but he felt like going.
Lyra followed like a well bred dog. not disobeying him, yet not knowing what to do They were walking through botanic gardens when a thought came to Will. Why not ask Xaphania? She could travel through worlds and surly she owed them a favour.
"No Will. that's not likely. I doubt, even if she knew the importance of the situation, she wouldn't be able to help"
"Stop it Kijava." Will said mindlessly.
"I'm just pointing-" Kirjava put in quickly.
"Please! I need to think!" Will almost yelled at his Dæmon.
"Lyra" Pantalaimon said quietly to her "I think we'd best leave Will and Kirjava alone for a while" Lyra nodded.
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The girl and her dæmon walked back through the botanic garden towards the busy main road. Which was jammed tight with hundreds of cars and other vehicles. Lyra walked through the gate first followed by Pantalaimon and they both noticed movement to the right. A man had just run round the corner and this seemed to rouse the adventure spirit in her. She decided to follow.
She ran round the corner with Pantalaimon sprinting on the Garden wall. When she got round the corner, she stopped dead.
It wasn't a man running, it was a teenager. He had stopped running and was staring directly into her eyes. Lyra was shaking quite a lot by now and her dæmon, Pan, had fallen off the wall.
The boy had medium length straight purple hair, a sort of Violet colour. His black cloak has a hood and it was up to keep his face completely from visibility, except from now. His eyes were emerald green and his smile was worrying. In his hands he held a sword. The hand holder was a silver colour with a metallic Black in between the silver strands. At the bottom of the handle was a golden semi-circle with a green Emerald eye imprinted on it. At the top of the handle, there was the shape of a, what looked liked a aboriginal eagle. On the side of the eagle read "The Eagolic Blade" The blade itself was a metallic blue, a sort of Crystal blue. And it looked unreal and deadly.
Pan heard a hiss, and, thinking it was the boy, crept towards Lyra and climbed onto her shoulder and whimpered.
The boy smirked and a wildcat coloured a metallic black crept out of his black cloak. It's red eyes fixed on Pantalaimon and she bared her teeth.
The boy leapt forward and Lyra fainted.
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"OK then will, where do YOU suggest we find more of the metal?" Kirjava said slyly. They were still in the conversation Lyra left them in and Kirjava was deeply amused
"OK! I give up!" Will said collapsing onto the grass under his tree. He had been here several times recently and had carved a heard round the back of the tree, inserting his and Lyra's Initials. He also did one for Kirjava and Pan. How both him and Kirjava had missed Lyra and Pan over these last years. He thought if he lived to be around fifty he would shoot himself because of loneliness and the thought of never seeing her face again. "What now Kirjava?"
"Lets find will and Lyra. maybe they've thought of an idea" Kirjava said landing on Will's head after falling from the tree above him.
"Ok. I'm worried about you speaking intelligently.. Where did I go wrong?"
"Ha ha" Kirjava said sarcastically "You know if I was the human and you the dæmon I'd-"
"-Shut up and help me find Lyra" Will added in wittily.
The boy got up and walked back towards the gate slowly. Kirjava was jumping from tree to tree then she jumped onto the wall. And walked above Will..
"Can you smell them?" Will asked his dæmon
"I'm no DOG you know!" Kirjava said annoyed "I cant Smell a animal at twenty paces or something like that"
Will chuckled at his dæmon's 'humour'
"What so funny?" Kirjava said, then she mumbled softly "Humans."
They walked around of the corner and they both nearly collapsed. Will managed to balance himself on the wall but Kirjava fell off the wall and back into the Gardens
"Ouch!" She cried as she hit the floor. When she got back outside and to will he found him on the floor, crouching next to a small puddle of blood and four strands of dirty blond hair in the middle of it, which will was trying to get out. "They R-e-a-l-l-y like bailing on us don't they?"
"K.. Kirjava. They're.. They're gone."
A New Evil
Will walked to the botanic gardens. He didn't know what he would be able to accomplish there, but he felt like going.
Lyra followed like a well bred dog. not disobeying him, yet not knowing what to do They were walking through botanic gardens when a thought came to Will. Why not ask Xaphania? She could travel through worlds and surly she owed them a favour.
"No Will. that's not likely. I doubt, even if she knew the importance of the situation, she wouldn't be able to help"
"Stop it Kijava." Will said mindlessly.
"I'm just pointing-" Kirjava put in quickly.
"Please! I need to think!" Will almost yelled at his Dæmon.
"Lyra" Pantalaimon said quietly to her "I think we'd best leave Will and Kirjava alone for a while" Lyra nodded.
____________________________________________________________________________ _____
The girl and her dæmon walked back through the botanic garden towards the busy main road. Which was jammed tight with hundreds of cars and other vehicles. Lyra walked through the gate first followed by Pantalaimon and they both noticed movement to the right. A man had just run round the corner and this seemed to rouse the adventure spirit in her. She decided to follow.
She ran round the corner with Pantalaimon sprinting on the Garden wall. When she got round the corner, she stopped dead.
It wasn't a man running, it was a teenager. He had stopped running and was staring directly into her eyes. Lyra was shaking quite a lot by now and her dæmon, Pan, had fallen off the wall.
The boy had medium length straight purple hair, a sort of Violet colour. His black cloak has a hood and it was up to keep his face completely from visibility, except from now. His eyes were emerald green and his smile was worrying. In his hands he held a sword. The hand holder was a silver colour with a metallic Black in between the silver strands. At the bottom of the handle was a golden semi-circle with a green Emerald eye imprinted on it. At the top of the handle, there was the shape of a, what looked liked a aboriginal eagle. On the side of the eagle read "The Eagolic Blade" The blade itself was a metallic blue, a sort of Crystal blue. And it looked unreal and deadly.
Pan heard a hiss, and, thinking it was the boy, crept towards Lyra and climbed onto her shoulder and whimpered.
The boy smirked and a wildcat coloured a metallic black crept out of his black cloak. It's red eyes fixed on Pantalaimon and she bared her teeth.
The boy leapt forward and Lyra fainted.
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"OK then will, where do YOU suggest we find more of the metal?" Kirjava said slyly. They were still in the conversation Lyra left them in and Kirjava was deeply amused
"OK! I give up!" Will said collapsing onto the grass under his tree. He had been here several times recently and had carved a heard round the back of the tree, inserting his and Lyra's Initials. He also did one for Kirjava and Pan. How both him and Kirjava had missed Lyra and Pan over these last years. He thought if he lived to be around fifty he would shoot himself because of loneliness and the thought of never seeing her face again. "What now Kirjava?"
"Lets find will and Lyra. maybe they've thought of an idea" Kirjava said landing on Will's head after falling from the tree above him.
"Ok. I'm worried about you speaking intelligently.. Where did I go wrong?"
"Ha ha" Kirjava said sarcastically "You know if I was the human and you the dæmon I'd-"
"-Shut up and help me find Lyra" Will added in wittily.
The boy got up and walked back towards the gate slowly. Kirjava was jumping from tree to tree then she jumped onto the wall. And walked above Will..
"Can you smell them?" Will asked his dæmon
"I'm no DOG you know!" Kirjava said annoyed "I cant Smell a animal at twenty paces or something like that"
Will chuckled at his dæmon's 'humour'
"What so funny?" Kirjava said, then she mumbled softly "Humans."
They walked around of the corner and they both nearly collapsed. Will managed to balance himself on the wall but Kirjava fell off the wall and back into the Gardens
"Ouch!" She cried as she hit the floor. When she got back outside and to will he found him on the floor, crouching next to a small puddle of blood and four strands of dirty blond hair in the middle of it, which will was trying to get out. "They R-e-a-l-l-y like bailing on us don't they?"
"K.. Kirjava. They're.. They're gone."