A/N: This is truly the end. This is the last chapter. The characters come together in Part 1 of this chapter, and the second (shorter, and a fixed narrative) part of this chapter is the finale! R&R please.
( I was away from the internet and I will sometimes revise this now its done.)
Lost In Past
Chapter 5: The Lost Daemons.
Part 1Lyra
The one of The Five that was attacking Lyra was formed as a cheetah. Slowly it crept towards Lyra.
Her heart was beating a tattoo on her chest. But she looked at the cheetah, and behind it she could see … Mary Malone!
How did she get here? Lyra thought. Then: Is there another window?
She was excited and also frightened at the same time.
She judged the situation. She couldn't outrun the cheetah, but maybe if she distracted it she could get inside in time.
Desperately she looked around. Nothing of use.
Then she had an idea. She took off her coat and threw it at the cheetah.
As the cheetah was blinded by the coat, she ran indoors. The cheetah flew through the air. Its claws raked the door Lyra had just slammed shut.
It slammed at the door a few more times, then gave up.
It changed into a bizarre red creature, a little like a meercat, only bigger. Its claws shot out of its paws.
Carefully, it used one of its claws to slice a thin line. This line was incredibly thin, but the creature could fit its claws inside the line. Slowly, gradually it pulled it open, as you might pull open some curtains. On the other side was another world.
Silently, it slipped away.
Will
While Mary was in the other room, deep in concentration, Will was sitting on a sofa. Could he learn to travel through worlds? Was he capable of that? Mary seemed to be able to. He knew that he could not have it as a gift. He knew that it wouldn't be easy. But… if he could…
He decided to think of something else. Divert his mind from these problems. He was good at running away and hiding. It occurred to him that maybe he had been running away from himself.
But then, before he could think any more, a rift opened through the air. Someone- or something – was cutting a gap between the worlds.
Mary
Mary was shocked at what she had just seen. Lyra had run away from the cheetah, which had opened up a window into a different world. Mary looked closer, and what she saw next shocked her. She could faintly see a flat through the window. In that flat, she could just make out someone sitting on a bed in deep concentration. Then she realized that it was herself.
The doorway was right outside her flat.
Mulefa
The Five were gone. Devastation and destruction lay in their wake. They had destroyed many wheel-pod trees and hundreds of wheel-pods. Thankfully, only a few Mulefa were killed. But they had seen them leave. They had all slipped out through a window into Lyra's world. At the last moment, a fourth had come. The mulefa were worried about a new attack, but it too went through the window.
The Mulefa were no war-crazed species, but when the Five had threatened them they had retaliated. Some people had thrown rocks and others had even rammed into some of them, but they lost overall. The Five were just too powerful and too hard to hurt. Even if they did get hurt, they would just change into another form. This seemed to heal them.
They were unstoppable.
Will
Will was staring at the window. It went straight through into what looked like… but couldn't be …
He ran faster than he had ever run before, and this time he ran through into Lyra's world.
He ran into Jordan and ran upstairs. He looked and looked and saw a teenage girl, sixteen going on seventeen.
" Lyra…" He whispered in amazement and pure joy.
" Will…" Lyra said softly, so happy she felt like she would burst.
They hugged each other tightly, and never wanted to let go.
Mary
Mary followed Will through the window, and found Will and Lyra. Together again. As happy as anyone could be. She felt happy for them as well.
But just as they were so happy, The Five were smashing down the walls of Jordan College.
(A/N: From now on, there's no need for separate narratives.)
Jordan College was not a battlefield, and had absolutely no defences. It was soon been smashed to bits by a huge block creature that one of the Five had changed into. All of the others had gone inside the building as various animals to destroy the content and people inside.
Lyra and Will were the first to be aware of the attack. Mary and Will quickly told Lyra about The Five.
The odds didn't look good. They had almost no chance. 4 of the 5 were destroying people and the other one was smashing the building down.
Lyra could see Will beginning to panic, and could also see peoples daemons being snuffed out like candles. She was incredibly sad and frightened, but also angry. She and Will had just got back together, and they might… they might die…
She mustered every scrap of courage she had and faced one of the Five.
" Why?" she asked.
The One ignored her.
" Why are you killing us?"
Another One ran round the corner, followed by another.
" Why are you killing us?" She repeated, shouting now. The other two came to listen.
" Why?"
And so the Five looked. They looked deep into Lyra, just as Metatron could do to Mrs. Coulter. They saw her love for Will.
And so they said. They told them their story, and afterwards they asked a question.
" What can we do?"
They still felt the pain. They were all mad, but seeing Will and Lyra reminded them of their humans. They had realized that they were not doing anything that would help them.
And Mary answered their question.
" Just let go. Let yourselves drift away."
The Five concentrated, and what they did next was amazing. They let go. They let love and happiness consume them.
They divided into atoms, and each atom flew upwards. They were grateful for a rest from the pain. They flew up, and then divided, spreading a little morehappiness and understanding over the world. It made the worlds atiny bitmore like something Lyra had said.
The republic of heaven.
Fin.
A/N I know that it isn't amazing and the ending is quite weak, but that's how I choose to write it.
It's short, I know, but I think it's rather good for my first fic.