The Way, The War, And The End – Chapter 5
Okay… not trying to sound desperate but I could really use some reviews. With more than 300 hits, this is looking good but I could really use a few more reviews on other chapters.
Five chapters down a few left to go
With school on my back it's going so slow
Trying to squeeze in a second or two
To figure out what I am going to do
Will Will find Lyra or will it come down
To tears, false hope or a joy refound
I've said it once and more times I know
I do not own a thing in this show
Except for the plot
Which I amazingly got
It came to my head
While I was lying in bed
And once again, the message I send
Don't own a thing, don't wanna offend
The author the lawyer or any such thing
And I desperately must literally cling
On the fact that I don't own a thing
Except for the plot
Which I amazingly got
Ah… lovely way to start things off. I got bored with doing the same disclaimer over and over again. This is a nice change, might come up with another one soon… Anyways on with the show!
Will was sitting on a bed in a dormitory in Jordan College. Will had become edgy for the past few days after staying in Jordan College. The Master had provided accommodation for him to stay. Will wanted to see Lyra so desperately, but even the Master didn't know where she was. Will decided to stay in Lyra's world and wait for news of her arrival. Over the past few days, Will had explored the world Lyra grew up in. It was really awkward as well. Lots of things were so much different in her world. The technology was not like his but it was slightly less advanced in many ways and there would also be statues that were not there. What really felt different for Will was the fact that there would be a dog, cat, bird, bee, butterfly, tiger, leopards, wolves and all sorts of animals running around next to their human. The Master had given Will a bit of money for him to spend on food in the cafes around.
Will had paid a visit to the Gyptians, and he was happily greeted by the Gyptians, John Faa and Farder Coram were just as pleased to see him, but were alarmed by the fact that Lyra was missing. They almost immediately went to places where Lyra would have gone to, but those places were places Lyra would have visited as a spunky child and that was five years ago. Will was getting concerned as well, and wondered if she might have also found a way to travel across worlds without letting Dust leak out or create spectres. It would surely make sense. He had definitely felt her presence in the garden and so he stood up and checked the time. It was 11:30 AM. Will then walked straight to the Botanic Gardens with Kirjava on his shoulder.
Lyra was another world apart from her, sitting on Will's bed in his home. Lyra was hoping Will would come back soon. Lyra thought he would come back home to Mary with excitement. Mary had told Lyra that Will had discovered this same way of travelling and was excited about it. Lyra had explored around the area with Mary supervising. Her world was not even as advanced as this. There were these carts that would move so fast she would only have at least a second to see them clearly before it rushed away. Mary had accompanied her, so they could avoid any 'accidents.' Lyra was alarmed at the fact that everyone lived very healthily without a daemon. She had become so attuned to people around her having daemons, that it she felt out of place. But, those fears were put to rest as she remembered that their daemons are not visible.
Mary had told Lyra about the speech she had to present at Sydney on Shadows or Dust or whatever it would be called. Lyra did the best she could to help Mary on her speech, providing information she had picked up while studying under the tutorage of Dame Hannah. After Lyra had finished helping Mary, Mary was all set to go for the speech in several days. Lyra looked at the time beside her, 11:30 AM. Lyra decided not to wait anymore and stood up and headed towards the garden, with Pan around her neck.
Both Will and Lyra had arrived at the same time, at the garden, as the belltower in both worlds rang for midday, they had sensed each others' presence and their hearts almost leapt from their chest. They both sat at their places on the bench with their daemons very close by, under a tree and waited for the other to hopefully travel to the other world and see the other. They waited half an hour for each other, but both decided to be impatient and so they both thought of the garden but in their own worlds, Lyra in hers and Will in his. They both snapped out of it at the same time and found themselves sitting on the bench, however, not together.
Almost simultaneously, they had both said to their daemons, 'Are we imagining all this just because we want to be together so badly?'
Their daemons replied almost simultaneously, 'Perhaps… but we cannot worry about that now, there are people who may be worried about us, we should tend to them first before we tend to ourselves.'
In almost the exact moment, both Will and Lyra nodded their head in agreement and left the gardens, thinking if it was really all real…
Will had arrived back home not before one, Mary would not be home for several hours, and then Will noticed sounds coming from upstairs. It had to be Mary, no one else had the keys to the house unless they were robbers. Will carefully went upstairs. Will sighed as he saw Mary practising her presentation for Sydney. Mary had noticed on her mirror that Will had arrived back and turned around, saying, 'Hi Will, where's Lyra is she with you?'
'Wait' Will said, 'Lyra was here?'
'Yes, she was here, she waited here in case you decided to come back' Mary said.
'No!' Will said, 'I thought she would come back to her world, since she has school and people who are worried sick for her!'
'Oh dear…' Mary softly spoke, 'you better go run back now, about an hour and a half ago, she went to the Botanic Gardens to go find you.'
'Oh my god, it was all real,' Will said, 'Kirjava lets go, hurry!' Will took a quick glance at the time, it was 1:30 PM.
'Right behind you Will,' Kirjava shouted as she ran behind Will as he rushed outside the door, running with all his heart. Will was definitely going to see Lyra again!
Lyra had taken the key to the Botanic Gardens and headed towards St Sophia, when the Gyptians all saw her and rushed up to say how worried they had been, and she had noticed Serafina Pekkala was present. News had reached her tribe that she was missing and Serafina quickly answered the call. They had searched everywhere but could not seem to find Lyra. Lyra saw the Master head towards her. The Master embraced her and said, 'Lyra it is good to see you, but there is someone who needs to see you is well.'
'Who?' Lyra asked in a confused tone.
'Will was here,' said the Master, 'and I saw him leave at about 11:30 to head over to the garden. Have you seen him?'
'Wait, Will was here?' Lyra said.
'Yes he was, he has been staying at Jordan College for about a week waiting for you.' the Master replied.
Lyra quickly said, 'Can you tell Dame Hannah that I am okay and I'm going back to Will's world. I can't explain right now, can you also tell me the time.'
The Master looked at his watch, 'It's 2 PM,' and with that Lyra ran back to the gardens. She fumbled with the keys. Lyra was so excited she could hardly think straight, she ran to the bench, to find a young man about her age with a cat daemon with shades of dark colours. Lyra stood dumbfounded and mouth slightly open. Lyra could hardly believe it was Will, after all these years they had finally found each other again; even sooner than Xaphania had predicted.
Will was almost to overjoyed to speak, Lyra was absolutely enchanting; she had let her hair grow to her waist and her eyes were so sincere and were brimmed with tears waiting to spill. Will felt his eyes brim with tears. Both Will and Lyra embraced each other and so had their daemons, both human and daemon in a long time, they had not once shed a tear, but these were not tears of sadness. 'This is bliss…' they all thought. Their daemons nuzzled each other lovingly. Will and Lyra kissed each other with so much passion, the invisible Dust around the two of them bounced randomly around. In another world, far from Will and Lyra, the angel Xaphania had noticed a sudden changed in the flow of Dust; it was filled with joy and happiness indescribable. Xaphania smiled, of all the times to be proven wrong, she was glad she was wrong about this. And she knew exactly what had happened.
Will and Lyra were finally together…
Yay, finally they are together, now for them to decide what they should do. Again, I ask for reviews because I only have one -- I think I may end up turning this into an M rated due to some 'sexual' references I MAY decide to put in, but… for now it is still K rated. The story is NOT finished, I repeat the story is NOT finished. Until the next chapter, Love Triumphs over all!!