Unconquered Sun (14 page)

- Interestingly, the sister, it is interesting … - the Second told and was lost in thoughts. Pearl-white became silent, tremblingly waiting until telepathic council of Three ends.

- Your analytical skills, the sister, certainly, deserve a praise, - at last, the Second said. - We were once again convinced that we were not mistaken, having appointed you to the top post of Sacred Hierarchy of Community. Really, her behavior is very atypical. In total with other disturbing news preparation from ITS party of new adventure which threatens to threaten the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity
again
is available. And, maybe, and existence of the world entrusted us by the Creator … - the Second made a significant pause, having again plunged into mental dialogue with Two Others and even closed eyes to some time. Pearl-white kept the eyes glued from beautiful and wise faces of the Sovereigns.

At last, the Second of Three opened eyes again and told, also slowly, passionlessly and solemnly.

- Well, so far ITS intentions are up to the end not clear to us, and therefore we will give IT the chance to make the first course in this party. This time we should not be mistaken as then - our mistakes too expensive cost us … Strengthen a ring of supervision over the territory of the Gold Hall so far and be going to wait patiently, the sister. Having had patience, to wait and hope that the Creator to Whom all of us faithfully serve - here all three Knowledge reverentially put hands on a breast that did not fail to make and Pearl-white, - will give us a sign how to arrive.

- And how to be with the wife of the kidnapped person, your Knowledge? - reminded Pearl-white.

- Yes - and-and, it is a pity for her, of course. We have heard a lot about her devotion to our Service and brilliant indicators in work, and also about her passionate love to this person … A worthy example, by the way, for all other fairies of Community! However, maybe, her love to it can be to the good for us …

- How it? - puzzly raised eyebrows Pearl-white.

- Well-at-at, at least the fact that the Creator very much appreciates this feeling and often happens so that He makes marvelous miracles to help loving will connect - We repeatedly were to that witnesses. But not only. Its energy in search of darling can be useful to us also by what, perhaps, will be able to push IT to make the rash course, to mix ITS plans and, perhaps, then we will have a chance to strike blow from which she any more will never recover!

- Your knowledge shakes me, and your ability to expect unknown - admires … - with sincere awe said Pearl-white, declining the ash-white head before three Empresses.

- Go, the sister, continue supervision over the Gold Hall, but …

- "But"?

- … Keep the eyes glued also from the Keeper of the Limit No. 3. You understand
what
We mean?

- Yes sir, your Knowledge, everything will be made in the best look!

With these words Pearl-white flew up and, having saluted, loudly buzzing wings took off from the Pink Hall directly at the top - it crying out violation of etiquette was allowed to soldiers of "STING".

And the Second of Three plunged into habitual dialogue with other two Knowledge again.

When all important issues between Them were resolved, all three Knowledge mentally caused an image of the Keeper of the Limit No. 3. It was necessary to enter invisibly consciousness of this fairy and to direct her behavior in the course, necessary for Them. The triune Knowledge intuitively felt that in the forthcoming great war this the modest, in appearance not differing from others fairy, can become their trump card. Perhaps,
the only
trump card which They will have in an upcoming game. And therefore all should be made especially carefully.

1.

The fairy woke up at daybreak. For the first time in the life she felt some unpleasant weight on heart. All night long it dreamed nightmares.

Some black arachnoid beings with disgusting zhvala and unblinking cold nasekomy eyes climbed directly on it, clasped with disgusting feelers her thin body, sucked its blood.

The prince stood nearby, but stayed in such condition of detachment that did not notice it. He resembled some dummy or even a corpse more, than her beloved spouse. But, the most important, - instead of eyes Prinze had empty eye-sockets from which such intolerably burning, such terribly bright light flew. He in different ways repeated same: "It", "infinite perfection", "perfect beauty" so from his words the head, and especially from a sound of its absolutely lifeless voice began to hurt.

Zhvala and claws of disgusting beings stuck into her body all more sick and more sick. They dragged the Fairy under the earth somewhere. It pulled hands to Prinze, and Prinze looked by it somewhere and spoke and told the same nonsense. At last, the Fairy almost up to the neck was tightened in some black hole by nasekomoobrazny beings. It with the last bit of strength clung to the upper edge of a hole, but forces remained less and less, and all pulled paws and pulled it down. At last, without having sustained, the Fairy released fingers and departed to the chasm …

The fairy hardly razlepit swelled up and wet from got down eyelids and looked in an open window. Dawn was not yet, the edge of the horizon only just began to brighten. A nightgown, it is equal as a sheet and a pillow it was possible though to squeeze out. Heart was squeezed by lead weight, breath could not return to normal in any way. It never was earlier.

The intuition of the Fairy prompted that there was something awful. Her fears in a moment were confirmed when she did not see near herself on Prinze's bed. It especially was strange that Prinze never, for all their joint life, woke up before it!

The most obvious was the first thought of the Fairy - the Prince left, to be exact, ran away! The wave of dull ache squeezed her heart, blood began to knock in temples, in eyes darkened. The fairy mechanically got up, on a habit went down and approached the Source that was in full swing near the house.

The matter is that every morning the Fairy got up always at dawn, at the first beams of the morning sun. The first yet not bright, pink beam awakened it from a dream. Carefully, trying not to wake ahead of time Prinze who was the big hunter to have a sleep, she got up. Having darted a tender look on sleeping, such quiet and childly an ingenuous face of Kind Prinze, she lovingly corrected a blanket at it on a breast and went to a magic Source that was in full swing near the house. There she washed and sang, having upraised highly to the sky the thin white handles, the anthem to Dawn. This magic song which was sung by all associates, urged forces of nature to help fairies with their hard work on service to the Sacred Principles of the Order and Tselestiya's Prosperity.

Then she went on the small river and bathed there. Then, umastiv the body rose attar, dressed new clothes. Then the Fairy went to the closest congestion of pink clouds behind magic pollen and cotton candy which made the main food for great representatives of its race and were a source always of vigorous mood, eternal youth and the blossoming health. When the breakfast was ready, the Fairy awoke Prinze, kids and Animals. Such is there was an invariable schedule of life for five years of joint life of the Beautiful Fairy and Kind Prinze.

And this firm order was broken today.

Really, why to wash if there are no sunshine yet? Why to sing the anthem if the melancholy how a hand of the dead person, an ice grasp seized heart? Why to make a breakfast and to awake Prinze if Prinze is absent any more and, perhaps, any more will never be? At this thought the Fairy was developed, and, having chilly shrunk from pre-dawn cold, came back home.

Thoughtlessly, absolutely mechanically, she as a ghost, bypassed all rooms of the house, glanced to the nursery, even to the cellar and on an attic, bypassed vicinities of the house in shy hope to find Prinze, but it was not anywhere. Then it, having slapped itself on a forehead with the words "Here, Silly!", took the magic crystal sphere and, for fractions of a second having created at itself in the head Prinze's image, sent a mental signal to a sphere team: "To look for!" The sphere several times blinked and went out. He did not even try to show anything to the Fairy. And it meant one: The prince in its possession was not.

And then the Fairy did not sustain. The sphere dropped out of her hands and, having boomingly knocked about a floor, was gone for a bed of the deserted matrimonial bedroom. The fairy failed on a bed and, having buried a face in a pillow, loudly began to sob …

2.

The first among Animals the multicareful Kitten woke up, as always.

He with the Puppy and Oslenk slept on the top, on an attic at home. But its attic it was possible to call only conditionally. Actually, it was the full-fledged room, quite spacious, also pasted over with pink wall-paper, with couple of cases, several pictures and pink curtains on windows both a pink shaggy and soft oriental carpet.

All walls were decorated with pictures with the image of Animals.

Here the Kitten and the Puppy play dogonyashka - muzzles cheerful, languages outside, eyes are made buldge out - happy! Here Oslenok reads to kids the fairy tale, holding the book on knees, and itself glances over round starushachy points at them - whether fell asleep? And eyes at Oslenk such mild, such kind, just as at the grandmother loving grandsons … Here all Animals together, sit having embraced, and the Puppy - here not to be available to him! - delivered horns to Oslenk … There were also other pictures from their joint life created by Prinze by means of magic of the memorable crystal.

Animals on one big bed - and why to them different slept? - having embraced as kids, together. When the Fairy was not married, they slept, as well as it is necessary to plush small animals, together with the Fairy. But when she married - here other life began absolutely …

The kitten woke up from strange feeling. Dreamed it as if he hears some muffled groans. In a dream he and thought: "But whether the ghost incidentally at us was got what?" But when woke up, groans did not disappear anywhere.

"It is necessary to go to check what occurs", - the Kitten thought about himself and darted a look of disapproval at the sleeping friends: Oslenok with the Puppy such fair sluggards!

The kitten got up, put on the soft terry pink slippers embroidered with golubenky florets on pads (itself embroidered, tried!), also went slowly to a landing.

At first he went down to the nursery on the second floor. No, here everything was as it should be. The kitten brushed away tears of emotion: kids with pleasure slept, having strong embraced. Both children were dressed in identical snow-white nightgowns with laces on which brown bear cubs with amusing kind attractive faces were embroidered (The kitten embroidered, who else?!).

Meanwhile, groans were resumed again.

Then he went down on the first floor and looked at a wall mechanical clock. "Creator! Half of the ninth! Breakfast!!!", - and the Kitten grabbed greyish pads cheeks. Usually they with the Fairy and the Puppy began to display a breakfast in eight, and in a sex of the ninth already sat down to a table, and here … Even does not smell of a breakfast!

"Ah, I, the sleepyhead - zasonya and as I with a breakfast … Stop! Wait! - himself was torn off by the Kitten. - So the Fairy with the Puppy DID NOT WAKE us!!! Oh, the Creator and what happened to it???!!!"

Kitten fast as stung to one place by a wasp, departed to the room of the Fairy, if it, FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR FIVE THOUSAND YEARS that lives here, missed a breakfast, so and really there was something awful!

On the way the Kitten, rising by the second floor in opposite part of the house, even fell twice, nearly rasshib to itself a nose and a forehead, lost on the run the amateur slippers - so he hurried to learn what befell the Fairy!

But just before a door in her bedroom heard heavy groan again. "And suddenly she dies?! Never it I will forgive myself!" - the Kitten thought in despair and flew without knock (that never afforded earlier) to the room. And nearly fell from surprise!

On a bed the Fairy, in a nightgown, with untidy hair lay, having captured a pillow two hands and having buried in it a face, and did not even sob, and roared as a wounded animal.

The kitten on tiptoe, silently, as only the cat can, approached a bed of the Fairy and stroked it on a back:

- Hozyayk-a-a-a, the hostess lovely what is with you, you is bad? Perhaps to bring what?

Crying for an instant stopped, but then continued with a new force.

Then the Kitten lay down near the hostess and comfortably zamurchat, trying to warm her the heat, the love caress, all cats when feel that with owners something not so as usual arrive. But also it was vain.

At last, the Kitten got up - and only now noticed that there is no Prince too!

Where Prinze disappeared?

Its place on a bed was empty, the sheet and a pillow were crumpled, and in the house his Kitten did not see too. And here reached it …

"Here I am the head garden, well as I did not guess? - the Kitten slapped himself a pad on a forehead. - Why still the Fairy can cry how not because of Prinze? And yesterday there was such scandal …"

Inspired with the guess, the Kitten touched the hostess for a shoulder and asked:

- The hostess - and - and-and, my dear Fairy, you because of Prinze are so killed, huh?

Sobbing for an instant ceased, and then was resumed even stronger.

- Everything is clear, - the Kitten aloud summed up, - now everything is clear to me. The medicine, here, unfortunately, is powerless … - it parted with pads and, having bent the head, went to an exit. There already in the opened crack curious attractive faces of the Puppy and Oslenk looked.

The kitten came to a landing and, having densely covered for himself a door, leaned against it a back, protecting the Fairy from unwanted visitors.

At the very same time on it the hail of questions fell down.

- A kitten, what has happened? the Fairy ached? Where Prinze disappeared? And the breakfast will be?. - And so on and so forth.

But the Kitten also did not think to answer this squall of questions, with concentration looking somewhere afar, patiently expecting the end of this verbal firing. When the stream of questions ran low, the Kitten decided to undertake all initiative in an emergency situation:

- A puppy, quickly, in a cellar behind house preparations! Oslenok, awake kids and wash them! And well, vividly! Here you ask questions, and children are not washed yes not kormlena! Also a-a-a is not a shame to you? Too to me, Animals! - and, having put pads on a breast, angrily sparkled shining green eyes. - Vividly! Mya-u-u-u!!!

As wind blew off both the Puppy, and Oslenk. The authority Kotenka as most enterprising and most bright Zverenk was indisputable.

3.

The fairy sobbed three days in a row. Did not eat, did not sleep and even could not watch at children when they shy entered the room and ironed the thin children's fingers the head and mother's shoulders "to regret" it. The meaning of life was lost. The fairy could not live alone any more, without Prinze.

It is good still that these most terrible three days Oslenok, the Kitten and the Puppy completely undertook care of kids. At first they fed them with house preparations and cared for them - washed, drove to walk, told fairy tales, trying to hold whenever possible them far away from the house that they did not hear bitter crying of their mother.

Then Oslenok managed to find to Fane the magic book and to read the necessary spells for start of a magic oven which began to cook food. Other spells forced magic plates to impose it, and magic clothes most to be erased. And that children without mother would be gone!

However it was much simpler to provide kids to all necessary, than to explain to them why mother cries and does not go to them and why the father was gone somewhere. It was necessary to put Oslyanka all the rich imagination to think up the explanation arranging children's heads.

It turned out that mother very seriously got sick, and the father went to the wood to collect curative grasses that to cure her and just about will return. Kids right there had a desire to go to the wood to find these grasses and to cure mother. So far Oslenok distracted them from this intention by different tricks, like fairy tales, songs, walks, but each time it became harder and harder to do it.

Really, when the father did not come to the second, and then and for the third day - it even a children's mind seemed suspicious. So on an outcome the day before yesterday children arranged such concert that, at last, it became clear to Animals: if nothing is farther to undertake, then they or will begin to roar from a grief together with all, or the Fairy will starve. She did not eat three days anything and even did not drink …

The first the Puppy - the most brisk and bright of all their cheerful kompashka did not sustain. When children refused to have dinner and violently began to roar at a table, demanding to themselves mother and the father, his patience burst:

- You as want, dr-r-r-ruzya, but I have had enough, and-av! I more than it do not intend to suffer! Our Hostess from whom we did not see anything except good, eats three days and does not drink and any minute in general will die. Our Owner who was always kind to us too evaporated somewhere. Their dear kids will die from separation from parents too soon. And we pr-r-r-r-and it do nothing at all, and-av! - angrily the Puppy spoke, resting pads against the shaggy brown sides.