Unconquered Sun (40 page)

But here the Fairy did not sustain.

- No, I do not understand, and I will never understand! Immediately remain! I so want, I order you, I to you rule, I … - the Fairy wanted to tell something else, but here Prinze turned to her a back. Sadly having bent the head, he quietly walked back, carefully going down on a barkhan. And just now the Fairy noticed that his legs left on friable sand of traces and cried on all desert …

The fairy jumped from the air-bed and long could not recover. Her all body was wet from sweat, heart fought so that it, appear, just about will jump out of a thorax. The fairy felt herself - the clothes were on the place.

- Oh! I, probably, roused all Animals the cries, the hysteric woman unfortunate! - The fairy rushed to Animals, but … Their mattress was empty!

The fairy wanted to go for their searches as suddenly she was called by someone's painfully familiar voice.

The fairy sharply turned back and saw... Prince! Yes, the most real, dear Prinze. Here his short fair slightly curly hair, blue thoughtful eyes, the thin line of the squeezed lips, a chin... raincoat... the waterproof green jacket sewed by the Fairy … Exactly as on the eve of disappearance from the house …

His face was lit up by a soft smile, hands revealed to clasp the Fairy in arms, and eyes lit up passionate fire. The prince took a step forward and by a soft gentle voice said:

- As I am glad that I see you, expensive! I so yearned on you... Embrace me, the Beautiful Fairy, I was so tired of loneliness, of our separation, but now all is over. We together... forever... - And with these words he took one more step to it towards.

The first desire of the Fairy was will rush to its embraces, to nestle very strong on his breast and to begin to cry. The Fairy so grieved for Prinze! Especially now, when it dreamed it such real, such real, such loving, ardent and passionate … And then this awful parting, this new loss!

Oh, the Creator as the Fairy grieved for Prinze! Though they were married practically nothing - some five years from ten thousand years that she lived in this world, but during this time she managed to get used to Prinze. When you not one when to you is about whom to take care, eat whom to caress and to embrace, eat with whom to divide a dinner or walk, to share the thoughts and feelings to whom to sing the song and, the most important with whom to bring up small kids is a greatest pleasure. Especially for the magicians doomed to eternity. Seven years ran for the Fairy as a moment, fine, flashing, but only a moment, and therefore it was so insufferably difficult for it to reconcile to separation.

The feeling of the pressing melancholy pushed her forward. She pulled the thin white handles to Prinze and was ready to rush to his opened embraces as suddenly something stopped it. Arose thought in the head: "And from where it here? How it got here, to this desert?"

The fact that it seemed to it such natural while she dreamed, looked strange if not to tell, terrible now. Heart with a needle was pierced by alarm, on a forehead cold sweat acted. The fairy instinctively recoiled back:

- How you got here, my dear Prinze? What do you do here? Unless you not in captivity?

- Ah and … Whether everything is equal!? - in Prinze's voice the irritation note flashed. - Yes, I ran, ran, pursued me … And now I here, with you, forever... - the Prince whispered the last words with some passion unusual for it.

And then, with some strange impatience continued:

- Well, embrace me, expensive, protect me from a pursuit, from this cold, for this fear, embrace me rather! - Also took some more steps forward.

The intuition prompted to the Fairy that it is threatened by danger, but her reason not in forces was to explain what occurs. Perhaps she fell asleep also to her again to act nightmares?

And here dawned on the Fairy.

- Dear Prinze, forgive me, I forgot and how call our small kids?

- Kids? - puzzly he asked again. - Well, what now it matters, the silly woman! - "Prince" raised the voice. - You see, I freeze, I am cold, I was tired to what all these questions?! Just embrace me, expensive! - And with these words he took some more steps towards.

Suddenly the Fairy felt some treacherous weakness in all body. She felt, the earth crumbles under the feet. The head was filled with some lead fog, to a throat nausea rose. The penetrating unwinking gaze of "Prince" looked in one point, it is slightly higher than the level of eyes of the Fairy, and the monotonous voice worked usyplyayushche.

Suddenly the subject fell into hands of the Fairy ice some smooth and cold as. In the head cleared up at once.

"Pocket mirror! Magic pocket mirror of the Queen Laura!"

But time for thoughts was not.

- And well, the impostor, - be looked here! Be looked whether you are similar to my dear Prinze!!! - not by the voice she cried out and directed a pocket mirror on Pseudo-Prinze.

Terrible, abstruse shout was distributed and instead of Prince Fey saw a disgusting and ugly black shadow, something reminding a huge fat shaggy spider who rapaciously stretched the ugly feelers to Fey...

The fairy screamed for horror and disgust, but the fear gave her force. It flew up in air, at the last minute having evaded from deadly "embraces" of a monster. But could not depart far - in a body treacherous weakness was still felt. Feeling what not to stretch to it long in air, she said a spell and stooped down down, directly in the center of the formed saving circle of a magic flame.

Feelers tried to get it and there, but the languages of magic fire harmless to the exorcist appeared too hard to the enemy. Having lost part of the vile feelers, the carnivorous desert ghost recoiled back. Because in a circle of magic fire even ghosts are not capable to get …

The ghost which remained hungry wildly howled and was forced to go away, and the Fairy from whom the endured horror and support of a spell took away the last forces failed on unconscious sand.

… When the Fairy, at last, recovered, she saw that the magic fiery circle half went out, now hardly reaching a half of human growth.

At this moment announced the desert heartrending shrill howl also miaow. At the Fairy even heart ached - what became with her loyal friends?! And then she stridently cried:

- Zveryatki my dear, and well to me, here! At me it is safe! Run on fire! - and with these words she poured in a new portion of magic energy in the flame beginning to die away already. Bluish-green languages of magic fire shot up highly up so it was possible to see them from far away now.

The fairy did not need to shout twice. From darkness both Zverenk who on all four pads ran towards fire came up, they on heels were pursued by some terrible shadows.

The fairy opened a continuous circle of a fiery wall and, having upraised hands, struck with the same fire directly over the plush heads. Through fingers of the Fairy uvulas of a magic flame took off and hit the mark. Ghosts howled and for a moment recoiled aside. This moment just was also enough for Animals in order that through the pass opened by the Fairy to run in a circle then the magic circle became isolated again.

The desert was announced by the disappointed uterine roar, and then all abated. Animals panting were tumbled down down to the ground and long still shivered with fear. Only through kind half an hour, having recovered, at last, they, interrupting each other, could tell what happened to them …

4.

To kitten it was not fallen down this night for the same reason, as the Fairy. The fatigue was such that it was not possible to fall asleep in any way. And then the Kitten began to console himself in memories of how well was at home.

Surprising business! Still quite recently the Kitten dreamed will go to the real Travel with the Adventures surely Extremely Dangerous and Especially Confidential, well, like such which happen to brave intelligence agents from "STING". Measured life in a lodge at the Fairy seemed to it a little bit dullish. However, there was a Puppy, there was Oslenok, there were feina kids, but nevertheless … There was a wish for something unusual, something new.

But when the Kitten closely faced the real Adventures, he wanted to return back, to a silent cozy world under the care of the Beautiful and Powerful Fairy again. As it is good to sleep on the real bed, but not on a mattress or even on the naked earth, to run only for entertainment, but without saving the life, to go not to exhaustion, is tasty "pink" food, but not this fresh sea cabbage …

The kitten lingeringly yawned and solved a little bit, absolutely slightly to dream of what would be if he appeared at home … This thought itself it is unclear from where jumped to it in the head, but it did not seem to it strange at all.

And houses above all were pleasant to the Kitten … mice!

No, our Kitten never ate mice. It, as well as all Animals, never ate murder consequences. But he terribly liked to play with mice and other rodents, as well as any kitten.

Just as Prinze left on "hunting" in the wood which meant for it simply to stir with trees and herbs, to run races with hares and squirrels, to ride backs of deer and elks, also the Kitten similarly arrived.

If he saw on a meadow of a gopher or hamster or a mouse, he right there rushed to a pursuit of a small animal. But not in order that to eat it and just to catch - so to speak, just for fun. Having caught a small animal, he licked to it a muzzle the rough pink uvula and set him again free, and again caught and again released … If the small animal said that he was tired or to him it is time to go home, the Kitten did not object. But often small animals liked this game - they so like to run races and to play at hide-and-seek! - that willingly played with the Kitten on half a day without a break …

Here the Kitten also decided to dream of it a little now. He blissfully closed the big green eyes, put fluffy greyish pads under the head and entirely plunged into such sweet, such pleasant dreams …

… The kitten lay on a soft silky and fragrant grass on a meadow, near their house. Household chores were finished, the Fairy departed somewhere, the Puppy left "on hunting" with Prinze, and Oslenok as always pottered with kids. And therefore the Kitten decided that he has full authority to arrange himself rest. He was filled up on a grass and enjoyed how warm rays of the midday sun heat its fluffy cat's skin. What else it is necessary for a cat for happiness? To eat and have a sleep on heat the sun! But even when the Kitten slept, his ears - as well as at any cat - were "on the top".

Suddenly the familiar sheburshaniye and an easy popiskivaniye somewhere nearby, in a grass reached his hearing.

Kitten, without giving a sign that hears, only slightly slightly opened the right eye. Through a thin chink his sharp-sighted cat's eye noticed a small greyish mouse which dug pads the earth, probably, digging out some back or to a sunflower seed. The kitten waited a little bit, then still a little bit, then still … At last, the mouse pulled out something from a pole, took in teeth and is careful, trying not to wake the Kitten, on tiptoe went home. But as soon as it appeared two steps away from the Kitten, he right there - tsap-tsarap! - seized her with the dexterous greyish pads!

The mouse dropped from teeth to a sunflower seed and scaredly screeched, but the Kitten amicably licked its rozovenky muzzle the rough uvula and told:

- M-m-I-I-at! Yes be not afraid you, the silly fellow! I to you will make nothing - I do not eat mice! I will even give you so many tasty podsolnukhovy sunflower seeds how many to you it is necessary. Give gets acquainted better! What is your name?

The mouse at first puzzly blinked the eyes beads and even opened the rozovenky mouth from surprise, having bared small white, but ostrenky as the razor teeth. Then she moved the black wet nose, sniffing, and … calmed down. The good-natured physiognomy of the Kitten did not inspire any fear in a little mouse.

- My name is a little mouse Ushastik, - was important presented it and bowed - not every day such important persons as plush friends of the Hostess Lesa meet you! - So I was nicknamed by mother. So far I still live with it, but I will grow up soon and I will dig the mink!

- And me - the Kitten, - was presented the Kitten and once again licked Ushastik so that that began to squeak from pleasure. - Well, here and remarkably! You laugh - means, you are not afraid any more, - with relief the Kitten summed up. - Well, and now let's play if, of course, you have time!

- Give! - joyfully Ushastik agreed. - Only in an hour I should be at home and bring something to eat …

- Do not worry! - the Kitten waved a pad. - I will bring you the whole sack of podsolnukhovy sunflower seeds - for a week will be enough for you - not less!

Ushastika was delighted even more, instead of boring search of food, it can play, and then also to feed all the family without any work! He peeped enough, having funny moved thin short moustaches on cheeks, and the Kitten omitted "production" on the earth.

- And what we will play? - Ushastik took an interest.

- Well, of course, in "tag"! - the Kitten answered.

- And how it?

- Very much it is even simple. You run away from me, and I you - catch up! Pretty cool, huh?

- Fine! - Ushastik agreed.

And, without waiting for team, k-a-a-a-ak pripustit forward that even heels began to sparkle! But so just you will not spend the Kitten! He too well knows character of mice - ten thousand years as lives in this world! The kitten jumped as it is possible above and - landed exactly before a little mouse!