Unconquered Sun (45 page)

It is a pity only for this young of wild animal … But there's nothing to be done? It is impossible to change all the same any more anything …

And meanwhile a small animal, having ceased to cry, suddenly somehow started as though he was dawned by some thought, and cried:

- Prince! Prince! Madam, do not departure, jump here, to me! You do not want to leave forever Prinze! He loves you and waits! Do not departure! For the sake of it!

What meant the word "prince" She did not know. The head it was filled by ice in the thickness of which, somewhere in the very bottom, something was concealed. But as where - who will be able to understand now?

And still this word seemed to it something familiar. In any case, She began to hesitate and postponed initial intention to turn to an ice chasm immediately.

And ice meanwhile threateningly cracked, a gravelly aged voice reminding "passenger" that time presses, it is time to go to a way.

But suddenly something changed.

In air there was some strange being entirely weaved from light. Wings at it - tongues of flame, the person - the melted metal, hands - the metal rods heated in the furnace.

It slowly fell by its ice floe and approached It closely. From intolerable heat ice in her head began to thaw. Just as from the winter icy cold of the earth exempted from fetters begin to sprout spring snowdrops, in her head some thoughts, some memoirs began to wake up …

And then the being upraised other hand and … some person on skis suddenly heaved in sight. It was from head to foot dressed in fur clothes, his face was covered by a fur hood.

In its figure and a manner to move something familiar seemed to It. She even wanted to ask a light being who he is. However the winged giant was gone as if it was dissolved in air. Perhaps, in general seemed to It?

And meanwhile the person removed, despite a blizzard and cold, the fur hood also addressed it:

- Darling do not leave, I beg you! I love you! Think of me, of our strange kids how it will be without you? How
I
will be without you now? HE told me that everything depends only on you! You understand if you want, you will be able to remain here … - and the person hasty wiped the eyes and a nose a fur mitten.

She was silent. This person was familiar to It. She remembered it - a lodge at the small river, two kids - the boy and the girl - at it on a lap … And She wanted was to answer already it, but suddenly the black wave of some other, heavy memoirs overflowed her reason.

This person comes home such indifferent, such cold, such heartless … Here she reaches for it, tries to embrace him, and he - goes somewhere to darkness, at night … Here she cries and says that she does not want to live more … And again pulled it to turn towards the infinite ledovity ocean. Yes, it is cold, dark there, but is quiet, silence there … Eternal silence …

The ice floe again foully cracked.

But rushed to this moment of people to it. Was not in time she and an eye to blink as he embraced her, strong pressed to itself - to such hot, such filled with life, breasts - and kissed …

The stream of life-giving heat flooded her heart. Ice disappeared, snow disappeared. Inside as though something became torn and heat extended on all body, having filled each section, from everywhere expelling an ice twilight.

She remembered everything - the name, the past, Prinze - their first meeting, nights under the moon, a wedding on Fey's Island, the birth of the first child, the second …

- Prince! You returned! - the Fairy exclaimed, hardly coming off his lips.

- As you see … - he smiled.

- But how? Where I? From where this ice? Snow? From where here you?

- Listen, expensive, let's descend from this ice floe until we with you departured goodness knows where!

He took her by hand, and they together descended on the coast, and an ice floe, with a crunch having separated from the coast, slowly floated in boundless chasms of the black ocean.

In the fulness of the heart legs of the Fairy weakened and she flat-out fell to snow. The prince kneeled and tenderly ironed her face. And the Fairy, in turn, could not tear off a look from eyes of darling.

- What happiness that you returned! What happiness! - joyfully Prinze spoke.

Suddenly Prinze's face in the eyes began to be changed. It began to shrink, from cheeks, a nose and a forehead gray hair suddenly got, eyes from blue became green, and the fur clothes turned into a gray cat's fur coat!

Instead of Prince Fey saw the exulting Kitten attractive face!

- What happiness that you returned, what happiness! - delighted the Kitten and in which already time licked her face shouted and lips we heat a rough uvula …

- Where I? - it is slightly heard the Fairy whispered. - Where Prinze? What with me was?

She not without effort turned the head and saw that near it the small kosterok burns down. In the clear blue sky - neither clouds, nor clouds. From the bright, as in spring burning sun snow began to melt here and there.

- Do not worry, madam, everything is all right. Just you were bitten by this creature from a cave, you fell asleep and nearly froze … I thought, not to rescue you … - the Kitten sobbed and hasty brushed away a teardrop from an eye, - but here …

- … but here, - the Puppy inserted, bringing the next bundle of firewood to the fading fire, - wind suddenly suddenly ceased, dispersed clouds, a blizzard stopped, there ascended the sun and it became warmer. And I a little far away from here found couple of dry trees, and we with the Kitten made fire, boiled water in a circle and warmed you a little bit!

- What you are good fellows, my dear Zveryatki! - the Fairy smiled. - Well I without you would do! - and furtively brushed away tears.

- Means, Prinze and that fiery person was not … - disappointedly added, having a little kept silent, the Fairy.

- What such fiery person? - suddenly the Kitten was outright disturbed.

- Well-at-at, it, from light everything, and hands - as tongues of flame too … - the Fairy explained.

Kitten with the Puppy exchanged glances. They a little bit felt ill at ease. Both of them fairly were frightened when both of them saw this strakholyud there, at rock top, on that side of a chasm. The fiery feelers it made some strange passes from which weather sharply changed for the better. Without it even firewood which the Puppy managed to find would never light up …

- No, madam, we did not see any person from fire. You were delirious … But now all will be good! - without batting an eyelid, "" the Kitten as any doctor seeking to distract the patient from evil thoughts hazardous to health arrives honestly told lies. - You should have a sleep a little bit. I found at you in a pocket of a little pink concentrate and parted it with thawed snow. Here, drink, it will give you forces … We with the Puppy will very strong embrace you, and you have a sleep in heat, as under a woolen blanket. And now here you are, drink … - and the Kitten stretched to the Fairy a marching tin mug with sweetish pink hot water. The fairy drank it and felt much better.

4.

The fairy woke up after a lunch and felt excellently. "The pink concentrate" restored its forces, and therefore it could warm itself by own efforts now. Looking at such positive changes at the Fairy, Animals became cheerful and began to think that the worst already behind and ahead of them expects only good. And the end of a way was already not far off. Travelers reached a saddle of the pass and thanks to a clear weather distinctly saw far ahead the spike of a gold tower shining on the sun. To the destination remained some 4-5 days of traveling.

Weather was really remarkable. In the clear blue sky was not cloudlets, the easy breeze blew, the sun burned as in spring so it became easy to go. In addition the footpath went for descent. The fairy still went ahead, Animals behind her. The kitten and the Puppy whistled songs, and the Fairy sometimes sang along with them.

However it became clear soon that gloomy predictions of Cora - not the joke, but good weather though facilitated a way on the mountains, but also awakened from hibernation of terrible inhabitants of these wild places.

Troubles began already through a couple of hours after travelers began descent. Everything began with the fact that the Kitten and the Puppy, rejoicing to the clear sky and the warm sun, were played as small children. The puppy took a full handful of the snow thawing on the hot sun in the plush pads and started in the Kitten, having pleased it directly on the head. The kitten, of course, was not in debt, and rushed …

Puppy, escaping from the Kitten, ran ahead of the Fairy, and the Kitten pripustit behind it. The fairy wanted to shout at them, to remind of danger, but for some reason did not make it. It grieved it to interrupt their fun. After all those dangers and difficulties that they worried, there was a wish that they though a little bit relaxed.

As a result, the Puppy escaped so far forward that the Fairy absolutely lost him from a look. And when shouts of Animals abated somewhere in the distance, she was disturbed outright. In addition, she noticed that on this footpath they are not one …

Probably, any woman perfectly feels when someone looks at her, especially, if a look of the stranger - bad. And fairies with their congenital intuition - especially!

The fairy felt at once that someone watches them. But who? She several times looked around, but noticed nothing strange. Then it started the Analyzer determining the level of radiation of thermal and magic energy. The analyzer showed zero level of magic energy, but thermal radiation read off scale. However when the Fairy tried to determine location of sources of thermal energy by the card - nothing worked well. She felt such strong hindrances from which by the way the head strongly began to hurt that it was forced to stop search.

And meanwhile Animals everything did not come back and did not come back.

Then the Fairy alarmed cried:

- A cat - e - e - eno - about - about-to! Shcheno - about - ok! You where? And well stop playing! Quickly to me! Here it is dangerous!

In reply she at first heard nothing. And then somewhere away it was ahead distributed wild howl the Puppy and miaow of the Kitten. The fairy rushed on shout, but did not manage to run also couples of tens of steps as from where from below black shadows with big leathery wings in which paws were flew … Her FAVOURITE ANIMALS!!!

- Huo - about - about - about - about - zya - I - I - yayk - and - and - and-and! On p - about - about - ohm - about - about - about - shch!!! - only also she heard.

The fairy reacted instantly. Wings behind her back buzzed as at an angry bee - the benefit "the pink concentrate" gave it forces. The fairy rushed on revenue of the friends.

It is necessary to tell, the Fairy understood at once that it is those creatures that watched her, but, probably, did not decide to attack. Because as soon as the Fairy directed the Analyzer beam to thieves, she felt a sharp headache, and it had to stop the magic analysis again. In spite of the fact that the Fairy flew on the highest for her speed, but could not keep up with winged creatures, on the contrary, the gap all increased. The fairy was afraid to beat them with fighting spells not to damage to Animals, but it was possible to try to catch them in a network as Night Hunters in Drevlyandiya.

However, the spell "a solar network" was rather difficult is to you not some lightnings to let! - and on its creation time could leave.

The fairy entirely went to work, but so far it weaved a gold network in the consciousness, something sharply struck with it in a back. The fairy for an instant became puzzled and, having lost balance, began to lose height sharply. And then received still blow and still.

The fairy looked up and saw that couple of same black creatures fly directly over her. Judging from the fact that at them no weapon was noticeable, they, probably, stooped down on it and painfully beat her a back with sharp-clawed paws. Couple more of such blows, and its wings could be damaged, and then it falls directly to the ground!

The fairy sharply handed over aside and strange winged monsters missed at the last minute. But the Fairy, having considered them close, nearly screamed from surprise. It were strange beings growth from the low person, unusually brawny, covered with dense black wool, with leather webby as at a bat wings. But the most important was not in it. And in that, as these beings had a muzzle, and paws - monkey!

- "Creator!" - the Fairy - "yes same prehistoric flying monkeys, the died-out look thought as we were taught at biology lessons. How they could appear here?"

But the Fairy did not manage to think of it any more. Because both creatures dived on the Fairy again, being going to ram her in blow of the brawny paws.

But this time the Fairy knew, than to meet them! She, of course, felt sorry for these strange animals - after all it is not disgusting sklizky feelers from a cave. And therefore it did not begin to water them with liquid fire. Instead it struck with a lightning, quite weak category - can, from an easy electroshock they will recover!

She dexterously maneuvred aside and evaded from the next blow of winged rams. Using that flying monkeys flew away down, she after struck with the cascade of lightnings. However, it got only to one, the second was succeeded to evade, but also it was enough! The unfortunate monkey stridently screamed and departed a stone down!