Unconquered Sun (6 page)

The fairy suddenly even somehow felt ill at ease - well as she could not sing to it the morning song?. But then she remembered: just yesterday she with Prinze went to bed very late. On the occasion of anniversary of their wedding it for the first time in five years receded from an invariable daily routine, having decided to give to Prinze to sleep, and sang the song only for Animals and kids. And, apparently, in vain …

But this mistake only strengthened it in opinion that today there has to be something bad, usually all bad events are preceded by some failures in a habitual daily routine - it is obvious to each normal fairy. She even wanted to cancel a task to the Prince, but, having looked at it the become cheerful person at once, thought that it will be too cruel.

"Yes, - the Fairy thought, drinking cool pink juice from a glass and watching how Prinze fills to himself full cheeks sweet pink cotton wool, his favourite delicacy, - to the person not just to be a husband of the fairy. We very at all not such as human women: we are too strong, too we suppress man's self-conceit … My poor Prinze! He feels with me absolutely jammed in a shadow! What I am after all an egoist! Well, nothing, descends in the wood, and then I will give it more responsible task that did not miss more!" However some unpleasant deposit remained in soul of the Fairy all the same …

And Prinze was really happy. "At last and the small feat fell to my lot! Curative herbs in gentle handles of my favourite Fairy will save so many lives, will bring so many oblegcheniye from sufferings!" - Prinze thought joyfully. He knew it for certain and on own, so to speak, skin. The fairy almost daily used some animal and she always needed ointments and curative herbs decoctions.

And the pink food played a role. From it the mood always improved, there was always a wish to sing some song under a nose, there was always a wish to undertake some good deed. The prince called it "pink mood" because from it even in eyes some easy pink haze appeared. It is surprising after all though they generally ate the same pink food, that did not become boring to Prinze at all and every time was in a new way surprisingly tasty and juicy. Taste and juiciness she reminded something average between ripe oranges, strawberry, a water-melon and mango. The fairy trained her in different types: soup from pink dandelions, porridge from pink flakes, pink juice or cotton candy to juice. The flavoring scale a little bit differed, but is insignificant.

Here and now: costed to Prinze, having calmed down, to be accepted to food as he already forgot about everything. The pink food literally melted in the mouth, and the feeling of pleasure, delight, readiness to undertake after food some good deed already grew in a breast.

"Though why it, - it was thought suddenly to Prinze, - the Fairy feeds me with pink food?" Of course, at a table periodically there was also a milk from dairy trees, both vegetables, and fruit, but the pink food was an obligatory component of a daily diet.

Once, Prinze remembered, he somehow told the Fairy: "I am not hungry today, I will eat only couple of wons of those sweet pears and all …" But the Fairy then somehow strange looked at it, and as always stroked the handle on the head why on all body the feeling of rest and a tranquil pleasure spread - so it did always when Prinze objected it. And then told: "At least the glass of pink juice should be drunk surely! It will give you forces, and that in the wood will weaken still … Give, for the sake of me! A draft, ma - and - alyusenky, well?" And with these words she took a glass of juice and stretched to Prinze, at the same time so on it looked how it can be done only the woman so he simply not in forces was her to refuse. But as soon as the glass of juice was drunk, Prinze already just could not stop, so taste of pink food was attractive that, having tasted its once, having felt hungry more and more, before the saturation.

"Strange, why after all is it without fail?" - Prinze thought more than once. And in general, his favourite Fairy, at all the sociability and cheerfulness when business concerns different feiny features was always permanently closed and laconic: "Darling do not stick the curious nose where does not follow, and that you will be left without nose, so, apparently, at you speak?" And, having clicked it on this most curious nose fingers, gave the conversation another turn.

"Probably, I today something absolutely some excessively suspicious", - thought Prinze and dismissed all foreign thoughts. "The pink mood" already came into the own: the feeling of pleasure grew in a breast, rest, cheerfulness, the sun to seem it became brighter, persons Fei, than kids and a muzzle of Animals - it is even lovelier, and Prinze cheerfully burst out laughing. Eventually, today he should make the real feat in the wood, and it is already a lot of!

2.

After Prinze's leaving, the Fairy, having charged all household chores to Animals, departed on service. Or, being expressed by the Charter letter, "to carry out Disinterested and Dedicated Service to the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity in the territory entrusted by Community".

It is necessary to notice that this service for any fairy begins with that moment when she finishes thirty years' training at School and lasts for the rest of the life. That day the young fairy solemnly swears before a throne of their Knowledge to protect weak, to create good, to help persons in need, to learn, improve and decorate world around. Protection, thus, even for Keepers of the Limit was only one of many tasks which they carried out within the Service.

And therefore now, when on borders with the Limit, it seems, everything is quiet, the Fairy was not free from execution of the functions at all. It just could switch to other, not less important issues. The help to a brood of little bear cubs whose mother seriously wounded to herself a paw about a sharp bough was the most essential of them at present and temporarily could not go. Only the Fairy could feed little bear cubs now.

She successfully coped with this work. The fairy quickly found the den hidden in a dense pinery in which there lived all brood, and landed near it. Bear cubs, having guessed aroma of just blossomed roses - an invariable sign of approach of any fairy - a joyful crowd as mushrooms from a bast basket, poured out towards and surrounded the winged guest in impatient expectation of feeding. They so persistently rubbed about her harmonous fine-molded legs and with such pleasure licked them that the Fairy with all the heart burst out laughing. Having kissed and having a little snuggled each of bear cubs, she decided that it is necessary to take care, first of all, of their wounded mother. It squeezed directly into a den and once again processed wounds on a paw of a she-bear specially prepared healing ointment. She-bear did not resist. It is known that all animals loved fairies and trusted them as to. On the contrary, she even with relief began to roar and tenderly licked a face of the Fairy the big pink language. And the Fairy fed bear cubs with milk. They so funny drank it from a big bottle with a pacifier, having greedy made buldge out big, brown, still such innocent, eyes as though were afraid they will not get that. From it dense white liquid plentifully flew on their brown hair directly on a grass.

The fairy cheerfully laughed, patted them on a shaggy back and thought of how she after all loves the work. To help persons in need, to care for perfection of the world to it really very much and very much it was pleasant. However, earlier it was lonely, but now it has Prinze and two remarkable kids. It became twice pleasant to help persons in need it, when at you the world and love reigns in soul - you share them with others more willingly!

Suddenly the Fairy felt how something pricked her in heart, and right there ceased to laugh. The intuition prompted to it: some trouble befell Prinze again!

"Really he got to make some next feat again?! - nearly having screamed aloud from disappointment, the Fairy thought. - Well as Prinze will not understand that I do not need his feats! From them only concern, only tears and experiences! No, it is simply intolerable! It is necessary to find urgently it, while the getting is good!"

Without thinking twice, the Fairy brought the handle to a celestial-blue stone analyzer that is in the middle of a silver hoop on her head to start a search spell as there was unforeseen …

BREAK! Break because of the Limit! It is impossible!

The fairy distinctly heard wild whistle, reached from where from the East, from the Limit, and then - not less wild shouts, squeal, a shouting, grunting, low and other shrill inarticulate sounds.

"Only not now! - she thought. - Only not now! Years five were not any breaks, everything was quiet and peaceful, and then when I receive disturbing signals from Prinze …" - And the Fairy from disappointment pritopnut a leg.

And in a moment she felt how the Analyzer on its hoop began to vibrate:

- The keeper of the Limit No. 3, the Keeper of the Limit No. 3, the Senior Keeper Predela causes … - fancies rushed in her head. - We have an unprecedented Break in all four directions. Immediately undertake the direction 3: sector 3-07 and 3-08. There already sisters No. 1 and No. 2 work. Be immediately connected. Yes the Creator will be with you!

- Yes sir, elder sister! Immediately I start execution of a task! - the Fairy reported, it was impossible to disobey the order of the Senior Keeper.

Under the Charter any fairy had to neglect everything, even children if it was necessary for protection of the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity. It was obvious to each inhabitant Podnebesya that wellbeing of the whole world is more important, than wellbeing of a separate individual. "Together we - everything, separately - anything!", "itself perish, and - help out the world entrusted you by the Creator!", "you for Community, but not Community for you!" - the Fairy remembered common truths which inspired in them at each lesson in the first class of School. It could not go against them.

Besides, creatures because of the Limit could reach the inhabited areas, and it was absolutely inadmissible. As it is known to each fairy from a school bench, people - the main object of Guardianship of Community in Tselestiya. The person is the most favourite creation of the Creator, and fairies are created to carry out his will, in it sense of their existence. So they were taught at School, also the Fairy so trusted …

And therefore, reluctantly, it postponed the initial intention to immediately find Prinze. In a short prayer to the Creator having entrusted his destiny to the highest Trade, it departed to the specified sectors for elimination so at the wrong time of the formed Break.

When the Fairy flew up to the destination, she saw that business really hot. Continually ahead as summer lightnings were seen is dazzling bright flashes of light, the thunder of gaps and a wild shouting, grunting and squeal of the broken creatures rattled.

She did not manage to reach an arrangement of sisters as from dense young growth of a hazel grove and raspberry directly on it five zdorovushchy creatures took off. Two of them were with the heads of pigs which of mouth wolf teeth for some reason stuck out. Bodies of monsters reminded human, only behind the back of them wings were seen big webby as at bats. Other three - big gray gargoyleys, also with webby wings, sharp-clawed paws, cat's tails and spiteful mugs. They something reminded the fairy ugly faces of witches from children's books: wrinkled, with long hooked noses, sharp teeth daggers, small red eyes and sharp ears.

"From where here such creatures undertake?", - the Fairy once again marveled, - "as they breed? It is unclear …"

The nature of a zone of the Limit and the creatures inhabiting it was not known to Keepers at all, they were even forbidden to appear there. Why? Probably, only the Triune Knowledge which published once this ban knows. Only in the one and only case fairies were allowed to visit the Limit zone: if there the person or an animal incidentally got, and that only in order that quickly to rescue it and right there to leave the dangerous place. Such case also took place to be a few years ago when the Fairy for the sake of Prinze's rescue broke hidden border.

Such thoughts flashed in the head of the Fairy only couple of moments while it admitted without restraint the squealing creatures closer. At last, a sharp wave a stick at all length of a hand and … Already all five creatures from all scope hit as a swarm of furious wasps about glass, and got to the hidden magic board put by the Fairy, absolutely deafened, directly to her legs. The fairy lifted a stick up, to the sun, caught a sensitive celestial-blue magic stone a ray of sunlight. Then she said the necessary formula on Fane magic language, and already it in hands has a similarity of the long sharp blade which is burning down with a solar flame. One wave - and all five creatures lost the heads from one blow.

Black blood began to flow from the cut necks on a grass, hissing and dissolving it is similar to acid. Ugly bodies of monsters directly in the eyes began to shrink, did not turn into small fetid puddles yet, but also those soon evaporated, a black cloud having departed away. On the earth there were only black propalina. On these propalina it is necessary to impose then magic "patches" from the turf which is specially processed by pink juice - differently here nothing and will never grow, till the end of the world, probably …

But fight was still far from end. Explosions and flashes behind thickets of a hazel grove and raspberry continued. The fairy, having finished with the broken creatures, flew through thickets and it appeared on quite spacious lawn.

The creator, what here was created?! Three tens - are not less! - the most various ugly black creatures ran and flew around, trying to find a way out of the magic field put fairies invisible to an eye. From outside they reminded something the wasps who appeared in the room with the closed windows which without restraint buzzing fly in search of an exit on perimeter and vainly fight about glass.