Unconquered Sun (60 page)

- Shockingly! - Prinze exclaimed. - So let's blow up somewhat quicker our solar bomb and we will present to this world infinite happiness! Let people annihilate and will become eternally gold and eternally blissful!

- Yet not time … not time, my solntseoky spouse … Yet not time …

Its Perfection became for Prinze everything, but whether Prinze for It became that? The prince wanted to believe that it so. But he could not read her mind. Thoughts of dwarfs, thoughts of animals, even he read mechanical teams in the heads of golems freely. There was enough one look to understand who what thinks. And it could not get into thoughts of the Invincible Sun, is equal as in its intimate plans.

3.

Once Prinze felt an appeal of the Invincible Sun to come to their favourite Malachite Room. Through Mask cuts he distinctly saw how the Invincible Sun peers at the hologram on a surface of the Malachite table projected by the malachite sphere burning from within with bright green fire.

- Darling, I to you have an important issue, - She told, without looking at Prinze.

- Yes, my Perfection?

- Came it is time to test himself in the real fight, you do not find? To test all your fighting opportunities! - and She stridently looked directly at it - the streams of solar fire escaping from her empty eye-sockets would burn his brain in one moment, be not it Changed, be not on Mask his face.

- What? We begin war against fairies for release of the human race?

Stridently the metal hand bell in his head rang out.

- Not-e-e-et, still early, but fight all the same will be serious. To you not ogr with a cave dev to drive it. Go here!

The prince approached closely a table. On specularly polished surface of a table the map of the Oversea country was displayed still unfamiliar to it. In the center the Gold Tower was visible size about a little finger. Around - the Rocky Mountains, and an external yellow circle around mountains - the Desert of Desires.

- Look, darling, we here, in the center, and v-au-au-au-ot here - she pointed by a thin finger to the southeast coast of the Oversea country where, it is quite far from the continent, the group of five big islands - Islands of a Cyclops was located.

- Islands of a Cyclops? Interestingly, and what they made to my Perfection, they is quite far from us.

- They refused to render me tribute and fried to themselves for lunch of my ambassadors-dwarfs. A tribute, by the way, for us with you essentially important - gold. These islands are exclusively rich with it. In particular, by my calculations, nearly a quarter of world reserves of gold is stored in mountains of Islands of a Cyclops. Dwarfs try to adjust trade with a Cyclops long ago to have to them access, but usually it comes to an end with the fact that they become first course on their meal, - and the Invincible Sun burst out laughing again.

- I will make everything as you order, my Perfection, but as to me to arrive if fairies interfere - they constantly watch us!

- They will not interfere. A Cyclops rejected the convention on decrease in the use of meat and, in addition, reasonably suspects them of a cannibalism so fairies will only tell us thanks if we bring order there where they cannot stick the long nose. Another matter - Sea Confederation …

- And what is with it?

- A Cyclops is favourite toys of mermaids. They in every possible way sponsor them and periodically feed up hated to them categories of the small fry - any fishermen, kitoboyam, hunters of oysters and pearls. And therefore they will not allow anybody's intervention in affairs of Islands. If it was not so, fairies would revenge a Cyclops long ago for their malicious myasoyadeniye and a cannibalism, but as it is the territory of Sea Confederation, then even "STING" has there no right to be put without threat to provoke big war. Therefore I also say to you that operation will be rather serious that you could prove to be in all beauty. If the Sea Queen Laura with all the webby zelenovolosy troops interferes …

- Be sure, my Perfection, I will deal shortly with all your enemies whoever they were! - passionlessly and firmly Prinze told, rejoicing that at last can prove business the fiery love to its Perfection.

- Remarkably! And I will watch fight from here, but I will not prompt - do not hope! I want that it was only your fight, your victory, your triumph! You understood me? - and again singed Prinze's soul eyes searchlights. The wave of burning pleasure pierced all body of Prinze. He did not keep and … took her by hand. Fiery pleasure nearly forced it to sit down on a chair as legs weakened at once, but the Invincible Sun was discharged.

- Now not time … To you to fly - at half of the night … - It languidly whispered. - You have to be on the place by the dawn - mermaids leave on a bottom to sleep at this time, a Cyclops eats much for the night and night sleeps deeply so your blow will be sudden. Also remember! - you destroy only the first two islands - do not touch the others! I think, after death of the first two, they will become more compliant.

The prince a measured printing step went to Angara. At its emergence the gold wall silently drove off aside, and the fighting golems standing already dense system at the same time as a sign of a greeting upraised the right hands. Z-001, in a helmet with a scarlet plume, wrapped up in a scarlet raincoat failed. Loudly printing a step, approached Prinze and saluted:

- Your Highness, a squadron "And" to a departure it is ready. "Dragons" are filled, "bugs" are loaded into belly compartments and also filled, the landing waits for team.

- I thank you, the captain. And now I order all to take positions. Readiness No. 1.

- Is, readiness No. 1!

The captain of Z-001 saluted and gave the order to take places.

Soldiers run rushed to "dragons". One rose by "backs" on ladders, others took places in their gold "belly".

Did not manage to count Prinze and to ten as all soldiers were on the places. Bellies of fifty "dragons" of a squadron "And" and from nostrils hooted and back part of gold mechanical monsters clubs of caustic fire and a smoke escaped.

The prince with the captain of Z-001 took places on flagman, largest "dragon" to head expedition. When Prinze sat down on a back chair in deepening in a back of "dragon", Z-001 already pulled on itself the starting lever. Having let out a cloud of a black fetid smoke, the dragon began to fly up slowly vertically up, yet did not reach a ceiling. The ceiling hatch silently opened, and the dragon flew in horizontal mine and, having switched to the tail engine, promptly as the arrow which is let out from onions, departed forward. Behind it other dragons of a squadron already flew. Having left the mountain, in open air space they were on the run reconstructed in a fighting order in the form of a huge isosceles triangle. The leader headed at first for the South, and then - for the southeast.

This night was moonless and starless - simply created for a night sortie. Clouds closed almost all firmament, in addition fog dimmed a white haze the earth and mountains. But golems in flight were guided only by the sensors. The radio waves sent by them were reflected from firm surfaces, and therefore they unmistakably defined a way.

Fires on dragons were extinguished, only from a tail nozzle clubs of a flame sometimes escaped, but they could be noticed only from quite short distance. They flew silently, gradually swinging the big gold webby wings.

Of course, from Prinze could not take cover that fairies of "STING" already on a tail. He saw it the mind's eye. He could even tell how many them what distance to them, with what speed they fly, on what animals and even that at them lies in saddle handbags. But all this concerned him a little. Let will only try to attack! It will show them all it is capable of! But no attack existed, and Prinze stopped thinking about it.

It is a pity that it did not turn out to remain alone with its Perfection this night! It is, of course, big loss in itself. For the first time during all the time after Transformation, they not together. To the prince it became somehow sad and uncomfortable at heart.

"Well nothing, - consoled itself in Prinze, - but I will prove to her as I love it. All her enemies will be destroyed ruthlessly!" And Prinze completely plunged into pleasant memories of its Perfection and of what he will make with all her enemies when they fall into his hands.

4.

On the most northern of Islands of a Cyclops there was a holiday this night. They had a dinner with meat today, and not just meat, and meat delicious - human.

Mermaids managed to conjure a big storm, and the whole ship hated to mermaids kitoboyev today - whales were one of the most favourite animals of the Sea People - broke at their coast. It happened infrequently now - fairies usually sharp-sightedly watch this area, without allowing to it people.

Fairies, of course, and were delighted not with destruction of whales, but, as well as in a case with forest hunting, they allowed people to kill whales and to catch fish and oysters on quotas. No more than 10 000 oysters, 5000 large fishes a month, no more than one whale in half a year - on 10 000 people. And the ships of fishermen and kitoboyev always accompanied patrols of "STING". But this time they did not follow. Big war with the Solar Witch was about to happen and all forces of fairies are drawn up there so delicious meat came the way also of a Cyclops.

On the island huge fires were arranged, on huge a spit unfortunate kitobo (or as they with hatred were called by mermaids - "kitoubiyets") are strung, and the fragrant smell of fried meat stimulated violent appetite at the exulting Cyclops. All gathered. Not only hairy and shaggy giants, but also their less large girlfriends, cubs, little to their measures (each of which was a cut above the adult). From cubs very few people else tried human fleshes - they have to get especially large share!

And then the neighboring jungle and mountains were announced by knock of the bass wooden drums fitted by human skin and flutes from human tibial bones - the holiday began!

One by one from fires spits with fried "cheloveka" were removed. An adult Cyclops of their fir-tree from spits directly with bones which so appetizingly crackled in a mouth! For cubs mothers had to shoot flourishes from spits hands and to break off on part that nobody choked. Children with such appetite crackled that old men be touched to got down - they still remembered stories that once tasty human flesh was as available as mutton, and now was necessary to rejoice if at least once in century it is possible to regale on it.

Cyclops washed down with the trophy wine got from holds of the ships human flesh. Wine got too seldom so a Cyclops quickly got drunk and under a roar of drums and squeal of flutes broke into a dance around fires. They seized each other by shoulders and such snake became, loudly laughing, to jump around fires, highly lifting up the big hairy legs in a step.

When the horizon began to brighten, the holiday came to an end. A Cyclops carefully trampled the smoldering coals and embracing wives went on the caves. The security guards who remained ashore with envy looked with it following - to them well, they now after such yum-yum and wine will sleep properly, and we here, under this disgusting sun, will sit before changing of the guard!

However, long it was not necessary to be indignant guard. Their heads became heavy from eaten and drunk so one by one they were tumbled down on the earth and strong fell asleep.

And therefore did not see how on the horizon where the sky was covered with a pink haze, some moving points appeared. One, the second, third … Also increased in sizes. They flew as pack of black birds, in an equal order, the correct isosceles triangle.

When they reached the island, the triangle was divided into two parts, and each of them - into three. One group departed further, and the second began to decrease promptly waves. At first one "wave", after it another, and then the third went for calling.

One of a Cyclops, having moved in a dream, ran a cheek on a stone and woke up. It opened the only eye on a forehead and … his huge thick-lipped sharp-toothed mouth revealed, not in forces to publish a sound. Directly on it, promptly decreasing, five most real dragons sparkling at beams of a rising sun - with protruding green eyes, oshcherenny toothy mouths from which puffs escape flew, waving the huge wings, only for some reason these dragons were not black or green, as usual, and gold.

But to ask a question why it so, the Cyclops could not any more as all five dragons at the same time let out on a long stream of a fetid flame and all ten Cyclops of protection in a flash turned into the golovn flaring from legs to the head, and then the Cyclops wildly cried from terrible pain …

5.

- Your Highness, we fly up. To the purpose - one and a half miles, - the passionless mechanical voice reached in Prinze's head.

It brought Prinze out of a pensive state. He looked down and saw that fog already almost dissipated, engaged dawn, below the galaxy from five islands distinctly looks through. Silhouettes of three distant islands were lost in a foggy haze on the horizon. The first two could be considered distinctly. It were quite big pieces of sushi, everyone miles on fifty in the diameter. In the center of each of them the mountains which grew with the jungle were seen, is closer to the coast, in the lowland - a continuous carpet of dense tropical vegetation.

The thermal sensors which are built in the Mask indicated the security guards disappearing in thickets.

- The captain, you see the purpose?