Unconquered Sun (63 page)

- Yes stop you, a monster! Spare at least this child!!!

The prince raised a hand to strike blow … But here in his consciousness there was an acquaintance Golos:

- Darling, you too long go! I look forward to you! Immediately come back! I order you - IMMEDIATELY, NOW, you hear me?

The prince hesitated for a time a moment, and then switched off both swords and quickly walked to an exit from a cave.

On the platform it was already waited by the got dragons. It quickly scrambled on a back of a leader, and that promptly flew up, and behind it afterwards - and all others.

In their any couple of minutes was not any more. The island was empty, quiet and … is dead. Only from where from depth of caves the shrill roar of the only survived cub was distributed …

6.

The fairy regained consciousness in the Pool of Greuze drowned in tears. The golem accurately removed from her neck protecting "collar" and it, continuing to sob, left the pool. Quickly put on and returned on the same place, on the platform over an abyss where her last conversation with Azail took place. Once she leaned the elbows on gold bedrails, she heard a voice:

- Well as-sss, ubedilas - with - with - with - s? The prince is-ssss absent bolsh-sh-sh-sh-she, he is preobrazh-@-@-@-wives, yes-ssss. This other s-s-s-s-sushch-shch-shch-shchestvo, other ras-s-s-s-sa. Other morals, yes-ssss, vs - with - with - se another-sss …

But the Fairy answered nothing to it, continuing to sob silently - and her thin coat hanger shivered, as with a fever attack. It smeared tears on cheeks, wiped their tips a hair, but it could not stop this crying.

And Azail sat on a steep wall under bedrails for a long time as the spider or a cockroach, and could not have a look nasekomy eyes glued on her tear-stained face. He could not understand why, but it was inexpressibly pleasant to it to look at it. In her behavior there was something like that that it was deprived many millennia, and he did not want to leave … And it also did not leave. He sat and looked, looked and enjoyed. He wanted only that he felt this pleasure eternally.

1.

Two next days the Fairy lived in the Gold Tower quite quietly and with really royal comfort. It seemed, she just stayed with good people, and all. As if there was no disappearance of Prinze, any dangerous way at the other end of the world, deadly threat at all... As if nothing happened.

The fairy for hours quietly walked on beautiful mirror halls of the Gold Tower, on gardens with gold trees and parrots. By the way, she after all still few times visited Greuze's Pool and looked at the favourite orange spheres there. There were left without its attention neither gyms, nor library, nor, of course, beauty shop.

Really, and what still was to do to it? She almost did not see the Prince! It constantly had some affairs - as if it at its Perfection became something like the prime minister - constantly conferred with her, carried out some instructions and was always occupied. Only came for the night. And that is only to wish to the Fairy good night, to burn with the heated lips her forehead and to leave back - again on the affairs...

The fairy worried and was jealous, but could not do anything yet - the Invincible Sun talked to her daily, but as with the guest, without devoting it in the plans at all. The fairy was nervous, and the Kitten and the Puppy indifferently zateivat game in a lapta or in a hide-and-seek as though were at home. Disturbed nothing them, except the warm sun, a fresh breeze and a tasty lunch (and lunches were really extremely tasty here!).

And once indifferently the Kitten and the Puppy decided to play a hide-and-seek. As the Kitten constantly lost, he this time decided to hide so that the Puppy precisely it did not find it!

The kitten long chose the place and, at last, decided to hide in one very narrow and imperceptible hole directly under the rock at the end of the Gold garden. Without thinking twice, the Kitten dived there and began to wait.

The puppy everything was not and was not.

"Probably, he lost my track", - the Kitten thought. But once he calmed down, on the horizon the Puppy appeared - that dexterously followed in the tracks of the Kitten, catching his smell the big black wet nose!

"Ah, you are a rascal! - the Kitten thought, angrily squeezing gray cams. - Here is how you found me before! It is dishonest!"

For offense the Kitten wanted to win by all means against the Puppy, despite all his dog scent. And the Kitten got into a hole more deeply and more deeply if only to leave the Puppy literally "with a nose".

However to surprise of the Kitten the manhole was a cave and quite cool and fresh in which it was quite possible to rise in all growth.

"Probably, it is used for ventilation", - the Kitten guessed, and, having got up on back pads, went further. He already forgot about the initial purpose of the travel - to escape from the Puppy - it became just interesting to it - where conducts this manhole and where it will end? On this question Kitten long did not receive the answer - there was it hour, or perhaps and more.

The tunnel became gradually wider and in it it became hotter.

"Probably, it conducts in some underground smithies", - the Kitten thought, - and it appeared the rights - soon he heard the remote roar of hammers, a gnash of metal and other industrial sounds.

But here, eventually, the tunnel began to be narrowed and branch in the parties again. The kitten had to get up on all fours again (To animals not to get used - they and on four pads move also surely, as well as on two). He chose that from a set of forks that conducted down, in the heat, in the roar.

At last, the manhole ended with a ventilating grate. The kitten looked through its steel rods and saw the room. Quite strange and beautiful room. It was made entirely of some green beautiful stone with black streaks, the long polished table and on it - the big polished sphere was made of the same stone.

For some reason the Kitten so liked this room that he wanted to investigate it, so to speak, on the place, and therefore he wanted to pick up claws the lock on a lattice and to open it, but here heard a small noise of the opened door, someone entered.

The kitten did not need a lot of time to identify in this person of Prinze - such magnificent gold attire here was not at anybody.

The prince suited a table and sat down in a chair. And after a while the Kitten saw the solar ghost reflected from the polished surface of a stone table - he sat on a chair, near Prinze.

- I welcome you, my dear divine solntseooky spouse! - distinctly the Kitten heard a voice of the Invincible Sun and was surprised at the same time his intonations - the Voice told this greeting with aspiration, with feeling, with some strange, purely female, tenderness which the Kitten from this being never heard before.

- I welcome you, my Perfection, - with similar tenderness Prinze answered it.

- Whether everything is ready below?

- Almost. The volume of solar juice almost reached the necessary level - there were only several hours, and after that it will be possible to solder a vessel.

- Oh, not so soon, not so soon... - interrupted its Voice. - Before beginning war, it is necessary to make one more very important issue...

The prince interrogatively looked at it.

- You see right after striking a blow and Great Clarification we with you have to be to the updated Tselestiya's races in the form of Divine Chety Bogov-Solnts, understand? But we still did not contract the real Divine marriage with you … - the Voice is hardly heard trembled. - And it prevents Me to start implementation of the plan.

- But we so husband and wife! I merged with the Stream and we are with you... here … time is so much … were … together … - choking with the excitement which gushed over it, Prinze spoke.

- Yes, spiritually - we a single whole - it is right. And my spiritual power was combined with yours, - the Voice agreed. - But marriage is not only spiritual unity, but also corporal, and I have no body yet... - The voice trembled again.

- But you will have it after Annihilation, you spoke to me!

- Yes, damnation! - suddenly in a flash the Voice changed to unrecognizability. - Will be!!! But it will be spiritual, and only! And I want to have a body, as at you, notable, sensual, mobile. I do not want to be spirit! I want to have a body to be with you a single whole as the real husband and the wife! You understand?

- I understand … - Prinze slowly spoke, having nodded. - Means, my body will endure Great Clarification?

- Well, of course! It is already cleared, it is perfect! Any solar bomb to it not threat.

- And what you offer, my Perfection?

There came some pause. It seemed, the Invincible Sun collects the thoughts to express something unusually important for it, intimate for what she lacks words.

- Even before Great Clarification, - some detached, otherworldly She said in a low voice, - I have to receive a body to contract the real divine corporal marriage with you and to give birth to the son, Lucifer that on Fane language means "the Bearing Light". It was so predicted in prophecies Murin...

- Murin?! - with astonishment Prinze asked. - These vile cockroaches!?

- Cockroaches?! Ha! - the Voice was indignant. - Yes Murin it is more reasonable than all fairies of Skies combined! It is the main, most creative, most gifted part of the population of Tselestiya! If you want to know - they transferred to me secrets of black magic thanks to which I could construct the Stream Gate through which I passed itself and spent you. They once were masters of Skies and looked differently. However silly fairies envied their power, gradually vyznat at them magic secrets, and then deception took control of sources of magic force and began to be at war against them. Then this proud race was forced to descend in chasms to escape and to rescue the intimate knowledge. As is them there was nothing, they began to devour with raw materials a game, to eat blood. From such food and eternal darkness they mutated and became such with what you see them now, but kept and even increased the knowledge. Also did not forget about revenge. . - on some time the pause stepped, appear, the Invincible Sun thought of something, something remembers.

- Madmen! - haughtily she grinned. - They expected to use Me for revenge, but I outwitted them and became much stronger than them and turned them into obedient guards of my external borders what they, of course, it is not excited about, but nothing can be made - where by it to me, the Yellow Queen! - and she unpleasantly burst out laughing. The kitten felt ill at ease from this laughter - in it there was such fantastic pride, complacency, arrogance and cruelty that from all this "rattling mix" it nearly threw up.

- And what prophecies say? - with undisguised impatience Prinze reminded.

- That the Yellow Queen who came from the West will give rise Bearing Light which will bring light to this world. It will unveil darkness with Murin in which they are wrapped up … hitherto - the Voice again for some time ceased. Probably, the Invincible Sun imagined that moment when the prophecy comes true and dared some time to enjoy pleasant vision. - I understood at once that I this prophecy on Me and began to wait for the spouse. I managed to glance by means of magic in the future and to see your person who I traced then on a statue and placed in Vlyublennykh Avenue, remember it? - The prince in the affirmative nodded. - And then began to develop more perfect model of the Gate that at merge to the Stream the body did not burn down, and changed. After three thousand years of researches, I managed to make it. And now, after you, I can find a body too - a perfect body for a perfect matrimony and the birth of the Successor of my power and perfection!

- But where you will take this body? - puzzly Prinze asked.

- And unless you did not guess still?

- Fairy?! - in horror Prinze exclaimed and jumped from the chair.

- Well and, of course, - the Invincible Sun unperturbably answered. - And why, your way, I brought her here? You see how all well turns out! I will find a body, and you - the beloved wife, in new, much more the best quality! Isn't that so, it is thought well up? - the ringing of metal hand bells was distributed.

The prince for a moment became silent and bent the head.

- But, expensive why not to take you a body of any other fairy?! - suddenly Prinze started talking to some unusual persistence and haste, having jumped from a chair. - I will get for you the fairy from patrol of "STING" which constantly spy on us, or mermaids … Yes though most Sea Queen Laura, I swear!

The intense silence hung in mid-air. Without having waited for the answer, Prinze sat down on the place again. Only after a long pause slowly and rigidly, accurately being at loss for words, the Voice answered it:

-
That's it therefore
I also want to take
her
body! I could find a body and without you thousands years ago, but then it was not necessary for me - You with Me were not yet. And now … when You appeared … and
it
… - again a pause.

- You remember, you wanted to prove Me the love? You remember? - The prince silently nodded. -
This
- the Voice triumphantly exclaimed - and will be your
best
proof of your love to Me! To destroy a cave dev, a sea dragon, to stop sea waves one gesture of a hand, to bring to my legs the captured sea queen - yes even Triune Knowledge! - it only evidence of your external transformation. I want to receive the certificate that you changed inside, became part Me, became a single whole with Me! For this reason YOU will sacrifice it to me, itself will chain its handles in a chain at the Transformer, ITSELF, understand? And then, then You will be completely mine, and I - yours, and We together, hand in hand, will go forward, towards to eternal bright future - couple of perfect solar deities, ancestors of the new world, the Country of the Sun …

- And what will be with her soul? - without listening to it, with concern Prinze asked.

- Do not worry! I will move it in special storage for the time being and as hour of Great Clarification will come it is annihilated and all will become the same lightful spirit in a spiritual body, as well as other. Sexless, quiet, passionless and - perfect. Only we will be corporal together (gods have to differ from the slaves in something!). And, of course, our lightful successors and successors whom will be very much there is a lot of! Lucifer will be only the first, isn't it? - the Invincible Sun pronounced the last words with some voluptuous aspiration.

And Prinze hung the head, the truth only for several moments then again to lift it and, having looked towards the solar ghost, to say:

- Yes will three times your wise words, my Perfection are blessed!

- Well and it is remarkable! - with joyful the simplification was said by the Voice. - Then tomorrow at dawn there will be a Transformation, and Tselestiya's inhabitants will not see the following dawn any more because We with You, my divine solntseoky Spouse will be their new Sun...

The kitten did not remember how he reached a bedroom of the Fairy. But very well the Puppy remembered it. Discouraged by the fact that for the first time in life did not find the Kitten in a shelter, he got behind him deep into caves, catching the Kitten smell the big wet black nose. The puppy already did a kind third of a way as suddenly from the opposite end of a cave on it some black reared sphere took off and brought down it from legs. The puppy fell, hit the plush head against a stone and screamed, and "sphere", having stumbled about it, itself was tumbled down backwards.