Unconquered Sun (89 page)

And then they together came back to the Gold Hall. He held it by a hand and continually gently glanced at her stomach in which already there lived a being who will call him then the father.

- How many at us remained still to time, Poured?

- Count, it is simple, - shrugged Lily's shoulders. - Within a year I will grow old for 12 years. In a year to me will be for 30 - on the human account. Generally, in general I can stretch 5-6 years, it is no more …

- Lily, and that if you, having given birth to the kid, enter the Stream again? Think itself, you will stop process of aging and will be in safety - fairies will not be put here, and? - The prince stopped and strong squeezed Lily's hands, looking her directly in eyes. - Go to the Stream, I beg you, become …

- … Former? You wanted to tell it, darling? To become the ruthless, cruel, imperious Invincible Sun which fries and everything scorches around and everything turns into the heartless dead desert, the desert covered with GOLD dust … Whether so, darling? You want it?

- And you? What is wanted by you, Poured?

- Remember, darling, on the future - never ask the woman of what she wants, - Lily crafty smiled, having cunning looked at Prinze, - it is dangerous, may be, this desire to execute is necessary to you then …

- Not time for jokes, was Poured! It is necessary to solve something! What is wanted by you?

- I want what you can only give me if I become the Invincible Sun again, and I it do not want to be any more. I want to die the woman, the real woman and mother, but not a gold heartless monster!

- Lily, you want, I will go to Skies and I will demand that you were allowed in Community of fairies, fed you with this damned cotton wool that you became the former fairy!

- Little fool … Really you so still understood nothing? - she tenderly trifled a lobe of his ear and kissed on a cheek. - It is impossible. I so long broke the Law of Balance that
punishment
time came. The pendulum shook in my party and it me and will bury … It is too much blood, it is a lot of evil on my clever fingers! I have to bear responsibility for all this … I only want … only I want … - her thin shoulders began to tremble from sobbings, - that … this … kickback …. Not … buried …. With me … and mine … small … the kid … - More she could not speak any more.

And Prinze, having swallowed a bitter lump, chilly told:

- I will take care about is mute, Poured. I swear to you - your son will not fall into hands of fairies! - and with these words he kneelt before Lily and, having embraced her for such wide to thallium now, nestled a cheek on its pot-belly, and it seemed to it that is there, in depth, he heard one more small udarchik of a tiny cam.

1.

The meeting of the Supreme Privy Council of Community took place very violently. Even the Triune Knowledge did not decide to stop noise. It seemed, all Hall of Meetings turned into the boiling rough sea which roar nothing was capable to muffle. Fairies each other something shouted, proved something, fiercely gesticulated, and it was absolutely impossible to understand this chaos.

- More quietly, sisters, silence! Stop this market! You are fairies, but not street dealers! Stop! - her Pearl-white Fidelity cried in all power of which it was only capable, Elder Sister "REAPED".

But only after the seventh or eighth hail, noise began to abate gradually - and that only because debaters got tired.

- I understand, sisters that all of us are surprised and dumbfounded from an event, but let's discuss it quietly, in a civilized way, as well as it befits fairies!

Fairies really calmed down and going to listen, having taken seat on the places in the stands.

- So, sisters, I, on blessing of their Knowledge, - with these words Pearl-white reverentially bowed Sitting on Thrones, having in reply received the blessing reciprocal bow of all Three, - I address you from their Name and it will be three times blessed in eyelids!

- So, sisters, we witnessed awful and tremendous incident. The invincible Sun, some wonderfully having taken control of a body of one of our sisters about whose death and its allies we infinitely grieve … - here Pearl-white rolled up eyes a grief, having devoutly put hands on a breast, also all fairies sitting in the stands arrived. - And so, having artfully taken control of her body, she managed to arrange impudent escape to the
lover
… - at the word "lover" on all hall condemnation grumble, and the Fairy sitting in the first row flush with Primogenital swept, nearly failed from shame under a tribune, - … from the place of detention, and then ABSOLUTELY INEXPLICABLY to make mad break back in the, unfortunately, a citadel, still impregnable for us. At the same time she managed ALONE - yes, sisters, ALONE, - to reflect in some way, unknown for us, all cumulative power of Community of fairies - business, absolutely unprecedented from creation of the world!

And again stands were shaken by the noise which absorbed a voice acting.

- Quietly, sisters, quietly! Silence! So we in general till the night will not come to any decision, quietly! - And only when fairies calmed down again, Pearl-white continued:

- There is a question - what to do to us? The power of this monster increased up to incredible degree so we and to attack it we cannot leave from here, having left to this power to lie under a bushel, we cannot too - at any time it will strike a crushing blow on our world, our favourite world, much and which Prosperity we during the so many millennia put so many forces, the world which was entrusted our care by the Creator and the name Its will be blessed! - And again Pearl-white devoutly raised eyes to the sky and put hands in prayful gesture.

Again an indignation wave, but it is this time short. Because through noise the sharp thin voice of the fairy in golden clothes of the 2nd rank broke through:

- I, of course, do not know, sisters as this mad managed to reflect our cumulative blow, but, sisters, I know that when I sat in the Command Center and operated the avatar, striking to it aim blows …

The fairy for a moment became silent. In the Hall of Meetings on the Flying Cloud the silence set in. Only the remote chirping of birds broke perfect silence. The fairy watched somewhere afar, and as if vspominalapodrobnost of this pursuit: here the person holding a belt of the witch, and here she flying a mantikor, here - on wind her hair here flutter, here burn from excitement of her eye, her hand here upraised in the menacing gesture, here …

Yes, here - the blood streams whipping from ears and a nose and dripping directly on a golden tunic, leaving on it disgusting red spots …

- Yes, sisters, I distinctly saw then that blood went at it from ears and nostrils, sweat poured from it a hail, and its all tunic was in sweat and blood, and her face was pale as chalk and cheeks shivered …

- Yes, yes, the sister, truly, both I saw, and I, and I … - voices of other participants of fight reached from all directions.

- You see, sisters, - triumphantly looking round the audience, the fairy continued, - the Invincible Sun is not so invincible now! Yes, the witch made a fatal flaw, having exchanged for the sake of the lover the illusive invulnerability for a vulnerable body of the fairy, and to these it, sisters, signed to herself the death sentence! We had a unique chance to physically destroy it and to put an end to this prolonged war, to eliminate the last threat to a celebration of the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity in Tselestiya! - The last words the fairy already hysterical shouted, raising the clenched fist to the sky. And all hall cried out delighted - "Yes will be so!"

- More quietly, more quietly, sisters, silence! - again took the floor Pearl-white, raising a hand up. - I thank from all Community the acted sister for valuable remarks. Really, the Yellow Witch became almost defenseless. And if not possession of a bomb which can be blown up by it at any time we, the sister, could starve her out - without pink clouds it to turn into the old woman in 5-6 years and will die. - Minute pause. Death silence. - But that's put that we do not have this time to wait, it is absent! We, responsible before the Creator for this world, cannot risk existence of the world! We have to strike a preventive strike, using as the acting sister noted, her vulnerability which became obvious to all.

- But how we will get to it? How? Its magical mirrors will burn us in a flash as all our golems and avatars during the previous storm! - the voice of one of fairies from where from the top stands was distributed.

- And here, - triumphantly exclaimed Pearl-white, rubbing a hand enough from the fact that asked it that question which will allow it to tell the most important, the most interesting, the most intriguing … - you, the darling, and are not right! An exit is, and the key to it is here, in this Hall!

Stands became torn from surprise shouts, rustled as a stormy sea.

Again it was required to call many times fairies for silence and even to knock with a silver hammer on a tribune.

- And so, sisters, this key - here, and this key - ours all dear and beloved sister, the First maid of honor of their Knowledge and at the same time deceived and offended wife what all of us sisters sincerely grieve over, - the Keeper of Wreaths No. 1! I ask!

All hall was shaken with noise of an applause - and is not casual because really all loved the Beautiful Fairy - and for her sweet and mild temper, and for her responsiveness and mercy, and for her mind and gay character, and now still hearts of all fairies unanimously expressed her the female solidarity in connection with change of the husband.

And the Beautiful Fairy, all with the same pale and tear-stained face, the swelled-up centuries and lips, got up on department in the center of the arena which conceded it Pearl-white.

The beautiful Fairy got up for department and, having suddenly begun to hesitate, rushed was back, but Pearl-white right there seized her under a lokotok and having attracted to herself, in a whisper asked:

- Where you, my child?

- I cannot, your Fidelity, I cannot, believe, I …

- We agreed with you, isn't that so, and agreed more than once, remember? Life of your husband depends ONLY ON YOU and from anybody it is more! And the word of Triune Knowledge - the immutable law!

From a breast of the Fairy whether the sigh, whether groan escaped, and it, hardly crossing the shivering legs, climbed up department and, having few times coughed, said by voice, shivering and hoarse from tears:

- Yes, sisters, it is the truth. There is only one way to the Gold Hall which is not controlled by magical Mirrors, and this way - through the Ant hill!

Explosion of surprise and delight as the noisy sea swept on stands, but the Fairy raised a hand, and it right there abated - all wanted to listen to the end up to the end.

- And I know an entrance to the Ant hill because I some time was there in captivity and I can specify it to you with an extreme accuracy …

Here the storm rose such that it could not be constrained. Having used it, the Beautiful Fairy quietly descended from department, sat down at the place on the first tribune and again began to sob. But nobody condemned her, all thought that the Fairy is just infinitely offended by change of the husband and this insult burns down her such sublime, such thin and noble soul … Nobody knew about the original reasons of her grief, even Triune Knowledge.

The rough pleasure of fairies could be understood and explained much more simply. Really, their main enemy - offsprings of darkness and the evil is so much thousands of years, vile Murin - it was impregnable, and now, for the first time for so many thousands of years, there is a real opportunity to strike it a final, mortal blow, and to kill with one shot at once two hares - to finish also the Invincible Sun, and the Ant hill at the same time. And to revenge at once for everything and for all, one resolute blow, once and for all!

For the first time for so many weeks the meeting of the Supreme Privy Council of Community ended, at last, fruitfully, accepted, as always unanimously, - to begin with the resolution preparation for new storm of the Citadel of the Invincible Sun through the Ant hill and by that successfully to finish the begun
operation "PUNISHMENT"
.

2.

The plan of invasion into the Ant hill was developed by fairies long ago. In secret laboratories of "STING" for many years special means of attack were created - armor mechanical "moles", the spells intended to burn and etch Murin in narrow passes of the Ant hill.

However still fairies did not manage to find an entrance to the Ant hill in any way. All knew that it somewhere near the Rocky Mountains, but where - nobody knew precisely. The intelligence agents of "STING" who were looking for a mysterious entrance too often vanished completely so, eventually, on "top" the decision to stop searches was made.

The invented late remotely-controlled avatars allowed to continue searches, but also they could not mark presence signs Murin. Possibly, Murin gained unique ability to extinguish emissions of magic energy, and can some in any other manner deceived Analyzers. Fairies do not knew it.

At the same time, though the location of the Ant hill continued to remain the unknown, in it all the same carefully prepared for war, on a case of its detection. And therefore, when the Fairy specified exact location of an entrance to the Ant hill, it was necessary only to give the order on invasion.

The first to the specified place about ten big green dragons flied. Of course, it were not the real dragons exterminated by fairies far back in the past without the rest, and the golems made of metal, but the golems possessing all properties of dragons of the presents. They refueled dwarfs mechanics special explosive mix, in accuracy corresponding to a chemical composition of drakony fire.

Metal green creatures, remotely-controlled of the Command center, flew up to not remarkable cave specified by the Fairy in absolutely not remarkable mountain, approximately in ten miles from the Gold Hall. First of all they poured over it a liquid flame - it that even the stalactites which were hanging down from walls melted. Fire cleaned good one and a half miles of cave space.

Only after that the first paratroopers - the fighting golems this time made of a fireproof alloy, but not of granite, doing them impregnable for underground fire entered a cave.

And it was not the only innovation. For a short time, considering experience of the last fights, designers of "STING" provided also some other improvements.

In I feast turn, decided to refuse the artificial intelligence which proved to be inefficient. Now all golems coped directly from the Command Center, telepathic. What was reflected and on their appearance - now it were not stupid monsters, but anthropomorphous warriors - the exact copy of soldiers of the Invincible Sun whose remains (as well as the remains of the gold dragons changed in green) found at the bottom of the Gorge.

Growth from the tall person, completely chained in the fireproof armor given a mirror-like polish, and therefore the opponent, impregnable for luchemet, in the continuous, covering the face helmet with cuts only for eyes and a mouth. On a front plate of a smooth helmet and on a breast at them instead of an emblem of the Invincible Sun was two letters "P" (that means, "An order and Prosperity") with three crowns over them are traced.

In hands they already had not the bludgeons which showed earlier the inefficiency, and powerful flame throwers with the mix identical to a drakony flame which is contained in naspinny cylinders. Flame throwers switched also to other mode - on production of poisonous drakony gas. Fire and sulfuric gas of the fairy hoped "to clean" fairly the Ant hill that any Murina did not escape, having hammered into some cave or a crack.

These that fighting golems, having been built in several chains, dashes went in a cave, watering each suspicious crack with streams of liquid fire and poisonous gas.

And afterwards dragons unloaded party of dwarfs and boxes with details from which those, having put on big dark glasses and black leather gloves, began to bring together first "moles".

"Moles" were huge, in three human growth, armored vehicles on wheels working at "drakony fire" and equipped with also powerful flame throwers and gazometa. On a nose of each "mole" there were huge drills and two mechanical hands for punching of openings in any, even to the strongest and firm rock - similar cars dwarfs use for mining operations, only without flame throwers, of course.