Unconquered Sun (78 page)

- I … lost, the Fairy. I … lost … - Prinze deafly said, bashfully hanging the head.

- There is no, darling, you won, you won! You won … nobody against the Invincible Sun hitherto! And only
it
matters! For me and for you, you hear? Only
it
is important. And I will begin to love you for
it
even more, my kind, my beloved, my one and only … Prince.

- And if to lead me on a scaffold what then?

- Then I will ascend to it with you, and we will be together there …

- … to hold hands? - Prinze picked up.

- Yes, we then will hold together hands and we will die at once … with you … at once … - hardly constraining sobbings, the Fairy whispered and wanted to kiss once again Prinze, but she was already seized by hands by two fairies from "STING".

The prince, that is forces rushed was to it, but heard her pleading voice:

- Stand still, the road! Stand still! For the sake of me! Do not resist! For the sake of me!

And Prinze obeyed, without lowering eyes in love about the Fairy. He did not say a sound while covered with networks it, and then - as the precious trophy was dragged directly to the Hall of Meetings - on interrogation to Triune Knowledge. And the Fairy, breaking in despair of a hand, loudly began to sob, without hesitating of tears any more.

4.

And around fight continued to be humming. Streams of a fiery flame, the grenade, explosions, blows of lightnings, the falling dragons, the bursting avatars, a clang, a roar, a thunder …

Dragons almost broke through a ring of avatars. Couple of tens of the most successful No. Z-001 led by the captain rushed on break to rescue the captivated Prinze.

But far from it! The fairies who now are not burdened with need to struggle with Prinze transferred all the attention to impudent enemies. A minute more - and the cumulative blow wiped out daredevils without trace. The spell "funnel" worked ideally. Just drained in all of them in an air bag which then from big height fell directly to a gorge bottom.

Actually, on it battle also ended because, having lost both leaders, golems decided to break on base. The little managed to leave. Only every tenth of those who it is proud went to attack some half an hour ago, landed in cave hangars of the Gold Tower.

Fight in air was lost. In a huge game of chess there was a stalemate - any party could not put a mat, exactly as then, ten thousand years ago.

However Triune Knowledge the further course of events did not concern any more. In spite of the fact that the Invincible Sun and remained not vulnerable in the unapproachable citadel, It was happy - at a wasp the sting, and this is important was pulled out. And now nothing disturbed It by the right to enjoy a victory. Calculation on this oddish fairy was true, and contrary to everything it was succeeded to win completely bloodless victory over the invincible opponent.

"After all not for nothing Council called Us by Knowledge. Then it was to the taste not to all, but history, eventually, acquitted Us, - the Triune Knowledge with satisfaction thought, looking on entered in the hall, entangled by a network from legs to the head as fish, the Gold Knight.

- On knees, mortal when there is before the lightest Face them Knowledge! - sharply, but without anger and addiction the fairy escort of their "STING" said.

The prince loured at Knowledge, then at the fairy, but did not obey to the order.

- Leave it, the sister! - softly the Second told and Three. - You see - it is deranged. The evil magic of the Invincible Sun poisoned him reason, it needs treatment and re-education, but not punishment, isn't it?

- It is obvious, - the First and Third Knowledge agreed, having at the same time nodded in magnificent gold diadems.

- Means, we will keep to it life, your Knowledge? - puzzly other fairy escort asked.

- I think, he it deserved. He gave up voluntarily and the wife about it asked him from Us. We think, and she deserved our favor wholly, - the Second of Three indulgently said. - Unless you forgot, sisters that we are put by the Creator first of all to pardon, and then already to punish? Whether we swear it at dedication in a dignity? Whether in that to overcome the evil good?

Fairies of "STING" from among protection bashfully became silent, having terrified so unexpectedly emerged from where from depth of soul of bloodthirstiness.

- War, even the most fair, after all corrupts participating in it, even those who participate in it involuntarily, - the Second thoughtfully said. - And therefore our debt to stop this war once and for all somewhat quicker!

Acquiescence of the being present fairies are absolutely predictably.

5.

And at this time the Invincible Sun did not tear off a stare from the shining sphere-vizatora. She could not believe eyes when she saw how in only a few minutes all its game was lost. No, the Invincible Sun does not grudge death of hundreds of gold dragons at all - it is trifles. Will do still. Especially as and without dragons to fairies not to take it to a citadel. But Prinze …

At thought of Prinze heavy, insufferably heavy freight laid down on her heart. The fact that it seemed such desired earlier - revenge the power, greatness - seemed to it such small, such insignificant and unimportant!

Really, why this power, why greatness, why this high throne trampling on all Universe if you one if you are eternally doomed to loneliness - loneliness of the incorporeal ghost in a gold cage.

The melancholy a black snake squeezed heart of the sorcerer and from full of pain of groan plaintively zadrebezzhat gold mirrors in its Hall as if feeling pity for the creator.

- zas - with - with - with - with - you missed, the Zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zheltaya Queen, without Printss-s-s-s-sa, yes-sss?

From a ventilating outlet, that in which the Kitten a few days ago sat the disgusting rubbish - three-headed arachnoid with three couples of cold, compound eyes got out. Efficiently, as a black fat cockroach, it slipped on a wall and, without asking permission, climbed on one of chairs that stood around a malachite table, almost like the person having put two forward pads on a surface.

The invincible Sun felt ill at ease. Until recently this place was taken by Prinze whose hands connected to her invisible hands, with it were is connected voluptuous memories of minutes of the greatest pleasure, and now this fat disgusting monster sat here.

- Yes, khe-khe-khe … Unequal, ska, directly, z - z - z - replacement, - with disgust giggled, having guessed her thoughts, Azail.

- What do you want from me, Azail? - killed its Invincible Sun to avoid discussion of a subject, painful for it.

- It is time to begin, gospozh-zh-zh-zh-a as it is planned, yes-sss. Time not zh-zh-zh-zh-zhdet-s-s-s-s. Drugoy vozmozh-zh-zh-zh-nosti mozh-zh-zh-zh-zh-et and not to be - belobry - with - with - sye letun extremely of os-s-s-s-s-slableny, yes-sss, I feel it, I feel … And me my chutye-s-s-s-s never-sss, brings, yes-sss!

- No blow will exist, Azail, I will not go to it, - slowly, but resolutely said the Voice.

- Shsh-sh-sh-shto, Queen, not sly-sh-sh-sh-shu?

- What heard, Azail, - it is silent, but the Voice firmly answered. - Without Prinze no blow will exist. It's over. I will descend down, I will unsolder a cover of the container and I will plunge into the sea of solar juice. Its concentration has enough that even my incorporeal soul broke up to quarks - never the Invincible Sun will exist, any more …

- You sh-sh-sh-shto, s-s-s-s-s of mind of so-sh-sh-shla, perhaps, silly? To ruin ves-s-s-s na-sh-sh-sh of Z-z-z-z-z-zamys-s-s-s-sel because of malchish-sh-sh-shki!. - from three-headed Azail's mouths disgustingly smelling green saliva - directly scattered on ideally polished surface of a malachite table.

- Not only because of it, Azail … - sadly answered the Voice. - The magic of the Mirror of the Truth was stronger than your damned false magical mirrors which can only destroy, only deceive, only sow rage and hatred … The mirror of the Truth awakened in me what does not wish to fill up any more … I any more not that Invincible Sun that earlier. I do not want to be more beautiful and most majestic any more. I do not want to destroy any more. I want to live as there live a Fairy and Prinze! I want happiness, I want love, I want the husband, a family, small children, the son and the daughter! I do not want to be at war more, Azail! I want to tell the whole world - "A Farewell to Arms"

- Become silent - with - with - with - with-with, zamolchi-s-s-s-s-s! You anything not ponimayesh-sh-sh-sh, nichegos-s-s-s-s! - nearly Azail choked with poisonous saliva.

- Leave me, Azail, at rest, leave … I just now feel as far as I am old! Forces abandon me … Leave me … - and Azail reached hardly audible as whiff of an easy breeze, a sad sigh.

- Silly - with - with - with-with, glupaya-s-s-s-s the little girl, da-s-s-s-s-s! - without having sustained, Azail cried. - Glupysh-sh-sh-shka in love! Unless you not ponimayesh-sh-sh-sh-sh-that proroches - with - with - stva Murin cannot Osh-sh-sh-ibatsya, yes-sss! You to receive mozh-zh-zh-esh-sh-sh-sh Prinze back, mo-@-@-@-eat - as well as your body! I am klyanu-s-s-s to you, yes-sss!

Several minutes lasted intense silence. The invincible Sun was obvious is puzzled. It tried to get into Azail's consciousness, but it is vain - Murin did not give in to magic of magic mirrors. Eventually, female curiosity won:

- What do you want to tell these, unfortunate?

- Only-ssss that at me e - with - with - st the plan … Horosh-sh-sh-sh-shenky planets - with - with - with - with-with! We to them vs - with - with - with - this eshch-shch-shch-shchyo, vs - with - with - with - this, vs - with - with - with - with - this - with - with - with - with - with-with!

And Azail broke off, having concentrated on transfer of fancies to consciousness of the Invincible Sun.

1.

The prince lay on thick, filled by straw, the mattress put directly on a bare floor in the cellar of the Hall of Meetings on the Flying Island. Though its cellar it was possible to call with a certain stretch. It was the spacious, well aired and lit, clean room, with a floor and walls from blue glass. Through transparent walls the employees of the second department of "STING" specializing in treatment of special category of "mads",
i.e.
all those who oppose the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity and watched as it is obvious for any associate Prinze, can oppose them only mentally sick beings.

Hands and Prinze's legs were chained to a wall, however, rather long that it could move freely on perimeter. The door to the cellar was sealed by security spells, a key to which knew only fairies guards. Access to Prinze was very strictly forbidden even for the Fairy, his wife.

At first Prinze was even delighted to this circumstance - an opportunity to stay alone with himself, without witnesses. In recent days there were so many events that from them the head was literally turned. It was necessary somehow to try to understand them, to understand …

But already in several hours after he laid down on the mattress, something absolutely improbable began to happen to it. All body of Prinze began to break and burn down from within. He could not sleep, could not eat that it was brought by guards, could not even lie quietly. All body burned, the soul burned, even the brain, appear, was filled with a burning flame. In the head one thought pulsed: "Sun, sun!" Then thoughts developed into persuasive voices: "Come! Come to me! Join a stream! Become the sun"! or "It - Perfection, Perfect Wisdom, Perfect Beauty, Perfect Kindness, It - Perfection" - and so endlessly, to head pain. And then thoughts got a persuasive visual form of a solar disk in the form of a round face with empty eye-sockets from which sunlight streams which insufferably burned down Prinze's soul flew.

But the worst began when each section of his body ached literally, persistently demanding pleasure of the Stream, and this burning pain together with persuasive voices and visions demented him. This pain could not be compared to anything. Even starving which did not eat several days in a row experiences burning only in a stomach, and eager - in a throat, and Prinze turned inside out, burned down all - from heels to the top. His body persistently asked only one - one more touch to it the Invincible Sun …

At first he suffered, the first hour two, and then … At first moaned, lowed, and after a while he already shouted, bit till it bleeds lips and hands, was up against a blank wall and about a floor. It convulsively threw up, and then he fell and began to ride in a hysterics on a floor. On a body the hot perspiration acted, it tore hands the remains of clothes and roared as a wounded bull.

How many this torture proceeded, he did not know, but suddenly felt how someone pulled hard on it from above, and then the sharp needle pierced his vein and on a body the blissful feeling of rest spread. Then it could open eyes, at last. He saw two fairies in snow-white-white tunics with medallions on a breast in the form of an angry bee, with the same white dead-pans.

- What there is with it, a sister?

- I do not know. We did not have it yet. It is necessary to contact the fifth department, let will send experts in medicine. The case is obviously unique.

- It is necessary will hurry. If he dies, to us will strongly fly from her Fidelity, indicative trial is necessary …

- I know, the sister …

What fairies spoke further about, Prinze did not remember any more, having plunged into darkness of unconsciousness.

Prinze in some snow-white-white room without windows and without doors, something reminded him laboratory of the Gold Hall regained consciousness. It lay on a white table wheelchair on castors, in a white shirt with the long sleeves tied around his body so that it could not move hands freely. Over it - two fairies in salad and olive color tunics (the Prince did not see such flowers at fairies yet), and nearby - one in snow-white-white. At all - "REAPED" medallions and armbands.

- What you will tell, the sister? - snow-white-white asked.

- High content of a solium in blood, intoksikoz. The organism was reconstructed on consumption of a solium and demands it. Can die … - passionlessly answered salad, with concentration considering a subject which she held in hand.

- It is excluded, the sister. He should not die, at least, before process. Pull up to me trees, but he has to survive at us, clear?

- We will do everything possible, elder sister.

- And impossible too. Order of her fidelity, clear?

- Yes sir.

And then Prinze failed in darkness of oblivion again.

When he left it again, found out that he sits on some chair, chained to it by metal hoops. Heat amplified in all body, on skin goosebumps ran, there was a sweat, dried up in a mouth, hands and legs began to shake a small shiver. Again there were importunate voices and visions from which the head broke up.

Salad attentively looked at it, efficiently raised an eyelid, ran a hand over a cheek, slightly patted on it fingers, then dressed the analyzer and attentively scanned all body.

- Well? - asked its Olive.

- It is time to begin. And that it can not sustain this attack. Let's begin with an electroshock - it will burn in it some part of a solium, I hope …

- How so - "I hope", the sister? - with astonishment raised eyebrows Olive.

- And so that I for the first time in life face such form of poisoning and I will act on intuition. We all the same have no other exit. We start cleaning, we have time for talk no sister.

Olive approached, directed the analyzer to a chair in which Prinze sat, and began to beat him with current and so that from a body steam went and hair bristled. Shook it as a doll, and only hoops kept him on a chair from to falling to a floor. How many this nightmare lasted, it was impossible to define, but when, appear, that Prinze's heart will stop, Olive suddenly waved a hand and blows stopped, hoops were unclenched and it a bag failed directly on a floor.

When Prinze recovered, he lay swaddled on a white table with castors again, and again before his look there were faces of the same fairies, but only they appeared constantly doubled and troitsya and even flew over it. As if from where from far away he heard their voices:

- … So far it is impossible to beat more, and that heart will stop. Let's start the second means.

Olive knowingly nodded and entered into a vein to Prinze some substances. Some force right there struck to it in a brain, and the head strongly began to spin. It seemed to it that it does not lie on a horizontal surface, and flies somewhere to an abyss. A ceiling, faces of fairies, walls - everything floated before eyes. The prince moaned and he began strong emetic desires.

- Hey, the sister, apparently, will feel sick him now!

- Remarkably. The more will tear it, the quicker the organism will be cleared. Untie it, and it to us here all sheet will dirty that, - as usual passionlessly told Salad.

Olive quickly untied Prinze and he fell a bag to a floor. It is become painful to be turned out in hastily the basin substituted Olive. It seemed that now even the stomach and its all guts will get out of a mouth. All interiors painfully hurt, from a mouth some yellow brilliant swill with blood climbed, and then vomiting ended with a deep faint again.

- So, well there at us?

- The quantity of a solium fell to a quarter, but it seems that to tear he has already nothing.

- We start the third way, the sister …

Further Prinze stripped naked and pushed in some very hot, fragrantly smelling liquid. It was very pleasant to be in it, but long did not allow to be in a state of bliss to it. It was pulled out from there, without having allowed to be wiped. And, a little later, all skin of Prinze began to itch terribly, strong sweating and it that fairies only also managed to remove from it wet went - though squeeze out - the clothes all covered with some golden raid. The prince escaped from their hands and, shouting, broke off clothes hands, combing till it bleeds skin.

- Proklyatye! Yes it now to itself(himself) will tear vessels, you what, you do not see?! Quickly tie hands, quickly! And legs too!

- Ouch! It is kicked!

- Give, I am …

The prince fought on a floor as fish who was pulled out on the land from water and sweat and poured from it a hail. As a result, on a floor the pool of some golden liquid was formed. When the torture became intolerable, it failed in emptiness again.

But further it was even worse.

- So, sister, now laxative.

- You are sure? Look, it skin to a bone! At it there can come dehydration and he will die!

- And if we do not bring out of it this muck, he will die even earlier. Give, quickly, only open a door of the pink room, and that will not reach - the dose will be just horse.

Olive giggled was, but Salad so looked at her that that reddened and silently gave her a box with some pink muck.

- Let's untie it at first … So, so, well … Hey, you, the patient, you hear me?

Salad attentively looked at Prinze and strongly pinched him for a cheek. The prince was wrinkled.

- That is and - and - to, well, reacts, so hears … As you, "Prince" perhaps?, look, there a pink room - you will run there, understood? Understood, and?

The prince poorly nodded.

- Understands still. Eh, I feel sorry for him if we pull out it from a next world and we will give to the second department …

What will be with it in the second department, she did not finish speaking because Olive having sharply pressed on a neck, forced Prinze's mouth to open reflex and poured into it some pink wish-wash.

- Hey, hey, you are more silent, here and so on a horse will be, and you want what - as it to feed an elephant? And now - r - r - r - ra - and - and - azvyazyvayem …

Both fairies quickly untied sleeves of a shirt and helped Prinze to get up. But as soon as Prinze got up, he felt that at it something strongly began to seethe in a stomach and he at full speed ran to the pink room.

How many Prinze stayed in the pink room, he did not know, but very much, very long. Streams of golden liquid escaped at it from an organism pushes, it hardly kept on a seat, and liquid all came out and came out.

- … Hey, well you all there? Finished? Does not answer …

- Does not answer, so finished what here not clear? Give it in shower - it should be washed from legs to the head - from it stinks, probably, as from dead Murin.

- … And now give drink this here pink water, - gradually recovering, the voice Olive heard Prinze again. - You already at us know the road, clever so give …

The prince tried to turn away. Weakness was such that he could not move also a finger, and therefore when Olive took it for a jaw, he any more not in forces was it to oppose.

The fairy squeezed fingers his nose, Prinze began to choke, and therefore he against will had to open a mouth. Then she, with a victorious cry, poured to it in a mouth in a glass of some pink wish-wash. Burned all gullet of Prinze as if to it in a mouth poured in the melted metal, he felt very strong, insufferably strong thirst, as if ate too much something salty. Despite weakness, he jumped from a mobile bed and saw directly before himself the whole bucket of water, but some strange greenish shade. Without thinking twice, he hung the head in a bucket and began to drink greedy as an animal on a watering place.

- Oh, and it will not choke with a case?

- Should not. Animals so, and nothing drink.

- So that animals, and is the human man …

- All right, what you tell me here! I know these men - nothing they worse than animals! Will drink - will not choke …

And meanwhile Prinze blew nearly half-buckets, put out the head and began to hiccup loudly.

Some of fairies - the Prince did not see what - started giggling. And another told:

- Hey, Prinze, well we agreed, you know the road, huh?

Even if and not really knew Prinze Road, then now he learned it by heart. Because he had to run there every other couple of minutes. Long streams of golden liquid a pressure poured out from it as water from a shower bell. Sometimes it stood in the pink room for ten minutes in a row, and then, being unsteady, went back that, having lain down a couple of minutes, again to run to the pink room.

- … Well, the bath is ready?

- And what - from it already everything poured out?

- It seems does not run any more. Give, in a bath - it was necessary to remove very little.

- And it will sustain?

- You know, the sister if it sustained all this, will sustain and I ban and if sustains a bath, then even these izuverka from the second department to it will be at all, however, Prinze? And? What, you are silent? The fool you, we, understand, we save your ass, and you … I, by the way, know your wife from School, shared the same desk with it and in "Beehive" we had one bed and a bedside table. She slept on the top tier, and I - on lower …

- That you say to it yes, it is not imputed! You see, rolled up eyes …

- Yes I see! It is a pity for me for him if dies …