Unconquered Sun (76 page)

- Yes, your Knowledge, I will transfer to sisters your will and it will be three times blessed! What to do with object?

- Surround it with a threefold ring. It is not possible to neutralize it at present. The rest to move ahead on the scheduled course - to the Malachite room.

- Yes sir, your Knowledge! Is to move ahead on the scheduled course!

The Malachite room approached from three parties. Other columns which got into a vault from other tunnels already were here and connected to a vanguard.

The room was closed by a continuous malachite plate. The card which is built in the heads of avatars showed that exactly here pass. It was necessary only to apply the same spell of "ageing" which already showed high efficiency earlier - and the way will be open.

And nevertheless the fairies considering an ordinary stone plate through eyes of avatars felt that here it will be obligatory some dirty trick …

By order of head, the first three avatars - flying monkeys - rose to the door to start the spell loaded already into their memory. They stretched the pink paws to smoothly polished plate …

But at this moment the plate disappeared somewhere. And the first three avatars received such strong blow that they fell head over heels down. Golems and a Cyclops sharply moved back, lifting bludgeons and stone axes atilt, and the ill-matched avatars standing behind internally strained, but after all in time did not manage to react as events developed incredibly promptly.

From suddenly opened pass the blinding golden lightning took off and from its blow all golems swept from legs head over heels. Randomly flew away towards a hand, a leg, the head, a trunk. The lightning incredibly quickly moved, and it was unclear what is it. Even the moment, and from a vanguard in five hundred golems and a Cyclops will remain nothing!

Unfortunate stone fools tried to strike retaliations with stone clubs and axes, but those broke in half.

Snow-white-white stopped the picture on the vizator and only then she could consider in details the new weapon of the artful Invincible Sun.

High growth of people, from legs to the head chained in gold, it is dazzling the sparkling armor - such that from one view of them hurt the eyes. A continuous gold helmet with a purple plume on a crest completely closed the head. The face was covered tightly by a gold impenetrable mask, and from cuts for eyes of which a stream streams of the blinding sunlight flew.

Held some objects from which, as from lamps, the bunches of bright light pulsing like tongues of flame escaped in hand of people.

Was active These ardent languages of people like swords which with ease chopped granite, marble and basalt of which golems and a Cyclops as the heated knife - a piece of butter were made. Fairies did not see it yet!

When fairies recovered and began to weave the first spells which came to mind, was already late. All golems of a vanguard in five hundred soldiers were destroyed by "the gold knight" (so he was nicknamed about themselves by fairies) in a stone crumb and then it collapsed on avatars. From a touch of fiery swords to their bodies they burst as balloons from a needle touch, and vizator in the Command Center died away one by one.

- In air, sisters, in air!!! - heartrendingly cried Pearl-white.

Avatars one by one began to soar up to a cave ceiling, but also it did not rescue them. The gold knight, having risen on a rack is "quiet", upraised both hands, like the swimmer who is going to jump from a tower in water and without doing any movements by legs, straight off flew up as the rocket, and began to cut to pieces unfortunate avatars in air.

At last, fairies came round and began to strike one by one chaotic blows. Someone beat with lightnings, someone fiery explosive spheres, someone else something … The knight entirely disappeared from the sight, all being shrouded in a continuous haze from bright flashes of electric discharges, ruptures of spheres, blows of solar copies, streams of a liquid magic flame, yellow clouds of the poisoning honey gas. Thousands and thousands of magic shells hitting into an emphasis, any of which did not fly by by! From explosions and blows of lightnings in the vault shipped in a pitch gloom became lightas in the afternoon.

But nothing from this for a moment stopped the wonderful soldier. Even did not reject it from the strongest gaps aside that contradicted all laws of physics. Its solar armor did not melt from a liquid drakony flame. His lungs did not get poisoned with gas though at the slowed-down reproduction of record of vizator it was visible that he breathed. And solar a spear and electric discharges could not punch its armor.

At last, when over four hundred avatars of a head column were ruthlessly chopped, fairies, at last, joined hands, having formed a magic chain, and struck really. Having understood that usual blows of magic energy are only reflected in its different types from the Knight's armor (obviously magic origin) just as from a mirror - sunshine, they decided to take it in a different way.

The minute brainwork - and here is weaved the thinnest and strongest network out of fibers of sunshine. Ten avatars came to the Knight into the back, flew ten from above, bypassed ten from sides and ten - from the front. Everyone held in the paws on the end of a network. Even a moment - and the network is thrown. To tear beyond its powers even to a cave dev - the strongest monster Tselestiya because it is weaved out of sunshine - there is no material no power on earth more strong! The network softly entangled the Knight from legs to the head …

But far from it! Instead of getting confused in it, it just took a network and … broke off it hands as a silk rag! And after that with redoubled zeal snatched on impudent hunters, having in a flash split them into pieces.

The triune Knowledge could not believe the eyes, looking at the vizator screen. From where such power? From where such energy? From where?!

- "Well, here, so We also thought. The invincible Sun after three shahs in the way, absolutely incomprehensible for Us, managed to make castling and again left from the mat which is carefully prepared by us!"

Then She ordered Pearl-white to give the order on evacuation of the survived avatars, having left to the mercy of fate three thousand golems. These clumsy fools will not manage to be rescued all the same.

But far from it! When avatars rushed to an exit, and the masterful new hordes continuing to fill received the order to recede, there was something absolutely unimaginable. The gold Knight, having stopped occupation useless and senseless already cutting unlucky conquerors, and having provided to them quietly to run away up a ladder, again upraised hands up and promptly departed on the airwire mine penetrating all Hall. Having taken off thus on a surface, it continued to fly already by air, yet did not reach the Observation platform of the Gold Tower where there was a Transformer.

And here the fairies observing through the avatars understood the mistake! Oh, the Creator as they were silly! Fight in a vault was just distracting blow!

Legions of the avatars soaring in air at the Tower right there directed on the Gold Knight, showering with his hail of lightnings, fiery spheres, heavy stones, in parallel preparing more serious blow, but was already late. Having promptly flown up to the Observation Deck, the Gold Knight ran up to the Transformer and pressed some invisible lever at its basis.

The transformer loudly buzzed, and its huge mirror plate began to turn automatically in search of the sun. Having caught sunshine in the reflecting surface, small began to tremble from an enormous stream of the energy accepted by it. And after that something absolutely unimaginable began!

Walls of the Gold Hall, it is opaque faded before, in a flash became siyayushche gold and mirror. Through the numerous hidden openings in the Hall sunlight streams rushed; there were mirror also numerous steps of the Ladder conducting in a vault and on top of the Gold Mountain. To the sunshine which got into the Gold Hall it was worth concerning a surface of mirrors only …

As mirrors repeatedly increased power of the sunshine which got to vaults and those, being reflected from smooth surfaces, began to strike with the burning arrows uninvited strangers in the Hall. Force of these beams was such is that they easily penetrated stone bodies of golems and a Cyclops, radio bodies of avatars. And the plates of ladders heated by sunshine during only a few moments turned stone giants into small groups of the sand made white-hot.

The show was simply terrifying. Thousands and thousands of stone giants melting from the streams of a sunlight getting on them thawing and hissing as pieces of oil on the heated frying pan. Thousands and thousands which are loudly bursting as soap bubbles of avatars.

The triune Knowledge could not believe the eyes, looking at the vizator screen. In a few minutes all their army ceased to exist, just physically disappeared! There is no NOBODY left - except for those golems and a Cyclops who did not step into the Ladder and those avatars yet that did not cross the invisible line in air over the Gold Mountain where action of damned magical mirrors of Azail came to an end. And such no more than two-three thousand were gained. Other more than forty thousand - just disappeared, evaporated. Did not face such destructive power of the fairy from creation of the world!

But the most terrible was still ahead.

As soon as army of invasion it was finished, suddenly from caves in neighboring rocks that surrounded the Gold Mountain, hundreds huge, in actual size, gold dragons rose up. On a back of each of them sat on the gold golem. They made about ten flying squadrons which in the form of harmonous rectangles stiffened directly over the Tower as if expecting someone. Whom - it was possible to guess without effort.

The gold Knight, having again upraised hands to the sky, promptly separated from the Viewing Tower and departed towards to the army to head attack and to move battle to the territory of the opponent. Now the turn of the Invincible Sun came to put the shah of Triune Knowledge just rokirovanny queen.

1.

To tell that in the Command Center panic was created - means, to tell nothing at all. There the real chaos reigned. Three quarters of vizator went out and powerlessly fell to a floor. Fairies something shouted each other, waved a hand, went, ran, flew in air there and here, nothing could be sorted.

Incredible! In only a few minutes to lose many thousands army and to appear under direct threat of attack from such terrible force as absolutely invincible gold knight! Danger threatened now all population of Community! And danger - absolutely ineradicable, any ways to stop this mysterious secret weapon of the Invincible Sun, nobody, even experts of the fifth department of "STING", knew. War was lost as soon as having begun.

- Your Knowledge …

- More quietly, the sister, do not prevent Us to think. We need rest, still at least several minutes, several minutes of rest.

- Your Knowledge, we do not have these minutes! When the Gold Knight reaches dragons, all this army will depart directly here!

- Send the remained avatars, conjure something, win time - well, not to teach you to me, the sister!

- I obey, your Knowledge!

And their Knowledge really needed time more than ever. All their calculations failed. The invincible Sun was much more cunning and cleverer, than They assumed. Much more cleverly and more cunning …

And this strange Gold Knight absolutely spoiled all game! The artful chess player it is unknown from where got a figure which played by absolutely other rules, than the others, it is absolutely unpredictable …

It is necessary to learn urgently who this strange Knight where his weak place! It will be simpler to cope with gold dragons and golems though it and will cost losses. But it is ordinary figures which algorithm of action gives in to calculation, and this … Perfect "X" in this equation. And time goes for minutes …

Stop! There is a solution! Well, as We did not guess earlier! This fairy from the third sector of protection of the Limit - it lived at this witch several days, therefore, she has to know secrets it better Us!

The triune Knowledge at the same time turned all three heads towards the Fairy continuing to recline powerlessly on a chair, with a blissful smile on lips and the closed eyes. The triune Knowledge at the same time raised three right hands and made the same gesture, as then, but in the opposite direction - from below up. From lips of the Fairy the blissful sigh and she slowly broke and languidly opened eyes and not knowingly looked at Knowledge.

- Akhkhkh, my dear Prinze, I am so glad that you again with me … - whispered the Fairy, without having wakened finally from a dream yet.

But then the look of her fine celestial-blue eyes gradually became intelligent and she shuddered, having seen before herself not Prinze at all, and majestic Faces of Triune Knowledge.

- Your Knowledge … - scaredly said the Fairy and wanted to rise to salute, but from weakness swayed and failed in a chair again.

- It is not necessary, my child, it is not necessary to rise, - it is soft, almost motherly gently, but at the same time kingly the Second of Three majestically said. - We will have a talk with you and so. Look, please, here. You nothing or nobody learn here?

With these words Knowledge pointed to Vizator's surface. The fairy looked at a glass celestial-blue surface of a table and heart it was pierced by a steel cold needle.

Directly over spikes of the Gold Tower in air flew ten correct squares made of the huge gold, brightly shining at the midday sun dragons. On each of them sat on the person, completely from legs to the head chained in the sparkling gold armor.

Headed this troops, wonderfully keeping in air without any wings, people in a gold brilliant armor. In his hands - two fiery swords which "edges" pulsed as the real flame. On his head - a continuous helmet from the remains of a purple plume. And the face is tightly covered by a mask, from cuts for eyes streams of the blinding sunlight streamed.

- Yes, your Knowledge, seemingly, I recognize someone … - the silent, shivering voice the Fairy said.

- Answer, washing the daughter, answer, a name of the Creator I conjure you!

At the Fairy inside everything contracted. She could not believe the eyes!

- Your Knowledge, is my husband … The prince … - disobedient lips, almost in a whisper, the Fairy uttered indistinctly, again powerlessly falling on a chair.

- Chto-au-au-au?! We cannot believe in it! - at the same time all three Knowledge exclaimed.

- I regret, your Knowledge, but it so … Probably, he made it … What I was afraid of … It passed through the Stream Gate again … For the sake of
it
… - pronounced the last words Fairy already hardly audible whisper. And silently began to sob, having closed handles the fine white face.

- It is clear … - the Second of Three already quietly said. - Means, your husband should correct our sentence. Probably, and it should be sprayed on quarks, as well as the Invincible Sun too.

- Cht-au-au-au?! Your Knowledge, I beg! - as stung the Fairy from a chair jumped and fell on knees before three thrones. - You … You … promised … promised … to keep … life … I … will correct it … I will re-educate … it will be … another … I promise … the word of honor … Spare ego-au-au-au! - the Fairy choked, and then clasped sandals of the Second of Three and, having embraced and having nestled on it a cheek, began to water it with tears generously.

- But, darling, anyhow? - with some fastidiousness removing the thin white leg on behalf of the Fairy, the Second told. - If your husband sheds blood of AT LEAST ONE fairy - and it he, apparently, and intends to make - EVEN we will not be able to rescue him then. There are laws which above our will! Shedding of blood of at least one fairy is washed away only by full dispersion!

- I will stop it! Your Knowledge, I will personally stop it! He will not manage to spill any droplet of feiny blood! I swear to you! - and with these words Fairy as scalded flew up in air and buzzing as the angry wasp an arrow took off outside.

And the Triune Knowledge in three pairs of eyes saw off the departing Fairy and with grief thought:

"Perhaps, except this figure in our asset already nothing remained. Except one …"

2.

The prince flew up to the dragon heading an advance party. In the driver's seat on his back the quick commander of armed forces of the Invincible Sun, the captain of Z-001 sat. The captain mechanically saluted the commander-in-chief.

- Your Highness, air fleet of its Perfection to performance of a fighting task it is ready! When you order to begin?

- Immediately, captain. The purpose - directly at the rate. You see, on those clouds the blue building? It is the Command Center, a general staff of army of the opponent. It is protected by several thousands of avatars. They are not dangerous to me at all, and you should tinker. You will lead the central column, directly for me. I will punch a gap, and you will already put in it. I will treat further, and you will remain to finish protection. The left and right wings have to evade from blow and capture the opponent from flanks. To leave one squadron in a reserve - it to be useful to us for prosecution. The task is clear, the captain?

- Yes sir, your Highness.

- Well, follow me.

And with these words the Prince, gradually gathering speed, departed towards to the enemy avatars constructed in a fighting order between army of the Invincible Sun and the Flying Island. After it the air fleet of its Perfection departed.

From outside it was really tremendous show!

The clear blue sky, brightly gold sun in a zenith. And here, at the height almost seven miles above sea level in the sky the correct rectangles of the gold dragons sparkling on the sun fly. At the same time doing waves by huge gold wings, opening wide, closing gold mouths from which, as well as from openings in tail part, clubs of a black smoke and scarlet flame escaped. And ahead of them the Knight dressed in a mirror gold armor in the purple, fluttering raincoat, with two fiery swords in hands flew.

Fairies with horror and awe looked at the coming armada, and Azail put out from some hole in the Mountain all three ugly heads and in his compound nasekomy eyes something similar flashed on nostalgia:

- Prekrasssssno, prekrassssno, as horo - sh - sh - sh - about fly-ssss! It is direct as my brothers-sss on the first fight of s-s-s-s-s belobrys - with - with - with - symi, yes-sss. Now they will pay, yes-sss, z - z - z - z - for everything will pay, belobrys - with - with - with - sye liars, khe-khe-khe, - zakryakhtet a monster, rubbing forward pads enough.

Five thousand survived avatars who were reasonably left in a reserve and therefore they were the only obstacle between drakony fleet and the Flying Island and did not die together with all others. But avatars - only fiction - their consciousness operated fairies from the Command center. And they, having received the order of Triune Knowledge to detain the enemy at any cost as long as possible, also did not doze.

All five thousand fairies pilots went down from stands in the center of the Hall of Meetings. Having taken each other by hands, they formed one big magic circle and began to spin the strongest, the most trouble-free of all spells of which only they are capable, but for which there would be enough time which was just barely enough.

The principle of a spell was simple. It was necessary to condense as much as possible moisture from air on limited space and to redirect it under a big pressure directly on army of dragons, in other words, to create huge artificial "shower".

And fairies made it.

Avatars - griffins, flying monkeys, mantikor, many-domed eagles and other - having taken each other for paws, exactly as fairies in the Command Center, began to say in unclear language something drawlingly. Directly before them air, at first in the form of the small storm cloudlet shining with lightning discharges began to be condensed. Then the cloudlet became more and more, yet did not close itself all long system of avatars. Strong wind which incurred a cloud directly over a system of the flying dragons rose. The deafening roar was distributed - and from it sprinkled a set of streams of water, each of which diameter was approximately about a trunk of a centenary oak, and a pressure such what is at mountain falls. And all this huge "shower" fell directly upon harmonous and accurate squares of the flying dragons! The blow was really enormous.

Some dragons who were not lucky to get under a direct stroke of such terrible streams at once turned over in air and departed down. Many of them did not manage to leave a corkscrew and were smashed about Gorge stones. Others which after all managed to level a course got under other same streams which beat them to the earth already forever. Those golems, that appeared podogadlivy, at once led the dragons in the parties as soon as possible to leave a defeat zone, but such it appeared not so much.

Nearly two thirds of all dragons of the central column who got to epicenter of action of a killing spell were comprehended by a sad fate. And those that left "damped" from under blows of streams lost the fiery charge and were forced to turn back - for drying and refilling.

The left and right wings suffered, but is not so strong. The most part of dragons managed to jerk in the parties, and there was not enough cloud size (the spell was created hurriedly) to capture all.

The prince got on a stream too and at first even he lost balance, but having taken the maximum speed - 500 miles an hour - he left safe from under water firing.

However the effect of attack was hopelessly spoiled. Drakon of a horde lost control and an order and now were guided only by the current situation. And the situation was such is that it was necessary to finish immediately with these disgusting avatars, made it. And dragons, violating the order of the Prince, rushed directly to crowd of enemies, generously watering them with fire capable to melt even granite. Avatars burst as soap bubbles, some took to the heels, the others accepted battle. The system of both dragons, and avatars was broken, and fight broke up to a set of separate fights.

One avatars sought to entangle a dragon heavy-duty solar networks and some managed it. Couple of dragons, not in forces to tear them, departed down and broke against stones. Others conjured such strong condensation of air that dragons coordinated in it as in a bog, and then fell. The third ordered to gold to rust, and dragons directly on the fly broke up to pieces.

However and dragons did not doze. Vomiting streams of a liquid flame, one dragon burned five-six avatars for time. Of course, one managed to evade, others put protection in the form of the condensed from air or solar reflecting boards so fire flew back on the dragon and it, having melted off from own flame, fell down. And some threw in mouths to dragons of the grenade from the high-concentrated dry fire which, having got them a belly, detonated with fuel inside and broke off them on pieces. However, at the same time also avatars perished.

In general, fight went with big losses for both parties and it was clear that if the system of avatars, eventually, and is broken through, then and dragons will remain too little to take storm the Flying Island as bee honeycombs filled with fairies.

Of course, Prinze could interfere and help dragons. It could kindle in general a huge rain cloud, kill all avatars samolichno. But to it had no time for it. In his head the one and only thought pulsed - to reach by all means the Command Center and to KILL Triune Knowledge. This thought entirely seized Prinze and he saw nothing any more and did not hear around.