Unconquered Sun (77 page)

Like the arrow which is let out from onions it knew only one, accurately certain, the purpose, at all desire not in forces to curtail from the scheduled course. To KILL KNOWLEDGE, to KILL KNOWLEDGE, to KILL KNOWLEDGE - ALL THREE, AT ONCE! - this thought as blood in veins pulsed in his head. Dragons will die - not important, all will die - we will make still! All the same they are necessary only to distract fairies from protection of Knowledge. And only. And its task - to KILL, KILL, KILL KNOWLEDGE!

One by one arose blood-thirsty pictures in his head. Here it flies up to its triune throne, with one blow swords cuts the heads of two extreme Knowledge, from the necks chopped in half blood splashes fountains, and their bodies shapeless bags fall on a floor. Then he pierces with swords a breast most important - the Second - and sees how he from her opened mouth streams whips blood, there are lifeless and glass her eyes, her fine body powerlessly falls on a floor and with the last exhalation her soul takes off hated to their Perfection, and, so and to him …

Having easily cut through itself a way through a system of avatars, it already freely directed directly to the Command Center. Even without dragons of one of its forces it is enough once and for all to strike a crushing blow on power of fairies, it was not the person any more, and the first representative of new reasonable race of Tselestiya, homo solis, race of gods and heroes. As a lightning, as a ray of sunlight, it headlong flew directly to the Flying Island and nothing could stop it.

Fairies hastily switched the survived avatars to the autonomous mode of fight and left the Hall of Meetings as a swarm of bees leaves the attacked beehive. On the square in front of the Hall they formed a new magic circle led by the most Triune Knowledge - a uterus of this huge beehive to strike the last blow to the powerful enemy - such what in due time they put on a magic mirror - simple cumulative magic power on bigger there was neither left time, nor forces any more.

Of course, they understood that emission of energy will be such strong that it will cause the strongest explosion and, most likely, all fairies who took part in battle will be killed, but to stop this monster of other opportunity, as well as time, was not any more. And fairies also courageously and fearlessly, as well as ten thousand years ago, were ready to go to it! At any cost to stop this monster!

Faces of fairies accepted serious and passionless expression, their eyes were closed. They completely retired into oneself, collecting all the force and invisibly giving it each other on a chain, and Triune Knowledge, same serious, concentrated, having also closed eyes, concentrated collected energy in the hands. And a mind's eye she saw how all He who dared to throw down a challenge to Them comes nearer closer and closer - the put Creator Hranitelnitsami of the Sacred Principles of the Order and all Tselestiya's Prosperity.

And Prinze's eyes meanwhile saw only one - the CENTER of a circle, the Triune Knowledge standing with the upraised hands. A mind's eye he also saw how in their hands power unprecedented hitherto concentrates, equivalent relics of a bomb of the Invincible Sun - through Mask openings he distinctly distinguished the pulsing streams of the blinding light which were transferred to Them from other links of a magic chain.

"Mad, - he thought. - "This force will be enough that at explosion broke off all of them on pieces!"

Calculations of possible consequences of their blow were made for only a few shares of a moment in Prinze's consciousness by itself.

Explosion, with a high probability, will be such that even the solar bomb in a vault of the Gold Hall detonates. The gold Hall and the Rocky Mountains will break up to quarks, all Oversea country will leave under water, such tsunami will rise that it will flood all islands exhausting with Tetis and will wash away all coastal cities of continents, and the others will fail from a terrible earthquake. Temperature of the atmosphere will sharply increase, glaciers of the southern and northern poles and all continents, except their central parts will thaw, will leave under water, there will be on a surface only a few archipelagoes of large and small islands. Tselestiya will become uninhabited, the family of hated fairies will physically stop the existence …

At this thought Prinze smiled enough though nobody saw his smile hidden by a gold mask. The objectives of its Perfection will be achieved, though not in that volume as it was planned because annihilate only those souls that live here, in the Oversea country and on Hartlend's the Coast, the others will just die because not to come to them a solar wave.

"Well, such is their destiny, - Prinze indifferently thought. - But I will achieve the objectives anyway - or I will kill this damned three-headed usurper, or their blow initiates explosion of a solar bomb".

And then Prinze laughed …

When it was necessary to reach an estimated point of blow all some couple of tens of steps, across to Prinze suddenly took off, loudly buzzing wings as an angry wasp, the fairy in vestments, strange for associates, - a golden short tunic with the image of a zhenoobrazny solar disk on a breast, prepoyasanny a belt, decorated with gold plates, with the same zhenoobrazny solar disk on a gold metal plate. She followed directly Prinze's ways to the purpose, having stretched to him white, thin, such defenseless and gentle female handles.

- Stand, Prinze! Stop immediately! Really you will raise a hand against the beloved spouse and mother of your children?

The prince before flying with a speed of the shell which is let out from the catapult instantly stopped literally in a step from the fairy, ignoring all physical laws of inertia that in itself was improbable.

- Depart after the journey, the Fairy. Otherwise I will be forced to take you for the enemy and to treat you under war laws, - by a quiet and passionless voice Prinze said.

- Really you will kill me? Me, your beloved wife? Answer immediately! - and, without waiting for the answer, the Fairy jerked hands silk fabric of a tunic, opening a breast for blow, and cried out. - On, beat if you want, I do not oppose to you! If sun gold absolutely kindled your reason and your heart, make it! I will better die, than I will see how my Prinze, more precisely, the one who was once my Prinze will cut to pieces on pieces of my sisters with which I together grew up and whom I love as the family who put all the life on Service Sveta and Dobra!

- To light and good, you speak? - the Gold Knight grinned. - To deprive millions of people of freedom, to control each their step is, your way, light and good? To lull them for the millennia, to erase memory is light and good too? If this good and light, then nothing from this is necessary for me! - and with these words the Prince gave a hand to push away the Fairy aside and to depart further.

But during this instant the Fairy snatched out a small pocket mirror from a breast pocket of a tunic and sent its reflecting surface directly to eyes to Prinze …

3.

Small, round as a saucer a green lawn at an accurate pink lodge. Slightly in the distance the pine coppice begins. And is still slightly farther - the small river with the coast overgrown with willows and a cane, and on the opposite coast at the small river - a water-mill. The morning, yet not hot sun bright yellow beams warms the earth and water. The lawn is covered in the various flowers that gave it similarity to a motley live carpet. The pink clover, white daisies, blue cornflowers and is a lot of other flowers which names and not to remember. On them, efficiently buzzing, the anxious fat bumblebees and thin tiny wasps and bees yes the multi-colored butterflies who are softly rustling with wings fly.

Somewhere splash of water and joyful laughter is in the distance heard - it mermaids made game again - to ride blades of a water ladder their most favourite entertainment. Easy, as in the morning fresh breeze softly kolysht branches of willows and a head of a cane - it seems that these plants about something are whispered with each other, telling the interlocutors some secrets inaccessible to human mind.

Meanwhile the young man in waterproof clothes and footwear of khaki came out of the wood. His short fair hair is a little confused - it was obviously torn through a thicket. On a sleeve and legs the rep which stuck to clothes are visible. It from legs to the head is covered with dirt and then. Apparently, a way it did considerable. But his face at the same time shone with happiness.

Near the young man there is on hinder legs a plush dog to a floor of human growth. Brown, with large trailing ears, eyes buttons and a big good-natured mouth. The pink rag uvula fell out of a mouth - the dog was obviously tired of walk! It bears some parcel in the brown plush paws.

Having caught sight of the young man, having published wild joyful squeal from where from other end of a meadow to it two children - five and three years, the boy and the girl run. The boy is dressed in a white shirt with short sleeves and white shorts, standing - sandals. The girl - in a white sundress. On children's heads - straw hats with narrow fields. They run, and in hands at them - the flower wreaths weaved by them. And behind them the oslenok, the covered velvety skin from black plush slowly runs. It has on the head a flower wreath, on a nose too - the round old-womanish points which were not hiding good-natured mild brown eyes at all. It goes on all four pads and something shouts after children, something mild and tender. But children do not hear it and continue to ride at full speed. What here! Their darling the folder came from the wood!

Children with running start threw the arms round a neck to the father and he seized them and strong pressed to himself. And then children began to tell it something, briskly gesticulating, and he listened to them and laughed. And then the girl dressed to it on the head a flower wreath, and he took it for handles, playfully scrolled around itself(himself), embraced and kissed on pink chubby cheeks.

Probably, attracted with noise on a lawn, the house left the hostess and mother of kids - the beautiful and slender young woman in a simple print summer dress in a floret. Her long fair hair which is slightly curling on the ends freely fell on shoulders. On her head the silver rim diadem with a bright green stone on a forehead flaunted. Blue as the sky of an eye were lit for pleasure when she saw the young man. She waved a hand and cried out something to it. That lowered the girl on legs and went towards to the woman. They strong embraced. And then the boy ran up to them and embraced both at once, handed to the mother the weaved flower wreath which on the head to her was dressed by the husband, and then kissed it in both cheeks.

The young woman paid the attention to the soiled clothes and frowned. It began to clear hasty clothes of the husband of dirt, but that discharged it, took a parcel from pads of a plush doggie and got a necklace from beautiful pearls, white with nacre, from there. The woman frowned a forehead even more and asked something it. But the man smiled broadly and carefree waved a hand, pointing a finger somewhere back, towards the river. But the woman strictly told something to the husband and pointed by a finger to the wood. The husband bent the head and went back to the wood. Kids and a doggie fell apart too. But when the young man almost reached a wood edge, the woman suddenly hailed it and ran following. On the run she stumbled - the thong on a sandal burst. But she the easy movement of a hand dumped from tiny legs of a sandal and ran to the young man barefoot on a grass, and he having widely opened the embraces.

The young woman reached the husband and threw the arms round him a neck. He strong embraced her and pressed to the breast, having drowned a nose in her fragrant and thick hair, and then kissed in both cheeks and dressed on her pearl necklace on a thin silver thread. The woman, having twisted his neck with thin handles, kissed the husband directly on a mouth.

And then they, having joined hands, shining with happiness, went to children together to go to have dinner to a summer verandah - there they are looked forward by a plush kitten …

This ordinary episode was filled with such light, such happiness that even the all-powerful magic of the Invincible Sun could not erase it from memory!

All these images memoirs rushed before a mind's eye of Prinze for that 100-th share of a moment on which the crystal-clear reflecting surface of the Mirror of the Truth caught a casual eye of Prinze. And Prinze lowered hands.

- I cannot … - he deafly told someone. - I cannot … more …

His hands were unclenched, and both ardent swords dropped out of them and, from everything to scope having hit against rocks, with deaf cotton became torn on pieces.

And in it three hundred fairies, with armbands and medallions with the image of an angry bee are a high time, already surrounded it from all directions, holding the strong network weaved out of golden threads.

The Fairy touched with as light as a feather, thin white fingers a hot smooth helmet and, having groped invisible an eye the panel, pressed. The gold Mask separated from a helmet. The fairy with a grimace of disgust threw out it in an abyss as if a venomous snake. The prince did not resist …

- The keeper of the Limit No. 3, the Keeper of the Limit No. 3, depart from the arrested! Immediately! - the passionless voice strengthened by a spell sounded.

But She did not hear it as did not hear it and It. They looked each other fool in the face and could not tear off from each other loving looks.

- What will be now, the Fairy? - Prinze whispered, passionately squeezing its tiny handles in the hands.

- All will be good, darling, all only now it will be good … - she whispered, embracing his shoulders covered with hot metal and touching with pink sponges its such we heat still to lips. - Trust me, darling, trust me … - and meanwhile in the opinion of it, blue as the sky, there were tears.