The fairy cheerfully laughed, patted them on a shaggy back and thought of how she after all loves the work. To help persons in need, to care for perfection of the world to it really very much and very much it was pleasant. However, earlier it was lonely, but now it has Prinze and two remarkable kids. It became twice pleasant to help persons in need it, when at you the world and love reigns in soul - you share them with others more willingly!
Suddenly the Fairy felt how something pricked her in heart, and right there ceased to laugh. The intuition prompted to it: some trouble befell Prinze again!
"Really he got to make some next feat again?! - nearly having screamed aloud from disappointment, the Fairy thought. - Well as Prinze will not understand that I do not need his feats! From them only concern, only tears and experiences! No, it is simply intolerable! It is necessary to find urgently it, while the getting is good!"
Without thinking twice, the Fairy brought the handle to a celestial-blue stone analyzer that is in the middle of a silver hoop on her head to start a search spell as there was unforeseen …
BREAK! Break because of the Limit! It is impossible!
The fairy distinctly heard wild whistle, reached from where from the East, from the Limit, and then - not less wild shouts, squeal, a shouting, grunting, low and other shrill inarticulate sounds.
"Only not now! - she thought. - Only not now! Years five were not any breaks, everything was quiet and peaceful, and then when I receive disturbing signals from Prinze …" - And the Fairy from disappointment pritopnut a leg.
And in a moment she felt how the Analyzer on its hoop began to vibrate:
- The keeper of the Limit No. 3, the Keeper of the Limit No. 3, the Senior Keeper Predela causes … - fancies rushed in her head. - We have an unprecedented Break in all four directions. Immediately undertake the direction 3: sector 3-07 and 3-08. There already sisters No. 1 and No. 2 work. Be immediately connected. Yes the Creator will be with you!
- Yes sir, elder sister! Immediately I start execution of a task! - the Fairy reported, it was impossible to disobey the order of the Senior Keeper.
Under the Charter any fairy had to neglect everything, even children if it was necessary for protection of the Sacred Principles of the Order and Prosperity. It was obvious to each inhabitant Podnebesya that wellbeing of the whole world is more important, than wellbeing of a separate individual. "Together we - everything, separately - anything!", "itself perish, and - help out the world entrusted you by the Creator!", "you for Community, but not Community for you!" - the Fairy remembered common truths which inspired in them at each lesson in the first class of School. It could not go against them.
Besides, creatures because of the Limit could reach the inhabited areas, and it was absolutely inadmissible. As it is known to each fairy from a school bench, people - the main object of Guardianship of Community in Tselestiya. The person is the most favourite creation of the Creator, and fairies are created to carry out his will, in it sense of their existence. So they were taught at School, also the Fairy so trusted …
And therefore, reluctantly, it postponed the initial intention to immediately find Prinze. In a short prayer to the Creator having entrusted his destiny to the highest Trade, it departed to the specified sectors for elimination so at the wrong time of the formed Break.
When the Fairy flew up to the destination, she saw that business really hot. Continually ahead as summer lightnings were seen is dazzling bright flashes of light, the thunder of gaps and a wild shouting, grunting and squeal of the broken creatures rattled.
She did not manage to reach an arrangement of sisters as from dense young growth of a hazel grove and raspberry directly on it five zdorovushchy creatures took off. Two of them were with the heads of pigs which of mouth wolf teeth for some reason stuck out. Bodies of monsters reminded human, only behind the back of them wings were seen big webby as at bats. Other three - big gray gargoyleys, also with webby wings, sharp-clawed paws, cat's tails and spiteful mugs. They something reminded the fairy ugly faces of witches from children's books: wrinkled, with long hooked noses, sharp teeth daggers, small red eyes and sharp ears.
"From where here such creatures undertake?", - the Fairy once again marveled, - "as they breed? It is unclear …"
The nature of a zone of the Limit and the creatures inhabiting it was not known to Keepers at all, they were even forbidden to appear there. Why? Probably, only the Triune Knowledge which published once this ban knows. Only in the one and only case fairies were allowed to visit the Limit zone: if there the person or an animal incidentally got, and that only in order that quickly to rescue it and right there to leave the dangerous place. Such case also took place to be a few years ago when the Fairy for the sake of Prinze's rescue broke hidden border.
Such thoughts flashed in the head of the Fairy only couple of moments while it admitted without restraint the squealing creatures closer. At last, a sharp wave a stick at all length of a hand and … Already all five creatures from all scope hit as a swarm of furious wasps about glass, and got to the hidden magic board put by the Fairy, absolutely deafened, directly to her legs. The fairy lifted a stick up, to the sun, caught a sensitive celestial-blue magic stone a ray of sunlight. Then she said the necessary formula on Fane magic language, and already it in hands has a similarity of the long sharp blade which is burning down with a solar flame. One wave - and all five creatures lost the heads from one blow.
Black blood began to flow from the cut necks on a grass, hissing and dissolving it is similar to acid. Ugly bodies of monsters directly in the eyes began to shrink, did not turn into small fetid puddles yet, but also those soon evaporated, a black cloud having departed away. On the earth there were only black propalina. On these propalina it is necessary to impose then magic "patches" from the turf which is specially processed by pink juice - differently here nothing and will never grow, till the end of the world, probably …
But fight was still far from end. Explosions and flashes behind thickets of a hazel grove and raspberry continued. The fairy, having finished with the broken creatures, flew through thickets and it appeared on quite spacious lawn.
The creator, what here was created?! Three tens - are not less! - the most various ugly black creatures ran and flew around, trying to find a way out of the magic field put fairies invisible to an eye. From outside they reminded something the wasps who appeared in the room with the closed windows which without restraint buzzing fly in search of an exit on perimeter and vainly fight about glass.
At the southernmost and northernmost tip of a lawn, resting backs against thick brown trunks of old pines of which this part of the wood consisted, there were two fairies. It were the Keepers of the Limit No. 1 and No. 2 dressed in the uniform blue tunics obligatory for carrying during service by fairies of the 3rd rank. The fairy, having looked at them, reddened - because of incident with Prinze she absolutely forgot to change clothes! But to the battling Keepers it was obvious not to an assessment of its appearance …
- Hi, sister! - telepathic addressed it "southern", without tearing off a look from the creatures which are rushing about in a circle. - We took them under control! We needed only to burn through them in a trap. We will cope. We have other problem: while we took a detour, pieces fifteen creatures slipped out …
- … Five I already destroyed! - quickly the Fairy inserted.
- Perfectly, well done! the Others should be tracked down until they far departed and crept away on the wood, and that not to pass trouble!
- Well, the sister, I will make! - having thrown out the right hand up in authorized salute, the Fairy vigorously answered, and rushed to a pursuit.
To find fugitives did not make big work. The fairy mentally directed the Analyzer beam to one of the creatures which are rushing about in a circle, copied its image, and then started a search spell - to look for similar in the next the district. The answer came through couple of moments: creatures all crowd moved strictly on the West. According to data of the Analyzer, they
managed to come off already quite strongly. The fairy with disappointment thought that it will be not so simple to overtake for them now.
The worst was that creatures flew directly to the only thing in this solitude to the place inhabited by people. Their mean thoughts telepathic read by the Fairy testified to it. However, to the settlement it was still far, but the thought that for the first time for so many millennia of a creature because of the Limit can do harm to people, was intolerable for the Fairy!
And therefore it, without thinking twice, gained the big height as it was possible to fly over tops of trees much quicker, and directed that was forces forward.
3.
The small small village with a tavern on east suburb under the sign "Royal Hunting", was the only settlement of people which settled down so close to the Limit zone. People were afraid of these places, and therefore were afraid to lodge here. Only certain daredevils, knights from Avalon, dared to approach close borders of the Limit and even to pass them: they should perfect on someone the skill!
And that is why "Royal hunting" as called the hutorok to the poselena, settled down so close from this godforsaken place, nobody knew. Legends went that the settlement was built by one ancient king - whether the founder of Avalon, whether one of his closest descendants, - which liked to hunt on Limit creatures. However definitely nobody plainly knew anything. In general people knew history badly and competent there was a little among villagers. The hutorok survived, most likely, only thanks to the fact that fairies so strong guarded borders the Limit that for many thousands of years creatures never managed to break to people and to do much harm them. And therefore nobody hurried to leave a familiar spot.
The farm consisted all from couple of tens well-groomed two-storeyed wooden houses with straw roofs. Sound strong walls and fences, platbands, porches and verandahs of houses were covered with bright paint of warm colors. The tavern on the appearance differed in nothing from houses, except a sign at an entrance. On it the gallant man in an armor and on a game at which on a helmet the royal crown flaunted was represented. In drawing it was clearly visible how it brought one hand a hunting horn to the lips, and another lifted a long spear. Ahead of the equestrian the pack of dogs, and further away - a large deer with branchy horns ran.
Residents of the farm, as well as in all other cities and villages of the Commonwealth, obviously did not live in misery. All the year round here the summer reigned, all cultures ripen self-sowing - know only collect - productivity - ten krat, there are never crop failures, rains in time as by request, there are no wars yes of thieves - live yes rejoice! Because all poselyan also had well-fad pink-checked persons. Men wore usually solid leather boots, belts and dandyish hats with feathers, and women - multi-colored dresses from a chintz and flax with a beautiful embroidery gold and silver threads and even scarfs from silk. Hera Poryadca and Prosperity became reality for everything, even the simplest, Tselestiya's inhabitants long ago.
However, here, which year could not find the answer to a question where one strange young man who lived on the farm more than a month got to in "Royal hunting". He became famous at poselyan for the fact that told some strange stories in a tavern in the evenings, and then was missing, disappeared into thin air …
- I say to you yes: fairies dragged off it, fairies! - the tall man with long trailing moustaches slapped a strong calloused hand on smoothly polished table surface. He obviously touched fresh beer of a new harvest which moved here, and loudly hiccupped. - It is known that they kidnap our men, they do not have the!
- Give - give gaps further, the booby! Where it vidano that women lived one, without men! Whether in the you mind, a-a-a? - having twisted fingers at a temple, answered, also loudly having hiccupped, his interlocutor. The young man in a dandyish leather hunting jacket and a hunting hat with a feather was him. - How many I do not hunt in the local wood - never saw your fairies!
- E-e-e-h, the milksop, you will live about my years … - told moustached a muzhichin, and then took a glass of beer and, having taken a gulp, tastefully belched. Then, having cunning blinked the right eye, looked at the young hunter and continued. - You to see, not on temper to them had: they do not love hunters, a he-ha. They care for animals and leleit that the mother dityatyu …
- Yes throw you! - with irritation having waved a hand, the young hunter interrupted moustached. - Dragged off it, probably, creatures from the Wood, this precisely! I saw one such once. The ugly face is black, horns as at a goat, and glazishcha - and - and-and - IN! - red. Also goggled at me … And I as from onions - oh - and - ats! - directly in a sphere to it! And it - on you! - disappeared! - The young hunter, briskly gesticulating, at the word "bang!" so punched pood a table cover that the glass of beer jumped up and the part of fragrant drink spilled. The visitors attracted with noise sprinkled from laughter - realized, the guy obviously touched …
The portly young maiden in the accurate white starched apron and the same cap on the head approached a table and began to wipe the formed puddle a rag.
- And, in my opinion, and there are no fairies any also in mention, - with forced laziness it provorkovat by a deep chest voice. - "Fairies all fairies", and where they? How many I live already in "Hunting" - never saw! And even if they also are … Our maids are not worse than them at all, and, perhaps, both will be better … - And shot eyes towards the good fellow in a leather jacket.
- Leave, silly, leave eyes! - became angry moustached a muzhichina. - You do not know nicho, and there! Here live about my years - you will say. And I saw the fairy - in! - when the boy still ran on the wood!! Itself saw! - also it is proud punched in the hairy breast which seemed from the shirt undone from a heat.
All tavern became silent, and even the owner wiping glasses behind a rack froze, listening. The portly maid, trying not to lose from a type of the guy, departed to pour new circles to a rack, but poured them obviously slowly, listening to conversation.
- And … i-i-i-k … as it? It is similar to our maids, and? - having cunning blinked the eyes, the hunter grinned.
- Not-e-e-e! - his drinking companion rolled up-headed. - To our maids to them far about - about - about - oh, not cheta-a-a-a!!! As to a skewbald rural mare to white horses of misters from Avalon, very ha! At them in! In! And in! - eloquent gestures showed moustached proportions of the imagined fairy which appeared obviously not in favor of the portly maiden standing at a rack. All hall swept with laughter, as well as the interlocutor in a leather jacket.
- And what you, an old goat, - without mincing words, she exclaimed with insult, - on our married, but not on the winged?! Probably, did not suit it a muzzle of the freckled! (the face of the man was valid everything in freckles).
- E-e-e, nitwit, well you! - again the man from disappointment waved a hand. - What to talk to women? They have no mind! I then the lad was, years ten was to me then! Climbed, it is remembered, on an egg tree at partridges liked to drag their crude to burst in the childhood. Yes the fairy flew up: in blue everything, krassyavy … Horror! And so threatened me with a finger supposedly do not indulge, the lad, and then a stick to me on the head bu-at-ums … I regained consciousness, so already on the bank of the small river, it is direct on a sand I lie, and in the head its face and spins, and spins - white, eyes golubenky, volosik golden, sponges rozovenky … Remembered well, but it is never more and did not see! So here it was also necessary … - turning angrily aside portly - … and it was necessary to marry our. And that also I would not refuse … the fairy!
At these words all tavern swept with laughter. Remarks were heard: "well, the foozle gives", "overheated on the sun on a berezhka and all here", "got drunk, old horse-radish, and tells lies" and all in such spirit. And the hunter, meanwhile, also prosmeyavshis is a lot of, suddenly stared in a window:
- Look … the father … it … - pointing a finger somewhere, from himself he hardly squeezed out.
- Hto, it? - unwillingly coming off the drunk dreams, murmured moustached.
- Who, who, fairy, fool
!
- Fairy-I-I-I-I?????!!!!!!!
The Dlinnousy man headlong rushed to a window. There, at stacks with svezhevykoshenny hay, behind the low wooden fence dividing the yard of a tavern and the public meadow located behind it in air soared … Real fairy! In the snow-white tunic embroidered with blue cornflowers, easy sandals on tiny legs with the dismissed long golden hair and a silver rim on the head sparkling on the sun. She soared in air and made some passes a stick, without paying attention to people at all.
On shout of the hunter and moustached man all tavern ran out, stared in all windows, someone got on a roof and such hubbub rose that it was not heard anybody and nothing - all words mixed up in some porridge.
Here the Fairy, at last, turned to them the fine head why the dlinnousy man at once grabbed heart "It!" Then the beautiful guest touched with the thin finger pink sponges and in the same an instant all visitors of a tavern at once became silent, not in forces to say a sound.
And already a moment later it was distributed wild howl, and ten ugly creatures chaotic crowd took off from the wood. Five black as soot of pigs with webby as at bats wings and wolf canines which rapaciously stuck out of razzyavlenny mouths. On them astride - black semi-people semi-goats: shaggy, with sharp horns, red eyes and long nozhevidny direct claws.
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