Unconquered Sun

by Philipp Bogachev

  - Huo - about - about - about - about - zya - I - I - yayk - and - and - and-and! On p - about - about - ohm - about - about - about - shch!!! - only also she heard.

  The fairy reacted instantly. Wings behind her back buzzed as at an angry bee - the benefit "the pink concentrate" gave it forces. The fairy rushed on revenue of the friends.

  It is necessary to tell, the Fairy understood at once that it is those creatures that watched her, but, probably, did not decide to attack. Because as soon as the Fairy directed the Analyzer beam to thieves, she felt a sharp headache, and it had to stop the magic analysis again. In spite of the fact that the Fairy flew on the highest for her speed, but could not keep up with winged creatures, on the contrary, the gap all increased. The fairy was afraid to beat them with fighting spells not to damage to Animals, but it was possible to try to catch them in a network as Night Hunters in Drevlyandiya.

  However, the spell "a solar network" was rather difficult is to you not some lightnings to let! - and on its creation time could leave.

  The fairy entirely went to work, but so far it weaved a gold network in the consciousness, something sharply struck with it in a back. The fairy for an instant became puzzled and, having lost balance, began to lose height sharply. And then received still blow and still.

  The fairy looked up and saw that couple of same black creatures fly directly over her. Judging from the fact that at them no weapon was noticeable, they, probably, stooped down on it and painfully beat her a back with sharp-clawed paws. Couple more of such blows, and its wings could be damaged, and then it falls directly to the ground!

  The fairy sharply handed over aside and strange winged monsters missed at the last minute. But the Fairy, having considered them close, nearly screamed from surprise. It were strange beings growth from the low person, unusually brawny, covered with dense black wool, with leather webby as at a bat wings. But the most important was not in it. And in that, as these beings had a muzzle, and paws - monkey!

  - "Creator!" - the Fairy - "yes same prehistoric flying monkeys, the died-out look thought as we were taught at biology lessons. How they could appear here?"

  But the Fairy did not manage to think of it any more. Because both creatures dived on the Fairy again, being going to ram her in blow of the brawny paws.

  But this time the Fairy knew, than to meet them! She, of course, felt sorry for these strange animals - after all it is not disgusting sklizky feelers from a cave. And therefore it did not begin to water them with liquid fire. Instead it struck with a lightning, quite weak category - can, from an easy electroshock they will recover!

  She dexterously maneuvred aside and evaded from the next blow of winged rams. Using that flying monkeys flew away down, she after struck with the cascade of lightnings. However, it got only to one, the second was succeeded to evade, but also it was enough! The unfortunate monkey stridently screamed and departed a stone down!

  At the Fairy heart missed a bit in a breast! "Here I am the silly woman filled! The same unfortunate animal will break now!" And the code of fairies very strictly orders them not to kill animals if only they are not monsters!

  Without thinking twice, the Fairy put wings and a stone departed down - to rescue the paralyzed flying monkey. However despite it, it was impossible to catch up with it, probably because the body weight of a monkey was more, than at the Fairy, and therefore the speed of its falling was higher. And then the Fairy decided to complete already begun spell "a solar network", but already for the sake of rescue of an animal.

  Couple more of moments - and the paralyzed winged monkey fell, without having reached any 300 steps the earth, on the golden hammock which appeared in air, and the hammock smoothly fell by the earth, to the deep stony gorge.

  The fairy landed nearby and approached a monkey. She poorly moved big leathery wings and lips on which flakes of white foam seemed. The second monkey was turned over her and heartrendingly cried out.

  "Now they will be the whole pack here …" - the Fairy with anxiety thought.

  "There is no burn, it seems, wings moves - means, nervous system as it should be. The category was sparing. Probably, just did not recover from falling from big height" - the Fairy came to a conclusion, and then attentively felt black shaggy hair of a monkey, measured pulse.

  "Pulse is, but uneven. Nothing, will lie down a couple of minutes - and all will be as it should be. For now for fidelity it is necessary to connect it - there will be a hostage for an exchange for Animals. Apparently, it from one pack with thieves".

  The fairy quickly made several passes hands and the network itself entangled a captured monkey so that that could not move freely. And meanwhile reinforcements approached the second monkey who bailed …

  Two tens winged animals flew up to wailing, but not empty-handed. In paws they held quite big boulders. And some had even primitive onions and a spear.

  "Wow!" - the Fairy thought. - "Yes they even have civilization rudiments! I think, the scientific community of Skies will be very interested in my report …"

  From interesting supervision the Fairy was distracted by heartrending squeals of a captured monkey who, probably, already recovered from shock.

  - Aha! - triumphantly the Fairy exclaimed. - It is not pleasant to be in captivity! And it is pleasant to kick me in a back?!

  But the monkey continued to squall hysterical, the victim having a presentiment of approach of a predator as usual shouts. It began it not to be pleasant to the fairy.

  "Perhaps she so urges the friends to rush to attack? But why in its voice such animal horror?"

  Long it was not necessary to wait for the answer to this question. The huge black shadow closed the Fairy together with a captured monkey. The fairy in horror raised the head and … all inside at it grew cold! From a narrow crevice behind directly on it the vile disgusting creature of the giant size - one more present of the Rocky Mountains crept.

  In appearance she resembled something a bear, only very big - of the size of the five-floor house. From paws to the top it was covered with the shaggy tousled dirty-white wool. The creature stood slightly having bent on powerful curve paws with incredibly long, three human elbows in size, nozhevidny claws. Its terrible mouth was covered with sharp yellow teeth in an elbow size. This creature was obviously familiar to a monkey!

  But the Fairy for horror did not manage to recover as on the other side of the gorge it was also distributed uterine howl. And from there one more creature got out, is not more nice than the first at all. A huge pangolin on four paws, with the mouth covered with long teeth daggers, and a powerful tail which, apparently, played at him a role of the shock weapon. Two sharp horns crowned a disgusting muzzle of an ancient pangolin, and the long tongue could be probably enough the victim at distance.

  Of course, any of these creatures really could not threaten the Fairy. It should have flown up only and, as they say, go on a wild-goose chase. But she was not capable to leave to the mercy of fate this unfortunate captured monkey. Eventually, on it, feiny, to fault she could not escape from monsters thanks to the wings! But also to untie it and to allow it run the Fairy could not too - both creatures too promptly came nearer …

  It was necessary - to put quickly one a board.

  But only the Fairy upraised hands to weave a spell as a huge pangolin suddenly "shot" the long red tongue and both hands of the Fairy were tied by it as a lasso! Even a moment - and the pangolin dragged it directly to himself in a mouth as a giant frog! The fairy painfully fought about stones which tore apart her gentle white skin, tore a tunic. But worst of all it was necessary to her head. From pain the Fairy could not concentrate on spells in any way. And at this time other, dirty-white creature, already approached the captured monkey who was heartrendingly squalling in a presentiment of the death …

  But at this moment there was something improbable. The whole rockfall from fragments of rocks fell upon the gorge, and behind them darts and arrows departed. One stone hit directly a skull of a pangolin. However bone plat
es softened blow and he survived, but its sticky red language for a moment let out the victim - in only five steps from a mouth! The Fairy had enough it to jump on legs and to fly up in air. Other stone got on a skull of a dirty-white monster, but that, probably, was so fat that for it these stones were, all exactly that pine cones for a bear! It only discontentedly scratched the head of shaggy lapishchy and moved further. But the dart which got to it directly into an eye made the business - the creature wildly raised a howl and stopped all in couple of steps from a captured monkey.

  However firing did not stop! Monkeys already was nearly forty and they continually flew away behind new stones, arrows and darts somewhere. The fairy, of course, was grateful for such unexpected help - especially to the person - but now this rockfall threatened both it, and that whom he was urged to rescue. It seems that unexpected "saviors" who knows will ruin both of them together with predators!

  Meanwhile both the pangolin, and a dirty-white monster, appear, absolutely lost interest in the production as each hit caused in them, to put it mildly, strong discontent. They raised the ugly heads up and let out awful cries.

  Using it, the Fairy flew up to a captured monkey, hanged over it and quickly put the simplest magic board.

  And in time! Because couple of stones right there jumped aside from a board, having nearly pleased on the head of the "rescued" monkey! And, at last, having understood both predators that it is useless to growl on inaccessible shooters, decided to deal shortly with more available victims below. But here just came across a barrier, insuperable and invisible to them.

  And then there was absolutely improbable! Angry creature stones, having come across an invisible barrier which prevented them to reach the lawful production, rushed in rage at each other!

  The pangolin, dexterous blow of the brawny tail scourge, brought down from legs of dirty-white and rushed to it directly on a breast with obvious intention to gnaw through to it a throat. But dirty-white kicked the attacker the left paw which long claws daggers unstitched the belly of a pangolin which is not protected unlike a back, a bone armor. The pangolin flew away even on thirty steps backwards, fell on a back and, bleeding profusely, died. But also dirty-white suffered. It seems that the blow of a powerful tail was so strong that broke to it the right paw because the monster could not get up on both paws any more. Hard lame, he dragged it for himself. In addition from above fell to it couple more of stones and around ten - nearby. However the creature obviously decided not to leave the place of hunting not solono nakhlebavsh!

  She grabbed one of the biggest stones and precisely threw them in pack of monkeys. Force of blow was such terrible that it seemed to the Fairy that the piece of the rock weight from the large person departed with such speed as if it was pebble. Monkeys hardly managed to scatter in the parties. But the creature threw in them still pieces five such stones. Monkeys, obviously without expecting such ingenuity from a creature, scaredly hid for the rock. Probably, it was also expected by a dirty-white creature. Having furiously looked towards the Fairy with the only blood-red eye now, dropping pink saliva, she grabbed the biggest stone and from all force struck a board!

  The blow was such force for what the unpretentious board was obviously not designed. Though it also sustained and the stone broke into the smallest pieces, but the Fairy was struck by such kickback that, appear, her head nearly burst. She fell directly to the captured monkey continuing to squall heartrendingly and fainted, and the board, naturally, was gone.

  Probably, the creature somehow felt it because it let out victorious cry and, having seized a monkey by a paw, dragged it in the den. Why it liked a monkey more, but not the Fairy, it was hard to say, maybe, this type of food is more habitual for it, or perhaps she disdained "carrion" …

  Winged fellows of the victim right there rushed her after, throwing stones, but the creature already dived under protection of stone walls of the gorge and was out of reach from firing. And then winged monkeys published wild squeal - squeal of pain and compassion to the relative, but could make nothing any more. It seems that to throw stones from big height was their only means of fight against such monsters …

  But the Fairy was not going to give up. She somehow recovered from consequences of kickback and found already final scene of representation. Having quickly whispered standard anesthetic, it rushed after. The account went on moments. Probably, having reached a den, the creature will long not stand on ceremony with the victim. And therefore the Fairy who all life felt sorry for animals and hated everything that is connected with a plotoyadeniye - immediately struck with all the power.

  Having upraised hands, it weaved the shining spear out of sunshine. Having taken a spear in the right hand, she promptly ran after a creature, like some pagan goddess of hunting. Having calculated by means of the Analyzer a trajectory of flight of a spear so that it struck a creature directly in the most weak spot, she made a throw. Be the teacher of physical culture from School here, he undoubtedly would deliver it the highest point.

  Spear, having described an arch, it was thrust directly in the basis of a skull of a creature, having pierced it through. The weapon made of a sunlight is capable to punch any armor and even thick bones of a prehistoric monster.

  It was distributed lingering hoarse howl and the creature failed as knocked down, and flying monkeys published the triumphing cries - cries of prehistoric hunters which managed to drive a large and dangerous animal into a trap.

  Without paying to them attention, the Fairy quickly ran up to the killed creature and one movement of a hand exempted an unfortunate monkey from solar fetters. That, having appeared, at last, on freedom, right there flew to the fellows. It was ashamed for fairy to use her as the hostage after what on her fault this unfortunate endured.

  Meanwhile her tribespeople, like pack of birds deathbirds, wildly guffawing, it was flown to a dead pangolin. They got big stone axes and began to dismember his body with enthusiasm. Sharp stones they beat out from it teeth and broke out claws, bone plates on a back, probably, on trophies. The fairy noticed that at some monkeys on a neck necklaces, and hung on hands - bracelets from claws and teeth of predators. Other monkeys flew to a dirty-white creature and began to make the same with it, remorselessly using fruits of others victory.

  "Means, they after all are reasonable", - the Fairy solved. - "They understood that if I protected their companion, then I to them not the enemy …"

  And only she thought of it how at once about ten monkeys flew up to it. One carried the pieces of meat of a dirty-white creature exuding still with warm blood in hands. Others - the beaten-out teeth and kinzhalovidny claws. Making some ugukayushchy sounds, they stretched it the trophies, signs suggesting to participate in the section of production. But the Fairy, without hiding a disgust grimace on the fine face, negatively began to nod the head. Flying monkeys perfectly understood it, in any case, did not insist any more.

  Soon to the place of fight one more group of monkeys were tightened. Those that were earlier met them by loud squeal. They waved paws, language of a mimicry and gestures funny described them the incident. Probably, such successful hunting not so often fell to their lot. At the same time they continually pointed a finger at an injured monkey, at the Fairy. Again arrived relatives, in turn, jumped and squalled for pleasure. Generally, behaved as ordinary monkeys - sociable, talkative, restless …

  At last, they managed to sort clean both corpses, and the most part of monkeys went home. The fairy was captured by disappointment - about her forgot! She was at war here, fought, slightly itself did not die and in addition released on freedom of the only hostage and - did not receive anything …

  At this moment to it three largest, shaggiest monkeys, and with them - the monkey who is recently captivated by the Fairy flew up. The former captive carefully came very close to the Fairy and, having dropped to knees, began to lick the pink language fingers of her legs.

  To the fairy it became terrible shchekotno and she burst out laughing. The monkeys who until then we
re silent in reply began to guffaw and began to jump for pleasure. Probably, her laughter was apprehended by them as a good omen. Monkeys obviously started to respect the Fairy after her magnificent throw of a spear, they also perfectly owned such weapon! And then the largest male standing in the middle waved a paw up, probably, suggesting it to depart. The fairy nodded in agreement and monkeys began to guffaw enough again.

  And then the Fairy, having buzzed wings, rose in air, behind her also her new friends flew up. Three monkeys with onions and darts departed slightly ahead, probably, showing the road, and the former captive who was much less large by the size, maybe, a female, departed near the Fairy. Their Fairy did not understand language so she needed only to guess what they spoke among themselves about. But one was clear - what occurred in the gorge was for them absolutely exclusive event which blew their mind up to the depth of their dark monkey soul.

  Soon they gained the sufficient height so mountains appeared far below. Also they flew strictly on the northeast. "Though in it it was lucky, we should go then to Monastery of the Invincible Sun less" - the Fairy thought.

  5.

  At last, having made sharp turn to the right and having rounded the last snow peak, the Fairy saw big, with almost flat top as though it was cut off by some giant knife, the gray rock. All rock was speckled by a set of black holes that gave it similarity to a piece of cheese or to a huge ant hill. And in these "holes" flew, winged monkeys took off.

  - "Wow!" - the Fairy thought. - "Yes here their whole colony, is not less than at ants!"

  But actually, having flown up closer, the Fairy noticed that there is not a lot of monkeys because flew inside and almost same monkeys took off from there. Having a little looked narrowly, the Fairy saw - why. It appears, monkeys put the hunting trophies on the next plateau, and now moved them inside in parts.