Unconquered Sun

by Philipp Bogachev

  And once indifferently the Kitten and the Puppy decided to play a hide-and-seek. As the Kitten constantly lost, he this time decided to hide so that the Puppy precisely it did not find it!

  The kitten long chose the place and, at last, decided to hide in one very narrow and imperceptible hole directly under the rock at the end of the Gold garden. Without thinking twice, the Kitten dived there and began to wait.

  The puppy everything was not and was not.

  "Probably, he lost my track", - the Kitten thought. But once he calmed down, on the horizon the Puppy appeared - that dexterously followed in the tracks of the Kitten, catching his smell the big black wet nose!

  "Ah, you are a rascal! - the Kitten thought, angrily squeezing gray cams. - Here is how you found me before! It is dishonest!"

  For offense the Kitten wanted to win by all means against the Puppy, despite all his dog scent. And the Kitten got into a hole more deeply and more deeply if only to leave the Puppy literally "with a nose".

  However to surprise of the Kitten the manhole was a cave and quite cool and fresh in which it was quite possible to rise in all growth.

  "Probably, it is used for ventilation", - the Kitten guessed, and, having got up on back pads, went further. He already forgot about the initial purpose of the travel - to escape from the Puppy - it became just interesting to it - where conducts this manhole and where it will end? On this question Kitten long did not receive the answer - there was it hour, or perhaps and more.

  The tunnel became gradually wider and in it it became hotter.

  "Probably, it conducts in some underground smithies", - the Kitten thought, - and it appeared the rights - soon he heard the remote roar of hammers, a gnash of metal and other industrial sounds.

  But here, eventually, the tunnel began to be narrowed and branch in the parties again. The kitten had to get up on all fours again (To animals not to get used - they and on four pads move also surely, as well as on two). He chose that from a set of forks that conducted down, in the heat, in the roar.

  At last, the manhole ended with a ventilating grate. The kitten looked through its steel rods and saw the room. Quite strange and beautiful room. It was made entirely of some green beautiful stone with black streaks, the long polished table and on it - the big polished sphere was made of the same stone.

  For some reason the Kitten so liked this room that he wanted to investigate it, so to speak, on the place, and therefore he wanted to pick up claws the lock on a lattice and to open it, but here heard a small noise of the opened door, someone entered.

  The kitten did not need a lot of time to identify in this person of Prinze - such magnificent gold attire here was not at anybody.

  The prince suited a table and sat down in a chair. And after a while the Kitten saw the solar ghost reflected from the polished surface of a stone table - he sat on a chair, near Prinze.

  - I welcome you, my dear divine solntseooky spouse! - distinctly the Kitten heard a voice of the Invincible Sun and was surprised at the same time his intonations - the Voice told this greeting with aspiration, with feeling, with some strange, purely female, tenderness which the Kitten from this being never heard before.

  - I welcome you, my Perfection, - with similar tenderness Prinze answered it.

  - Whether everything is ready below?

  - Almost. The volume of solar juice almost reached the necessary level - there were only several hours, and after that it will be possible to solder a vessel.

  - Oh, not so soon, not so soon... - interrupted its Voice. - Before beginning war, it is necessary to make one more very important issue...

  The prince interrogatively looked at it.

  - You see right after striking a blow and Great Clarification we with you have to be to the updated Tselestiya's races in the form of Divine Chety Bogov-Solnts, understand? But we still did not contract the real Divine marriage with you … - the Voice is hardly heard trembled. - And it prevents Me to start implementation of the plan.

  - But we so husband and wife! I merged with the Stream and we are with you... here … time is so much … were … together … - choking with the excitement which gushed over it, Prinze spoke.

  - Yes, spiritually - we a single whole - it is right. And my spiritual power was combined with yours, - the Voice agreed. - But marriage is not only spiritual unity, but also corporal, and I have no body yet... - The voice trembled again.

  - But you will have it after Annihilation, you spoke to me!

  - Yes, damnation! - suddenly in a flash the Voice changed to unrecognizability. - Will be!!! But it will be spiritual, and only! And I want to have a body, as at you, notable, sensual, mobile. I do not want to be spirit! I want to have a body to be with you a single whole as the real husband and the wife! You understand?

  - I understand … - Prinze slowly spoke, having nodded. - Means, my body will endure Great Clarification?

  - Well, of course! It is already cleared, it is perfect! Any solar bomb to it not threat.

  - And what you offer, my Perfection?

  There came some pause. It seemed, the Invincible Sun collects the thoughts to express something unusually important for it, intimate for what she lacks words.

  - Even before Great Clarification, - some detached, otherworldly She said in a low voice, - I have to receive a body to contract the real divine corporal marriage with you and to give birth to the son, Lucifer that on Fane language means "the Bearing Light". It was so predicted in prophecies Murin...

  - Murin?! - with astonishment Prinze asked. - These vile cockroaches!?

  - Cockroaches?! Ha! - the Voice was indignant. - Yes Murin it is more reasonable than all fairies of Skies combined! It is the main, most creative, most gifted part of the population of Tselestiya! If you want to know - they transferred to me secrets of black magic thanks to which I could construct the Stream Gate through which I passed itself and spent you. They once were masters of Skies and looked differently. However silly fairies envied their power, gradually vyznat at them magic secrets, and then deception took control of sources of magic force and began to be at war against them. Then this proud race was forced to descend in chasms to escape and to rescue the intimate knowledge. As is them there was nothing, they began to devour with raw materials a game, to eat blood. From such food and eternal darkness they mutated and became such with what you see them now, but kept and even increased the knowledge. Also did not forget about revenge. . - on some time the pause stepped, appear, the Invincible Sun thought of something, something remembers.

  - Madmen! - haughtily she grinned. - They expected to use Me for revenge, but I outwitted them and became much stronger than them and turned them into obedient guards of my external borders what they, of course, it is not excited about, but nothing can be made - where by it to me, the Yellow Queen! - and she unpleasantly burst out laughing. The kitten felt ill at ease from this laughter - in it there was such fantastic pride, complacency, arrogance and cruelty that from all this "rattling mix" it nearly threw up.

  - And what prophecies say? - with undisguised impatience Prinze reminded.

  - That the Yellow Queen who came from the West will give rise Bearing Light which will bring light to this world. It will unveil darkness with Murin in which they are wrapped up … hitherto - the Voice again for some time ceased. Probably, the Invincible Sun imagined that moment when the prophecy comes true and dared some time to enjoy pleasant vision. - I understood at once that I this prophecy on Me and began to wait for the spouse. I managed to glance by means of magic in the future and to see your person who I traced then on a statue and placed in Vlyublennykh Avenue, remember it? - The prince in the affirmative nodded. - And then began to develop more perfect model of the Gate that at merge to the Stream the body did not burn down, and changed. After three thousand years of researches, I managed to make it. And now, after you, I can find a body too - a perfect body for a perfect matrimony and the birth of the Successor of my power and perfection!

  - But where you will ta
ke this body? - puzzly Prinze asked.

  - And unless you did not guess still?

  - Fairy?! - in horror Prinze exclaimed and jumped from the chair.

  - Well and, of course, - the Invincible Sun unperturbably answered. - And why, your way, I brought her here? You see how all well turns out! I will find a body, and you - the beloved wife, in new, much more the best quality! Isn't that so, it is thought well up? - the ringing of metal hand bells was distributed.

  The prince for a moment became silent and bent the head.

  - But, expensive why not to take you a body of any other fairy?! - suddenly Prinze started talking to some unusual persistence and haste, having jumped from a chair. - I will get for you the fairy from patrol of "STING" which constantly spy on us, or mermaids … Yes though most Sea Queen Laura, I swear!

  The intense silence hung in mid-air. Without having waited for the answer, Prinze sat down on the place again. Only after a long pause slowly and rigidly, accurately being at loss for words, the Voice answered it:

  - That's it therefore I also want to take her body! I could find a body and without you thousands years ago, but then it was not necessary for me - You with Me were not yet. And now … when You appeared … and it … - again a pause.

  - You remember, you wanted to prove Me the love? You remember? - The prince silently nodded. - This - the Voice triumphantly exclaimed - and will be your best proof of your love to Me! To destroy a cave dev, a sea dragon, to stop sea waves one gesture of a hand, to bring to my legs the captured sea queen - yes even Triune Knowledge! - it only evidence of your external transformation. I want to receive the certificate that you changed inside, became part Me, became a single whole with Me! For this reason YOU will sacrifice it to me, itself will chain its handles in a chain at the Transformer, ITSELF, understand? And then, then You will be completely mine, and I - yours, and We together, hand in hand, will go forward, towards to eternal bright future - couple of perfect solar deities, ancestors of the new world, the Country of the Sun …

  - And what will be with her soul? - without listening to it, with concern Prinze asked.

  - Do not worry! I will move it in special storage for the time being and as hour of Great Clarification will come it is annihilated and all will become the same lightful spirit in a spiritual body, as well as other. Sexless, quiet, passionless and - perfect. Only we will be corporal together (gods have to differ from the slaves in something!). And, of course, our lightful successors and successors whom will be very much there is a lot of! Lucifer will be only the first, isn't it? - the Invincible Sun pronounced the last words with some voluptuous aspiration.

  And Prinze hung the head, the truth only for several moments then again to lift it and, having looked towards the solar ghost, to say:

  - Yes will three times your wise words, my Perfection are blessed!

  - Well and it is remarkable! - with joyful the simplification was said by the Voice. - Then tomorrow at dawn there will be a Transformation, and Tselestiya's inhabitants will not see the following dawn any more because We with You, my divine solntseoky Spouse will be their new Sun...

  The kitten did not remember how he reached a bedroom of the Fairy. But very well the Puppy remembered it. Discouraged by the fact that for the first time in life did not find the Kitten in a shelter, he got behind him deep into caves, catching the Kitten smell the big wet black nose. The puppy already did a kind third of a way as suddenly from the opposite end of a cave on it some black reared sphere took off and brought down it from legs. The puppy fell, hit the plush head against a stone and screamed, and "sphere", having stumbled about it, itself was tumbled down backwards.

  - A kitten, you what, absolutely went mad? Well, it is impossible to be upset so from the fact that I found you! Eventually, it is necessary to be able to lose adequately! - with insult the Puppy exclaimed, rubbing the hurt head.

  The kitten jumped also the wild mad eyes which are brightly burning in darkness with green fire, not knowingly looked at the Puppy and took to the heels further along a corridor.

  - Stand, the fool, well where you so run as if the bucket to boiled water to you on a tail was poured out, and well stop! - the Puppy cried.

  But where there! The kitten already was behind turn. It was necessary to remember to the Puppy cheerful times when they with the Kitten ran vzapusk on a bet or just played dogonyashka.

  - Well, the Kitten if I do not catch up with you, I will be unworthy a high rank of a dog! - the Puppy told about himself and jerked that was forces for the Kitten.

  Of course, as quickly the Kitten ran, he was only a cat, and a cat for anything not to overtake a dog! The puppy caught up with the Kitten soon and, having jumped to it directly on a back, knocked down him on a floor, strong pressed plush pads to a floor and cried:

  - Regain consciousness, the Kitten! It I, your friend, the Puppy, tell what happened to you?! You what, a henbane ate too much perhaps?!

  Kitten, having been unable to escape from strong paws of the Puppy, several times vainly moved, suddenly wildly looked at the Puppy and cried out:

  - Fairy!. Danger!. Will die!. To rescue!. Meow-at-at-at!!! Release me!

  This only thing that the Puppy managed to get at the Kitten, but it was enough to estimate all importance of the data which are available for the Kitten. The puppy right there released him, and the Kitten jerked again that was forces to feiny rooms, and the Puppy ran afterwards, any more without disturbing it.

  So they ran out from a cave and rushed on a gold garden. Dwarfs and golems did not even pay attention to their bustle - they got used long ago that these mischievous persons constantly rush one after another for days on end without a break.

  So friends unnoticed reached the room of the Fairy. But what expected them disappointment when they saw that its room is empty. The fairy already somewhere left. And the Kitten who is weakened from long run and from disappointment fell to a fluffy carpet at its bed.

  - Everything was gone, meow! - with the squeezed groan the Kitten said.

  - Do not get into the head, buddy! - the Puppy tapped of him on the shoulder. - Look at the watch - now dinner time. Probably, our Hostess went to a meal to the Emerald hall. If we hurry, then and to us will get - perhaps will not still eat! - having playfully winked, the Puppy told.

  But to the Kitten had no time for jokes.

  - Let's go, and that our absence will be suspicious there …

  And having taken each other for pads, Animals went to eat, previously having agreed to behave there, as usual, not to give a cause to think that plans of the Invincible Sun are known to them.

  2.

  And the Fairy really was on a meal which was made at the scheduled time, at seven o'clock in the evening.

  Meals were strange this! Only the Fairy and Animals ate - the Invincible Sun and Prinze did not even touch food. Sometimes the Fairy thought why they in general here sit? To it it was even inconvenient at them is - when watch at you how you eat, couple of penetrating views, anyone will be embarrassed.

  The benefit, Animals fine relieved the tension. They so appetizingly ate, smearing the plush muzzles with honey, cream and tomato juice that without laughter it was just impossible to look at them. The fairy heartily laughed and, having wiped their muzzles a napkin, itself with pleasure was accepted to food. Especially it was amused that she should have turned away as Animals right there threw on a table of a spoon, forks, table knives, and were accepted to food directly by pads! When the Fairy suddenly saw it, she did "terrible eyes" and threatened them with the thin finger and falsely strictly spoke:

  - Well that you, Zveryatki mine, dishonor me before her Perfection! Where your etiquette? Where good manners? As if you came not from the noble house of the fairy here, and from a predatory brothel!

  Animals then were confused, having bent plush heads, and pressed ears - well, just as the real played mean tricks kittens and puppies! But the Fairy could not become angry about them long. It carefully wiped them pad napkins, and they again,
having taken forks and knives, were accepted to awfully inconvenient procedure of cutting of some tomato or a cucumber.

  All similar scenes, appear, did not make any impression on Prinze. The fan before to joke and laugh at tricks of Animals, he silently looked towards an empty throne of the solar ghost and was silent, and the gold mask which he took off less frequently (to have an opportunity incessantly to see the Invincible Sun) made it similar to one of uncountable heartless golems.

  But the Invincible Sun behaved absolutely differently. It continually laughed at tricks of Animals (though it is not clear, how sincerely), constantly protected them before the Fairy ("expensive, do not abuse them so strongly, they are almost like children …", "let eat as it is pleasant to them …", "nothing terrible, it is trifles, the darling") and constantly conducted a polite high-small talk with the Fairy - exactly same what usually and are conducted among themselves by fairies in Skies - trying not to leave for a minute it alone with the thoughts.

  Here and now in the Emerald Hall there was the same strange dinner, especially strange that as Animals on it is mute not was, is it it was necessary to one Fairy, and Prinze and the Invincible Sun sat next and looked at it unblinking eyes. However, and now the Invincible Sun did not allow awkward pauses.

  - Well, how, expensive, is to you here? Whether everything suits you here?

  - Yes, your Perfection, all is good. I still did not get such magnificent rooms and such hearty welcome anywhere. And here it is pleasant to Animals - after all burdens of our way they just are blissfully happy, playing in your fine gold gardens … - is held a little down the Fairy answered, without deciding to be accepted to food without Animals - unwinking gazes of both "messmates" beat off any appetite.

  - Well and it is remarkable, expensive … You eat, eat, do not hesitate, you need forces. Tomorrow at dawn I would like to you as to the skilled magician to show one invention, the analog which is not present in all Tselestiya. I invented it long ago, but to estimate it so far there were nobody - fairies all of a sudden declared to me war. About what to admit, I constantly regret …