Unconquered Sun

by Philipp Bogachev

  But a black flame, having reached the walls put against it, flashed even stronger and already avatars of the third tier burst one by one as soap bubbles. But survived were not given. They waved air wings - and the strong stream of wind which would bring down from legs even of the real Cyclops departed towards to a black flame, seeking to drive it back, into chasms. But the flame, contrary to any logic, not only did not stop, but having flashed even stronger, rushed even more promptly up, burning avatars already of the second tier also, as well as their predecessors.

  When fairies, at last, realized the powerlessness, nearly five thousand their soldiers already burned down also all five earlier taken tier passed in hands of the enemy again. The remained soldiers hastily were evacuated back upward, in an elevated hall. Approximately the same occurred also in other places of break. The gold Hall began to show the teeth …

  - Your Knowledge, we found in vaults Murin. Their magic is very strong. We do not know so far as to neutralize it, - Snow-white-white, permanent Elder Sister Ordena "STING" and the technical lead of all operation "Punishment" sent a mental signal of Triune Knowledge. - We suffered small losses.

  - I see, expensive, I see, - the Second of Three thoughtfully spoke. - In narrow dark vaults these creatures feel very comfortably. And there to us with them not to be leveled, of course … Though … Why is also not present? Give, sisters, we will work as our clever heads and we will clear halls of the Invincible Sun of cockroaches. Let's taste against them "Honey Pie".

  Pearl-white nodded and fairies in the Command Center joined hands and again formed magic chains - on a chain on a tribune - to create a spell.

  Three avatars - a blue mantikor, a snow-white griffin and a pink flying monkey - at the same time approached the entrance to a vault stinking and breathing heat where so quickly and disgracefully the great number of their relatives died and undertook paws. Several words in magic language of fairies - and suddenly directly some yellow lump began to grow from air. This Côme rotated round its pivot-center and each time increased in sizes more and more, so far, at last, did not become size about the room. Then avatars made the movement hands from themselves - and the lump itself flew up to an opening of a tunnel and swept on a ladder down as a stone which was pushed off from the mountain. In process of falling, it continued to rotate round its pivot-center and to increase. Then it came to the notorious platform conducting on the sixth tier where Murin placed the traps. Having encountered an obstacle from whitish sticky muck, the sphere with deafening cotton became torn.

  The yellow sticky swill which is fragrantly smelling of honey the river began to flow down a ladder, continuing to increase constantly in volume. Murin fell one by one, drugged and lulled by a fragrant smell, got directly to sticky swill and right there coordinated and choked, exactly as flies in honey, and swill all flew and flew down.

  Until Murin understood, two tens from them already died. The others rushed in loose directly to airwire cracks of which they both crept out, and looked for rescue in flight. And yellow honey swill meanwhile continued to flow down, up to the last - the twenty second tier - clearing a way for army of Skies. Only the speed of movements of spidery pads Murin rescued remained from death.

  Having reached the last tier, liquid stopped staying in the form of a sklizky sticky cover on all steps, stones and a handrail, having left the intoxicating aroma of fresh honey everywhere that interfered with moray eels to return on the left positions. But for golems, a Cyclops and avatars poisonous honey was not an obstacle - they had no organs of smell. And therefore the ill-matched army of Skies surely continued the descent on the transitions cleared from Murin.

  The third shah was delivered to the invincible Sun. But whether there will be this shah - a mat - it is still unknown.

  5.

  The first golems appeared on the twenty second tier approximately in half an hour after start of a spell. They continued to go carefully, everywhere trying to discover possible traps. But the Gold Hall waited for something again.

  Workshops were absolutely empty. Not a soul did not find the fairy in their really enormous open spaces. Everywhere the thrown wheelbarrows, a stretcher rolled, on a floor any pieces of wood, pieces of breed and other construction stuff were scattered. Somewhere away ahead a big black spot the huge vessel was seen. It was not protected too.

  - Attention! - through lips of one of avatars the fairy said - the senior officer "REAPED". - Directly at the rate - object of extreme danger. Not to touch object. To surround, put the strengthened protection. To a head avatar to rise upward.

  Kind one hundred golems and Cyclops, stupidly rotating the stone heads, formed a dense chain around "especially dangerous object". And the head avatar of M-3-896 flew up up. However he managed to find nothing as the vessel was densely soldered. But huge emission of the energy proceeding from it was succeeded to record an avatar. The manometer - the device measuring amount of magic energy - just read off scale. It did not have enough divisions into showing the original level of radiation.

  - Your Knowledge …

  - We know, the sister, we know … Here it is the required container in which the stolen solar energy is stored. Be careful, the sister. If this object I blow up, afraid, not only from the Rocky Mountains, but also from all Oversea country nothing will remain. Probably, it is also a secret weapon of this madwoman. I think that We need to change it a sentence. Having created such deadly weapon, it is not worthy to exist more on this earth - it has to be sprayed immediately on capture on quarks, hear, the sister?

  - 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 tongu
es 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.

  Chapter 19. A Farewell to Arms

  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.