Unconquered Sun

by Philipp Bogachev

  With these words the Invincible Sun invisible hands opened a secret door in the Malachite room and went down a ladder to the secret laboratory in which there was the last, however, incomplete as everything was made hurriedly, in the conditions of approach of enemy armies Prinze's transformation.

  3.

  On one of tables of laboratory, bearing a faint resemblance to operational, the fairy lay. It was in a coma. Her face was pale as a cloth, on a face and a neck and hands bruises and bruises are visible, hair are confused, and on a neck - the big hem which is hardly tightened by something sticky. The fairy was completely naked and her thin white, such gentle and air body was fastened directly to a table. Near this table stood at the left and on the right other two twin tables settled down. All three tables connected among themselves some wires and tubes.

  Suddenly eyelids of the fairy trembled, and she began to recover gradually. Breath became frequent, on muscles the spasm swept. From lips easy semi-groan semi-sigh reached.

  - Where I? - half-whisper said the lips baked by blood.

  - Where you never and would like to appear for anything, the darling - aloud, without any telepathy, triumphantly said the Invincible Sun.

  - H … what it … means? - disturbing, but silent and such weak voice the fairy said, endeavoring to rise, but handcuffs and a collar with a magic castle chained her to a table at all.

  - Anything. Just you fell into hands to me, to the Invincible Sun, and I swear that your destiny will be from now on unenviable, - and metal hand bells rang out so loudly that almost deafened the fairy.

  But the captured fairy on whose beautiful face at a name of the Invincible Sun the disgust grimace ran, quickly got it together and, having executed courage, most passionlessly and cold told:

  - To you not to intimidate me, the Invincible Sun. Whatever prepared your artful mind poisoned with rage and envy, know that my blood and all dead from your hands of fairies will fall on you and your name will be damned forever! The intuition of fairies never deceives, as well as the Law of Balance which you constantly break! - with these words the fairy as it is possible above having lifted the fine fair-haired head, contemptuously spat in the estimated location of the hostess Golosa.

  - The worthy answer, you will tell nothing … - yours faithfully the Invincible Sun answered. - However, not to me to altercate with you about different metaphysical matters here. Let's better pass directly to business - time presses. So, what body you want - choose - an animal, Murin, an insect, a plush zverenk, a human cub or the dwarf? Or perhaps you want to live without body, the ghost? I swear, I can suit all this to you right now! Also do not forget to thank me for the fact that you will survive unlike your girlfriends who pleased directly for breakfast to a gang Murin! - the gold hand bell rang out again, but already not so stridently and long.

  At these words a face of the fairy, already pale as the cloth, became some cyanotic and besides became covered by red spots, and on a forehead the perspiration acted. Hands and her legs moved, as in a spasm. And at the word "girlfriends" from a breast the squeezed groan was distributed, and eyes were filled with tears.

  - Disappear you, a monster! You be damned also all your accomplices, you hear?! I damn you! Let my body which you are going to steal will serve you in death, the yellow witch, in death! - the face of the fairy, such fine, became vile and terrible from the grimace of fierce hatred which distorted it. And the Invincible Sun internally shuddered - the damnation of fairies is unusually strong thing, as well as their intuition! And some sixth sense she felt that words of this fairy by all means will come true, and this stolen body will serve to her death - and Azail hinted at it, and he feels even more thinly, than fairies.

  But the way back was not. All was solved, and solved finally and irrevocably. Without body she cannot live any more, a body - its only admission to the world of happiness and love, and therefore it has to get it ANY, even the most terrible, the price.

  - Well, we will consider that the exchange of courtesies is finished, - gloomy summed up the Invincible Sun. - And now - we will start. If you refused, expensive, the choice offered you, I will make it for you. I think, the body of a bat will just suit you. And what? Wings are - you so got used to fly! Ears, eyes are - you so got used to spy on me! Teeth are - you so got used to bite! And as it is beautiful, a flying mouse, just gloss! I think, it for you ideal option. Also thank me, the darling that for your mean behavior I you did not make Murina! Though, strictly speaking, you deserve it!

  But the fairy did not answer this tirade. She listened to the sentence coolly, with detachment looking in a ceiling that again could not but cause respect in the solar ghost. Its cold silent contempt - the most worthy of all possible in this situation the answer!

  - Well, we will start, - indifferently, told the Invincible Sun and sent a mental signal somewhere. Through a secret door three dwarfs in white dressing gowns with long gray-haired beards and round points on noses entered. One of them bore a cage with a big black cave bat.

  It accurately got from a cage the bat without restraint fighting in hands and striving to scratch and bite the dwarf, but other dwarf injected it something from the syringe and a bat, having inertly twitched, at last, calmed down. He put it on the table standing to the left of feiny and also connected to it some wires, having fastened her pads to a table. After that the Invincible Sun, having thrown off from itself illusive-golden clothes, laid down on the third table, to the right of feiny, and itself connected herself to a chain.

  The second dwarf walked upstairs to a ceiling, opened an invisible opening and looked there.

  - Madam, dawn is engaged, the transformer will start working soon. Prepare. Old times Krum, control devices.

  The third dwarf approached a big rectangular box and pressed several buttons on its surface. Strong noise which constantly amplified began.

  Standing on a platform, in one of caves of the Gold Mountain, the transformer which is not seen from the room began to move slowly in search of a sunlight to transfer the reflected energy to the mysterious car. Until the sun ascended, it could not transfer anything and rotated empty, but rising had to begin any minute.

  - Well, the darling what your last desire will be? - floutingly asked the Invincible Sun, turning the invisible person towards the captive.

  - That you disappeared forever, the damned witch even if and at the price of my poor body! - and, having turned the person to a table of the Invincible Sun, she once again contemptuously spat. And the flying mouse zasheburshatsya suddenly, having several times peeped in the sleep, probably, having a presentiment of own death.

  At this moment the first beams of a rising sun fell to a mirror disk of the transformer and the car started working.

  The powerful charge struck all we rub connected to the transformer to beings, like mad expelling souls from their bodies: to a shower of a mouse - directly in air, soul of the fairy - in a mouse, and soul of the Invincible Sun - in a body of the fairy.

  The two first a being - the mouse and the fairy - shuddered from wild, inhuman pain. The mouse screeched so strongly as though she was cut alive. Dwarfs in white dressing gowns were even forced to dress special earphones quietly to control process on devices. It plaintively pulled webby wings, from a toothy mouth yellowish foam in flakes brought down, it desperately scraped claws on a surface of a metal table. The fairy tried to restrain, but, eventually, and she did not sustain and cried from terrible pain as fatally wounded animal. Her fine white body became covered by a perspiration, it was bent by an arch, and from it steam, as from the boiling water went. The invincible Sun of pain did not feel, it had no body yet!

  At last, action of solar energy reached the apogee. The sharp noise from operation of the transformer which muffled even wild shouts of the fairy and squeals of a bat suddenly suddenly stopped. There came the death silence. Dwarfs efficiently switched-off devices and, without hurrying, approached the first two participants of experiences lying on tables, unhooking them from tables and from wires.


  The first the bat - absolutely unexpectedly from dwarfs recovered. It right there soared up into air and without restraint began to fly under a ceiling, describing broken circles and the eights.

  - Hey, Krum, take a net, catch it - it still can be useful to us for experiences!

  - Leave alone, it is necessary to disconnect madam, you see, she in a coma!

  With these words Krum undid the last clamps on her hands and legs and brought sal ammoniac to a nose. The fairy hardly opened eyes and moaned.

  - Your Perfection, how do you feel? - the fawning jingling voice Krum spoke.

  - As cutlet from a frying pan, all body hurts, I cannot … And it is heavy, and weakness … I so weaned from the fact that a body - such weak thing!

  With these words it, leaning on both sides on shoulders of strong dwarfs, hardly rose, sat down on a table and began to examine and feel the new body attentively. White, thin, harmonous, with velvety skin, however, covered with a set of bruises and bruises and scratches - but it is trifles, reparably. What it after all heavy and slow! So unusually!

  - Hey, well stared? And well quickly give me clothes! I what here eternally I will sit stark naked?

  Dwarfs rushed at full speed to a case and brought the clothes of the fairy which are already washed and where it is necessary darned. The invincible Sun by means of dwarfs - she did not put on incalculable number of years! - hardly put on, having somehow tightened thongs of sandals on thin legs.

  - Quickly! Mirror! Present!

  Dwarfs at full speed rushed to a case and brought three together heavy, in the human growth, a mirror - the most ordinary, from the most ordinary copper.

  The invincible Sun is attentive, without hurrying, examined herself, inch behind inch, both in front, and behind, and from sides, and baring teeth in a smile, and differently combing a comb hair. In general it was happy with the new body. It is good. Of course, not that was earlier, but could be worse.

  - Well, quite tolerantly. It is a little cosmetics, small manipulations with a hairdress, medical bathtubs, new clothes, jewelry - I will also not be worse than it, isn't it?

  - Oh, your perfection! - unanimously, interrupting each other, dwarfs began to wail. - You are beautiful, you are simply magnificent, you - perfection! - And amicably fell before it on knees.

  - Well, bearded flatterers, - having threatened them crafty with a finger, with a reproach told the Invincible Sun, - any I not perfection now, to them I will become only after annihilation, you perfectly know it. But … - having turned to a mirror again and continuing to examine fixedly himself from all possible parties and foreshortenings, - but now I am the real Woman, moderately attractive, moderately charming, moderately seductive … - told the Invincible Sun and was filled in not with metal, but the real female melodious laughter.

  But here suddenly the bat who was quietly hanging headfirst on a ceiling as it is also found at this sort of beings jumped a stone down, directly on making eyes at a mirror the Invincible Sun with obvious intention to scratch her the claws eyes. The sorcerer recoiled aside in time and only one claw touched her cheek, having left the long bleeding scratch.

  - Ah, you, the damned envious woman, and well, catch her immediately and in a cage, for experiences!

  Dwarfs right there pokhvatit nets on long poles and started chasing a bat who, having dexterously evaded from them, flew up to the ceiling and, having whisked in the air-channel, was such is.

  - Eh, idiots! You cannot entrust anything! Missed! - the solar sorcerer hissed on them. - Well it is fine, let will do some flying. All the same this creature to me will make nothing. Let eats flies and moths in vaults, not important.

  With these words the Invincible Sun clapped.

  - And well, to call to me immediately Azail! Where he gads there?

  All three dwarfs a crowd rushed up a ladder, to the Malachite room where Azail still sat at a table, impatiently expecting results of transformation of the Invincible Sun.

  Azail found the Invincible Sun behind her hobby - it flaunted at a mirror. By means of simple spells and magic ointments she already managed to heal the most outstanding bruises and body scratches, to add a little gloss to light-golden hair, to make up lips and eyes, to put on a diamond necklace on a neck and ear rings on ears and even to make up nails. And now it carefully checked as far as its appearance from these simple manipulations slapped together improved.

  - A Prekrass-sna, prekra - with - with - with-on, there is nothing to sssskazat, prekra - with - with - a dream, yes-sss, tree s-s-s-s-s, vkussssssny, sochshshshshshshshny, appetizing-ssss is direct as s-s-s-s-sochny pers-s-s-s-s-ik directly … - Azail began to play up, rubbing forward pads from pleasure. From all three of its disgusting zhvat on a floor disgusting yellow saliva flew.

  - But, but! Still a step - and I will burn you as cockroach! Perhaps I and a peach, but not for you, an animal! - roughly and haughty the Invincible Sun answered, having seen in a mirror approaching arachnoid, and at the same time without stopping correcting a hairdress and to use eye shadow a brush for ink.

  - Well sh - sh - sh, well sh-sh-sh-shto you, dorogush-sh-sh-sh-a, well sh-sh-sh-shto you, how mozh-zh-zh-no-ssss? - Azail moved back. - It is pro-s-s-s-sto a compliment, ocharova-sh-sh-sh-shka.

  - All right, will gasp to shake in vain. Time let's get down to work!

  - With - with - with - with - with what we will begin-sss, dorogush-sh-sh-sha?

  - I think, and it is so clear. It is necessary to save urgently Prinze from captivity until these mad silly women erased to it memory or turned into a plant "treatment" and "re-education" or did not sterilize at all … From them it will be become! Let's go to the Malachite room, a lot of work is necessary to us - you will help me by the force - I very much weakened now, having got a body!

  With these words the Invincible Sun resolutely went to a ladder to the Malachite room, and the huge fat three-headed monster began to mince behind it, speaking something and lisping in beard.

  The most difficult search spell was required to the Invincible Sun and Azail to support not less than two hours to find Prinze so both became exhausted and got wet. Especially Invincible Sun. It so got used to ease and power that even the simple movement by members of a body seemed for it torture. And here yet it was necessary to scan nearly all space of Tselestiya!

  The head broke up for fatigue and pain, plus this smelly paukomonstr fairly spoiled mood - earlier the Invincible Sun was relieved of feeling of that stench which from it proceeded. At last, attentive Azail managed to the first to find Prinze a trace. This unfortunate just carefree froliced in warm as pair milk, lagoon water at one of Islands Blissful.

  - Yes, I should have guessed earlier that he will be sent exactly there - on Islands of blessed idiots - just factory for production of pets for the fairies called sometimes by "husbands" - contemptuously sniffed, having wrinkled the charming white nose the Invincible Sun. - However, it is better for those - from there it will be much simpler to be got, than from some plantations of Flowers of Oblivion - they are much better protected.

  - Well, - continued the Invincible Sun, - we will depart on Islands Blissful! To you, my dear Azail, the most honourable part is assigned to play from itself to a mantikor, and I will treat as the fairy of the 2nd rank of the 1st department of group "STING" with the corresponding admission. It is thought not bad up, isn't that so? - unperturbably told the Invincible Sun, and right there itself swept with laughter, presenting Azail in the form is more red mantikor.

  - With - with - with - laugh, s-s-s-smeysya, dorogush-sh-sha, - Azail took offense.

  - Do not get into the head, an animal, mantikory you will look much better, than now - so for you it in general - a sure gain! - and again loudly and roughly laughed.

  - And e - with - with - with - sli z-z-z-z-will notice?

  - I do not rub, I will guide such looking-away spells that only Triune Knowledge will be in power them to expose, and it on these Islands will definitely not be. Be going to become my faithful horse! />
  Azail frowned - the horse role was not pleasant to him at all. And in general, it was awfully bothered by this Yellow Queen with all her quirks and mockeries. Who thought up Mirrors? Azail. Who thought up the Stream Gate? Azail. Who thought up a bomb from solar juice? Azail. And it only also can what to scoff at it!

  "Nichego-sss, nothing-sss, dear Azail, we also will show-sss it, in s-s-s-s-svoye time-sss when it is not to us already nuzh - - - on - sss, ti-sh-sh-sh-sh-e, ti-sh-sh-sh-she, ts-s-s-s-s-s-s".

  - Prinze-sss will be poisoned-sss there, dorogush-sh-sh-sha, is poisoned-ssss. There, on these poganenky os-s-s-s-trovka-sss, poisonous air-sssss, och-shshshshshen poisonous - for chelovek, not for fairies, yes-sss, we know-sss. With - with - with - with - at first it is necessary to prepare antidote-sss …

  - So for what we wait? Hey, Krum and all others, well here - bear to me the magic book and preparations which I now here will write you. Say that to be necessary for us?

  - With - with - with - with-with pleasure-sss, s-s-s-s-s pleasure-sss, gospozh-zh-zh-zh-a …

  While dwarfs under the leadership of Azail worked in laboratory, mixing various ingredients for ointments, the Invincible Sun decided to put itself in full order - it should be before Prinze! If earlier it just enslaved his consciousness through magical mirrors, then now she should make the same, but means which not strongly differ from those that are at the disposal of the ordinary woman. Unless fairies of opportunities have more.

  And therefore she rose in the rooms and ordered to prepare urgently for one dwarfs the bathroom seasoned with magic pink elixirs, another - is urgent by means of household magic to sew it worthy clothes and footwear, and the third - to develop design of a hairdress and accessories.