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Unconquered Sun

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by Philipp Bogachev


  Even a moment - and Prinze laid down on a silk mattress and blissfully closed eyes. And thin white hands of Lily softly touched his hair, and then - cheeks, her pink lips touched his lips. The prince distinctly saw before himself the person Fei - such beautiful, such desired, such favourite. She opened embraces and, having smiled broadly, called him to herself:

  - Well, where you wandered again, the road? Well why to you it is not stayed at home? I absolutely was already tired of waiting for you, it is time to sleep for a long time!

  - Forgive me, the Beautiful Fairy! I just got lost and in any way, well could not find a way home in any way. I so missed you, darling!

  And Prinze rushed at full speed through the long green meadow covered with camomiles and dandelions, directly in embraces of the favourite Beautiful Fairy. But these embraces were such strange, such infinite … It all could not reach them in any way, continuing to fall, fall and fall in some bottomless deep black, but attracting novel pleasures such abyss.

  3.

  - Vs-s-s-s-tavayte-sss, vs - with - with - with - with - tavayte-sss, vs - with - with - with - with - tavayte-sss! The moon of uzh-zh-zh-zh-zh-e zakatilas - with - with - with - s! Vs-s-s-s-stavayte-sss! - "mantikor" impatiently went here and there as a lion in a cage and everything strove to lick the big pink language a naked back of the lying Lily, but did not decide.

  Lily lay with Prinze on a silk mattress, having tightly embraced him for shoulders. Her face shone with happiness. It was such quiet, such gentle, such womanly, such … human, would tell Prinze if saw her from outside. Even Azail was surprised though he, as always, did not give a sign. If he did not know that this young woman - the Invincible Sun - he would never believe in it.

  - Vs-s-s-s-stavayte-sss, vs - with - with - with - with - tavayte-sss, s-s-s-s-sony! Opoz-z-z-z-dayem-sss! - and, without having sustained, licked after all Lily's back.

  That slowly, with easy groan opened eyes and unclenched the embraces. Then she turned damp from got down happiness the person on a source of irritation and not knowingly watched several moments at it. When memory finally returned to it, her face instantly accepted other expression - became rigid, serious, aggressive, strong-willed.

  She instantly jumped, in a military way quickly put on, having managed to be looked at the same time in a mirror, to correct a hairdress and to be tinted here and there where paint was erased. Pochle of what she turned to Prinze and, having pulled him is playful for an ear, gently told:

  - Rise, my kind Prinze, we have not enough time! We are waited by break!

  The prince turned on a back and, having slowly opened eyes, in the sleep said:

  - What break still, expensive? We … - here he saw before himself Lily's face.

  - Lily?! Oh, Creator!

  But Poured was not to tendernesses any more. She threw a clothes armful on Prinze both imperiously and quickly told:

  - Quickly put on! The moon already set, and to us still to fly! Fight will be roast, - and turned to Prinze a back that not to confuse him.

  The prince hurriedly put on, and with astonishment blinking, sleepy eyes approached to a mantikor.

  - Sit down back, I forward, I should work hard as hands - protection serious there, - and again predatory smile at lips and predatory gloss in eyes - the real lioness before a jump!

  The prince felt ill at ease from its voice and a look, but he obeyed.

  Mantikora flew up and quickly gained height, and Prinze sadly looked down, holding a belt on thallium of the Invincible Sun - on the beach which is removed down. Vague memories of the spent night began to break in his consciousness. And deeply in a breast understanding that on this island it any more will never return ripened, but will remember it from now on all life.

  The darkness was impenetrable, it's pitch dark! The moon set, stars closed clouds, and till the dawn was still far. Mantikora cut through as the ship - waves, streams of cold pre-dawn air, wind whistled in ears. The prince held a belt on Lily's thallium, and Lily - a mane mantikor. Her fair hair fluttered from wind, but the person looked detached, it was entirely shipped in some thoughts, inaccessible for the person. Lips clenched in a thin thread, speaking about that fighting determination which was saved in her rebellious, rebellious heart.

  They managed to pass the coast of the Oversea country and the Desert of Desires without any adventures. Shadowing was not here. But, pro-flying over peaks of the Rocky Mountains, a mantikor grumbled.

  - Chuya, I feel, I feel … belobrys - with - with - with - sye zdes - with - with - s … Prepare for us z - z - z - z - z - zas - with - with - with - a garden-sss … Chuya, yes-sss, I feel …

  Mantikora sharply reduced speed at the high rock which barred them the way. Lily clung to an ear mantikor and whispered:

  - They on the other hand … Wait for us … I feel them too … They prepare blow on destruction … Games ended …

  - Da-sss, gospozh-zh-zh-zha, fight will be zh-zh-zh-zh-zh-zharkim-sss …

  Radio avatars - about ten flying monkeys and as much a mantikor departed to this moment from the left and right side of the rock and from above towards them - fairies did not want to be set up in vain.

  But the Invincible Sun already prepared the blow in advance.

  Air around travelers began to tremble, more and stronger, and then was suddenly condensed and took the form of all three - the same dark mantikor, the same girl ahead and the young man behind, only absolutely black color as a shadow.

  Click by fingers, and ghosts flew up, promptly gaining height, directly towards the Gold Hall. Avatars right there rushed behind it and, without hesitating seconds, struck blow. At once ten dazzling fiery spheres struck in dark figures, loud explosion of such force was distributed that was begun to tremble by neighboring mountains and several large stones rolled down in anonymous chasms.

  And a mantikor at the very same time jerked in other party and rushed that is forces, bending around peak on the right.

  But far from it! Fairies, as it appeared, it is not so easy to carry out!

  Once it rounded peak and to take off on open space, from above new hordes fell upon them. And here had no time for games cat and mouse!

  - Drive, Azail, drive, otherwise we were gone! - cried through howl the violent wind Lily, at the same time putting, how only perhaps a strong magic board - and in time!

  Still a couple of spheres became torn over them, having encountered just put board.

  Though powerful bombs did not put them not a tsarapinka - after all what strong sorcerer was the Invincible Sun! - but to a mantikor turned several times in air and it nearly crashed into other rock, in time, however, having curtailed to the right. And after it the new spheres and lightnings bombarding travelers as if a hail already rushed. Getting to rocks, they tore off huge pieces of breed, exploding, filling with a violent rumble of the mountain, and flash from explosions as fires of fireworks, lit a way in outer darkness.

  Mantikora made just aerobatics miracles. She stooped down nearly on the bottom of an abyss, flying up only at the latest moment, flew vertically up to the clouds, sharply rushed to the parties, making the most inconceivable bends inaccessible to an ordinary animal. Azail knew the business! Without it they would already die long ago …

  And Poured, having tightly closed the turned blue lips and gnashing from tension teeth, held everything and held the protective field though on cretaceous complexion and a perspiration, and then and on blood streams from a nose and ears, it was clear with what work it is given it!

  The prince from such wild race, from all these corkscrews and abrupt dives, mad bends and the deafening blinding explosions in general lost hold on reality. Terribly felt sick him, his heart everything rimed for horror - height was terrible! - for some time he even became deaf. It hardly held Lily's belt and several times nearly fell out in a chasm, but some invisible force held it on a back mantikor - he sat on it as pasted.

  So, without restraint maneuvering, a mantikor under continuous firing from all directions, nevertheless co
ntinued to fly stubborn to the Gold Hall whose tops already seemed in the distance.

  But ahead of travelers expected the most terrible. Directly towards to them new creations - a huge dense chain from some flying whether the octopuses, whether spiders already flew. Huge black creatures and all these feelers greedy stretched with a set of feelers to the flying travelers - and it was impossible to pass them.

  - Well, darling, bend down, now will be hot, - feverishly licking lips, cried out through shrill howl the winds Lily, and then lifted a magic staff and cried out something in unclear language.

  The same minute over creatures the huge cloud was condensed, the thunder was distributed and the huge lightning struck, having got directly to the central creature. Loud cotton was distributed, the creature flashed a blue flame, having loudly roared departed on a gorge bottom.

  And a mantikor departed directly to the formed gap. At once about ten feelers stretched to them, but Azail knew the business! Absolutely wild bends down, up, to the left, to the right, again down … Stirred the prince as a rag toy and if the spell which is not providently imposed on him, from ten times breaks in an abyss. And Poured only triumphantly, demonic laughed, and from her laughter at Prinze blood freezed in veins.

  The last bend, and Azail, having broken through a ring of octopuses, broke loose, and octopuses began to be torn to pieces from the shells getting to them, to the intending fugitives.

  The gold Hall was very close already, a naked eye it was possible to see that plateau at top of the Gold Mountain where there was a Gold Tower.

  But far from it! The plateau already had the whole army of the fairies holding each other by hands as in some terrible killing round dance, and among them - Triune Knowledge in person.

  Mantikora took a nap from surprise, and Lily only laughed more loudly, and her laughter became just mad:

  - Hey, drive, Azail, drive, to its at, at a!!! Lower dogs on an animal, let run! Her Atu, ha-ha-ha!

  And a mantikor with determination of the desperate madman flew directly to the center of a chain, directly on Triune Knowledge … and it was impossible to stop it already …

  The prince looked out because of Lily's shoulder and saw them - three passionless, loftily noble and kingly majestic the Face with gold hoops on the heads - they looked is proud, is quiet and resolute directly on them. And Lily was brought even more, all her body shivered with mad and terrible laughter.

  And still Prinze saw it … the Fairy. It stood to the right of Knowledge in a chain. Her face was pale, eyelids swelled up from got down, and eyes … No, Prinze could not look in them, it was too … Could not …

  - Stop, mad! - the Fairy cried at the top of the voice. - Give me my Prinze!

  But only the mad laughter of the sorcerer was the answer it.

  Its thin finger indicated directly Knowledge.

  - Atu, Azail, to her at!

  AND THEN FAIRIES STRUCK BLOW!

  The terrible fiery cloud formed of thousands of fiery threads promptly departed towards to fugitives, threatening during a moment of an eye be sprayed them on quarks. To escape from such blow it was not represented possible - in only a few shares of a moment which, appear, turned into eternity, all understood it at once - and Azail, and Poured, and even Prinze.

  But there was something unimaginable, what then, many years later, Prinze and could not explain to me plainly.

  Suddenly between a fiery cloud and mantikory there was some enormous person all who is poured out of the blinding fire with the huge wings reminding rather tongues of flame behind the back with a fiery sword and a board. This person had no person. It all was weaved from fire.

  It lifted the sword and the board - the fiery cloud struck in a board and stopped, then the blow to a cloud a sword followed - and it broke up to billions of fiery sparks which fell to the Gorge bottom. And at the very same time the solar colossus disappeared as though it also was not.

  And a mantikor, indifferently, flew by a magic chain of fairies on top and it appeared already in the territory of the Gold Hall, protected by a cover from thousands of the magic mirrors ready to burn any stranger who will dare to cross hidden line

  Mantikora stooped down on a lawn, directly near a gate of the Gold Hall. The prince a bag fell down from her back, hard and hoarsely breathing, all wet from sweat. In the same state was and Poured. And a mantikor, having thrown out the long pink tongue of a mouth, was not in the best state.

  And fairies as pack of angry bees from the disturbed beehive, swarms flew around, not in forces to step over invisible line of the Citadel of the Invincible Sun, vainly sending damnations to the address of the fugitives who escaped from hands. And only one of them flitted not movably. It was visible how she crossed hands on a breast and looked in one point - there where lay, not in forces to recover from dreadful race, the choking Prinze. And hardly noticeable movement it sent it an air-kiss.

  4.

  Lily and Prinze's first day slept off, the benefit that to watch inviolability of borders of the Gold Hall there was no need. All magical mirrors are automatically ready for defeat of any stranger by the solar energy reflected in trillions krat. So the possibility of frontal attacks on a citadel of the Invincible Sun was completely excluded.

  And for the second day Prinze could not find Lily anywhere. However, he was not surprised to it at all. It had property to vanish suddenly and to appear suddenly, and he got used to it.

  But when it did not find it and for the third day, Prinze fairly began to worry. He searched all halls and rooms of the Hall, came even into a secret laboratory, but Poured was not anywhere. Then it left in the Gold Garden to breathe fresh air and here, at the very end of Vlyublennykh Avenue it also found it.

  Lily did not disappear. She sat on a shop a back to Prinze and quietly sang something under a nose, some children's song, touching gold leaves in the thin tiny handles. Nearby gold canaries chirped, gold parrots and monkeys ran on branches, but Lily did not pay attention to them - she only touched leaves and sang … something gentle, children's, some rhyme about the nature, about a grass and about the playful little leverets frolicing on the sun.

  The prince felt ill at ease. At it even the thought of that flashed, but whether Lily from the latest events went crazy?

  He hardly not on tiptoe approached closer, without wishing to find himself, but Poured, without turning around, told:

  - I am glad you to see, the road. Whether well you spent these days without me? Whether missed? - in its voice attempt to grin was heard, but the smile left painfully sad.

  - Lily, I do not understand why you from me hide the fourth day in a row? Perhaps I offended you?

  - Yes there is no, darling, - still, without facing him, Lily answered. - You here not and. I was afraid to be too persuasive …

  This time Prinze did not sustain.

  - Well, all enough! I more so cannot! - he resolutely approached Lily, sharply took her by hand, attracted an easy, air body of the fairy to himself and strong embraced. She did not oppose, powerlessly and softly as a rag doll, having given it to embraces.

  But hardly only Prinze embraced Lily as he felt something strange. As though something rested - firm and elastic - against his stomach.

  He was quickly discharged of Lily and looked down … From surprise it began to whirl the head, he felt badly.

  At Lily quite voluminous stomach which is sticking out from under a thin golden silk tunic was visible. Even a belt with a sun emblem which always fastened a tunic on a thin waist of Lily, was not now not to constrain a stomach.

  - Ch-what is it? - pointing a finger shivering on a stomach, it is hardly heard Prinze whispered.

  Lily right there left a coma, thoughtful and sad state in which still stayed, having instantly turned into that, former, Lily what she was only four days ago. On it the venomous smile zazmeitsya, the look became steel and cold:

  - And how you think? Or you forgot what we with you did on "Stone Tooth"?

  The prince right there reddened as cancer
and stared at tips of the sandals. Some time was not enough for it breath, and it an open mouth took air as the fish cast ashore not in forces to pronounce words. Lily Ispytyvayushche looked at it, having slightly blinked eyes, with a faint humiliating smile, as if speaking to these: "Well you will answer it now, daddy?"

  At last, Prinze mastered himself and said by the shivering voice:

  - But … it … is impossible … it is impossible … passed … only … four days …

  - Very much it is even possible, my dear Prinze, very much even … four days in four months - everything is logical. In five days I will already give birth to our little little son, in five days …

  - But how?! Even fairies cannot accelerate pregnancy term, it is impossible! - The prince from surprise sat down on the next shop, under other gold tree as if being afraid of the neighbourhood with Lily and clasped with hands the head as though being afraid that it will be got at it off the back, having broken all laws of the nature, also as they were broken by Lily.

  But Poured, having stopped scoffing, suddenly again became weakly and sad, as before, at the beginning of conversation. She quietly approached Prinze's shop, sat down with him nearby and very quietly stroked him on hair:

  - Dear Prinze, my dear … Swear to me, darling, directly here and now, swear before this blue sky, swear before this hot sun, swear before this mountain, swear to me that when I die, you will not give THEM my little little son, EVEN AT THE PRICE OF the LIFE you will not give?! You will not allow THEM to make of it "vegetable" or a drone, as of others! Swear to me right there, without descending from this place, swear! - Each time Lily's voice became louder and stronger, and in the end she already almost shouted and shook it for shoulders, but Prinze still scaredly held hands the head, his face became more pale than chalk.

  And Lily continued, already loud and imperious voice. She got up from a bench and, facing Prinze so his eyes directly looked at her volume stomach:

  - Well, be a man at least now, Prinze! Swear to me that they will not get my son! That he will become the real man, but not breeding cattle or a pet that he will become a magician, the great wizard as Azail or the great soldier as Roland Drevny. Cross your heart! Or you will never receive my son even on hands! Well!

 

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