Evgeniy Shmigirilov - Super Queen-Mother. Book II. Life or Death

Crystal ware also was on glass shelves of several showcases in the middle of the room. It was one of her tricks up her sleeve that she had prepared at home.

Only a woman could notice such an interesting detail while cleaning shelves with crystal ware: directional light was reflected by all crystal ware. She had tested this finding by directing a beam of the laser pointer on the crystal.

Now the natural laws she had noticed served her a good turn.

The effect was fabulous. Even she, standing next to the room, couldn’t find out in this flash of lightning if there was somebody inside it.

Each beam was broken into dozens of beams by crystal facets; new beams, falling on the facets of other crystal ware and reflecting in the mirror in addition, created myriads of beams, blinding everybody around.

These fireworks of light gave a respite to her and the possibility to return attacks, following one after another.

Using her pictures on the site of the battle – tricks, prepared beforehand – did not mean she had transferred herself to a different place. They were holographic images, which transferred only some properties, characteristic of real things.

For judges’ better moods, Super Queen-Mother began to send her energy not in all directions, but only to those who had the most evident hatred in their looks.

However, judges were of minor concern for Super Queen-Mother; the main thing was the site of the battle.

The wall they had put up protected them quite well, transferring her blows into beams of yellow-white color, bright and sharp. It caused unpleasant moments for those judges in whose direction Super Queen-Mother sent her energy.

The light around her began undulating. When the brightness reached its maximum Super Queen-Mother noticed that the surroundings became yellow-waxen. She rose a little higher and used the picture of the trick she had prepared at home and called «the wood».

…Super Queen-Mother was standing on the small edge of a wood. The branches of large ancient trees nearby were swinging in the light wind.

The wood in a moment showed her the location of the danger. It was coming from different places, spreading in circles by the trees.

The information transfer was instant, and it became clear at once for her that «something» was at this or that spot.

Super Queen-Mother did not want to wait for the enemy’s attack; instead, she directed her energy at the spot where it was. The trees split under the blows and flared up, thus pointing to hot spots.

After the blow the danger disappeared at that area, but then other spots, which her enemies had already reached, became dangerous. Unknown creatures, little by little, approached the edge of the wood.

Super Queen-Mother changed her tactics and hit only far targets, not touching the nearest ones. She increased the frequency of blows to be prepared to meet the attacks.

Super Queen-Mother’s body worked as an open wound, which informed her brains about the lightest air movement.

At the same time, she automatically launched selective energy blows at the judges on the stadium, who were actually accomplices of the attack at her.

The first creatures appeared at the wood’s edge. They were like half transparent energy bodies, constantly changing their colors of tender tints. Green beneath, the creatures were crimson at the top.

They stalked her when the bright light, illuminating the battle, was switched off, and when for a moment the light switched on, they tried to hide themselves at the spot where it reached them. The light, coming from their bodies, also switched off.

From aside, it looked like the convulsive jerking movement of unknown creatures.

Super Queen-Mother directed small portions of energy at this enemy.

The creatures sprayed apart, like jelly-fish, slapped down against a dike dam. The broken parts instantly became transparent and thawed on the planet’s surface.

Super Queen-Mother directed the fire farther and father, inland. Her shots became more often, but assailants cropped up even quicker.

She had to use the «carpeting» tactics – to make a shot not at targets, but at localities divided into areas: an inner circle, a middle circle, and a distant circle. The tactics she had chosen appeared to be effective.

There were no trees left any more, they all perished, helping Super Queen-Mother in the battle. Only the soil, turned over and mixed up with burning trunks, was around her now.

The darkness, set in when the light was undulating, was not absolute any more. Anything that was burning, gave light to this picture of death.

It seemed the enemy had understood that the fight could have been without end, and had changed their tactics.

Whatever surrounded her: stones, trunks, and ditches, started to move off; 3D images became flat. It looked like a large picture painted on the internal side of a big ball.

Suddenly, the whole surface cracked and crumbled, revealing dozens of small holes. The next moment a fiery ball was blown out of each of them.

All of these blown balls burst.

Small fiery balls ran out of them; they swirled, filling all the space of a big ball.

New balls were blown out of the holes and also burst. The process of ball blowing did not cease.

These small balls became more and more numerous, with every minute they approached Super Queen-Mother nearer and nearer.

Their chaotic movement became at once directed when Super Queen-Mother sharply moved her arm back. The balls flew to her hand.

«Well, you react to the movement! Then you’ll get it. I’ll hit them with the energy they had created», Super Queen-Mother decided and, having broken off a big piece from her cracked pedestal, threw it up, having imparted the strongest rotary motion to it.

The balls, like magnets, stuck to the stone and flew into each other, forming one big fiery ball. Soon it looked like a huge shining sun.

Super Queen-Mother directed it to the wall and hit the ball against it. She saw it burning a hole with a hiss and jumping out at the planet’s surface. The rest of the balls jumped out through the big hole after it.

The ball disappeared, and she again found herself in the battle hall, which now looked intact, as before.

The only thing Super Queen-Mother had time to notice was the restored field of the stadium. She was at once thrown to the ocean bottom.

The judges remembered the beginning of the battle very well. Now they did not want to leave Super Queen-Mother unattended even for a minute.

The earthly women appeared to be unpredictable, and they got a special woman – Super Queen-Mother.

Super Queen-Mother quickly took stock of the situation.

She was in front of the entrance to a big dark cave. A sandy bottom with rare stones was barely seen there, like in the dusk; long, green algae were growing on them. Fish and mussels were moving on the sand, looking for some food.

Super Queen-Mother did not notice any big sea animals. There was no danger nearby. She did not hurry – the time was on her side.

Suddenly, a waterspout began to swirl her and then carried to the cave at lightning speed.

Super Queen-Mother set herself free of the obtrusive hugs, having destroyed it by a small energy outbreak.

It was very dark in the cave. She released small but powerful bundles of energy. The balls brightly illuminated the flooded cave.

Super Queen-Mother was in a big hall, decorated with numerous hanging stalactites. Tall outgrowths of stalagmites were directly under them. Some of them joined with the former, forming stalagnates. Motionless stone «waterfall» was «flowing down» from the left corner of the hall.

Super Queen-Mother thought that this cave had been on the planet surface for a long time, because all these stone outgrowths could be formed only in the air, and then, after the continental platform had lowered, appeared under the water.

There were some passages from this general hall into the depths of the rock. As soon as she swam to the main passage, the central entrance into the cave collapsed, and the water pushed her on her back.

Super Queen-Mother glanced back and saw as a lot of strange creatures were being formed in the water. They were long and transparent.

«It looks like a nesting of water snakes», she thought.

Super Queen-Mother threw one of the balls down the cave, but did not burst it, remembering that water did not compress. Instead, she discharged it gradually.

The water in the hall boiled.

In front of the entrance to her cave Super Queen-Mother put the second ball.

Water reptiles rushed to other passages. The water killed those who did not succeed to run away.

The energy not only killed all live creatures, which could be in it; it lifted the dead bodies to the cave ceiling.

Their transparent bodies could be seen now – the boiled reptiles became white. Now Super Queen-Mother could look them over.

They were snakes a hundred feet long, with small legs but sharp claws. Their tails, strong for such bodies, were wide in their upper and narrow in their lower part, like in fish; it assumed a good speed. They had two caudal fins. The head was like that of an ordinary snake, but with a small beard, which caught vibrations and smells coming from a prey.

Super Queen-Mother noticed all that with a corner of her eye and swam inward the cave. Bright balls – her light and vanguard weapons – led Super Queen-Mother to another hall, even larger.

It was a strange hall.

She swam to the middle of it and felt that her hand was hanging in the air. Super Queen-Mother pulled her hand closer to her body and cautiously swam a bit more. Her head and hands hung over a water precipice.

It was the simplest trap, and Super Queen-Mother discerned it in time. She looked the hall over and did not see anything dangerous.

Super Queen-Mother sank in the water in full and reached the bottom. She made some steps on the cave bottom and… came out into the air.

Super Queen-Mother turned back and saw a water column in front of her, hanging in the air without any support. The water’s edge was not smooth. It reminded her of the wall of a gorge, cut out by a mountain stream in the limestone.

This interested her, and she shoved her hand into the water. There were no obstacles to it; her hand freely went into the water and out of it. There were not any special holding devices either above or beneath.

It was not clear what was holding the water. She knew – one had to beware of odd things.

Super Queen-Mother looked over the place.

The farther entrance noisily opened and closed all the time. A piece of the rock worked as a door. It was not just dark, but very dark behind it; it was absolute darkness. When the entrance opened, dry, frosty air came out, forming a tongue of the white hoarfrost, which did not thaw.

Next to it was one more entrance, and it was a model of elegance and beauty. Super Queen-Mother came up closer to it. The entrance led toward the rock.

The floor, enchased with large, polished, colored and transparent gemstones and lit from beneath, was displaying the changing images of her thoughts.

Super Queen-Mother thought about her home, and it appeared on the colored mosaic floor; one could discern even the bay in the sea in the far part of the passage. Color discrepancies looked very original.

The walls, made of the whole mountain crystal, were displaying the most attractive pictures of the surrounding landscape, which only nature could create.

The pictures were brightly shining in her vicinity and became darker farther in the passage, or shone in fragments. Darkened parts shone with soft opalescent colors.