The general Vladimir Kramar, correcting aiming of radiators (and not without success, from the new incinerated cruiser there were only monoblock sticks), with regret noted:
— It is easy to kill, it is difficult to revive, and without violence it is impossible to live in general!
Lira, operating the star racer, discharging the next stream of destruction, and looking as the ship remade from cargo transport, is also entangled by a plasma network, designated:
— The death as the faithful companion, will surely come, but if you want to take a walk longer with whimsical life, prove the devotion to mind and courage!
Gengir Volk hoarsely bellowed, continuing witty verbal turn:
— To fools they receive laws not of a pisana, but the sanction for their violation also for that clever who wrote these laws!
Organized resistance of polytypic armada is broken. Flight in space open spaces is similar even to a mountain collapse, it a tornado at once the covered midges jamb brought down and picked up all at once... Prosecution began. As if the pack of wolves drives herd of sheep. Only stelzana where the evil, are more ruthless than wolves. For them it even a question not of a survival, and demonstration of an unbending will and ruthless rage. Pursue, torment, do not allow to leave. And though many children will not wait for the parents (and here beings from floors, same-sex to dozen gathered), and mothers, fathers, neutrals, the sons, daughters and still not particularly whom... What valor in similar murder when even firing in partridges demands more ability and a pressure. Fragments flooded space and fall on stars, causing coronary indignations, prominences, plasma whirlwinds on a surface. Separate stars even change colors, from a set of foreign objects, especially terribly if the being having the personality burns down alive, and the personality is the whole world.
Even the vacuum can begin to cry, from such defeat...
Everything stopped suddenly as if did not begin at all. The armada of fleet of Purple Constellation stiffened, and her opponents at once disappeared. It seemed wings, and paws of space Egyptian vultures pasted to space and could not move. And in too time nobody felt the slightest concussion or a push. All events were beyond usual physics.
The lira furiously roared:
— It who such, abrupt what managed to stop us?
Gengir Volk looked with undisguised hatred:
— I do not know... It in principle is impossible though...-General-stelzan having lowered a voice, before whisper having obviously been frightened, it was given by nervous running by ice eyes on the parties, added. — But here so can stop at once millions of spaceships only Zorgi.
The lira quietly, even scornfully answered:
— It, of course, annoyingly, but nobody not in forces to forbid to be at war to live individuals, and to us to stelzana to win!
Kramar Razorvirov, having defiantly yawned and having thrown itself into a mouth, similarity of abruptly filled sandwich, vigorously chewing, but at the same time by quite distinct voice, summed up the result:
— The remaining enemy as not finished the cure illness — wait for complications!
Chapter 1
Again here blood flows like water,
Your opponent by sight abrupt.
But you will not give in to it —
And you will return the monster in darkness.
On a black velvet, a bottomless heavenly carpet the sparkling splinters of stars are scattered. The stars which are poured in all flowers of a rainbow so densely cover the heavenly sphere that it seems as if several huge sun faced together, blew up, having scattered is dazzling the shining dew.
The planet which hanged between uncountable star garlands looks a small, imperceptible point. It looks like a hematite particle among diamond scatterings.
On the place of the huge crater formed as a result of falling of the annihilation rocket the Galactic Colosseum is located. Highly over it so huge bright projections holograms of the carried-out duels sparkle that it is possible to watch the course of single combat with the naked eye from far space.
In the center of the grandiose, richly decorated stadium, just also there took place the riveted on itself attention of billions of individuals, ruthless and fascinating fight of gladiators.
The prostrate, splashed by blood body of one of them, powerlessly shudders...
In the head — a cannonade, as if covered you with a blast wave which split flesh on the molecules continuing to be torn, burning as if tiny atomic bombs flashes. The effort of will, desperate attempt to gather — and here a crimson veil seemingly slowly settles, but does not cease to be turned before eyes. The haze as if feelers clings to surrounding space... Painfully, flour in each section of the torn to pieces body.
— Seven... Eight...
It is heard, hushfully, as through a dense veil, a voice of the passionless computer.
— Nine... Ten...
It is necessary to rise quickly, to rise sharply, otherwise there will come the end. But the body is paralyzed. Through a dense red and smoky haze the opponent is vaguely visible. This huge three-legged monster — diploroid. It already lifted the thick and long crest, being going to bring down an edge of a live guillotine with an enormous force. Two enormous claws on each side rapaciously revealed, the third extremity long, prickly brushing away a tail of a scorpion, being behind, impatiently scratched an arena covering. With opposite, hilly, in green warts of a muzzle, yellow, smelly saliva — hissing and smoking in air dripped. The disgusting freak hung over the brawny, blood-stained human body.
— Eleven... Twelve...
Now words become painfully deafening as blows of a hammer in eardrums. The computer considers slightly more slowly than standard terrestrial measures of time. Thirteen are already a knockout.
The decision was born in fractions of a second. Suddenly, sharply straightening the right leg, and using left as a spring, in frenzied rage having dodged as a leopard, the person put the strongest loukik directly on the nervous center of the alien monster — silicon magnesium to a hybrid of a crab and toad. The blow was strong, sharp and exact, besides coincided with oncoming traffic of a beast. The monster of sub-space (intermediate habitat, capable to travel between stars being replenished with energy of electromagnetic waves, but in the manned worlds a predator; not disdaining a consuming of organic chemistry of all types) slightly settled, but did not fall. This kind of diploroid has several nervous centers that strongly distinguishes them from other creatures. The blow to the largest of them caused only partial paralysis.
The opponent of the monster, despite big shoulders and relief muscles, was very young, almost the boy. Lines of a ruddy face thin, but expressive. If they are not distorted by pain and rage, then seem naive and gentle. When it appeared on the arena, on stands even there passed the disappointment rumble how peace and harmless teenager, the person gladiator looked. Though now, it is not the boy any more, and the enraged young of wild animal, eyes throw up such frenzied hatred that it seemed, will incinerate not worse than the ultralaser. From the struck blow the guy nearly broke a leg, but continued to move with speed of a cat, though limped a little.
Pain cannot break a cheetah, it will only mobilize, all hidden reserves of a young organism, entering into similarity of a trance!
In the boy's head as if thousands of drums beat, on veins and sinews streams, unrestrained energy. A series of the powerful accented blows to the mastodon case followed. In reply the monster swung sharp in half-centner weight claws. Usually at these animals reaction of jugglers, but the direct shot on a nerve ganglion slowed down it. The young fighter, having made a somersault, left from a terrible crest and it appeared behind the back of the monster. Having held up a knee and having passed a hand from claws, the young man struck blow to it with an elbow, having enclosed all the weight, and made sharp turn of the case. The crunch of the broken extremity was heard. Having appeared under the wrong corner, the claw was distressed, blood scattered small fountainlet, stinking, zhaby color. Though the touch of the liquid which is throwing up from a creature, lasted all a moment, the young gladiator felt a severe burn, on a breast and the right hand pale crimson blisters were instantly blown up. It was necessary to jump aside and break off a distance. The animal cast out a painful cry — mix of a roar of a lion, croaking of a frog and hissing of a viper. In mad rage the monster rushed forward — the young man covered with mix of blood and sweat, having made the somersault cascade, flew away to an armor grid. With running start, having enclosed all the weight, the monster struck with a crest, seeking to punch the opponent's breast. The young man left from blow, and the thick crest stitched through the metal gauze. Continuing to move by inertia, generation of a space underworld thrust the extremity in the following network with the most powerful charge of current. From a fencing sparks departed, categories walked on a mastodon body, began to smell the flaring metal, and unimaginably vile burning organic chemistry. Any terrestrial animal would be dead, but this representative of fauna it is visible at once that absolutely other corporal structure. The monster could not pull out the trunk at once — and a series prompt as rotation of blades of the propeller, blows followed. However an electrostatic charge, with small lateness having overcome resistance of alien flesh, prebolno sadanut the young fighter. Having jumped aside, having constrained shout, from tearing the piercing each vein and a stone of pain, the gladiator stood and, having crossed on the scratched hand breast, began to meditate standing. Its immovability against nadsazhivayushchegosya an animal and storming as a storm of public seemed unusual as if at the little god who appeared in a scorching heat.
The boy was quiet as a surface of the stood ocean, he knew... Only one reception is capable to cut down such monster. Very powerful blow.
Having broken off a crest to pieces of bloody meat, diploroid jumped all the weight on the become impudent hairless monkey. Unless it is possible to allow some small primacy to win a victory over himself. Having collected will, having concentrated all charkas and energy in a uniform bunch, the young man struck the strongest blow in a jump. This most ancient reception of Haar-Marada available to the little is capable to kill also the one who puts it. The blow had in already prostrate nervous main center of the huge fighter. Its body weight and speed increased force of kinetic energy, and, this time, the nerve ganglion was not simply injured — from concussion several main nervous stalks became torn. The Kristallo-metallichesky giant was finally paralyzed.
Hulk flew away in one party, the young man — in another.
The cybernetic judge a deep voice counted:
— Time... Two... Rub...
He considered in language of stelzan.
Both fighters lay not movably, in the last blow the young man broke the monster, but itself broke a leg. However the consciousness did not manage to hang up to the end the gladiator, and the boy athletically put, overcoming pain, rose, having raised the crossed hands squeezed in fists (a victory sign in a sign language of the Empire of stelzan).
— Twelve!. Thirteen!. The fighter, the native of the planet Earth — Lev Eraskander won. Its age 20 native years or 15 standard. This is the debutant on the combative arena. The champion of galactic sector of Ikhend-16 according to SSK of fights without rules, the participant with a rating 99:1:2 — to Asceses verd lost it Asonet whose age of 77 standard years.
Somewhere from above the multi-colored play of light flashed, being dissolved in the improbable, incorporated all infinite scale of space, kaleidoscopical shades of a rainbow.
The hologram on which fight was shown grew to seven thousand kilometers over a dome of the former ancient theater. The young man represented an entertaining show. The person in blood. The broken jaw swelled, the nose is flattened out. The torso in bruises, burns and scratches, crimson blood flows down together with then. The breast waves from tension, each sigh gives severe pain of the broken ribs. Bones of hands are broken and swelled up, one leg is broken, the thumb is beaten out from another. A look — as if you were passed via the meat grinder. Not on age convex muscles play as mercury balls. They lack weight yet, but the magnificent relief and a deep portrayal are evident. The handsome — you will tell nothing. Apollo after fight of titans!
The deafening roar of hundreds of millions of throats sounds, generally it is humanoid beings with wings, trunks and others. They make an uncountable set of sounds — from low-frequency to ultrasonic ranges. Infernal cacophony suddenly is interrupted by measured thunderous sounds. The anthem of the greatest Empire of stelzan sounds. Music is deep, expressive, terrible. Though Lev also did not love the occupational anthem, the music simulated by the hyper plasma computer and executed on thousands musical instruments shook imagination.
From a reasonable animal prostrate restrictedly the whole pool of fetid, poisonous-green blood flowed out. The mobile path (colors khaki) was smoothly come off by arachnoid robots dustmen, scraping off the broken protoplasm. Probably, now the monster was fit only for secondary processing.
Four enormous soldiers in fighting suits ran up to the exhausted young man. They reminded huge hedgehogs with rockets and barrels instead of needles (impressive the arsenal was such at them).
The governor Kross coward hid for their very broad backs. It, obviously, was confused, he did not expect that the "invincible" local champion will be beaten by some terrestrial person. His thick hands shivered with nervousness when it handed a chain with a medal in the form of the monster reminding a fantastic three-headed dragon. The governor even not to touch the representative of insignificant race of primacies, at delivery of an award used gloves with thin sliding feelers, without having left cover of immense hulks of security guards. And then Kross fast retired, having jumped into the winged tank, having flown up with precipitancy of the artillery shell which is thrown out from a long-range gun.
Having directed laser automatic machines, terrible soldiers-stelzany demanded to leave the arena of the star Colosseum. Reeling, the young man left a battlefield. The crippled bare feet left trails of blood on a hyper plastic covering of a ring. Each step as on the heated coals, blows up pain, sheaves are stretched, all stones and veins painfully ache. The lion quietly whispered:
