forming narrow but bottomless chasms.
Super Queen-Mother shifted her look to the stadium field. It did not exist anymore. After her first blow it was covered with concentric fractures. After the second strike it disappeared. Super Queen-Mother was on a small islet, which had remained intact under her. The limiter on her weapon had gone off, creating a dead zone around her, to prevent her from wounding herself. It worked as a guide block of cannon, creating a small safe circle around her. Farther there was a bottomless abyss, or, to be more exact, emptiness.
Super Queen-Mother launched the energy for the third time, having decided that «plenty was no plague». If the third blow would add to the second one, it would be a sight to behold.
But the effect of unexpectedness was lost, and the third blow was also blocked. The enormous energy she had shot went away into the space depths in the form of a lonely beam.
At the spot where the beam had hit the planet, a canyon was formed half a mile wide and a mile deep. Its edges were like fritted glass and shone in the light.
Chapter 6
Super Queen-Mother felt the danger. It was multiple and was approaching her at a great speed from all sides. The surroundings instantly became yellowish-waxen.
Super Queen-Mother saw many bright energy arrows, flying towards her. They were portions, or bursts of light in the form of arrows.
Super Queen-Mother raised her both arms, stretched herself and started to perform a snake dance on this «stage» she had made.
«Well, let them use their brains, in the meantime the score is 1:0 in my favor», thought Super Queen-Mother.
She did not want to think that the score 1:1 was just impossible.
Lots of fiery energy arrows actually made her «dance» all kidding aside.
Her body was curving to such extent that it seemed it would break the next moment. She made a sharp bend and then fixed the movement at the extreme point. Her body worked as a stroboscope – every split second it was already at the opposite side. She was trained enough to do such gymnastics.
Arrows meant to kill her flew away into the distance.
«It’s time to stop this strip show, otherwise they can like it», Super Queen-Mother thought and substituted a room with glassy walls for herself, full of crystal ware on glass shelves.
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.
Chapter 7
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
