– Some looked like big smooth stones, moving by over rolling;
– From afar, some judges resembled plants of different shapes, colors, but in a state of flux;
– Many of them looked like earthly lizards or insects;
– There were also quite exotic species – spiraling saucers, pulsating balls, and the bundles of energy, changing their colors.
No one was like her, except, perhaps, distantly.
Many of them did not have eyes, but she felt the look of everyone.
The preparations for the battle began. Though there was no discharge of the starter’s pistol, everybody understood this.
A white film covered all participants. A white cloud wrapped up the judges. They were not seen any more.
The stadium floor had also changed. Now it reminded her of thick glass in its structure.
Super Queen-Mother jumped several times on it – it appeared to be an exact copy of the floor in her training center. The familiar place strengthened her assurance in the victory.
Super Queen-Mother did not want to wait for them to kill her.
«If the judges attacked me before the battle, why can’t I attack them here the first in response? The final word will rest with me in any case», Super Queen-Mother thought.
She jumped up and launched such a powerful energy strike around her that it could destroy the continents, as the Earth Keepers had said. The effect of unexpectedness was in the suddenness of her actions.
The energy discharge was so powerful that it threw Super Queen-Mother up still higher, and she saw the aftermath of her blow beneath her.
The nearest mountain on the horizon just disappeared; huge layers of cracked and splayed ground were coming over each other, creating blockages of many kilometers.
Something started gurgling inside the planet, and big columns of smoke and flame erupted together with white-hot lava and ashes. The roaring of the planet and the howling of red-hot stones, flying at great speed, filled the surroundings.
«It’s your mistake to get in touch with an angry woman», Super Queen-Mother thought, going down to the field. «I will spoil everything here».
She imagined the feelings of the observers. They did not expect such agility from her, and on some reason there was no response from them.
«An encore blow», Super Queen-Mother thought, and sent the energy of the same power once more.
This time all her energy was blocked. Super Queen-Mother saw that the energy she had released seemed to come to some barrier and began to flow along it in flame tongues, rising up from the ground and forming a ball a mile in diameter.
Bright reddish-yellow balls with energy enclosed in them were flowing down from the walls, slowly floating in the air. When they touched each other, a directed explosion tore off the planet’s surface, 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»