𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      Early in the morning, a large ship with sailors from distant lands sailed on the open sea. Its passengers and crew sailed home to their native lands, not forgetting to catch fish along the way using seines. Among the crew on the ship was Prince Sonic, a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog, helping other people secure the masts and looking around at the beautiful sea around them. The prince really enjoyed watching the sea and smelling the wonderful smell of salty waters. — Isn't it great! We are sailing on the sea. Nobody but all of us. No pirates, no sharks, no storms, no hurricanes. Great, isn't it? — the hedgehog addressed his closest friend, a badger named Hans Badger Anderson. — Yes, Your Majesty. Respect! - Hans lied, showing his finger up so as not to upset the prince. In fact, he suffered from seasickness and for a long time looked at the sea itself with a green head. - Oh-oh-oh! My mother told me that I should often go to the local monks so that they could charm me against seasickness. — Mr. Anderson, are you not feeling well? - Sonic asked him, and he stood up, quickly pretending that everything was fine with him and denied in response: — No no no. Everything is fine! Is it true! I was just interested in the sea myself. Have you heard legends about sea creatures? - when Hans started a speech about who, in his opinion, probably lives under water, it helped him take his mind off seasickness and his head became a normal color. — Sea abodes? You mean about fish? - Sonic asked. — No, I meant about... — Anderson looked around, asked the prince to bring his right ear closer to him and whispered to him: — mermaids. — Oh! Well, he’s at it again! — the red echidna rolled his eyes, pulling out a net with a bunch of caught fish. — Prince Hedgehog, don’t listen to him! You know what an eccentric psycho this is. Hans didn’t like the way they said about him, he went up to the echidna, picked up one of the fish in his hands and slapped him on the cheek with it. And then he shouted: — I'M NOT CRAZY, I'M NORMAL AND WHAT I'M SAYING IS NOT NONSENSE, IT'S THE TRUTH!!! — Having finished shouting, he began waving his arms towards the sea, and even threw the fish itself back into the sea. — Every sailor knows perfectly well that in any open ocean, at the very bottom of the sea, beautiful creatures live. Half people, half fish. They rarely swim out of the water and sometimes just watch us, but unfortunately they themselves do not want to swim closer to us and at least talk. They didn't even try. And if someone dares to swim after her before she swims away, then perhaps some one along the way... I don’t know... A shark will eat you. — Mr. Anderson, it’s correct to say eat. — Sonic grinned, taking the steering wheel in his hands. — No. This. It will devour. - Hans explained. — Hans, I swear that if you talk about fishmen, fairies or goblins one more time, I will throw you overboard. — the echidna threatened. — Then let’s see if your imaginary sirens will save you. — MERMAIDS!!! — Anderson corrected him with a shout, but the echidna continued to be stubborn: — Well siremaids! I also found a teacher. Hans got angry at this mockery and pushed the echidna towards the railing. Leaning his back against them, he almost fell. However, he accidentally slipped on one of the fish, which managed to escape through the net and was trying to jump back into the sea. Having slipped on it, the echidna fell overboard into the sea. The poor fellow began to flounder in the water, twitching his arms and shouting: — SAVE ME!!! HELP!!! I DROWNING!!! One of the ship's passengers picked up a lifebuoy with the inscription "Titanic zero" and threw it into the sea. Echidna managed to grab the circle and, turning it over, put it on himself. Now he will not drown, for the circle was much lighter than water. — Hold on, Knuckles! Now we will lift you back up! — says Sonic and lowers down a long ladder made of ropes with boards. — Leave him there! He will know how to mock me. — the badger said sternly, folding his hands on his chest. — Mr. Anderson, don't be so vindictive! — the prince asked him politely. - Every person deserves a second chance! Knuckles walked up the stairs with a life preserver around his neck and climbed back onto the ship. — Thank you, prince Hedgehog. I am your eternal debtor. — he answers the prince with a bow, and then looks menacingly at the badger. — And I’ll remember this for you! Next time I will throw you overboard, not you me. — Calm down, Knuckles! — the hedgehog politely asked the echidna and gave him a mop and bucket. — You better start cleaning, otherwise the whole deck will stink of fish. And in the future, try to keep your mouth shut so as not to blurt out anything. — Yes, prince Hedgehog! Sorry! — he apologized with a bow. — I don’t need to bow down, Knuckles. I'm not a king yet. — Doesn't matter! I am so grateful to you and sorry for you. — explains the echidna, after which he dips the mop in a bucket of water and begins to scrub the deck.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sea

      It's Amy Rose's birthday. She finally turned fifteen. At the request of the sea king, his sons and daughters, despite their hatred of their youngest sister, decided to escort her to the surface with honor. So they did. They only escorted her to the main gate, and stopped there, deciding that Amy would swim further on her own. Any normal child in the body of an adult would immediately think that something was wrong here and would be afraid to swim further. However, Amy has been swimming like this for a long time, since she was not yet fifteen years old. Therefore, she did not ask such questions and swam further on her own. She didn’t even suspect that a little crab had been sent after her to watch her. At the same time, he was forbidden to come into her sight. She sailed as far as possible from the palace so that she could not be seen from afar at all, and only then she swam up. On the way, she noticed that one unfortunate catfish was stuck between the corals and could not free itself. — Help! I am stuck! — he called for help in a hoarse voice, since he had been here for a long time and had been screaming for a long time, but no one heard him. The little mermaid was sorry to see such horror and swam up to help the unfortunate fish. Using the force of the spruce, moving the corals to the sides, the catfish fish freed itself. — Thank you, madam. — he thanked her hoarsely and swam away, and the little mermaid of the hedgehog swam further upward. Sticking only her head out of the water, she began to look around. There was nothing around yet. Just the open and boring sea and the sky above. There was also a small, but slightly scorching sun. It didn’t get so hot in the water, but outside it was really hot. Moreover, when she looked directly at him with her eyes, she almost went blind. It’s good that she had a reflex that made her eyes close. And under water, looking at the sun itself was much safer and there was no need to cover your eyes. Having finished admiring only the sun and clouds, the hedgehog decided to swim further, only forward. She hoped that if she swam even further, she might swim to the nearest shore.

An hour and a half later

      She wasn't wrong. The earth with stones, located deep, began to slowly go up, like a mountain. Swimming even further and at the same time higher, she came to shallow water that went to the beach behind a large rock. The beach looked beautiful, because there was also a rock garden. Large stones, like rocks, were lined up in various shapes and arches. Coming out of the water and sitting down on one boulder, she examined the beach itself. Somewhere in the corner of the rock, a small lizard crawled past, approached the wall and suddenly disappeared from sight, as if it were not there. Nothing could destroy such beauty and the pleasure of cool air from the surface. Except for the music that suddenly appeared behind the rock. The little mermaid wondered what kind of music this was and where it was playing from. Despite having a fish tail instead of legs, she crawled in leaps to a large rock and lightly stuck her head out. Behind the rock was a large palace. The music came from there. There were also some enthusiastic cries coming from there and probably some kind of celebration was going on. If she could, she would crawl further and look at the palace itself inside and how they have fun there. However, she did not want to crawl further from the water, since she was a little afraid that if she stayed too far from the water, she would dry out in such a scorching sun and die. Crawling to the shallow water and swimming further, he swam around several rocks and looked at the palace itself from the other side of the water, where, unfortunately, there were no banks to climb up there. Climbing the rocks themselves would be stupid and impossible. After watching the palace, listening to music and enthusiastic screams from there, until it all died down at one moment, the hedgehog was upset that such wonderful moments ended so quickly. Feeling sad, she decided to swim back to the palace. Having dived to the bottom, she swims and swims until she notices someone's shadow below. Raising his head up, the hedgehog sees a large ship above him. She became curious and decided to dive out again and see what was on the ship. Having emerged, she heard the voices of people on that same ship. Fortunately, there was a ladder hanging nearby. Despite the speed of the ship, she managed to swim to the ladder, grab onto it and begin to climb up it with her hands. Climbing up to the wooden railings, she grabbed them and began to watch the passengers and crew of the ship. The red echidna was scrubbing the deck and at the same time dancing with his butt, the passengers sat on chairs and clapped their hands, and in front of them a blue hedgehog danced in place, blowing a wonderful melody into a flute. When he finished blowing, the hedgehog bowed, and the audience clapped their hands loudly, rising from their chairs. — Thank you everyone! I am very pleased with your applause. The pink hedgehog with a red fish tail liked the hedgehog itself. He seemed more attractive to her. He was probably almost similar to her race in some way. Only instead of a tail he had legs, like all people. — How attractive he is. — she said to herself. At that moment, Hans himself heard her, who was still standing near the railing from seasickness. He mistakenly decided that the girl was addressing him about the prince and replied: — Agree. Sonic Hedgehog is the kindest and bravest prince. He was the only one who dared to challenge the treacherous pirates, the captain of the shovel, while other sailors were afraid of them. If it were not for him, we would not have opposed them and would not have freed the seas for further trade relations. — Having finished, he raised his green head and turned his gaze to the hedgehog. Luckily, he didn't notice her tail. — Sorry for interfering in your conversation. Perhaps you weren't talking to me? — Not really. Thanks for explaining. I didn't even know about it. — she answered the badger and continued to watch the hedgehog. At the same time, she was even a little shocked that he noticed her and calmly communicated with her despite her tail. In the literal sense of the word. — Is it true? — Hans didn’t believe it when he asked her. — Hm. Somehow I don’t remember you among the passengers. How long have you been here? — Um... — the little mermaid began to think about how she could explain to that anthropomorphic badger so that he would not suspect her. — And I... Drowning woman. — Drowning? — Yes. My ex threw me overboard, and then you swam by. Only I am embarrassed to approach your captain and ask him to come on board. - she lied. - By the way, who is your captain? — Prince Hedgehog. — Anderson replied, pointing his finger at the prince. — If you want to come on board, don’t stand behind the railing! Let's board our ship! He wanted to take her hands and help her climb on board, but the little mermaid crawled away from him, also holding on to the railing. — No, no, no, please! I'm shy. What if your prince-captain is against an extra passenger? — What are you doing? Do you want me to go up to him right now, ask him and even introduce you to him personally? — Hans asked and without waiting for an answer, he immediately went to the prince. — “Oh-oh-oh! What did I blurt out? What will happen now? — she thought and for a minute, she imagined in her head that that prince was giving her his hand, allowing her to climb on board. And when everyone notices that she has a tail instead of legs, they gasp, and then get angry and take out knives, threatening her. Returning to reality and moving away from these thoughts, she decided to unhook herself from the railing and fell back into the water. At this time, Hans led the prince to the railing, where the little mermaid herself had been holding before. Lo and behold, she’s no longer here. Hans was shocked, because he definitely saw her. — But! But! But! — Oh! You better go to sleep, Anderson. Because of seasickness, you’re already imagining all sorts of drowned girls. — Sonic calmly asked Hans and took him to the sleeping cabin, leaving him there alone. The badger sat and thought: — “But I’m not crazy. I really saw her and even heard her.”