𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      Amy returned home to her old and beloved crystal palace. Home Sweet Home. She couldn’t wait to tell her father how she felt on the surface that day and what she saw there. Of course, she will remain silent about Prince Sonic, whom she saved, and about the badger with whom she communicated. Especially about that witch. After all, it would not be enough for her to once again endure the mockery of her elders, as well as her father’s screams. Although she didn’t even suspect that they would end up. She sailed into the throne room of King Tiraton and bowed to him. The king himself was indignant and serious. It was as if something had angered him and he was not in the mood right now. — Have you returned? — he asked Amy briefly and she nodded silently: — Well, what did you see on the surface? — and then Amy quickly explained to him only that she was on the beach and admiring the scenery. She kept silent about the rest. The king raised his eyebrow and asked incredulously:— Really? — Is there something wrong? — Amy asked, not understanding anything. — Young lady, please answer one of my questions! — the king asked, raised his free hand and snapped his fingers. — Turn back! Amy turned around and saw that the seahorses had dragged the same statue of Sonic with a shield and sword that she had seen a couple of times before into their throne room and placed next to the dining table for meetings. When she saw the statue’s face, she smiled, remembering Sonic again. Fortunately, my father didn’t see this except for seahorses. — Do you recognize him? — Tiraton asked his daughter. Amy was silent for a long time at first. Then she turned and looked bored and lied: — I see it for the first time. Who is this? — she asked, pointing her finger at that statue. Although she herself knew perfectly well who it was. — Don't take me for a fool! — Tyraton answered sternly, hitting the floor with his trident and stood up from the throne. Immediately, older brothers and sisters emerged from behind the columns, looking menacingly at their little sister. — We know that you were on a human ship and communicated with one of them. — said a teenager, about eighteen years old. — And the fact that you saved one of them. — added the mermaid at the age of twenty-two. — Don’t you understand that relations between us and people are prohibited? — a mermaid of about seventeen intervened. — I don't understand? What are you about? — Rose asked, although she understood perfectly well what they were asking. However, she didn't understand how they knew? — Don't pretend to be an innocent lamb! — Tiraton spoke at that very moment. — Your faithful companion Lomar, sent by your older brothers and sisters, has been watching you all this time. He told us everything about what really happened to you. How could you disobey me again? Why did you save that hedgehog? Amy realized that she couldn’t get away with it and would have to tell the truth: — But he was drowning. — Yes, I don’t care! — the king waved his free hand. — There would be one less person, and this is no longer our concern. — You don’t know him. — the little mermaid justified the prince she saved. — Don't know? — Tyraton asked indignantly. — I don’t have to know anything about him. All people have the same face and the same character. They are all the same and cowardly barbarians who throw harpoons at fish. — No. He's not like that. — Rose stated. — How do you know? — the father asked his daughter. — Maybe he was deliberately pretending to get you to gain his trust, and then before you have time to come to your senses, he’ll stab you in the back. — In order not to yell at her, the king tried to calm down and sighed heavily: — You have always been so stupid and naive, who always trusts everyone’s words. I don’t even know what to do with you? Don't even know? — Dad, I’m sorry, I... — the little mermaid wanted to repent to her father, when he immediately interrupted her, again indignant: — You understand that because of this criminal carelessness of yours, you have disgraced our family. What about our family? You are a disgrace to the entire mermaid race. Do you want to disgrace us all? — I didn’t disgrace anything or anyone... — she wanted to justify herself, but Tiraton interrupted her again: — Not only did you violate the conditions, not to rise to the surface until you are allowed once, when you turn fifteen. So you still dare to break the most important rules? — Don’t you really care that I... — and again the father interrupts his daughter: — Try not to be seen by people and not talk to them. How many times did you have to repeat this? One of these barbarians might have seen you. — No, they are not barbarians... — Rose wanted to justify the people she saw on the ship, but her father interrupts her again: — They are dangerous! On the contrary, I’m trying to protect you so that you don’t fall on the hook of one of these fish-eaters, and you spit in my face with your stubbornness. And this is your gratitude? — I'm already fifteen! — the little mermaid said through her teeth, trying to hold back her anger from the fact that her father was interrupting her again and again and did not allow her to explain: — As long as you live in my ocean, you will no longer float to the surface! — LET YOU TELL ME??? — The little mermaid couldn’t stand it and screamed. — DON'T YOU DARE TO RAISE YOUR VOICE AT YOUR FATHER!!! — the father shouted back to his daughter. — LISTEN TO ME!!! — she shouted even louder, and the king interrupted her again, shouting even louder than she was now: — I AM THE KING OF THE SEA!!! AND NOW YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME, NOT I TO YOU!!! UNDERSTOOD??? Amy got angry, hissed through her teeth, could not stand it and took a plate of cookies from the table out of anger. Out of anger, she wanted to throw them at her father, the king. The latter even got scared and covered himself with his hands, thinking that she would actually throw it at him. Luckily her siblings intervened, grabbing her by the arms and tail. Rose tries to free herself from their grip and shouts: — LET ME GO!!! I'M ALREADY FIFTEEN, I'M NOT A CHILD FOR A LONG TIME!!! I MYSELF HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE THE WAY I WANT!!! YOU ALL ONLY THINK ABOUT YOURSELF!!! IT'S NOT FAIR!!! — BE SILENT!!! — the king shouted at the top of his lungs so loudly that the whole world around him would probably have heard him. The walls of the crystal palace shook slightly from such a cry from the king, but then calmed down and froze. Even the children, including Amy, looked at their father in fear. At the moment of screaming, a black cloud, similar to ink, formed around him. Even the lightning flashed and rumbled under the water at the same time as the king’s anger. The father calmed down a little, absorbing the cloud back into himself, but still remained just as angry. — I consider myself a wise ruler, I make laws, and I expect that these laws will be executed. However, you dare to contradict me with your show off. You never listened to me, Amy. She always violated my prohibitions and always swam even to places where even my most experienced and fearless guards were always careful. Why did Neptune give me such a disobedient daughter like you, when I have twelve of my most faithful and obedient sons and daughters? They, unlike you, always listen to me. They even love me and appreciate my laws and rules, unlike you. You are an impudent and disobedient fish. — AND YOU!!! — Amy couldn’t stand it again and screamed. Truth paused and took a breath. The king stood up from his throne and swam up to her. — Well, well!... What did you want to say about me?... Come on! Negotiate! — He hissed at her through his teeth. The poor thing again could not stand such provocations and still shouted: — AND YOU ARE AN OLD EEL WITH A BAD HEAD!!! The brothers and sisters simultaneously widened their eyes and gasped, looking at their little sister. Sea King Tiraton did the same. He did not expect to hear such an insult from his daughter in his direction. He was offended and at the same time he became even more angry. — So this is how you answered me? — he whispered under his breath about Amy. He took her little tiara from her head. — I am King Tiraton, I deprive you of the title of princess! — he then grabs the red crystal heart-shaped beads on her chest and rips them off her. — And your family connection with us! From now on you are no longer my daughter! And they are no longer your brothers and sisters. You are no one to us now. I am King Tyraton, all father, and I sentence you, Amy Rose, for numerous violations of my rules with decrees, to imprisonment in the black tower. For life. Having lost hope of justification and freedom, Amy despaired and lowered her head down, barely holding back tears. It was useless to try to explain further to her father, because he still wouldn’t listen to her. Tyraton floats up a little higher, aims his trident at the Prince Sonic statue and shoots a long red beam of light at it. The beam, like a deadly laser, incinerates the statue, breaking it into trillions of small pieces of grains of sand. The trident then slightly smoked under the water, and the king blew out the smoke. — That's it! — he added through clenched teeth. — Since you didn’t mean well, then everything will be like this. For the bad. To her tower!

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      All in tears, lying on a hard stone bed, without a pillow and without a blanket, Amy cried bitterly, sitting in a kind of dungeon cell. She sat on the bed, pressing her tail to herself and wrapping her arms around it like legs. She was so desperate and didn’t know what to do now? How can she continue to live? How can she get out of here? And the worst thing is that her best birthday in her life was ruined because of her father. Just like that! — “What a fool I am!” — she blamed herself. Although in reality she was not to blame for anything. Despite the fact that she was under water, and even in the tower, due to the long shedding of tears, snot formed in her nose. She takes out a hidden glove with cuts for the tips of her fingers from under her hair and blows her nose into it, after which she wipes her tears from her eyes. When she noticed her, she was surprised. After all, while she was returning to the palace, she had already forgotten that that sea witch had given her that glove. Her voice immediately sounded in my head: — “When the time comes and you still decide to agree or refuse, just put it on your hand and snap your fingers with it. This is a magic glove. When you put it on and click your fingers with it, I will immediately appear in front of you.” Rose had a hard time making a choice. However, considering how brazenly they treated her and the fact that she was imprisoned in a tower because of the trifle that she simply saved a person, she firmly decided that she had nothing more to lose. Stopping crying, squinting her stern gaze somewhere at the wall and taking her will into her fist, she decided to make a choice. — Since you treat me like this and have never loved me, then you don’t need me at all. I will leave you forever and then you will probably regret that you treated me so brazenly all my fifteen years. — she said sternly out loud and put the magic glove itself on her hand. After that, with serious confidence, she raised her gloved hand to the top and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, in the chamber of the dark tower, next to the little mermaid, a small top appeared, which was spinning in place very quickly in the form of multi-colored bubbles. Then these same bubbles dissolved and the same sea witch Rouge appeared in front of the former princess, next to her in the cell. — What? What happened here? Why are we in the cell? — she asked herself rather than Amy herself. When she finally noticed her, she smiled at her. — A! It's you? I see you have already decided? — Yes. — Rose answers, after which she closes her eyes and inhales through her nose, clenching her hands into fists and says in all seriousness: — I... Agree. — Good girl! And now click your magic glove again so that we both move from here to my cave! — Rouge politely asked Amy, and the latter obediently did what she asked. When Amy snapped her magic-gloved fingers again, a whirlpool of multi-colored bubbles appeared around both of them, as if they had been sucked into a hurricane, tornado, or tornado. Then the bubbles dissolved and the witch and the little mermaid found themselves again in that same skull-shaped cave. And most importantly, Amy was finally free. Free, outside the dark tower. Rouge opens the nightstand again and takes out a shell-shaped bottle with a magic potion inside. — Here! Take it! — Rouge says and gives the bottle to Amy. Taking it in her hands, the little mermaid first looked at it for a long time, then took off the lid in the form of a stone and wanted to take a sip, when the witch stopped her: — Stop! Not right away! — Why? — Amy didn’t understand. — First, dive out, swim to the nearest shore and drink it only there. It is necessary. Because when you get legs, your lungs will change. Because of this, you will no longer be able to breathe underwater and will drown. So first, sail as far to land as possible! — the witch instructed, covering the drink with the same lid that the little mermaid had previously removed. — Please! If you don’t listen to your family, then at least listen to me! Do everything this time without curiosity and breaking promises! — Good good! I promise. I'll swim right now. Fortunately, I already know where I need to swim. — Amy answered and was about to leave this place. However, she stops at the exit. Something alarmed her and forced her to stand still. Then she returns and, unexpectedly for Rouge herself, hugs her as a sign of gratitude. — Thank you. — she whispers in her ear. The witch smiles and also hugs her in response to goodbye, clasping her back not only with her arms, but also with some tentacles. And then she let her go. — Goodbye! — With these words she left the cave and swam to the shore. It was already evening and the sun was slowly sinking over the sea. Amy Rose left him, swimming to the same beach with a rock garden. After leaving the shallow water, she crawls to a large boulder, on which she sits. A shell-shaped bottle with a magical drink inside was in her strong hands. She removes the lid in the form of a pebble and at first did not dare to drink it. She seemed to be wondering again, does she really need this? Looking for the last time at the sea and at the sun itself, which was setting behind it, the hedgehog became sad. She will miss the sea, in which she was essentially born, grew up and lived. But on the other hand, she will no longer be bothered by these older brothers and sisters. Even my father wouldn’t dare to get her out here and lecture her. Considering how they treated her, she decided it was the right thing to do. Let her live away from them in another world, where she might be accepted and loved for who she is. — Goodbye, sea! — she whispered under her breath, crossed herself like a Catholic and began to drink the contents of the potion. Having drunk the entire bottle to the last drop, all that was left was an empty shell in the hands of the little mermaid, which she put aside. Looking at her hands and tail, she has not yet noticed any changes in herself. Suddenly she felt sleepy. Reaching her arms towards the top and yawning, she lies down on the boulder itself with her back, as if on a bed. Looking up at the brown sunset sky, her vision blurs and her eyelids droop. Amy fell asleep without noticing it herself.