𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      Before the sun had risen and morning had come, Amy had already slept and woke up much earlier, stretching her arms up and yawning. More precisely, she tried to yawn, but all she could hear was a sigh. This made her wake up even faster in surprise. Lightly touching her throat with her palm and trying to say something, she unfortunately could not utter a word. This must have been the side effect the witch had warned her about. This is exactly how she lost her voice. Probably forever. Anyway! Waving her hand, the hedgehog decided to look where her tail usually was. But what a miracle! Instead of the long-familiar red fish tail with red scales, she had real and pink legs. And even with real small fingers, which she could even move. There were no limits to her joy. Along with her legs, she also noticed that she was wearing a long and beautiful dress, red, and even with sequins. Overall, the dress suited her too and it didn’t even make her look fat. Perhaps she has this dress instead of the scales that were on her tail. Having finished admiring her legs and new clothes, Amy tried to get up and stand on her feet. To begin, she assumed a sitting position on the boulder and placed her right foot on the sand. Touching the sand was a little cool. Because the witch promised, she did not feel anything so painful. The foot directly touched the ground as if soft cotton wool had stepped on a hard stone. Then she stepped with her other foot as well. Everything was still fine. But when she tried to get up and stay on her feet. Here it was already a little difficult. The hedgehog had just raised her butt with a small tail from the seat when her legs began to shake slightly, as if they were trying to hold something heavy. However, she was not going to give up and tried to hold on. After all, this is her first time trying to stand on her feet, so this is normal for her. At first she bent over and tried to stay in the doggy style position. Then the hedgehog rose slightly so that she could stand straight and not slouch. Well, here's the problem. She still couldn’t stay on her right leg and fell on her right side. Luckily, she fell straight onto the sand, which softened her fall slightly. — “Ugh! I didn’t think that even trying to stand on my feet would be so difficult.” — she thought to herself in her thoughts. — "Okay. I will try again. Still, not everything works out the first time.” Bracing her hands on the sand, she tried to get to her feet again. At first it was hard to hold on again. Still, when you had a single fish tail, it was easier with it, because at least you could move it. And there are two legs. This is almost almost the same tail, only divided into two pieces. And it’s not easy to control them separately from each other and each one separately, when it was easier for you to control one tail. After standing on her haunches for a while, the hedgehog again tried to rise and stand up straight. This time she almost learned to control her new lower body. My knees were still shaking slightly. Over time, Amy was able to control herself and finally learned to stand straight without moving. It was already clear how to stand still. All that remains is to learn how to walk on them. To begin, Rose lifted her right stupa. Suddenly she felt like she was about to fall again, losing her balance. Waving her arms from loss of balance, she steps with her right mortar a little further from herself. She was also afraid to raise her left leg, thinking that she would fall. Therefore, pressing it to the sand, she simply moved it closer to the right one in order to stand up straight again. From the shift, along with the left stupa, a little sand was picked up, like a shovel. — “I didn’t think that learning to walk would be much more difficult than just standing. But no one promised that it would be easy!” — in her thoughts she confidently decided not to give up and try again. This time Amy decided to lift her left leg, but before doing so she decided to slightly change her balance to stay on her right. It was more difficult that she waved her hands again out of fear. Then, having caught her balance, Amy froze in place, arms outstretched to the sides, as if she were learning to walk on a tightrope. Having finally learned to stand upright on one leg, the hedgehog takes her first and normal step. The left stupa steps a couple of centimeters forward from the right, again stepping on the cool sand. Then she slowly raises her right leg, while standing on her left. Trying to stay on her left leg, Rose miscalculated a little, trying to hold on and stretched her right leg back, holding it up. She now stood in the pose of a ballerina, but there was no time for pampering. She straightens her right leg and moves it forward, taking another step. And then she takes turns doing almost the same thing. First, she raised her left leg and took one step forward, then the other, again the first, again the other, and so on. While holding her hands raised in front of her, the former little mermaid looked at her feet and did not see where she was going. She didn’t hit one of the candy-shaped rocks too hard, so the collision didn’t hurt. Turning one hundred and eighty degrees to the right, she tried to go back this time. Now she only looks straight ahead, so as not to bump her head somewhere again. Step and step again. Step and step again. Her joy was not an aisle. She learned not only to stand, but also to walk. — "Happened!" — she rejoiced in her thoughts and slowly walked first behind the rock, where the castle was located, as she remembered from yesterday. Having walked around the rock and walked a few steps towards the palace, she looked around and noticed nearby a large field of only grass, without trees. Out of curiosity, Amy wanted to try walking along this very field, and leave the trip to the palace for later. She walks slowly across the field and walks, and then with each step she decides to speed up the movement of her legs a little. At first she moved slowly and with each step, accelerating by about one millimeter per hour, she began to run. It was so great and fun that the hedgehog, despite the lack of a voice, even laughed a little with joy as she ran. She was so carried away by running, gradually climbing a huge hill, that she did not look at her feet at all and accidentally tripped with her left mortar on a small snag that stuck out in the ground. Nevertheless, this did not spoil her joy, but even increased it. Stumbling and falling on the grass, she rolled down the same hill like a log, uttering: — Ue-e-e-e-e-e! Having rolled down like a log from top to bottom, the hedgehog lay down between the grass and, smiling with her eyes closed, slowly took a breath. — “I can’t believe that I did this!... I can’t believe that I did this?” — she thought to herself and was almost overjoyed. - “Now I understand why people need them.” The sun has already risen from behind the forest and morning has come. At this time, in the same field with small and beautiful green grass, Prince Sonic was walking, walking his faithful dog Yuki with him. They walked through the field and breathed fresh air until the Doberman smelled a familiar smell. Having recognized the owner of the smell, which was pointing to him somewhere behind two large hummocks, he ran there. — Yuki, where are you going? — the prince asked him and ran after him. — Did you hit the squirrel tracks again or what? The Doberman ran around one hill and ran to the same pink hedgehog who was simply lying on the grass and enjoying her new life. She opened her eyes, hearing something sniffing nearby. At that moment Yuki himself had already approached her and licked her nose. He immediately recognized her, for it was the same mermaid who was on the ship and who saved his owner. — Yuki, where did you run off to? — the blue hedgehog himself came running immediately. The faithful dog barked and stood on his hind legs and rested his front legs on the prince’s chest. — What's wrong with you, baby? — and then Prince Hedgehog drew attention to Amy Rose lying on the grass. — "Now it is clear!" — he thought and tried to talk to her: — Don’t be afraid! He doesn't bite. Yuki is very kind despite his scary appearance. He offers her his hand to help her up. The hedgehog did just that, extending her hand to the hedgehog. Holding hands, the prince helped the little mermaid to her feet. When Amy came under the sun's rays and Sonic looked at her, he really liked her. Besides, he saw in her someone he had seen before. Only now he has already forgotten about it. But the hedgehog still reminded him of this someone and that made him sympathize with him. — “Did he really recognize me?” — Amy thought and smiled at Sonic, who scratched his chin and continued the conversation: — Listen, haven’t we met before?... I just have the feeling that we’ve already met before... I seem to remember yesterday there was a shipwreck, I almost drowned and then one girl saved me ... It seems like a mermaid... True, no one believed me... — he came slightly closer and whispered in my ear: — They think that I just swallowed water and that I just accidentally landed on the shore. — and then he continued to talk normally: — Maybe they are right... But you... I remember well the face and smile of that mermaid... What is very strange, they look like her... Well, like the mermaid who saved me . Maybe it's you? Or are you just similar to her?... Sorry, I didn’t introduce myself! I am Prince Sonic Hedgehog the seventh. Do you have a name? What is your name? Amy immediately wanted to answer him that her name was Princess Amy Rose. But I just immediately remembered that she had no voice. Which means she won’t be able to answer him. That made her slightly upset, putting her hand to her throat. — What's wrong with you? — the prince began to worry about the girl. Amy didn't know how to explain and simply patted her neck with her hand. -Does your throat hurt? — the hedgehog shook her head in response, answering “no” and patted her neck again. — What? Does your neck hurt? — She shook her head again and patted her neck again. — Is there something stuck in your throat? — the hedgehog hit herself on the forehead with her other hand and hissed through her teeth. — “Terrible Neptune, is he serious? How can I explain it to him correctly so that he understands?” — Rose wondered in her thoughts. He lowered his head down and noticed how the Doberman was holding a stick in his mouth. He places this very stick on the ground and looks up at it. By moving his paw on the stick itself, he seems to hint to her what to do. Finally, Rose, with the help of the dog, came up with an idea. Raising her hand with her index finger, she asked the prince to wait for now. Leaning down, she picks up a stick and writes on the ground the words, which the prince himself read aloud: — I have no voice. That's why I can't talk... Ah! So, are you dumb? Well, I would have shown it right away. — the prince answered, and the hedgehog erased this inscription from the ground, passing her hand several times and writing a couple more words on the ground, which Sonic also read aloud: — My name is Amy Rose... So Amy? Beautiful name! In gratitude, Amy also wrote him a reply on the ground - I like your name too. Then Amy gave the stick back to the dog, stood up and she and Sonic looked into each other’s eyes for a long time. They looked and smiled. The face and smile of that hedgehog, which was unfamiliar to him, again reminded him of that very little mermaid. It was already beginning to seem to him that perhaps this was her. Or maybe it’s just different, but similar to her? And even though he had been in love with someone else for a long time, this hedgehog still seemed beautiful to him. — “She may be dumb, but she is beautiful. Even if she is not the one I remember well. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I'm sure it's possible that she is." — Sonic thought about Amy. — “If he remembered me well and loved me like a mermaid, then maybe he will love me like that?” — Amy thought about Sonic. Yuki moved a little further away so as not to interfere with the hedgehog and the hedgehog admiring each other. It seemed that nothing could ruin such a romantic moment. But no! It still can. An ordinary squirrel ran past and, as soon as the Doberman saw it, he immediately ran after it. He ran and barked at the same time, interrupting the prince and the little mermaid’s glances at himself. — Stop, Yuki! Where are you going? — Sonic ran after the dog. At that time, the squirrel and the dog ran into the black forest. — Stop! Don't run into the black forest! It's dangerous there! Sonic didn't want to run any further. He was afraid that he might get lost in the forest. I was also afraid for the dog, because this is not just a forest, but a labyrinth. In despair, the prince lowered his head and almost cried. — “Unfortunate! This dog is apparently dearer to him than all treasures?” — Amy thought, going up to the prince and hugging him to feel sorry for him. Stretching her palms forward, she convinced him that she would also run into the forest and return the dog to him. The prince grabbed her hand and did not let her go there. — No! Do not go there! This is not just a black forest, but a labyrinth. You too can get lost there and stay there forever. — he assured her. Amy lightly removed his hands and continued to smile while looking at him. Bend over and this time write on the ground with your index finger the inscription “Don’t worry about me, Prince Sonic! I will definitely find your Yuki, find a way out of there and return to you. There is always a way out. Even in any hopeless situation, if you don’t give up too early.” she ran into the forest. Sonic remained between the forest and the field, watching the hedgehog go and worrying about her.