𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖘𝖊𝖆 𝖘𝖍𝖊-𝖍𝖊𝖉𝖌𝖊𝖍𝖔𝖌

      In Prince Sonic's palace, everyone was slowly beginning to prepare for the future wedding of Sonic and Sally. The chef and his daughter prepared appetizers and a large white cake with figures of the bride and groom. Uncle Robotnik at this time chose a place for the wedding somewhere in the backyard, next to the garden. After leading a long red carpet to the center, he brings two chairs there and lays out each chair for witnesses. In the end, all that remains is to install an arch at the end of the carpet. It will just be hard to do. Rouge watched this from her bedroom window and decided to help Robotnik a little. She goes to her personal chest with her things and takes out the smallest iron arch from there. She also took two bottles of potions. One had orange liquid and the other had green liquid. She placed a mini-arch at the end of the carpet and poured the first flask with orange liquid on it, after which she stepped back a little. The small arch immediately expanded and became so large that even a trio could fit there, not just a couple. Then she poured green liquid next to the arch. Vines with red roses began to grow around the arch, which coiled around the arch like a snake. The arch was ready. When Robotnik saw her, bringing the last two chairs, his eyes widened and his mouth opened at what he saw. The witch turned to the butler and winked at him, to which the latter calmed down and smiled back at her. Sonic and Sally were currently sitting near the fountain, as they had promised Silver and Amy, to leave them alone for now and not disturb them. Sally and Sonic were still sitting near the fountain, looking at each other and not talking about anything. Unless they were still thinking. Maybe don’t rush at first and postpone their wedding until later. Then they noticed that Silver and Amy went out through the gate, while also taking Yuki with them for a walk, after which the guards closed the gate behind them. They decided to walk together around the city among the people. After seeing and realizing this, Sonic and Sally decided to return to the palace. Silver had not left the palace for a long time and had not seen how they lived outside the walls. Therefore, he knew little about the people and how to live here. Fortunately, Prince Sonic taught Amy herself this and now she herself decided to help him with this, just as the prince helped her. First they went to the stables and ordered horseback riding for an hour. Having left the town with the horses, they quickly galloped across the field and jumped over pits. The hedgehog and the hedgehog had fun together from all this, and even the horses themselves had fun running across the field and taking risks. They were lucky to be alive. After a fun ride on horseback, they returned the horses back safe and sound. And then they also went to the market, where some nations are still on strike against the richest and most selfish people, for the benefit of the poor, who have little or no money. When they saw Amy, they recognized her and immediately decided to step aside. Silver, passing by them, said: — Prince Sonic and Princess Sally will get married soon. — Is it true? — Knuckles was happy. — Is it true. Come to the palace when you are free, if you are interested. — Yes, we can do it now. — Tails replied. — “Good luck to you, Miss Rose and Mister... Eh...” — Hans added, not knowing the name of that white hedgehog. — Silver. Just Silver! — the hedgehog introduced himself to them and followed the hedgehog further. On the way, he saw a stall with dolls that were put on hands, where they showed how a knight with a stick beat an ogre. Out of curiosity, Silver took one of these dolls, removing it from his hand. While the puppeteer was trying to find that doll, not understanding where it came off and fell out, Amy took it away from Silver. With her index finger, she silently asked him not to do that again and returned the doll to its owner, leaving behind one piece of paper with the inscription — “Sorry! We won't do this again! Amy Rose and Silver." Noticing one beautiful place, Amy silently pointed there with her finger and, taking Silver by the hand, ran with him. There were dances held there and everyone could dance with their partner. Amy and Silver also decided to join in and dance there like a real couple. They danced different types of dances from ballet to cha-cha-cha. It wasn’t just a day, but a real fairy tale, as they both thought. It even seemed to Silver that this was probably a dream and he was only dreaming of all this. But even if so, then he even wants in this case to never wake up, so that he can always live in such a beautiful dream. Amy, in turn, believed that this was all probably her Heaven, since she had probably already died and this is what Heaven looks like to her. Even the Doberman almost ran and jumped next to them for joy.

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      Evening was slowly approaching and Amy and Silver decided to take a boat ride on the river for complete romance. Having rented one of the boats, Amy sat in the back seat while Silver sat in the front rowing with the oars. Yuki made himself more comfortable in the middle of the boat. While they were swimming, they continued to look at each other. Although they could not see where they were going, they generally only swam straight and did not crash into anything. They didn’t even notice how they swam the entire river and swam out to the open sea. When they swam out, from afar, the crab Lomar, sitting on the stone rocks, watched them. Rising very high on the tip of the rock, as if on a mountain, he places his right claw against his mouth and prepares to hang down. Yuki suddenly stood up and looked around. With his sixth sense, he began to feel that something was wrong here. As if danger was lurking somewhere. Leaning out slightly, he clenched his teeth and growled. — What's wrong with you, Yuki? Did you see the squirrel? — Silver asked him. Rose immediately realized that Yuki must have sensed something dangerous and suspected something herself. Looking around Amy immediately realized that they had sailed very far from the shore and quickly put on her hat, after which she spoke in her thoughts: — “Silver, let’s better go back! Otherwise we have sailed too far.” — Oh, what a pity! I would swim even longer, at least until the sun goes down. Okay! We swam back and home to the castle. — says the hedgehog and slowly turns the boat back. They just turned around and were about to swim back, when suddenly a crab on the rock whistles very loudly, like a crayfish on a mountain. Amy, Yuki and Silver, of course, heard this whistle and when they looked at the rocks where the whistle came from, they saw no one except the crab. Amy immediately realized that this was the same crab Lomar who had been telling her father about her disobedience. After the whistle, the crab itself jumped off and headed towards the shore. Silver, not understanding anything and thinking that the children were probably playing around there, shouted back: — HEY KIDS, DON'T WHISTLE!!! THERE WILL BE NO MONEY!!! Yuki at this time ran to the other side and began barking there. Suddenly, two sea urchins appeared from this very side. One is pink and the other is black. They looked menacingly at Amy and Silver, grabbed the edge of the boat and turned it upside down. Amy, Yuki and Silver capsized along with the boat and fell into the water. The hedgehog even managed to scream, Yuki just yelped, and Emi simply opened her mouth and bulged her eyes, unable to scream without a voice. Finding herself at the bottom, Amy felt for the first time in her life that she, as a human, could not breathe underwater. With her cheeks filled with air in her mouth, she looks around, grabs Yuki and emerges with him. Through force, they together turn the boat back over and climb onto it. Only the hedgehog and the dog got out of the water, but Silver remained there under the water. Amy was about to dive back into the water after him, when suddenly the formidable king himself emerged from under the water in the guise of a black and scarlet hedgehog with a black fish tail and a trident in his hands. — So so so! — he said, looking menacingly at his daughter, who had become a man, and at the dog, who himself was looking menacingly at the king and was ready to pounce on him in order to bite him painfully. Tiraton aimed his trident at the Doberman and began to threaten. — Don’t even think, dog freak, otherwise all that will be left of you is ashes. Rose hugged the dog and looked menacingly at her father, thinking: — “Let you only dare to touch him!” — And I thought that you were not worried about this mongrel, but about your loved one. — the king grinned evilly and swordfish emerged from under the water next to him, along with four daughters, including Biara. They grabbed Silver and tied him up with rusty chains. He took a deep breath from outside and began shouting: — WHO YOU ARE??? UNTIE ME, YOU FREAKS!!! — We freaks? Look who's talking, land monster! — Biara answered him, grinning. — “SISTERS, LET HIM GO!!!” — Rose mentally asked. — Sisters? — Silver repeated questioningly, looking at Amy. — And what did you think? Although she disobeyed us so much and became as ugly as you with legs without a tail, that she doesn’t even deserve to be called our sister. — Biara answers. — “LET HIM GO, YOU ONLY NEED ME!!!” — she screamed in her thoughts, almost with clenched teeth, looking at them. — Don't even dream! — the sea king answers her. — You're stupid, Amy. You've always been a fool. You never listened to me. You have always been the sharp coral at the tip of my tail. No, even in the tips of the tails of your own sisters whom you betrayed. Ever since you escaped the tower and became human, you have betrayed us all by becoming one of those freaks on land. — What is he talking about, Amy? — Silver didn’t understand. The king looked at the white hedgehog in surprise. — How?... Didn’t she tell you anything about herself?... — he asked him, but Silver still didn’t understand anything. The king grinned and continued: — Amy Rose, my... Former daughter. The youngest in the family. She's a mermaid, just like the rest of us. — What? — Silver couldn’t believe what he heard and looked at Amy. He didn't understand why she hid this from him and from everyone. The dog Yuki moved his muzzle away from shame, for he himself had long ago guessed and knew the truth, but he himself did not reveal it to anyone, so as not to give it away and upset it. — But now that she has legs and has become a human, she is not worthy to be called my daughter. — the king finished speaking to Silver, and then he turned to Amy, aiming his trident at her, preparing to kill her. — How many times have I told you not to go to the surface with these freaks from the land who catch us and kill us. I tried to be your beloved father and protect you in every possible way... And you, having become one of them, spat in my face. Silver, although not understanding anything, intervened and shouted: — DO NOT TOUCH HER, YOU... You... Soulless beast! — Soulless beast? — the king was indignant and looked menacingly at the hedgehog. — For your information, people, I love my sons and daughters, I care about them and try to raise them to be just like me, honest, obedient and decent, so that they take care of their people and know perfectly well what a danger you pose to all of us all of you. It's you, soulless people, real beasts. You throw hooks on strings with nets and catch us all, after which you serve us and eat us like cannibals. You don’t think about anyone but yourself and money that no one needs, you poison the air, pollute our beautiful waters in the seas and oceans, catch us, kill and even poison us. You are not almost better than all of us. You all people are monsters! An infection from which the whole world needs to be rid of long ago, so that only we, peace-loving mermaids and fish, can live in harmony. Silver immediately dared to speak out: — Not true! For your information, we're not all like that! There are those among us who are well aware that all this is bad and that this should not be done. Not everyone catches fish and eats it. Not everyone extracts minerals while killing nature. And not all people are such soulless egoists and scum who think only about themselves and about how they can earn even more money. And these few people even want to make the whole world a better place, so that there are only people like them everywhere. But unfortunately, not all people around the world realize this and not everyone wants to live the same way as those. — You're lying, landlubber! — the king answers. — You people are always so bad and selfish. It's always in your blood. You only think about yourself and always lie, even when you are on the verge of death, just to stay alive. We, mermaids, at least are not afraid to die, unlike all of you, and even if someone tortures one of us, we would rather die than give away our secrets to someone and thereby at least one will die, for then this one will protect a thousand of his own kind. — “Dad, please! Let him go! He has nothing to do with it. You only need me." — I’ll let him go, of course. — Smiling maliciously, her father answered her, and then grinning evilly along with his sisters, he added: — I’ll let him go to the bottom so that he will choke there without air and drown. — "NO!!!" — Amy was scared for Silver, and the Doberman began barking at the king: — Woof! Woof! Woof! — Yes. But don't be afraid! I won't kill him right away, but later. I want to teach you a little lesson, Amy. I want you to suffer and find out for yourself, so that your conscience will finally awaken, because you never listened to me in vain and argued with me. I know about the curse that still affects you. You can die at dawn if the one who loves you more, and the one you love more, marries someone else? Is not it? — having asked this, he approached Amy, looking at her from above and smiling maliciously. The daughters immediately laughed evilly. Silver was shocked to hear about that curse and that she could die. He immediately remembered that conversation yesterday near the fountain, when she asked him what he would do if he found out that he would die tomorrow at dawn. Back then, she was first in love with Prince Sonic. — Amy!... Why didn’t you tell me all this? — Why? — Biara asked him indignantly. — Because after leaving us, she decided to break with her past and forget about us, in order to henceforth live with you freaks on land and start a new life. — You can’t run away from the past, even if you try to forget about it. — the sea king added and swam a little back, he shoots a trident at Silver and conjures a kind of bubble with air on his head. Then he gives the order: — Take him to our palace and lock him in the tower! — We obey, the wetness is higher! — the swordfish answer and dive together with the sisters, except for Biara, who stayed behind to mock the younger one a little: — Tomorrow, when we arrange a wedding with this hedgehog, I will marry him at sunset the next day. And when after that at dawn you turn into sea foam and you are gone, then I will immediately kill your beloved with this dagger. — she said threateningly, showing in her right hand her knife with a golden skull on the handle. — I will plunge it into his heart, rip it out of his chest and then eat it. After what was said, she laughed evilly and the father himself also laughed evilly with her. After which they began to slowly dive under the water. Finally, the king looked at Amy menacingly and added in parting: — Suffer to your health, traitor! From now on, I am no longer your father, and you are no longer my daughter. And you never existed for us. When they sailed away, Amy was very angry with them. She breathed with anger through clenched teeth, and the hat translated into her ears her next thoughts about her family: — “You!... You!... YOU BEASTS!!!” — With these thoughts, she threw one of the oars into the water. — “SO THAT YOU GET CAUGHT ON THE NET AND ALL THE SCALES ARE RIPED OFF OF YOU!!!” Having calmed down a little, she raised her head up and began to cry, sitting down and clasping her legs with her hands. Despite the fact that she did not have a voice, she perfectly produced the sounds of crying in and out. The Doberman lowered his ears and almost cried like a dog, lightly crawling under the hedgehog’s arms and sitting down next to her. Amy hugged the dog and petted him, for he was the only one who now understood her current grief.