𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔

      Blaze and I flew here the day before yesterday, in the evening. That is, earlier than you arrived. Of course, we didn’t take planes or airlines for this. I just, as always, used my psychokinetic abilities to move me, our suitcases with things and, of course, Blaze herself. Blaze wanted to sunbathe on the beach and take a couple of photos, and I just flew on vacation to admire the blue sky every day in nature, alone and in silence. Well, you know for yourself, I really love blue skies. After all, in the future, where we came from, there is not a single piece of blue and beautiful sky there at all. When we arrived, we immediately checked into a hotel and spent our first night there! No, no, it's not what you just thought! Blaze and I are just partners. The next morning Blaze changed her clothes and went to the park to roller-skate with the kids. As I said, I went into the forest and admired the blue sky until nightfall. How about until night? Just one hour until such a beautiful view was spoiled by a suddenly flying cloud in the sky, which began to pour rain into the forest. I decided to go back to the hotel and drink a cool lemonade to calm down. On the way to the cafeteria, I saw Shadow himself, holding a wheelchair by the handles, carrying the elderly Maria to the concierge to ask for a room. I was glad to see him and wanted to go up to him to say hello, but he didn’t even extend his hand to me. He just looked at me furiously with his red eyes, as if he and I had once fought and he didn’t trust me at all. My naivety compared to his selfishness looked like flowers in the figurative sense of the word. Only Maria Robotnik gave me her hand and even called me young and beautiful. Afterwards they went to the elevator. Maria’s words were pleasant, but Shadow’s reaction was a little offensive. No, of course I understand that Shadow has always been like this. But he always treated Maria differently, just like he did with Cream. This even worried me more than my longing for the blue sky. Then, as I wanted, I went to the cafeteria and ordered myself a cool lemon juice. While drinking it, I accidentally heard a squirrel and a badger quarreling by the pool: — You won’t do a somersault, damn it! — said the squirrel. — Shall I bet you some ice cream that I can? — the badger answered her and they shook hands. I immediately had a suspicion that she wouldn’t be able to, because with such boasting and such a figure she was far away. But she had nothing to do and she decided to jump into the water, doing a somersault in her jump. And not just jump from a springboard, but climb very high and jump from the highest height. Yes, at such a height it would be more painful to fall even into the water. As soon as she ran and jumped, I decided to help her quite a bit. So, he slightly twisted his free palm, grasping it with his psychokinesis, making it hang in the air, somersault many times more and jump down like a swallow. At the pool, I slowed down the speed of her fall slightly so that she wouldn’t kill herself on the water, and then I let her go. I don’t even know whether to say that that squirrel’s jaw dropped. I stood on the sidelines and pretended as if I didn’t see anything and didn’t know anything. No one even guessed that it was me. Well, except for Blaze, who returned to the hotel at that moment and fortunately did not give me away. She came up to me, sat down next to me and asked: — Silver, why don’t you admire the sky? — There one cloud flew in and covered it. It's not so beautiful. My mood has deteriorated. I don’t even know how I can live with this now! — I explained to her, but she, as always, teased me, saying that I was so naive, and at that moment Sticks, who was sitting next to me and drinking coconut milk from a glass, turned to me. She leaned towards me and whispered right in my ear: — I suggest you perform a calming ritual. Folk healing by the way! Always helps. Your bad mood due to unbeautiful clouds will immediately leave you. Of course, I didn’t expect this, especially I didn’t expect to meet her here and that she, having accidentally listened to my conversation, would intervene in it and offer me such an idea. But still I answered her “Thank you!” and went back to the room. I immediately sat down at my favorite laptop and decided to look on the Internet, something about the very ritual that heals bad moods and replaces them with good ones. Internet searches haven't given me anything yet. There were as many as two thousand requests even after the Internet told me: — (Censorship) you! I gave up searching and decided to go back to the cafeteria in the hope that the badger Sticks was still there and that by some strange chance I was not mistaken. She also started jumping from the pool and swimming, but she still agreed to listen to me: — Oh you! It’s also called a hedgehog from the future! In your modern civilized future, you have generally degraded, having lost knowledge of ancient values, words and folk recipes. — Well, why immediately offend me? Maybe you know some recipe? — No. — she answered first and paused. I didn’t know this yet, and in despair I first lowered my head until she spoke again. — But you're lucky, Silver! I had one friend who now makes money on the Internet from folk recipes and she has a special official website where she contains all these old recipes. And she gave me the website address, which I immediately entered into the address bar. And I was lucky. I saw so many different proposals for various rituals and even the possibility of predicting the future, which can work and come true or not come true at all with only a fifty percent probability. First, of course, I checked this option and I learned the result that perhaps the future in a hundred years, where Blaze and I came from a few years later, while we live here, will change for the better. I would really like to believe in this, but then I had no time for it, remembering exactly why I came here. It turned out that everything was quite easy on that site. It was necessary to draw a circle and a star of the Devil in the center around yourself or a person in a bad mood, no matter how sinful it might look! There should have been one candle around each end of the star and the ritual should have taken place in any room, the main thing was that it was dark there, and the light came only from the candles. The person himself should sit in the center of the circle, meditate and hold a glass with a mixture of several ingredients in one of his hands. Plus, he still has to pronounce the spell seriously and correctly out loud. But more on that later. I had everything for the ritual and even a glass. All that remained was to collect a couple of ingredients for it. First I needed to find a hair, any hair. I felt sorry for cutting off my extra needle from mine on my head, so I decided to walk around the hotel and look, maybe someone’s piece had fallen off and I was lucky by coincidence. While walking on the first floor, I accidentally ran into a whole bunch of blue pieces of needles. I immediately realized that Sonic was probably running around here somewhere, but I still decided to take them with me. Along with them, I accidentally took a piece of needle that was pink. But still, without hesitation, I took it and poured it into a glass. The second ingredient I needed was a banana peel; luckily there was one lying in the trash can in the yard. Of course it stank, but for the sake of the ritual I endured it. Still others needed ashes or ordinary dust. Fortunately, I also found a red pile of bricks on the street, which fell down and I covered it up, and finally I had to fill it with alcohol. Regular beer or vodka. Fortunately, there were a couple of drunks walking on the street, drinking beer and singing all night, not letting anyone sleep. Of course, I immediately ran into them, beat them up a little and even drove them out of here and they didn’t wander around here anymore, and I took one extra bottle from them and poured the rest of the beer into a glass, after which I thoroughly mixed all this slurry with an ordinary broken off tree branch. Returning to the room, I did everything as it should. True, at that moment Blaze arrived. Fortunately, I explained everything to her about the ritual and the mood, and she decided, oddly enough, to join me. It turns out she was also in a bit of a bad mood this afternoon. She was once rollerblading in the park and accidentally slipped on a puddle and fell onto the hard pavement right on her butt. She was in so much pain that she almost burst into rage and set the whole park on fire. But fortunately she restrained herself. And so, finding ourselves in a dark room alone, we began to perform the ritual, holding a glass of liquid with our hands and at the same time pronouncing a spell out loud: I don’t want to be in a bad mood and live with such a fate! I will turn everything upside down and become as if alive!

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— And it worked? — Tails asked, sitting on the bed. — In fact of the matter! We don’t know yet whether it worked or not. Although this afternoon there was not a single cloud in the sky and although I was sad somewhere, I was mostly calm and so I don’t even know if this should be considered a good mood? — suggested Silver. — But I’m concerned about another question: after reading the site, did you really use someone else’s pieces of hair? — Blaze asked, looking around the very site where Silver was sitting. — Well, yes. I even carefully re-read the site and did not notice any error anywhere. It is clearly written there that hair is needed, but exactly whose hair was not specified. Maybe mine was just what you needed? — Maybe! — Blaze said and re-read that line. — Yes. It is simply written that what is needed is a hair or hairs, and nothing else is specifically written. — Wait! I understand! You took Sonic and Amy's hairs instead of yours and performed the ritual with them. That's probably why Sonic and Amy switched bodies. — Tails suggested and took out his calculator and began to count. — It’s just like in the television series “Margosha.” For example, you wanted to bewitch yourself and Blaze, but you collected the wrong ingredients and the one to whom these hairs belong swapped bodies. According to probability theory, this equals seventy-two percent. — What should we do now? — Blaze asked. — Wait! There was a warning somewhere on that very site. — the silver one remembered and sat down at the computer instead of the cat, scrolling the site to the very bottom. — Here! Attention! If a mistake occurs during the ritual to cleanse bad moods, side effects may include attacks of shame, itching, burning, crying attacks, sexual desires, changes in character, redness, chicken pox, and in very rare cases, instead of all this, an exchange of bodies between souls may occur, if the ritual was performed not by one person, but by two, three, four, and so on. In this case, see a separate site on the ritual on how to return souls to their previous bodies! — he read the warning out loud and clicked on the marked word, which immediately transferred him to the desired other site. — GOT IT!!! — the hedgehog cried out with joy, pointing his finger at the new site. — Now we will bring them back as if we had never done anything like that. — The simplest ritual for returning souls to their bodies. Collect any hair from those who accidentally swapped bodies, the blood of some anthropomorphic animal or person, a dead mouse and mix it all with kefir, then cast a spell correctly and seriously so that everything works. Obtimus. Galacticus. Centaurius. — Blaze read the site description out loud. — Great! I'll try to memorize this spell, like a poem. Blaze, you find the right ingredients and put them all in this glass. — Silver said and gave the cat an empty glass for drinking water. — I quickly! — the cat saluted, as if answering a general as a soldier, and went on roller skates from the room to the corridor, and then to the elevator. — And I? - asked the two-tailed man. — And you, Tails, bring Sonic and Amy to us. Tell them that we know how to return them back to their bodies! - answered the silver one. — Fine! I quickly! - the fox answered and also left the room. — Here you go! Again I was left alone. Although I’m not even sad and I have something to do. M-m-m-m-... Maybe that ritual really helped me and Blaze, despite the fact that he accidentally switched Sonic and Amy's bodies? Who knows? — he thought briefly and began to try to read the spell out loud several times. — Obtimus. Galacticus. Centavirus. No not like this! Centavir... Centavir... Ugh! Centaurius! Here! Obtimus. Galacticus. Centavri... Ugh, damn it!

To be continued