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Meanwhile, Silena was backing away, with an effort, afraid to break it, pulled her huge vase out of the cabin, which looked like a closet. The prince fell to the deck under the weight of the scuba gear, and at that moment the mermaid, pulling out the prey, stumbled over him and fell next to the vase in an embrace.
Seeing each other, they simultaneously cried out from the fact that they were face to face:
– Oh, what is it? Human! – she screams in horror.
– Oh, girl! Without a mask on the bottom?! – cried the prince in surprise.
Silena convulsively, not understanding anything, waved her tail, trying to get up, but the vase interfered with her. The prince, rising on his elbows, and seeing the whole picture, screamed in horror, realizing:
– Oh my God, I already have glitches from falling: I see a mermaid, and even with a vase!
Having hit a stone, the balloon was damaged and began to release oxygen – bubbles went. The prince began to choke, waving his arms. Fell and lost consciousness. The mermaid was frightened that the man would die, threw back the vase and quickly called the familiar stingray taxi using her underwater radio. Quickly plunging the breathless diver onto his back, giving an electric discharge, the stingray, shaking its wings, pulled with all his might along with the mermaid and the prince to the surface.
Once on the waves, she directed the stingray to the nearest island. The prince was still unconscious. Silena noticed that the guy was suffocating and tore off his mask. And she threw up her hands in surprise:
– Oh, how beautiful! As if I had already seen him before … – she slightly strained her memory and remembered: – Oh, he looks like my bronze figurine. Blimey? Well, this is what I wanted to meet! – quietly laughed: how quickly it came true.
Her admiration was interrupted by the stingray:
– So, we sailed. Let’s unload, I’m not helping you here. The little mermaid raised her head and saw the shore. Having dragged the prince off the slope by an aqualung, she dragged him onto the white sand of an amazingly fabulously beautiful island with palm trees full of ripe coconuts and thickets of lianas over which monkeys jumped.
Having quickly delivered the victim to the island and dragged him ashore, Silena stroked his hair affectionately. From this, the prince slightly opened his black eyes and in front of him through the muddy haze he saw again the green-eyed beauty mermaid. Opening his eyes wide and shuddering, he exclaimed:
– Again I have a glitch! – groaned and again fell into unconsciousness.
The mermaid furrowed her brow.
– Oh, what strange people: have you seen mermaids or what? How tender and sensitive they are. Slightly that – at once fall without feelings. Hmm, we’re not. We are very strong. If they tried to live in our kingdom, ha-ha, everyone would have clapped in a swoon, – smiling at her thoughts, Silena turned around.
At this time, the horn of an approaching yacht signaled. The mermaid started, frightened, and rushed into the water. Sliding behind a huge gray stone, she hid behind it and began to observe what was happening.
And on a two-story luxury yacht owned by an oil tycoon, a rich heiress and friends celebrated her coming of age. The snow-white ship really dazzled with its luxury. The youth celebrated. The father gave the yacht to his beloved daughter to have fun and the youth had fun, music played, everyone drank champagne.
And then the hero of the occasion, Milena, shouted:
– Today I’m a birthday girl, and I wish those coconuts out! – she held out her hand and pointed to the island.
Everyone shouted:
– Yes, yes, we also want to go to the island. Let’s continue our fun there! Swim, swim there!
The captain moored and immediately saw a man lying on the shore. Shouted into the hand:
– I see a man on the shore! It looks like he needs help.
Everyone rushed to the side, to see who was nailed there. Milena pushed everyone away:
– For my birthday, what kind of adventure? – the birthday girl raised an eyebrow and, seeing a young man really on the sand, she took off her sundress without explanation. Once in a bathing suit, she jumped into the water and swam straight to the prince. Others followed after her.
The little mermaid was scared:
– How many people! And everyone swims to my new friend, – she plunged into the water even more.
Milena climbed ashore and, seeing the victim, knelt before him. His wet hair stuck to his forehead and blocked his eyes. She put them aside and marveled at the beauty of the guy.
At that moment, the prince opened his eyes and saw a pretty girl above him. He closed his eyes from the harsh rays of the sun and whispered inaudibly:
– Who are you? Where I am?
– I’m Milena, I saved you. Are you all right?
The prince again closed his eyes from exhaustion.
Then her friends arrived in time and one of them recognized the victim:
– Is that Prince Edward? – and, jumping up to him, felt his pulse.
Finding the young man and recognizing him, Milena cried out:
– We must inform my daddy and the king! – and quietly added: – how beautiful he is.
She bent over him, and Edward opened his eyes and again saw a dark-haired, brown-eyed girl bending over him and decided that he had only imagined the green-eyed one.
Milena’s friends, forgetting about coconuts, helped the prince to get up, took off his scuba gear and took him to the yacht. Milena patted her thighs contentedly:
– Wow, a birthday present for me!
All the way to the house, Milena held the prince’s hand. Her brown eyes smiled slyly and her voice echoed:
– I saved you, now you, as in a fairy tale, must marry me.
The prince had not yet fully realized what had happened and asked her:
Where are your long golden hair and green eyes?
The girl, smiling, touched her cropped hair and answered:
– You were without memory, so you dreamed of all this. You must have thought the seaweed was my hair.
He took a deep breath and thought to his great regret:
– Along the way, I really imagined all this, – and was upset. – There are no mermaids. Wasn’t there that beautiful little mermaid either under water or on the shore? It’s strange, did she seem to me twice?
From the yacht they reported to his boat that they had found the prince safe and sound. And from Eduard’s boat they said that the bathyscaphe, stuck in the stones, had already been pulled out by themselves and they could swim back.
Milena herself volunteered to deliver Edward to the palace. And she introduced herself to the king as the savior of his son. The father immediately remarked to himself, winding his graying long mustache around his finger:
– And the girl is nothing, pretty, and her financial condition is even better. It would be nice to marry them – it would be a good match for my son, – and, slapping the prince on the shoulder, he winked: but you didn’t waste your time.
But Eduard did not share his feelings and without enthusiasm went to rest at his place, but according to the imposed etiquette, he returned again, having changed clothes so as not to leave the guests and saviors unattended.
And the king invited the savior to visit them more often and organized a reception on her occasion.
After they saw off the guests, the father detained his son:
– Son, stop. I need to discuss something with you.
– Dad, what are you talking about?
– I thought it all over and fate itself favors us. The girl is not of royal blood, but the daughter of a millionaire. Remember, you only have the title of prince, and we ourselves have long been penniless. If you marry her, you will improve the position of the state.