Mermaid Silena’s adventures. Fairy tales. Natasha Dol

her new teacher.

      – What is my witch doing now, she’s all alone there! It would also be nice to treat her with palace sweets, – but contritely lowered her head and sighed: – it’s a pity that this is impossible.

      The next day, Silena sailed to school and all her classmates surrounded her and in chorus, vying with each other began to ask what and how:

      – We were worried about you. The witch didn’t hurt you? Did she treat you well? What did you eat there? Was it scary there? Tell us, how is it in the realm of darkness?

      The little mermaid was flattered by such attention and told in detail about the dark kingdom with black pearls on the walls, about toothy moray eels, about a bunch of fish remains. But she kept silent about the fact that the witch is not so bad. She took care of her.

      All the crowd went to the classroom and everyone shouted:

      – Tell us more, more!

      After her return, everything changed. Classmates began to respect her after the successful rescue from the terrible witch, because from childhood everyone was scared that she was devouring girls and boys, and Silena returned even more beautiful than before, with special sparks in her eyes.

      Meanwhile, the witch did not let up: without Silena she had no peace. In anguish, she ate codfish one by one and threw the skeletons out the window.

      – What happened with me? – she wondered at herself, tearing off the sticky leeches from her table. Gradually, she began to realize that, as a daughter, she did not cherish the soul in Silena.

      – I become like a mermaid myself, ugh! I want order around me and a little bit of good. I am ashamed of other sorcerers in eyes look after that, – and laughed softly under her breath: – where are they, other sorcerers then?

      Just by touching the wall of her room, she suddenly recoiled: starting from the black corners to the opening the darkness of the door turned gray and became a little lighter. She thought:

      – Wow, any changes? Perhaps it’s better, otherwise they are all the same color.

      She sailed to make a detour of her kingdom and was surprised to find that there, too, the black haze along the edges of her state began to dissipate. Blueish and greenish colors began to appear.

      – What’s happening? – wondered the witch.

      Silena, eluding her fans, after school, instead of sailing home, went straight to the witch kingdom.

      – Oh, – she threw up her hands, – Where is it?

      What she saw stunned her. Instead of the expected blackness and pitch darkness, she saw the following picture: instead of a black castle, she saw a bluish haze around, behind which one could see the greenish outlines of a palace filled with some colors. She did not know whether to rejoice or be afraid – what happened there? And rather swam to look for her teacher. On the way, looking into every secluded place, she shouted:

      – Witch, where are you?

      And suddenly she saw an unusual picture. Among the slightly pinkish black corals, in a hammock woven from strong algae, the witch swayed lulled by the symphony of her crabs, and snored. Even her dress has changed its color slightly. Instead of greasy black, it turned into blue-violet.

      From an excess of overwhelmed feelings, Silena affectionately hugged her and kissed her on the cheek. The witch woke up, out of habit, that someone disturbed her without asking, she wanted to scream, but she saw her lost student and broke into a happy smile and hugged her in response.

      – You are back? An emerald tear rolled down the bridge of her nose. – I thought I’d never see you again.

      – I missed you too. That’s why I returned. You have become like family to me. I was afraid that I would never see you either.

      The witch grabbed her hand and dragged her towards the lotus.

      – When you left, I forgot to give you the magic scepter. This is your magic tool. With him you will always be safe.

      They swam together and found that there were still bright spots, windows. The sorceress, unaccustomed to seeing the light, could no longer endure the blackness to which she was accustomed, but became worried:

      – Holes should be patched up.

      Silena held her back and said softly:

      – It’s because you decided to change and everything around began to change. Our love and affection for each other works wonders.

      The witch herself began to change. Rejuvenated, facial features have changed for the better. She felt that she had become important to Silena.

      And in the palace, the queen, unexpectedly for everyone and herself, began to change in character and mood. Either she will yell at the servants for no reason at all, or she will freak out that the food is undersalted or peppered and will pour soup on the head of the silver carp cook. And she doesn’t understand what’s wrong with her.

      And Silena swam out of the black haze and sailed away to school, for a joke turning into different fish so that she would not be recognized. She walked in school with classmates and shot small shells at teachers, and they punished other students. The little mermaid also saw her father more furtively when she watched him in his royal affairs.

      So time passed and Silena almost did not return home: some supernatural force did not allow her to leave the old woman. The witch grandmother caressed her, combing her hair, and the little mermaid fell in love with her as a mother. The sea king was no longer worried about his daughter: she had become an adult and it was definitely not necessary for them to be afraid of witches now.

      It was time for school exams and Silena had to make up for lost knowledge in order to prepare and pass successfully. This was the reason that after school she stopped visiting her witch in her even brighter, once terrible, kingdom.

      One morning, the queen, opening the bedroom windows, heard the latest news from the paperboy:

      – Sensation! Imagine, the witch’s black kingdom is no longer black! Her haze dissipated and a palace appeared on the site. it is certainly not as luxurious as ours, but quite tall and attractive. The darkness is dissipating gradually. What’s happening? Scientists are confused.

      The queen furrowed her brows: is everything returning to its place?

      – I need to go there urgently and check everything myself. What if the witch can already leave her possessions?

      She threw on a fiery cloak and quietly rushed headlong out of the palace and rushed to reconnoiter. She couldn’t wait to see everything with her own eyes.

      Meanwhile, the witch looked at herself in the mirror, stroking her flushed cheeks, which had become smoother, and her nose no longer touched her chin. She was surprised to understand that everything in her was really changing. Almost nothing remains of the former witch: a large-eyed, green-eyed mermaid woman was already looking at her in the mirror in surprise.

      And at this pleasant moment, at great speed, opening the algae curtains, a miger queen flew in, who was a real witch.

      – How dare you all destroy?! – she yelled, lashing out at the witch.

      – What have I destroyed? – she jumped away from her. – I don’t understand, what are you talking about?

      The queen hissed and spit in anger. And the more she got angry, the more she became like a witch herself.

      – Why, don’t you remember how I fell in love with your king? More than you! That my mother turned you into a witch and me into you. It’s because I really deserved the king’s love more than you! I even became the best