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Far – far away in the ocean, at the very bottom, sea animals live. They live in their small seaside town, which is called Rainbow Reef. The name of this, he got out for multi-colored coral, which surrounds the town from all sides. These corals are so beautiful, it seems, as if the town stands in the middle of the rainbow.

Different animals live in Rainbow Reef: The Head of the town is the Sea Lion with his wife and little kids. He is very big, serious and fair. Marine Leo always knows, that you need to do, so that all the neighbors lived comfortably, and the town remained quiet and calm place. There lives a friend of Sea Lioness, a friend of Madame Jellyfish, which is best of all in town, doing hairstyle, make-up, different treatments for women, so that they remain beautiful and neat how you can last longer. He lives there with Grandmother Turtle nearby, which is never anywhere hurrying, because it is very wise and knows everything in the world. Even in the Rainbow Reef lives Grandfather Whale, it is very large and very old! Whale does not love, when close to him, who is naughty, bullies or swim very quickly, so that he once lost and forgotten, where he floats.

There are many more sea animals living in Rainbow Reef, but this story is about Auntie Flounder, who often visits Sister Cuttlefish. They are long-long gossip about that, about the family, and then Aunt Flounder swims to her house, on the other end of town. The way it is usually passes through a large thick algae by piles of large stones, which, like it seems, so and strive to fall to her on the head, every time, when it floats past.

Many residents of the town said she did not swim past these large boulders, once she was so afraid of, and to get to the house in the path through the central streets. But Auntie Flounder was lazy all the time. “It must be the same!” – every time she thought: “To make such a detour?! I’d better quickly to skip pass the stones, one – one, and I’m at home! Oh, very reluctant to be dragged through the whole city, where you can shorten the path in three times! Yes and how many times I have been there floated, perhaps, five hundred or even a thousand, yet none ever anything did not happen”.

And here, in another time Sister Cuttlefish invited a girlfriend to drink tea with a tasty seaweed cake. Aunt Flounder, like usually, came in the morning, sat at a party since a day and, closer to the evening, enjoy by a pleasant conversation and a delicious treat, then swam home.

The sea was rough that day. Nearby, on one of the islands, an old volcano woke up, it shook the earth on the island, threw out heaps of ash, spewing out lava. Tremors from the awakened volcano reached and to the ocean floor, which shook even the mighty rock.

But in the Rainbow Reef, these tremors were almost not visible and no one especially not worried this day. Aunt Flounder sailed home the usual way, again too lazy to use the central streets. Today she was in a hurry, she really wanted to lie down. Chatting with a friend though and was nice, but was delayed to a day and a bit of her tiredness.

She’s like just floated past the piles of large stones, when the old volcano, shaking the island, spit out another batch of ash and lava.

It shook so badly, that the impetus has come and to the Rainbow Reef. From this jolt, the pile of stones trembled slightly and the topmost stone, moving, silently slid down. He began to fall, first slowly, then all faster and faster. And already almost near the very bottom banged on the other stone, that, probably, and saved the butt of death. Aunt Flounder, when he heard a strange sound, emanated from the top, raised her eyes and, of God! She saw, as the huge boulder falls directly from the sky, well it so it seemed, and that’s – that’s flatten and without that flat head fish.

At last second flounder sharply jerked forward, but this turned out to be insufficient, it is all the same do not have time! No-no, of course, she didn’t die! A huge stone, falling on the sea bottom, all but pressed her tail. But it pressed so strongly, that, as neither tried Aunt Flounder was released from her, she did not turned out. “Here’s the deal!” – thought the fish”. Not for nothing because I was afraid of the stone! But there is in fact, laziness was to sail quickly home. What is now the will, like me are now out of a stone?” – and Auntie Flounder began to cry. But tears grief does not help. A little calmed down, the fish started to think, how to escape, but, as neither tried, in her not encountered any one idea, except how to call someone by anything to help.

– Save! Help! Somebody help me! – cried Auntie Flounder.

But since, this place was considered the outskirts of the city, no one was heard. Here except plaice no extra and no swimming. Meet to somebody here was a great rarity, and today it was even a big success.

How much she tried to flat fish, one way and anybody did not heard her. Already it was beginning to get dark, and the water became cool. Auntie Flounder really did not want to spend the night here, under the stone, and she sobbed again.

At this time, a small fish of the family of fish clowns, baby Spark usually already sitting at home and playing with his brother and sister, but today it was a special day. After all, tomorrow it was necessary to hand over the craft to school, but it was not yet ready, and he swam to look for multi-colored pebbles. In the city a lot of kids lived, and all colored stones, which can been found, has raised other kids and so Spark decided to look to the outskirts, there, where usually no one does not swim. “Oh, on the outskirts, sure I’ll find a whole bunch of beautiful stones and shells” – thought the kid the clown. Clowns these fish named for a bright orange color and dazzling white stripes with black trim, and for that, that they are very fond of fun and laugh neighbors, playing different funny scenes.

Spark is already enough have collected pebbles and shells and already was going to come back, how far away, behind a wall of thick seaweed, heard someone – then cry. It was not even a cry, but rather a desperate sob. The kid probably swam in the side, from which came the sound. He deftly skirted thick algae and their huge leaves, trying to how you can quickly find that, who was crying, and help him. Spark, finally – then, I pushed, through the last bush and jumped on the meadow, next to a pile of stones.

And what did he see there? Yes-yes, Auntie Flounder, which, is desperately trying to get out from under a huge, stone, crashed it on the tail, then, exhausted, he falls on the sand and begins to sob. Fish clown rapidly rushed forward, grabbed into teeth the fin flat fish and that there are forces began to pull back, trying to get a neighbor of trouble.

– Yay – yay – yay! – screamed a flounder, began to beat on the sandy bottom, raising clouds of dust – oh – oh – oh! It hurts! Here, wait! They are already trying to eat me! – it is, the clouds of sand, even, impossible to notice, that is its small neighbor came to her to help.

– Aunt Flounder! It’s me, Spark! – the boy cried out in fright, – and I want to help you! I wasn’t going to eat you!

– Oh, it’s you! – sighed the flat fish – and I then, it was thought, that all, came to the end of my life!

– Aunt Flounder, do not get to pull you, yes, and hurt you, if I drag you.

– Of course it hurts! He grabbed with his teeth! – the fish moaned plaintively. Although Spark‘s teeth were small and he, like and all other fish clowns, rather pinched, but was not biting, from funk butt seemed, that it is not just nipped, but already and bit off half of the fin!

– Yes, that won’t work, – the kid decided, – I’ll have to call for help.

– You’re right Spark, the flounder shouted happily. Before it only today realized, that it is there is not one, and that the small curious child can call on the help of adults – rather swim in the Rainbow Reef and bring the help!

And the baby swiftly swam into the city, already shouting from the bushes: “I ‘ll be back soon, don’t worry!”.

When Spark sailed in the town, the first one he saw was a flock of dolphins, who were returning from the school grounds. Guys often lingered on her after lessons and played in a ball, catch up and other various games. Among dolphins Spark saw and brothers – bullies Bip and Bop, which often fell into the unpleasant situation of and his love for different kinds of pranks. And this is not surprising, because their parents all the time spend on the job! They are speak: “To feed a big family, we have to work since morning till evening” – justified by parents Bip and Bop, – “to study for them doesn’t cost any forces any time”.

Dolphins, like usually, played in one of their favorite games, when they heard the cry of the small clown:

– Guys, guys, help!

– What, Spark, happened? May be he frightened by his own shadow? – cheerfully asked Bip. And all dolphins loudly laughed.

– Or is the Giant Octopus chasing you? – added Bop, -you do not be afraid, this little thing, like you, he simply did not notice! – and the dolphins laughed together again.

– At this time all seriously! Aunt Flounder got in trouble!

– It must be the same! – Bip grinned, – today she was ahead of us! And all the dolphins cackled together!

– Auntie Flounder was crushed by a large stone!

– Yeah, and flattened! – Bop laughed and everyone laughed again. All know, that the sole is flat fish and a joke has turned out of success.

– Why are you laughing, her tail is crushed, she suffers there, – squealed the little clown.

Here dolphins understood, that the matter something serious, stop laughing, face them become thoughtful and focused.

– Where is it? – I asked someone of the dolphins – There, in a pile of stones, that in the forest of algae.

– Let’s go! The dolphins shouted and rushed to the aid of the flounder.

When they arrived to that place, where flounder was crushed by stone, dolphins saw, that flat fish is without strength and on the tail of her lies a huge boulder.

– Yes, indeed! – said one of the dolphins on behalf of Husky – but, no, because I’m from you the most powerful, is now I “ll move this stones! He rested his nose on a stone and quickly – quickly, began to wave his tail and fins. But, how far about it or puffed, as he neither puffed up – nothing in it is not turned. Stone does not move either to the millimeter.

– Give me a chance. Now I will try, – said the dolphin on behalf of the Fatty. He was even and weaker than a Husky, but really not much, but it was much bigger than him and all the other dolphins in the pack. He sure as well rested in stone nose and have it, exactly as the same, nothing has not happened.

– Come in bulk together, – proposed Husky – as well! And he tried to push the stone, but it is so, and remained standing on the same spot, and more specifically on the tail Auntie Flounder.

– What should we do? Us so much, but together we are not able to swim to the rock, to push it – indignant Husky. And indeed, though the stone was great, but all together push it didn’t not seem possible, because the push it needed was only back, but with one side of the stone was that most stack, from which he fell. Enough space only a mighty man, so Fatty.

– I came up with, – exclaimed Spark, – we will push each other!

– What? How is it? How can this help? – did not understand the dolphins.

– First in the stone rests on the nose Fatty, and he in the back, at the top fin, rests Husky, then Bip rests in the back of a mighty man, and Bop to the back of Bip. And so is everyone else. And I ‘ll try to help Auntie to slip out from under the stone.

– The idea, as always, is a great kid! – Bip said.

– Only you need to push at the same time, all together on the count of one, two, three! – said the little clown, not even noticing the praise.

– Come on guys! Live up, let ‘s build! – said Husky, – Fatty, you are the first, I follow you!

– Then I, -Bip said.

– And then me, – Bop said, – and then everyone else! Hurry!

And they lined up one behind the other, Fatty leaned his powerful nose in stone, Husky buried him in the back, and so did each dolphin. They froze in anticipation.