1 The Storm

THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

神秘的岛屿

CHAPTER One The Storm Keee-kkkk! Lightning crackled and flashed outside the windows of Eric Hinkle's basement. But he and his friend Julie could only look at the soccer ball in the corner. Boooom! The thunder two seconds later told them the storm was only a couple of miles away. "Neal is going to freak out when he sees," said Eric. Neal was Eric and Julie's friend. Julie stared over his shoulder. "I'm freaking out already," she said. "Let's call him. His eyes will bug out. He's got to

第一章风暴咔咔！在埃里克·辛克尔地下室的窗户外，闪电噼啪作响。 但他和他的朋友朱莉只能看着角落里的足球。 Boooom !两秒钟后的雷声告诉他们暴风雨就在几英里之外。 “尼尔看到会吓坏的，”埃里克说。 尼尔是埃里克和朱莉的朋友。 朱莉盯着他的肩膀。 “我已经吓坏了，”她说。 “我们给他打电话吧。他的眼睛会睁不开的。 他必须这么做

see this—now." The two friends ran up the basement stairs to the kitchen. Eric picked up the telephone and punched in Neal's number. Another flash of lightning made the phone crackle in his ear. "Hello, Neal?" Eric said when his friend answered. "You've got to come over right away." "Are you kidding? There's going to be a humongous storm in five minutes," Neal replied. "Besides, I'm getting ready to eat. It's lunchtime." "It's always lunchtime for you," Eric said. "Forget food, Neal. This is important." Neal sighed. "It'd better be, for me to pass up one of my mom's tuna fish sandwiches. I'm coming." After Neal hung up, Eric and Julie glanced out the window. The sky was getting very dark. Eric began to smile. "Good day to hang out in my basement." "You mean, hang out in Droon," Julie added. Eric chuckled. "Of course that's what I mean." In Eric's basement there was an entrance to another world. A world that Eric, Julie, and Neal kept secret. The mysterious and magical world of Droon. Droon was a place where a good wizard called Galen Longbeard and a young princess named Keeah battled a very

看到现在。”两个朋友跑上地下室的楼梯来到厨房。 埃里克拿起电话，打了尼尔的号码。 又一道闪电使他耳边的电话发出噼啪声。 “你好,尼尔?”当他的朋友接电话时，埃里克说。 “你得马上过来。” “你在开玩笑吧？”五分钟后会有一场巨大的风暴，”尼尔回答说。 “再说，我要吃饭了。 现在是午饭时间。”“对你来说，这永远是午餐时间，”埃里克说。 “忘掉食物吧，尼尔。这很重要。” Neal叹了口气。“对我来说，最好是让我放弃我妈妈做的金枪鱼三明治。 我来了。”尼尔挂断电话后，埃里克和朱莉朝窗外看了一眼。 天空变得很暗。 埃里克开始笑了。“来我家地下室玩的好日子” “你是说，在德鲁恩闲逛，”朱莉补充道。 Eric咯咯地笑了。“我当然是这个意思。” 在埃里克家的地下室里，有一个通往另一个世界的入口。 一个埃里克，朱莉和尼尔一直保密的世界。 神秘而神奇的德鲁恩世界。 德鲁恩是一位名叫长胡子盖伦的好巫师和一位名叫姬娅的年轻公主战斗的地方

evil sorcerer by the name of Lord Sparr. Droon had all kinds of strange creatures, too. Galen's assistant, Max, was a spider troll, half spider, half troll. He could climb up anything and spin sticky webs with his eight long legs. And then there were the Ninns. They were Lord Sparr's nasty, red-faced warriors who flew around on big lizards known as groggles. And a witch named Demither. And—Boom-ba-boom! The sky flashed outside, and thunder boomed just as the back door opened. "Yikes!" Neal charged into the kitchen. "I think that storm followed me!" Eric opened the basement door. "No time for talk. Everybody downstairs." The moment they got to the bottom of the stairs—kkkkk!—the basement flashed white, and—ba-boom!—the walls rumbled, and—splish!—rain splashed hard against the house. "Hello, storm," Julie said. "All right," said Neal, stepping into the basement. "What is more important than tuna fish sandwiches?" "That." Eric pointed to a corner of the basement. The soccer ball—Julie's soccer ball—was sitting on the workbench.

邪恶的巫师斯帕尔勋爵 德鲁恩也有各种奇怪的生物。 盖伦的助手麦克斯是个蜘蛛巨魔，一半是蜘蛛，一半是巨魔。 他可以爬上任何东西，用他的八条长腿结黏糊糊的网。 然后是Ninns。 他们是斯帕大人手下的红脸凶狠的战士，骑着一种叫格鲁蛇的大蜥蜴飞来飞去。 还有一个叫狄米特的女巫。 And-Boom-ba-boom !外面的天空闪着光，就在后门打开的时候，雷声隆隆。 “呀! !”尼尔冲进厨房。 “我想风暴是跟着我来的！”埃里克打开地下室的门。 “没时间说话了。每个人都在楼下。” 当他们走到楼梯底部的那一刻——三k！-地下室闪着白光，砰！墙壁轰隆作响，哗啦哗啦！雨水重重地溅在房子上。 “你好，风暴，”朱莉说。 “好吧，”尼尔说着走进了地下室。 “还有什么比金枪鱼三明治更重要？”“这。” 埃里克指着地下室的一个角落。 足球——朱莉的足球——正放在工作台上。

Actually, it was sitting above the workbench. It was floating in the air. "Whoa!" Neal gasped. "I repeat—whoa!" "Not only that," Eric said. "You remember the first time we went to Droon and the soccer ball came with us and then it did that magical thing when we came back? Well, Julie and I were looking at it before, and—" "Shhh!" Julie whispered. "It's doing it again!" By the glow of the ceiling light they watched the ball begin to change. The black and white patches moved slowly across the surface of the ball. The patches became the shapes of countries. And the ball itself became a globe of another world. The world of Droon.

实际上，它就在工作台上。 它漂浮在空中。 “哇!”Neal气喘吁吁地说。“我repeat-whoa !”“不仅如此，”埃里克说。 “你还记得我们第一次去德鲁恩的时候，足球一直在我们身边，当我们回来的时候，它就像魔法一样神奇。” 嗯，我和朱莉之前看过它，然后——”“嘘！”朱莉低声说。 “它又来了！”借着天花板上的灯光，他们看着球开始变化。 黑色和白色的斑点在球的表面缓慢移动。 这些斑块变成了国家的形状。 球本身变成了另一个世界的地球仪。 德鲁恩的世界。