10 The Sorcerer’s Power

Ten The Sorcerer's Power The nose of Sparr's giant silver airship tipped forward sharply. "We're going to crash!" cried Neal. "We're not going to crash," said Eric. "Sparr could have hurt us but he didn't. He read the future in the Tower of Memory and he let us live. We'll get out of this somehow. I promise." The ship dived even faster. "Um … how?" Julie asked. Vrrr! Vrrr! Outside the cargo bay windows a small purple wingship pulled up.

斯帕尔巨大的银色飞艇的机头猛地向前倾斜。 “我们要坠毁了！”尼尔喊道。 “我们不会坠毁的，”埃里克说。 “斯帕尔本可以伤害我们，但他没有。 他在记忆之塔读到了未来，他让我们活了下来。 我们总有办法逃出去的。 我保证。”船俯冲得更快了。 “嗯……怎么做？”朱莉问。 Vrrr !Vrrr !在货舱窗口外，一艘紫色的小翼船停了下来。

"Daddy and Khan and Max and Galen!" Keeah shouted. "They followed us!" Eric grinned. "Told you we'd be okay." Julie clambered over the mounds of diamonds and hit a button on the wall. Whoosh! A door opened. "The tossing platform!" she said. They all climbed out. The Droon night was deep blue. Flames licked up the sides of the big ship as Khan pulled his small purple ship closer. "It's now or never, folks!" Neal said. Clutching one another's hands tightly, the four friends jumped from the flaming platform. They landed right in the cockpit of Khan's wingship. "Now you are safe!" King Zello said, hugging his daughter tightly to him. Vrrr! Khan roared up and away as the giant flaming hulk dived to the earth. In the sky nearby, the last traces of Ro were fading. The tall, lizard-like people of the city were gathered in the square to wave at the purple ship. "Good-bye, Guardians," Neal said. "Good-bye people of Ro. Thank you!" Suddenly — ka-whoom! — Sparr's silver airship slammed into a snow-covered mountain. It exploded with a

“爸爸、可汗、麦克斯和盖伦！”Keeah喊道。 “他们跟着我们！”埃里克咧嘴一笑。 “告诉过你我们会没事的。”朱莉爬过钻石堆，按下了墙上的按钮。 嗖!一扇门开了。“投掷平台！”她说。 他们都爬了出来。德鲁恩的夜晚是深蓝色的。 可汗把他那艘紫色的小船拉得更近了，火焰舔舐着大船的两边。 “伙计们，机不可失，时不再来！”Neal说。 四个朋友紧紧地抓着彼此的手，从燃烧的平台上跳了下来。 他们正好落在可汗的飞艇驾驶舱里。 “现在你安全了！”泽洛国王说着，把女儿紧紧地搂在怀里。 Vrrr !可汗怒吼起来，离开了，巨大的燃烧的绿巨人俯冲到地面上。 在附近的天空中，Ro的最后痕迹正在消失。 城市里身材高大、像蜥蜴一样的人们聚集在广场上，向紫色的船挥手。 “再见，守护者们，”尼尔说。 “再见了，罗的人们。谢谢你!”突然——卡-呼！斯帕尔的银色飞艇撞上了一座白雪覆盖的山。 它爆炸了。

tremendous fiery blast. A cloud of black smoke rose from the wreckage. At that instant, too, a white light shone down from the fading city. The light rippled once and diamonds — millions of diamonds — flowed up from Sparr's burning ship. "They did it!" Julie gasped. "They got the diamonds!" A moment later, Ro drifted into the glowing white moonlight and vanished. "Hey, I almost forgot!" Eric said. "When Sparr was in the Tower of Memory, he read something at the very top. Then he said the word 'ice.'" Galen frowned. "Some new evil that Sparr is planning against our world. You have done well, Eric. You have all done well. Time will tell what this clue means. But one thing is certain. Sparr's power is growing. Be watchful, be careful…." "Look! Look!" Max chirped from the backseat. "The rainbow-colored stairs are ahead!" Khan swooped the ship into the Kalahar Valley. He pulled up to the shimmering staircase. Eric, Julie, and Neal climbed out and onto the bottom step. They turned to Keeah. "We'll be back," Eric told her. "Definitely." Keeah looked into their eyes. "Droon is lucky to have friends like you. I am lucky to have such friends."

巨大的火焰爆炸。一团黑烟从残骸中升起。 就在那一刻，一道白光也从那座逐渐衰落的城市里射了下来。 光芒荡漾了一下，钻石——数以百万计的钻石——从斯帕尔燃烧的船上流出来。 “他们做到了！”朱莉气喘吁吁地说。 “他们拿到钻石了！”不一会儿，罗漂进皎洁的月光里消失了。 “嘿，我差点忘了！”Eric说。 “当斯帕尔在记忆之塔时，他在塔顶读了一些东西。 然后他说了“冰”这个词。’”盖伦皱起眉头。 "斯帕尔计划对付我们世界的新恶魔。 你做得很好，埃里克。你们都做得很好。 时间会告诉我们这条线索意味着什么。 但有一件事是肯定的。斯帕尔的权力正在增长。 小心点，小心点....” “看!看!”马克斯在后座上叫着。 “前面是彩虹色的楼梯！”汗把船开进了卡拉哈山谷。 他把车停在闪闪发光的楼梯前。 埃里克、朱莉和尼尔爬了出来，来到最下面的台阶上。 他们转向基娅。“我们会回来的，”埃里克告诉她。 “肯定”。姬亚看着他们的眼睛。 “德鲁恩很幸运有你这样的朋友。 我很幸运有这样的朋友。”

"Any day," said Neal. "Anytime." "Anywhere the stairs lead us," Julie added. Keeah smiled. "The magic is with us all!" The kids waved good-bye as Khan's purple wingship circled the rainbow stairs and flew up into the clouds.

“随便哪一天，”尼尔说。“随时”。 “楼梯带我们去任何地方，”朱莉补充道。 Keeah笑了。“魔法与我们同在！”孩子们挥手告别，可汗的紫色飞艇绕着彩虹楼梯飞上云霄。

The three friends ran up the steps and into the small room at the top. Then they turned once more to the midnight sky of Droon. The fierce wind had died down. Droon was at peace for a little while. At least it seemed so. Eric flicked the light switch on the wall. Whoosh! The magic stairs vanished, and the gray cement floor was beneath them again. Neal opened the door and they stepped out into the basement. The clock on the workbench had hardly moved at all. They had been gone only a few minutes. "It seems like we've been in Droon for years," Eric said. He glanced back at the small door under the basement steps. "I'm really tired," Neal said, yawning. "But I can't wait to go back. You might even say I'm itching to go back!" Julie chuckled. "Me, too. I hope it will be soon. Maybe we'll actually stop Sparr. Maybe we'll help Keeah find her mother. That would be so cool!" "Maybe," said Eric as they headed upstairs to the kitchen. Then he remembered Galen's words. Be watchful, be careful…. Eric shivered when he thought of all the bad things that might happen. He felt cold somehow.

三个朋友跑上台阶，进了顶上的小房间。 然后他们再次转向德鲁恩的午夜天空。 狂风已经停了。 德鲁恩平静了一会儿。 至少看起来是这样。埃里克轻弹墙上的电灯开关。 嗖!神奇的楼梯消失了，下面又是灰色的水泥地板。 尼尔打开门，他们走到地下室。 工作台上的钟几乎没有动过。 他们才走了几分钟。 “好像我们已经在德鲁恩待了很多年了，”埃里克说。 他回头看了看地下室台阶下的小门。 “我真的很累，”尼尔打着哈欠说。 “但我迫不及待地想回去。 你甚至可以说我很想回去！”朱莉咯咯地笑了。 “我也是。我希望它会很快。 也许我们能阻止斯帕尔。 也许我们能帮姬娅找到她妈妈。 那太酷了！”“也许吧。”他们上楼去厨房时，埃里克说。 这时他想起了盖伦的话。 小心，小心.... 当埃里克想到所有可能发生的坏事时，他打了个寒颤。 不知怎么的，他觉得冷。