Chapter 8

8 Up ahead, Hana saw a circle of daylight. Her heart leapt. Almost there! But then she heard something. It sounded like flames crackling. Hana hovered in the tunnel. She didn't want to fly out into the middle of a raging forest fire. But somehow, the crackling noise didn't sound quite right.

哈娜看到前方有一圈日光。 她的心怦怦直跳。差不多了!但是她听到了什么声音。 听起来像是火焰的噼啪声。 哈娜在隧道里盘旋。 她不想飞到肆虐的森林大火中去。 但不知何故，噼啪声听起来不太对劲。

Cautiously, Hana flew on. The crackling grew louder. Now Hana could also hear the wind and booms of thunder. At the end of the tunnel, she stopped and looked out. She couldn't see fire anywhere—in fact, she saw the opposite. There was a wide, fast-moving river! Hana's ears twitched with surprise. The sound of a raging fire was coming from the flowing water! This must be the work of the Chaos Queen. Still, Hana was relieved that there was no real fire. She had too many other things to worry about right now. Like, where were Mina and Zora? She looked around, hoping they'd appear. But no luck. Were they still in the tunnel? Should she fly back and search for them? Maybe they'd been attacked by Chaos Critters! Hana filled her powerful dragon lungs with air. "Mina! Zora!" she roared over the noise of thunder, swirling winds, and the strange river fire. "Where are you?"

哈娜小心翼翼地继续飞行。噼啪声越来越响。 现在哈娜也能听到风声和雷声了。 在隧道的尽头，她停下来向外望去。 她看不到任何地方有火——事实上，她看到的正好相反。 有一条宽阔、湍急的河!哈娜的耳朵因惊讶而抽搐。 从流动的水中传来熊熊大火的声音!这一定是混沌女王干的。 尽管如此，哈娜还是松了一口气，因为没有发生真正的火灾。 她现在有太多事情要操心。 比如，米娜和佐拉在哪里? 她环顾四周，希望他们会出现。 但运气不好。他们还在隧道里吗? 她应该飞回去找他们吗? 也许他们被混沌生物攻击了!哈娜给她有力的龙肺里灌满了空气。 “米娜!卓拉!”她咆哮着，盖过了雷声、狂风和奇怪的河火。 “你在哪儿?”

Suddenly, a furry black creature with a white stripe down the center of his nose popped out of a hole. He had golden claws and, most surprisingly, was wearing a green velvet vest. He scampered over to Hana, eyes wide with alarm. "What are you doing?" he whispered. "Do you want to bring the Chaos Queen and her critters right to us?" "Sorry," Hana said, letting out an anxious puff of smoke. "I've lost my friends. We have to find the Beat Badgers as quickly as—" Hana stopped and looked at the creature. "Hang on! Are YOU a Beat Badger?" The stocky creature smoothed down his vest proudly. "I am indeed. We Beat Badgers are the best drummers in the Magic Forest." His little ears drooped. "Not that we can do any drumming right now. The thunder drowns us out and muddles up the rhythms." "That's why we've come to you!" Hana said.

突然，一个毛茸茸的黑色生物从一个洞里蹦了出来，鼻子中央有一条白色的条纹。 他有金色的爪子，最令人惊讶的是，他穿着一件绿色的天鹅绒背心。 他跑到哈娜身边，惊恐地睁大了眼睛。 “你在干什么?”他小声说。 “你想把混沌女王和她的小动物带到我们这里来吗?”“对不起，”哈娜说，焦虑地吐出一口烟。 “我失去了我的朋友。我们必须尽快找到垮掉的獾——”哈娜停下脚步，看着那家伙。 “等等!你是垮獾吗?”这个矮胖的家伙骄傲地把背心捋平。 “我确实是。我们打獾队是魔法森林里最好的鼓手。” 他的小耳朵耷拉着。“不是说我们现在可以打鼓。 雷声淹没了我们，扰乱了节奏。” “这就是我们来找你的原因!”Hana说。

The badger looked confused. "Why do you keep saying we? There is only one of you, although you are very large." "I got separated from the other two Storm Dragons," Hana explained. "Oh! I've never met a Storm Dragon," said the badger. "But I have met the Treasure Dragons. They weren't as shouty as you." Hana looked back at the tunnel. There was still no sign of Mina and Zora. What could have happened to them? "The problem is," she continued, "my friends are carrying the objects we need your help with." "What objects?" asked the badger. "We have the Thunder Maker," Hana said. "Plus a new Thunder Drum." "Shh! Not so loud!" warned the badger. But his eyes lit up. "Do you really have the Thunder Maker? We thought it must be broken because the thunder never stops and the rest of the storm never starts."

獾看起来很困惑。 “你为什么老是说我们?” 你虽然很大，却只有一个人。” “我和其他两只风暴龙走散了，”哈娜解释道。 “哦!我从来没见过风暴龙。”獾说。 “但我遇到过宝龙。 他们不像你那么大声。” 哈娜回头看了看隧道。 仍然没有米娜和佐拉的踪迹。 他们会发生什么事呢? “问题是，”她继续说，“我的朋友们正在搬运我们需要你帮忙的东西。” “什么目的?”獾问。 “我们有造雷者，”哈娜说。 “再加上一个新的雷鼓。” “嘘!别这么大声!”獾警告道。 但他的眼睛亮了起来。“你真的有造雷器吗?” 我们认为它一定是坏了，因为雷声从不停止，风暴的其余部分从不开始。”

"You're right, it's broken," Hana said. "That's why we got a new Thunder Drum from the Grizzling Bears. We're hoping you can thunderize it for us." The badger dropped to all fours and began thumping the ground with his paws. The earth shook. He was surprisingly powerful for such a small creature! The trembling grew and grew until Hana wondered if there was going to be an earthquake. Another badger peered out from the bushes to her left. Two more appeared to her right. Before long, Hana was surrounded by Beat Badgers, all dressed in elegant velvet vests. "What's going on?" they asked the badger in the green vest. "You know drumming attracts those horrible Chaos Critters. And the critters attract the Chaos Queen." "This is an emergency," explained the badger in the green vest, waving his paws in the air. "This Storm Dragon has lost her friends. And the friends

“你说得对，它坏了，”哈娜说。 “这就是为什么我们从灰熊队那里得到了一个新的雷霆鼓。 我们希望你能帮我们打雷。” 獾四肢着地，开始用爪子敲打地面。 大地震动了。对于这么小的生物来说，他的力量惊人!颤抖的声音越来越大，直到哈娜怀疑是否要发生地震。 另一只獾从她左边的灌木丛中探出头来。 又有两个出现在她的右边。 没过多久，哈娜就被一群穿着优雅天鹅绒背心的垮掉的獾围住了。 “发生了什么事?”他们问穿绿色背心的獾。 “你知道打鼓会吸引那些可怕的混沌生物。 这些小动物吸引了混沌女王。” “这是紧急情况，”穿绿色背心的獾解释说，在空中挥舞着他的爪子。 “这只风暴龙失去了她的朋友。 朋友们

have a new Thunder Drum. They were last seen in that tunnel. We have to find them." Without another word, the Beat Badgers turned and disappeared into the tunnel. Hana stretched her wings, ready to follow them. But before she could, there was a tremendous whooshing noise and the badgers popped back out of the tunnel— on the backs of Mina and Zora! "We found them!" cried a badger in a red vest. "Actually, we found you!" Mina laughed. She turned to Hana. "Sorry we took so long. We got lost down there with all those complicated twists and turns." "But we haven't lost the Thunder Maker or the drum!" added Zora as she and Mina landed near Hana. Mina and Zora placed the precious objects on the ground. The Beat Badgers clustered around as the thunder continued to rumble. "We must thunderize this drum right away," said the badger in the green vest, picking it up

我有一个新的雷鼓。最后一次见到他们是在那个隧道里。 我们必须找到他们。”垮掉的獾队二话没说，转身消失在隧道里。 哈娜展开翅膀，准备跟着他们。 但还没等她开口，就传来一声巨大的呼啸声，獾从隧道里蹦了出来——落在米娜和佐拉的背上!“我们找到他们了!”一只穿红背心的獾叫道。 “实际上，我们找到你了!”米娜笑了。 她转向哈娜。“对不起，我们耽搁了这么久。 我们在那些复杂的曲折中迷路了。” “但我们并没有失去造雷器和鼓!”佐拉和米娜在哈娜附近降落时补充道。 米娜和佐拉把珍贵的东西放在地上。 当雷声继续轰鸣时，垮掉的獾们聚集在一起。 “我们必须马上击鼓，”穿绿背心的獾说着，把鼓捡了起来