6 Chapter 6

6 Just then, Naomi heard a humming sound. When she turned, she saw a familiar bright blur of

拿俄米听见有嗡嗡的声音。 当她转身时，她看到了一个熟悉的明亮的模糊

feathery colors. "Unichick!" she cried in delight. "How did you find us down here?" "I will always find you, wherever you are!" chirped Unichick in her cheery singsong voice. "And right now, I have an urgent message. Time is running out, Glitter Dragons. The sun is setting fast, and the Shadow Sprites are getting longer and stronger by the moment. You must find the third ingredient as quickly as possible. If you don't, all the good work you three have done so far will be for nothing." "Oh, don't go!" hissed the snakes. "Thanks, but we really can't stay," Naomi said. "We must stop the Shadow Sprites before they destroy the Magic Forest." The snakes hissed approvingly. "Yesssss! We sssssupport you." They started up a chant. "Ssssnakes for dragonsss! Ssssnakes for dragonsss!" Naomi shook her head and smiled. This was not an experience she'd forget in a hurry!

羽毛的颜色。“尤尼克!”她高兴地叫道。 “你怎么在这儿找到我们的?”“无论你在哪里，我都会找到你的!”尤奇克用欢快的歌声说。 “现在，我有一个紧急消息。 时间不多了，闪亮的龙。 太阳很快就要落山了，此时影子精灵变得越来越长，越来越强大。 你必须尽快找到第三种成分。 如果你们不这样做，你们三个到目前为止所做的一切努力都将付诸东流。” “哦，别走!”蛇嘶嘶地说。 “谢谢，但我们真的不能留下来，”内奥米说。 “我们必须在暗影精灵摧毁魔法森林之前阻止他们。” 蛇发出赞许的嘶嘶声。 “对啦!我们支持你。” 他们开始吟唱起来。“蛇换龙!”蛇换龙!”娜奥米摇了摇头，笑了。 这是一次她不会很快忘记的经历!

She tried to recall the final clue. Sweetness is held within my skin. But I am protected by many a pin. Naomi felt her chest tighten. "I'm not sure about the final clue," she admitted to her friends. Sometimes, when Naomi's dad gave her a puzzle to solve, she found that thinking out loud helped. "Sweetness held within a skin," she murmured. "What is sweet and has a skin?" Something jumped into her mind. "Fruit!" she cried. Willa nodded excitedly. "Of course! That makes perfect sense!" "But which fruit?" Azmina wondered. "I bet there are thousands of fruit trees in the Magic Forest." Naomi turned her thoughts to the second part of the puzzle. What kind of fruit was protected by many a pin? "BERRIES!" Naomi yelled the word so loudly that everyone jumped, including the snakes and poor little Unichick. "Blackberries and raspberries

她试图回忆起最后的线索。 甜蜜藏在我的皮肤里。 但我被许多别针保护着。 内奥米感到她的胸部紧绷着。 “我不确定最后的线索，”她向朋友们承认。 有时候，当娜奥米的爸爸让她解决一个谜题时，她发现大声思考会有帮助。 “藏在皮囊里的甜蜜，”她喃喃地说。 “什么东西又甜又有皮?”她突然想到了什么。 “水果!”她叫道。威拉兴奋地点了点头。 “当然!这完全说得通!”“但是哪种水果呢?”Azmina很好奇。 “我敢打赌魔法森林里有成千上万棵果树。” 娜奥米开始思考这个谜题的第二部分。 什么样的水果被许多别针保护着? “浆果!”娜奥米大声喊着这个词，所有人都跳了起来，包括蛇和可怜的小尤尼克。 “黑莓和覆盆子

have prickles!" She turned to Unichick. "Is there a place where we can find berries growing?" Unichick fluttered her feathers even faster. "The Berry Dale!" she trilled. "I know a shortcut. Follow me!" Unichick zoomed out of the snake den. Azmina and Willa followed. Naomi turned to the snakes and bowed. "Thank you for your help," she said. "We couldn't have done this without you."

有刺!”她转向尤尼克。 “有没有可以找到浆果的地方?”尤尼克拍打羽毛的速度更快了。 “贝瑞谷!”她颤音地说。 “我知道一条近路。跟我来!”尤契克嗖地从蛇窝里钻了出来。 阿兹米娜和威拉跟在后面。 拿俄米转身向蛇鞠躬。 “谢谢你的帮助，”她说。 “没有你，我们不可能做到这一点。”

"Our pleasure, pretty glittery one!" hissed the snakes. "Back before the Shadow Queen started causing trouble, sssnakesss and dragonsss were friendsss in the Magic Foressst. We would like it to be that way again." Naomi nodded. "You can count me as a friend! Goodbye and thanks again." With that, Naomi raced off to catch up with the others. Unichick led the Dragon Girls through a winding series of tunnels. This wasn't easy. Sometimes the tunnels were so narrow the Dragon Girls had to wriggle along on their bellies. "Right now I feel more like a Worm Girl than a Dragon Girl," Azmina joked. Naomi laughed, then let out a quick glittery roar. "Naomi? Everything okay?" Willa called.

“我们的荣幸，漂亮的闪闪发光的!”蛇嘶嘶地说。 “在影子女王开始制造麻烦之前，蛇和龙在魔法森林里是朋友。 我们希望它再次成为那样。” 拿俄米点了点头。“你可以把我当朋友!”再见，再次感谢。” 说完，内奥米跑去追赶其他人。 尤奇克带领龙女们穿过一系列蜿蜒曲折的隧道。 这并不容易。有时候隧道太窄了，龙女只能匍匐前行。 “现在我觉得自己更像一个虫女，而不是龙女，”阿兹米娜开玩笑说。 娜奥米大笑起来，然后发出一声闪闪发光的咆哮。 “拿俄米?一切都好吧?”威拉。

"Just showing the Shadow Sprites we're not afraid of them!" Naomi called back. The tunnel had grown very narrow—so narrow that the dragons could barely squeeze through it at all. "What's that?" Naomi yelped in surprise, looking up. Something had just dropped on the top of her head and dribbled down her face. Naomi looked up. Liquid was dripping down from the earth above her. What was it? Unichick's melodious voice rang out. "Don't worry—it's berry juice. We're just below the Berry Dale now. Here's the passageway that takes us up into the middle of the dale. Keep a lookout for Shadow Sprites, though!" Naomi watched as first Unichick, then Willa and Azmina disappeared up through the passageway. "Oh WOW!" she heard her friends exclaim. "This is AMAZING! Naomi, get up here quick!"

“只是为了让暗影精灵知道我们不怕他们!”娜奥米回了电话。 隧道变得非常窄，龙几乎挤不进去。 “那是什么?”娜奥米抬起头，惊讶地叫了起来。 有什么东西掉在她的头顶上，顺着她的脸淌了下来。 娜奥米抬起头来。液体正从她头顶的地上滴落下来。 是什么?尤契克悠扬的声音响起来了。 “别担心——这是浆果汁。 我们现在就在贝里谷下面。 这是通往山谷中央的通道。 不过要小心暗影精灵!”内奥米先是看着尤尼克，然后是威拉和阿兹米娜从通道里消失了。 “哇!”她听到朋友们惊呼。 “这太神奇了!”拿俄米，快上来!”