Chapter 4

4 The three Night Dragons took off into the Magic Forest. The Fire Moon cast a strange glow over the trees and made Phoebe's stomach tighten with worry. Clearly, there was no time to waste. "Which way should we go?" Stella called as they flew higher. "The Tree Queen said we should head to the Moon Lake. That could be anywhere!" Phoebe sighed as she scanned the treetops. She felt like

三只夜龙跑进了魔法森林。 火月在树上投下一种奇怪的光芒，菲比的胃因担心而紧绷。 显然，没有时间可以浪费了。 “我们该走哪条路?”当他们飞得更高时，斯特拉喊道。 “树后说我们应该去月亮湖。 那可能在任何地方!”菲比望着树梢叹了口气。 她觉得

she was already doing badly, and the quest hadn't even begun. "Hey, Phoebe," Rosie said, swooping closer, glinting pink and purple in the moonlight. "The thread you're wearing around your neck might help. It helped me." As Rosie spoke, Phoebe felt the chain give a gentle tug. The end of the thread unwound itself just a little and stretched out. It was pointing which way to go! "Follow me!" Phoebe called, zooming to the front of the trio. The Night Dragons flew over the vast forest. The treetops below them swayed gently in the moonlight. Every now and then, a birdcall or animal cry floated up, reminding Phoebe that there were a lot of creatures depending on her and her friends. The thread kept tugging her gently in one direction until suddenly it stopped pointing ahead and started pointing down instead. Phoebe glanced below her and gasped. There glimmered a vast lake, perfectly round and so still it looked like a

她的表现已经很糟糕了，而探索甚至还没有开始。 “嘿，菲比，”罗茜说着，扑了过去，在月光下闪着粉红色和紫色的光。 “你脖子上戴的线可能会有帮助。 它帮助了我。”罗茜说话的时候，菲比感到链子轻轻地拉了一下。 线的末端稍稍松了一下，然后伸展开来。 它指明了前进的方向!“跟我来!”菲比叫道，迅速蹿到三人的前面。 夜龙飞过广阔的森林。 他们脚下的树梢在月光下轻轻摇曳。 不时传来鸟鸣或动物的叫声，提醒菲比有许多动物依赖着她和她的朋友们。 线一直轻轻地朝一个方向拉着她，直到突然它不再指向前方，而是指向下方。 菲比朝她下面看了一眼，倒吸了一口气。 那里闪烁着一个巨大的湖，圆得很，看起来很平静

mirror. Reflected in the lake's center was the moon, like a huge, shimmering pearl inside its shell. "That has to be the Moon Lake, right?" called Stella. Phoebe felt the thread tug downward again. She nodded. "Definitely," she said. The three friends whooshed down through the dark air and landed near the lake. All around it, steep, rocky cliffs rose up toward the sky. "I wonder where the Dreamlet hatchery is?" Rosie asked. Just then, the sandy soil around them began to move. Soon, hundreds of tiny lizard-like creatures began popping up through the sand. Each of the creatures glowed as if lit by a neon light. A purple egg balanced on each animal's back. The creatures stared at the Night Dragons with amazed expressions on their tiny faces. "You are the biggest Newt Nurses I've ever seen!" one declared with a flick of its bright blue tongue. "And where are your eggs?"

镜子。映在湖中央的是月亮，像贝壳里一颗闪闪发光的大珍珠。 “那一定是月亮湖，对吧?”斯特拉叫道。 菲比感到线又往下拉了。 她点了点头。“当然，”她说。 三个朋友在黑暗的空中呼啸而下，降落在湖边。 在它周围，陡峭的岩石峭壁直插云霄。 “我想知道梦想孵化场在哪里?”罗西问道。 就在这时，他们周围的沙土开始移动。 很快，数以百计的小蜥蜴状生物开始从沙子里冒出来。 每一个生物都像被霓虹灯照亮一样发光。 每个动物背上都有一个紫色的蛋。 这些生物盯着夜龙，小脸上露出惊讶的表情。 “你们是我见过的最大的蝾螈护士!”其中一只亮蓝色的舌头一弹宣布。 “你的蛋呢?”

"I hope you haven't lost them," said another. "That's all we need right now." "We're not Newt Nurses," Phoebe said. "We're Night Dragons. We've been sent by the Tree Queen to help. She says there's been trouble here in the hatchery?" More newts, each with an egg carefully balanced on its back, padded over on their surprisingly big feet. "It's true!" one cried. "It's the Fire Moon. The Dreamlet eggs will only hatch when the conditions are just right. This moon is far too hot!" Phoebe exhaled, thinking hard. As her breath left her nostrils, it formed a pale cloud, shining like moonlight. The cloud hovered in the air, then sank down toward one of the eggs resting on the back of a newt. When it touched the egg, the cloud melted over it, covering it in a soft blue haze. "Look! The egg is hatching!" squeaked one of the newts. "Your roar must have cooled it to the perfect temperature."

“我希望你没有把它们弄丢。”另一个说。 “这就是我们现在所需要的。” “我们不是纽特护士，”菲比说。 “我们是夜龙。我们是树女王派来帮忙的。 她说孵化场出了麻烦?”更多的蝾螈，每只背上都小心翼翼地放着一颗蛋，用它们大得惊人的脚轻轻地走过去。 “这是真的!”一个人喊道。“是火月。 梦蛋只有在条件合适的时候才会孵化。 这月亮太热了!”菲比呼了一口气，苦苦思索着。 当她的呼吸离开鼻孔时，它形成了一片苍白的云，像月光一样闪闪发光。 云在空中盘旋，然后向一只蝾螈背上的一颗蛋下沉。 当它碰到鸡蛋时，云融化了，在它上面覆盖着一层柔软的蓝色薄雾。 “看!蛋要孵出来了!”其中一只蝾螈尖声叫道。 “你的咆哮一定把它冷却到了完美的温度。”

The egg began to shiver and shake. There was a loud CRACK! The top part of the shell shattered and fell to the ground. Phoebe watched it closely. What was going to come out? As she stared, a tiny, soft, wormlike creature peered out and looked around. It had large blue eyes and stripy pink-and-purple fur. "Who would have thought that a worm could be so cute!" Stella said, clasping her paws. "I'm not a worm!" the Dreamlet said in a sweet singsong voice. "Can worms do this?"

鸡蛋开始颤抖起来。 啪的一声巨响!炮弹的顶部碎掉在地上。 菲比仔细地看着它。 结果会是什么? 就在她盯着看的时候，一个小小的、柔软的、蠕虫状的生物探出头来，四处张望。 它长着蓝色的大眼睛和粉红色和紫色相间的条纹毛。 “谁能想到一条虫子会这么可爱!”斯特拉说，紧握着她的爪子。 “我不是虫子!”小梦儿用甜美的歌声说。 “蠕虫能做到吗?”

The little animal wiggled up to the edge of its shell and then, to everyone's surprise, launched itself into the air! "Catch it!" Rosie cried in alarm. "It'll fall!" But there was no need to worry. The Dreamlet did not fall. Instead, it began to wriggle through the air just like a normal worm does on land. Phoebe turned to her friends. "Maybe if we roar together, we can cool down all the eggs and help them hatch?" she suggested. She knew it sounded like a very strange suggestion. Surely a dragon's roar would be hot? They definitely didn't want scrambled eggs. But it seemed like a Night Dragon's roar might be the opposite. Powerful, but cooling. "Fantastic idea!" said Stella as Rosie nodded enthusiastically. "Okay, then," said Phoebe, filling her chest with air. "One, two, THREE!" Together, Phoebe, Rosie, and Stella roared as loudly as they could. A huge plume of smoke— purple and pink and blue and even a touch of yellow—swirled in the air above the hatchery.

这只小动物扭动着爬到壳的边缘，然后，让每个人都惊讶的是，它自己飞到了空中!“抓住它!”罗茜惊恐地叫了起来。 “它会跌!”但是没有必要担心。 梦中女神没有坠落。 相反，它开始在空气中蠕动，就像陆地上的普通蠕虫一样。 菲比转向她的朋友们。 “也许如果我们一起吼叫，我们可以让所有的蛋都冷却下来，帮助它们孵化?”她建议道。 她知道这听起来像是一个非常奇怪的建议。 龙的吼声肯定很热吧? 他们肯定不想要炒鸡蛋。 但夜龙的吼声似乎正好相反。 强大，但冷却。“好主意!”斯特拉说，罗茜热情地点了点头。 “好吧，那么，”菲比说，把她的胸膛充满了空气。 “一，二，三!”菲比、罗茜和斯特拉一起尽可能大声地吼叫。 一股巨大的烟雾——紫色、粉红色、蓝色，甚至还有一点黄色——在孵化场上空盘旋。