07 An Enemy Returns

CHAPTER 7 AN ENEMY RETURNS Bod and the friends followed Grey up into his tree. They walked up the spiral staircase to the very top, where Grey kept his books. Grey searched his books frantically. Then he found one and shouted loudly.

第七章敌人回来了伯德和朋友们跟着格雷上了树。 他们走上螺旋形楼梯，来到最顶层，格雷放书的地方。 格雷疯狂地翻找着他的书。 然后他找到了一个，大声喊叫。

"Aha! It's right here!" he said. "How could I have missed this?" "What is it?" Claw asked. They gathered closer to read the book. "The Shadow is an ancient magic," Grey read. "Older than even the first firehawk's egg. It finds other power-hungry creatures to use its dark magic. As long as the magic exists, so does The Shadow."

“啊哈!就在这儿！”他说。 “我怎么会错过这个呢？”“什么事？”爪问道。 他们凑得更近了，开始读那本书。 “暗影是一种古老的魔法。”格雷念道。 “甚至比第一只火鹰蛋还要古老。 它寻找其他渴望权力的生物来使用它的黑魔法。 只要魔法存在，影子就存在。”

"But Blaze defeated The Shadow with the Ember Stone!" Skyla cried. Grey nodded. "I thought so. But now I think that was only a piece of The Shadow that we defeated. Perhaps another piece lived on and found a new evil creature." "And now it has grown more powerful!" Tag said. His head felt dizzy at the thought of The Shadow returning.

“但是火焰用灰烬之石打败了暗影！”Skyla哭了。 灰色的点了点头。“我也这么想。 但现在我想那只是我们打败的影子的一部分。 也许另一块活了下来，发现了一个新的邪恶生物。” “现在它变得更强大了！”标签说。 一想到影子回来，他的头就晕了。

"The Shadow must have found someone like Thorn who wanted to use its dark magic for evil. The missing animals and the orange-eyed creature you saw could mean that The Shadow is working with someone new and creating an army again," Grey said. Blaze's feathers shook. "They must have taken my mom!" "But where?" Tag asked. "Can you check your maps, Grey?" Grey pulled out some papers from a pile and blew the dust off.

“影子一定是找到了像索恩这样的人，想用它的黑魔法来作恶。 失踪的动物和你看到的橙色眼睛的生物可能意味着阴影正在与新的人合作，并再次组建一支军队，”格雷说。 烈焰的羽毛颤抖着。“他们一定把我妈妈抓走了！”“但在哪里?”标签要求。 “你能查一下地图吗，格蕾？”格蕾从一堆文件中抽出一些文件，把灰尘吹掉。

"I do have one special map," he said. "It shows you things that are lost. Maybe it can show us where Talia is." He waved his wing over the map. Pink and purple lights sparkled across the paper, but it stayed blank. Grey frowned. "Hmm. That should have worked," he said.

“我确实有一张特别的地图，”他说。 “它向你展示了丢失的东西。 也许它能告诉我们塔利亚在哪里。” 他在地图上挥动翅膀。 粉红色和紫色的光在纸上闪烁，但它仍然是空白的。 灰色皱起了眉头。“嗯。这应该是有效的，”他说。

He lifted the map to take a closer look. "What's that?" Bod asked, pointing to the underside of the map. Grey turned it over. A tiny dot glowed pink. "But there's nothing on that side," he said. "Unless..." Grey's face went pale. He quickly grabbed another book and flicked through it. "I have heard of a hidden land," Grey said slowly. "But I thought it was only a myth. I didn't think it could be real." "What is it?" Blaze asked. "The Underland," Grey said shakily. "It is a dark and dangerous place, hidden deep beneath the surface of Perodia. If Talia is trapped there, she is in very great danger."

他举起地图仔细看了看。 “那是什么?”博德指着地图的底面问道。 格蕾把它翻过来。一个小点发出粉红色的光。 “但那边什么也没有，”他说。 “除非……”格雷的脸变得苍白。 他迅速抓起另一本书，翻了一遍。 “我听说有一片隐秘的土地。”格雷慢慢地说。 “但我认为这只是一个神话。 我不认为这是真的。” “什么事？”大火问道。 “地下世界。”格雷颤抖地说。 “这是一个黑暗而危险的地方，隐藏在珀罗迪亚地表之下。 如果塔利亚被困在那里，她会有很大的危险。”