06 Trapped!

CHAPTER 6 TRAPPED! Long shadows fell on the friends as the mega beetles moved closer. Blaze stamped her feet. The ground shook and Tag noticed a small hole near Blaze's feet. "Look!" he said to Skyla. Blaze stamped her feet, harder this time, and more of the ground fell away beneath her.

第六章被困住了！当巨型甲虫靠近时，长长的影子落在朋友们身上。 火焰跺着她的脚。大地震动了，泰格注意到布雷兹脚边有一个小洞。 “看！”他对斯盖拉说。烈焰跺着她的脚，这次更用力了，她脚下的地面塌陷了更多。

"Blaze is making a new tunnel," Tag said. "It's a way out!" "Um, Tag," Skyla said, pointing. The two mega beetles were closing in on them. Fast. "Everyone, stamp your feet!" Tag ordered. They stamped as hard as they could, making loud, echoing sounds inside the tunnel. Suddenly, the ground gave way. The friends fell, down, down, down, sliding left and right, along the sides of the hidden tunnel.

“Blaze正在建造一条新隧道，”泰格说。 “这是一条出路！”“嗯，泰格，”斯凯拉指着说。 两只巨型甲虫向他们逼近。 快。“大家都跺跺脚！”泰格要求。 他们拼命地跺脚，在隧道里发出响亮的回声。 突然，地面塌陷了。 朋友们沿着隐藏的隧道的两边，往下，往下，往下，往下，往右滑。

"Wheeee!" Skyla called as they slid all the way through and out of the hill, landing with a thump on the soft grass outside. Tag brushed the dirt from his feathers and looked back at the huge hole in the side of the hill. "We made it out!" he hooted.

“哦!”斯凯拉喊道，他们一路滑过小山，滑出小山，砰的一声落在外面柔软的草地上。 泰格拂去羽毛上的泥土，回头看了看山坡上的那个大洞。 “我们出来了！”

A few crag beetles had followed them out of the tunnel. The beetles stepped into the daylight, hissing. Then they scurried back inside. "The crag beetles don't like sunlight," Skyla said. "Just like Thorn's other spies, the tiger bats." "They know we're here though," Tag said. "They will tell Thorn where we are. We have to find the Ember Stone before he sends The Shadow!" "Oak!" Blaze peeped.

几只岩甲虫跟着他们走出了隧道。 甲虫们嘶嘶地走到日光下。 然后他们赶紧跑回屋里。 “岩甲虫不喜欢阳光，”斯凯拉说。 “就像索恩的其他间谍一样，老虎蝙蝠。” “但他们知道我们在这里，”泰格说。 “他们会告诉索恩我们在哪里。 我们必须在他派来暗影之前找到烬石！”“橡树!”大火里。

Tag and Skyla looked around. Everything was as dead on this side of the hill as it had been on the other side. A twisted, old oak tree stood in the center of a grey landscape. It was covered in odd shaped green-and-brown leaves that Tag had never seen before.

泰格和斯凯拉环顾四周。 山这边的一切和山那边一样死气沉沉。 一棵扭曲的老橡树矗立在一片灰色风景的中央。 上面覆盖着塔格从未见过的形状奇特的绿棕色树叶。

Skyla pointed at Tag's sack. "Check the stone!" she said. Tag looked inside, hoping to see a warm glow. But their piece of the Ember Stone was still cold. "Maybe we're not close enough?" Skyla said. The friends hurried down the hill to the Whispering Oak. They searched in and around the tree for the stone. Blaze looked inside knots and on the lower branches. Skyla searched the base of the tree, collecting fallen acorns as she went, while Tag flew around the higher branches. But there was no Sign of the Ember Stone. I must be missing something, Tag thought. But what?

斯凯拉指着泰格的袋子。 “检查石头！”她说。 泰格朝里面看了看，希望能看到温暖的光芒。 但他们的那块余烬之石仍然冰凉。 “也许我们还不够亲密？”Skyla说。 朋友们匆匆下山，来到呓语橡树。 他们在树里面和树周围寻找那块石头。 火焰看了看结里和较低的树枝。 斯凯拉在树的底部搜寻，一边走一边收集掉落的橡子，泰格则在更高的树枝上飞来飞去。 但没有烬石的踪迹。 我一定错过了什么，泰格想。 但是什么?