08 The Bears

CHAPTER 8 THE BEARS Tag, Skyla, and Blaze slowly backed away from the grumblebees. Why are they so angry? Tag wondered. "What do we do now?" Skyla whispered, as the bees continued to surround them. Tag tried to think of a way to ask the bees about the Ember Stone without making them angrier.

第八章熊：泰格、斯凯拉和火焰慢慢地向后退，躲开了牢骚蜂。 他们为什么这么生气？泰格很好奇。 “我们现在怎么办？”斯凯拉小声说，蜜蜂继续围着他们。 泰格试图想个办法，在不激怒蜜蜂的情况下，向它们询问烬之石的事。

Blaze dipped her beak into Tag's sack and pulled out the Ember Stone. She held it high in the air so that the bees could see it. The buzzing stopped. Tag smiled at Blaze. "We're searching for a stone that looks like this," Tag told the bees. "Have you seen it?" One of the bees flew closer, examining the stone. Then it returned to the swarm. The bees buzzed and buzzed. Finally, the small bee flew back to hover in front of Tag. "Where did you find that?" the grumblebee asked.

烈焰把嘴伸进泰格的袋子，掏出烬石。 她把它高高地举在空中，这样蜜蜂就能看到它了。 嗡嗡声停止了。泰格对布雷兹微笑。 “我们正在寻找像这样的石头，”泰格告诉蜜蜂们。 “你看到了吗？”一只蜜蜂飞近了，仔细检查着石头。 然后它又回到了蜂群中。 蜜蜂不停地嗡嗡叫。 最后，小蜜蜂飞回来，在泰格面前盘旋。 “你在哪里找到的？”发牢骚的蜜蜂问。

"Blaze found the first piece on Fire Island," Tag said. "She's the last firehawk." The bees buzzed loudly when they heard this. "We found the second piece in the Crystal Caverns," Skyla added. "And then our two pieces joined together." "What do you want with the Ember Stone?" the grumblebee asked. "We want to use it to stop Thorn and The Shadow from destroying Perodia," Tag said. "But we need all of the pieces of the Ember Stone so that it is powerful enough to defeat Thorn." "We used to have a piece of it," the grumblebee told Tag. "But we don't anymore."

“火焰在火岛找到了第一件东西，”泰格说。 “她是最后一只火鹰。” 蜜蜂听到这句话后，嗡嗡地叫了起来。 “我们在水晶洞穴里发现了第二件碎片，”斯凯拉补充道。 “然后我们的两部分结合在一起了。” “你要烬石做什么？”发牢骚的蜜蜂问。 “我们想用它来阻止Thorn和The Shadow摧毁Perodia，”Tag说。 “但我们需要灰烬之石的所有碎片，这样它才足够强大，足以击败索恩。” “我们以前也有一块，”发牢骚的蜜蜂告诉泰格。 “但我们不再这样做了。”

Tag looked around sadly. If we don't find all the pieces, he thought, we'll never stop Thorn and we'll never save Perodia. "Our home was once a beautiful land filled with color and light," the bee said. "We were guarding the stone." "Then Thorn sent The Shadow and everything turned to dust," the bee went on. "We only survived because the light of the Ember Stone scared The Shadow away." Skyla gasped. "But if your stone scared Thorn away, when did he steal it?" she asked.

泰格悲伤地环顾四周。如果我们找不到所有的碎片，他想，我们就永远无法阻止索恩，也永远无法拯救佩罗迪亚。 “我们的家曾经是一片美丽的土地，充满了色彩和光明，”蜜蜂说。 “我们是在守卫那块石头。” “然后索恩派来了影子，一切都变成了尘土。”蜜蜂继续说。 “我们之所以能活下来，是因为余烬之石的光芒吓跑了暗影。” Skyla气喘吁吁地说。“但如果你的石头吓走了索恩，那他是什么时候偷的？”她问。

The grumblebees shook their heads. "He didn't." Tag let out a sigh of relief. "So where is it now?" he asked. The grumblebees started to buzz angrily again. "The bears stole it!" they said.

牢骚蜂们摇了摇头。 “他没有。”泰格松了一口气。 “那它现在在哪儿？”他问。 牢骚蜂又开始愤怒地嗡嗡叫起来。 “熊偷走了它！”他们说。