14 The Next Piece

CHAPTER 14 THE NEXT PIECE Blaze hopped up and down. "The Ember Stone!" she said. A glass case sat on a table in the middle of the room. It held a small, jagged piece of the stone. "This is the new piece we've been searching for!" Tag exclaimed.

第十四章下一个火焰跳上跳下。 “烬石！”她说。 房间中央的桌子上放着一个玻璃盒子。 手里拿着一小块参差不齐的石头。 “这就是我们一直在寻找的新作品！”泰格喊道。

"As I've already told you, you may not have it," King Nidus said firmly. "I promised the firehawks I would guard our piece with my life." Blaze stepped forward. "I am a firehawk," she said. "The Ember Stone belongs with me." The king paced up and down, thinking about what Blaze had said. Tag could tell that the king felt a duty to keep his piece of the Ember Stone. "Um..." Skyla said, breaking the silence. "Where is our stone?"

“我已经告诉过你了，你不能得到它。”尼都斯国王坚定地说。 “我答应过火鹰，我会用生命守护我们的地盘。” 火焰走上前去。“我是火鹰，”她说。 “烬石属于我。” 国王踱来踱去，想着火焰说的话。 泰格看得出来，国王觉得有责任保住他那块灰烬之石。 “嗯……”斯凯拉打破沉默说。 “我们的石头在哪里？”

Nova opened a large wooden chest from beneath the table. Then she helped her father lift out a crystal box bigger than the two of them. Both pieces were glowing brightly from being so close to each other. "When your stone dropped into the lake, we brought it here," Nova told them. "Thank you for keeping it safe," Tag said. Skyla gently nudged Tag. "We really need to put these stones together to see if we have all the pieces now," she whispered.

诺娃从桌子底下打开一个大木箱。 然后，她帮父亲拿出一个比他们俩还大的水晶盒子。 两块碎片都因为靠得太近而发出明亮的光。 诺瓦告诉他们：“你们的石头掉到湖里的时候，我们把它搬到这里来了。” “谢谢你保护它的安全，”泰格说。 斯凯拉轻轻地推了推泰格。“我们真的需要把这些石头拼在一起，看看我们现在是否拥有所有的碎片。”她低声说。

Tag nodded, then turned to the nixie king. "King Nidus, I have an idea. I think we can prove to you that these two pieces are meant to be together—and that Blaze was meant to have them." The king frowned. "How?" he asked. Tag pointed at the glass case. "Let Blaze hold the stones." The king shook his head hard. "They are very hot! Our piece started to glow when your piece was brought into our kingdom. We are using our strongest magic just to keep them from burning down the palace," he told them. "The stones can't hurt me," Blaze said. "Pieces of the Ember Stone glow when they are close to one another—or to Blaze," Skyla explained.

泰格点点头，然后转向妖王。 “尼都斯国王，我有个主意。 我想我们可以向你证明，这两件事注定要在一起，而Blaze注定要拥有它们。” 国王皱起眉头。“怎么做？”他问。 泰格指着玻璃盒子。 “让火焰拿着石头。” 国王使劲摇了摇头。 “它们很热！”当你的棋子被带到我们的王国时，我们的棋子开始发光。 我们正在使用我们最强大的魔法，只是为了防止他们烧毁宫殿。”他告诉他们。 “石头伤不了我，”布雷兹说。 “灰烬之石的碎片彼此靠近时会发光——或者靠近火焰。”斯凯拉解释道。

The king lifted the cover off the glass case, as Tag opened the crystal box. Warm purple light filled the room. Blaze lifted the smaller piece and placed it next to their stone on the table. Both pieces began to shake. Then a loud humming sound filled the room as they wobbled across the table toward each other. With a burst of bright purple light, they joined together and became one stone.

泰格打开水晶盒，国王揭开玻璃盒的盖子。 温暖的紫光充满了房间。 火焰拿起小块，放在桌子上他们的石头旁边。 两块石头开始摇晃起来。 接着，他们摇摇晃晃地隔着桌子朝对方走去，一阵响亮的嗡嗡声充满了整个房间。 随着一道明亮的紫光的爆发，它们连在一起，成了一块石头。

"Look!" Tag cried, pointing to a small jagged space at the edge of the stone. "There is only one piece left to find!" Blaze and Skyla jumped up and down excitedly.

“看!”泰格喊道，指着石头边缘的一小块参差不齐的地方。 “只剩下一块要找了！”Blaze和Skyla兴奋地跳上跳下。