3 A Nightmare

CHAPTER 3

第三章

A Nightmare That night Ruskin slept in Lucas's room. Unfortunately, Lucas could not fall asleep at all. He kept thinking about his invention. It was so close to being finished. After tossing and turning for hours, the prince finally hopped out of bed to work on it. He called for Ruskin to join him, but the dragon was gone. Lucas raced out of his room and checked Ruskin's favorite hiding spots: the kitchen, the larder, and the dragon lair. But there was no sign of Ruskin.

那天晚上罗斯金睡在卢卡斯的房间里。 不幸的是，卢卡斯根本无法入睡。 他一直在思考他的发明。 就快完工了。 在辗转反侧了几个小时后，王子终于从床上跳起来开始做这件事。 他叫罗斯金加入他的行列，但龙已经不见了。 卢卡斯跑出他的房间，检查了罗斯金最喜欢的藏身之处：厨房、储藏室和龙的巢穴。 但是没有罗斯金的踪迹。

The missing dragon wasn't the only weird thing going on. The entire castle was eerily empty! Lucas couldn't even find his mother and father, the queen and king! Something is terribly wrong, the prince thought. Then Lucas heard a sound. It was a low, steady hum mixed with hisses and sizzles, like when Cook used a very hot griddle. But this sound wasn't coming from the kitchen. It was coming from the prince's workshop! Lucas slowly opened the door to discover Ruskin standing in front of Lucas's covered invention. The sound in the room was extremely loud. Lucas had to cover his ears to block the noise! It was coming from a very strange crack in the wall.

失踪的龙并不是唯一奇怪的事情。 整个城堡空得可怕！卢卡斯甚至找不到他的父母，王后和国王！一定是出了什么大问题，王子想。 然后卢卡斯听到了一个声音。那是一种低沉而稳定的嗡嗡声，夹杂着嘶嘶声和滋滋声，就像库克用一个非常热的煎锅时发出的声音。 但这声音不是来自厨房。 它是从王子的作坊里发出来的！卢卡斯慢慢地打开门，发现罗斯金站在卢卡斯的有盖发明前。 房间里的声音非常大。 卢卡斯不得不捂着耳朵挡住噪音！那声音是从墙上一个很奇怪的裂缝里发出来的。

He studied the crack and saw that it wasn't actually in the wall. The rip was in the air itself! A blue-and-pink mist began to swirl out and fill the air. "Ruskin, what's going on?!" Lucas screamed over the noise. The scarlet dragon didn't answer him. Instead, Ruskin tore the cover off Lucas's invention with one of his claws. "Lucas, you must make the wings lighter," his dragon said. "If you ever hope to save me, fix the wings."

他仔细研究了裂缝，发现它实际上并不在墙上。 撕裂是在空气本身！一团蓝粉相间的薄雾开始盘旋而出，弥漫在空气中。 “罗斯金，发生什么事了？！”卢卡斯在嘈杂声中尖叫起来。 红龙没有回答他。 相反，罗斯金用一只爪子撕下了卢卡斯发明的封面。 “卢卡斯，你必须让翅膀轻一点。”他的龙说。 “如果你还想救我，就把翅膀修好。”