3. Rachel in Danger

"It's Storm the Lightning Fairy!" cried Rachel, hurrying to open the case. She found a tiny hook on the side and unlatched it so that the glass door swung open. "Hello, again," said Storm. "I'm so glad to see you two!" Rachel and Kirsty had met all the Weather Fairies at the beginning of their feather-finding mission. The King and Queen of Fairyland had brought the girls to Fairyland to ask for their help, so now they recognized the fairy right away. Storm had long, straight blonde hair and wore a bright purple outfit. A golden lightning bolt hung on a chain around her neck, and her purple wand sent out little crackling lightning bolts whenever it moved.

“是闪电仙女风暴！”雷切尔叫道，急忙打开箱子。 她在侧面找到一个小钩子，把它打开，玻璃门就打开了。 “又见面了。”风暴说。 “见到你们俩真高兴！”雷切尔和科斯蒂在寻找羽毛的任务开始时就遇到了所有的天气仙女。 仙境的国王和王后把女孩们带到仙境来寻求帮助，所以现在她们马上认出了仙女。 “风暴”有一头长长的金发，穿着一件亮紫色的衣服。 一条金色的闪电挂在她脖子上的链子上，她的紫色魔杖一动，就会发出噼啪作响的小闪电。

"Hello, Storm!" said Kirsty, as the fairy fluttered out of the glass case. "I was wondering when we were going to see you. What were you doing in there?" Storm tossed her hair. "The goblin with the Lightning Feather trapped me in there," she explained, annoyed. "He's still somewhere in the museum. Have you seen all the lightning he's been making?" She put her hands on her hips. "Please help me get my feather back from him. Lightning is powerful stuff, you know."

“你好，风暴！”当仙女从玻璃盒子里飞出来时，科斯蒂说。 “我还在想我们什么时候能见到你呢。 你在里面做什么？”风暴摇动她的头发。 “带着闪电羽毛的妖精把我困在那里了。”她恼火地解释道。 “他还在博物馆的某个地方。 你看到他制造的所有闪电了吗？”她双手叉腰。 “请帮我把羽毛从他那里拿回来。 你知道，闪电是很强大的东西。”

"We know," Rachel told her. "We were under a tree when lightning struck. One of the branches broke!" Storm looked horrified, so Kirsty tried to make her feel better. "It was very pretty lightning, though, Storm," she said. "All sparkly!" Storm smiled. "It is beautiful, isn't it?" she said. Then she sighed. "But I have to get the feather back before that mean goblin does any more damage. Those goblins have no idea—" Storm broke off in the middle of her sentence. "Someone's coming," she whispered. "It might be the goblin. Hide!"

“我们知道，”瑞秋告诉她。 “闪电来袭时，我们正在树下。 一根树枝断了！”“风暴”看起来很害怕，所以科斯蒂试图让她感觉好一点。 “不过，那是一道非常漂亮的闪电，‘风暴’。”她说。 “所有闪亮的!”风暴笑了。 “它很漂亮，不是吗？”她说。 然后她叹了口气。“但我必须在那个卑鄙的妖精造成更多伤害之前把羽毛拿回来。 那些半兽人根本不知道——”暴风说到一半就停住了。 “有人来了。”她低声说。 “可能是妖精。藏!”

The girls pressed themselves back against the wall and Storm swooped down onto Kirsty's shoulder. They were half-hidden by a display case in the darkness. Thunder rumbled again, and Kirsty realized that her heart was pounding. She really hoped the noise they heard was just the tour guide coming back, not the goblin. Jack Frost had cast a spell to make all the goblins bigger, so now they were almost as tall as the girls' shoulders. That made it even harder for Kirsty and Rachel to get the Weather Feathers back from them!

姑娘们靠在墙上，“风暴”猛扑到科斯蒂的肩膀上。 它们在黑暗中被一个陈列柜半遮着。 雷声又隆隆响起，科斯蒂意识到她的心在怦怦直跳。 她真希望他们听到的声音是导游回来的声音，而不是妖精。 杰克·弗罗斯特施了一个咒语，让所有的半兽人都变大了，所以现在他们几乎和女孩们的肩膀一样高了。 这使得科斯蒂和瑞秋更难从他们那里拿回天气羽毛！

The door creaked open, and the girls and Storm all held their breath. Through the darkness they could see that it was the goblin. And, he was a particularly scary-looking one— with extra-narrow red eyes, long, pointed ears, and a thin, bony body. The lights were still out in the museum, but the goblin lit up the room. He was waving the Lightning Feather around so that golden bolts of lightning whizzed all over the place. They crackled and fizzed, sending electric blue sparks shooting from everything they touched. Storm put her head in her hands. "I can't watch," she groaned. "What does he think he's doing?" "Oh!" gasped Rachel, ducking as a lightning bolt zoomed past her head. "We have to stop him before he hurts someone," she hissed.

门嘎吱一声开了，姑娘们和“风暴”都屏住了呼吸。 在黑暗中，他们可以看到那是妖精。 而且，他长得特别可怕——红眼睛特别窄，耳朵又长又尖，身体瘦骨嶙峋。 博物馆里的灯还没有亮，但妖精把房间照亮了。 他挥舞着闪电羽，金色的闪电嗖嗖地划过整个地方。 它们噼啪作响，发出嘶嘶声，碰到的每样东西都射出蓝色的电光。 “风暴”双手抱头。 “我看不下去了，”她呻吟道。 “他以为自己在干什么？”“哦！”雷切尔喘着气说，当一道闪电从她头顶掠过时，她低下了身子。 “我们必须在他伤害别人之前阻止他。”她嘶嘶地说。

"Who said that?" the goblin snapped. "Fairy, was that you? Or is somebody else in here?" Kirsty's heart pounded so loudly that she was sure the goblin would hear it. He was turning around, looking everywhere to see who'd made the noise. At last, his red eyes fell upon the girls, and he grinned a horrible grin. "Oh!" he cried. "Planning to sneak up on me, were you?" And with a wave of the feather, he sent three fiery lightning bolts whizzing right at them!

“谁说的？”妖精厉声说。 “仙女，是你吗？”还是有人在这里？”柯斯蒂的心砰砰地跳得那么响，她确信妖精会听到。 他转过身来，四处张望，想看看是谁发出的声音。 最后，他的红眼睛落在姑娘们身上，露出一个可怕的笑容。 “啊！”他叫道。“你打算偷偷接近我，是吗？”他用羽毛一挥，三道炽热的闪电向他们呼啸而来！