Chapter 8

CHAPTER EIGHT Sunshine stopped galloping and reared up, stamping her hooves down hard on the ground. Magical sparks crackled around her, shooting into the air, followed by a deafening bang. The walls about to crush her and Evie exploded into dust. Evie screamed and covered her head as she was pelted by flying rock. Luckily Sunshine's explosion had been so powerful that the pieces were very small. "Sunshine, you saved my life!" Evie said, hugging her as they staggered out of the dusty chamber. "You're the best unicorn ever!" Lyra jumped down and scrambled over the rocks to feed Sunshine handfuls of sky berries to get her strength back. "What happened?" asked Ivy, waving her hands around at the remains of the cave. "Why did the walls move?" Lyra looked grim. "The cave's been booby-trapped." "By Dr Briar?" asked Sienna in horror. "I don't think so," said Lyra. "There'd be no point in her setting the traps if she'd already been here and found the diamond. I think they were set by Ms Evergreen when she hid the Unicorn's Diamond to try to stop anyone finding it." "Well, her traps won't stop us!" declared Sienna. "Agreed," said Ivy firmly. "But we'd better be careful. There could be more traps," Evie added.

第八章“阳光”停了下来，站起身来，用蹄子狠狠地跺着地面。 魔法火花在她周围噼啪作响，射向空中，接着是震耳欲聋的一声巨响。 即将把她和伊维压垮的墙壁炸成了灰尘。 艾薇被飞石砸中，她尖叫着捂着头。 幸运的是，阳光的爆炸非常强大，碎片非常小。 “阳光，你救了我的命！”伊维拥抱着她说，他们蹒跚走出满是灰尘的房间。 “你是最棒的独角兽！”莱拉跳了下来，爬上岩石，喂给阳光一把天空浆果，让她恢复体力。 “发生了什么事？”艾薇问，朝洞穴的残骸挥舞着双手。 “墙为什么会动？”莱拉脸色阴沉。 “山洞里装了诡雷。” “布瑞尔医生？”西耶娜惊恐地问。 “我不这么认为。”莱拉说。 “如果她已经来过这里，找到了钻石，那么她设陷阱就没有意义了。 我认为这是常绿女士藏独角兽钻石时设下的陷阱，她想阻止任何人找到它。” “好吧，她的陷阱阻止不了我们！”西耶娜说。 “同意。”艾薇坚定地说。 “但是我们最好小心点。 可能会有更多的陷阱，”Evie补充道。

Sienna nodded and led the way along the tunnel. After a while it began to narrow and slope downhill until it came to a crossroads. Sienna shone her torch around and spotted a carving of a door above one of the tunnels. It had a compass face above it, the arrow facing north. "The Northernmost Door!" she breathed. "Looks like we have to go this way," said Lyra, setting off. She stopped herself. "Sorry, Sienna, you go." "It's OK," said Sienna. She'd stopped thinking about getting to the diamond first. All she wanted was for them to find it and get out safely! They rode slowly on, the unicorns placing their hooves with care. Sienna heard a dull roar in the distance. Was it a waterfall? The roar got louder and louder and eventually they pulled up on the edge of a vast river that roared and foamed. "How do we get across that?" Ivy said. "There," said Sienna, nodding at a series of flat stepping stones that started at the bank and crossed the river In a wonky line. Evie's face creased with worry. "They look very wobbly." "Sparkle and I will go first," said Sienna. "Don't worry." "But, Sienna, it really doesn't look safe," Sparkle protested. "It'll be fine," Sienna told him.

西耶娜点了点头，带路穿过隧道。 过了一会儿，路开始变窄，开始往下坡，直到一个十字路口。 西耶娜用手电四处照着，发现其中一条隧道上方有一扇门的雕刻。 它上面有一个罗盘面，箭头指向北方。 “最北的门！” “看来我们得走这边了。”莱拉说着出发了。 她停了下来。“对不起，西耶娜，你走吧。” “没关系，”西耶娜说。她已经不再想先拿到钻石了。 她只想让他们找到它，然后安全离开！他们慢慢地骑着，独角兽小心翼翼地踩着蹄子。 西耶娜听到远处传来沉闷的吼声。 是瀑布吗？吼声越来越大，最后他们停在了一条咆哮着、冒着泡沫的大河边上。 “我们怎么过去？”艾薇说。 “在那儿，”西耶娜说，对着一排平坦的垫脚石点了点头，这些垫脚石从河岸开始，排成一条摇摇晃晃的线穿过河流。 伊薇的脸因担心而皱了起来。 “他们看起来很不稳定。”“闪闪和我先走，”西耶娜说。 “别担心。”“可是，西耶娜，它看起来真的不安全。”斯巴克抗议道。 “会没事的，”西耶娜告诉他。

Sparkle took a tentative step forward, putting a hoof on the first stepping stone, but as he transferred his weight the stone rocked violently and disappeared into the frothing water. Sparkle leapt back in the nick of time, but his back hooves slipped, and for one horrible moment Sienna thought they were going to slide into the rushing river. "Sparkle!" she shrieked. Sienna's unicorn managed to regain his footing but she could feel him shaking with the shock. "That was close," said Lyra, wide-eyed. "The stepping stones must be booby-trapped too," said Misty. "Why don't I use my bubble magic to float us across? "Go for it, Misty," said Lyra, stroking her. Misty stamped her hoof and a silvery bubble rose around everyone. It

斯巴克试探性地向前走了一步，把一只蹄子踩在了第一块垫脚石上，但当他挪动身子时，那块垫脚石剧烈地摇晃着，消失在了冒着泡沫的水中。 斯巴克及时跳了回来，但他的后蹄滑了，在那可怕的一刻，西耶娜以为他们要滑入湍急的河水中了。 “闪闪发亮！”她尖叫道。西耶娜的独角兽勉强站了起来，但她能感觉到它被震得发抖。 “好险啊。”莱拉睁大了眼睛说。 “垫脚石上一定也有陷阱，”米斯蒂说。 “为什么我不用泡泡魔法让我们浮过去呢？” “去吧，米斯蒂。”莱拉抚摸着她说。 米斯蒂跺了跺脚，一个银色的泡泡在大家周围升起。 它

picked them up and carried them safely over the rushing water. It came to rest on the other side before popping and releasing them. They all breathed a collective sigh of relief. "Well done, Misty!" said Evie. "That was brilliant!" said Ivy. Sienna joined in too. "Your magic's amazing!" Misty looked pleased. "Thank you!" Sienna felt the same warm glow that she'd felt when she'd complimented her after they'd escaped from the outdoor maze. "Misty did really well, didn't she?" she whispered to Sparkle as Lyra fed her some sky berries. "Mmm," Sparkle muttered. His head was low and he didn't look at her. Sienna frowned. He was being very weird. She was about to ask him what the matter was when Lyra called out, "Misty's recovered now. Let's go on." They set off down a tunnel leading away from the river. A short while later it ended in another dead end. There were some carvings on the stone wall in front of them. They all crowded round. Lyra's torch beam picked out a picture of a spotted lizard facing sideways. Its eye was large and staring. "That's a salamander," said Ivy, who knew a lot about animals. "And the clue was The Salamander's Stare," said Lyra. "Look at its eye!" Evie exclaimed. They all looked more closely. The salamander's eye wasn't actually an eye at all; it was button that had a picture of Daybreak on it. Evie pushed the button, and slowly the wall began to rise before disappearing into the tunnel's roof. "Whoa!" Sienna's eyes grew wide as she took in the cavern now open in front of them. Its roof arched high overhead. Its walls were made of rose quartz and there were unicorn statues inside it carved from the same sparkly pink rock, some playing, others leaping and galloping. "What a beautiful place," Ivy breathed, riding Flame inside. But then Sienna heard the sudden grinding of stone. "What's that?" To her horror a huge boulder detached from the far wall of the cavern

把它们捡起来，安全地带着它们过了湍急的河水。 它停在另一边，然后打开并释放它们。 他们都松了一口气。 “干得好，米斯蒂！”伊维说。 “太棒了！”艾薇说。 西耶娜也加入了进来。“你的魔法太神奇了！”米斯蒂看起来很高兴。 “谢谢你!”西耶娜感到了温暖的光芒，就像他们从室外迷宫里逃出来后，她称赞她时那样。 “米斯蒂做得很好，是不是？”莱拉喂她一些天空莓时，她小声对斯巴克说。 “嗯。”他低着头，没有看她。 黄土皱起了眉头。他表现得很奇怪。 她正要问他怎么回事，莱拉叫道：“米斯蒂现在康复了。 我们继续走吧。”他们沿着一条通往河边的隧道出发了。 过了一会儿，它又走进了一条死胡同。 他们面前的石墙上有一些雕刻。 他们都围了过来。莱拉的手电光线照出一张照片，上面有一只面朝侧面的斑点蜥蜴。 它的眼睛又大又瞪。 “那是蝾螈，”对动物很了解的艾薇说。 “线索就是火蜥蜴的凝视。”莱拉说。 “看它的眼睛！”艾维喊道。 他们都更仔细地看了看。 蝾螈的眼睛实际上根本就不是眼睛；那是一颗纽扣，上面有黎明的照片。 艾薇按下按钮，墙慢慢地开始上升，然后消失在隧道的顶部。 “哇!”西耶娜看着眼前打开的山洞，眼睛睁得大大的。 它的屋顶在头顶呈拱形。 它的墙壁是由玫瑰石英制成的，里面还有用同样闪亮的粉红色岩石雕刻的独角兽雕像，有的在玩耍，有的在跳跃和奔跑。 “多么美丽的地方啊，”艾薇喘着气，骑着火焰进去。 但就在这时，西耶娜听到了石头突然磨碎的声音。 “那是什么?”使她惊恐的是，一块巨石从远处的岩壁上掉了下来

and started rolling towards them like a giant bowling ball. "It's another trap!" she yelled.

然后开始像一个巨大的保龄球一样向他们滚来。 “这又是一个陷阱！”她喊道。