Chapter 26

CHAPTER 26 Fireheart felt as if he had slept for only a moment when he woke. A cool breeze was ruffling his fur. The rain had stopped. Above, the sky was filled with billowing white clouds. For a moment he felt confused by the unfamiliar surroundings. Then he became aware of the sound of voices meowing nearby and recognized Smallear's trembling mew. "I told you StarClan would show its anger!" rasped the old tom. "Our home has gone; the forest is no more." "Bluestar should have appointed the deputy before moonhigh," fretted Speckletail. "It's the custom!" Fireheart leaped to his paws, his ears burning, but before he could say anything, Cinderpelt's mew rose into the air. "How can you be so ungrateful? Fireheart carried you across the river, Smallear!" "He nearly drowned me," complained Smallear. "You'd be dead if he'd left you behind," spat Cinderpelt. "If Fireheart hadn't smelled the smoke

第二十六章火心醒来时觉得自己好像只睡了一会儿。 一阵凉风吹动着他的皮毛。 雨停了。在天空中，白云翻滚。 有一会儿，他对陌生的环境感到困惑。 然后他意识到附近有喵喵叫的声音，认出了斯莫勒颤抖的叫声。 “我告诉过你，星族会发怒的！”老汤姆厉声说。 “我们的家没了；森林已经没有了。” “蓝星应该在月高之前任命代理人。”斑点尾巴烦躁地说。 “这是习俗！”火心跳了起来，耳朵火辣辣的，但他还没来得及说什么，灰姑娘的新帽子就升到了空中。 “你怎么能这样忘恩负义？” 火心带你过河了，小家伙！”“他差点淹死我，”斯莫马尔抱怨道。 “如果他丢下你，你早就死了。”灰姑娘吐了口唾沫。 “如果火心没有闻到烟味的话

in the first place, we might all be dead!" "I'm sure Patchpelt, Halftail, and Yellowfang are deeply grateful to him." Fireheart's fur rippled with anger as he heard Darkstripe's sarcastic yowl. "Yellowfang will thank him herself when we find her!" hissed Cinderpelt. "Find her?" echoed Darkstripe. "There's no way she'll have escaped that fire. Fireheart should never have allowed her to go back to the camp." Cinderpelt growled deep in her throat. Darkstripe had gone too far. Fireheart padded quickly from the shadows and saw Fernpaw sitting beside Darkstripe, staring up at her mentor with horror in her eyes. Fireheart opened his mouth, but it was Dustpelt who spoke first. "Darkstripe! You should show more respect for your lost Clanmates, and"—he glanced sympathetically at the frightened Fernpaw—"be more careful with what you say. Our Clanmates have suffered enough already!" Fireheart was taken aback to hear the young warrior challenge his former mentor.

首先，我们可能都死了！”“我相信补丁儿、半尾巴和黄牙都很感激他。” 火心听到暗条纹讥讽的嚎叫，气得皮毛直竖。 “等我们找到黄牙，她会亲自感谢他的！” “找到她了吗？” “她不可能逃过那场大火。 火心就不该让她回营地去。” 灰姑娘在喉咙深处咆哮。 “暗条纹”做得太过分了。 火心迅速从阴影中走出来，看见Fernpaw坐在Darkstripe旁边，眼睛里充满恐惧地盯着她的导师。 火心张开了嘴，但是是达斯特尔先说话的。 “Darkstripe !你应该对你失去的同族人表现出更多的尊重，”——他同情地瞥了一眼吓坏了的Fernpaw——“说话要小心。 我们的族人已经受够了！”听到这位年轻的战士向他以前的导师发起挑战，火心吃了一惊。

Darkstripe eyed Dustpelt with equal surprise, than narrowed his eyes dangerously. "Dustpelt's right," Fireheart meowed quietly, stepping forward. "We shouldn't be arguing." Darkstripe, Smallear, and the others whipped around to stare at Fireheart, their ears and tails flicking awkwardly as they realized he had heard their conversation. "Fireheart!" Graystripe's mew interrupted them, and Fireheart saw his friend crossing the clearing, his fur damp from the river. "Have you been on patrol?" Fireheart asked, turning away from the ThunderClan cats and padding over to meet Graystripe. "Yes. And hunting," meowed Graystripe. "We can't all sleep the morning away, you know." He nudged Fireheart on the shoulder and went on: "You must be hungry. Come with me." He led Fireheart toward a pile of fresh-kill at the edge of the clearing. "Leopardfur says this is for your Clan," Graystripe told him. Fireheart's belly growled with hunger. "Thanks," he meowed. "I'd better let the Clan know." He went over to where the ThunderClan

黑条同样惊讶地看着尘土，然后危险地眯起眼睛。 “尘埃怪说得对。”火心轻声叫着，走上前。 “我们不应该争吵。” 黑条、小个子和其他人都转过身来盯着火心，他们的耳朵和尾巴尴尬地抖动着，因为他们意识到火心听到了他们的谈话。 “Fireheart !”灰条纹的新衣服打断了他们，火心看到他的朋友穿过空地，他的皮毛被河水打湿了。 “你去巡逻了吗？”火心问道，转身离开雷霆家族的猫，朝灰条走去。 “是的。还有打猎，”灰条喵喵地说。 “你知道，我们不可能整个上午都睡过去。” 他轻轻地拍了拍火心的肩膀，接着说：“你一定饿了。 跟我来。”他领着火心朝空地边上的一堆刚宰杀的猎物走去。 “利奥帕德弗说这是给你们家族的。” 火心饿得肚子咕咕叫。 “谢谢。”他喵喵叫道。“我最好让氏族知道。” 他去了雷霆帮

cats were gathered. "Graystripe says that pile of food is for us," he announced. "Thank StarClan," Goldenflower meowed gratefully. "We don't need other Clans to feed us," sneered Darkstripe. "I suppose you can go hunting if you want," Fireheart meowed, narrowing his eyes at the tabby warrior. "But you'll need to ask Crookedstar's permission first. After all, this is his territory." Darkstripe snorted impatiently and padded toward the fresh-kill pile. Fireheart looked at Bluestar. She hadn't reacted to the news of food at all. Whitestorm twitched his ears. "I'll make sure everyone gets a share," he promised, glancing at Bluestar. "Thanks," Fireheart answered. Graystripe padded up and dropped a mouse on the ground at his paws. "Here, you can eat this at the nursery," he meowed. "There are some kits I want you to see." Fireheart picked up the mouse and followed his friend toward a tangle of reeds. As they

猫被聚集起来。“灰条说那堆食物是给我们的，”他宣布。 “谢谢StarClan，”Goldenflower感激地喵喵叫道。 Darkstripe嘲笑道：“我们不需要其他氏族来养活我们。 “如果你愿意，我想你可以去打猎。”火心喵喵地叫道，眯起眼睛看着这个虎斑战士。 “不过你得先征得鲁克斯塔的同意。 毕竟，这是他的地盘。” 黑条纹不耐烦地哼了一声，朝刚宰完的那堆东西走去。 火心看着蓝星。 她对食物的消息完全没有反应。 怀特斯托姆扭了扭耳朵。 “我保证每个人都能分到一份，”他瞥了一眼蓝星，保证道。 “谢谢。”火心回答。 灰条爬起来，把一只老鼠扔在他爪子边的地上。 “给，你可以在育儿室吃这个。”他喵喵地叫道。 “我想让你看看一些套件。” 火心捡起老鼠，跟着他的朋友向一丛芦苇走去。 当他们

approached, two silver bundles hurtled through a tiny gap in the thickly woven stems and rushed toward Graystripe. They flung themselves at him, and Graystripe rolled over happily, batting with gentle sheathed paws as the kits climbed over him. Fireheart knew at once whose kits they were. Graystripe purred loudly. "How did you know I was coming?" he rumbled. "We smelled you!" answered the larger kit. "Very good!" Graystripe praised him. As Fireheart finished the last mouthful of mouse, the gray warrior sat up and the kits tumbled off him. "Now it's time you met an old friend of mine," he told them. "We trained together." The kits turned their amber eyes on Fireheart, staring up at him in awe. "Is this Fireheart?" mewed the smallest one. Graystripe nodded, and Fireheart felt a glow of pleasure that his friend had spoken about him already to his kits. "Come back here, you two!" A tortoiseshell face appeared in the entrance of the nursery. "It's going to rain again." Fireheart saw the eyes of the

走近时，两个银色的包裹从厚厚的编织茎的缝隙里冲了出来，向“灰条纹”奔来。 他们扑向他，灰条纹高兴地滚了过来，用带鞘的爪子温柔地拍打着，小山羊们爬到他身上。 火心立刻知道了这是谁的工具箱。 灰条大声地咕噜着。“你怎么知道我要来？” “我们闻到了你的味道！” “很好!”格雷stripe称赞了他。 当火心吃完最后一口老鼠时，灰衣战士坐了起来，工具箱从他身上掉了下来。 “现在你们该见见我的一位老朋友了，”他对他们说。 “我们一起训练。”套件们把琥珀色的眼睛转向火心，敬畏地盯着他。 “这是火心吗？”最小的那个叫道。 灰条纹点点头，火心感到一阵高兴，因为他的朋友已经向他的孩子们谈起了他。 “给我回来，你们两个！”一张龟甲脸出现在育儿室的入口处。 “又要下雨了。” 火心看到了

kits narrow crossly, but they turned and padded obediently toward the den. "They're great," he purred. "Yeah," Graystripe agreed, his eyes soft. "More thanks to Mosspelt than me, I have to say. She's the one who looks after them." Fireheart heard a note of wistfulness in his friend's voice, and wondered just how much Graystripe missed his old home. Neither cat spoke as the gray warrior got to his paws and led Fireheart out of the camp. They sat down on a small patch of bare earth among the reeds. A willow tree arched above their heads, its branches quivering in the fresh breeze. Fireheart felt the wind tug at his fur as he stared through the willow curtain toward the distant woods. It looked as if StarClan was going to send more rain to the forest. "Where's Yellowfang?" asked Graystripe. Fresh grief welled up in Fireheart's chest. "Yellowfang came back to the ThunderClan camp with me to look for Patchpelt and Halftail. I lost her in the smoke. A…a tree fell into the ravine as she was coming out." Was there any way she

幼崽们很烦躁，但它们转过身来，顺从地朝洞穴走去。 “它们太棒了，”他咕噜着。 “是啊。”灰条纹同意了，他的眼神很温柔。 “我得说，更多的是感谢mosspell，而不是我。 她是照顾他们的人。” 火心从他朋友的声音里听出一丝惆怅，他不知道灰条纹是多么想念他的老家。 灰衣武士伸出爪子，牵着火心走出营地，两只猫都没说话。 他们坐在芦苇丛中一小块光秃秃的土地上。 一棵柳树在他们头顶上拱起，枝条在清新的微风中颤动。 火心透过柳条帘子望向远处的树林，感到风在拉扯他的皮毛。 看起来好像《星际战队》要给森林带来更多的雨水。 “黄牙在哪儿？” 新的悲伤涌上了火心的胸膛。 “黄牙和我一起回到了雷族营地，去找补丁和半尾巴。 我在烟雾中失去了她。她出来的时候，一棵树倒在了峡谷里。” 她有可能吗