中文版:(引子2)
叶池惊喜的高喊道:“火星!”
松鸦羽看到自己的母亲从草地上冲过去,与火星碰了碰鼻子,一股强烈的感情席卷全身。
隼飞紧跟叶池冲过去,迎接他的风族老师青面,两名巫医立即热烈地交谈起来。柳光走到豹星面前,恭敬地向她点点头,迎接前河族族长。小云和焰尾在草地上坐下,欢欣地咕噜着互相梳理皮毛。影族前族长黑星在一旁赞许地看着他们。
松鸦羽缓步上前迎接星族猫们。尽管他很高兴看到他们,却仍然有些不安:这究竟是怎么回事?
他注意到,有更多的猫站在树荫中,但他几乎看不见他们,只能看到微弱的星光在闪动。他更加仔细的打量他们,却意识到他不认识其中的任何一只。他张开嘴,深深地将他们的气味吸进自己嘴里,慢慢从中嗅出了他从来不曾接触过的东西。
松鸦羽眯起眼睛,大步走到火星面前。
“这是怎么回事?”他问道,“这些陌生猫是谁?”
“你好,松鸦羽。”火星回应道。
松鸦羽焦躁地抽抽尾巴:“您好!这是怎么了?”
火星清清嗓子,看了一眼其他的星族猫。大家停止交谈,聚集到他身边。
“每次你都会走到前面去,代表我们大家说话吧。”豹星语带有讽刺的对火焰皮毛的公猫说,“你显然早就准备这样做了。”
其他巫医已经站到离松鸦羽更近的地方。隼飞在不安的移动着脚掌,他仿佛想说什么,却又对眼前的幻象不知所措。
松鸦羽戳隼飞一下,“有话快说。”他低吼道。
“也许每个巫医都应该单独与自己的族群猫交谈。”隼飞羞怯地建议说,“也许每个族群都有些私密的事情需要讨论。”
青面用鼻子碰碰隼飞的肩膀,轻声说:“不。我们有预言需要告诉你们大家,这个预言与每个族群都有关。”
松鸦羽觉得心跳骤然加快。别在来预言了!他的心里呻吟道,这意味着我们的和平岁月就要结束了吗?
“一个预言,也是一个承诺。”火星说,他直视着松鸦羽的眼睛,仿佛知道松鸦羽没有说出来的话是什么,“所有族群的大变革时代就要到来。拥抱你们在暗影中的所得,只有他们能驱散天空的阴霾。”
他说完之后,星族祖先们都意味深长地凝视着巫医们。
一阵沉默之后,松鸦羽沮丧地狂甩了一下尾巴。“那究竟是什么意思?”他怒视着火星,追问道。他的声音里满是讽刺,像一只撕挠的爪子,然后他说:“如果你真的努力了,你觉得你还能说得更含糊些吗?”
火星又爱又恨地看着松鸦羽,但幻象已经开始淡去。星族猫们的身影渐渐化为一团炫目的星光,令松鸦羽和其他巫医睁不开眼。天空阴暗下来,仿佛乌云正在急速飘飞过来,准备遮蔽太阳。
但是在幻象完全消失前,松鸦羽从眼角的余光中看到了另一只猫,他没能马上认出那只猫。其实那是一只非常年轻的公猫,正站在巫医圈外一两步远的地方。松鸦羽转身去看,那只猫立即跑开了,所以松鸦羽看清楚的只不过是从他面前一晃而过的白色尾巴尖。
松鸦羽急忙深吸一口气,捕捉他的气味。那是一只真猫!他意识到,而且他身上有很浓的雷族气味。
英文版:(Primer two)
Ye Chi shouted in surprise, "Mars!"
The jay feather saw his mother rush over from the grass and touch his nose with Mars. A strong feeling swept through his body.
Falcon flew close to Ye Chi and rushed to meet his Fengzu teacher, Qingmian. The two witch doctors immediately talked enthusiastically. Liu Guang walked to Leopard Star and nodded respectfully to meet the Qianhe clan leader. Xiaoyun and Yanwei sat down on the grass and cooed happily to comb each other's fur. Black Star, the former leader of the Shadow Clan, looked at them approvingly.
The jay feather stepped forward slowly to meet the Star Cats. Although he was happy to see them, he was still a little uneasy: what was the matter?
He noticed that there were more cats standing in the shade, but he could hardly see them. He could only see the faint stars flashing. He looked at them more carefully, but realized that he didn't know any of them. He opened his mouth, deeply sucked their smell into his mouth, and slowly smelled out something he had never touched.
Crow feather squinted and strode to Mars.
"What's the matter?" he asked. "Who are these strange cats?"
"Hello, Manayu," Mars replied.
The crow feather twitched its tail impatiently: "Hello! What's the matter?"
Mars cleared his throat and took a look at the other Star cats. Everyone stopped talking and gathered around him.
"Every time you will go to the front and speak on behalf of us all." Leopard Star said sarcastically to the flaming cat, "You are obviously ready to do this."
Other witch doctors have stood closer to the crow feather. Falcon was restlessly moving his feet. He seemed to want to say something, but he was at a loss for the illusion in front of him.
The jay feather poked the falcon and flew. "Say something quickly," he growled.
"Maybe every witch doctor should talk to his own group of cats alone." Falcon suggested shyly, "Maybe every group has some private things to discuss."
Qingmian touched Falcon's shoulder with his nose and said softly, "No. We have a prophecy to tell you all. This prophecy is related to every ethnic group."
Jay Feather felt his heart beat faster. Don't prophesy again! He groaned in his heart, does this mean that our peace years are coming to an end?
"A prophecy is also a promise." Mars said, looking directly into the eyes of Jay Feather, as if he knew what Jay Feather had not said. "The era of great change for all ethnic groups is coming. Embrace your gains in the dark, only they can dispel the haze of the sky."
After he said that, the astrological ancestors all stared at the witch doctors meaningfully.
After a moment of silence, Jay Feather shook his tail in frustration. "What exactly does that mean?" he asked, glaring at Mars. His voice was full of sarcasm, like a torn claw. Then he said, "If you really work hard, do you think you can speak more vaguely?"
Mars looked at the jay feather with love and hate, but the illusion had begun to fade. The figure of the Star Cats gradually turned into a group of dazzling starlight, which blinded Jay Feather and other witch doctors. The sky darkened, as if dark clouds were flying rapidly to cover the sun.
But before the illusion disappeared completely, the jay feather saw another cat in the afterglow of the corner of his eye, and he could not recognize the cat immediately. In fact, it was a very young male cat, standing a step or two away from the witch doctor circle. Crow Feather turned to look, and the cat ran away immediately, so what Crow Feather could see clearly was only the white tip of the tail that flashed past him.
Jay Feather quickly took a deep breath to catch his smell. That's a real cat! He realized that he had a strong smell of thunder.