Chapter 11

Chapter 11 We finally made it inside the palace and into the throne room of the Earth King. "We need to talk to you!" I said to the king. Then I spotted Long Feng standing at the king's side. Great. I thought we got rid of this guy. "He's lying!" Long Feng shouted. "They're here to overthrow you!" Long Feng had convinced the king we were his enemies. But I told the king that I was the Avatar and he agreed to listen to me. I explained about the war and that the Dai Li had kept it secret from him in order to control the city and to control him. "Long Feng didn't want us to tell you about all this, so he stole our sky bison to blackmail us," I explained. Now that I was finally with the king, I wasn't going to let anything stop me from telling him the truth. Long Feng denied ever having seen a sky bison, so I Airbended his robe up to show Appa's teeth marks in his leg. Long Feng claimed it was just a birthmark, but Sokka brought Appa into the throne room and showed off his teeth. "That pretty much proves it," the king said. "But it

我们终于进入了宫殿，进入了土强王的正殿。 “我们需要和你谈谈！”我对王说。 这时，我看见长风站在国王身边。 好了。我以为我们把这家伙打发走了。 “他在说谎!”龙凤叫道。 “他们是来推翻你的！”龙凤让国王相信我们是他的敌人。 但我告诉国王我是神通他同意听我的。 我向他解释了战争的事情，戴笠对他隐瞒了这件事，目的是为了控制这座城市，也为了控制他。 “龙峰不想让我们告诉你这一切，所以他偷了我们的天牛来勒索我们，”我解释说。 现在我终于和国王在一起了，我不会让任何事情阻止我告诉他真相。 龙峰否认曾见过天牛，于是我把他的长袍卷起来，露出他腿上阿柏的牙印。 长凤声称那只是个胎记，但索卡把阿柏带进了正殿，并展示了他的牙齿。 “这几乎证明了这一点，”国王说。 “但它

doesn't prove this crazy conspiracy theory," the king added. What's it going to take to convince him that his entire kingdom is in danger? "I suppose this matter is worth looking into," the king then said. He agreed to come with us to give us a chance to prove that we were telling the truth. We took him to Lake Laogai to expose the Dai Li's secret headquarters, but when we got there, all evidence of the headquarters was gone. The Dai Li had already destroyed the evidence. The king was ready to return home, but then Katara had a brilliant idea. "The wall!" she cried. "And the drill. They'll never be able to cover that up in time!" We flew back to the city and Appa landed on top of the outer wall. The drill still stuck out of the wall, right where we stopped it. "What is that?" the king asked anxiously. "It's a giant drill made by the Fire Nation to break through your walls," Sokka explained. This was proof that we were telling the truth. Now the king finally knew that the war was real. "I can't believe I never knew," the king said. "I can explain this, Your Majesty," said a voice

并不能证明这个疯狂的阴谋论，”国王补充道。 怎样才能让他相信他的整个王国都处于危险之中？ “我想这件事值得调查一下。”国王说。 他同意和我们一起去，给我们一个机会证明我们说的是实话。 我们带他去劳改湖揭露戴笠的秘密总部，但当我们到达那里时，所有关于总部的证据都不见了。 戴笠已经销毁了证据。 国王正准备回家，但卡塔拉有了一个绝妙的主意。 “墙！”她叫道。“还有钻头。 他们不可能及时掩盖这件事的！”我们飞回了城，阿柏降落在外墙顶上。 钻子还卡在墙上，就在我们停下来的地方。 “那是什么？”国王焦急地问。 索卡解释道：“这是烈火国制造的一个巨大的钻头，用来凿穿你的城墙。” 这证明我们说的是实话。 现在国王终于知道战争是真的了。 “我真不敢相信我从来都不知道，”国王说。 “我可以解释，陛下。”一个声音说

approaching us. It was Long Feng. This ought to be good. "This is nothing more than a construction project," he said, though it sounded as if even he had trouble believing it. "Really?" said Katara. "Then perhaps you could explain why there's a Fire Nation insignia on your construction equipment." I love Katara! I mean, whoa, I can't believe I admitted that, even if it is just in my own head. But I really do. I mean, she's so clever! She just backed Long Feng into a corner, and now we definitely have him right where we want him. General Sung joined us on the wall and told the king that we were heroes. "Without them," the general said, "our city would have been lost to the Fire Nation army." The king ordered the Dai Li to arrest Long Feng. "He will stand trial for crimes against the Earth Kingdom," the king announced. Then the Dai Li hauled Long Feng away. Back in the throne room, we filled in the king on the approaching comet, which would make the Fire Nation too powerful to stop, and the solar eclipse

接近我们。是长风。 这应该很好。“这只不过是一个建筑工程，”他说，尽管听起来连他自己都难以相信。 “真的吗？”卡塔拉说。“那也许你能解释一下为什么你的建筑设备上有烈火国的标志。” 我爱卡塔拉！我是说，哇，我不敢相信我承认了这一点，即使这只是我自己的想法。 但我真的喜欢。我是说，她太聪明了！她刚把龙峰逼到死角，现在我们已经抓到他了。 宋将军在城墙上加入了我们，并告诉国王我们是英雄。 “没有他们，”将军说，“我们的城市早就被烈火国军队攻陷了。” 国王命令戴笠逮捕龙凤。 “他将因对土强国犯下的罪行而受审。”国王宣布。 戴笠把龙凤拖走了。 回到正殿，我们向国王介绍了即将到来的彗星，这将使烈火国强大到无法阻止，还有日食

during which the Earth Kingdom army must attack the Fire Nation, which would be at its weakest. He agreed to attack on the day of the eclipse—the Day of Black Sun. We did it! I'm so excited, I can hardly stand it! We found Appa, we saved the Earth Kingdom from the Fire Nation drill, and we delivered information to the king that can save the whole world. Sometimes it's really good being the Avatar. Just then the door swung open and General How, leader of the council of generals, entered the throne room. He said that they'd found some things in Long Feng's office that were for us. He handed Toph a letter from her mother. Katara read it and reported that Toph's mom said she was in Ba Sing Se and wanted to see Toph. Then he handed me a scroll. "This scroll was attached to the horn of your bison when the Dai Li captured him," the general said. "I can't believe it," I said after reading the note. "There's a man living at the Eastern Air Temple. A guru. A kind of spiritual expert who says he can help me take the next step in my Avatar journey." Then he handed Katara an intelligence report that said her father was with a small fleet of Water Tribe ships at Chameleon Bay.

在此期间，土强国的军队必须攻击火烈国，因为火烈国是最弱的。 他同意在日食日——黑太阳日发起进攻。 我们成功了！我太兴奋了，我都快受不了了！我们找到了阿柏，我们从烈火国的演习中拯救了土强国，我们向国王传递了可以拯救整个世界的信息。 有时候当神通真的很不错。 就在这时，门开了，将军会议的领袖侯将军走进了正殿。 他说他们在龙峰的办公室里发现了一些给我们的东西。 他递给托芙一封她母亲写的信。 卡塔拉读了信，报告说拓芙的妈妈说她在永固城，想要见拓芙。 然后他递给我一卷书卷。 将军说：“戴笠抓你的野牛时，把这个卷轴挂在了他的角上。” “我简直不敢相信，”我看完纸条后说。 “有个人住在东气寺。 一个大师。一个精神专家说他能帮我在神通之旅中更进一步" 然后他递给卡塔拉一份情报报告，报告说她的父亲在变色龙湾与一支水部落的小舰队在一起。

"I hate to say it," Katara began, "but we have to split up." We just found Appa, and now Katara wants us to separate? I don't want to let any of them out of my sight—ever again. "You have to meet this guru, Aang," she said. "If we're going to invade the Fire Nation, you need to be ready." It's times like these when I wish I were just plain Aang again so that the fate of the world didn't always depend on me fulfilling my destiny. But I have no choice. She's right. I have to go. Then Sokka pointed out that one of us had to stay there with the king and help him plan the invasion. He volunteered, but sweet, selfless Katara said that she would stay so that Sokka could go see their father. She's the absolute best. Always putting others' needs before hers. I'm totally and completely crazy about her! There's no other way to put it. Now I just really need to tell her how I feel. We all prepared to go our separate ways, then met up to say good-bye. I needed a moment alone with Katara, so I pulled her away from the group. "Katara, I need to tell you something. I've been wanting to say it for a long time." Oh, boy. I'm so

“我不想这么说，”卡塔拉开始说，“但我们必须分开。” 我们刚找到阿柏，卡塔拉就想让我们分开？ 我不想再让他们中的任何一个离开我的视线。 “你得见见这位大师，安昂，”她说。 “如果我们要入侵烈火国，你得做好准备。” 每当这种时候，我都希望我能再次成为普通的安昂这样世界的命运就不会总是依赖于我完成自己的使命。 但我别无选择。她是对的。 我得走了。然后索卡指出，我们中必须有一个人留在国王身边，帮助他策划入侵。 他是自愿的，但可爱无私的卡塔拉说她会留下来，这样索卡就可以去看他们的父亲了。 她绝对是最棒的。总是把别人的需要放在自己的需要之前。 我完全为她疯狂！没有别的办法了。 现在我只需要告诉她我的感受。 我们都准备各走各的路，然后又聚在一起道别。 我想和卡塔拉单独谈谈，所以我把她从人群中拉了出来。 “卡塔拉，我要告诉你一件事。 我想说这句话已经很久了。” 哦,男孩。我很