Chapter 4

Chapter 4 It was late afternoon when we landed in a small clearing in a wooded area. We began unloading our supplies to set up camp. "Hey, you guys picked a great campsite," Toph said. "The grass is so soft." "That's not grass," I pointed out. "Appa's shedding." His fur was all over the place. That night Toph suddenly rushed out of her tent. "There's something coming toward us!" We couldn't see anything, but we trusted Toph. We packed up all our stuff and climbed onto Appa's back before flying away just in time. Sure enough, from above, we spotted a strange- looking metal tank chugging beneath us. We found another clearing and landed. And once again we unloaded our supplies and set up camp. All this work, and I was so tired. Then Katara and Toph started arguing. Toph didn't want to unload or set up camp. "Ever since you joined us you've been nothing but selfish and unhelpful!" Katara shouted. "What?" Toph screamed. "Look here, sugar queen, I gave up everything to teach Aang

当我们降落在一片树林中的一小块空地上时，已经是傍晚了。 我们开始卸下补给品去扎营。 “嘿，你们选了一个很棒的露营地，”拓芙说。 “草太软了。”“那不是草，”我指出。 “Appa脱落。”他的毛到处都是。 那天晚上，拓芙突然冲出帐篷。 “有什么东西朝我们这边来了！”我们什么也看不见，但我们相信拓芙。 我们收拾好所有的东西，爬到阿柏的背上，然后及时飞走了。 果不其然，从上面看，我们看到一个奇怪的金属坦克在我们下面发出嘎吱嘎吱的声音。 我们找到了另一块空地降落了。 我们再一次卸下物资，搭起营地。 这么多工作，我太累了。 然后卡塔拉和拓芙开始争吵起来。 拓芙不想卸货，也不想扎营。 “自从你加入我们以来，你就一直自私，不帮别人的忙！”Katara喊道。 “什么?”Toph尖叫。“听着，甜心女王，我放弃了一切来教安昂

Earthbending, so don't talk to me about being selfish." "Sugar queen?" Katara repeated, shocked at what Toph had called her. I laughed. Sugar queen. I have to give Toph credit for that one! "Should we do something?" Aang asked me, a little concerned. "Hey, I'm just enjoying the show," I said. It's better not to get involved with two angry girls. But the arguing continued. "Hey, how's a guy supposed to sleep with all this yelling and earthquaking?" I said. And wouldn't you know it, that tank thing came back, so we had to pack up and leave AGAIN. I didn't know when I would get to sleep—if ever! Our next campsite was on the side of a tall mountain. Now I was officially exhausted. The bags under my eyes had bags. I had no plans to set up camp. All I wanted to do was stretch out on the softest pile of dirt I could find and go to sleep. I thought I could finally relax without worrying about that tank following us. Then Toph jumped up. "Oh, no! Don't tell me," I whined.

御土术，所以别跟我说什么自私。” “糖皇后?”卡塔拉重复了一遍，对拓芙的称呼感到震惊。 我笑了。糖的女王。我得把这一点归功于拓芙！“我们应该做点什么吗？”安昂有点担心地问我。 “嘿，我只是在欣赏这场演出，”我说。 最好不要和两个愤怒的女孩扯上关系。 但争论仍在继续。 “嘿，一个人怎么能在这些叫喊和地震中睡觉呢？”我说。 你不知道吗，坦克的事又来了，所以我们不得不再次收拾行李离开。 我不知道我什么时候才能睡着——如果永远睡不着的话！我们的下一个营地在一座高山的边上。 现在我真的累坏了。 我的眼袋长了。 我没打算在这里扎营。 我唯一想做的就是躺在我能找到的最柔软的土堆上睡觉。 我以为我终于可以放松了不用担心那辆坦克跟着我们。 然后拓芙跳了起来。“哦,不!别告诉我，”我抱怨道。

"Let's get out of here," Katara said, but Aang had a different plan this time. "Maybe we should face them," he said. "Who knows, maybe they're friendly." I sighed. "You're always the optimist, Aang." Nobody would go to all that trouble in a big scary- looking machine just to say, "Hi, how ya doing? Why don't we be friends?" And a couple of minutes later I was proven right. The tank appeared and from its belly came those three crazy girls who fought us in Omashu, charging toward us on their mongoose-dragons. It was clear they weren't coming to bring us a housewarming gift for our new campsite! "We can take them," Toph announced, setting herself in a battle stance. "Three on three!" Uh, I know she's blind and everything, but… I had to correct her. "Actually Toph, there's four of us." "Oh, sorry," she said, not sounding sorry at all. "I didn't count you. You know, no bending and all." And I was actually starting to like having her around! "I can still fight!" I snapped. "Okay," she relented. "Three on three—plus Sokka." Now I understood why Katara was arguing with

“我们离开这里吧。”卡塔拉说，但这一次安昂有一个不同的计划。 “也许我们应该面对他们，”他说。 “谁知道呢，也许他们是友好的。” 我叹了口气。“你总是那么乐观，安昂。” 没有人会为了说一声“嗨，你好吗？” 我们为什么不做朋友呢？”几分钟后，事实证明我是对的。 坦克出现了，从它的肚子里出来了三个疯狂的女孩，她们骑着猫鼬龙向我们冲来，在奥马舒和我们战斗过。 很明显，他们不是来给我们的新营地带来乔迁礼物的！“我们能拿下他们。”拓芙宣布，摆出一个战斗姿势。 “三对三！”我知道她双目失明，但我必须纠正她。 “事实上，拓芙，我们有四个人。” “哦，对不起，”她说，听起来一点也不抱歉。 “我没把你算进去。你知道，不能弯腰之类的。” 我开始喜欢她在我身边了！“我还能战斗！”我厉声说。 “好吧，”她让步了。“三对三，再加上索卡。” 现在我明白卡塔拉为什么要和

her all the time! She knows how to make people mad. The crazy girls continued to charge toward us. Toph created a wall of rock to stop them, but that didn't pose a problem. The Firebending girl just blasted the rock away and kept on coming. I have to say that she was one scary-looking Firebender! I had seen enough—I didn't need a closer look. "Let's get out of here!" I yelled. We got back on Appa and returned to the sky. "I can't believe those girls followed us all the way from Omashu!" Katara said. "The crazy blue Firebending and the flying daggers are bad enough, but the last time we saw them, one of those girls did something that took my bending away. That's scary!" I was exhausted. We were all exhausted, even Appa. And then, as if to prove the point, Appa fell asleep in midair, and we started to plunge toward the ground. We screamed. This was not the time to fall asleep! "Appa's exhausted," Aang said. "We have to land." And so we set down near a river. "Okay, we've put a lot of distance between us and them," I said when we landed. "The plan right now is to get some sleep!" That's when Katara and Toph started up again. "Of course we could've gotten some sleep earlier if

一直都是她！她知道怎么让人生气。 疯狂的女孩们继续向我们冲来。 拓芙造了一道岩石墙来阻止他们，但这并不构成问题。 御火术女孩只是把石头炸开，然后继续走过来。 我不得不说她是个长相可怕的御火师！我已经看够了——不需要再仔细看了。 “我们离开这里吧！”我喊道。 我们回到了阿柏，回到了天空。 “我不敢相信那些女孩从奥马舒一路跟着我们！”Katara说。 “疯狂的蓝色御火术和飞匕首已经够可怕的了，但上次我们见到他们的时候，其中一个女孩做了一件事，让我的御火术失去了能力。 这是可怕的!”我筋疲力尽。 我们都累坏了，包括阿柏。 然后，似乎是为了证明这一点，阿柏在半空中睡着了，我们开始向地面俯冲。 我们尖叫。这可不是睡觉的时候！“阿柏累坏了。”安昂说。 “我们必须着陆。”于是我们在一条河边停了下来。 “好吧，我们已经和他们保持了很大的距离，”我们着陆后我说。 “现在的计划是睡一会儿！”这时卡塔拉和拓芙又开始了。 “我们当然可以早点睡，如果……

Toph didn't have such issues about helping," Katara said. "What?" Toph cried. "You're blaming ME for this? If there's anyone to blame, it's Sheddy over there." She pointed at Appa. "You want to know how they keep finding us? He's leaving a trail of fur everywhere we go!" "How dare you blame Appa!" Aang shouted. "He saved your life three times today!" Okay… I see there's not going to be any sleep for me anytime soon. "Appa never had a problem flying when it was just the three us," Aang added harshly. And all of a sudden it got really quiet. No one said anything and no one did anything—until Toph picked up her bags. "See ya," she said, as she headed toward the woods. This was not good. We needed her. Aang needed her. I had to stop her. "Wait!" I called out. But Toph pushed me away as she disappeared into the forest. I shot a look at Aang and Katara. Nice going, guys. You blew off your Earthbending teacher and our early warning system for those

拓芙没有这样的问题，”卡塔拉说。 “什么?”Toph哭了。“你把这事怪到我头上？” 如果要怪谁的话，那就是那边的谢迪。” 她指着阿柏。“你想知道他们怎么总能找到我们吗？” 无论我们走到哪里，它都会留下一串皮毛！”“你怎么敢怪阿柏！”Aang喊道。 “他今天救了你三次！”好吧，看来我很快就睡不着觉了。 “只有我们三个人的时候，阿柏从来不觉得飞行有问题。” 突然间一切都安静下来了。 没有人说什么，也没有人做什么——直到拓芙拿起她的包。 “再见。”她边说边朝树林走去。 这并不好。我们需要她。 安昂需要她。我必须阻止她。 “等等!”我喊道。但拓芙把我推开，消失在森林里。 我看了一眼安昂和卡塔拉。 干得好，伙计们。你辜负了你的御土术老师和我们的预警系统