12 Trapped!

CHAPTER 12 TRAPPED! The rat loomed over them. He paced back and forth in front of their cages and grinned a wide grin that showed off his long, yellow teeth. "Who are you?" Tag asked. "Why did you take Blaze's mom?" Skyla added.

第十二章被困住了！那只老鼠逼近他们。 他在他们的笼子前来回踱步，咧嘴一笑，露出了他那又长又黄的牙齿。 “你是谁？”标签要求。“你为什么带走布雷兹的妈妈？”Skyla补充道。

The rat smiled. "I am Skull. King of the rats!" he said. "I needed the firehawk to open a portal so we could travel to Perodia," he continued. "But she refused. So instead, we trapped her here. We knew the firehawks would send someone after her." Skull leaned in close to Tag. His eyes were completely red and his rotten teeth were covered in black slime. "My spies waited until you arrived in the Underland. They hid in the darkness and used some of The Shadow's magic to keep the portal from closing. Now we can use your portal. And we have the famous firehawk Blaze and her friends out of the way. You won't be able to defeat The Shadow this time!" Skull said.

老鼠笑了。“我是骷髅。 老鼠之王！”他说。 “我需要火鹰打开一个传送门，这样我们就可以去佩罗迪亚，”他继续说。 但她拒绝了。所以我们把她困在这里。 我们知道火鹰会派人去抓她。” 骷髅靠向泰格。 他的眼睛完全红了，腐烂的牙齿上覆盖着黑色的黏液。 “我的密探一直等到你到达地下世界。 他们躲在黑暗中，用阴影的魔法阻止了传送门的关闭。 现在我们可以用你的传送门了。 还有著名的火鹰火焰和她的朋友们。 你这次是打不过影子的！”头骨说。

Tag held his breath as Skull spoke. The rat smelled like rotting leaves and dead things. "I was born here in the Underland," Skull told them. "Here we have no light, only darkness. And where there is no light, only dark things grow. We live off scraps and dirt." Skull looked over at the dark cloud that swirled around Blaze and Talia.

骷髅说话时，泰格屏住了呼吸。 老鼠身上有腐叶和死尸的味道。 “我出生在地下世界，”骷髅告诉他们。 “这里没有光，只有黑暗。 没有光的地方，只有黑暗的东西生长。 我们靠残羹剩饭和泥土生活。” 骷髅望着在火焰和塔利亚周围盘旋的乌云。

"Then The Shadow came to me!" Skull continued. "It offered me a powerful, dark magic. It whispered to me in my dreams. It told me that I could live in a land above, where I would have everything I wanted and be king of Perodia!" "The Shadow doesn't care about you!" Tag shouted. "It only wants to use you to gain more power for itself."

“然后影子向我走来！”头骨仍在继续。 “它给了我一种强大的黑魔法。 它在我的梦中对我低语。 它告诉我，我可以住在上面的土地上，在那里我可以得到我想要的一切，并成为珀罗迪亚的国王！”“影子根本不在乎你！”标签喊道。 “它只是想利用你为自己获得更多的权力。”

Skyla nodded. "It did the same thing to our friend Claw. We are Owls of Valor. We can help you and the other creatures who live here. You don't have to use The Shadow's magic." Skull shook his head. "You can't give me power!" he snarled. "My army is ready. And now there is nothing standing in our way." He turned to his army. "To the portal!" Skull commanded. All around him, his army cheered and yelled. They raised their weapons in the air. Then they started running out of the tunnel.

Skyla点点头。“它对我们的朋友克劳做了同样的事情。 我们是英勇的猫头鹰。我们可以帮助你和其他生活在这里的生物。 你不必使用影子的魔法。” 骷髅摇了摇头。“你不能给我权力！”他咆哮道。 “我的军队已经准备好了。现在没有什么能阻挡我们了。” 他转向他的军队。“去传送门！”头骨吩咐。 在他周围，他的军队欢呼雀跃。 他们把武器举到空中。 然后他们开始跑出隧道。

"You can't leave us here!" Skyla yelled. Skull laughed, and the sound boomed around the room. "I can!" he said. "Now you will see what it's like to live in the Underland!" "The Owls of Valor will stop you!" Tag said. "They can't stop me without Blaze, now that The Shadow is on my side," Skull said. He pointed at the badgers and they opened Talia's cage, pulling her out. "The Owls of Valor will have a choice: Join my army, or join you here under the ground." Talia shook her head at Skull. The dark cloud grew bigger around her until Tag couldn't see her anymore.

“你不能把我们留在这儿！”Skyla喊道。 骷髅笑了，声音在房间里回荡。 “我能！”他说。“现在你会看到生活在地下世界是什么样子的！”“英勇的猫头鹰会阻止你的！”标签说。 “没有火焰，他们无法阻止我，现在阴影站在我这边，”骷髅说。 他指着獾，獾打开了塔利亚的笼子，把她拉了出来。 “英勇的猫头鹰将有一个选择：加入我的军队，或者在地下与你会合。” 塔利亚朝骷髅摇摇头。 她周围的乌云越来越大，直到泰格再也看不见她。