7 Your Basic Backstory

Chapter 7 Your Basic Backstory Dante lifted his snowboard. "You jerk! You ordered them to catch us!" Mickey sighed. "Not quite, but they didn't understand me." Ivan could relate to that! Malia jabbed her snowboard at Mickey's stomach. "Then why don't you, I don't know, GIVE THEM NEW ORDERS?" The Quiet Prince shook his head. "They're a little dense and pretty literal. They won't accept new orders until they complete the first ones." Ivan narrowed his eyes at Mickey. "We need answers. Where are we? Why are we here?" With a moan, Mickey dropped onto a nearby

第七章 你的基本背景故事 但丁举起了他的滑雪板。 “你这个混蛋！ 是你命令他们抓我们的！” 米奇叹了口气。 “不全是，但他们听不懂我的话。” 伊万可太懂这种感受了！ 玛利亚把滑雪板戳向米奇的肚子。 “那你怎么不，嗯，给他们下新命令啊？” 沉默王子摇了摇头。 “他们脑子有点笨，还特别死脑筋。 没完成第一个命令之前，他们不会接受新命令的。” 伊万眯起眼睛盯着米奇。 “我们要知道答案。 我们这是在哪儿？ 我们为什么会在这里？” 米奇闷哼一声，坐到了旁边的

park bench. "It's a long story." "You better sum it up fast." Malia crossed her arms. "Okay. Five years ago, my parents went to buy a house closer to my dad's new job. I didn't want to go, so I stayed behind with my dog, Bruno, at my grandma's house in Gulf City."

公园长椅上。 “说来话长。” “你最好赶紧长话短说。” 玛利亚抱着胳膊。 “好吧。 五年前，我爸妈为了离我爸的新工作地点近点，要去买套新房子。 我不想去，就和我的狗布鲁诺留在了海湾城奶奶家。”

Suddenly, things lined up in Ivan's brain. "Wait. Your last name is Aguilar. Is your grandmother Do.a Chabela?" Mickey's eyes went wide. "How do you know that?" Malia slammed her snowboard down. "Because she's tricked us into coming here three times!" The Quiet Prince pressed his fingers to his temples. "I'm so sorry. I never meant for this to happen." Ivan sat down beside him. "What happened exactly?"

突然间，伊万脑子里的线索都串起来了。 “等等。 你姓阿吉拉尔对吧。 你奶奶是不是查韦拉女士？” 米奇的眼睛一下子瞪大了。 “你怎么知道的？” 玛利亚“啪”的一声把滑雪板砸在地上。 “因为她已经骗我们来这里三次了！” 沉默王子按了按自己的太阳穴。 “真的很抱歉。 我从没想过会发生这种事。” 伊万坐到他旁边。 “到底发生了什么事？”

Mickey's eyes were red. "Bruno ran out of our house one day. A car hit him. I was so sad. And Grandma she has all these books on magic and the Underworld. I started reading." Ivan nodded. Reading also helped him make sense of confusing things. "An idea came to me," Mickey continued. "My dad trained me to code on computers. Maybe I could combine technology and magic, make a doorway into the land of the dead, and find Bruno."

米奇的眼睛红了。 “有一天布鲁诺从家里跑了出去。 一辆车撞到了他。 我特别伤心。 而奶奶——她有好多讲魔法和冥界的书。 我就开始读那些书。” 伊万点了点头。 他遇到想不通的事时，也会靠读书理清头绪。 “我想到了一个主意，”米奇接着说。 “我爸爸教过我写电脑代码。 说不定我能把科技和魔法结合起来，造一个通往冥界的门，去找布鲁诺。”

Dante's voice trembled. "And it worked." The Quiet Prince nodded. "Kind of. I peeled off a piece of the Underworld, trapping Bruno inside. I tried to program the place to look like the city streets he knew, so he wouldn't be scared. Then something went terribly wrong." "You can say that again," muttered Malia. "We have more questions, dude," Dante said. "Like why your knights are after us!" Ivan exclaimed. The cousins were so distracted by the guilty look on Mickey's face that they didn't notice the dozen cougars that had just surrounded them.

但丁的声音发着抖。 “然后你成功了。” 沉默王子点了点头。 “算吧。 我剥离出了冥界的一小块地方，把布鲁诺困在了里面。 我试着把这个地方编程成他熟悉的城市街道的样子，这样他就不会害怕了。 然后——就出了天大的岔子。” “你说得太对了。”玛利亚小声嘟囔。 “我们还有好多问题呢，兄弟。”但丁说。 “比如为什么你的骑士要追我们！” 伊万大声问。 三个表兄妹都只顾着看米奇脸上愧疚的表情，完全没注意到十几只美洲狮已经悄悄把他们包围了。