16 The fiendishly-clever plan goes wrong

16. THE FIENDISHLY CLEVER PLAN GOES WRONG Hiccup had been listening for the Green Death's Death Song, but he wasn't singing it yet. The Green Death was dying, but he wasn't dead yet. What he was was very, very angry indeed. Out of his bleeding mouth he hissed weakly, 'Where is he?' And then he heaved himself on to his feet, and hissed a little more strongly, 'WHERE is he? Where IS the Little Supper? I knew I recognised him, he was my doom, no wonder. The Little Supper has made a Supper of ME, the Green Death himself!' As the Dragon spoke, he was inching forwards very slowly and painfully, his eyes fixed on the cliff top, where he could see little human beings beginning to run inland again. The Dragon threw back his head and SCREAMED a blood-chilling scream of pure horrid REVENGE, dark and torturous. 'I'LL supper HIM before I go, I will,' said the

16. 小嗝嗝一直在听绿死乐队的《死亡之歌》，但他还没有唱出来。 绿死侠快死了，但他还没死。 他真的非常非常生气。 他从流血的嘴里发出微弱的嘶嘶声：“他在哪儿？”然后他猛地站了起来，嘶嘶地说：“他在哪儿？ 小晚餐在哪里？ 我知道我认出了他，难怪他是我的末日。 小小的晚餐把我——绿死本人变成了晚餐！”恶龙说话的时候，他正缓慢而痛苦地向前挪动，眼睛盯着悬崖顶上，在那里，他可以看到小小的人类又开始向内陆跑去。 恶龙向后仰着头，发出一声令人毛骨悚然的尖叫，那纯粹是可怕的复仇，黑暗而痛苦。 “我走之前要给他吃顿饭，我会的。

Dragon, and he leapt forward. 'R-U-U-U-N!' shouted Hiccup, but everybody was already running, as fast as they could. In the distance, Hiccup could see four hundred warriors from the tribes of Hooligan and Meathead coming towards them from the Highest Point. They must have wondered at the boys' absence and come out to find them. But they won't get here in time, thought Hiccup, and even if they do, what can they do? Just then, the Dragon landed with a crash on the cliff top and suddenly the sun was blotted out. Twenty boys ran towards the shelter of the ferns. The Dragon picked up the nearest with one claw and turned him over. It was Dogsbreath. By the time the Dragon had tossed him aside, muttering 'Not you', the other boys had disappeared into the bracken. The Dragon was sick, but he laughed weakly. 'You're not safe there, oh no, for though I can't see you to kill you, I can use my... FIRE!' The bracken caught fire with the Dragon's first breath and the boys ran out of it as fast as they could. Hiccup stayed in a little longer because he knew

龙，他向前一跳。 “R-U-U-U-N !小嗝嗝喊道，但每个人都已经跑起来了，尽可能快地跑。 在远处，嗝嗝可以看到四百名来自流氓部落和笨蛋部落的战士从最高点向他们走来。 他们一定对孩子们的缺席感到奇怪，于是出来找他们。 可是他们不会及时赶到的，小嗝嗝想，即使他们赶到了，又能怎么办呢？ 就在这时，龙轰隆一声落在悬崖顶上，太阳突然被遮住了。 二十个男孩向蕨类植物的掩体跑去。 恶龙用一只爪子抓起离他最近的一个，把他翻过来。 是狗息。等到恶龙把他扔到一边，嘴里念叨着“不是你”，其他男孩已经消失在蕨菜丛里了。 龙病了，但他虚弱地笑了。 “你在那儿不安全，哦，不，因为虽然我看不见你，杀不了你，但我可以用我的…… 火!”随着恶龙的第一口呼吸，蕨菜起火了，男孩们以最快的速度跑了出来。 小嗝嗝又待了一会儿，因为他知道

the Dragon was waiting for him. Finally the heat became unbearable and he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and ran out into the open. He had run hardly a hundred metres before two of the Dragon's talons closed around his middle and he was lifted up. Way, way up, so the other boys looked like little specks beneath him. The Dragon held Hiccup up in front of him. 'We are BOTH Supper now, little Supper,' he said, and he tossed Hiccup high, high into the air. As Hiccup somersaulted for the second time he thought to himself, Now THIS, this really IS the worst moment of my life. Then he was falling. He looked down. There was the Dragon's mouth, wide open like a great, black, cavernous tunnel. He was going to fall into it.

恶龙在等着他。 最后，热得他受不了了，他深吸了一口气，闭上眼睛，跑到户外。 他刚跑了一百米，恶龙的两只爪子就咬住了他的腰，把他举起来。 很高，很高，所以其他男孩看起来像他下面的小斑点。 龙把小嗝嗝举在面前。 “我们现在都是晚餐了，小晚餐。”他说着，把小嗝嗝高高抛向空中。 当小嗝嗝第二次翻筋斗时，他心想：现在，这真是我一生中最糟糕的时刻。 然后他就掉下去了。他低下头。 巨龙的嘴张得大大的，像一条巨大的黑色洞穴隧道。 他要掉进去了。