15 They Might Just Make it, Now

15. THEY MIGHT JUST MAKE IT, NOW It seemed like they had INDEED done it, as they burst into the Open Sea, One Eye pulling into that Great White Wilderness at terrific speed, the Wrath of Thor left behind them, the potato safely in Hiccup's breast pocket, and Berk only a three-hour sleigh ride away. And then everything went wrong. 'What's th-th-that???' stammered Toothless, pointing with one wing to a shape on the ice behind them, coming closer by the second. That was an enormous, leaping Driver Dragon, far bigger and faster than One Eye, pulling a gigantic sleigh with one man in it. A very cross man, with an arrow- wound in his bottom, a lump on his head, chewed-off moustaches and a double-headed axe in one hand. In fact it was Norbert the Nutjob. Before Hiccup had time to think, Norbert was upon them. His sleigh drew alongside the galloping One Eye. And then he reached over, and with one blow of his axe, he cut the reins and tackle attaching One Eye to the sleigh.

15. 他们似乎真的做到了，因为他们冲进了公海，“独眼”号以惊人的速度驶进了白色荒原，“雷神之怒”号把他们抛在身后，土豆安全地放在了小嗝嗝胸前的口袋里，伯克岛离他们只有三个小时的雪橇车程了。 然后一切都出了问题。 “th-th-that是什么? ?无牙结结巴巴地说，用一只翅膀指着身后冰面上的一个人影，又挨近了一点。 那是一条巨大的、跳跃的赶车龙，比一只眼大得多，也快得多，拉着一辆巨大的雪橇，上面坐着一个人。 这是一个脾气很坏的人，屁股上有个箭伤，头上有个肿块，胡子被咬掉了，一手拿着双头斧。 事实上，他就是那个疯子诺伯特。 小嗝嗝还没来得及想，诺伯就追上了他们。 他的雪橇停在疾驰的独眼旁边。 然后他伸出手来，用他的斧头一击，他砍断了缰绳和滑车，将一只眼固定在雪橇上。

One Eye bounded on, but the sleigh, and The Hopeful Puffin behind it, came to a shuddering halt. 'Oh, suffering scallops,' moaned Hiccup. There they were, as still as a stone, in the middle of a Great White Desert that stretched for miles and miles and miles. In front of them, Norbert the Nutjob was pulling on his Sabre-Tooth's reins to wheel his sleigh round for the attack. Below them was the Doomfang. For the first time in fifteen years, the Doomfang had left the Wrath of Thor. It, too, had stopped when the sleigh stopped. In fact the sleigh had come to rest right in the centre of its terrible green eye, as if it were a target.

“一只眼”跳了起来，但雪橇和后面的“希望海雀”却颤抖着停了下来。 “啊，可怜的扇贝，”嗝嗝呻吟着说。 他们就在那里，像一块石头一样静止，在绵延数英里的白色大沙漠中间。 在他们前面，疯子诺伯正拉着他的剑齿虎缰绳，转着雪橇准备进攻。 在他们下面是厄运之牙。 十五年来，末日獠牙第一次离开了雷神之怒。 当雪橇停下来的时候，它也停了下来。 事实上，雪橇停在了它那可怕的绿眼睛的正中央，好像它是一个目标。

And a target it was, for Norbert the Nutjob. Norbert leapt into their sleigh, tall and terrible and COMPLETELY CRAZY. 'AHA!' roared Norbert the Nutjob, his tic dancing for pure horrible murderous joy. 'I'VE CAUGHT YOU, YOU REVOLTING LITTLE BLONDE ASSASSIN! AND NOW I SHALL TEACH YOU NOT TO HIT PEOPLE ON THE HEAD WITH THEIR OWN POTATO!' Norbert the Nutjob raised his axe over Camicazi, and he was about to bring it down, when Hiccup said loudly, 'I wouldn't do that, Norbert.' Hiccup felt in his breast pocket, and drew out the potato with the arrow still stuck in it. It was warmer this morning, and the potato, snuggled down the front of Hiccup's furry waistcoat, was no longer frozen. Norbert glanced at Hiccup, and then gasped in astonishment, as right in front of Norbert's eyes… …HICCUP PULLED THE ARROW OUT OF THE POTATO. For as Hiccup had suggested earlier to Norbert, the arrow slid out perfectly easily now the potato had defrosted. Hiccup pushed it in and out of the potato several times just to drive the point home.

这就是诺伯的目标。 诺伯跳上了他们的雪橇，他又高又吓人，完全疯了。 “啊哈!”疯伯诺伯吼道，他的抽搐纯粹是为了可怕的杀人快乐。 “我抓住你了，你这个令人作呕的金发小杀手！”现在我要教你不要用别人的土豆打别人的头！”疯子诺伯特把斧头举过卡米卡齐，正要砍下来，这时小嗝嗝大声说：“我不会那么做的，诺伯特。”嗝嗝把手伸进胸前的口袋，掏出了还插着箭的土豆。 今天早上天气暖和了，小嗝嗝毛绒绒的马甲前面的土豆也不冻了。 诺伯看了小嗝嗝一眼，惊讶地倒吸了一口气，因为就在他眼前... ...小嗝嗝把箭从土豆里拔了出来。 因为正如小嗝嗝先前向诺伯建议的那样，既然土豆已经解冻了，那支箭就很容易滑了出来。 小嗝嗝把它从土豆里推进推出好几次，只是为了让人明白这一点。

Norbert the Nutjob dropped his axe. 'My father's Prophecy!' screamed Norbert the Nutjob, his head in his hands. 'I don't believe it… It can't be true! You… you revolting little Hooligan Vegetable-Burglar… you… are the Chosen One? …You will lift the Curse and rid us of the Doomfang…?' Hiccup nodded solemnly, thinking, nutty as a fruitcake. At that very moment, the sun came over the horizon… Rays of sunlight bounced off the snow and ice all around them, and off the Doomfang's Great Green Eye and dazzled Hiccup, so that he had to fling up an elbow to shield himself from the glare. A sound like a million whips rang out, or a trillion axe blows, or a thousand of Thor's thunderbolts rolled into one. The ice cracked from side to side.

疯子诺伯扔下了他的斧头。 “我父亲的预言！”疯伯诺伯双手抱头尖叫道。 “我不相信……这不可能是真的！”你……你这个可恶的小流氓蔬菜飞贼……你……是救世之星？ ……你会解除诅咒，让我们摆脱厄运毒牙……”小嗝嗝严肃地点点头，沉思着，像个水果蛋糕一样疯狂。 就在这时，太阳从地平线上出来了……阳光在他们周围的冰雪上反射，在末日毒牙的绿大眼上反射，把小嗝嗝弄得眼花缭乱，他不得不举起胳膊肘挡住刺眼的光线。 这声音像是百万鞭子抽打的声音，或是上万亿把斧头砍的声音，或是上千个雷神的霹雳合二为一的声音。 冰从一边裂开到另一边。