16 The Doomfang

16. THE DOOMFANG A great jagged split appeared in the white frozen sea, a split that ran all the way from the Outcast Lands to the north, down to the Bog-Burglar islands in the south. The world broke open like a big white egg. 'Aaaaaargh!' screamed Hiccup. 'Quick! Get into The Hopeful Puffin!' Norbert the Nutjob, Camicazi and Hiccup bolted out of the sleigh, and leapt into the little boat, the ice giving way beneath their feet. 'LET DOWN THE SAIL!' screamed Hiccup, cutting the rope tying the boat to the sleigh. The sail flopped down and the wind caught it, sending it billowing outward like a plump cushion. There was another enormous CRACK! and the ice in the Sullen Sea splintered into millions of tiny pieces. The sleigh slipped gently into the grey-green water and was seen no more, and The Hopeful Puffin was afloat.

16. 在冰冻的白茫茫的海面上出现了一道参差不齐的大裂口，这条裂口从北边的被遗弃之地一直延伸到南边的沼泽夜盗群岛。 世界像一个白色的大鸡蛋一样裂开了。 “Aaaaaargh !嗝嗝尖叫道。 “快!进希望海雀酒吧！”疯子诺伯、卡米卡齐和小嗝嗝从雪橇上窜了出来，跳进小船，脚下的冰崩裂了。 “放下帆！”嗝嗝尖叫着，割断了把船绑在雪橇上的绳子。 船帆扑通一声落了下来，被风吹得像个鼓鼓囊囊的靠垫一样向外翻滚。 又是一声巨大的啪！苏伦海的冰分裂成数百万个小碎片。 雪橇轻轻地滑入灰绿色的水中，再也看不见了，而“满怀希望的海雀”漂浮在水面上。

Through the jagged jigsaw of ice, between them and the Isle of Berk on the horizon, up rose the Doomfang. It reared out of the sea, showering The Hopeful Puffin with water and shards of ice, telescoping upwards to its immense height, which was impossibly, RIDICULOUSLY high, blotting out the newly risen sun. The SOUND it made was unutterably awful, a sadness so extreme it made you want to weep yourself, a sound that crept up the spine like spiders' feet, and scuttled over the scalp, sending each individual hair on Hiccup's head prickling upwards like the spines on a hedgehog. It was the glossy black of a gigantic, muscly panther, and when it opened its awful Cavern jaws to roar, its serrated teeth were as green as its eyes, and the yellow frothy scum of its saliva steamed and smoked in the cold morning air.

在他们和地平线上的博克岛之间，透过参差不齐的冰缝，末日之牙冉冉升起。 它从海面升起，水和冰块像雨点一样打在“希望的海雀”身上，它向上伸展，高得不可思议，高得可笑，遮住了刚升起的太阳。 它发出的声音可怕得说不出，是一种极端的悲伤，让你自己也想哭，这种声音像蜘蛛的脚一样爬上脊椎，在头皮上窜来窜去，把小嗝嗝头上的每根头发都像刺猬的刺一样刺起来。 它像一只巨大的、肌肉发达的黑豹一样乌黑发亮，当它张开可怕的洞穴大嘴咆哮时，锯齿状的牙齿和眼睛一样绿，黄色的泡沫状的唾液在早晨寒冷的空气中冒着蒸汽，冒着烟。

Indeed, its whole body seemed boiling hot, and like the flanks of a horse that has galloped for miles, great clouds of smoke rose up from its tremendous gleaming bulk and into the sky. 'It's come for me…' moaned Norbert the Nutjob, in a tremble of fear. 'No it hasn't,' said Hiccup. 'It's come for ME.' And the Doomfang did seem to be looking directly down at Hiccup. It was as if Hiccup had always known that this was going to happen, that somehow he was never going to get in and out of Hysteria without meeting the Doomfang face to face. 'Don't look into its eyes,' warned One Eye. You should never look into a dragon's eyes. But in this case it was difficult not to– they were so large and so close, like a couple of green suns. Hiccup was hypnotised for a moment, and his head spun so that he nearly lost his balance and dropped off the boat. 'What do you WANT?' Hiccup yelled desperately in Dragonese. The Dragon opened its great mouth and tried to speak. But all that came out was a terrible unearthly howl of horror and SADNESS, and the foam dripped from its jaws in a revolting bubbly waterfall. It tried

事实上，它的整个身体似乎都是滚烫的，就像一匹飞驰了几英里的马的两翼，巨大的烟雾从它巨大的发光的身体中升起，升入天空。 “它是冲着我来的……”疯子诺伯呻吟着，吓得浑身发抖。 “没有，”小嗝嗝说。 “它是来找我的。”而末日毒牙似乎正俯视着小嗝嗝。 小嗝嗝好像早就知道会发生这种事，不知怎么的，他在进出歇斯底里的时候，一定要和末日毒牙面对面。 “不要看它的眼睛，”一只眼警告说。 你不应该直视龙的眼睛。 但在这种情况下，很难不这样做——它们是如此之大，如此之近，就像两个绿色的太阳。 小嗝嗝被催眠了一会儿，他的头旋转了一下，差点失去平衡，从船上掉了下来。 “你想要什么？”小嗝嗝绝望地用龙语喊道。 龙张开它的大嘴，想说话。 但发出来的只是一声恐怖和悲伤的可怕的非人间的嚎叫，泡沫从它的嘴里滴落下来，形成令人作呕的泡沫瀑布。 它尝试

again, and the terrible sound came out again, only louder. 'What is it?' asked Hiccup. But the creature could not say, and its struggle to speak made it angry, and it began shooting out with its blue flames, nearer and nearer to Hiccup. 'What does it want me to do?' asked Hiccup frantically. 'We're done for,' despaired Norbert, wringing his hands. Camicazi patted the moaning Norbert soothingly on the back. 'We'll be all right,' she repeated over and over again, 'we always are, Thor only knows how… Hiccup'll have a Cunning Plan…' 'Oh that's right,' remembered Norbert. 'Of course! My father's Prophecy! He is the Chosen One, and he alone can rid us of the Doomfang!' But for once in his life, Hiccup did NOT have a Cunning Plan. 'What do you want?' asked Hiccup again, more to himself, this time. The Doomfang made one last terrible attempt to communicate, coming out with a truly dreadful, garbled cacophony of noise, and then opened its jaws wide, sucking in its breath. Hiccup did not know what they had done for the

可怕的声音再次响起，而且更响了。 “什么事？”小嗝嗝问。 但是这个动物说不出话来，它挣扎着说话，这使它很生气，它开始喷出蓝色的火焰，越来越靠近小嗝嗝。 “它想让我做什么？”小嗝嗝疯狂地问。 “我们完了。”诺伯绝望地绞着双手。 卡米卡齐安慰地拍了拍呻吟的诺伯特的背。 “我们会没事的，”她一遍又一遍地重复着，“我们总是没事的，只有托尔知道怎么回事……小嗝嗝会有一个狡猾的计划……” “当然!我父亲的预言！他是救世之子，只有他才能使我们摆脱厄运毒牙！”但是在他的生命中，嗝嗝第一次没有狡猾的计划。 “你想干什么？”小嗝嗝又问了一遍，这次更像是在自言自语。 末日毒牙做了最后一次可怕的交流尝试，发出一声真正可怕的、乱糟糟的杂音，然后张开大嘴，大口吸气。 小嗝嗝不知道他们做了什么

creature to have it in for them. Perhaps it had gone crazy and turned into a Man- Eater? It had certainly killed Norbert's Papa, fifteen years ago, and was it now going to kill them too? Because now it was aiming directly for them, and Hiccup braced himself for the Monster to breathe out its flames and set the boat alight like a little barbecue. But what shot out of the creature's mouth was not a Terrible Burst of Fire, not the frozen flames that would have sent all three of them, and Toothless too, straight to Valhalla in a heroic bonfire. Curling and unfurling, quick and flexible as a gigantic muscly snake, out of the Doomfang's mouth came the Doomfang's TONGUE. One hundred metres long, pink and pulsing, the Doomfang's TONGUE sped straight to Hiccup's left hand, and the wriggling, squirming, revoltingly WET forked end of it burrowed its way into his palm and wrapped itself round the potato.

对他们怀恨在心的生物。 也许它疯了，变成了一个食人魔？ 十五年前它肯定杀死了诺伯的爸爸，现在它又要杀死他们吗？ 因为现在它正瞄准他们，小嗝嗝打起精神，等着怪物喷出火焰，把小船点着，就像烧烤肉一样。 但从那怪物嘴里喷出的并不是可怕的烈焰，也不是那种会把他们三个和无牙直接送上英灵殿的冰冻火焰。 厄运之牙的舌头像一条巨大的肌肉蛇一样迅速而灵活地从它的嘴里伸出来。 厄运之牙的舌头长一百米，粉红色的，跳动着，它直接飞到小嗝嗝的左手上，它那蠕动、扭动、令人作呕的分叉的一端钻进了小嗝嗝的手掌，把自己包裹在土豆上。