11 THE-QUEST-TO-STOP-THE VOLCANO-FROM-EXPLODING

11. THE-QUEST-TO-STOP-THE VOLCANO-FROM-EXPLODING The Peregrine Falcon was a very fast ship. It was still absolutely baking hot, but there was a feeling in the air that the weather was about to change, that it was building up for something stormy. For months, the seas around Berk had been as eerily flat and glassy as a puddle. But overnight, a hot wind had sprung up, carrying with it large flakes of soot from the scorched devastation of the Highest Point and sending them flurrying across the Isle of Berk and out over the Sullen Sea like autumn leaves. Only a couple of hours later, this sweltering wind had blown them right out of the Archipelago and into the Open Sea. There was a steady stream of dragons fleeing from Lava-Lout Island overhead, and they were joined by an ominous cloud of smoke

11. “游隼”号是一艘速度很快的船。 天气仍然酷热难耐，但空气中有一种感觉，天气要变了，暴风雨即将来临。 几个月来，伯克岛周围的海水出奇地平坦，像水坑一样透明。 但一夜之间，一阵热风刮了起来，从最高点被烧焦的废墟上刮来大片大片的烟灰，像秋叶一样，飘过伯克岛，掠过阴沉的海面。 仅仅几个小时后，这股闷热的风就把他们吹出了群岛，吹进了公海。 一条条龙源源不断地从头顶上的拉瓦卢特岛逃了出来，与它们汇合的是一团不祥的烟雾

coming from the same direction. Every now and then there was a rumble, but it was not clear whether it was thunder, or the Volcano. I wish I could have explained to my father what I was doing... thought Hiccup, looking wistfully back at the outline of the Isle of Berk. Somehow, without meaning to, and while trying his hardest, he always seemed to be letting his father down. I wish he didn't think I was a traitor... if we don't succeed, he'll think I really DID run away... If only he had LISTENED to what I was trying to say. Stoick rarely listened. Fishlegs clung on to his Running-Away Suitcase, muttering to himself, "This is not a good idea... this is not a good idea... this is not a good idea..." "I'm not quite sure what the guy with the face like a fish is contributing to the Team, Hiccup," whispered Humungous. "You're the Leader, and the little blonde is the Stone-Carrier, but what is he doing? He seems rather a negative influence." "Don't be fooled by appearances," Hiccup whispered back. "He is a Berserk." "Really?" said Humungous, in great surprise. In his experience, Berserks were generally rather LARGER, and did not normally suffer from asthma, eczema, and knock-knees. Eventually the outline of Lava-Lout Island

来自同一个方向。 不时传来隆隆的声音，但不清楚那是雷声还是火山声。 我真希望我能向父亲解释我在做什么。 小嗝嗝想，若有所思地回头望着伯克岛的轮廓。 不知何故，尽管他已经尽了最大的努力，但他似乎总是让父亲失望。 我希望他不认为我是叛徒…… 如果我们不成功，他会认为我真的逃跑了…… 要是他听了我想说的话就好了。 斯托伊克很少听。鱼腿紧紧抓住他的逃跑箱，自言自语道：“这不是个好主意…… 这不是一个好主意…… 这不是个好主意……” “我不太确定那个长着一张鱼脸的家伙对球队有什么贡献，小嗝嗝。” “你是首领，金发小女孩是挑石匠，但他在做什么？” 他似乎有相当负面的影响。” “不要被外表所迷惑，”小嗝嗝低声回答。 “他是狂暴的。”“真的吗？”胡蒙格斯惊讶地说。 根据他的经验，狂暴者通常体型更大，通常不会患哮喘、湿疹和膝盖下垂。 最后是Lava-Lout岛的轮廓

appeared on the horizon, with its smoking Volcano, and this was such an ominous sight that even Toothless lost some of his cheekiness, and went to perch on Hiccup's shoulder. Misery seemed to have been trapped up in the island for so long now, the land was trembling in feverish shivers; great reverberating trembles that rocked the sea crazily around it. The roasted landscape was dotted with these greeny-yellow spots like pimples or pustules, as if they were symptoms of some deadly contagious disease, but as they drew nearer and nearer it became clear that these were not spots but Eggs, thousands and thousands of evil Exterminator Eggs, waiting for the Volcano to explode so they could hatch and spread their dusky devastation across the whole of the Archipelago. They found a long scoop of a beach to land on, curved like a horseshoe, and The Peregrine Falcon skimmed across the shallow waters, until its belly landed on the black sand, and the boat came to a sludgy stop. Clearly, the Windwalker was not going to set foot on the island. Humungous sighed. "I'll take the boat out a bit, and hang around, just in case... just in case..." Humungous never finished the end of that

出现在地平线上，还有冒着烟的火山，这是一种不祥的景象，就连无牙也失去了一些厚脸皮，蹲在嗝嗝的肩膀上。 痛苦似乎已经被困在岛上太久了，大地在发烧般的颤抖；巨大的回响震动，疯狂地震动着周围的大海。 烤过的土地上点缀着黄绿色的斑点，像丘疹或脓疱，好像是某种致命传染病的症状，但当它们越来越近时，才发现这些不是斑点，而是卵，成千上万的邪恶灭虫卵，等待着火山爆发，这样它们就可以孵化出来，把它们阴暗的破坏蔓延到整个群岛。 他们找到了一块像马蹄铁一样弯曲的长长的海滩，可以在上面着陆，游隼掠过浅水，直到它的腹部落在黑色的沙滩上，船在泥泞中停了下来。 显然，风行者是不会踏上这座岛的。 极大的叹了口气。“我要把船划出去一会儿，在附近转转，以防万一…… 以防万一……”Humungous还没说完

sentence, but it lingered, unspoken, in the air... just in case, by some outrageous miracle, you DO come back here alive. "Good luck, guys," called Humungous. The three small unlikely Heroes began to trudge reluctantly up the beach. Fishlegs took his suitcase with him. He knew that it was stupid, but somehow he felt a bit safer with his Running-Away Suitcase. It gave him courage. As if he could leave at a moment's notice if he wanted to. And, of course, he'd have some nice clean socks and knickers to change into when he got to Valhalla.

一句话，但它萦绕在空气中，没有说出口…… 以防万一，发生了什么惊人的奇迹，你真的活着回来了。 “祝你们好运，伙计们，”Humungous说。 三个不太可能的小英雄开始不情愿地沿着海滩跋涉。 鱼腿带着他的手提箱。 他知道这很愚蠢，但不知何故，他觉得带着他的“逃跑箱”更安全。 这给了他勇气。好像只要他想，他随时都可以离开似的。 当然，他到了英灵殿的时候也会有干净的袜子和内裤可以换上。