14 IS IT ALWAYS NICE TO BUMP INTO AN OLD AQUAINTANCE

14. IS IT ALWAYS NICE TO BUMP INTO AN OLD AQUAINTANCE? Hiccup would have been delighted to know that his father and the Hooligan Tribe were sailing to his assistance. But they were still an hour or so's sail away, and in the meantime, Hiccup had more immediate problems. Without even thinking, all three Vikings drew their swords as well. Before doing this, Camicazi quietly removed her hairy waistcoat from around her shoulders, and carefully nestled the Fire-Stone inside it. (Alvin was performing the final twist on his sword, so he didn't notice her doing this, which is important, as we shall see.) So near, and yet so far.

14. 偶遇一位老熟人总是很愉快吗？ 小嗝嗝如果知道他的父亲和流氓部落正在出海帮助他，他一定会很高兴的。 但他们还有一个小时左右的航程，与此同时，小嗝嗝有更紧迫的问题。 三个维京人都不假思索地拔出了剑。 在做这件事之前，卡米卡齐悄悄地从肩上脱下毛茸茸的马甲，小心翼翼地把火石放在里面。 （阿尔文正在对他的剑进行最后的扭转，所以他没有注意到她在做这件事，这一点很重要，我们将会看到。）那么近，又那么远。

Fishlegs fumbled with his scabbard, in his haste to draw his sword, and the entire contents of his Running-Away Suitcase spilled all over the mountainside. "Alvin the Treacherous!" blurted out Camicazi. "How on earth did you escape from all those Sharkworms?"-* "So kind of you to ask, my dear young lady," murmured Alvin the Treacherous, picking at his teeth with the end of his hook, for all the world as if he were relaxing in an easy chair, rather than sitting on the back of an Exterminator, on top of a Volcano that was about to explode. "So kind of you to ask. After you had torn down my precious Fort Sinister and thrown me to the Sharkworms, most people would assume that I would indeed be dead." Alvin's one eye was now cold and furious. "We didn't throw you to the Sharkworms!" protested Fishlegs. "You fell, in the middle of trying to kill us!" Alvin ignored him. "But you should know that a Treacherous is hard to kill, my dears, very hard to kill. The Sharkworms were hungry but I was hungrier. The first Sharkworm took my eye" —Alvin pointed savagely at his eye-patch— "but it regretted it," said Alvin with grim satisfaction. "I killed it as it ate, from a single blow of the Stormblade, and then I

鱼腿在匆忙拔剑的过程中摸索着他的剑鞘，他的逃跑箱里的所有东西都洒在了山腰上。 “奸诈的阿尔文！”卡米卡齐脱口而出。 “你到底是怎么从那些鲨鱼虫那里逃出来的？”“亲爱的小姐，你这么问真是太好了。”奸细阿尔文喃喃地说，一边用钩子的末端剔着牙齿，仿佛他是在一张安乐椅上休息，而不是坐在一辆灭虫车的背上，坐在一座即将爆发的火山上。 “你问得真好。在你拆毁了我宝贵的险恶堡垒，把我扔给鲨鱼虫之后，大多数人都会以为我真的死了。” 阿尔文的一只眼睛现在又冷又怒。 “我们没有把你扔给鲨鱼虫！”鱼腿抗议道。 “你在想杀我们的时候摔倒了！”阿尔文没有理睬他。 “但你们应该知道，一个背信弃义的人是很难杀死的，亲爱的，非常难以杀死。 鲨鱼虫们很饿，但我更饿。 第一条鲨鱼虫咬了我的眼睛，”——阿尔文凶狠地指着他的眼罩——“但它后悔了，”阿尔文带着严峻的满足感说。 “我用暴风之刃一击，在它吃东西的时候杀了它，然后我

crawled inside its open mouth, and hid within the floating corpse while the feeding frenzy continued." "Oh, yuck," groaned Fishlegs, pulling a face. "Indeed," bit Alvin, "but one finds one is not so picky when one's life is on the line. Six long hours the frenzy continued, before the Sharkworms started to drift away, along the Summer Current. And then, my hook curled around the floating Sharkworm's backbone, I struck out for the shore. It took me a long time, for we had drifted far," said Alvin bitterly, "and weak and eye-less as I was. And then when I finally managed to get within swimming distance of the land, and let go of the dead Creature that had hidden me and supported me that whole way, it took one final act of revenge. Even though it was long since dead, its jaws snapped forward in a reflex action, and took off one of my kicking, swimming legs from just below the knee." "Oh, dear," murmured Hiccup, sympathetic, even though it was Alvin. "Quite so," said Alvin. "All of the Romans had left by the time I got back to the Island. So I spent that long, cold winter hiding in the ruins of Fort Sinister, nursing myself back to health, practicing my sword-fighting, and dreaming of REVENGE." "Oh dear," said Hiccup again. "Quite so," said Alvin again. "I have my

爬进它张开的嘴里，躲在漂浮的尸体里，继续疯狂地进食。” “哦，恶心，”鱼腿呻吟着，做了个鬼脸。 “的确，”阿尔文咬了一口，“但是当一个人的生命受到威胁时，他就不会那么挑剔了。 这种狂乱持续了整整六个小时，直到鲨鱼虫开始沿着夏季洋流漂走。 然后，我的鱼钩勾住了漂浮的鲨虫的脊骨，我向岸边游去。 “我花了很长时间，因为我们漂流了很远，”阿尔文痛苦地说，“我身体虚弱，眼睛也瞎了。 当我终于游到离陆地不远的地方时，我放开了那个藏着我一路支持我的死去的生物，这是我最后一次复仇。 虽然它早就死了，但它的下颚在反射作用下向前一咬，从我膝盖以下的地方扯掉了我的一条踢腿。” “哦，天哪，”小嗝嗝同情地低声说，尽管那是阿尔文。 “没错，”阿尔文说。“我回到岛上的时候，所有的罗马人都走了。 于是我就在险恶要塞的废墟里度过了那个漫长而寒冷的冬天，一边养病，一边练习剑术，梦想着复仇。” “哦，天哪，”小嗝嗝又说。 “没错。”阿尔文又说。 “我有我的。

revenge on the SHARKWORM. I have carved my fake leg out of the tooth with which it bit me. But I do not have my revenge on YOU, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. You owe me a hand, a leg, an eye, and a full head of hair, and I intend you to pay." "But it is not strictly my fault that you lost all these things!" protested Hiccup. "You brought them on yourself! And speaking of owing people things, what about YOUR treatment of poor Humungously Hotshot? You took his ruby heart's stone, and left him to rot in the terrible Gold Mines of this island. You let him think that his Love did not love him, and had married someone else knowing that he was still alive, and in slavery. What had Humungous done to you for you to hate him so badly?" "I can hate without reason," spat Alvin the Treacherous. "And what about his treatment of ME? He promised me that he would kill you. That would have been such a lovely artistic twist of Fate, to kill his Love's only son. I would have enjoyed that so much. "And I worked so hard for it, pouring poisonous lies about you into his foolish trusting ears, stoking up his ANGER and his bitterness, his desire for revenge... I never expected a Hero like him would break a solemn promise like that one, especially to

向鲨鱼虫复仇。我用那颗咬我的牙齿雕刻出了我的假腿。 但是我并没有报复你，嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕三世。 你欠我一只手、一条腿、一只眼睛和一顶头发，我要你偿还。” “可是你丢了这么多东西，完全不能怪我！”嗝嗝抗议道。 “是你自找的！”说到欠别人的东西，你怎么对待可怜的超级大佬？ 你拿走了他的红宝石心石，让他在这个岛上可怕的金矿里腐烂。 你让他以为他的爱人不爱他，明知他还活着，还在做奴隶，却嫁给了别人。 巨怪对你做了什么，让你如此恨他？”“我可以毫无理由地憎恨。”背信弃义的阿尔文啐道。 “那他对ME的治疗呢？” 他向我保证要杀了你。 那将是命运的一个可爱的艺术扭曲，杀死他爱的唯一的儿子。 我一定会很享受的。 “我为此付出了如此多的努力，把关于你的恶毒谎言灌输到他愚蠢而轻信的耳朵里，激起他的愤怒和痛苦，激起他复仇的欲望…… 我从没想过像他这样的英雄会违背这样庄严的承诺，尤其是对

ME, whom he owed so much. My goodness"—Alvin sounded virtuously indignant—"you can't trust anybody these days!" Alvin sighed. "But I suppose if he failed me in killing YOU, Hiccup, he has also failed me in the second part of his mission." "What was the second part of his mission?" asked Hiccup in surprise. Alvin's hairless eyebrows lifted. "Didn't he tell you?" purred Alvin. "I wonder why not? He was supposed to bring the FIRE-STONE to me, here, at the Volcano." Camicazi, Hiccup, and Fishlegs all gasped and took a step backward, horribly aware that the Fire-Stone was lying only a few feet behind them, curled up in Camicazi's waistcoat. "The Fire-Stone?" stammered Hiccup, playing for time. "What's the Fire-Stone?" "You know perfectly well what the Fire-Stone is, Hiccup," sneered Alvin. "The Fire-Stone has many powerful secrets, but one of its many riddles is that the Exterminators are terrified of it. So he who holds the Fire-Stone controls the Exterminators... and therefore the Archipelago. I wonder why Humungous didn't tell you he was supposed to bring it to me." Alvin looked with narrowed eyes at the three young Vikings, all trying to look unconcerned.

他欠我那么多。我的天哪，”——阿尔文的声音听起来像是义愤填膺，“这年头你谁也不能相信！”阿尔文叹了口气。 “不过，我想，如果他在杀死你这件事上辜负了我，Hiccup，那么他在任务的第二部分也辜负了我。” “他任务的第二部分是什么？”小嗝嗝惊讶地问。 阿尔文扬起了无毛的眉毛。 “他没告诉你吗？”阿尔文咕噜着。 “为什么不呢？”他应该把火石带到我这儿来的，就在火山这儿。” 卡米卡齐、小嗝嗝和鱼腿都倒吸了一口气，后退了一步，他们惊恐地意识到火石就在他们身后几英尺远的地方，蜷缩在卡米卡齐的马甲里。 “火石？”嗝嗝结结巴巴地说，在拖延时间。 “火石是什么？”“你很清楚火石是什么，小嗝嗝。”阿尔文讥笑道。 “火石有许多强大的秘密，但它的众多谜团之一是灭绝者对它很害怕。 所以谁持有火石，谁就控制灭绝者…… 也就是群岛。 我想知道为什么胡蒙斯没有告诉你他应该把它带给我。” 阿尔文眯起眼睛看着三个年轻的维京人，他们都装出不在意的样子。

And then Alvin smiled, as something occurred to him, a silky serpentine smile, revealing far too many teeth. "Perhaps it is because you were bringing it to me anyway!" Alvin started to laugh, throwing his head back in a singularly unpleasant gloating roar. "Oh, this is TOO GOOD!" He wiped his streaming eyes. "You're a clever boy, aren't you, Hiccup? Perhaps you worked out another of the Fire-Stone's riddles... that it can stop the Volcano from exploding. So you have come here, three terrifying Viking Heroes, none of you taller than my armpit, bringing the Fire-Stone with you, hoping, praying, longing to prevent disaster at the last minute! How swe-e-e-et..." Alvin sneered. He moved a little closer to the three Vikings, like a malevolent spider, swishing his Stormblade and tut-tutting insincerely. "And you were so close," he commiserated, "so-o-o-oo close to success! So near... and yet so far. What a shame. I do so hate to disappoint the little children in their charming little dreams." He sighed. "But I'm afraid it can't be helped. It's my job." A hint of steel crept into his voice. "Hand over the Fire-stone, Hiccup."

然后，阿尔文笑了，他突然想到了什么，一个柔滑的蛇形微笑，露出了太多的牙齿。 “也许是因为你本来就要把它带给我吧！”艾尔文笑了起来，把头往后一仰，发出一种特别不愉快的幸灾乐祸的咆哮。 “哦，这太好了！”他擦了擦眼泪。 “你是个聪明的孩子，是不是，小嗝嗝？” 也许你又解出了火石的一个谜语…… 它可以阻止火山爆发。 所以你们来到这里，三个可怕的维京英雄，你们没有一个比我的腋窝高，带着火石，希望，祈祷，渴望在最后一刻阻止灾难！如何swe-e-e-et……” 阿尔文冷笑道。他像一只恶毒的蜘蛛，向三个维京人靠近了一点，挥舞着暴风之剑，不真诚地啧啧。 “你离成功那么近了，”他同情地说，“那么——那么——那么——那么！这么近…… 然而到目前为止。真可惜。 我真不想让小孩子们在他们迷人的小梦中失望。” 他叹了口气。“但我恐怕没办法。 这是我的工作。”他的声音里带着一丝强硬。 “把火石交出来，嗝嗝。”