4 THE FIGHT

4. THE FIGHT Round and round the shapes circled, closer and closer, growling to each other in contentment, delighted with their victory. Until finally one pushed its head through the flame. It was a dragon, but not any dragon that Hiccup or Gobber had ever seen before. A dragon created by a god in a bad mood. Fire licked from its blood-streaked eyeballs, came smoking off its forehead and crackling out of its nostrils. Its skin was semi-transparent, so that you could see the black veins bulging furiously in its temples, like a thick, pulsing spider's web. It held its paws up in front of its face and... ZING! ZING! ZING! ZING! ZING! ZING! Six talons came shooting out of the ends of its stubby reptilian fingers, talons as long and broad and sharp as swords, and smoking hot.

4. 一圈又一圈，形状围得越来越近，彼此心满意足地咆哮着，为自己的胜利而高兴。 直到最后一只把它的头伸进火焰。 那是一条龙，但不是Hiccup和Gobber以前见过的龙。 神在心情不好时创造的龙。 火舔着它带血的眼球，从前额冒着烟，从鼻孔噼啪作响。 它的皮肤是半透明的，所以你可以看到它太阳穴上的黑色血管疯狂地鼓起，就像一张厚厚的、跳动的蜘蛛网。 它把爪子举到脸前，然后…… 活力!活力!活力!活力!活力!活力!六只爪子从它粗壮的爬行动物手指的末端伸出来，又长又宽，像剑一样锋利，冒着热气。

Black saliva dropped slowly from its jaws. Green flames flickered up and down its talons. It bent down low in the fire, mouth agape, ready to spring at Hiccup, and... and an expression of acute surprise came across its face. And it disappeared back into the flames as quickly as it had emerged. For another, even more terrifying figure had sprung up in the inferno. The figure of a pure-white dragon, with a single horn set in the middle of its forehead, rearing up, wings stretched wide. Astride its back was a gigantic Man with a sword on either hand. But what MAN could ride into a bonfire and live? Perhaps, Hiccup thought, they had died and gone to Valhalla already, and this was Thor or Woden riding out to greet them. The black dragons had fallen back in shock, but now they re-formed, growling hideously, and in front of Hiccup and Gobber's disbelieving eyes, an astonishing fight began in the fire. Hiccup had never seen a fight quite like it. It was half dragon-fight, and half sword-fight, and the Man on the White Dragon was outnumbered six to one. Hiccup had never seen a man fight quite like this

黑色的唾液从它的嘴里慢慢地流下来。 绿色的火焰在它的爪子上下闪烁。 它在火里弯下腰，张着嘴，准备扑向小嗝嗝，然后…… 他脸上露出一种极度惊奇的表情。 它像刚出现一样迅速地消失在火焰中。 另一方面，地狱里出现了一个更可怕的人影。 那是一条纯白的龙，前额正中长着一只角，昂起胸膛，展开双翼。 它的背上骑着一个巨大的人，双手各拿着一把剑。 但有谁能骑进篝火中还能活下来呢？ 也许，小嗝嗝想，他们已经死了，已经去了英灵殿，这是托尔或沃登骑马出来迎接他们的。 黑龙们吓得后退了，但现在它们重新集结起来，可怕地咆哮着。在小嗝嗝和戈伯难以置信的目光面前，一场惊人的战斗在火中开始了。 小嗝嗝从来没有见过这样的战斗。 一半是龙战，一半是剑战，白龙上的人以六比一的优势落后。 小嗝嗝从来没有见过一个人像这样打架

Man. The black dragons used their talons like swords, springing at him from above, from aside, from below, slashing and thrusting. The Man on the White Dragon had no shield, and he controlled his dragon with his knees alone. Roaring like a god, his arms moved so quickly that you could barely see them. His swords were there to meet every blow, every attack, every thrust. "OK, Toothless come out now," said Toothless, in a muffled way from beneath the helmet. "Toothless need to do a p-p-pee-pee RIGHT NOW!" "It's really not a good moment right now, Toothless," said Hiccup nervously, holding his helmet firmly to his head. "You should have gone earlier..." "Let me out! Toothless c-c-come out now or Toothless do a pee-pee on Mean Master's H-HHEAD!" screeched Toothless, furiously drumming his heels against the metal. One second the Man on the White Dragon was parrying the lunges of twenty-four sword talons simultaneously. The next his arms shot out to the left and right and two black dragons lay dead in the flames. And all at once the remaining four abandoned the fight, shooting up into the air like gigantic dark bats, and the Man on the White Dragon galloped out

男人。黑龙挥舞着剑一般的爪子，从上、从旁、从下向他扑来，又砍又刺。 白龙上的人没有盾牌，他只用膝盖控制他的龙。 他的手臂像神一样咆哮，移动得如此之快，以至于你几乎看不见它们。 他的剑在那里迎接每一次打击，每一次攻击，每一次刺。 “好了，无牙出来了。”无牙从头盔下面闷哑地说。 “没牙的我要去嘘嘘嘘嘘，马上！”“现在真的不是时候，无牙。”小嗝嗝紧张地说，把头盔紧紧地举在头上。 “你应该早点走的……” “放我出去！”无牙——快——快出来，不然无牙就在贱少爷的——脑袋上尿尿！”无牙尖声叫道，用脚跟猛烈地撞击着金属。 前一秒，白龙上的人还在同时挡着二十四根剑爪的刺。 接着，他的双臂猛地向左右两边张开，两条黑龙倒在火焰中死去。 剩下的四个人突然放弃了战斗，像巨大的黑蝙蝠一样飞向空中，骑着白龙的人飞奔而出

of the fire and into the circle where Hiccup, Gobber, and the Windwalker were crouching, and where Goliath lay dead. "PERSON WITH THE ENORMOUS BELLY!" roared the Man, taking off his cloak. "Climb on the back of my dragon!"

从火堆里出来，进入嗝嗝、戈伯和风行者蹲着的圈子，歌利亚也躺在那里。 “大肚子的人！”那人嚷道，脱下斗篷。 “爬到我的龙背上！”

"The boy must go first," said Gobber the Belch. "Can't carry all of us!" bellowed the Man, above the roaring of the greedy flames, creeping nearer and nearer, "but the boy will be safe, you have my word for it!" "Swear," said Gobber. "I swear," said the Man. He threw Hiccup his cloak. "Wrap yourself up in that, boy, and your own dragon can carry you out of the fire." Slowly, Gobber stood up. Carefully, he removed his helmet from his head, and placed it very gently on the chest of the dead Goliath. And only then did he climb on to the back of the White Dragon, which immediately leapt into the air. "Wrap yourself tight!" the Man called down to Hiccup. "It's fireproof!" Hiccup was alone in the circle of fire, so close now about him that his sleeve caught on fire. The flames surged forward to swallow up the last little piece of unburned land as Hiccup leaped onto the Windwalker's back, pulling the cloak over his head, with both his sleeves burning. The flames snuffed out instantly. The cloak was as cold as the ocean and smelled comfortingly of fish. It was like wrapping

“必须让男孩先走。”嗝哥伯说。 “载不了我们所有人！”那人吼道，他的声音盖过了贪婪的火焰的轰鸣声，他越走越近，“但这孩子会安全的，我向你保证！”“发誓。”戈伯说。 “我发誓，”那人说。他把斗篷扔给小嗝嗝。 “把自己裹起来，孩子，你自己的龙就能把你从火里救出来了。” 戈柏慢慢地站了起来。他小心翼翼地从头上摘下头盔，轻轻地放在死去的歌利亚的胸膛上。 然后他才爬到白龙的背上，白龙立刻跳到了空中。 “把自己裹紧！”那人朝小嗝嗝喊道。 “这是防火!”嗝嗝独自一人在火圈里，现在离他太近了，他的袖子都着火了。 火焰汹涌向前，吞噬了最后一小块未燃烧的土地，嗝嗝跳上风行者的背，把斗篷套在头上，两只袖子都在燃烧。 火焰立刻熄灭了。 斗篷冷得像海水，还散发着鱼腥味。 就像包装一样

yourself up in the sea itself, and Hiccup gasped with the delighted shock of it. He tucked the cool ends firmly around every part of him, so that not a finger, not a toe, not a morsel of his body would be exposed to the fire. He threw his arms around the Windwalker's shivering back. "Run, Windwalker, run," whispered Hiccup. And as the whole of the mountain was consumed with the flames, the Windwalker ran.

小嗝嗝又高兴又震惊，倒吸了一口凉气。 他把冰凉的末端紧紧地裹住身体的每一部分，这样他的手指、脚趾、身体的任何一点都不会暴露在火里。 他伸出双臂搂住风行者颤抖的后背。 “快跑，风行者，快跑。”嗝嗝低声说。 当整座山被火焰吞噬时，风行者逃跑了。