13 They were in Its Territory Now

13. THEY WERE IN ITS TERRITORY NOW… So that was the end of the last hope of Escape from the Quest to America. All hundred and nineteen of the Wanderer Slaves escaped. But Hiccup, Camicazi and Fishlegs did not. Hiccup saved Bearcub. But who would save Hiccup? They had their work cut out over the next five hours or so, trying to prevent the great boat from crashing into an iceberg in the mist. And by the time the mists lifted it was nearly morning, they had steamed out of the land of the Icebergs and into the Great West Ocean, and the Hysterics were beginning to stir in their sleep. It was astonishing that they had all slept through the whole thing, but they had, even Toothless, who had snored happily through being chased by Polar- serpents and bumping over icebergs and submerged in ice-cold water, without so much as opening an eyelid. Red Ronald was the first to wake up, to find Camicazi pedalling the Keep-the-Boat-from-Sinkingand-Scare-Away-the-Monster-Sea-Creatures Machine.

13. 他们现在已经进入了它的领地……所以，逃离美洲探险的最后希望就这样破灭了。 所有的一百十九名流浪奴隶都逃脱了。 但是Hiccup， Camicazi和Fishlegs却没有。 嗝嗝救了熊宝宝。但谁来救小嗝嗝呢？ 在接下来的5个小时左右的时间里，他们一直在努力防止这艘巨轮在雾中撞上冰山。 薄雾散去的时候，已经快天亮了，他们已经驶出了冰山的陆地，进入了西大洋，歇斯底里的人开始在睡梦中醒来。 令人惊讶的是，他们整个过程都在睡觉，但他们都睡着了，就连无牙也睡着了，他被极地大蛇追赶，在冰山上撞来撞去，在冰冷的水里泡了个澡，连眼皮都没睁开，就打着鼾。 红罗纳德是第一个醒过来的，他发现卡米卡齐正在踩着防止船沉没和吓跑海洋怪物的机器。

'I won't tell Norbert, if you don't,' said Camicazi, climbing off the Machine and letting Red Ronald climb back on again. Red Ronald was so pathetically grateful he practically cried, for he knew if his Boss found out he had fallen asleep on the job he would quickly find himself on the wrong side of the Axe of Doom. Hiccup re-tied the ticking-thing to Norbert's wrist, so that Norbert would never know he had tried to steal it, and then he judged it best that the three of them should be out of the way when Norbert made the discovery that all of his slaves had escaped into the night. So, once Hiccup's clothes had thoroughly dried on the chimney, they crept back up to the crow's nest, where they fell asleep, curled around the comforting warmth of the two dragons, who gave out lovely waves of heat like two little hot water bottles. They were only awoken by Norbert's great roar of rage. At first Norbert was sure that it was all Hiccup's fault. 'THAT WRETCHED WEIRD LITTLE RED-HAIRED BOY! I SHOULD HAVE KILLED HIM WHILE I HAD THE CHANCE!' screamed Norbert the Nutjob. 'HE'S MADE OFF WITH ALL OF MY SLAVES!'

“如果你不告诉诺伯特，我就不告诉他。”卡米卡齐说着，从机器上爬下来，让红罗纳德重新爬上去。 红罗纳德感激得几乎哭了出来，因为他知道，如果他的老板发现他在工作时睡着了，他很快就会发现自己站在厄运之斧的错误一边。 小嗝嗝把那个会响的东西重新绑在诺伯特的手腕上，这样诺伯特就永远不会知道他曾试图偷走它。然后，当诺伯特发现他所有的奴隶都逃进了黑夜时，他认为他们三个最好离开这里。 于是，等小嗝嗝的衣服在烟囱上完全晒干后，他们就爬回了乌鸦窝，蜷缩在两条龙的温暖安慰下睡着了。两条龙像两个小热水瓶一样，发出可爱的热气。 他们只是被诺伯的怒吼吵醒了。 起先，诺伯还以为都是小嗝嗝的错。 “那个可恶的红发小男孩！”我应该趁有机会杀了他！疯子诺伯尖叫道。 “他把我所有的奴隶都带走了！”

Hiccup put his head over the top of the crow's nest. 'No, I haven't,' he called down. 'I'm up here…' Norbert was so furious, he swiped at the mast with his Axe as if he were chopping down a tree, taking a big slice out of it. 'WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY SLAVES???!!!' he roared. 'I haven't done ANYTHING with your slaves,' Hiccup called down. 'If I had done, I would have run away myself.' This was quite a good argument, but Norbert wasn't in a listening kind of mood and he took another swing at the mast. 'Now, now,' Hiccup shouted, 'we need that mast, you know, and I'm the only one who can read the ticking-thing and get us to America, aren't I? So without me, you can't create your Land of the Nutjobs… your Empire…' With a massive effort, Norbert managed to stop himself from cutting down the mast. But nonetheless, Hiccup thought he might stay up in the crow's nest until he felt Norbert had calmed down. Toothless and Stormfly both woke up much, much later, when the sun was high in the sky, and the two little dragons had absolutely no recollection of

小嗝嗝把头伸到瞭望台顶上。 “不，我没有，”他向下喊道。 “我在上面……”诺伯气坏了，他用斧头朝桅杆扫去，好像在砍一棵树，砍下了一大块。 “你对我的奴隶做了什么？？！！！”他吼道。 “我没有对你的奴隶做过任何事，”小嗝嗝朝下喊道。 “如果我那样做了，我自己也会跑掉的。”这是一个很好的论点，但诺伯特没有听进去的心情，他又在桅杆上挥了一下。 “好了，好了，”小嗝嗝喊道，“我们需要那根桅杆，你知道，我是唯一一个能读懂报时表，把我们送到美国的人，不是吗？” 所以没有我，你就不能建立你的疯子之国……你的帝国……”诺伯费了很大的劲才止住了砍下桅杆的念头。 尽管如此，小嗝嗝还是想，在诺伯平静下来之前，他还是呆在瞭望台上吧。 无牙和暴风都醒得很晚，太阳已经升得很高了，两只小龙完全不记得了

what had happened. The ship was way out in the Great West Ocean now. The world around them had turned to water. Nothing but water, water everywhere. It was as if a Great Flood had taken place and washed over every precious piece of land. And now there was nothing but sea below and clouds above, and their tiny little speck of a boat crawling across it, like a bug across a window pane. It was as if they had left this world entirely and were sailing through space, looking for another star. There was no way of contacting other humans. They were on their own, in a universe of water that went on for ever. And what was worse, was that the ship now seemed to be being followed by something. From high up in the crow's nest, Hiccup, Fishlegs and Camicazi saw it first. It was the white wake of a GIGANTIC Sea-Monster. 'SEA-DRAGON ON THE EASTERN HORIZON!' screamed Norbert from down below on the deck. 'GET PEDALLING!!!!! OR I'LL FEED YOU TO THE MONSTER WITH MY OWN FAIR HANDS!!!

发生了什么？这艘船现在已经在遥远的西大洋上了。 他们周围的世界都变成了水。 除了水什么都没有，到处都是水。 就好像发生了一场大洪水，淹没了每一块珍贵的土地。 现在什么也没有了，只有下面是海，上面是云，还有一艘小船的小斑点在上面爬行，就像一只虫子在窗玻璃上爬行。 就好像他们完全离开了这个世界，在太空中航行，寻找另一颗恒星。 没有办法与其他人类联系。 他们只能靠自己，生活在一个永无止尽的水宇宙中。 更糟糕的是，这艘船似乎被什么东西跟踪了。 Hiccup、Fishlegs和Camicazi从高处的瞭望台最先看到了它。 这是一只巨大的海怪的白色尾流。 “东方地平线上的海龙！”诺伯在下面甲板上尖叫道。 “蹬车! !不然我就亲手把你喂给怪物！！

The crew took it in turns to pedal the Scare-Away-the-Big-Sea-Creatures Machine so fast that the Machine's spokes and wheels whined a screeching, creaking, out-of-control complaint, and the trumpet-attachment thingy whirled so crazily, it looked in danger of falling off. But the Sea-dragon was not scared away. The sound the Machine made was so physically unbearable to the Monster that it kept a safe distance from the boat. But it did not stop it from following them. All of the rest of that day the Sea-dragon followed the American Dream 2, and all of the night. The crew went to sleep at their battle-stations, upright in their armour, harpoons at the ready. As they closed their eyes in sleep, it was the last thing they saw on the horizon, the long thin line of a white wake, and the great spiny back of one of the Great, Deadly Terrors of the Deep, rising and falling as it swam inexorably after them like some ghastly Fate. They were in ITS territory now… …and IT knew it. All it had to do, was to be patient. The only thing preventing the Sea-dragon from moving in for the kill, and tearing apart the American Dream 2 with its mighty jaws as if it were a child's toy,

船员们轮流踩着这台“吓走大海生物的机器”，踩得太快了，机器的辐条和轮子发出刺耳的、嘎吱嘎吱的、失去控制的抱怨声，附在喇叭上的东西旋转得如此疯狂，看起来有掉下来的危险。 但是海龙并没有被吓跑。 机器发出的声音对怪物来说是如此难以忍受，所以它与船保持着安全的距离。 但这并没有阻止它跟随他们。 那天余下的所有时间里，海龙都在追寻着美国梦，整个晚上也是如此。 船员们穿着盔甲，直立着，鱼叉准备就绪，在他们的战斗站里睡着了。 当他们闭上眼睛睡觉时，他们在地平线上看到的最后一件东西，是一条细长的白色尾流，以及一个巨大的刺状的背部，深海中最可怕的东西之一，像某种可怕的命运一样，在他们身后无情地游来游去，忽上忽下。 他们现在在它的领土上... ...它知道这一点。 它所要做的就是耐心等待。 唯一能阻止海龙靠近杀戮，用它那像儿童玩具一样的大嘴巴撕碎美国梦的，

was a dilapidated, cranky, over-worked little Machine. A Machine that was looking increasingly creaky and wonky as each crew member pedalled it furiously to death. If a screw came loose on one of those wobbling wheels, that whirligig trumpet thingy would come whizzing off and… It didn't bear thinking about. EVERYBODY had nightmares that night. And it made Hiccup's heart skip a beat or two when he woke to see the wake of the Sea-dragon on the horizon. It was still following them. Hiccup crept down from the crow's nest, and over to the Steering Deck where Norbert was staring at it too, through his looking-glass thingy. 'Norbert,' said Hiccup nervously. 'I just have a feeling that that Sea-dragon doesn't like us for some reason. Don't you think we should go home?' For a moment, Hiccup didn't think Norbert had heard him, for Norbert carried on looking at the horizon, muttering to himself slowly: 'That… is the largest Sea-Monster I have EVER seen…' And then Norbert took his looking-glass thingy from his eye and looked straight down at Hiccup. 'No dragon, however big, is going to take away

是一台破旧、古怪、超负荷工作的小机器。 这台机器看起来越来越吱吱作响，摇摇晃晃，因为每个机组人员都在拼命踩死它。 如果这些摇摇晃晃的轮子上的一个螺丝松了，那个旋转的喇叭就会嗖嗖地掉下来，而且……这是不值得思考的。 那天晚上每个人都做了噩梦。 当小嗝嗝醒来看到海龙在地平线上的尾迹时，他的心跳了一两下。 它还在跟着他们。 小嗝嗝从瞭望台爬了下来，走到舵手甲板上，诺伯也正通过他的镜子一样的东西盯着它。 “诺伯，”小嗝嗝紧张地说。 “我只是有一种感觉，那只海龙出于某种原因不喜欢我们。 你不觉得我们应该回家吗？”有那么一会儿，小嗝嗝以为诺伯没有听见他的话，因为诺伯继续望着地平线，慢慢地喃喃自语：“那……那是我见过的最大的海怪……” “无论多大的龙，都不能带走我