21 A Big Surprise for Alvin

21. A BIG SURPRISE FOR ALVIN If it hadn't been such a perilous moment, it might have been funny. It was such a bizarre sight. Twenty years without light had sucked all the colour out of the witch and she was white as bone all over. Her brilliant shock of chalk-dry hair blew five feet long behind her. Her faded eyes were still half- blind, but her other senses were so acute now that she could make her way around like a bat using radar. The Chickenpoxer was bucking madly, trying to get her off, but the witch was made of stern stuff, much sterner than Fishlegs, and she held firm, and rode him at the figures on the bridge. Alvin had now turned a ghastly green. Who can blame him? He hadn't seen his mother in twenty years. And she was pretty scary. 'Mother???' whispered Alvin the Treacherous querulously. 'Is it you, Mother?' 'Help him up, you FOOL!!' raged the old lady, wheeling around in the air above their heads on the Chickenpoxer. She didn't seem terribly pleased to see

21. 如果这不是一个如此危险的时刻，这可能会很有趣。 这是一个如此奇怪的景象。 二十年不见光，把女巫身上所有的颜色都吸光了，她浑身白得像骨头一样。 她那耀眼的、像粉笔一样干的头发在身后随风飘动，有五英尺长。 她那双褪了色的眼睛仍然是半盲的，但她的其他感官现在是如此敏锐，以至于她可以像蝙蝠一样利用雷达四处走动。 鸡粉疯狂地扭动着身子，想把她拉下来，但女巫是用严厉的东西做的，比鱼腿要严厉得多，她紧紧抓住他，骑着他向桥上的人影冲去。 阿尔文现在脸色发青。 谁能怪他呢？他有二十年没见过他母亲了。 她非常可怕。“妈妈? ?背信弃义的阿尔文抱怨地小声说。 “是你吗，妈妈？”“扶他起来，你这个傻瓜！”老太太怒气冲冲地说，一边在他们头顶的空中盘旋着。 她似乎不太高兴看到

her son, considering they had been parted for such a long time. 'What's happened to you?' she scolded, taking in his missing leg, eye, hair, nose and arm. 'Look at the state of you! I leave you with ve-ry clear instructions on how to become the King of the Wilderwest, and you can't even hang on to your own limbs! Don't you see, you meddling MORON, you can't let that little rat fall into the fire, he's got the SWORD!' From a splendid, dreadful villain on the brink of a great and evil triumph, Alvin turned in one split- second into a small boy caught in the act of doing something stupid. 'No, I've got the sword…' said Alvin, holding up the Stormblade rather pathetically, as if it would impress her. 'IDIOT!!!' screamed Alvin's Mother, bringing the Chickenpoxer to a screeching halt above their heads. 'It's the OTHER SWORD! Help him up, help him up! And take the sword off him!' Alvin turned back to Hiccup, hissing, 'I can't believe it… you set her free… this is the worst thing you've ever done to me…' But it was too late. Hiccup had already hauled HIMSELF up by his

她的儿子，考虑到他们已经分开这么久了。 “你怎么啦？”她一边骂着，一边看着他失去的腿、眼睛、头发、鼻子和胳膊。 “看看你的样子！”我给你留下了非常清楚的指示，告诉你如何成为西部荒野之王，而你甚至不能抓住自己的四肢！你没看见吗，你这个多管闲事的笨蛋，你不能让那只小老鼠掉进火里，他有剑！”从一个辉煌的，可怕的恶棍，在一个伟大而邪恶的胜利的边缘，阿尔文在一瞬间变成了一个小男孩，在做蠢事的行为被抓住。 “不，我有剑……”阿尔文说着，可怜巴巴地举起暴风之刃，好像这能打动她似的。 “笨蛋! !艾尔文的妈妈尖叫着，把鸡粉在他们头顶上嘎吱嘎吱地停了下来。 “是另一把剑！”扶他起来，扶他起来！把剑从他身上拿下来！”阿尔文转身对小嗝嗝嘶嘶地说：“我真不敢相信……你放了她……这是你对我做过的最糟糕的事……” 小嗝嗝已经用他的手把自己拖了起来

elbows, and the Windwalker had worked his wing free, and Hiccup now scrambled up on to his back and the Windwalker sprang into the air… …and the bridge burnt out at both ends, and fell into the abyss. Alvin screamed, and Alvin's Mother leant down from the Chickenpoxer and grabbed him by the hook as the bridge fell down from under him. But as the witch grabbed the hook she let out a horrible shriek. For Alvin had held the hook in the flames of the bridge only a few moments earlier. And that had turned the hook burning, scorching, frying hot. 'Aaaaaieeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' screamed Alvin's Mother. 'AAAAIEEEEEEE!' The touching reunion between mother and son lasted precisely one minute. There was a horrible, sulphurous smell of burning flesh, and Alvin's Mother let go of the hook. DOWN Alvin plunged, into the Inferno. And in one blink of an eye he was gone. The witch did not hesitate. She leapt from the Chickenpoxer's back and down into the fire herself. I don't know what she was hoping to do.

风行者已经挣脱了翅膀，嗝嗝爬到他的背上，风行者跳上了天空... ...桥的两端都烧毁了，掉进了深渊。 阿尔文尖叫起来，阿尔文的母亲从鸡粉上弯下身子，抓住他的钩子，这时桥从他身下塌了下来。 但当女巫抓住钩子时，她发出了一声可怕的尖叫。 因为就在几分钟前，阿尔文还在桥的火焰中拿着钩子。 这就把钩子烧得滚烫滚烫。 “Aaaaaieeeeeeeeeeeeeee !阿尔文的妈妈尖叫道。 “AAAAIEEEEEEE !”母子俩感人的重逢持续了整整一分钟。 一股可怕的肉烧焦的硫磺味扑鼻而来，阿尔文的母亲松开了钩子。 阿尔文一头栽进了地狱。 转眼间他就不见了。 女巫没有犹豫。 她从鸡粉背上跳下来，自己跳进了火里。 我不知道她想干什么。

But the flames swallowed her too, in one greedy gulp. And I would have said surely even Alvin and his Mother could not have escaped this time, from an entire burning Forest? But I won't because I have been wrong before.

但是火焰贪婪地吞下了她。 我想说，即使是阿尔文和他的母亲，这次也不可能从整个燃烧的森林里逃出来吧？ 但我不会，因为我以前也犯过错。