11 Riproarers and Electricstickys

11. RIPROARERS AND ELECTRICSTICKYS In the desperation of the moment, an idea popped into Hiccup's mind. Why hadn't the witch taken away the King's Things from him when she had the chance? Because she knew he was going to need them down here… He took the ticking-thing out of his pocket. There were numerous arrows on the face of the ticking-thing. One told the time. Another predicted latitude. Another always pointed north. And then there were various arrows that seemed to have no function at all, as far as Hiccup had been able to work out. And there it was. On one fat arrow that he had assumed was purely decorative, there was scratched a tiny little crown. A crown surrounded by tiny flames… 'Look! Fishlegs! The Crown!' panted Hiccup. 'Grimbeard's ticking-thing can show us the way to the Crown in the Fire Pit!'

11. 在绝望的时刻，小嗝嗝突然想到了一个主意。 女巫有机会的时候，为什么不把国王的遗物拿走呢？ 因为她知道他在这里会需要它们……他从口袋里拿出了打票机。 滴答作响的东西的表面有许多箭头。 其中一个报时。另一个预测纬度。 另一个总是指向北方。 然后有各种各样的箭头似乎根本没有作用，就Hiccup所能解决的问题而言。 它就在那里。在一支他以为纯粹是装饰性的粗箭上，刻着一个小小的王冠。 一顶被小火焰包围的王冠……“看！”Fishlegs !皇冠!嗝嗝喘着气说。 “Grimbeard的滴答声可以告诉我们去火坑王冠的路！”

Fishlegs opened a weary eye. Horrorcow relaxed her talons a second, and mooed approvingly. 'Luck is on our side, do you see, Fishlegs!' A tiny dim light of hope arose within Fishlegs and he staggered to his feet. Somehow Hiccup and Camicazi supported him between them and carried on skating, dragging Flashburn, as the scruffle scruffle of feet came closer, and the panting grew louder. DOWN the tunnels they slid, a shambolic crew indeed. The Riproarers were gaining, gaining and beginning to howl as the four of them swerved round a corner. They entered a large cavern, and they were just skating through it when Toothless's sharp eyes spotted something, and he squeaked, 'L-l-l-look!' Over to the right of the cave floor was a neat rectangular hole, cut into the floor by human hand, for nature could not cut those lines so straight. 'DOWN!' ordered

鱼腿睁开了疲惫的眼睛。 恐怖牛放松了一下爪子，赞许地叫了一声。 “运气在我们这边，你看到了吗，鱼腿！”鱼腿心里升起一丝微弱的希望之光，他摇摇晃晃地站了起来。 不知怎么的，小嗝嗝和卡米卡齐把他夹在中间，拖着弗拉什伯恩继续滑着，脚步声越来越近，喘气声越来越大。 他们沿着隧道滑下去，真是一群混乱的人。 当他们四个人拐过一个拐角时，激流勇进的人越来越近，开始嚎叫起来。 他们进了一个大洞，刚滑进去，无牙敏锐的眼睛发现了什么东西，他尖声叫道：“看——看——看！”在洞穴地面的右边，有一个整齐的矩形洞，是人类用手在地面上凿出来的，因为大自然不可能把这些线切得这么直。 “下来!””命令

Hiccup, and one, two, three DOWN the hole jumped Fishlegs, Camicazi, Flashburn, and then last of all Hiccup, holding his rectangular shield above his head. Just as he leapt down the hole he had a stomach- melting sight of the first four Riproarers screaming round the corner, jaws a-gape before he slipped through the gap and… CLANG! The shield covered the hole completely. It was as if the hole had been cut for the shield. And maybe it HAD, long, long ago… Hiccup hung from the straps, swinging. There was a three-foot drop to the floor. 'Let go!' Camicazi shouted up. 'No!' shouted Hiccup. 'They'll follow us!' SCRITTCHHH! SCCRRITCH! They heard the spine-curling jangle of knife- sharp claws landing on the metal of the shield above. CLANG! A great dent was punched into the shield as the full force of a Riproarer body landed on it, and the middle section of the metal was inches away from Hiccup's face… Oh for Thor's sake…

小嗝嗝，一，二，三，鱼腿，卡米卡齐，闪电，最后一个小嗝嗝，把他的长方形盾牌举过头顶。 就在他从洞里跳下去的时候，他看到了一个令他胃都要融化的场景：前四名利剑手在拐角处尖叫着，张大了嘴巴，然后他从洞里钻了出来……防护罩把洞完全盖住了。 就好像这个洞是为盾牌凿出来的。 也许很久很久以前就有过……小嗝嗝挂在皮带上，摇摆着。 有一个三英尺高的落差。 “放手!”卡米卡齐喊道。 “不!嗝嗝喊道。“他们会跟着我们的！”SCRITTCHHH !SCCRRITCH !他们听到了尖利的爪子落在上面的金属盾牌上的刺耳的声音。 铿锵声!河豚身体的全部力量落在盾牌上，在盾牌上打了一个大凹痕，金属的中间部分离小嗝嗝的脸只有几英寸了……哦，看在上帝的份上……

SCRUFFLE SCRUFFLE SCRUFFLE as paws and talons picked at the edge of the shield… Any second now and they would get a good grip and lift the entire shield out of the hole, Hiccup and all… One talon got right through under the shield and heaved it upwards…

“乱糟糟的，乱糟糟的，就像爪子和爪子抓着盾牌的边缘……现在任何一秒，它们都可能抓住，把整个盾牌从洞里拉出来，嗝嗝和所有的人……一只爪子正好从盾牌下面钻出来，把它举了上去……”

'CAMICAZI!' screamed Hiccup, as he felt himself being pulled upwards. 'GRAB AN ELECTRICSTICKY AND THROW IT AT THE SHIELD!' The shield lifted further, and Hiccup was staring into the repellent face of the Riproarer, the stuff of nightmares, black frothing slobber foaming at the mouth, red-veined eyes quivering, its hot, indescribably stinking and repellent breath scalding Hiccup's cheeks. 'AAAARRRRGHHHHHHHH!' screamed Hiccup as the final heave took him up into the gap and the mouth opened for the bite… …and in the very splinter of time… SPLAT!!!!!!!!!!!! With a gorgeously squelchy squishing noise the Electricsticky landed on the shield, stuck there quivering, and the entire shield became electrified. The Riproarer gave a horrified scream and jumped back as if bitten simultaneously by a hive full of hornets. The shield clanged back into place, Hiccup swinging violently from the leather straps, as… SPLAT! SPLAT! Camicazi threw two more of the Electricstickys

“CAMICAZI !嗝嗝尖叫道，他感到自己被往上拉了。 “拿一个电棍，朝盾牌扔过去！”盾牌又抬了起来，嗝嗝正盯着那张令人讨厌的河流守护者的脸，那是噩梦般的东西，嘴里冒着黑色的泡沫，红血管的眼睛颤抖着，它那难以形容的难闻的热气烫着嗝嗝的脸颊。 “AAAARRRRGHHHHHHHH !小嗝嗝尖叫着，最后一波把他推到了缝隙里，嘴巴张开了，准备被咬... ...，就在这一刹那……SPLAT!!!!!!!!!!!！随着一声极难听的压扁声，电胶落在盾牌上，在那里颤抖着，整个盾牌都通电了。 河豚惊恐地尖叫了一声，跳了回去，仿佛被一群大黄蜂同时咬了一口。 盾牌哐当一声放回原位，小嗝嗝从皮带上猛烈地荡来荡去，砰的一声！长条木板!卡米卡兹又扔了两枚电棒

on to the shield. She was wearing her burglary gloves, so they didn't give HER an electric shock, and of course Camicazi was expert at throwing pretty much anything. As Hiccup dropped to the ground she grinned from ear to ear for the first time since they had been in the dungeon. 'Genius!' she crowed. 'Now you really are a genius, Hiccup! You see… we're going to do it! It's a sign from fate that we're going to make it…' 'Don't count your chickens...' panted Hiccup, thoroughly rattled from his close-up with the Riproarer. Camicazi hadn't looked into its mad staring eyes, and seen how close they had been to being torn to pieces. 'And don't forget that if we want to see daylight again, we have to go back up there and face them. They'll wait for us… Trust me, they'll wait for us…' 'But the blonde pipsqueak is right,' panted Flashburn. 'This is extraordinary. Twenty years I've searched these tunnels, and I've never seen that hole before. This is a part of the maze that I've never been down.' 'That was TOOTHLESS who saw that!' crowed Toothless.

在盾牌上。她戴着防盗手套，所以他们没有电击她，当然，Camicazi是投掷任何东西的专家。 小嗝嗝倒在地上时，她笑得合不拢嘴，这是他们进地牢以来的第一次。 “天才!她叫道。“现在你真是个天才了，小嗝嗝！”你看，我们要成功了！这是命运的预兆，我们会成功的……”小嗝嗝喘着气说，他和河滨人的特写镜头让他非常紧张。 卡米卡齐没有看到它那双疯狂的眼睛，也没有看到它们差点被撕成碎片。 “别忘了，如果我们想再次见到阳光，我们就必须回到那里，面对他们。 “他们会等着我们的……相信我，他们会等着我们的……” “这太不寻常了。我在这些隧道里找了二十年，却从没见过那个洞。 这是迷宫的一部分，我从来没有去过。“看到这一幕的是没有牙齿的人！”无牙嚷道。