21 The Collapse of the Castle

21. THE COLLAPSE OF THE CASTLE It was the Dragon Furious. That was his fire exploding the witch's well. His fury that was shaking the castle to its very foundations. His shoulders that were squeezing their way upwards, breaking the stone around them. His shrieking anger that was making its way to the surface. The shock of the hut exploding distracted Alvin's attention for a moment. And One Eye broke free. And as the fury grew and grew the Vikings' towers did tremble. The solid stone moved

21. 城堡的倒塌那是愤怒的巨龙。 那是他的火炸了女巫的井。 他的狂怒撼动了城堡的根基。 他的双肩向上挤压，压碎了周围的石头。 他那尖叫般的愤怒正在浮出水面。 小屋爆炸的震动分散了阿尔文片刻的注意力。 一只眼挣脱了。随着愤怒的增长，维京人的塔楼开始颤抖。 坚硬的石头在移动

beneath their feet as if it had turned to ocean. Great cracks appeared in the ancient castle, like the splitting and breaking of an iceberg, lumps of stone raining down from the shaking battlements. The edges of the hole where the hut had stood just moments before fell in on themselves, as the Dragon Furious burrowed upwards with his powerful claws. His great fountain of fire and smoke went shooting up hundreds of feet into the air, sending dragons and humans scurrying and fleeing in all directions.

在他们脚下，好像已经变成了海洋。 古老的城堡出现了巨大的裂缝，就像冰山裂开一样，大块的石头从摇晃的城垛上雨点般落下。 刚才小屋所在的洞的边缘塌陷了，暴龙用它有力的爪子向上挖洞。 他巨大的火焰和烟雾喷涌而出，直冲数百英尺的高空，把龙和人都吓得四散奔逃。

The gigantic creature's shoulders shook aside the stone as if it were water, his head burst through the gaping hole in the floor, and up, up, up he rose like a living earthquake, splaying one claw on the edge of the hole and heaving his body slowly upwards. With a last shrugging scream, he leapt free of the stone and earth, and into the air, his spreading wings bursting a trembling tower into pieces, his mighty wingspan darkening the sun like an enormous cloud. Petrified, the Vikings stared upwards at their terrifying enemy. And for the first time, they realized, too late, that while they were absorbed in their own human drama, and even the sentries at the castle were watching the battle for the Crown of the Wilderwest, dragons had been creeping across the sky towards the castle. Hostile dragons. Rogue and Red-Rage dragons. And now the sky above was dark with dragons. The Dragon Furious shot his flame to left and right in a screaming fiery river. "JOIN THE RED-RAGE and Rebel, Brother-Dragons, rebel!"

这个庞然大物的肩膀把石头抖开，好像石头是水一样，它的头从地板上裂开的洞里探了出来，它像一场活生生的地震一样，向上、向上、向上地爬起来，一只爪子伸向洞的边缘，把身体慢慢地向上拉。 随着最后一声耸肩的尖叫，他从石头和泥土中跳了出来，飞向空中，他张开的翅膀把一座颤抖的塔炸成碎片，他那巨大的翼展把太阳遮得像一片巨大的云。 维京人吓呆了，抬头盯着他们可怕的敌人。 他们第一次意识到，虽然为时已晚，但就在他们沉浸在自己的人类戏剧中，就连城堡里的哨兵也在关注着争夺荒野西部王冠的战斗时，一条龙正穿过天空向城堡爬来。 敌对的龙。Rogue和Red-Rage龙。 现在，上面的天空布满了龙。 狂怒的巨龙将他的火焰喷射到怒吼的火河中。 “加入红怒军和叛军，龙兄弟，叛军！”

Now, if Hiccup had still been King of the Wilderwest, the domestic dragons would have replied to the Dragon Furious that they were already free, thank you very much, and the great Dragon Rebellion might have been stopped before it started. You cannot rebel if you are already free. You see how near Hiccup was to triumph. So near and yet so far. As it was, all around the castle, the dragons that had been quiet as cats became a nest of hissing serpents. Out sprang their claws, their teeth like knives, the hot fire flamed. "Rebel, brother-dragons, rebel!" came the trumpeting tones of One Eye. "The humans are our mortal enemies now! Join us, O my Brothers, in the Red-Rage and rebel!" All around the stadium, the echo came, "Rebel..."

现在，如果小嗝嗝仍然是荒野西部的国王，国内的龙就会对愤怒的龙说他们已经自由了，非常感谢你，伟大的龙族叛乱可能会在开始之前就被阻止了。 如果你已经自由了，你就无法反抗。 你看，小嗝嗝差一点就胜利了。 那么近，却又那么远。事实上，在城堡周围，原本像猫一样安静的龙变成了嘶嘶作响的蛇窝。 它们伸出爪子，牙齿像刀子，炽热的火焰熊熊燃烧。 “造反，龙兄弟，造反！”独眼的号角声传来。 “人类现在是我们的死敌了！”哦，我的兄弟们，加入我们，一起反抗吧！”整个体育场都在回响，“叛军……”

Quiet at first, the whisper went, then louder still and louder. "Rebel" they spat, "Rebel!" they hissed, "Rebel, Rebel, REBEL!" And with one accord, like a dragon cloud, they turned upon their Masters. With surprised yells, the Vikings drew their weapons to defend themselves, as dragons leapt upon their backs, lion-claws raking, and the hot fire burnt their unprotected skin. All around Hiccup the battle raged. Dragon against human. The air was filled with the screams of the attacking dragons, the Vikings barely able to believe that they were being fought by the very same creatures who had fed from their hands and slept at their firesides. It was as if some alien wild spirit had got into them, as if they had been cornered by a previously unsuspected enemy. Stoick, abandoned by his captors but still unarmed, was faced by his own dragon, Bullheart, crouched down low like a tiger about to spring,

一开始很安静，后来低语越来越大。 “反叛者”他们吐唾沫，“反叛者！”他们嘶嘶地说，“反叛者，反叛者，反叛者！”他们不约而同地，像龙云一样，转向他们的主人。 维京人惊叫一声，拔出武器自卫，恶龙跃上他们的背，狮子的爪子在他们身上乱抓，炽热的火焰灼烧着他们没有保护的皮肤。 在小嗝嗝周围，战火正愈演愈烈。 龙对抗人类。空气中充满了恶龙攻击的尖叫声，维京人几乎无法相信，与他们战斗的正是那些曾经吃过他们的手、睡在他们壁炉边的怪物。 就好像是某种外来的野性精灵侵入了他们的身体，就好像他们被一个事先没有想到的敌人逼得走投无路了。 斯托伊克被俘虏们抛弃了，但仍然没有武器，面对着他自己的龙——牛心，它像一只即将跳出来的老虎一样蹲在地上，

growling deep in his throat, the anger glands thick about his neck. 'DOWN, BULLHEART, DOWN!' commanded Stoick. But Bullheart did not appear to hear him. He kept his steady cat's eyes on Stoick as he crept slowly forward. He seemed to be growling, but if Stoick could speak Dragonese he would have recognised the following words: "Join the Red-Rage and REBEL. Make red your claws with human blood, Obliterate the Human Filth... Torch the Humans like a wood... The Rebellion is coming." Stoick swallowed. 'Down, Bullheart,' he said. Bellowing did not seem to be doing its usual magic, for the dragon crept on regardless.

喉咙深处咆哮着，脖子上的愤怒腺体变厚了。 “趴下，勇敢的人，趴下！”斯托伊克命令道。 但牛心似乎没有听见他的话。 当斯托伊克缓慢地向前爬行时，他那双猫一般的眼睛一直盯着他。 他似乎在咆哮，但如果斯托伊克会说龙语，他会认出下面的话：“加入红怒军和叛军。 用人类的血染红你的爪子，抹去人类的污秽…… 像烧木头一样烧人类… 起义军就要来了。”Stoick吞下。 “下来，牛心，”他说。 怒吼似乎没有像往常一样发挥魔法，因为龙不顾一切地继续爬行。