第二章:与狗不理斯斗剑(6)
小嗝嗝正在想,“好吧,我不知道他到底认为我能做些什么”,此时,奇迹发生了。
2. THE FIGHT WITH DOGS-BREATH THE DUHBRAIN
Dogsbreath stood, pawing the deck in anticipation.
"KILL HIM, DOGSBREATH!" shouted
Snotface Snotlout, Dogsbreath's friend and fellow bully.
Snotlout LOATHED Hiccup.
"I will," grinned Dogsbreath.
"This will be a massacre," hissed Dogsbreath's dragon Seaslug, an ugly great Gronckle with a pug nose and a mean temper. "My master will tear this Hiccup limb from limb and throw him to the gulls."
"D-d-don't bet on it," said Toothless, without a lot of conviction, and he gave Seaslug a sharp nip on the tail before scrambling for cover underneath one of the rowing benches.
Hiccup edged forward towards the hulking figure of Dogsbreath, swallowing hard. He tried to remember what The Hero's Handbook had said about swordfighting an opponent much bigger than yourself.... Something about ducking about, letting the enemy exhaust himself, using his own body weight against him....