14 The Luck Turns Alvin’s Way

14. THE LUCK TURNS ALVIN'S WAY Horribly early the next morning, even earlier than normal, the prison guards woke everybody up by banging their swords on their shields and yelling: 'EVERYBODY UP AND IN THE COURTYARD! The witch Excellinor has called a crisis meeting!' Blearily and half-asleep, Hiccup staggered up the dungeon stairs to the courtyard with all the other slaves. And then suddenly, he felt very awake indeed, nerve-tinglingly, eye-openingly, brilliantly awake, as he tried to peer between the enormous guy in front of him to see the witch and Alvin the Treacherous sitting at the table. The witch was tapping her iron fingernails… …and in front of the witch was yet another someone who Hiccup knew from the past. They say that the past has a way of catching up with you, and the distant and not-so-distant past was certainly catching up with Hiccup big-time, in the two days in which he had been trapped in the great Prison Darkheart. The Hairy Scary Librarian was holding, in his

14. 第二天一大早，比平常还要早，监狱看守用剑猛敲着盾牌，大声喊道：“所有人都起来，到院子里去！”女巫校长召开了紧急会议！”小嗝嗝睡眼惺忪，和其他奴隶一起摇摇晃晃地走上地下教室的楼梯，来到院子里。 突然间，他觉得自己完全清醒了，神经刺痛，睁大了眼睛，清醒得神清气爽，因为他试图从面前的大块头中间窥视，看到女巫和坐在桌子旁的奸诈者阿尔文。 女巫在敲她的铁指甲... ...女巫的前面是另一个小嗝嗝以前认识的人。 人们说，过去总有办法追上你，遥远的过去和不那么遥远的过去，在Hiccup被困在大黑心监狱的两天里，肯定是追上了他。 毛茸茸的可怕的图书管理员抱着他

hands, Hiccup's helmet. The one that Windwalker had accidentally left in the bay because he was so upset. Aaargh. It was too late for Hiccup to get away now. He was so wedged in by the crowd he couldn't even move. Alvin the Treacherous stood up, his warts swelling with revolting gloating triumph like he'd just won the Barbaric Games. 'MISERABLE SLAVES OF THE AMBER SLAVELANDS!' called out Alvin. 'WE HAVE A TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST!' Murmurs of astonishment among the slaves. 'This morning,' continued Alvin, 'one of our "trusty" slaves, Hairy here, was out in the bay of the Dragons' Graveyard cleaning up after the Dragon Rebellion attack, when he discovered this helmet. 'My Warriors tell me that this was the very helmet that was worn by that traitor Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third when they last found him undoing our dragon-traps.' Oh for Thor's sake, thought Hiccup bitterly. I knew I never liked that helmet. 'And we have also recently discovered a secret door that opens on to a drainage tunnel that leads

双手，小嗝嗝的头盔。就是风行者不小心落在海湾里的那条因为他太难过了。 了。现在小嗝嗝想逃走已经太晚了。 他被人群挤得动弹不得。 背叛者阿尔文站了起来，他的疣子里充满了令人厌恶的幸灾乐祸的胜利，就像他刚刚赢得了野蛮运动会。 “琥珀色奴隶地可怜的奴隶！”阿尔文喊道。 “我们中间有一个叛徒！”奴隶们惊讶的低语。 “今天早上，”阿尔文继续说，“我们的一个‘值得信赖的’奴隶，这位毛毛，在龙族叛乱袭击后，在龙族墓地的海湾里打扫卫生时，发现了这个头盔。 “我的战士们告诉我，他们上次发现叛徒西卡普·可怕的黑线鳕三世正在解开我们的捕龙器时，他戴的就是这个头盔。”哦，看在托尔的份上，小嗝嗝痛苦地想。 我就知道我从没喜欢过那顶头盔。 “我们最近还发现了一扇通往排水隧道的暗门

directly into the prison from outside…' Hang on, thought Hiccup. That wasn't me, it was the Bog-Burglar Escape Artists! They must have left the door open… 'Which means,' said the witch silkily, 'that somehow that tricksy little Traitor of the Wilderwest has sneaked into this prison– the impostor– and he will be somewhere here among you slaves.' Sensation in the courtyard, with everyone looking at one another, and wondering who the Traitor was. 'Of course,' purred the witch, 'we could get everyone to try on the helmet, and see who it fits…' In which case I'll be fine, thought Hiccup, slightly hysterically, because quite apart from being horribly itchy, that helmet never fitted. 'But I,' smiled Alvin, 'have thought of a far neater plan. You see,' said Alvin, 'the reason that this Traitor-boy Hiccup can never be a King like me, is that to be a King you have to be strong and make tough decisions. Hiccup is weak,' sneered Alvin. 'He is too soft to be a King. 'HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK THE THIRD!' cried Alvin the Treacherous. 'GIVE YOURSELF UP, OR I SHALL KILL… THIS BOY.'

“等等，”小嗝嗝想。 那不是我，是沼泽窃贼逃生艺术家！“也就是说，”女巫柔滑地说，“那个狡猾的小叛徒不知怎么地溜进了这个监狱——那个骗子——他就在这里的某个地方，就在你们这些奴隶中间。”院子里一片混乱，大家都面面相觑，想知道谁是叛徒。 “当然，”女巫咕噜着说，“我们可以让每个人都戴上头盔，看看谁适合……”“这样我就没事了，”小嗝嗝有点歇斯底里地想，“因为那头盔除了痒得可怕之外，根本不合适。 “但我，”阿尔文笑着说，“想到了一个更巧妙的计划。 “你看，”阿尔文说，“这个卖国贼小嗝嗝永远不能像我一样成为国王的原因是，要成为国王，你必须坚强，必须做出艰难的决定。 “小嗝嗝太弱了。”阿尔文讥讽道。 “他太软弱了，不适合做国王。 “嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕，第三条！”背信弃义的阿尔文喊道。 “投降吧，不然我就杀了……这个孩子。”

Alvin the Treacherous reached out with one arm and grabbed the nearest member of the Hooligan Tribe that he could see, and held his wicked hook to that boy's throat. Now, the boy he grabbed happened to be Snotlout. Alvin, you see, had forgotten that Hiccup and Snotlout were sworn enemies. He just knew that Hiccup was a member of the Hooligan Tribe and therefore would be sentimental about Hooligans and therefore grabbed the closest Hooligan he could find. 'Here I say,' objected Snotlout in astonishment, 'I'm not a slave, I'm a Warrior! And I'm your loyal subject, King Alvin. I was the one who told your mother about Hiccup having the Slavemark…' Snotlout had already had a very difficult twenty-four hours. His ego had taken quite a bashing out there on the sands yesterday. But you see, Alvin the Treacherous did not have a grateful nature. Alvin ignored this, and if anything, held the hook

背信弃义的阿尔文伸出一只手，抓住了他能看到的离他最近的流氓部落成员，用他邪恶的钩子勾住了那个男孩的喉咙。 他抓的那个男孩正好是鼻涕精。 你看，阿尔文已经忘记了小嗝嗝和鼻鼻子是死敌。 他只知道小嗝嗝是流氓部落的一员，因此会对流氓有感情，因此他抓住了他能找到的离他最近的流氓。 “我说，”鼻子怪惊讶地反对道，“我不是奴隶，我是战士！我是您忠诚的臣民，阿尔文国王。 是我告诉你妈妈小嗝嗝拥有奴隶标记的事的……”鼻涕虫已经度过了非常艰难的24小时。 他的自尊心昨天在沙滩上受到了很大的打击。 但你看，背信弃义的阿尔文并没有感恩的天性。 阿尔文没有理会这句话，如果有什么区别的话，他还是抓住了钩子

a little closer, so that blood dropped down from Snotlout's throat. 'YOU BETTER BE QUICK!' screamed Alvin. 'THIS HOOK IS HUNGRY!' Now, this is what you might call a 'moral dilemma'. Snotlout had been mean to Hiccup all his life. He was a bully and a thoroughly bad lot. He was indeed the one who had thrown the stone that revealed Hiccup as having the Slavemark, when Hiccup had been about to be crowned Champion of Champions and King of the Wilderwest in the Flashburn School of Swordfighting. But how could Hiccup, in cold blood, let Alvin the Treacherous kill Snotlout? Snotlout was his cousin and a fellow human being. And maybe, just maybe, very, very deep down indeed, there was some good in Snotlout after all. And possibly there was some way out of this completely packed courtyard, so he could escape even after he'd given himself up? Hiccup sighed. Maybe Alvin is right, maybe I am too weak to be a king… I can't believe I'm doing this for Snotlout of all people…

再靠近一点，血就从鼻子鼻子的喉咙里流下来了。 “你最好快点！”阿尔文尖叫道。 “这只钩子饿了！”这就是所谓的“道德困境”。 小鼻子对小嗝嗝一辈子都很刻薄。 他是个恶霸，是个彻头彻尾的坏蛋。 当嗝嗝即将在Flashburn剑术学校被加冕为冠军中的冠军和西部荒野之王的时候，他确实是那个扔石头揭露了嗝嗝拥有奴隶标记的人。 但是嗝嗝怎么能冷血地让背信弃义的阿尔文杀死鼻子怪呢？ 鼻涕虫是他的堂兄，也是他的同胞。 也许，只是也许，在内心深处，鼻涕虫还是有一些优点的。 也许有什么办法能从这个挤满人的院子里出去，让他在投降之后还能逃出去？ 打嗝叹了口气。也许阿尔文是对的，也许我太软弱了，不适合做国王……我真不敢相信我这么做是为了鼻涕精……

And then he put up his hand and shouted: 'OK, I give myself up. I am Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. I am the Outcast.' After six months on the run, it felt pretty scary to be finally revealing himself. 'Aha!' said Alvin in satisfaction, and he dropped a highly relieved Snotlout and looked out eagerly at the crowd of slaves. 'I knew it!' crowed Alvin. Three rows back into the crowd, Stoick the Vast gasped in amazement, and tried to peer round to see where his son might be. 'Whiffy McSmelly! Surely… surely you cannot be Hiccup!' 'Yes,' Hiccup shouted up through the large people who were boxing him in. 'It is me!' 'But this is wonderful!' cried Stoick joyfully, jumping up and down, trying to look over people's heads. 'Hiccup! You're alive! I can't tell you how relieved I am, my boy… I… I… I'm so sorry I didn't recognise you… I can't believe I didn't recognise you…' 'Well, I was wearing my disguise,' Hiccup shouted back, to make him feel better. He took off his Really-Not-Very-Cunning-Disguise of the eye patch, and wiped off the remains of the dirt with the end of his sleeve. He couldn't remove the smell of course.

然后他举起手喊道：‘好吧，我投降。 我是小嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕三世。 我是被放逐者。”在逃亡了六个月后，终于暴露了自己，感觉相当可怕。 “啊哈!”阿尔文满意地说，放下松了一口气的鼻子鼻，急切地望着外面那群奴隶。 “我就知道！”阿尔文得意地说。 在人群后三排，浩瀚的斯托伊克惊讶地喘着气，试图环顾四周，看看他的儿子在哪里。 的发出阵阵臭气的McSmelly !你肯定不可能是小嗝嗝！“是的，”嗝嗝在那些把他围住的大块头人群中喊道。 “是我！”“但这太棒了！”斯托伊克高兴地叫道，跳上跳下，试图从人们的头顶往下看。 “打嗝!你活着!“好吧，我是伪装起来的，”小嗝嗝喊道，好让自己感觉好一点。“我……我……我很抱歉，我没认出你来……我真不敢相信我竟然没认出你来……” 他摘下了他那其实不怎么狡猾的眼罩，用袖子的一端擦掉了残留的污垢。 当然，他无法去除气味。