19 The Monster and the Slave-Boy

19. THE MONSTER AND THE SLAVE-BOY The Deadly Shadow landed lightly on the sand. Hiccup scrambled from his back and ran to the confused mess of belongings. Maybe it wasn't Fishlegs… Perhaps it was some other poor soul. It could have been ANYBODY, after all, they lost people to the Evil Reaches every day. But when he reached the sand-yacht, Hiccup spotted something half-buried. With a shaking hand, Hiccup drew it out. The crushed, mangled remains of something. The 'something' was Fishlegs's precious rucksack. He had made that rucksack out of the lobster pot that he had been found in when he was a baby, and it contained the few belongings that he had owned in the world. Just to be absolutely certain, when Hiccup picked it up, a smashed bottle of Old Wrinkly's asthma potion fell out, and the potion leaked like blood staining into the sand. Hiccup tried to re-shape the crushed, mangled remains of the lobster-pot-cum-rucksack back into its original shape.

19. 怪物和奴隶男孩致命的影子轻轻地落在沙滩上。 小嗝嗝从背上爬起来，跑向那堆乱七八糟的东西。 也许不是鱼腿……也许是别的可怜的人。 任何人都有可能，毕竟他们每天都有人死于邪恶势力。 但当他到达沙滩游艇时，嗝嗝发现了一个半埋着的东西。 嗝嗝用颤抖的手把它抽出来。 残缺不全的东西。 这个“东西”就是鱼腿的宝贝背包。 他的背包是用他还是个婴儿时被人发现的龙虾壶做的，里面装着他在这个世界上仅有的几件财产。 为了万无一失，小嗝嗝捡起来的时候，摔碎了一瓶老皱纹的哮喘病药水掉了出来，药水像血一样渗进了沙子里。 小嗝嗝试图把那个被压碎、残破的龙虾罐兼帆布背包重新塑造成原来的形状。

This was it then. This meant that Fishlegs really was dead. There was no hiding from it any more. The Story of the Monster of the Amber Slavelands had been true after all. It had been true and it had happened to Fishlegs. Behind Hiccup crept the giant shining heads of the Deadly Shadow. The poor animal seemed crushed. He had hoped against hope, and now those hopes had been crushed again. The three heads sniffed the lobster pot. 'What was his name?' asked Patience. 'Fishlegs,' said Hiccup, crying.

这就是当时的情况。这意味着鱼腿真的死了。 再也躲不开了。 琥珀奴隶地怪物的故事终究是真的。 这是真的，发生在鱼腿身上。 在小嗝嗝的后面爬着致命阴影的巨大的闪亮的头。 可怜的动物似乎被压垮了。 他曾抱着一线希望，现在这些希望又破灭了。 三只头嗅了嗅龙虾锅。 “他叫什么名字？”佩兴斯问。 “鱼腿，”嗝嗝哭着说。

'Fissssshlegssss,' they hissed, waving like they were being snake-charmed again. 'Fissshlegsssss… Fisssshlegssss… Fissshlegssss…' they chanted performing a sad dance around the lobster-pot. They seemed to recognise the lobster-pot, strangely, and they drank in the smell of it like it was the smell of the past. (There is nothing more evocative, nothing that brings back memories like smell.) Hiccup held it up to the heads, unable to stop crying. 'I shouldn't have let him give me the lucky necklace,' sobbed Hiccup.

“嘶嘶作响。”他们嘶嘶地说，挥手，好像又中了蛇魔咒。 “嘶嘶嘶嘶……嘶嘶嘶嘶……嘶嘶嘶嘶嘶嘶……”他们围着捕虾壶跳着悲伤的舞蹈，齐声喊着。 奇怪的是，他们似乎认出了捕龙虾的锅，他们大口大口地喝着它的味道，仿佛那是过去的味道。 （没有什么比气味更能唤起人们的回忆了。）嗝嗝把它举到头顶，哭个不停。 “我不应该让他给我那条幸运项链，”嗝嗝抽泣着说。

'I shouldn't have let him give away what little luck he had.' 'He may not be dead,' said the left head, Innocence, hopefully looking around. 'There are many islands around here. Maybe he got away. Perhaps he found one of the islands. Maybe he's still there…' 'Oh,' snorted Arrogance, 'you're deluded! Always looking on the bright side. He's clearly dead.' At that, Hiccup felt overwhelmed. He sank down, crying, on the sand. The Deadly Shadow cried too. Even Camicazi and the Stormfly cried, and they never cried. Hiccup could feel the wet sand below him, the red of the asthma potion that he had broken seeping into the front of his dragonskin fire-suit. He cried until he was a little empty cried-out rag lying on the sand, the front of him now stained red. A light rain was falling on him now. He could feel the sand below him getting a little wetter, as if the tide was going to rise.

“我不应该让他放弃他仅有的一点运气。“他可能还没死。”左边的头天真地说，满怀希望地环顾四周。 “这附近有许多岛屿。 也许他逃走了。也许他找到了其中一个岛屿。 “哦，”傲慢轻蔑地说，“你被骗了！总是看到光明的一面。 他显然已经死了。”听了这话，小嗝嗝感到不知所措。 他哭着倒在沙滩上。 死亡之影也哭了。 就连卡米卡齐和暴风蝇也哭了，他们从来没有哭过。 小嗝嗝能感觉到脚下湿漉漉的沙子，他打碎的哮喘药水的红色渗进了龙皮防火服的前胸。 他哭了，直到他变成了一块躺在沙滩上的空布，他的前面已经染红了。 此刻，一场小雨正落在他身上。 他能感觉到脚下的沙子越来越湿，好像潮水要涨起来了。

GO BACK. Something inside was speaking to him. Go back and find the Jewel. Become the King. Do it for Fishlegs and everyone like him. Defiantly, Hiccup dried his eyes with the edge of his sleeve. He put the broken remains of Fishlegs' lobster-pot on his back, and staggered blindly towards the Deadly Shadow dragon. Without a word, Camicazi was doing the same. But then they stopped dead, for the Deadly Shadow was having an argument with itself again. 'If this Fissshlegssss is dead,' hissed Arrogance, 'then we no longer need keep our promise about the lobster-necklace.' 'But Fisshlegsss may not be dead!' said Innocence. (Neither Arrogance nor Patience looked very convinced by this argument.) 'And this boy is a friend of this Fisshlegsssss,' argued Innocence. Patience was still undecided. 'The boy seeks the Jewel,' hissed Arrogance. 'And the Jewel must never fall into human hands… 'If we kill him, at least we keep our promise to the Dragon Furious, and the Jewel will be safe. For

回去。内心有什么东西在对他说话。 回去找宝石吧。 成为国王。为了鱼腿和所有喜欢他的人。 小嗝嗝挑衅地用袖子边擦干了眼泪。 他把鱼腿那只破碎的龙虾壶背在背上，踉踉跄跄地朝着死亡影龙走去。 卡米卡齐一言不发，也在做着同样的事情。 但是他们突然停了下来，因为死影又在和自己争论起来。 “如果这个费什腿死了，”傲慢嘶嘶地说，“那我们就不用再信守关于龙虾项链的诺言了。“可是fish legess可能还没有死！”天真说。 （“傲慢”和“耐心”似乎都不太相信这种说法。）“这个男孩是鱼腿小姐的朋友。”纯真争辩道。 佩兴斯仍然犹豫不决。 “这孩子在找珍宝。”傲慢嘶嘶地说。 “珍宝绝不能落入人类之手……”如果我们杀了他，至少我们履行了对暴龙的承诺，珍宝就会安全。 为