22 What Happened Next

22. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT There was a pause on the red sands as the dragons finished telling their tale. 'Well, I will tell you,' said Hiccup, 'what happened to the baby after you lost sight of him. He was washed up on Long Beach, and the Tribe built a hut for him to live in. A Long-Eared Caretaker Dragon looked after him, and he turned out to be my best friend, Fishlegs.' 'You see?' said Innocence. 'I always said how he must have survived, and you two never believed me.' The three heads sighed. 'I have to say,' admitted Arrogance, 'I never dreamed that there could have been a happy end to that story.' 'There's always hope,' said Innocence. The Deadly Shadow's three heads were lying on the sand, looking back into the past. And then, quite suddenly, Hiccup thought that the sand below his knees was feeling just a little wetter than it had before. He looked at the horizon. The tide was coming in… Patience put down his head and nudged Hiccup's head upwards so that he looked at him. He

22. 接下来发生的事红沙滩上一阵寂静，龙们讲完了它们的故事。 “好吧，我来告诉你，”小嗝嗝说，“你看不见那孩子之后发生了什么事。 他被冲到了长滩，部落为他建造了一间小屋。 一条长耳看门龙照顾着他，结果他成了我最好的朋友，鱼腿。“你看到了吗？”天真说。 “我总是说他一定是怎么活下来的，你们两个从来不相信我。”三个脑袋叹了口气。 “我得说，”傲慢承认，“我从没想过那个故事会有一个圆满的结局。“希望总是有的，”纯真说。 死亡之影的三个脑袋躺在沙滩上，回顾着过去。 然后，突然间，嗝嗝觉得膝盖下面的沙子比以前湿润了一点。 他望着地平线。佩兴斯低下头，把小嗝嗝的头往上推了推，小嗝嗝看着他。 他

put one paw on one side of Hiccup's head and looked straight into Hiccup's eyes. They were so close, that you could just see the vague outline of the irises, the black of the pupils. Kind eyes. 'I think perhaps, you should leave us now,' Patience said casually. 'The Monster is coming, and the tide will come in, and so this is your last chance to go back on the sand-yacht. The Monster will not eat dragon-flesh. We are too tough for it.' How strange dragons are, thought Hiccup. This one can move from cruelty to selfless kindness in a heartbeat. 'Leave us,' said Patience. 'Leave usss,' repeated Innocence and Arrogance. 'We won't drown,' Patience assured him. 'We have gills.' Hiccup dropped his head from the mesmerising, hypnotising gaze and carried on working at the dragon-trap. 'You lie. You're not a Sea Dragon,' said Hiccup shortly. Trust Hiccup to know his dragon species. 'You're an Air Dragon. Those gills only work up to a certain point.' But after a minute he called out to Camicazi, who was patrolling around them with her fiercest Bog-Burglar expression, two swords drawn. 'Camicazi,' he said as casually as he could,

把一只爪子放在小嗝嗝头的一边，直视着小嗝嗝的眼睛。 他们离得很近，你只能看到模糊的虹膜轮廓和黑色的瞳孔。 善良的眼睛。“我想，也许你现在应该离开我们了。”佩兴斯漫不经心地说。 “怪物要来了，潮水就要涨潮了，所以这是你们乘沙滩游艇回去的最后机会了。 怪物不吃龙肉。 我们太坚强了。”小嗝嗝想，龙是多么奇怪啊！ 这个人可以在一瞬间从残忍变成无私的善良。 “离开我们，”佩兴斯说。 “离开她，”天真与傲慢重复道。 “我们不会淹死的，”佩兴斯向他保证。 “我们有鳃。”小嗝嗝从那迷人的、催眠的目光中低下头，继续在捕龙器上工作。 “你撒谎。“你不是海龙。”嗝嗝简短地说。 相信小嗝嗝知道他的龙的种类。 “你是空龙。那些鱼鳃只能在一定程度上起作用。”但过了一会儿，他对卡米卡齐喊道，卡米卡齐正带着最凶悍的沼泽夜贼表情在他们周围巡逻，拔出了两把剑。 “Camicazi，”他尽可能随意地说，

'maybe you ought to go back on that sand-yacht and fetch help.' 'What kind of an idiot do you take me for?' Camicazi yelled back, extremely affronted. 'I'm not a five-year-old! And I'm not leaving until you're leaving.' Hiccup worked on, shivering now, in the cold wind, fingers numb, his dragon-suit pathetically stained with red. On, on, Hiccup worked. Ten minutes had passed. The sand was definitely wetter now, the sea on the horizon was gleamingly near. Fifteen minutes gone… But he was so close now, he could feel it, so close… And oh joy! The pieces of the locks fell apart in his hands, and the trap sprang open. It is such a wonderful moment when that happens. 'Just in time,' Hiccup gasped. The Deadly Shadow let out three roars of triumph, beat his mighty wings and launched into the air and hovered there. He reached out to pick up Hiccup off the sand.

“也许你应该回到那艘沙滩游艇上去找人帮忙。“你把我当什么白痴了？”Camicazi大声回应，极度受到冒犯。 “我不是五岁的孩子！”你不走我就不走。”小嗝嗝继续工作着，在寒风中瑟瑟发抖，手指麻木了，他的龙服染上了可怜的红色。 咳，咳，嗝嗝起作用了。十分钟过去了。 现在沙滩确实湿润了，地平线上的大海在附近闪烁。 十五分钟过去了……但他现在离目标很近了，他能感觉到，离目标很近……噢，太高兴了！锁的碎片在他手里散架了，陷阱弹开了。 这真是一个美妙的时刻。 “来得正是时候，”小嗝嗝喘着气说。 死亡之影发出了三声胜利的怒吼，拍打着他有力的翅膀，飞向空中，在空中盘旋。 他伸出手把小嗝嗝从沙滩上捡起来。

Hiccup reached out his own hands towards the now airborne dragon, and he felt a horrible clammy something grab him with dreadful force around the ankle… 'Hiccup!!!!!' screamed Camicazi… …as a gigantic dragon claw, with huge eyes on the end of it, dragged Hiccup down, down, down, below the sand.

嗝嗝伸手去摸那只正在空中飞行的巨龙，他感到一个可怕的、湿漉漉的东西用可怕的力量抓住了他的脚踝……“嗝嗝！！！！！。卡米卡齐尖叫... ...，一只巨大的龙爪，末端长着巨大的眼睛，把小嗝嗝往下拖，往下拖，往下拖，拖到沙子下面。