25 I Don’t Think I’m Dead

25. I DON'T THINK I'M DEAD... Fishlegs's weary face was looking back at him through the smoky glass of the column. 'Oh, Fishlegs!' cried Hiccup. 'I thought that you were dead!' 'No,' said Fishlegs. 'I'm not dead. At least… I don't think I'm dead…' His voice was very, very weak. 'Though I have to admit, I'm not feeling at my most lively. What with one thing and another I've had better weeks in the Archipelago.' Hiccup laughed, shakily. 'No, you're not dead, Fishlegs. You're in the lair of the Monster of the Amber Slavelands. The Monster likes eating fresh meat so it must have been keeping you alive.' 'Ah,' said Fishlegs. 'I knew I had a feeling I wasn't in a great situation…' 'Lean against the other side of the column, Fishlegs,' Hiccup ordered, and he began to swing his axe, gingerly cutting through one side of the glass column, being very, very careful, for he did not want to hurt Fishlegs when it broke. Thor's birthday, it was cold down there. Hiccup shivered as he swung his axe, the damp

25. 我不认为我已经死了…… 鱼腿疲惫的脸透过烟雾缭绕的柱子玻璃回望着他。 “哦,Fishlegs !嗝嗝叫道。 “我还以为你死了呢！”“不，”鱼腿说。 “我没死。他的声音非常、非常微弱。 “不过我得承认，我觉得现在精神不大好。 由于这样那样的原因，我在群岛上度过了好些星期。”小嗝嗝颤抖地笑了。 “不，你没死，鱼腿。 你在琥珀奴隶地怪物的巢穴里。 怪物喜欢吃鲜肉，所以你一定是靠它活下来的。“啊，”鱼腿说。 “靠在柱子的另一边，鱼腿，”嗝嗝命令道，他开始挥动斧头，小心翼翼地砍断玻璃柱子的一边，他非常、非常小心，因为他不想在玻璃破裂时伤到鱼腿。 托尔生日那天，那里很冷。 小嗝嗝挥舞着斧头，浑身发抖

seeping through his sandals, the cold of the underground glass tunnels penetrating right into his heart. 'Put your hands over your head, Fishlegs,' whispered Hiccup. (He didn't know why he was whispering– the Monster was dead but it was SPOOKY down there, in the dark, in the cold.) Chunk! Chunk! Two more swings of the axe and the glass column encasing Fishlegs fell away. His friend was standing there, curled over in a slight ball, his hands over his head. Slowly he brought down his arms. It was as if Hiccup was bringing a frozen statue into life. A bedraggled, weary figure he was. Tear- stained, rags flapping around him like the tatters of a scarecrow ripped to shreds, nearly blue with cold, his smashed glasses falling off his nose.

透过他的凉鞋，地下玻璃隧道的寒冷穿透了他的心脏。 “把你的手放在头上，鱼腿。”嗝嗝低声说。 （他不知道自己为什么要小声说话——怪物已经死了，但下面，在黑暗中，在寒冷中，真是令人毛骨悚然。）块!块!斧头又挥了两下，包裹鱼腿的玻璃柱掉了下来。 他的朋友站在那里，身体微微蜷成一团，双手捂着头。 他慢慢地放下双臂。 就好像小嗝嗝让一尊冰冻的雕像活了起来。 他浑身湿透，疲惫不堪。 泪痕斑斑的破布在他周围拍打着，就像被撕成碎片的稻草人，几乎冻得发青，他那打碎的眼镜从鼻子上掉了下来。

Hiccup was the very mirror-image of him. Neither of them were Vikings now. Lost Tribes, lost dragons, lost everything. Hungry, thin as brooms, the Slavemarks proclaiming their slavedom, both runts, the two boys stood looking at each other, swaying on their feet. Fishlegs was cold as ice, and Hiccup rubbed his purple arms, trying to get his circulation going. 'What are you doing here?' asked Fishlegs through chattering teeth. 'Looking for you…' 'But I'm not important,' said Fishlegs weakly and drearily. 'You ought to be on your Quest… Your destiny. What about the Dragon Jewel?' 'You are important!' said Hiccup, urgently trying to bring him back to life, by rubbing his arms, his chest, anything to try and warm him up. 'Your lobster-claw necklace saved my life.' 'Really?' said Fishlegs. He opened his eyes in disbelief. 'My necklace saved YOUR life?'

小嗝嗝就是他的翻版。 他们俩现在都不是维京人了。 失落的部落，失落的龙，失去了一切。 饥肠辘辘，瘦得像扫帚，奴隶贩子在宣布他们是奴隶，两个都是矮子，两个男孩站在那里，摇摇晃晃地看着对方。 鱼腿冻得像冰一样冷，嗝嗝揉了揉他那发紫的胳膊，想让他的血液循环正常起来。 “你在这儿干什么？”鱼腿透过打战的牙齿问。 “可是我并不重要，”鱼腿虚弱而沉闷地说。 “你应该继续你的探索……你的命运。 那龙珠呢？“你很重要！”小嗝嗝说着，急切地想让他苏醒过来，揉着他的胳膊，揉着他的胸膛，想尽一切办法让他暖和起来。 “你的龙虾爪项链救了我的命。“真的吗?鱼腿说。 他难以置信地睁开眼睛。 “我的项链救了你的命？”

So Hiccup told Fishlegs the story of his mother, Termagant, and the Stealth Dragon, and the lobster pot lost in the mist fourteen years before. Who says stories cannot bring things to life? That story brought Fishlegs to life, all right. He turned from grey to a pale pink, and his heartbeat, so faint, flickered back into a steady rhythm. 'So my mother, she did love me after all!' said Fishlegs, in surprise. 'She wanted the best for me. She wanted to meet me again, on Hero's End!' 'And she would have done,' said Hiccup, 'if she had lived. And the Deadly Shadow dragon who has sworn to look after you, is now your Deadly Shadow.' Fishlegs had spent his whole life having the worst of everything. He had the embarrassingly vegetarian hunting-dragon, the riding-dragon that was the size of a Shetland pony. He had been bottom of the class in absolutely everything, plus he had eczema, asthma, knock-knees and short-sight. So it was a pretty amazing moment to discover that somewhere out there is a triple-headed, armed-to-the-teeth, ridiculously cool Deadly Shadow dragon that had sworn to look after you, and lay down its life for you. For the final boost, Hiccup drew out of his

于是小嗝嗝给鱼腿讲了他妈妈特玛甘特和隐形龙的故事，以及十四年前在雾中丢失的龙虾罐的故事。 谁说故事不能让事情变得生动？ 那个故事让鱼腿活了起来。 他的脸色从灰色变成了淡粉色，他那微弱的心跳又恢复了稳定的节奏。 “这么说，我妈妈，她终究还是爱我的！”鱼腿惊讶地说。 “她想给我最好的。 她想在英雄尽头再见到我！“如果她还活着，”小嗝嗝说，“她也会这么做的。” 而那条发誓要保护你的死影龙，现在就是你的死影了。”鱼腿的一生都过着最糟糕的生活。 他有一条吃素得令人尴尬的猎龙，那是一条骑龙，有设得兰矮种马那么大。 他的每门功课都是全班垫底的，而且他还患有湿疹、哮喘、膝跪症和近视。 所以当你发现在某个地方有一条三头、武装到牙齿、酷得可笑的致命暗影龙，它发誓要照顾你，并为你献出生命时，那是一个相当惊人的时刻。 为了最后一击，小嗝嗝抽出了他的手

waistcoat… the Dragon Jewel. It shone like a warm golden star in the darkness of that glass cavern. 'Oh…' breathed Fishlegs. He put out a hand and touched it. 'The Dragon Jewel,' whispered Fishlegs. He looked up at Hiccup… …and smiled, with excitement, for the first time in a long time. 'Hiccup, this really has got to mean that you are the King.' Hiccup smiled back awkwardly. 'Well, it means I'm pretty good at finding the King's Lost Things, anyway. But don't forget, you were here first.' Fishlegs stroked the Dragon Jewel for a few moments. And then slowly, he got to his feet. 'Right,' said Fishlegs. He pushed his smashed glasses determinedly and securely on to his nose. 'Now we have to get out of here. I just can't miss everybody seeing me on the back of a Triple-Header Deadly Shadow dragon, I'm sorry, it's just too good a moment.'

马甲……龙之宝石。 它像一颗温暖的金星在黑暗的玻璃洞穴里闪闪发光。 “哦……”鱼腿轻声说。 他伸出一只手去摸它。 “龙珠。”鱼腿小声说。 他抬头看着小嗝嗝... ...，很长时间以来第一次兴奋地笑了。 “小嗝嗝，这说明你真的是国王了。”小嗝嗝也尴尬地笑了笑。 “嗯，这意味着我很擅长寻找国王的失物。 但别忘了，是你先来的。”鱼腿摸了摸龙珠一会儿。 然后，他慢慢地站了起来。 “好的，”鱼腿说。他坚定而稳妥地把摔碎的眼镜推到鼻子上。 “现在我们必须离开这里。 我只是不能错过大家看到我坐在一条三冠王的致命暗影龙的背上，我很抱歉，这一刻太美好了。”

Hiccup grinned, and took out the blasted, ragged, burnt and soaked remains of the disintegrated map to look for the way out. The two boys walked through the tunnels until they found the one that Grimbeard had helpfully marked as the exit. And as they walked, the tunnels seemed to be leading higher and higher, and there was a strange light that wasn't the light of Electricsquirms or Electricstickys or Glow-worms, which had lit the cavern below, and suddenly the light felt as if it were all around them. And on the other side of the glass there were suddenly fern-shapes, moving and waving… Seaweed. The glass tunnel had emerged out of the sand and they were under the sea at the bottom of the ocean. Great drifts and shoals of fish drifted past, swimming in and out of the seaweed. Gentle jellyfish softly floated by, and as the tunnel moved up it left the seabed like a great glass snake, and they could see crabs scuttling below them. 'Wow.' Fishlegs pressed his nose up to the glass. The tunnel went up sharply now, and they slid so much they couldn't get a grip. Hiccup had to carve little nicks into the glass so they could get a foothold.

小嗝嗝咧嘴一笑，拿出那张支离破碎、破烂不堪、烧焦浸透的地图，寻找出路。 两个男孩穿过隧道，找到了Grimbeard帮忙标记的出口。 他们走着走着，隧道似乎越走越高，有一种奇怪的光，不是电怪、电棍或萤火虫发出的光，它们照亮了下面的洞穴。突然间，他们觉得这光就在他们周围。 玻璃的另一边突然出现了蕨类植物的形状，在移动和摆动……海藻。 玻璃隧道从沙子里冒出来，他们在海底，在海底。 一大群鱼群漂过，在海藻里游来游去。 温文尔雅的水母轻轻地漂过，随着隧道的上升，它像一条巨大的玻璃蛇一样离开了海底，他们可以看到螃蟹在下面爬来爬去。 “哇。”鱼腿把鼻子紧贴在玻璃上。 隧道陡然上升，他们滑得太厉害了，根本抓不住。 小嗝嗝不得不在玻璃上刻些小洞，这样他们才能站稳脚跟。