1 Your Mother Said not to Leave the Hideout

We have not yet seen Tomorrow. We have not yet dared go there. There was once a thriving city on the island of Tomorrow. The flags of the Wilderwest flew bravely from the towers of its hundred splendid castles. It was a city built on the enslavement of men and of dragons but, like many a city before and after it, it was a handsome and glorious city nonetheless. But a century ago, Grimbeard the Ghastly, the Last King of the Wilderwest, did a truly dreadful thing. Grimbeard's son Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second, with his dragon the Dragon Furious, was leading a peaceful Dragon Petition to plead with his father to end the misery of slavery. Grimbeard mistook the Petition for Rebellion. He killed his very own son

我们还没有看到《明天》。 我们还不敢到那里去。 在明日岛上曾经有一座繁荣的城市。 荒野西部的旗帜勇敢地从它那百座华丽城堡的高塔上飘扬。 这是一座建立在对人类和龙的奴役之上的城市，但就像它之前和之后的许多城市一样，它仍然是一座美丽而辉煌的城市。 但一个世纪前，阴森森的Grimbeard，荒野西部最后的国王，做了一件真正可怕的事。 Grimbeard的儿子Hiccup Horrendous Haddock二世，带着他的龙狂怒龙，正在领导一场和平的龙请愿，请求他的父亲结束奴隶制的痛苦。 Grimbeard把叛乱请愿书弄错了。 他杀了自己的亲生儿子

by his very own sword, the Stormblade, and the blood of his son was spilt on the seat of his very own Throne. That was the beginning of the Curse upon the Throne and the island of Tomorrow. The city was destroyed by the dragon forces that had come at first in peaceful protest. The hundred splendid castles were burnt to the ground, and the Dragon Furious was captured and bound in inescapable chains, in the depths of a forest prison. Grimbeard the Ghastly repented of his terrible crime. He swore that there would never be a King of the Wilderwest again, unless that King could be a better man than he was. So Grimbeard created an Impossible Task. He scattered ten of the King's Things to all the four corners of the distant earth. Those Things would be guarded by monsters and dragons most terrible. Only a true Hero could gather the Things together, and lift the Curse and become the next King of the Wilderwest. In the unlikely event that there would ever be a Hero great enough to gather together those Ten Lost Things, the Hero could then be crowned, but only on the twelfth day of Doomsday, known as the Doomsday of Yule, which comes but once a year, and only on the island of Tomorrow, on the stumps of the Throne

被他自己的剑——暴风之刃所杀，他儿子的鲜血洒在他自己的王座上。 这就是对王座和明日之岛的诅咒的开始。 这座城市被最初和平抗议的龙族军队摧毁了。 一百座华丽的城堡被夷为平地，狂怒龙被抓获，被锁在森林监狱的深处，无法逃脱。 可怕的Grimbeard为他可怕的罪行忏悔。 他发誓，荒野西部再也不会有国王了，除非那个国王能成为一个比他更好的人。 所以Grimbeard创造了一个不可能完成的任务。 他把国王的十件东西分散在遥远的地球的四个角落。 那些东西会被最可怕的怪物和龙守护。 只有真正的英雄才能把这些东西聚集在一起，解除诅咒，成为下一个狂野西部的国王。 如果不太可能会有一个伟大的英雄能够收集到这十件失落的东西，那么英雄就可以加冕，但只能在世界末日的第12天，也就是每年一次的圣诞末日，而且只能在明天岛上，在王座的树桩上

where Grimbeard's son had died. In the meantime, Grimbeard appointed human and dragon Warriors to be Guardians on the ruined island fortress of Tomorrow, so fearsome and so terrible that they can barely be imagined. All will kill on sight anyone illegally entering their territory. Now the Archipelago needs a King more than ever before. For the Dragon Furious has escaped from that forest prison where Grimbeard the Ghastly once enslaved him, and the Dragon is carrying out his own Curse on the humans that he now hates. His intention is to extinguish the entire human race. And the Dragon Furious is winning. He has torched the whole north of the Archipelago. The humans have been forced to live in hiding-places underground, for fear of the Dragon. Nothing can stop the Dragon Furious now. Nothing except for a new King, for a new King will be told the secret of the Tenth Lost Thing, the Dragon Jewel, a jewel that has the power to destroy dragons forever. There is only one time in the year that a possible King is allowed to enter the territory of Tomorrow. It is on one of the twelve mornings of the Twelve Days of Doomsday.

就是Grimbeard的儿子死去的地方。 与此同时，Grimbeard任命了人类和龙战士作为明日岛堡垒废墟的守护者，这是如此可怕和可怕，以至于他们几乎无法想象。 它们会立即杀死任何非法进入它们领地的人。 现在群岛比以往任何时候都更需要国王。 因为巨龙狂怒已经逃离了可怕的Grimbeard曾经奴役他的森林监狱，巨龙正在对他现在憎恨的人类实施他自己的诅咒。 他的意图是消灭整个人类。 《龙怒》赢了。 他把整个群岛的北部都烧了。 由于害怕龙，人类被迫生活在地下的藏身之处。 现在没有什么能阻止龙怒了。 只有新国王，新国王才会知道第十件失物的秘密，龙之宝石，一颗能永远毁灭龙的宝石。 一年中只有一次可能成为国王的人被允许进入明天的领土。 它是在世界末日的12天中的12个早晨之一。

Today it is midwinter, and the morning of the ninth day of Doomsday. Here he is now, the extraordinarily tall figure of a lone Ferryman, rowing across from the dreadful island of Tomorrow, across the little Causeway of Hero's Gap, to the mainland of the Murderous Mountains. The Ferryman is the Druid Guardian of the island of Tomorrow. He is blindfolded, and cannot take off this blindfold until a new King of the Wilderwest is crowned. The blindfold signifies his role as an impartial and implacable Judge, and his absolute commitment to his role as a Druid Guardian. But by some supernatural agency, he seems able to sense that there is a figure, with a little band of followers, waiting for him on the beach. The figure is UG the Uglithug. His hope rises. At last… in the nick of time… a Hero come to claim the Kingdom! For the Druid Guardian fears that the Dragon Furious is very close to extinguishing the human race. The Druid Guardian brings the boat to a sludgy halt on the Singing Sands of the Beach of the Ferryman's Gift, and spreads wide his arms, and makes the declaration, as his father, and his father's father, and his father's father's father have done every year before him.

今天是冬至，也是世界末日第九天的早晨。 他现在就在这里，一个孤身一人的船夫，身材异常高大，正从可怕的明日岛，穿过英雄峡的小堤道，划向凶残山脉的大陆。 摆渡人是明日之岛的德鲁伊守护者。 他的眼睛被蒙住了，除非新的西部荒野之王加冕，否则他无法摘下这个眼罩。 蒙眼标志着他作为一个公正和无情的法官的角色，以及他作为德鲁伊守护者的绝对承诺。 但由于某种超自然的力量，他似乎能够感觉到有一个人，带着一小群追随者，在海滩上等着他。 这个数字是UG The Uglithug。 他燃起了希望。最后，在关键时刻，一位英雄来占领王国！德鲁伊守护者担心暴怒之龙即将灭绝人类。 德鲁伊守护者把船停在泥泞的船夫礼物海滩的歌唱沙滩上，张开双臂，像他的父亲，他父亲的父亲，他父亲的父亲的父亲每年所做的那样，发表了声明。

'He-Or-She-Who-Would-Be-King, approach Tomorrow if you dare! Only the One with the King's Lost Things can be crowned the King and live…' And then he turns to UG the Uglithug, and asks these solemn words. 'Are you He-Who-Would-Be-King?' UG replies, 'I am.' 'Are you the chosen representative of all the Tribes of the Archipelago?' asked the Druid Guardian. UG nods. 'Have you brought a gift for the Ferryman?' asks the Druid Guardian. 'I have,' replies UG the Uglithug. The Druid Guardian says solemnly, but with eager hope, 'Then show me the Things.' UG the Uglithug snaps his fingers to his followers, and one by one they bring forward the Things. They are: a fang-free dragon, Grimbeard's second-best sword, the Roman shield, an arrow-from-the-land-that-does-not-exist, the heart's stone, the ticking-thing, the key, the Throne, the Crown, the Dragon Jewel. UG the Uglithug's followers lay them out on the beach before the Druid Guardian and retreat. The Druid Guardian steps forward to examine the Things.

“谁会成为国王，谁会成为国王，如果你敢走近明天！”只有拥有国王的失物的人才能被加冕为国王并活下去……”然后他转向丑陋的UG，问了这些庄严的话。 “你是那个即将成为国王的人吗？”UG回答说：“是的。“你是群岛上所有部落的代表吗？”德鲁伊守护者问道。 UG点点头。“你给船夫带礼物了吗？”德鲁伊守护者问道。 “是的，”丑陋的UG回答。 德鲁伊守护者严肃地说，但带着热切的希望，“那就让我看看那些东西。”丑陋的UG向他的追随者打了个响指，他们一个接一个地把东西带来了。 它们是：一条没有尖牙的龙，Grimbeard的第二好剑，罗马盾牌，一支来自不存在的土地的箭，心石，滴答的东西，钥匙，王座，皇冠，龙的宝石。 乌格里乌格的追随者在德鲁伊守护者之前把他们放在海滩上，然后撤退。 德鲁伊守护者上前检查这些东西。