13 Meanwhile, Under the Floorboards

13. MEANWHILE, UNDER THE FLOORBOARDS… How did Camicazi and Hiccup escape from the box and the rope? Well, it wasn't quite the miracle that the watching Dragonmarkers and Alvinsmen thought it was. Let us go back to earlier on, under the floorboards of the floating city, where a terrified Hiccup had whispered 'Plan B! Plan B!' down to Fishlegs and slammed down the hatch, leaving Fishlegs sitting on the upturned hull of a boat in the darkness with six dragons: the Deadly Shadow, Stormfly, the Hogfly, Windwalker, the Hurricane and Wodensfang. 'Oh, for Thor's sake,' moaned Fishlegs. 'Plan B! Plan B means that the Lost Things aren't there!' The ears of the Wodensfang were bright purple and quivering as if electric currents were running through them, which was always a sign that terrible peril was near. 'I told Hiccup,' wheezed Wodensfang, 'I've seen the Lost Things in my dreams. They're underwater somewhere. But I admire Hiccup's courage in trusting Snotlout. It's just a shame…'

13. 同时，在地板下面，卡米卡齐和小嗝嗝是怎么从盒子和绳子里逃出来的？ 好吧，这并不是观察龙标记和阿尔文士们所认为的奇迹。 让我们回到更早的时候，在浮动城市的地板下，一个吓坏了的嗝嗝低声说着“B计划！”B计划!然后砰地一声关上舱门，留下鱼腿坐在黑暗中翘起的船壳上，旁边坐着六条龙：死影号、暴风号、猪蝇号、风行者号、飓风号和沃登方号。 “哦，看在托尔的份上，”鱼腿呻吟道。 “B计划!B计划意味着丢失的东西不在那里！”瓦登方的耳朵是亮紫色的，颤抖着，好像有电流穿过它们，这总是可怕的危险即将来临的信号。 “我对小嗝嗝说过，”沃登斯方喘着气说，“我在梦里见过失物。 他们在水下的某个地方。 但我很佩服小嗝嗝信任小鼻子的勇气。 真是太遗憾了……”

Fishlegs swallowed and finished the sentence for him. 'It's just a shame that Snotlout has betrayed him again?' As if to confirm this, Snotlout's Hurricane dragon took off from the submerged boat and flew off. 'Where's he going?' asked Fishlegs. And then he answered his own question. 'He must be joining his treacherous master. 'This is fine,' said Fishlegs to himself. 'I'm on my own here, but it's fine.' He was trying not to panic. His asthma often got worse in times of stress. Luckily Deadly Shadows give off a calming hormone in their smoke when they are in an action situation, and breathing in the milky clouds of steam drifting out of the three heads of the gentle giant beneath him gave Fishlegs the strength to remain calm and to focus. Fishlegs pushed his broken glasses more firmly on to his nose. He did not want to look like a coward in front of his mother's dragon. If his mother could be brave, then so could he. 'OK,' said Fishlegs, making himself think reasonably, 'according to Plan B, we now have to surreptitiously rescue Hiccup. But how do we rescue

鱼腿咽了口气，替他把话说完。 “真可惜，鼻涕精又背叛了他？”似乎是为了证实这一点，鼻涕虫的飓风龙从淹没的船上起飞，飞走了。 “他要去哪儿？”鱼腿问。 然后他回答了自己的问题。 “他一定是去投靠奸诈的主人了。 “这很好，”鱼腿自言自语道。 “我在这里只能靠自己了，不过还好。”他努力不让自己惊慌。 他的哮喘在压力大的时候常常恶化。 幸运的是，当致命的阴影处于行动状态时，他们的烟雾中会释放出一种镇静激素，呼吸从他下面温柔的巨人的三个脑袋中飘出的乳白色蒸汽云，给了鱼腿保持冷静和集中注意力的力量。 鱼腿把破碎的眼镜更紧地贴在鼻子上。 他不想在他母亲的龙面前显得像个懦夫。 如果他的母亲可以勇敢，那么他也可以。 “好吧，”鱼腿说，让自己理智地思考，“根据B计划，我们现在必须秘密地营救小嗝嗝。 但是我们如何营救

him if we have no idea where he is?' Two hundred yards away, a hatch opened in the long platform of the ceiling above them, letting a brilliant shaft of light down into the dark sea. The sound of the shouting and the stamping of feet became so loud, Fishlegs shrank behind the Deadly Shadow's back spines, for fear they had been discovered. 'HIC-CUP! HIC-CUP! HIC-CUP!' And then the witch's voice, clear and loud: 'LOWER HIM THROUGH THE TRAPDOOR!' Something was dumped through the trapdoor and into the sea. With horror, Fishlegs recognised Hiccup's helmet. 'O… K…' said Fishlegs. 'There he is… That's Hiccup… let's rescue him…' Windwalker had left Fishlegs's side before Fishlegs had even finished speaking, flying towards the spot where Hiccup had been dumped. In two flaps of his wings, Fishlegs could see from the bubbles that Windwalker had reached Hiccup underwater, closely followed by Wodensfang, Stormfly and the Hogfly. Fishlegs hovered near the spot on the back of the Deadly Shadow. 'Get him up! What are you guys doing?' he whispered desperately from the shadows. 'Why aren't

如果我们不知道他在哪儿的话？”两百码远的地方，他们头顶上长长的平台上的一个嵌板打开了，一道明亮的光线照进漆黑的海面。 喊声和跺脚声变得如此之大，鱼腿缩到死影的脊骨后面，生怕被发现了。 “HIC-CUP !HIC-CUP !HIC-CUP !”然后是女巫的声音，清晰而响亮：“把他从活板门下放下去！”有东西从活板门扔进了海里。 鱼腿惊恐地认出了嗝嗝的头盔。 “哦……好……”鱼腿说。 “他在那儿……那是小嗝嗝……我们去救他吧……”鱼腿还没说完话，风行者就离开了鱼腿身边，飞向小嗝嗝被丢弃的地方。 鱼腿扇动两下翅膀，从气泡中看到风行者已经到了水下的小嗝嗝身边，紧跟其后的是沃登方、暴风虻和猪虻。 鱼腿在死影号后面的地方附近盘旋。 “把他扶起来！”你们在干什么？他在阴影里绝望地低声说。 “为什么不

you getting him out of there? There are Winterfleshers down there and everything…' He could see the quick black silhouettes of the heavily-fanged Winterfleshers being chased hither and thither underwater by the hunting dragons. The Alvinsmen pulled on the chain again. It drew taut, and UP the blue dripping figure of Hiccup was hauled, and Fishlegs watched, open-mouthed. SPLASH! Up rocketed Wodensfang, out of the water. 'Why didn't you rescue him?' whispered an agitated Fishlegs. 'He didn't want us to,' replied Wodensfang. 'He kept on pointing up towards the Great Hall. I think he doesn't want us to rescue him until he can get Camicazi out too.' 'Oh thank Thor,' breathed Fishlegs. 'So Camicazi is alive?' 'We're just trying to keep him warm and alive,' continued Wodensfang, 'and scare away the Winterfleshers. Windwalker is blowing air into him so he doesn't drown.*' SPLASH! Down Hiccup was thrown again, and Fishlegs could see the large shadow of the Windwalker flying*

你把他弄出来了吗？ 下面有冬兽，什么都有……”他可以看到那些长着獠牙的冬兽在水下被恶龙追得东倒西倒地的黑影。 阿尔文家的人又拉了拉链子。 它被拉紧了，小嗝嗝的蓝色身影被拖了上来，鱼腿目瞪口呆地看着。 飞溅!沃登斯方像火箭一样飞出水面。 “你为什么不救他？”一条不安的鱼腿低声说。 “他不想让我们这么做。”沃登斯回答。 他继续指着上面的大礼堂。 我想他不想让我们救他直到他把卡米卡齐也救出来。“哦，谢谢托尔，”鱼腿喘着气说。 “这么说卡米卡齐还活着？”“我们只是想让他保持温暖和活力，”沃登斯方继续说，“并吓跑那些冬兽。” 风行者在给他吹气，这样他就不会淹死。*“飞溅!小嗝嗝又被扔了下去，鱼腿看见风行者的大影子在飞

underwater like a giant ray, sending the little dark slivers of the Winterfleshers shooting off in all directions in alarm. Again and again, Hiccup was hauled back up through the trapdoor, again and again he was thrown into the sea– and each time he was left underwater for longer and longer. 'Oh what shall I do?' Fishlegs whimpered to himself, 'This can't be good for him… Plan B was always over-ambitious… How on earth is Hiccup going to rescue Camicazi when he's all tied up in chains and everything?' Fishlegs's question was answered when SPLASH! The large box crashed into the water, and this time Windwalker attacked the box, and to Fishlegs's passionate relief, Camicazi came gasping to the surface. He

像一条巨大的射线一样在水下，把冬栖动物的黑色小片惊恐地向四面八方射出。 小嗝嗝一次又一次地从活板门被拉上来，一次又一次地被扔进海里——每次他都在水下待得越来越久。 “哦，我该怎么办呢？”鱼腿呜咽着对自己说：“这对他可不好……B计划总是野心太大……卡米卡齐被铁链捆得严严不舍，小嗝嗝究竟怎么去救他呢？”鱼腿的问题得到了回答。大箱子撞到了水里，这次风行者袭击了箱子，令鱼腿激动的是，卡米卡齐喘着气浮出水面。 他