6 The Other Side of the Story

6. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY 'The Doomsday of Yule is in three days' time,' said Snotlout. 'And you are running out of time. I am presuming you have an agreement with Valhallarama that she will steal the nine Lost Things off Alvin, and then she will meet you on the Singing Sands of the Ferryman's Gift on Doomsday Eve and hand them over?' 'That's a very clever guess of yours, Snotlout,' said Hiccup quietly. 'My mother said all we had to do was stay in hiding, and meet her there on Doomsday Eve.' 'Well,' said Snotlout, 'Alvin's underground war bunker is hidden somewhere so clever, so secret, that Valhallarama and Stoick will never find it even if they search for a hundred years. So your mother Valhallarama and the Dragonmarkers have failed in their Quest to steal the other nine Lost Things from Alvin.' There was a short, depressed silence. 'Why should we believe you, Snotlout?' asked Fishlegs. 'You could be lying. Valhallarama could already have the other nine Things, and you could

6. 故事的另一面“再过三天就是圣诞节的末日了。” “你的时间不多了。 我猜你和瓦尔哈拉拉马有协议她会从阿尔文那里偷走九件失物，然后她会在世界末日前夕在摆渡人的礼物的歌唱沙滩上和你见面，然后把它们交给你？“你猜得真巧，鼻涕精，”小嗝嗝平静地说。 “我妈妈说我们要做的就是躲起来，在世界末日前夕在那里和她见面。“嗯，”鼻涕虫说，“阿尔文的地下碉堡藏在一个非常聪明、非常秘密的地方，瓦尔哈拉拉马和斯托伊克即使找上一百年也找不到。” 这么说，你的母亲瓦尔哈拉拉马和龙之标记从阿尔文那里偷走其他九件失物的任务失败了。”一阵短暂的、压抑的沉默。 “我们为什么要相信你，鼻涕精？”鱼腿问。 “你可能在撒谎。瓦尔哈拉拉马可能已经拥有其他九样东西了，你也可以

be sent here by the witch. If you joined our side, why didn't you get the Dragonmark?' 'Hiccup isn't the only one who uses his head, you know, Fish-eggs,' replied Snotlout. 'I thought I might be more use to the Company of the Dragonmark if I appeared to be working for the other side.' Stormfly gave a quick soft hiss of reluctant approval. 'Ah,' she said. 'Cunning and Trickery. Good thinking.' And then, remembering it was Snotlout speaking, she frowned again. 'If it's true, of course.' 'So I pretended to be on the witch and Alvin's side,' said Snotlout. 'I let them take me to their hideout. I found out where they were keeping the Things, and ran away to find you guys. I used this ridiculous Hogfly dragon here to help me track you down. Hogflys may be unbelievably stupid, but they are the best scent-dragons in the world. I camped on a frozen lake upriver, the lake must have unfrozen in the night, the Wolf-fangs chased me… And that's when you found me.' 'If you know where the Lost Things are,' asked Fishlegs suspiciously, 'why didn't you steal them yourself, when you escaped from Alvin's war bunker?' 'I couldn't do it on my own,' explained Snotlout. 'The Things are guarded, and the Throne is heavy.

是女巫派来的。 如果你加入了我们的阵营，为什么你没有得到龙的印记？“不是只有嗝嗝用脑袋，你知道的，鱼蛋。” “我想，如果我看起来是为另一边工作的话，我对龙纹公司可能会更有用处。”暴风蝇发出了一声不情愿的赞许声。 “啊，”她说。狡猾与诡计。 好主意。”然后，她想起是鼻子鼻在说话，又皱起了眉头。 “当然，如果这是真的。“所以我假装站在女巫和阿尔文那边。” “我让他们把我带到他们的藏身处。 我发现了他们藏东西的地方，然后跑去找你们。 我用这个可笑的猪蝇龙帮我找到了你。 Hogflys可能愚蠢得令人难以置信，但它们是世界上最好的嗅龙。 我在上游一个结冰的湖上扎营，湖一定是在夜里解冻的，尖牙狼在追我……然后你就发现了我。“如果你知道失物在哪里，”鱼腿怀疑地问，“你从阿尔文的地堡里逃出来的时候，为什么不自己去偷呢？”“我一个人做不到，”鼻涕虫解释说。 “东西被守卫着，王座很重。

You lot are useless, of course, but I have to admit, your camouflaged-so-it-is-invisible and humungously enormous three-headed Deadly Shadow Dragon will come in useful in a burglary situation. 'Together we can steal back the Things,' continued Snotlout, 'and even rescue that horrible little Bog-Burglar Camicazi. We can be at the beach at Hero's Gap on Doomsday Eve, with all the Things, and then the Guardian Protectors of Tomorrow will make Hiccup the next King of the Wilderwest, and humanity will be saved.' 'How do we know we can trust you?' asked Hiccup. 'How do we know you're not going to betray us, and deliver us straight into Alvin and the witch's hands?' 'I suppose,' said Snotlout, 'you don't. You'll just have to take my word for it. It's up to you. I don't really care what you believe any more. If you want to think the worst of me, go ahead! I'm going to sleep now, if you don't mind. It's been a long couple of days.' Snotlout's clothes had dried entirely now, in the steamy warmth of that dragon-and-fire-warmed hideout. He yawned, wrapped himself up in one of Fishlegs's mother's old blankets, closed his eyes and pretended to go to sleep.

你们这些人当然没用，但我不得不承认，你们的隐身伪装和巨大的三头致命影龙在入室盗窃的情况下是有用的。 “我们一起可以把那些东西偷回来，”鼻子鼻子继续说，“甚至可以救出那个可怕的小沼泽飞贼卡米卡齐。 我们可以在世界末日前夕，在英雄峡的海滩上，和所有的东西在一起，然后明天的守护者守护者会让小嗝嗝成为下一任西部荒野之王，人类就会得救。“我们怎么知道可以信任你呢？”小嗝嗝问。 “我们怎么知道你不会背叛我们，把我们直接交到阿尔文和女巫手里呢？”“我想，”鼻鼻子说，“你不知道。” 你只能相信我的话了。 这取决于你。我已经不在乎你相信什么了。 如果你想把我往坏处想，那就往坏处想吧！如果你不介意的话，我要睡觉了。 这几天真是难熬。”鼻鼻子的衣服现在已经完全干了，因为他的藏身之处有龙和火的温暖，热气腾腾。 他打了个哈欠，把自己裹在鱼腿妈妈的一条旧毯子里，闭上眼睛假装睡着了。

But inside the blanket, his eyes were wide open. 'C-c-can Toothless bite him?' asked Toothless hopefully. 'Or would that be rude? Does it matter being rude to a rude person? Or does it n-n-not count?' 'Yes that would be rude, Toothless, so you can't bite him, although I'm feeling a bit tempted myself, I have to confess,' admitted Hiccup. 'Suffering scallops,' said Fishlegs in disgust. 'What do we do now? Do we trust Snotlout or not? I still don't see why, if he's on our side, he doesn't have the Dragonmark.' 'The Dragonmark is a symbol of SLAVERY!' said the muffled voice of Snotlout. 'I'm on your side, but I don't want to be marked with a symbol of slavery!' They all lay down to try and sleep, but this was difficult when they were all so angry, confused and frightened. 'Did I make a mistake in rescuing Snotlout?' Hiccup asked the Wodensfang. 'Is that why Camicazi was captured?' The Wodensfang answered that question with another question. 'Can it ever be a mistake,' replied the Wodensfang, 'for a human to answer the cry for help

但在毯子里，他的眼睛睁得大大的。 “无牙——能咬他吗？”无牙满怀希望地问。 “不然会失礼吗？”对粗鲁的人粗鲁有关系吗？ 还是不算数？“是的，那是不礼貌的，没牙的，所以你不能咬他，虽然我自己也有点动心了，我得承认，”小嗝嗝承认道。 “痛苦的扇贝，”鱼腿厌恶地说。 “我们现在怎么办？”我们到底信不信嗅鼻子？ 我还是不明白，如果他是我们这边的，为什么他没有龙之印记。“龙的印记是奴隶制的象征！”鼻子鼻子低沉的声音说。 “我站在你这边，但我不想被打上奴隶的标志！”他们都躺下想睡觉，但这很难，因为他们都是如此愤怒、困惑和恐惧。 “我救鼻涕精是不是犯了错？”小嗝嗝问道。 “这就是卡米卡齐被捕的原因吗？”Wodensfang用另一个问题回答了这个问题。 “这有可能是一个错误吗，”沃登斯方人回答说，“一个人回应呼救声

of another human?' 'Even if Snotlout is lying,' said Hiccup in Norse, 'he's the only one who knows where the witch's camp is. So we have to trust him anyway, because he's the only one who can lead us to Camicazi. Oh I do hope she is all right…' 'Yes, I know,' said Fishlegs miserably. 'I'm really worried about her too. I keep trying to tell myself that she's going to be all right… Look how many times she has escaped from prisons. She is an Escape Artist, after all…' 'Yes, but the witch and Alvin are getting worse,' said Hiccup anxiously. 'They've been killing people. I've seen Dragonmarker helmets hung from the trees of the forest outside as a warning that they are trying to claim this territory for the Alvinsmen…' It was true. Out in the forest there were long stakes, driven into the ground, and hanging on the end of each stake were either the heads of dragon rebels or Dragonmarker helmets that had been taken as trophies, and put there to warn other Dragonmarkers that this land was claimed by Alvinsmen. Quite apart from all these worries, the sound of the Dragon Furious and the Rebellion outside wasn't

另一个人？“就算鼻涕鼻子在撒谎，”嗝嗝用挪威语说，“也只有他知道女巫的营地在哪里。” 所以我们必须相信他，因为他是唯一能带我们找到卡米卡齐的人。 哦，我真希望她没事……”“是的，我知道，”鱼腿痛苦地说。 “我也很担心她。 我一直努力告诉自己，她会没事的……看看她从监狱里逃了多少次。 “是啊，可是那女巫和阿尔文的情况越来越糟了，”小嗝嗝焦急地说。 “他们一直在杀人。 我看到外面森林里的树上挂着龙的标志头盔，警告他们要把这片领土占为己有……”这是真的。 森林里有几根长长的木桩，插在地里，每根木桩的末端要么挂着龙族叛军的头颅，要么挂着作为战利品的龙族标记者的头盔，放在那里是为了警告其他龙族标记者，这片土地已被阿尔文人占领。 撇开所有这些担忧不谈，外面的怒龙声和起义军的声音并不令人担心

exactly a lullaby: that noise of the blackened remains of the forest being torched once again, the flickering of flames, the roar as they turned from flickers into a great storming, roaring conflagration, burning so hot and high that the firelight from down below poured upwards and inwards, through the window of their hideout, to dance wickedly on the ceiling. 'I will HUNT you down, boy!' thundered the Dragon Furious. 'I smell your rotten human blood! NOWHERE is safe for you! No cave, no rock, no island. I shall turn this whole world into ashes thrice over in the hunt for you… You can hide all you like, you cannot hide forever… All it takes is one mistake and… …I SHALL HUNT YOU DOWN IN THE END!' Oh yes, it was hard not to remain wakeful while that destructive roar exploded in your ears like one of Thor's worst thunderstorms, and the world burned outside. How were they ever going to get out of there, to find the rest of the Things and Camicazi? From the sound of it, the Dragon Furious was never going to give up.

完全是一首催眠曲：森林里被烧黑的遗迹再次被点燃的声音，火焰闪烁的声音，它们从闪烁变成暴风雨般咆哮的大火的声音，燃烧得如此之热，如此之高，以至于下面的火光从他们藏身之处的窗户向上向内倾泻，在天花板上邪恶地跳舞。 “我会抓到你的，孩子！”暴怒的巨龙吼道。 “我闻到你们腐烂的人血了！”没有地方对你来说是安全的！没有洞穴，没有岩石，没有岛屿。 “我要把这个世界化为灰烬，我要三次去找你……你想藏什么就藏什么，你不可能永远藏下去……只要你犯了一个错误，... ...我就会把你追捕到底！”哦，是的，当毁灭性的轰鸣声像雷神最可怕的雷暴一样在你耳边爆炸时，你很难不保持清醒，外面的世界燃烧着。 他们怎么才能离开那里，找到剩下的东西和卡米卡齐？ 从声音上看，龙怒是不会放弃的。