15 I DIDN’T MEAN TO COME HERE

15. I DIDN'T MEAN TO COME HERE Meanwhile, Humungous had spent an anxious half hour down on The Peregrine Falcon, shading his hands over his eyes and trying to spot the progress of the three young Vikings as they slowly climbed the Volcano Mountain. What he discovered was that it was FAR more tense watching somebody else performing a Quest than it is to do the Quest oneself. He felt quite sick with nerves. Most of the time he was talking to himself as he peered upward, trying to convince himself he was doing the right thing. "Now, I was right not to tell Hiccup that Terrific Al wanted that Stone too, wasn't I? And nobody could expect me to go with them, could they?... After fifteen years of slavery on this very island... but I guess nobody else is going to do it, but for

15. 与此同时，胡蒙格斯焦急地在“游隼号”上呆了半个小时，用手遮住眼睛，试图观察三个年轻的维京人慢慢爬上火山山的进展。 他发现，看别人完成任务比自己完成任务要紧张得多。 他神经紧张得很不舒服。 大多数时候，他都是在自言自语地向上凝视，试图说服自己这样做是正确的。 “我没有告诉小嗝嗝，了不起的阿尔也想要那块石头，这是对的，是不是？” 谁也不能指望我跟他们一起去，是不是？ 在这个岛上经历了15年的奴隶制之后…… 但我想没人会这么做，除非

Thor's sake," Humungous slung his bow and arrows around his shoulders, "a guy should get to retire SOMETIME, shouldn't he? UP now, White Dragon... I mean, why is it always ME who has to be the Hero? "It's... not... my... fight..." complained Humungous, taking his foot out of the stirrup again. He turned his face to the heavens and howled up to the uncaring sky, shaking his fist in frustration: "WHAT... SHALL... I... DO????" And as if in answer to his question, out of the clear blue sky, DOWN swooped an exhausted little Toothless, and dropped upon the deck a golden something. A something that rolled around the deck in ever- decreasing circles, and came to rest with a clatter. Humungous bent down and picked up the something. It was the golden dragon bracelet that twisted around Alvin's good arm. He knew it well, for he had made it for Alvin himself, in the Jail-Forges when he was supposed to be making swords, as a thank-you after Alvin agreed to take the ruby heart's stone to Valhallarama many many years ago. This was the first time in a long while that he had seen it close up. And as he picked it up, he thought, That's funny, there's something in the dragon's eye. I didn't put

看在雷神的份上，”Humungous把弓箭挂在肩膀上，“一个人总有一天会退休的，不是吗？ 快起来，白龙…我是说，为什么总是我当英雄？ “这是……不是……我的…战斗……” 胡蒙格斯抱怨着，又把脚从马镫上拿了下来。 他把脸转向天空，对着漠不关心的天空嚎叫着，沮丧地挥舞着拳头：“什么…… 应当……我…做什么? ?”仿佛是在回答他的问题似的，从晴朗的蓝天里，俯冲下来一个筋疲力尽的小无牙，把一个金色的东西扔在甲板上。 一个在甲板上绕着圆圈不断缩小的东西，然后咔嗒一声停了下来。 Humungous弯下腰捡起了那个东西。 是那条金龙手镯缠绕在艾尔文那只完好的手臂上。 他对它很熟悉，因为这是他亲手为阿尔文做的，那是在许多年前，阿尔文同意把红宝石心石带到瓦尔哈拉拉马后，他在铸狱车间做剑的时候，作为对阿尔文的感谢。 这是他很长时间以来第一次近距离地看到它。 当他把它捡起来的时候，他想，真有趣，龙的眼睛里有东西。 我没有把

that there when I made it... And as he held it closer, a blast of lightning lit up the sky, and the flash of light caught the bracelet, and the dragon's eye winked at him. One small, sly, red wink, as if it were amused. The dragon's eye was his ruby heart's stone. In that single moment the Truth rushed upon Humungous all at once. She had loved him. She had never got the message. Terrific Al had never given it to her. He had kept the ruby heart's stone... he had even had the cheek to fit it into the bracelet that Humungous had made him, which he had then been wearing right under Humungous's nose the entire time... which made him a whole lot less Terrific than Humungous had thought. Maybe it even made him the Treacherous Villain that Hiccup had been describing... and perhaps throwing him to the Sharkworms was a THOROUGHLY good idea and what a shame they had only taken his leg and hadn't gotten rid of him completely. A fifteen-year-old memory popped into his head. It was a memory of his Love, handing him this very stone so very many years ago. With these words:

当我做的时候… 当他把手镯握得更近时，一道闪电照亮了天空，闪电击中了手镯，巨龙的眼睛向他眨了眨眼睛。 一个小小的，狡猾的，红色的眨眼，好像它被逗乐了。 龙眼是他的红宝石心石。 就在这一刹那，真理一下子涌向了巨人。 她爱过他。她一直没有收到这条信息。 了不起的艾尔从来没有给过她。 他一直留着那颗红宝石心石…… 他的脸皮甚至还能把它塞进humhumous给他做的手镯里，那时候他一直戴在humhumous的鼻子底下…… 这使他远没有胡蒙格斯想象的那么可怕。 也许这甚至使他成为小嗝嗝所描述的那个奸诈的恶棍…… 也许把它扔给鲨鱼虫们倒是个好主意，可惜他们只咬断了它的一条腿，还没有把它彻底除掉。 一段十五岁的回忆突然出现在他的脑海里。 这是他的爱人多年前把这块石头递给他的记忆。 用这些话：

"When you hold this stone, you hold my heart. But if you find yourself captured or in trouble, send me this stone in the mouth of your hunting dragon, and I will come and rescue you." Humungous gave a half laugh, half cry, as he looked first at the heart's stone, and then down at Toothless, collapsed on the deck in exhaustion. Isn't Fate artistic? But what this all meant was that Hiccup was in trouble up there on the mountain, and that Hiccup had never in his life been more in need of his Bardiguard. Humungously Hotshot the Hero pulled the bracelet onto his own left arm. He leaped onto the back of his White Dragon, drawing his sword and shouting, "Come on, Windwalker! Hiccup needs us! This IS our fight! TO THE VOLCANO!" "Oh, b-b-brother," moaned Toothless, sprawled on the deck, "we aren't going up again, are we?" The Windwalker swallowed hard, and picked Toothless up in its mouth, and took off up to the Volcano after Humungously Hotshot.

“当你拿着这块石头的时候，你就拿着我的心。 你若被捉住，或是遭遇患难，就把这石头放在你的恶龙口中，我必来救你。” 胡蒙哥先看了看那块心石，又看了看无牙，半笑半哭地瘫倒在甲板上。 命运不是艺术吗？但这一切都意味着，小嗝嗝在山上遇到了麻烦，而小嗝嗝一生中从来没有像现在这样需要他的巴迪瓜。 超级能手英雄把手镯戴在自己的左臂上。 他跳上白龙的背，拔出剑来，喊道：“来吧，风行者！小嗝嗝需要我们！这是我们的战斗！去火山！”“哦，兄弟，”无牙趴在甲板上呻吟道，“我们不会又要上去了吧？”风行者使劲咽了一口唾沫，用嘴叼起无牙，就向火山飞去，追赶巨能手。