8 THE TWIST IN THE BARDIGUARD’S TALE

8. THE TWIST IN THE BARDIGUARD'S TALE "No," whispered Hiccup. "It's not true..." "Yes," replied Humungous, sighing, "I'm afraid it is. And the story gets worse." "How can it get worse?" asked Hiccup through white lips. "Your father did manage to steal the Stone. He found it INSIDE the Volcano, which was why the Lava-Louts had never discovered it before, despite digging holes all over the island. But what Al told me was that the Fire-Stone released certain chemicals that kept the Volcano dormant. Without these chemicals, over the last fifteen years, the Volcano has become more and more active, until finally, RIGHT NOW, it is ready to blow." Hiccup sat lost in thought. While they were talking, the blackness at the window had turned to grey and then to turquoise,

8. “不，”小嗝嗝低声说。 “这不是真的……”“是的，”Humungous叹了口气说，“恐怕是这样。 而且情况会变得更糟。” “还能更糟吗？”嗝嗝嘴唇发白，问道。 “你父亲的确设法偷走了魔法石。 他在火山里找到了它，这就是为什么以前拉瓦卢特人一直没有发现它，尽管他们在岛上到处挖洞。 但艾尔告诉我火石释放了某种化学物质让火山处于休眠状态。 没有这些化学物质，在过去的15年里，火山变得越来越活跃，直到现在，它终于准备爆发了。” 小嗝嗝坐在那里陷入了沉思。 他们说话的时候，窗前的黑暗变成了灰色，然后又变成了青绿色，

and the sun was coming up fast on what would be another roasting day. "This Terrific Al of yours," asked Hiccup, "what is he doing now?" "Well, he's gone a bit bananas, since you mention it," admitted Humungous. "But then the poor chap has had a difficult time of it." Humungous returned to his Tale. "Shortly after Terrific Al returned as a prison guard, and as the rumbles from the Volcano were growing louder and louder, the Exterminators did start to hatch. The Lava-Louts abandoned the island, and left us prisoners to fend for ourselves, and we too made a bolt for it. All except for Terrific Al. He's got this wild idea in his head that he's going to TRAIN these creatures. He's built these gigantic statues all over the island, and he seems to think that when the Exterminators hatch they will think that he is their Leader, and will do everything he says." "And what is he going to do with the Exterminators once he's trained them?" asked Hiccup. "Good Works, he says," replied Humungous, shaking his head in admiration. "He thinks he's going to stop them from killing everything in sight. Oh he's a lovely, lovely guy, that Terrific Al, even if he is as mad as loon. Well, I tried to persuade him to leave

太阳升起得很快，这又是一个炙热的日子。 “你这个了不起的阿尔，”小嗝嗝问，“他现在在干什么？”“嗯，既然你提到了，他有点疯了。”胡蒙格斯承认。 “不过，这个可怜的家伙可真够倒霉的。” humhumous继续讲他的故事。 “可怕的阿尔以监狱看守的身份回来后不久，随着火山发出的隆隆声越来越大，灭绝者开始孵化了。 熔岩岛的人弃岛而去，把我们俘虏起来，让我们自谋生路，我们也逃走了。 除了了不起的艾尔。 他脑子里有个疯狂的想法，他要训练这些生物。 他在岛上到处建了这些巨大的雕像，他似乎认为，等灭绝者孵化出来，他们就会认为他是他们的领袖，对他言听计从。” “那么，他训练完灭绝者之后，打算拿他们怎么办呢？” “好作品，他说，”Humungous回答，钦佩地摇着头。 “他认为他会阻止他们杀死所有看到的东西。 哦，他是一个非常非常可爱的家伙，那个了不起的人工智能，尽管他像疯子一样疯狂。 我试着劝他离开

with me but he wouldn't. And that was when he asked me to do the favor that I had promised him all those many years ago." "What was the favor?" asked Hiccup. "To kill YOU," replied Humungously Hotshot. "He said you were this PRINCE OF DARKNESS, a Devil Child, who would grow up to bring untold evil on the Archipelago. He said you had fed him to this Monstrous Strangulator that made all his hair fall out... And thrown him out of a balloon into a sea full of Ravenous Sharkworms..."

和我在一起，但他不愿意。就在那时，他让我帮他一个忙，那是我多年前答应过他的。” “你帮了什么忙？”小嗝嗝问。 “杀了你。”巨能手回答。 “他说你是这个黑暗王子，一个魔鬼的孩子，长大后会给群岛带来无尽的邪恶。 他说你把他喂给了那个让他掉光头发的怪物掐死者…… 把他从气球里扔进了满是贪婪的鲨鱼虫的海里……”

"That was all HIS fault!" protested Hiccup, who was beginning to put two and two together. "But as I have gotten to know you, over the last couple of weeks, I have gradually begun to think that he must be mistaken about you," said Humungous. "I tried to kill you, but I kept on saving you at the last minute. At first I thought it must just be my Heroic

“这都是他的错！”小嗝嗝抗议道，他开始明白了。 “但是在过去的几个星期里，随着我对你的了解，我逐渐开始认为他一定是看错你了。” “我想杀了你，但我在最后一刻救了你。 一开始我以为这一定是我的英雄事迹

Impulses kicking in, but then I realized—I like you, Hiccup." "Thank you," said Hiccup. "And I'm not angry with you about what happened. I'm not even angry with her... well, maybe just a little bit..." admitted Humungous, "and why she had to marry that barbarian, Stoick, I will never know..." "That's my father you're talking about!" warned Hiccup, "and he has many excellent qualities, once you get to know him." "Well, I hate to let good old Al down," said Humungous, "but you seem to me like a Good Egg, and I think that Al has just got off on the wrong foot with you." "What does he LOOK like, this Terrific Al of yours?" asked Hiccup, already sure that he knew the answer. "Fifteen years ago when I first met him he was extremely handsome," replied Humungous. "Tall, dark, took very good care of his moustache even in jail conditions. And he had all of his LIMBS at the time, which does help. Now... he's not so pretty. Bald, put a bit of weight on, a hook instead of a hand, a stump instead of a leg, a patch instead of an eye—" "ALVIN THE TREACHEROUS, AS I LIVE AND BREATHE!" interrupted Hiccup. "You gave

冲动在涌动，但后来我意识到——我喜欢你，小嗝嗝。” “谢谢你，”小嗝嗝说。“我并没有因为发生的事生你的气。 我甚至没有生她的气…… 嗯，也许只是一点点……” 胡蒙格斯承认道，“我永远也不知道她为什么要嫁给那个野蛮人斯托伊克……” “你说的是我的父亲！”小嗝嗝警告道，“一旦你了解他，你就会发现他有很多优秀的品质。” “好吧，我不想让老阿尔失望，”Humungous说，“但在我看来，你是个好人，我想阿尔一开始对你就不太好。” “你这个了不起的阿尔长得什么样？”小嗝嗝问道，他已经确信自己知道答案了。 “十五年前我第一次见到他时，他非常英俊，”Humungous回答。 “高大，皮肤黝黑，即使在监狱里，他也很注意自己的胡子。 他当时四肢健全，这确实有帮助。 现在…他不是很漂亮。 秃头，再加上一点重量，一只钩子代替了一只手，一只残肢代替了一条腿，一只眼罩代替了一只眼睛——”“我敢打赌，阿尔文是个奸诈的家伙！”嗝嗝打断了他的话。 “你给

your ruby heart's stone to ALVIN THE TREACHEROUS!!!" Alvin the Treacherous was Hiccup's arch- enemy, and the wickedest, most dangerous man in the Archipelago. Hiccup had assumed he was dead when he fell into the sea with those Sharkworms, but Alvin was a difficult man to kill. This meant that Valhallarama was not the traitor that Humungous thought her. Alvin would NEVER have delivered that ruby heart's stone. He would have pocketed it himself, and then made up all those wicked lies that he told Humungous about her throwing it into the ocean. "Alvin the Who?" asked Humungous blankly. "I don't know what you're talking about." "Alvin the Treacherous is the evilest man in the Archipelago," said Hiccup. "Now, then, that's not fair. Al has got you wrong, Hiccup, but you must admit, who can blame him, what with the Sharkworm incident and everything," said Humungous. "I just know if you guys could get together you would really get along." Hiccup sat thinking, wondering what he should do next. "Now I understand why Old Wrinkly is sitting at the bottom of that hole," said Hiccup. "Who is Old Wrinkly?" asked Humungous.

你那红宝石般的心石，献给奸诈的阿尔文！！”背信弃义的阿尔文是希卡普的死敌，也是群岛上最邪恶、最危险的人。 当小嗝嗝和那些鲨鱼虫一起掉进海里时，他以为自己已经死了，但阿尔文是一个很难杀死的人。 这意味着瓦尔哈拉罗摩并不是humhumous认为的叛徒。 阿尔文永远不会送出那颗红宝石的心石。 他会把它放进自己的口袋里，然后编出那些邪恶的谎言，告诉胡蒙斯她把它扔进了大海。 “谁阿尔文？”humunous茫然地问。 “我不知道你在说什么。” “叛徒阿尔文是群岛上最邪恶的人。”希卡普说。 “那么，这是不公平的。 艾尔错怪你了，小嗝嗝，但你必须承认，谁又能怪他呢，因为鲨鱼虫事件和其他事情。” “我只知道，如果你们能在一起，你们会相处得很好。” 小嗝嗝坐着思考，不知道下一步该怎么办。 “现在我明白为什么老皱纹坐在那个洞的底部了，”小嗝嗝说。 “谁是老皱纹？”humhumous问。