11 Hide-and-Seek With Driller-Dragons

11. HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH DRILLER-DRAGONS Camicazi, Hiccup and Fishlegs ran back through the corridors as fleet as foxes with the full cry of the Hunt after them. Down along the twisty tunnels they fled, the Library now a terrifying Babel of screaming and roaring and shouting, all echoing each other in a confusing Pandemonium of noise so loud that it tore at the ears and pierced to their very back-bones. 'Ooooh!' squealed Stormfly happily, 'what are we playing now? Is it Hide-and-Seek? Is it? Is it? I LOVE Hide-and-Seek!'

11. 与钻龙捉迷藏——卡米卡齐、小嗝嗝和鱼腿像狐狸一样飞快地跑回走廊，猎人在后面大声喊叫。 他们顺着弯弯曲曲的隧道逃跑，图书馆现在成了一个可怕的巴别塔，里面充斥着尖叫、咆哮和喊叫，相互呼应，形成一种令人困惑的混乱，声音如此之大，撕裂了他们的耳朵，刺穿了他们的脊骨。 “唔!暴风苍蝇高兴地尖叫着，“我们现在玩什么呢？ 是捉迷藏吗？是吗? 是吗?我喜欢捉迷藏！”

'We're playing Run-Away-As-Fast-As-You-Can-From-the-Homicidal-Dragon-Monsters…' panted Fishlegs. 'Again! I just cannot believe my bad luck…' 'Up here! It's a short cut!' yelled Camicazi. They scrambled up a rickety ladder, extraordinarily tall, up through a hole in the roof, where they crawled on hands and knees before dropping back down into another corridor again.

鱼腿气喘吁吁地说：“我们在玩‘尽可能快地逃离凶残的龙怪’游戏。” “再一次!我简直不敢相信我的坏运气……”这是一条近路！卡米卡齐喊道。 他们爬上一架摇摇晃晃的梯子，梯子特别高，穿过屋顶上的一个洞，用手和膝盖爬上去，然后又掉到另一条走廊里。

They rounded a corner to find a crouching Driller-Dragon, poised to spring. Camicazi screamed, and toppled over a tall tottering bookcase on him. On and on they ran through the Noise, until Fishlegs came to a panting halt, and gasped 'I… really… can't… go… any… further…' 'Nor can I,' panted Camicazi, drawing her sword. 'We'll have to stand and fight them.' 'We haven't got a hope of defeating so many,' gasped Hiccup, drawing his sword too. 'Well then,' sang out Camicazi defiantly, the light of battle in her bright blue eyes, 'we shall DIE a Hero's death, FIGHTING TO THE LAST!' 'I hate it when you say things like that…' whimpered Fishlegs. 'D-d-d-esert!' shrieked Toothless, 'I think we should desert!' 'Good idea!' approved Hiccup. 'But where to?' It was a good point. There was nowhere to go. 'Come on!' shouted Camicazi. 'Help me build a barricade with these books!' And she began pulling books off the shelves, and loading them into a pile by the entrance, as if this pathetic obstacle was going to keep hundreds of hungry Driller-Dragons at bay.

他们转过一个拐角，发现一只钻龙正蹲着，准备跳起来。 卡米卡齐尖叫着，被一个摇摇欲坠的高书架压在身上。 他们在嘈杂声中不停地跑啊跑，直到鱼腿气喘吁吁地停了下来，喘着气说：“我……真的……不能……再……走了……” “我们必须站起来和他们战斗。“我们没有希望打败这么多人，”嗝嗝喘着气说，也抽出了他的剑。 “那么好吧，”卡米卡齐勇敢地唱道，她明亮的蓝眼睛里闪烁着战斗的光芒，“我们将以英雄的姿态死去，战斗到底！”“我讨厌你说那样的话……”鱼腿呜咽着说。 “D-d-d-esert !无牙尖叫道，“我想我们应该放弃！”“好主意！”小嗝嗝赞同道。 “可是上哪儿去呢？”这是一个好观点。 没有地方可去。“来吧!卡米卡齐喊道。 “帮我用这些书筑一个路障！”她开始从书架上取下书，把它们堆在门口，好像这个可怜的障碍物能阻止几百只饥饿的钻龙。

Fishlegs and Toothless helped her, and Stormfly was still thinking that this was a jolly game and kept on knocking the pile over, in fits of giggles, and Hiccup looked around the room they had ended up in, desperately searching for something, anything, that he could use to help them in their final, hopeless stand.

鱼腿和无牙帮了她的忙，暴风虻还以为这是个好玩的游戏，不停地把那堆东西打翻，咯咯地笑个不停。小嗝嗝环视着他们最后来到的房间，拼命地寻找什么东西，任何东西，他都可以用来帮助他们度过最后的、无望的处境。

And then his eye caught a gleam of dancing brightness. There it was. A book on the bookshelf opposite appeared to be GLOWING. All around it was a bright chink of light, as clear as the day. And as he stepped towards the glowing book, Hiccup gave a gasp of astonished amazement. His OWN NAME was written on the side of it. HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK in big golden letters. Now, there are those who do not believe in Fate. And there are those that do. But just ask yourself: what are the chances of Hiccup looking around this very room, and his eye alighting on a book with his own name on it? What are the chances of that, I say? Minuscule-y small, and that is why I personally feel that Fate must have led them to that particular room. They had been running through rooms just like this one all day, all lined with bookcases floor to ceiling, and all smelling faintly of fish. But in this enormous great tangled book-warren of a Library, which must have had thousands and thousands of rooms in it, the room that they had ended up in was the ONLY room that contained a book

这时，他的眼睛里闪过一丝闪烁的光芒。 它就在那儿。对面书架上的一本书似乎在发光。 周围一片明亮的光线，像白天一样清晰。 当他走向那本发光的书时，嗝嗝惊讶地倒吸了一口气。 书的一面写着他自己的名字。 可怕的黑线鳕用金色的大字写着。 现在，有些人不相信命运。 确实有这样的人。 但问问你自己：小嗝嗝环顾这个房间，突然看到一本写着自己名字的书的几率有多大？ 我说，这种可能性有多大？ 非常小，所以我个人觉得一定是命运把他们带到了那个房间。 他们一整天都在这样的房间里跑来跑去，从地板到天花板都摆满了书架，到处都散发着淡淡的鱼腥味。 不过，在这个巨大而杂乱的图书馆藏书室里，想必有成千上万个房间，他们最后进的那个房间却是唯一有书的房间

written by HICCUP HORRENDOUS HADDOCK. 'Roaring Razorclams!' exclaimed Hiccup, lowering his sword, and his jaw dropping. 'This is EXTRAORDINARY! That book has been written by someone with exactly the same name as ME!' Actually, as he drew nearer, he realised it wasn't EXACTLY the same name. The author was Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Second. 'I would of course find that fascinating,' moaned Fishlegs, frantically dragging books off the shelves, as the sound of drumming feet grew louder and louder, cutting through the general cacophony of the Noise, 'if I wasn't just about to DIE, will you come and HELP US for Thor's sake?' 'Hiccup stepped forward towards the books, as if hypnotised. 'It must be a relative of mine, a grandfather or something?' whispered Hiccup. 'I guess if I'm the Third, there must have been a First, and a Second, mustn't there?' This had never occurred to Hiccup. 'But my father's never talked about this guy before,' he said slowly. In fact, what had he said, only this morning? 'THE HORRENDOUS HADDOCKS DO NOT

可怕的黑线鳕。 “咆哮Razorclams !嗝嗝叫道，放下了他的剑，下巴耷拉下来。 “这太不可思议了！”那本书的作者和我的名字一模一样！”事实上，当他走近时，他意识到这不是一个完全相同的名字。 作者是小嗝嗝，可怕的黑线鳕二世。 “我当然会觉得这很吸引人，”鱼腿呻吟着，疯狂地把书从书架上拖下来，这时咚咚的脚步声越来越响，划破了嘈杂的喧闹声，“如果我不是快要死了，看在托尔的份上，你会来帮助我们吗？小嗝嗝朝书走去，好像被催眠了。 “一定是我的一个亲戚，祖父之类的？”嗝嗝低声说。 “我想，如果我是第三个，肯定还有一个第一和第二个，是不是？”小嗝嗝从来没有想到过这一点。 “但是我父亲以前从来没有提起过这个人，”他慢慢地说。 事实上，他今天早上还说过什么？ 可怕的黑线鳕却没有