9 The Hairy Scary Librarian

9. THE HAIRY SCARY LIBRARIAN The Something was a man as tall and thin as a broom, with a wild mop of hair, and a beard so long he could have wiped his feet on it. He had tucked this beard into his belt, along with a whole armoury of nasty-looking weapons, axes, swords, and the terrifying Northbow. Hiccup immediately recognised the man as the Hairy Scary Librarian himself, for he had seen him many times before at Elders' Meetings. Somehow, though, he hadn't looked half as scary out in the open air, surrounded by the other Viking Warriors. Here, in the cold heart of his Library, with his cold, sad, half-blind eyes, and his cracked voice whispering like his throat was full of broken glass, here, he was very scary indeed. 'The Library is closed,' croaked the Hairy Scary Librarian. Camicazi backed away from him. 'Umm… yes, we were just leaving, actually…' she said, quietly drawing out her own sword. 'Ssssh…' said the Librarian. 'Your friend has

9. 这个人又高又瘦，像一把扫帚，一头乱蓬蓬的头发，长长的胡子可以用来擦脚。 他把胡子塞在腰带上，还有一大堆看起来很恶心的武器，斧头、剑和可怕的北弓。 小嗝嗝立刻认出这个人就是那个毛茸茸的可怕的图书管理员，因为他以前在长老会议上见过他很多次。 然而，不知怎的，他在其他维京战士的包围下，在户外看起来没有一半可怕。 在这里，在他那图书馆冰冷的心脏里，在他那冰冷、忧伤、半瞎的眼睛里，在他那嘶哑的声音里，仿佛喉咙里塞满了碎玻璃，在这里，他确实是非常可怕的。 “图书馆关门了。”毛吓人的图书管理员嘶哑地说。 卡米卡齐从他身边退了下来。 “嗯……是的，实际上我们正准备离开……”她说着，悄悄地抽出了自己的剑。 “嘘……”图书管理员说。 “你的朋友

one of my books in his backpack. It is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN to remove books from the Library. Give it back to me, please, or I shall be reluctantly forced to kill you.' Hiccup drew his sword as well. (Fishlegs TRIED to draw his, but unfortunately it stuck in the scabbard, and however hard he tugged, he couldn't pull it out.) 'I'm very, very sorry,' said Hiccup, politely, and he meant this most sincerely for Hiccup wasn't a natural Burglar, 'but I really, really need this book. It's a matter of life or death.' And then he went on, less politely, for he was feeling rather indignant about this, 'And these books aren't just YOUR books, they belong to the whole of the Viking Nations. We should ALL be allowed to read them, and this really should be a Library that is open to the Public. All this knowledge could be very important.' 'Well, I'm very sorry, too,' whispered the Hairy Scary Librarian, sadly shaking his head and drawing out another sword with his left hand. 'But I think that these books are MINE all MINE.' A horrible gloating and greedy look came into his mad, blind eyes. 'Perhaps you should bring this up with "the Thing"… However I'm not sure they will listen to you as books

我的一本书在他的背包里。 严禁把书带出图书馆。 请把它还给我，否则我将被迫不情愿地杀了你。”嗝嗝也拔出了他的剑。 （鱼腿想拔出他的，但不幸的是，它卡在鞘里了，不管他怎么用力，都拔不出来。）“我非常、非常抱歉，”小嗝嗝彬彬有礼地说，他是真心实意的，因为小嗝嗝并不是天生的飞贼，“但我真的、真的需要这本书。 这是生死攸关的问题。”然后他继续说下去，没有那么礼貌，因为他对此感到相当愤慨，“这些书不只是你的书，它们属于整个维京民族。 我们都应该被允许阅读它们，这真的应该是一个向公众开放的图书馆。 所有这些知识都可能非常重要。“哦，我也很抱歉。”毛茸茸的可怕的图书管理员低声说，伤心地摇了摇头，左手又抽出一把剑。 “但我认为这些书是我的，都是我的。”一种可怕的幸灾乐祸和贪婪的神情出现在他疯狂的、失明的眼睛里。 “也许你应该在《the Thing》中提出这个问题……但我不确定他们会把你的话当作书来听。

are considered to be DANGEROUS, and strictly banned, by their own order. And furthermore, it will be rather difficult for you to bring it up because you will be DEAD.' And the Librarian lunged at Hiccup with the sword in his right hand, and at Camicazi with the sword in his left, and the three of them began to fight. 'Can't we talk about this, like reasonable people?' asked Hiccup, jumping out of the way of the Librarian's razor-sharp sword, and nipping in with a thrust of his own. 'Did I say I was a reasonable person?' whispered the Librarian in surprise. 'Mash him!' squealed Toothless, who like all dragons, had a bloodthirsty streak, 'Rip him and tear him and stomp on him and bite him and take all his eggs!' The Librarian was a very fine swordfighter, for both Camicazi and Hiccup were extremely good at swordfighting themselves, and the Librarian was fighting them both at the same time. 'OOOhhhh, you're really quite good at this, for a Moronic Meathead,' exclaimed Camicazi in pleasure, as he deflected her Loki's Lunge with Double Twist, and replied with a Thrusting Thor and a couple of

被认为是危险的，被他们自己的命令严格禁止。 而且，你提起这件事会相当困难，因为你那时已经死了。”图书管理员右手拿着剑向嗝嗝扑去，左手拿着剑向卡米卡齐扑去，三个人打了起来。 “我们就不能像通情达理的人那样谈谈吗？”小嗝嗝问，一边跳开图书管理员锋利的宝剑，用自己的剑刺了进去。 “我说过我是个通情达理的人吗？”图书管理员惊讶地小声问。 “将他!无牙龙尖声叫道，它和所有的龙一样，都有嗜血的本性，“把它撕成碎片，踩在它身上，咬它，把它所有的蛋都吃掉！”图书管理员是一名非常优秀的剑士，因为卡米卡齐和小嗝嗝都非常擅长剑术，而图书管理员是同时和他们两个人决斗的。 “哦哦，作为一个傻瓜，你真的很擅长这个。”卡米卡齐高兴地叫道，他把她的洛基箭步转了两个转身，然后回了一个托尔突刺和两个

Swivelling Swipes. Camicazi loved to have the practice of fighting a really good opponent. 'Be quiet,' hissed the Hairy Scary Librarian. 'Unless you want the Driller-Dragons to find us and death by Driller-Dragon is such an untidy way to DIE. Far neater to go swiftly on the point of my Heart-Slicers, but it's up to you, of course…'

旋转刷。卡米卡齐喜欢练习和真正优秀的对手较量。 “安静。”毛茸茸的可怕的图书管理员嘶嘶地说。 “除非你想让钻龙找到我们，而被钻龙杀死是一种不体面的死法。 快说我的切心片要方便得多，不过这当然取决于你……”

Hiccup was in fine form, neatly dodging the Librarian's fiercest sword strokes, and throwing in some challenging thrusts of his own, while Camicazi's sword was swivelling like a tornado. Toothless and Stormfly also entered into the battle, shrieking rude encouragements, and flying as close as they dared so they could nip in and bite the Librarian on the sword-arm in order to put him off.

小嗝嗝的状态很好，他巧妙地躲开了图书管理员最猛烈的剑击，自己也进行了几次具有挑战性的刺杀，而卡米卡齐的剑则像龙卷风一样旋转着。 无牙怪和暴风虻也加入了战斗，它们粗鲁地尖叫着鼓励他们，尽可能地靠近图书管理员，这样它们就能咬进图书管理员拿剑的手臂，把他赶走。

But on the other side, the Librarian seemed to be unmoved by the dragon-bites. He was a fully-grown adult, much stronger and bigger than they were, calm and capable as a juggler at fighting both of them at the same time, and every thrust he made was aimed at their hearts. 'You know, I've got a bad feeling about this, Camicazi,' said Hiccup, slightly nervously, as the Librarian deflected his Double-Backed Left-Handed Through-Lunge, 'I think this guy could be a FlashMaster like Humungously Hotshot the Hero.'* 'You know, I was just wondering the very same thing,' said Camicazi, with interest. 'Only a FlashMaster would know how to parry a Switch-hander… an Overpoint… and a Golden Grimpiercer… and live to tell the tale…' FlashMasters were the very highest of Sword- Artists. They had all studied under the Great Flashburn himself, at his School of Swordfighting, and they were virtually unbeatable at the Art. 'I is a FlashMaster,' croaked the Hairy Scary Librarian, and his death mask grin was most horrible to behold, 'and I is going to croak you with me Heart- Slicers… from your goggle-screams…' (The Hairy Scary Librarian lunged to the right at Camicazi's

但在另一边，图书管理员似乎对龙的咬伤无动于衷。 他是一个完全成熟的成年人，比他们强壮得多，高大得多，冷静而有能力，就像一个耍把戏的人一样，同时和他们两个搏斗，他的每一次刺都对准了他们的心脏。 “你知道，我有一种不好的预感，卡米卡齐，”小嗝嗝说，有点紧张，因为图书管理员移开了他的双背左手直刺，“我想这家伙可能是像英雄大能手那样的闪光大师。“你知道，我也在想同样的事情，”卡米卡齐饶有兴趣地说。 “只有闪光大师才知道如何招架换手……Overpoint……和Golden Grimpiercer……并活下来讲述故事……”闪光大师是最高级的剑艺师。 他们都曾师从闪电大侠，在他的剑术学校学习，在剑术方面几乎无人能敌。 “我是闪光大师，”可怕的多毛图书管理员沙哑地说，他戴着死亡面具咧嘴一笑，看起来非常可怕，“我要用我的声音把你——切心者——从你护目镜的尖叫声中——也叫出来……”(可怕的多毛图书管理员向卡米卡齐的右边一扑