15 A Big Thank You to the Hysteric Tribe

15. A BIG THANK YOU TO THE HYSTERIC TRIBE Quick as winking, as the witch wailed and clutched her eyes, Hiccup reached to the floor and picked the key up. 'Keep your eyes open, Toothless!' yelled Hiccup, and he ran to the ladder. Of course, it could have been any old key. The key to Stoick's weapons cupboard, or the Dragon Stables, or the big chest under Stoick's bed where he kept his sword and other valuables. But in that flash of light, Hiccup remembered where Toothless had been when he swallowed this particular key. It had been in the Great Hall of Norbert the Nutjob.* *Please read How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse. The Nutjobs of Hysteria were the dreamers and inventors of the Archipelago. If I were going to build myself a great prison on Berserk, thought Hiccup, who would I get to build it for me?

15. 小嗝嗝在女巫的嚎啕大哭中紧紧地捂着眼睛，他像眨眼一样迅速地伸手到地板上捡起了钥匙。 “睁大眼睛，无牙！”嗝嗝喊道，他跑向梯子。 当然，也可能是任何一把旧钥匙。 斯托克武器柜的钥匙，龙马厩的钥匙，还有斯托克床下放剑和其他贵重物品的大箱子的钥匙。 但在那道闪光中，嗝嗝记起了无牙吞下这把钥匙时身在何处。 那是在疯子诺伯的大厅里。* *请阅读如何欺骗龙的诅咒。 歇斯底里的疯子是群岛的梦想家和发明家。 小嗝嗝想，如果我要在狂暴岛上给自己建一座大监狱，我该找谁帮我建呢？

A Hysteric, that's who. So Hiccup grabbed the key, and scrambled up the shredded rags of the shaking, quaking rope ladder, Toothless clinging to his shoulders, still half asleep and whimpering. And wailing like a siren, the blind witch followed. Babbling with fear, Hiccup reached the top of the ladder, and with trembling fingers tore the key from the magic stone. The witch was hard behind him now, screaming a high weird scream. Hiccup fitted the key inside the lock of the barred door. Bony fingers closed around his ankle. The key turned, the door opened. And the full moon shone on the witch's face. She screeched again, crumpling before that light like a folding piece of paper, and with one kick of his ankle, Hiccup shook her off and back down into the darkness, and himself up and into the moonlight, and heaved the door shut BANG! CRASH! and SHUT… HER… IN.

一个歇斯底里的人。于是小嗝嗝抓起钥匙，爬上摇摇晃晃的绳梯的碎布，无牙贴在肩膀上，还在半睡半醒地啜泣着。 盲女巫像海妖一样号啕大哭，跟在后面。 小嗝嗝吓得哇哇大哭，爬上梯子，用颤抖的手指从魔法石上扯下了钥匙。 女巫紧紧地站在他身后，发出一声又高又怪的尖叫。 小嗝嗝把钥匙插进了闩上的门的锁里。 瘦骨嶙峋的手指掐住了他的脚踝。 钥匙转动，门开了。 满月照在女巫的脸上。 她又尖叫了一声，像一张折叠的纸一样，在那束光面前瘫倒了。嗝嗝踢了一脚脚踝，把她甩了下去，回到黑暗中，他自己也爬起来，进入月光中，砰的一声关上了门！崩溃!把她关在屋里。

Hiccup threw his body against the door as if to make absolutely sure it was totally shut. He stood there, panting, spread-eagled like a starfish, and gasping for air, great precious lungfuls of sweet moonlit air. Oh thank Thor. Oh thank Thor. Hiccup listened, and no sound was coming from below. Pure silence. The witch must be dead. Alvin's Mother… He couldn't really comprehend what had just happened. It explained everything. He remembered once when his grandfather, old Wrinkly, had told him that the greater the Hero, the more obstacles they had before them. Old Wrinkly called it 'becoming a Hero the Hard Way'. And Hiccup hadn't believed him. But now he knew who he was. And he knew there was a chance that this Prophecy about the King of the Wilderwest might be referring to him, small, skinny Hiccup, the runt of the Hooligan Tribe. But now it was all too much. He wanted to forget the whole thing.

嗝嗝把他的身体撞在门上，好像要绝对确定门是完全关着的。 他站在那里，喘着粗气，像海星一样展开四肢，大口大口地喘气，大口大口地呼吸着月光下甜美的空气。 哦，谢谢托尔。哦，谢谢托尔。 小嗝嗝听着，下面一点声音也没有。 纯粹的沉默。女巫一定是死了。 阿尔文的母亲……他无法真正理解刚刚发生的事情。 它解释了一切。他记得有一次，他的祖父老皱纹告诉他，英雄越伟大，他们面前的障碍就越多。 老皱纹把这叫做“艰难的成为英雄”。 小嗝嗝不相信他。 但现在他知道自己是谁了。 他知道，这个关于西部荒野之王的预言很可能指的就是他，那个瘦小的小嗝嗝，那个流氓部落的矮子。 但现在一切都太过分了。 他想忘掉整件事。

And with the witch dead, nobody but he knew about the Prophecy. And he certainly wasn't going to tell anyone. For a moment Hiccup let himself enjoy the glorious triumph of defeating the witch. Before remembering that Camicazi was still locked up somewhere in this forest. How was he going to find her? And then, the terrible, thumping, tattoo of his heart reminded him that Fishlegs and Humongous were about to be fed to the Beast in baskets in some horrible Ceremony of Human Sacrifice… Toothless crawled up on to his chest and gave a great yawn, showing his little forked tongue. He had finally woken up, and he didn't have any idea of the drama that had just happened. 'Oooh,' said Toothless happily. 'That nap made Toothless feel much much better.' He gave a satisfied little stretch. 'Toothless even HUNGRY. So. What are w-w-we doing now? Are we r-r-roosting?' Scarers were beginning to gather around them in thick drifts of butterfly grey, attracted by the fear given off by Hiccup in the fight with the witch. 'We know you're afraaaaid…' they were singing in their little whispery voices. 'You c-a-an't fool u-u-u-us…'

女巫死了，除了他没人知道预言的事。 他当然不会告诉任何人。 有那么一会儿，小嗝嗝享受着打败女巫的光荣胜利。 在想起卡米卡齐还被关在这片森林的某个地方之前。 他要怎么找到她呢？ 接着，心脏上那可怕的、砰砰作响的刺青提醒他，鱼腿和巨怪要在某种可怕的活人祭祀仪式上被装在篮子里喂野兽了……无牙爬到胸口，打了个大大的哈欠，露出了他那小小的叉形舌头。 他终于醒了，但他对刚刚发生的戏剧性一幕一无所知。 “哦。”无牙高兴地说。 “那次小睡让‘无牙’感觉好多了。”他心满意足地伸了个懒腰。 “没有牙齿，甚至饿了。所以。 我们现在在干什么？ 我们在——在——在栖息吗？”受惊的人被小嗝嗝在和女巫搏斗时所散发出的恐惧吸引过来，开始簇拥在他们周围，一团团厚厚的灰蝴蝶。 “我们知道你害怕……”他们低声细语地唱着。 “你——你——你——骗不了我们……”

Toothless put his face right up close so his eyes were eyeball-to-eyeball with Hiccup's and his two feet were placed tenderly on either side of Hiccup's face, as the boy stood spread-eagled in front of the door. 'Where are we?' asked Toothless with interest. 'Toothless thinks this may not be a g-g-good place to roost. It's a bit spooky,' said Toothless confidingly. 'H-h-have you noticed?' Hiccup began to laugh, kind of hysterically. 'Yes, Toothless,' said Hiccup. 'I had noticed it was a bit spooky.' 'Sh-sh-shall we go home?' suggested Toothless. 'Yes, let's go home,' said Hiccup. 'But first we have to rescue the others.' Hiccup shoved himself hard against the barred door as if he could trap all that he had learnt in the tree back down there in the darkness with the witch, and NEVER let it out. And then he sheathed his sword, and began to run down the shaking rope bridges, with Toothless following him, squeaking, 'Others? W-w-what others? And why do we care? We're all right…' (dragons can be selfish) before letting out a shrill shriek as he caught sight of his own tummy, 'Aieee! We're not all right! Toothless w-w-wounded!' he squealed.

小嗝嗝摊开身子站在门前，无牙把脸凑得很近，两眼对视，两只脚温柔地放在他脸的两侧。 “我们在哪儿？”无牙感兴趣地问。 Toothless认为这可能不是一个栖息的好地方。 “有点吓人。”无牙自信地说。 “你——你注意到了吗？”小嗝嗝笑了起来，有点歇斯底里。 “是的，无牙。”小嗝嗝说。 “我注意到这里有点诡异。“我们……我们回家好吗？”无牙问。 “是的，我们回家吧，”嗝嗝说。 “但首先我们得救出其他人。”嗝嗝把自己紧紧地挤在那扇闩着的门上，仿佛他能把他所学到的一切都藏在那棵树里，和女巫一起躲在黑暗中，永远不让它泄露出去。 然后他把剑套进鞘里，开始顺着摇晃的绳桥往下跑，无牙跟着他，尖声叫道：“还有人吗？ W-w-what其他人呢?我们为什么要关心这个？ 我们没事……”（龙也有自私的时候）当它看到自己的肚子时，发出一声尖锐的尖叫，“阿伊！我们有事！无w-w-wounded !他尖叫道。