19 An Unexpected Development

19. AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT It was a good moment. It was a very good moment for Hiccup, perched up high on the back of the Dragon Furious, looking down on the Berserks, suddenly turned so small and so weak on their shaking rope bridges. For their part, the Berserks looked up in awe and absolute astonishment at the mighty dragon hovering above them, the tiny little figure sitting upright on its back. 'HALT!' yelled Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. 'HALT! The Beast of Berserk is now under MY power and control. DO WHAT I SAY or else with one lick of his flames he will turn this whole wood into fire and inferno.' The Chief Berserk's mouth fell open. 'The Beast…' he whispered. 'I don't believe it… the Beast… how did the boy do it? Is he magic? He must be magic!' Alvin couldn't believe it either. He had turned as white as his teeth. 'How does he do it?' he muttered. 'How does he do it?" 'RELEASE THE FIANCéS!' yelled Hiccup

19. 这是一个美好的时刻。 对小嗝嗝来说，这是一个非常好的时刻，他高高坐在怒龙的背上，俯视着狂暴者，突然变得那么小，那么虚弱，站在摇晃的绳桥上。 对于狂暴战士来说，他们怀着敬畏和绝对的惊讶抬头看着那条在他们头顶盘旋的巨龙，这个小小的身影笔直地坐在它的背上。 “停止!可怕的黑线鳕第三号嗝嗝喊道。 “停止!狂暴之兽现在在我的力量和控制之下。 照我说的去做，否则他只要一舔火焰，就会把整片树林变成火和地狱。”狂暴酋长张大了嘴。 “野兽……”他低声说。 “我不相信……那野兽……那男孩是怎么做到的？” 他有魔力吗？他一定会魔法！”阿尔文也不敢相信。 他的脸变得像牙齿一样白。 “他是怎么做到的？”他喃喃地说。 ’他是怎么做到的？”“释放未婚夫！”小嗝嗝喊道

Horrendous Haddock the Third. 'WINCH BACK FISHLEGS! RELEASE ALL THE PRISONERS HELD IN THE TREE PRISONS! RELEASE THEM OR THE DRAGON WILL SET FIRE TO THE VILLAGE!' 'How does he know about the tree prisons?' gasped the Chief Berserk. 'WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!' he yelled, shaking his fist up at Hiccup and the Dragon Furious. 'WE HAVE FIRE- SUITS, YOU KNOW! AND WE ARE NUTTERS!' 'WE CERTAINLY ARE!' yelled the other Berserks on the bridges. It was fortunate that Camicazi intervened at this point, because Hiccup had no real intention of setting fire to the forest. But Camicazi had wriggled along her tree branch until she was directly above the Chief. And now she dropped down like a little cat, timing it perfectly so she landed right on top of him. The Chief wasn't expecting a small blonde child to drop unexpectedly out of the night sky and hold a very sharp knife indeed to his throat. He let out a strangled scream. 'Listen here, you plankton-brained, clanking

可怕的黑线鳕三号。 “把鱼腿卷起来！”释放所有被关在这三所监狱里的囚犯！放了他们，不然恶龙会放火烧村子！“他是怎么知道那三个监狱的？”狂怒队长喘着气说。 “我们决不投降！”他吼道，对着小嗝嗝和愤怒的巨龙挥舞着拳头。 “你知道，我们有消防服！”我们是疯子！“我们当然是！”桥上的其他狂暴者喊道。 幸运的是，卡米卡齐在这个时候介入了，因为小嗝嗝并没有放火烧毁森林的真正意图。 但是卡米卡齐沿着她的树枝扭动着，一直爬到酋长的正上方。 现在她像一只小猫一样掉了下来，时机把握得很好，正好落在他身上。 酋长没有想到一个金发小孩突然从夜空中掉下来，拿着一把非常锋利的刀对着他的喉咙。 他发出一声窒息的尖叫。 “听着，你这个有浮游生物头脑的叮当人

Howl of a loser!' whispered Camicazi. 'Unless you do exactly as Hiccup says you won't need a Fire- Suit because I will kill you right now, with pleasure, and you can trust the word of a Bog-Burglar on this one…'

失败者的嚎叫！卡米卡齐悄声说。 “除非你完全按照小嗝嗝说的去做，否则你就不需要防火服了，因为我现在就会杀了你，很高兴，你可以相信沼泽飞贼的话……”

The Chief grew thoughtful. However nutty he was, he was still rather keen on making it through to the morning alive. 'Don't kill him unless you have to, Camicazi!' Hiccup called out. 'Oh, but I may have to,' grinned Camicazi. Camicazi had been the most difficult prisoner the Chief had ever had. Despite being so small, it had taken five grown Uglithugs to capture her, and she had been so rude when she arrived on the island that she had made one of the Berserks cry. The Chief had a horrible feeling that she meant exactly what she said. 'Ah… on second thoughts…' said the Chief with an apologetic cough. 'Perhaps you have a point… EVERYBODY DO WHAT THE RED-HAIRED BOY SAYS!' Now the Berserks may have been nutcases, but like all the Tribes in the Archipelago, they were obedient to their Chief. So there was pandemonium on the rope bridges as the Berserks galloped, clanking like a load of metallic elephants, to all of the prison cells all across the island. And you had to hand it to the Berserks, once they were given a task, they executed it very

酋长沉思起来。 不管他有多疯狂，他还是很想活到第二天早上。 “除非万不得已，别杀他，卡米卡齐！”小嗝嗝喊道。 “哦，但我可能不得不这么做，”卡米卡齐笑着说。 卡米卡齐是酋长所见过的最难对付的囚犯。 尽管她个头很小，但还是被五个成年的乌格里格人抓住了，而且她刚到岛上时太粗鲁了，甚至把其中一个狂暴怪弄哭了。 酋长有一种可怕的感觉，觉得她说的就是那个意思。 “啊……再考虑一下……”警长抱歉地咳嗽了一声。 “也许你说得有道理……每个人都照红发男孩说的做！”狂暴族可能是疯子，但就像群岛上所有的部落一样，他们服从他们的首领。 于是，当狂暴者像一堆金属大象一样，丁丁当当地奔向全岛所有的监狱牢房时，吊桥上一片混乱。 你必须把它交给狂暴者，一旦他们接到任务，他们执行得非常

faithfully indeed. They had spent the last one hundred or so years guarding these trees. Not a single prisoner had managed to get out in that entire time. Every Berserk would have happily have laid down his life to prevent an escape. And now they went about releasing the very same prisoners with the same mad keenness and energetic efficiency. If a prisoner was too weak to climb the rope that was let down into the tree, the Berserks actually descended the rope themselves, and brought the prisoner up in a fireman's lift on their massive shoulders. Some of the poor prisoners had been in there so long, they had forgotten what life outside was like, and they did not want to leave. But they were given short shrift. 'EVERYBODY OUT!' yelled a massive Berserk, shouldering a poor shrinking old man who had forgotten his name, and what Tribe he was, and did not want to leave the tree frogs who had been his friends for the past sixty years. 'BOSS'S ORDERS! YOU'RE ALL TO LEAVE ON THE DOUBLE!' So before long the rope bridges were packed with lines of confused shuffling prisoners in rags, some with renewed hope in their eyes, others scared and apprehensive, all blinking

忠实地。他们花了大约一百年的时间来保护这些树木。 在这段时间里，没有一个囚犯成功逃脱。 每一个狂暴者都会很乐意牺牲自己的生命来阻止逃跑。 现在，他们又以同样疯狂的热情和精力充沛的效率释放了同样一批囚犯。 如果一个囚犯太虚弱，爬不上下放到树上的绳子，狂暴者就会自己顺着绳子下去，用消防员的电梯把囚犯抬上来。 有些可怜的囚犯在那里呆得太久了，他们已经忘记了外面的生活是什么样子，他们不想离开。 但他们受到了冷遇。 每个人都出去!一个魁梧的疯汉喊道，他肩上扛着一个可怜的畏缩的老人，这个老人已经忘记了自己的名字和所属的部落，他不想离开过去六十年来一直是他朋友的树蛙。 “老板的订单!你们都要马上离开！”因此，没过多久，绳桥上就挤满了一行行衣衫褴褛、步履蹒跚的囚犯，有些人眼中重新燃起了希望，有些人又害怕又担心，全都眨着眼睛

in the unaccustomed daylight. 'UNLOCK THEM!' yelled Hiccup, as the Dragon Furious hovered above the scene of chaos, 'UNLOCK THEM AND SET THEM FREE! The dragons as well!' So even the Chickenpoxer and the Windwalker were unlocked from their chains by the eager Berserks. 'Do you want to know how old I am, you iron- clad ignoramus?' smiled Camicazi, still holding her knife to the Chief's throat. 'Not particularly,' said the Chief of Berserk. 'I am eleven and a quarter,' grinned Camicazi. 'And even though I am of course the toughest and most brilliant eleven-year-old in the Archipelago, how good does that make you feel, a great big Let's-Go- Crazy Warrior like you, to be beaten in battle by a titchy-witchy little eleven-year-old?' Not very good, actually. The Chief of Berserk felt a little like crying himself. And once the Fiancés and the prisoners were set free of course, they grabbed any weapon they could find and a pitched battle ensued between Fiancés and Berserks, a battle that is known in the Sagas as The Battle of the Treetop Madmen. The Berserks going crazy is an incredible, awesome sight. They swung

在不习惯的日光下。 “解锁!嗝嗝喊道，怒龙在混乱的上空盘旋，“打开它们，放了它们！”还有龙！”因此，即使是鸡力和风行者也被狂热的狂战士解开了枷锁。 “你想知道我有多大年纪吗，你这个铁甲无知的人？”卡米卡齐微笑着，仍然用刀抵着酋长的喉咙。 “没什么特别的。”狂暴队长说。 “我十一岁零四分之一，”卡米卡齐咧嘴笑着说。 “虽然我当然是群岛上最坚强、最聪明的十一岁的孩子，但是你，一个像你这样的疯狂的大战士，在战场上被一个胆小的十一岁的小女巫打败，这感觉有多好啊？”其实不是很好。 狂暴酋长自己也有点想哭。 一旦他们和俘虏被释放，他们当然会抓住他们能找到的任何武器，一场激烈的战斗在他们和Berserks之间展开，这场战斗在传奇故事中被称为树顶疯子之战。 狂暴者发疯是一种不可思议的、令人敬畏的景象。 他们了