9 Scarers

9. SCARERS Up until that point, Fishlegs had really been doing very well. All on his own he had flown into the Woods That Howled. Under the protection of his Berserk mood, he hadn't felt frightened at all of flying through the dark forest. Brave as a lion, he had filled five pots of honey from five different honey trees, without dropping a single jar on to the forest floor below. He had been stung three times by bees and he didn't even care. But then, just as he had placed the fifth and final jar in his rucksack, and with joyous excitement was about to get the Chickenpoxer soaring out of the Wood, his heart singing, 'I'm a Hero! I'm a Hero!'– just at that moment… …something happened. Who knows what it was, a strange noise perhaps, a sudden cloud drifting over the moon so that he was

9. 在那之前，鱼腿确实做得很好。 他独自一人飞进了嚎叫的森林。 在狂暴情绪的保护下，他一点儿也不害怕飞过黑暗的森林。 他像狮子一样勇敢，从五棵不同的蜂蜜树上装满了五罐蜂蜜，没有一罐掉到下面的森林地板上。 他被蜜蜂蜇了三次，他甚至不在乎。 但是，就在他把第五罐，也是最后一罐放进背包，准备带着鸡粉飞出树林的时候，他的心在歌唱：“我是英雄！我是英雄！——就在那一刻... ...发生了什么事。 谁知道那是什么，也许是一种奇怪的声音，也许是一片突然飘到月亮上的云，所以他在那里

in absolute blackness for a moment. But whatever it was that spooked him caused the sudden disappearance of his Berserk mood as quickly and mysteriously as it had descended upon him. Fear stole upon Fishlegs as he sat in the heart of that wood, and as soon as he began to get frightened, that was when the Scarers came. Scarers are blind. And a little deaf. But they like to feed upon blood that is filled with the adrenaline caused by fear. And so when a human or an animal is filled with fear, that is when they smell them, and gather in thick, cloudy black swarms called 'flutters', tens of thousands strong. Fishlegs and the Chickenpoxer stayed absolutely still as the Scarers settled upon them. And instinctively they had hit on the right thing to do. For if they stayed still, and calmed their panic, the Scarers might scuttle all over them and then move on, deciding they were a tree, or something else inedible. Oh for Thor's sake… oh for Thor's sake… what do I do? thought Fishlegs. And that was when he met Hiccup's eyes, and realised Hiccup was sitting on the hovering Windwalker, only twenty feet or so away. Fishlegs was always pleased to see Hiccup.

在一片漆黑中。 但是，不管是什么东西把他吓坏了，他的狂暴情绪突然消失了，就像它突然降临到他身上一样迅速而神秘。 当鱼腿坐在树林的中心时，恐惧悄悄袭上他的心头，他刚开始感到害怕，惊吓专员就来了。 惊吓者是盲目的。而且有点聋。 但它们喜欢以充满恐惧而产生的肾上腺素的血液为食。 因此，当一个人或动物充满恐惧时，也就是当他们闻到恐惧的时候，就会聚集成厚厚的、阴云密布的黑乎乎的群体，称为“振翅”，成千上万的人。 鱼腿和鸡力一动也不动，惊吓专员们朝他们扑了过去。 他们本能地找到了正确的做法。 因为如果他们呆着不动，平息他们的恐慌，惊吓专员可能会从他们身上扑过去，然后继续前进，以为他们是一棵树，或者别的什么不能吃的东西。 看在雷神的份上，看在雷神的份上，我该怎么办？ 认为Fishlegs。就在这时，他看到了小嗝嗝的眼睛，意识到小嗝嗝正坐在盘旋的“风行者”上，离他只有二十英尺左右。 鱼腿总是很高兴见到嗝嗝。

But never in his life had he been more pleased to see him than now. Hiccup knew all about dragon behaviour. 'What shall I do?' mouthed Fishlegs. 'You're doing the right thing,' hissed Hiccup. 'Don't move a muscle…' Hiccup and Toothless and the Windwalker also froze. Hiccup could feel the horrible Scarers landing on his neck, on his arms, on his legs, on his chest, on his face, even starting to crawl sluggishly down the back of his collar. Trembling violently, Fishlegs tried to force himself to stay calm, not to react. But if YOU have ever been crawled over by spiders, by bats, or by a swarm of angry bees, YOU will know how very very hard it is not to panic. Even if a single wasp lands on your arm, it can be hard not to jerk it away instinctively, even though you know that is not the right thing to do. So just imagine how difficult it would be if thousands and thousands of Scarers were swarming all over your body, all over your face even, and maybe they would climb up your nostrils or in your ears… It was this thought that made Fishlegs lose it completely, and who can blame him, frankly.

但在他的一生中，他从来没有像现在这样高兴见到他。 小嗝嗝对龙的行为了如指掌。 “我该怎么办？”嘴鱼腿。 “你做得对。”嗝嗝嘶嘶地说。 “一动也别动……”嗝嗝、无牙和风行者也僵住了。 小嗝嗝能感觉到可怕的惊吓专员落在他的脖子上、胳膊上、腿上、胸口上、脸上，甚至开始慢慢地顺着他的领子往下爬。 鱼腿剧烈地颤抖着，试图强迫自己保持冷静，不要做出反应。 但如果你曾经被蜘蛛、蝙蝠或一群愤怒的蜜蜂爬过，你就会知道不惊慌是多么困难。 即使一只黄蜂落在你的手臂上，你也很难不本能地把它拉开，即使你知道这样做是不对的。 所以，想象一下，如果成千上万的惊吓专员在你身上，甚至在你脸上聚集，他们可能会爬上你的鼻孔或耳朵，那该有多困难……正是这种想法使鱼腿完全失去了理智，坦率地说，谁能责怪他呢？

'AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed, and at exactly the same moment, three Scarers bit the Chickenpoxer on the bottom, and the Chickenpoxer wasn't the kind of dragon to take this lightly. He gave a violent swish of his tail, and a maddened buck, and he careered off through the jungle like a fat little Chickenpoxer chunk of lightning, narrowly missing two trees, with Fishlegs screaming wildly and flapping away with his arms on the Chickenpoxer's back. The Scarers buzzed away in a frenzy and a froth of whirling excitement, before swarming after them in zooming black clouds. And Fishlegs losing it tipped Hiccup over the edge, and he too started screaming, and the Windwalker bucked in the air before following the others in maddened out-of-control pursuit. Oh… for… Thor's… sake… thought a terrified Hiccup as he slalomed the Windwalker between the trees. This is going to end in DISASTER just like Fishlegs crashing head-first in the training practice. Flying for your life at top speed in the black of the night through the forest of Berserk was a VERY different matter, Hiccup discovered, from that little saunter through the trees in the Almost Wood.

“AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!他尖叫道，就在同一时刻，三个惊吓专家咬住了鸡力龙的屁股，而鸡力龙可不是那种对这事掉以轻心的龙。 它猛烈地甩了甩尾巴，一只发狂的雄鹿，像一大块胖胖的小闪电一样，在丛林中疾驰而去，险些击中两棵树，鱼腿疯狂地尖叫着，双臂拍打着鸡腿的背部。 惊吓专员们在一阵狂乱和兴奋的旋涡中嗡嗡地飞走了，然后像乌云一样在他们后面蜂拥而去。 鱼腿失去控制，把嗝嗝推到了悬崖边，他也开始尖叫起来，风行者在空中跳了起来，然后疯狂地追赶着其他人。 “哦……看在……托尔的份上……”吓坏了的小嗝嗝一边想，一边把风行者推到树丛间。 这将以灾难告终，就像鱼腿在训练中头朝下撞到一样。 小嗝嗝发现，在漆黑的夜里以最快的速度在狂暴的森林里飞行，与在几乎是森林里的树林里漫步是完全不同的事情。

Quite apart from the skill needed to avoid the densely grown trees of the forest, there was the little matter of the swarms of excited Scarers in hot pursuit. Hiccup realised the Scarers were actually shouting out as they followed through the darkness in their weird sing-song scary voices: 'We're going to ge-e-et you…' 'We can see-e-e-e-e you…' (Not strictly true, because they were blind, but frightening nonetheless.) That, of course, made the boys and the dragons even more scared, and so they gave off even more fear hormones, which the pursuing Scarers smelt and that turned them even more crazy and drunk and buzzing in a perfect fever of wild hunting excitement, and they swarmed after the boys with a high-pitched screaming whine that woke up more Scarers to join in the pursuit, and all in all it was a mad crazy body-chemical-fuelled dragon-chase that zig-zagged and zoomed hysterically through the dark trees of the Woods That Howled that moonlit summer night. 'Thank… you… for… following… me… Hiccup…' yelled Fishlegs as they charged like maniacs through the forest, breaking off twigs and branches and scattering shoals of Squirrelserpents as they went. 'No… problem…' Hiccup shouted back. 'I'm… not… interfering… am… I?' he said anxiously as

除了避开密密麻麻的树林所需要的技巧之外，还有一大群兴奋的惊吓专员在后面紧追不舍。 打嗝意识到吓人者实际上是喊出他们跟随在黑暗中奇怪的歌咏可怕的声音:“我们要ge-e-et你…”“我们可以see-e-e-e-e你…”(不完全正确,因为他们是盲目的,但还是可怕的。)当然，这让男孩们和龙们更害怕了，于是它们释放出更多的恐惧激素，追赶的惊吓专员闻到了，这让它们变得更加疯狂，更加醉醺醺，嗡嗡作响，处于一种疯狂的狂野狩猎的兴奋状态，它们成群结队地追着男孩们，发出尖利的尖叫，把更多的惊吓专员吵醒，加入到追捕中来。总而言之，这是一场由身体化学物质驱动的疯狂的追龙，在那个月光下的夏夜嚎叫的树林里，疯狂地蜿蜒而过。 “谢谢……谢谢……你……跟着……我……嗝嗝……”鱼腿喊道，它们像疯子一样在森林里冲来冲去，一路上折断了小树枝和大树枝，驱散了成群的松鼠蛇。 “没有……有问题……”嗝嗝喊道。 “我……没有……干涉……是……我吗？”他焦急地问