第十一章：英雄的考验(19)

Everything had gone very quiet and still. Hiccup could barely hear the hubbub of stamping and applauding Vikings in the background any more. 
He was alone in the quietness of his own mind.
He did not want to be king. He did not want the responsibility of it being all his fault when things went wrong. 
But then, his own voice spoke back to him, in the quietness of his brain. If he was not the King, Alvin would be the King. And Hiccup knew what that meant now. That meant the horror of the dragons’ extinction. That meant the tyranny of evil dominating the Archipelago and ruling over Tomorrow for this generation and the next. He could not let that happen. 

Even though he did not want it, he HAD to be King now. He had to fight for it, not half-heartedly, but with everything he had. 
That was the moment Hiccup took on his destiny. 
He lifted his drooping head. 
‘I will NEVER give up fighting you even though it is too late… Even though all is lost… Even though it is impossible… Never never never…’ 
The witch had failed again.
‘Leave him down even longer!’ yelled the witch, quivering with temper. ‘Leave him for eight minutes!’