12-第二章：你瞧，故事开始不到五分钟，情况又变得更糟了(12)

But the Hogfly didn’t listen. ‘Lovely darts!’ sang the Hogfly, his curly tail wagging in an absolute blur of pleasure. ‘Pretty little darts! COME to the Hogfly!’ ‘The darts are BAD, Hogfly, they’re BAD!’ screamed Hiccup, as the Hogfly launched himself at three or four more. Excitement always made the Hogfly buzz louder than normal, and he was so thrilled by this new game that he could not hear Hiccup over the sound of his own buzzing. ‘Bother!’ squealed the Hogfly, as he narrowly missed another dart. ‘Nearly!’ screamed the Hogfly, as his little piggy jaws snapped on thin air once more. Luckily, not only was the Hogfly not as good at the fetching game as he thought he was, he was in fact supremely hopeless at it. But there were so many darts flying around that it was really only a question of time before he got hit by one. ‘Ooh, I really am going to get this one…

’ said the Hogfly to himself, narrowing his eyes as he spotted a dart coming right at him, and positioning himself cunningly so that he was right bang on target. Hiccup transferred his weight on to his right
foot, and with all his strength he launched himself in a Heroic HOP towards the Hogfly, flinging up his left arm in the nick of time so the dart landed in his floppy forearm rather than in the Hogfly, and then landing face down in the sand again. ‘Mother’s playing too!’ squawked the Hogfly. ‘Good catch, Mother!’ The little dragon was so wild with excitement that he blew himself up and floated within an arm’s length of where Hiccup was lying. Hiccup reached up, caught the passing Hogfly by his curly tail, and half hopped, half rolled his way forward, taking himself, the drowsy Wodensfang, and the inflated, over-excited little Hogfly, into the shelter of the broken boat in a hail of arrows. Z-I-N-G! Z-I-N-G! Z-I-N-G! Three darts buried themselves into the shell of the boat as Hiccup ducked inside it. BONG!