第一章：战士(16)

memorable. I’m supposed to be undercover you know. An Outcast has to melt into the background…’ ‘Sssh…’ The Wodensfang put his wing to his lips. ‘I told you,’ said the Wodensfang, ‘I’ve had this really bad feeling that the Dragon Furious has sent some new dragon to assassinate you… Something really terrifying…’ ‘Yes, Wodensfang,’ said Hiccup. ‘You’re always getting these feelings, but listen, it’s all gone quiet.’ ‘That’s the thing about this new dragon, though,’ whispered the Wodensfang. ‘It’s almost undetectable. It’s one of those tracker dragons.’ The four companions stretched their ears out into the white muffled world of trees-and-snow.

Up in the treetops the Warrior and the dragon sat still as stones. Not a leaf moved, the forest seemed to hold its breath… And then…
With a scream as loud as a charging baboon, the Warrior hidden in the tree-canopy above exploded into action, erupting from the foliage and descending from above in a shower of leaves and broken branches like some swooping noble nightmare of revenge. Sssssppppppppppooooooooow! Zzzzziiiiiiiinggggg! If Hiccup and the Windwalker hadn’t been living on their nerves for the past six months, they might not have dodged backward so fast, and Hiccup would have been deader than a dodo. For the Zzzzing! that zinged past Hiccup’s nose was the zing of an arrow that missed him by inches and buried itself in a tree trunk a couple of feet behind him. CLANG! The dodging backwards brought his visor clanging down, where it jammed tight shut. Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me. BONG! BONG! BONG! Three more arrows came