第三十章:黑心监狱之战(17)
Toothless was happy though, all unknowing as he was, of the malevolent intent of the witch and her horrible son. The little dragon was just delighted to be reunited with his master once again. ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo!’ crowed Toothless. ‘Don’t worry, H-h-hiccup! Don’t p-p- panic, everybody, Toothless is here! The most important Thing of all!’ Toothless, the Wodensfang and the Shadow rose up to the battlements of Darkheart as the great doors opened and the humans poured out to make their escape below. Above their heads, for the first time in a thousand years, the dragons took Darkheart. The Dragon Rebellion poured through the corridors of the Prison. There were Tonguetwisters in the courtyard setting fire to the long tables. They tore down the towers, sending them tumbling and crashing into the dungeons where their dragon ancestors had been kept in chains for centuries. In the bay of the Dragons’ Graveyard, the Dragon Furious crouched amid the chaos, his eyes scanning the skies above relentlessly in great searchlight beams, ignoring the Viking ships with their
burning sails slaloming through the dragon skeletons all around him, sending out their Exploding Things as they shot their way out in retreat. ‘The boy…’ hissed the Dragon Furious. ‘Where is the boy called Hiccup?’ The Dragon Furious was right, of course; the boy was there, soaring invisibly above the great dragon’s head on the back of the Deadly Shadow. For one second, the Dragon Furious saw him. A burst of Exploding Thing Fire must have caught the Shadow off-guard. For one moment he turned visible with the shock, and there he was, with Hiccup on his back, right in the Dragon Furious’s searchlight eyebeams. The Dragon Furious saw the Deadly Shadow…