12-第三章：小麻烦(15)

But in mid-leap, the Spydragon got to the end of the rope and it yanked him back in the nick of time so that his jaws clanged shut on thin air, inches away from Hiccup’s nose. Hiccup was so close to having his head bitten off that he actually smelled the bad breath of the creature as he snapped his mighty jaws shut. ‘Yowwwwwww!’ screeched the Vampire Spydragon in agony, for the rope tied round the rock pulled on his tail in the most painful way, and having your tail pulled, as everyone knows, is extremely uncomfortable as well as undignified. ‘Yowwwww!’ screeched the Vampire Spydragon again. And then the Vampire Spydragon went mad.