12-第四章：更大的麻烦(13)

’ ‘Freedom…’ sighed Luna, with longing melancholy. ‘Freedom… Free to wander where we will in the open skies. Free to fly high, high, high in the airy winds, free to touch the moon itself, free to dive
forever in the sweet black nothingness of the Open Ocean… ah… Freedom…’ ‘Send your best dragons, Luna,’ growled the Dragon Furious. ‘But stay here yourself.’ Luna bowed her radiant head. She would send out a party of their most fearsome and pitiless dragons to destroy Hiccup before he got to Tomorrow: Hellsteethers, Tongue-twisters, Gorebreathers… Just in case. The Dragon Furious sank slowly below the waves until only his eyes were showing above the water, his gaze fixed on Hero’s Gap. The Dragon had looked into the future, and the humans must be destroyed before they could destroy the dragons. Watching, waiting. Only a few more hours now. He knew that it was Doomsday. But Doomsday for whom? On the high cliffs of Tomorrow, in the ruins of Grimbeard’s City, the battered remains of the human army were waking up too. Human beings from the four corners of the Archipelago were gathered there, for they had all been burnt out of their homes.