12-第八章：我猜你肯定会觉得这永远都不会发生......(9)

’ The Deadly Shadow stretched out its three necks, and flew low and straight over the heads of the shouting human Guardians. Fishlegs held his breath, expecting at any moment a cry from the troops below – but no cry came. It looked like Camicazi was right. Normally even a Stealth Dragon could not get through the double defence of the human and dragon
Guardians of Tomorrow. But the sentries were busy searching for Hiccup, and the launch of the Dragon Guardians from the beach had created a bewildering, blinding sandstorm that mingled with the fog and the smoke. The Dragon Guardians had rocketed up into the airy atmosphere, and it would take them at least five minutes to turn around and dive, like unimaginably enormous peregrine falcons, back down under the sands of Tomorrow. So in the middle of all that disturbance, the Deadly Shadow sailed right over the top of the entire Guardian army and into the air-space of Tomorrow without being detected. Fishlegs and Camicazi got their first good look at the island of Tomorrow, laid out beneath them like a child’s map in a fairy story. It was a good-sized island, covered, like all the islands of the Archipelago, with marsh and bog and bracken, and thickly forested in the south. Although the ruined city of Tomorrow was in a state of splendid decay, it was still the largest city that Fishlegs and Camicazi had ever seen. No fewer than fifteen castles were built around the edge of a large natural harbour, and thousands more buildings were laid out in a ruined