12-第二十七章(终章):鬼魂已被释放(21)
If only I had leapt quicker…
‘If only… if only… ‘But now I have leapt in time,’ said the Dragon with deep satisfaction. ‘I made the leap… I saved the boy Hiccup… One hundred years too late, but still, it seems, in time. And look how I am rewarded!’ said the Dragon, smiling now for the third time, with the most untroubled, clear look in his yellow eye that Hiccup had yet seen. The fires in his eyes had died completely, and now they glowed with a warmth and light that shone in that dark Bay with the brightness of mini suns. ‘The boy Hiccup has a Plan that will save the dragons!’ cried the Dragon Furious to his followers. ‘The dragons will be saved, and that is all that I ever wanted. ‘So do not weep tears for me, dragons or Vikings. This little scratch is nothing. ‘And you were right, Wodensfang,’ the Dragon added. ‘the boy was worth it.’ ‘As I said, Love is always worth it, old friend,’ said Wodensfang. ‘Love is always worth it.’
‘I am born again,’ said the Dragon Furious. He did, indeed, look about a hundred years younger than he had done a couple of minutes earlier. The lamps of the Dragon’s eyes glowed with a fierce light once more, and he was seized with a sudden energy. He forced himself to lift his head, to move towards the edge of the Reef, and he spoke with a return of his old determination. ‘I will not die here in Wrecker’s Bay. I shall not be trapped here, on land, for the seagulls and the Vultureclaws to pick my bones, and for my skeleton to be a sad reminder of a dragon who dared to be a rebel, and fought perhaps too fiercely for what he believed in. ‘A hundred years ago, when Grimbeard the Ghastly was about to die, he did not stay buried in Hero’s End, where his grave is. No, he set out to the west in his ship The Endless Journey, never to be seen again. ‘That is where I am going…
‘If only… if only… ‘But now I have leapt in time,’ said the Dragon with deep satisfaction. ‘I made the leap… I saved the boy Hiccup… One hundred years too late, but still, it seems, in time. And look how I am rewarded!’ said the Dragon, smiling now for the third time, with the most untroubled, clear look in his yellow eye that Hiccup had yet seen. The fires in his eyes had died completely, and now they glowed with a warmth and light that shone in that dark Bay with the brightness of mini suns. ‘The boy Hiccup has a Plan that will save the dragons!’ cried the Dragon Furious to his followers. ‘The dragons will be saved, and that is all that I ever wanted. ‘So do not weep tears for me, dragons or Vikings. This little scratch is nothing. ‘And you were right, Wodensfang,’ the Dragon added. ‘the boy was worth it.’ ‘As I said, Love is always worth it, old friend,’ said Wodensfang. ‘Love is always worth it.’
‘I am born again,’ said the Dragon Furious. He did, indeed, look about a hundred years younger than he had done a couple of minutes earlier. The lamps of the Dragon’s eyes glowed with a fierce light once more, and he was seized with a sudden energy. He forced himself to lift his head, to move towards the edge of the Reef, and he spoke with a return of his old determination. ‘I will not die here in Wrecker’s Bay. I shall not be trapped here, on land, for the seagulls and the Vultureclaws to pick my bones, and for my skeleton to be a sad reminder of a dragon who dared to be a rebel, and fought perhaps too fiercely for what he believed in. ‘A hundred years ago, when Grimbeard the Ghastly was about to die, he did not stay buried in Hero’s End, where his grave is. No, he set out to the west in his ship The Endless Journey, never to be seen again. ‘That is where I am going…