12-第二十七章(终章):鬼魂已被释放(23)
I shall be the first to hide.’ There was a sigh among the listening humans and dragons. He turned to Luna, shining softly silver, grave as a statue. ‘You are the new ruler of dragons now, Luna, and I hope that you shall be a better monarch than I have been. Remember your pledge.’ And then he turned to Hiccup. ‘Promise me again, O Boy-Who-Has-a-Name- That-I-Love. Promise me one last time…
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‘I promise that I will save the dragons,’ said King Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. With a last, desperate effort the Dragon Furious launched himself off the Reef, drenching those Vikings and dragons who had landed on the rocks in the resulting tidal wave. His first few strokes through the water were painfully slow. But was it Hiccup’s imagination, or did he seem to be growing stronger, the further he swam away? They watched him go into the sunset in the final hours of daylight on the last day of Doomsday: the entire massed Tribes of the Archipelago, the countless armies of the Dragon Rebellion, the numberless little nanodragons, Luna and the Dragon Guardians of Tomorrow, standing still and silent, saluting the great Dragon as he left for the west. They watched the Dragon Furious swim past Tomorrow, through Hero’s Gap, past Hero’s End, and out, and on, and further and further into the future. And it really did seem that he was growing stronger and stronger, as the great Dragon swam away, and got smaller and smaller in their eyesight, until when he reached the horizon, far, far away, he was almost the size of the Wodensfang himself.
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‘I promise that I will save the dragons,’ said King Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third. With a last, desperate effort the Dragon Furious launched himself off the Reef, drenching those Vikings and dragons who had landed on the rocks in the resulting tidal wave. His first few strokes through the water were painfully slow. But was it Hiccup’s imagination, or did he seem to be growing stronger, the further he swam away? They watched him go into the sunset in the final hours of daylight on the last day of Doomsday: the entire massed Tribes of the Archipelago, the countless armies of the Dragon Rebellion, the numberless little nanodragons, Luna and the Dragon Guardians of Tomorrow, standing still and silent, saluting the great Dragon as he left for the west. They watched the Dragon Furious swim past Tomorrow, through Hero’s Gap, past Hero’s End, and out, and on, and further and further into the future. And it really did seem that he was growing stronger and stronger, as the great Dragon swam away, and got smaller and smaller in their eyesight, until when he reached the horizon, far, far away, he was almost the size of the Wodensfang himself.