The flowers are swaying and casting their smell all over the garden. I scuttle over and under the beds of plants, when I hear barking. The humans let the dog out. He comes charging with new energy, I try and get back to my home, but the dog gets there first and blocks my path. I have no other option (but getting eaten) I must drop my tail to keep the dog distracted. I sprint forward and drop my tail right in front of him, the dog turns around at first I thought he didn’t see my tail, but I realize he is checking for movement. My body stills, like someone built a statue of a lizard with no tail. The dog picks up my tail (probably to bury) and runs away. I am panting all the way back to my den.
The next day, I move closer to the human’s home then I have ever been before, the female person comes out holding a basket, I duck under a bush. She puts some fabric on some string then she leaves. I quickly and quietly move towards where the female person came out of, I crouch waiting for the bigger male to come out, like he does every morning to go to the garden. The big male tends to the garden and plants, flowers, beans, and tomatoes. The contraption that the humans came out of swings open, the human comes out. I time it perfectly and I dash inside before I get a chance to know what I am doing.
I decide to head towards the people talking loudly when I am inside. The lady is sitting on some soft fabric and staring at a coloured box, and it seems that the loud talking is coming from that box. I start to wonder how the people got stuck in there. The lady barks with laughter and it startles me, so I scuttle away into a different room. Their child is playing with some blocks; his cat is sleeping on his bed, and her white tip of tail is flopping side to side. He spots me and I run towards the bed I can hide there, then I mack a start for the exit, but the kid shut his door. The male soke softly and gently,
“I won’t hurt you” he whispered I tread closer wondering what he is doing. I sniff his hand, then jump into it, he puts me back onto the mat and says “Wait here”
then he leaves and shuts the door behind him. I climb up the bed frame and see the ginger cat sleeping soundly (her name is Socks, for her white paws and her white tail tip) I hear a creak, I turn to the door nobody is there. I go to look at Socks again, but she is not there, I start to panic my breathing becomes ragged, my heart beats rapidly in my tiny chest. Socks is hissing behind me. I run up the wall just as she ponces at me. Socks is about to finish what the dog started, the boy comes in,
“No Socks stop it you bad cat” he says to the hissing cat, his face full of rage. She runs away. “Are you ok “he asked me. “My name is Hunter.” Hunter gave me some bread. The next day, I played with Hunter the next day to, and we formed a very strong, unbreakable bond, we never separated, together we did everything. Then finally his parents gave upto get rid of Hunters new pet, and they excepted him, I get food every night and sleep on FABRIC!!! (It is so soft.) I also go outside a lot and to smell the flowers.
Everybody is sleeping, but I am wide awake. A strong smell floats into my nostrils, I crawl under the door and carefully tread towards the smell (it is leading to the kitchen) I climb up the table and my gaze falls towards the oven I see that there is a gas leak and someone forgot to turn off the gas stove!
KKKAAABBBOOOMMM!!!!
the oven is full flames I sprint towards the parent’s room, somehow, they didn’t wake to the boom, so I climb up the purple flower covered fabric. My tongue shoots from my mouth from my pose on their belly’s, SPLAT my tongue hits the lady’s face. She wakes with a start now, I quickly do the same to the male, they chase me to the kitchen which is nearly fully engulf in flames. They stand there and gasp at their kitchen. Then the start to move, faster than I have ever seen them move before. The lady is on the phone to someone and using a towel to flap the flames back, the male is grabbing a hose and tries to hose it down. I run back to the boy’s room and do want I did to the parents SPLAT, Hunter wakes up and feeling the new blazing warmth he came out of his room. By then the parents are grabbing their son, sprinting outside I run happily that I got everybody out of the house, I remember that I forgot someone, Socks, I run up the stairs. Next, I am standing next to her bed. SPLAT she wakes up and hisses
“ what do you want “she snarled
“To get you up “I replied. She nods they sprint down the stairs, at the bottom, of the stairs are the floorboards I scuttle across, Socks starts to walk, halfway the floorboards give way, and she falls. Then my sticky togue is wrapped around her tail I swing her up and pull her up and on to the floorboards. Socks says “Thank you” panting I say “your welcome” we run out of the house, Socks is pulled straight into the lady’s arms, and it looks like other people are putting out fires. Hunter pulls me in close and whispers “thank you.”
After a few days in an apartment the whole family realize that a lizard saved their life’s and without him, they would have die. My tail has grown back, and the dog made it out alive, Hunter walks over to where I am sitting and he picks me up, he says “you need a name” he walks over to the window and peers out then looks back at me, and grins
“Leonardo, Leonardo the lizard.”