Lippy the Lizard

by Alistair Briggs, Feb 14, 2009
About someone who has to make the ultimate sacrifice as they give up on their life for that of every other living thing. Seen through the eyes of Lippy the Lizard.

Lippy was a lizard from Lizardonia,
who had a special talent.
His lips were so big
he could blow bubbles the size of houses.
All the other lizardshad normal size lips.
All of them could blow bubbles
but just normal size ones.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
had the special talent
of blowing huge bubbles
that were lighter than air.
All the other lizards
could blow bubbles too
but just normal ones,
bubbles that burst straight away.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
blew bubbles like houses,
that were lighter than air
and impossible to burst.
All the other lizards
were wary of Lippy's bubbles.
Although they were so big,
they could see them coming.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
could keep it under control.
Whenever he felt like a bubble
he would go outside.
Out in the open air,
the bubble that Lippy had created,
floated up in the sky.
No one was harmed by it.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia,whose lips were so big
and blew bubbles the size of houses
had never thought of this before.
"I wonder where they go?!
He pondered to himself.
"They must go somewhere,
somewhere in the sky."
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia,
had never thought this before.
He had been making bubbles
for many, many years.
He had to find the answer,
so asked some other lizards.
"We do not know" they said,"Where your bubbles go."
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
asked every single lizard
and not one in the whole of Lizardonia
could tell him where his bubbles go.
But one of the lizards told Lippy,
that there may be someone who could help.
"The wise scorpion of the sea,may be able to help you."
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
knew what he had to do.
Find the wise scorpion of the sea,
to find out the answer.
It took nearly 100 years to find,
the sea with the wise scorpion.
Nearly 100 years
and over 4,000 bubbles.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
asked the wise scorpion of the sea,
"What happens to the bubblesthat my huge lips make?"
"The ones that are as big as houses
and impossible to burst?"
The wise scorpion of the sea
thought and then gave him the answer.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
had never thought of this before,
but he hoped the scorpion was wrong.
If he wasn't, then the end was nigh.
The bubbles that he produced,
that were impossible to burst,
had all floated into space
and were now building up.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
had asked how big space was.
The wise scorpion of the sea
had said that space was expanding.
"So space has no ending?" asked Lippy.
"It has an ending" said the scorpion,
"One that is getting further away."
Lippy asked if it was ok.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia,
was not the smartest lizard
but if he understood right,
his bubbles could be filling space.
His bubbles were as big as houses,
producing them for thousands of years.
They had been building up in space
and space could not keep up.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
was now quite worried.
If space was filled up with his bubbles
there would be no space for others.
He needed to find out what to do,
was there a solution?
He hoped there was,
but feared there wasn't.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia,
found the smartest lizards
in the institution
where the lizard scientists worked.
Hopefully they could help him out,
find a solution,
to the house size bubbles
that were now filling space.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
told the 5 lizard scientists
all about the problem,
each of the was shocked.
And from that very moment,
the 5 lizard scientists
went away to work
on a solution to the problem.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
had to stay in the institution
but only with one condition,
he had to go outside to make bubbles.
Four thousand and seven years ago
was when Lippy was born.
Lizards from Lizardonia
had an average age of ten thousand years.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
was not even middle age yet.
All the bubbles he had ever produced
was not even half the number he would.
Now he was getting worried
about the lack of space in space.
He hoped the scientists would find
a cure for the problem.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
waited many years in the institution
for the scientists good news.
"We could just kill you"
"That would fix the problem"said the first 2 scientists,
at the same time in unison.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
hoped they were joking
but feared that they weren't.
The third scientist burst out laughing.
"They are joking" he said,"We may have found a way
to burst your bubbles
and save the day."
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
sighed a sigh of relief.
The end was in sight,
a solution was near.
The fourth scientist spoke for the first time,
"Your bubbles are fascinating,
near impossible to burst,
but only if you are outside of it."
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
could not understand.
How could anyone get inside his bubbles?
If that was the only way to burst them.
The fifth scientist would have spoken here,
but he couldn't.
The work that had happened had killed him,
there were only four left.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
pouted his big lips,
as if to make a bubble.
He now knew the answer.
He blew the bubble as big as a house
and just before it bubbled away.
He jumped in the bubble
and started to float away.
Lippy the lizard from Lizardonia
had never been a brave lizard.
As he floated away into space
he knew he had saved the day.
No more bubbles would be produced
after the air in the bubble had gone.
Lippy would die soon,
but the problem was solved.

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