Part 7
Amy looked down at
Lil Bit, “Oh crap, she’ll get in the way.” Amy whistles to herself.
Hannibal Horrible couldn’t see Amy, but the fish were swimming around
lost and confused by the noise of the big machine and the horror of their
recent loss.
Hannibal decided
he would come back later for the one-legged bird, there was too much going on
here, he would just grab a little morsel to complete his fish dinner.
The whole thing lasted less than
thirty seconds but in the numerous tellings it takes on monstrous proportions.
Lil Bit, in a fit of real bravery
jumps and half flies in the way of the big bird as he lowers over the porch
toward the pond which causes him to have a momentary sway just long enough for
Bull to jump for his back. But… Bull
lands to the side and rolls off. Amy
knows she has to move fast, and flies after the big Owl, grabbing tail feathers
and tiny bits of down. Bull, runs up to
a top branch of the Crepe Myrtle and again jumps toward the back of the big
killer, who is now circling the pond. But
Bull over estimates his distance once again and lands on Jake startling the
snake into slithering onto the porch causing the human to spill her birdbath
which makes her mad as hell. She stops to eat the little green marble in her
now empty birdbath, grabs the hoe and runs after Jake into the yard. The human working at the pond’s pump sees
Jake the Pine Snake running towards him and throws the hatchet attached to his
belt, missing Jake, but hitting Hannibal Horrible in his arrogant head and sending
him crashing onto the roof of the porch.
Amy reaches the big Owl first and thinking him dead, gives the all
clear. Gingerly they all appear, looking
up at the felled prey. Bull and Lil Bit
reach Amy just as the big bird starts to move.
There are gasps as the three brave creatures back up as one. But Hannibal Horrible is all in. He shakes to clear his head,
“Has the world gone crazy, what the
hell just happened?” He asks groggily. Suddenly the shadow of another big owl swoops
down and grabs feathers out of Hannibal’s head.
“Get up you, idiot. Don’t you see that big yellow cat approaching
your sorry self?” Mrs. Hannibal Horrible takes wing and soars overhead
screeching and screaming at her husband.
“He’ll not be sleeping in the nest
tonight, the Mrs. is mad.” Says Bull.
Amy, Bull and Lil Bit go down to
the pond. Jake the Pine Snake is hiding
from the ‘ho’ with the hoe and won’t be out for a few days. Scott and Zelda are recuperating under the
wing of the cement angel covered in algae.
Bull looks over at Lil Bit. “Wow, she’s something else.” He’s really
under estimated her. He wonders how far
he could go with Lil Bit before Precious killed them both. “Ah, a guy sure can mess up his life by
falling for the wrong squirrel.” Bull
told Amy. Well, there’d be other days
and other ways to see to this love dilemma.
Lil Bit was glad she could help Bull… he is after all the love of her
life. Precious was waiting in the tree,
she was glad Bull was all right; after all he is the love of her life. She’d treat him well for a few days, and
remind him how much he loved her, that’d take his mind off miss goody ‘Lil
Butt’.
Amy Birdheart
became a hero that day, not that she did it alone, but because she knew it had
to be done and would’ve done it alone.
So life goes on in the back
yard. A little safer for the moment, but
friends have been established and boundaries made and kept. Love is allowed to grow between beings who’ve
found a way to live together in friendships.
Hannibal Horrible stops by and perches on the little gazebo overlooking
the pond on occasions when his Mrs. is in a rage. Not to eat, just to enjoy the calm. He knows not to temp this back yard. The big yellow cat is always close at
hand. What will happen next?
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