I was in a hot air balloon when my husband saw a thing moving as fast as a bullet flying out of a gun. My husband said “Let’s have a look!” So we got down on the ground and looked at the horrid thing. We walked up to it and we stared at it and it stared back at me. I was terrified as I looked at it.

I saw terrifying big brown eyes and they were staring at me and its claws were lethal weapons. Its feet were scary. Together they gave me chills up my spine. It was scared I thought I was going to wet my pants but I couldn’t! We wondered what it was. Then it curled in to its big green old rotten tortoise shell. It smelled like an old rotten sock and

they smell horrible. All you could see was its spiky iguana tail and that was scary. I just wanted to grab my husband’s pocket knife it was that scary.

Its giraffe antlers were freaky but finally I was ok with them. We caught it and we gave it to a zoo.

By Jess