You try to mirror the girl's movements as she creeps around to the side of the lizard. You can see it turning to try and watch both of you, but must turn a lot farther to watch her, as though it's one eye does not work very well. You wait for it to turn its head completely, then lunge forward to strike.
It senses you and whips its head around, bringing its teeth to bare. You cannot stop your momentum, and so follow through with the charge trying to to use the spear to keep it from biting you in half.
As you do this, you spy the girl in the corner of you eye come racing forward. It does not see her, it's attention is solely on you. She leaps up and jams the spear straight through the beast's eye, sinking it deep and striking at the creature's brain. It instinctively whips around and the girl continues the motion, leaping onto the lizard's neck and jumping over to you. As you catch her, the creature emits of horrific sounding moan that causes all of the other lizards to flee in fright. It only takes a few moments, but it seems like and eternity as the two of you watch the beast crash to the ground, dead.
For several moments, all is quiet. Then, one of the men yells our a cry of delight. The other men race forward and all begin stabbing at the dead beast with relief. You set the girl down in case she wants to join in, but instead she goes over and tends to the injured man still lying on the ground. You come over and help her.
After the elation has died down and the injured man has been stabilized, the other men help carry him and the girl takes your hand to guide you from the armory. You trek for over an hour through a maze of caverns. For the entire time, you do not hear a single hiss.
At last, you emerge into a cavern beyond anything you'd ever imagined. An entire town has been carved into the stalagmites. The moss provides light. There are several places where steam is seeping up through cracks in the stone, providing heat. There are at least several hundred people living here. Upon seeing the young girl, a cheer goes up. Several men with spears race forward to greet you all, though you are eyed with some suspicion. The girl explains something in a language that you cannot understand, but within moments of her finishing, another cheer goes up and the two of you are lifted over the heads of the people as they wail with delight.
You are seated on a stone bench at the center of the town. The young girl is placed on a higher seat, and a stone carved crown is placed upon her head. You realize that she's on a throne, and apparently some form of royalty. The girl calls out several commands, and after a few minutes an old man who can actually speak Spanish appears. Apparently, he wandered out of the cave when he was a young man many years ago and was taken in by a catholic orphanage that taught him to speak Spanish before he left and returned to the cave. His words are rough, but you are able to infer that the girl is a Princess, and you've just helped her to win a war against the lizards that's been waged for as long as anyone can remember.
A feast is called for, and people enjoy cooked moss and lizard meat. You gracefully decline and eat what's left of the food you had in your pack. People sing and dance and play with the steam and perform fantastic climbing acrobatics through the chamber. As the celebrations continue, exhaustion overwhelms you and you're given a place to rest in a room on some soft moss.
You don't know how long you sleep for, but eventually you are awoken by the old translator and instructed to follow. The celebration has died down, though some singing can still be heard from the far side of the town. The young princess is waiting for the two of you, no longer wearing her crown. She leads the three of you back through the maze of tunnels. As you walk, the translator explains how the old prophesy had called for an outsider to come and bring and end to the war. He suspects that the 'Big One', the name for the large lizard, knew that as well and so was especially concerned with killing you, which is what led to its downfall. With it dead, the lizards will no longer be as organized. Eventually, another alpha will emerge and the war may begin again, but it will be a long time before they have to face a lizard as large and strong and intelligent as the Big One.
You arrive at the cave entrance. The other two will not follow, as the sun is shining and it hurts their eyes. It takes you several minutes to adjust yourself. The young girl gives you a big hug and kiss on the cheek. The old man shakes your hand, as he understands the tradition to be, and then the two of them depart. You step out into jungle again, a hero with a four hour trek back to the village and a story you'll never forget.
The End.