Chameleon means "earth lion" in Greek

tails part 2

Espio was exhausted 

Vector and charmy seemed to alternate in the night where they would do something causing a crash or a bang that woke him right up 

it was such cruel irony that they were heavy sleepers while he was the lightest ever 

and yet he got no mercy in the mornings 

he knew it was important to get those hours of night sleep to keep healthy

but apparently, his teammates didn't understand as they kept dragging him out of his house for the silliest of reasons, some he didn't even have to be there at all 

like for example vector, cream charmy and miss vanilla agreeing to go out for a picnic at the park 

it seemed Vector was always dragging him out to these "family meetings" 

Espio like Vanilla cream and cheese 

but at this point, he had to hold onto something to keep standing

he had even got to the point where he didn't even try arguing with the crock, heck he had given up on speaking entirely  

"hey, why don't you keep on little cream and charmy while I and Vanilla find the perfect picnic spot" the croc whispered to the chameleon, winking at him with a blush and sheepish grin

like his crush on Vanilla wasn't obvious enough 

Espio simply gave him a hum and followed the children who were already in the play area

"is he ok vector, he seems exhausted," Vanilla said as the crocodile returned to the blanket they had set up 

"oh he's fine, hasn't been sleeping good but he's good" Vector reassured

Vanilla decided to simply take Vectors words into account, if anything happened, she was sure they would be responsible enough to get them 

"umm....is he ok?" cream asked with worry 

whilst the cream and charmy were playing they noticed the older mobian leaning against the fence, trying his best to keep his eyes open as to keep an eye on them as asked 

the children took this as a sign of the chameleon being bored  

so they decided to invite him to play in the playground 

Espio tried to excuse himself, but the children simply dragged him in

they had had a fun fist, Espio actually joined in to try and wake himself up, pushing cream in the swing and challenging charmy to climb to the top the fastest (charmy not allowed to use his wings) 

but instead of climbing back down Espio stayed on the top, if he hadn't climbed higher and landed on a very high set of monkey bars 

now he wasn't moving at all, he was sleeping/hugging the wooden cylinder on top of the bars ladder pattern 

his tail was curled tighter and his eyes were fully shut 

"hey! Espio, you ok?" Charmy asked/shouted 

but the chameleon simply didn't respond 

so charmy decided to fly higher so he was sitting on the bars 

"espioooooo, hellooooooo" charmy screamed 

and yet he got no response 

since he was closer he could hear the faint breathing of the chameleon