Radiance Ch. 79

Which by the look of her absolutely massive tail would be a place of comfort for her, along the top of the wide and thick mass of scale and dense muscles ran four rows of finned scales that ran all the way up her spine and onto the back of her head making her look like she had fin shaped horns.

"Well Thundertail it's good to meet you, my name is Seven though I have to ask you why did you follow me here?" he asked.

Thundertail suddenly looked rather nervous and guilty, like an oversized school kid that just got caught out forgetting their homework and is now being outed to the entire class.

"Me's see's you last night with other Claws, the normal ones, me's only ever meets one like you who is good and kind to us and none that dress like you, so me's follows you and the others, sees you go into old pump house that Miss Eve tells us not to go in, you's locks the door and me's knows you see's me if I tries to sneak in so me's climbs wall and looks in through window, see's you's all having dinner together, me's cannot believe that me's find not just one Claw friendly human but two! An one who is friendly to talking mutie!" she said guiltily.

Seven cocked his head and suddenly a rather oily knot formed in his stomach as he remembered the odd noise he thought he'd heard the night before while he and Visa were getting close.

"Umm ok err how much did you err see in there Thundertail?" he asked nervously.

Now she looked like she wanted to dig a hole into the ground and bury herself or maybe dive into a lake and submerge, "Me's see's you get out of metal suit and me's thinks that me's knows why big normal Claw girl follows you around, you's is very pretty, me's also sees what yous does with her last night, me's did not know humans and Claws could do that together but me's Ummm likes what she see's, big claw girl, make very happy noises and was very happy," she said sounding guilty for spying on them.

Seven sighed heavily, "Her name is Visa and she is my mate," Seven said and suddenly the big Gatorclaw looked both surprised and surprisingly happy.

"So me's eyes did not lie! Me's did sees you sticking human male stick into Claw mating hole!" she exclaimed clomping towards Seven and towering over him despite being inside his armour.

"Err yeah," he said.

"Then you's is Claw mater! Yous mates with Claws but you's is not Claw, but you's makes Claw girl happy, me's sees her face, hears her mating call, see's way she clings to you's and yous thrusts into her, me's wants this too!" she exclaimed happily before grabbing Seven's shoulders and seemingly looking over him to figure out how to get him out of the suit.

"Wait! What?" he exclaimed.

"Well you's is boy, Thundertail is girl, you's mates Claws and Thundertail is girl claw so you can mate Thundertail, you can make Thundertail happy like you make Claw you's calls Visa happy!" she said happily turning him around and tapping all over his suit obviously looking for a way into it.

"Whoa whoa whoa! Slow down there, big girl!" Seven exclaimed pulling free and turning around to face her while holding his hands up towards her while backing up.

"What is wrong pretty Seven? Does you not like Claws like Thundertail? Does you only like Claws like Visa? Must Thundertail fight Visa to claim her time with you's?" she said in rapid quick-fire succession.

Seven's head was fucking spinning like a top and suddenly he was very glad Visa was not with him or he'd most likely now be breaking up Claw royal rumble.

"It's not like that Thundertail," he said and suddenly she froze solid and her face morphed into a mask of pure sadness that was obvious no matter what species you were.

"Yous does not like Thundertail does yous? Yous is like all Gatorclaw boys, you looks at Thundertail but yous does not like what yous sees," she said in a voice that was filled with sadness.

Seven felt a clench in both his heart and soul as he felt her pain, "It's not that at all you are a very pretty Claw girl Thundertail, your scales are luscious and strong, your muscle is solid, your tail is thick and luscious, you are a fine looking Gatorclaw," he said looking up at her.

"So why will yous not mate with Thundertail!?" she exclaimed reaching out to grab his shoulder pauldrons again and lowering her massive head to try and look into his eyes again.

"Let me ask you something Thundertail do you want to mate with me simply because you saw me with Visa or do you honestly like me?" he asked and she seemed surprised by this question and stepped backwards and played with her hands nervously.

"Both," she said and Seven cocked his head.

"What do you mean both??' he asked and Thundertail suddenly seemed to grow very frustrated and slammed her huge tail into the ground with a tremendous boom that shook Seven inside his armour like a bean in a tin.

"Me's likes humans ok!!? Me's not like other Claws and it makes other Claws not look at Thundertail, me's wants to be like other Claws but me likes way humans look, yous is all so pretty and soft, Miss Eve teaches pack to speak like her and mes likes her but she not look at Thundertail no matter how hard Thundertail tries, me's polishes scales, me's brings her food, but she tells Thundertail that she is just friend, but now Thundertail sees that human boys are just as pretty as human girls and human boy even mates Claws but still will not mate Thundertail," she said her voice laden with sadness and frustration.

Seven suddenly felt really bad for the big Gatorclaw girl, hell she had followed him all the way out here with just a simple hope of being given the chance to prove herself like Visa in his eyes.

"You are a beautiful and truly fine Claw girl Thundertail but I am not someone who sleeps around, I am a one Claw man, my heart belongs to Visa as hers belongs to me, so while you are a beautiful and fine Claw my heart and love belong to Visa because I have dedicated myself to her, so its nothing to do with you it's to do with me and my loyalty to her, I made her a promise that I will never break," Seven said.

"What promise?" Thundertail asked reaching up to dry her eyes as she looked at him.

"That I would be hers and only hers for life and she made the very same promise to me, it is a promise neither of us will ever break we will die before we would betray our love," he said.

Now the big Gatorclaw looked very confused, "Miss Eve has said this word before, she says that she loves boys, not girls but she said that Thundertail loves both boys and girls but Thundertail does not know what love is please tell me's!" she exclaimed lunging forwards to grab his shoulders again.

Seven sighed, "Love is a difficult thing to explain or to put into words Thundertail, but I will try, it is a feeling that attaches you to another, it makes you feel like your life is complete when you are with a certain person, that they complete your soul, that there is nothing you would not do to make this person happy and simply to see them smile, their joy and happiness is your everything as your is theirs because if they truly love you they will be exactly the same with you, they complete you and you complete them, everything is simply better and purer with them around you oh and mating with them becomes making love because when you are connected to them there is no more beautiful feeling in this life, but it cannot be forced, the heart wants what the heart wants what the heart wants and you cannot force someone to love you no matter how much you want them, if the feeling is not mutual it simply it will never be," Seven said.

Thundertail looked truly amazed by his words, it was like he'd explained the mysteries of the universe to her, Seven simply couldn't believe he had gone from having a Gatorclaw stalker to an offer of sex to explaining the nature of love to her in under twenty minutes.

"Thundertail wants this! Thundertail wants to love!!" she exclaimed.

"Well then how about this you said you like humans yes?' he said and Thundertail nodded her massive head very eagerly.

"And you like both boys and girls yes?" he asked and again she nodded.

"Yes both is pretty but yous is first boy human me's gets to see up close but is just as pretty as girl," she said and Seven nodded.

"Well alright then how about this, you come with me and my group and we will try and help you to find a human who will look at you the way you want them to, so you help us and we help you, how's that sound?" he asked.

The smile that broke out on her massive snout was both heartwarming and disturbing all at the same time and that happened exactly one second before the massive female Gatorclaw snatched him off his feet and held him aloft.

"Yes! Thundertail wants this! Thundertail will help yous! Thundertail helps you and yous helps Thundertail to be happy and with love!" she exclaimed in that voice of hers that managed to shake Sevens very bones.

Once she finally put him down Seven nodded as he dusted himself down, "Alright good first tip here don't do that in front of Visa as I'm sure you can imagine she is very territorial towards me and will not take you touching me very well at all, the same is true of all the claimed humans in my group, so the first thing to learn about humans if you want to touch one ask them first and if they say no then no it is, do not touch without permission, do you understand?" he said and she looked thoughtful but then nodded.

"Yes, Miss Eve says this too, says Thundertail must not touch without permission first," she said which made Seven sigh as it was obviously not a lesson she had learned very well.

"Right then, well first I'd like to ask you some questions about your group if that is alright?" he said and she nodded.

"Yes Thundertail will answer will Seven then answer her questions too?" she asked and he nodded as well.

"Of course, if you want to know something ask me and I'll teach you," he said happily.

"Yay Thundertail likes to learn new things! Thundertail wants to be smartest Gatorclaw there is!" she said happily slapping her massive tail on the ground while clapping her hands.

"Well alright then let's help you on the way to that admirable goal but first some questions, first of all, how many of you can talk?" he asked.

"Oh all Gatorclaws can talk but not all wish to learn, Thundertail wishes to be smart like humans so she learns as does some others," she said and this surprised Seven, this meant that none of the Gatorclaws was truly feral which going to be incredibly useful.

"Ok next question, who is Miss Eve?" he asked.

"She is human like yous, she lives in big tree house, she is very pretty and shes is very kind, shes comes to us to hide from bad shooty humans shes calls raiders, shes tells us that they are bad humans who hurts others and because shes is kind and good to us we's protects her and keeps her safe, in returns she teaches us thing like how to speak like her, she also teaches us better ways to hunt so our bellies are always full, she also teaches us how to hide so bad peoples do not see us, this is how Thundertail manages to hide from yous as me's follows yous," she said proudly and Seven laughed and nodded.

"Gotta say she taught you damn well Thundertail I never saw you until that Bloodworm took a liking to your tail and forced you out from behind your bush," she said.

She took hold of her tail and hugged it to her chest, "Nasty worm bites hard," she said stroking her tail protectively.

"Well alright, Thundertail follow me I'm going to clear this place out of all those nasty worms and together we'll make a safe place where we can send good humans that we save from the bad ones, together we will show those good humans that the Gatorclaws are not their enemies but if they play their cards right and have respect maybe they can be their friends and together they can get rid of the bad humans and make this whole place a good to live for all, how does that sound?' he said.

Her face brightened into that big smile of hers, again and again, she slapped her tail on the ground happily, "This will be good! We's makes friends with good humans and maybe there is pretty human among them that can love Thundertail or even other Gatorclaws, maybe other Gatorclaws can have good human too then theys sees that Thundertail is not wrong or bad but is just like them, is just as much Gatorclaw as they is she's just likes different things!" she said happily while jumping up and down making her chest swells bounce.

Seven couldn't help but laugh, she was like an oversized scaly schoolgirl who probably weighed close to a thousand pounds of solid muscle, all he could think was god help the human who fell for this lovable big Gator girl as there was a whole lot of girl to love but they were going to have to be seriously careful or she'd squash them flat.

So with a gesture with his hand, he turned and began to head towards the mine while Thundertail fell in step with him and happily bounced along at his side swishing her tail about like an over-excited scaly dog.