Chapter 79: See Ya Later Gator.
Seven stretched himself out and was immediately gripped tightly around his chest and stomach.
He smiled softly as he felt Visa's claws gently raking over his bare skin leaving little trails in their wake and he felt a light shiver as he thought about just how easily these claws of hers could slice through his flesh like butter but under her guidance and loving touch were no more dangerous than butter knives.
He felt her hot breath on the back of his head ruffling his hair and by the heavy but soft pressure on both his shoulders and against both of his cheeks he realised his head was sandwiched in between her breasts again as he lay atop her.
"Mmmm morning sexy tail, sleep well?' he asked knowing full well that she was awake and watching him as he could feel both the heavy thud of her heartbeat and the itch on the top of his head where her eyes were focused.
"I always sleep well when you rock me to sleep my male," she said playfully referring to their nighttime activities and making him chuckle.
"You aren't the only one, you sure know how to wear a guy out, loving you is a great fitness regime, no chance of growing fat and slow with the love of a good Claw girl to burn away the calories," he said making her laugh.
"I'm surprised you have any calories left for your body to burn after the effort you two put in last night," a familiar voice said from a little ways off and the pair leaned forwards to see Timothy leaning on the pump grinning at them.
"I'd say sorry we were a little loud but from what I heard a certain big green lady managed to do a pretty good job of drawing us out for you," Seven shot back with a grin as he sat up slowly suddenly glad that he had remembered to really most of his clothing after their late night romp.
"I do believe she was trying to compete with my aunt," Visa said making Seven chuckle again.
"Hey no one beats a mature, healthy alpha matriarch claw I'll have you know," another voice said from their other side and all of them turned to see Chris leaning on the other side of the old pump.
"Well said my love, you see young ones, this human knows the truth when he sees it," Vess said appearing behind him and scooping him back against her with a single large hand.
"I'd say he did a lot more than 'see' it if you ask me," Seven said with a grin and Vess growled and then her face cracked into a large fang-filled smile.
"Indeed you are correct and I'd say the same could be said of you young Seven," she said and he grinned right back.
"Never denied it, there's just something that feels so naughty but so right about trying to steal a peep under a sexy claw girl's tail your know?" he said playfully making Visa grow and then squeeze him tightly.
'If what you do with her counts as a peep I'd hate to see a deep in depth field study," Shauna said appearing behind Tim and trying in vain to smooth out her messed up bed and passion hair that kinda makes her look like she'd slept on a bomb that had gone off on one side of her head.
"I'll have you know that my beloved one takes his field research very serious along with his cave research, his bath research, his bed research..." Visa said making them all chuckle and Shauna wave a hand at her.
"Alright alright I get it we have a lot of catching up to do geez," she said making Timothy swallow somewhat nervously.
"So what's the plan for today, how are we going to observe the Gatorclaws without being either noticed or disruptive to them?" Timothy asked moving forwards so that he could sit down before being joined by the others.
"Well, the first thing we need to establish is if there are any sentients among their number not that it's going to affect us helping them but it will definitely be a lot easier on us to be able to facilitate communication with them if there are," Seven said and he felt Visa nodding her large head above him by the way her scaly chin lightly brushed his head repeatedly.
"Question there is how? It's not like we can simply just walk up to one and go hello do any of you speak English?" Timothy said and Seven nodded.
"Yeah feral Claws aren't exactly friendly to strangers in their territory let alone their nests," he said.
"We need gifts, if their pack structure and etiquette works similar to that of my kind offering of food to show peaceful intent will go a long way to quell tempers," Vess said knowingly.
"Yeah agreed hard to b angry with someone who just brought you dinner," Seven said.
"In my opinion, we should divide our efforts, if Visa and Vess go out hunting as they know what would appeal to hungry Claws the most while the rest of us see if we can find a place to study the Gatorclaws from a distance so we can observe their habits and see if we can identify any potential sentients as well as hierarchy," Timothy said while Shauna nodded her agreement with her man.
"I agree, we need to make observations and analyses before we jump head first into this, we are very much in hostile territory as well as completely clueless about these magnificent creatures, we need more data," she said.
"I think I should also take a look around and see if I can help the innocent people the raiders got enslaved here, we cannot simply just walk on by and leave these poor people to their fate at the hands of these bastards they are a threat to innocent people and claws alike, I mean think about it, Raiders are not exactly the most stable of people and given that they already lost people here it's only going to be a matter of time before they come down here armed to the teeth then a lot of good innocent Claws could die and worse they could send slaves in here to fight and then innocents on both sides die, so we need to intervene before it gets to that," Seven said and all of his group nodded in agreement with that assessment.
"Yeah, agreed this place is locked down tight and we need to see what we can do about that and to be fair the Gatorclaws could be a massive help if like the Claws of my home they could be convinced to weigh in on the fight," Chris said earning him a hug from Vess.
"Agreed the innocent claws of this place should be given a chance to not only fight for their home but also possibly earn the respect of their human neighbours, we have a real chance here to bridge a rather large gap and make a very powerful alliance, as well as a potentially unified pack," she said.
"But won't you kinda stand out in that armour?" Shauna asked glancing at the silent power armour set that stood like a silent observer near the door.
"Got some tricks for that don't worry about me I'll be fine," Seven said.
"I'd worry more about the raiders he stumbles across, remember the two guarding the station back when we got here?' Timothy said with a shiver and Seven pointed and nodded.
"See? Your man knows the score, but in all honesty, I'll be keeping a low profile so don't worry," Seven said reassuringly.
Vess stood up and walked over to the window to look up at the sky, "It is well after dawn so the hunting parties will be out and well underway, so that means there should be fewer Claws about but do not be complacent, there is no greater threat in Claw society than a matriarch who feels her nest or her hatchlings are under threat if you do stumble across a mother with hatchlings and she sees you make sure you back off slowly and ensure your hands are out away from you body where they can be seen, make no move towards the young ones even if they come to you, hatchlings can be incredibly curious of new things and may very well approach you, resist the urge to interact unless it is obvious that you have their matriarch's permission and blessing to do so," she said.
"Don't worry I'm pretty sure momma bear syndrome is universal among pretty much every species," Shauna said and Vess nodded approvingly.
"This is good to hear as it shows that you have proper respect for the protective nature of a mother," she said.
"Don't worry Vess the last thing we are going to do is invade the nest of a Claw, we are going to try and set up as out of sight as possible, probably somewhere high up if we can so we can observe without either being noticed or interfering," Timothy said.
"Be careful of your scent, most Claws have a powerful sense of smell, I can smell my male from nearly a mile away and we do not know yet how strong this sense is with this breed of claw," Visa said.
"You can probably smell him a mile away because he both smells of you and claw sex," Timothy said playfully making Visa growl but then grin.
"It is a good way to keep tabs on him what can I say?" she said.
"That's one of the things we will be investigating and studying if we can," Shauna said.
"Well then looks like we have a plan so let's get up and get to it people, time's wasting," Seven said and with that, the group got up and got themselves ready to head out.
About ten minutes and many comforting Claw kisses later the team split up and headed out, they'd decided to keep the pump house as their base of operations for the time being as it was centrally located and pretty heavy duty so they resecured it when they left.
Seven noted Shauna and Tim headed to what looked to be a large laboratory that was visible now in the centre of the area while Vess and Visa headed north towards the plains.
He on the other hand checked the map he had and headed out towards what he reckoned would be one of the settlements that had been taken over by first settlers and then annexed by the raider clans that were operating here.
It took a bit of effort to slip out of the Gatorclaw territory unnoticed as there were still quite a few of them lingering around but thanks to the power armour he was actually able to pass pretty much unnoticed as whenever they drew close he simply powered it down and stood stock still amongst the vegetation essentially turning the hulking metal behemoth into a statue which while some of them glanced at curiously they mostly ignored as nothing more than a curio.
But once out of range he began to put the armour's power assist to good use and made good time though as he moved he swore down that he kept getting the odd feeling of being watched but every time he turned around or looked about himself there was not anything or anyone around so he put it down to the simple paranoia of being out here alone after travelling with others for so long.
The place he was heading for according to the map was a place called Dry Rock Gultch, to Seven's mind it conjured up all sorts of images of cowboy-themed things though how did he know that given that he'd never seen a cowboy let alone interacted with one was beyond him.
As he drew close Seven began to realise that it was oddly quiet for a settlement, he couldn't hear the telltale voices of conversations drifting on the wind and there was an odd note of death hanging in the air.
A fact that got further backed up as when he got close to the main gates of the enclosed area he began to find bodies of what looked to be raiders strewn about and from what he could see of the desecrated corpses they appeared to have been shot full of holes from a laser weapon while more than a few appeared to have been mauled by something.
Seven checked his weapon and took a deep breath before entering the place reading himself for what he was beginning to think was an inevitable fight, he just hoped that it was settlers that came out to greet him rather than raiders but oddly it was neither.
As he walked into the middle of what looked like an odd wild west style town a protectron came out from between some of the buildings and started making its way towards him.
As it drew closer Seven noticed that it was dressed in some very odd clothing like a waistcoat, chaps and even a large hat with a star on it.
"Howdy partner welcome to Dry Rock Gultch the most rootin tootin place on earth," the protectron said making Seven raise an eyebrow inside his helmet.
"Err hi," he said lowering his weapon but keeping his guard up.
"Say you look like a capable cowboy, how do you fancy becoming a deputy?" the protectron asked.
"Err a question first, where are all the people?" Seven asked.
"Well that's just the thing partner, they went into the mines and we ain't seen em since, it's the darnedest thing, I think it might be something to do with the Bloodworms but I'm in need of a daring deputy to find out, you up to the challenge?' the protectron asked.
"What are Bloodworms?" Seven asked glancing around himself.
"Nasty little critters, they'd chow down on your insides right proper if you let em, been seeing em all over the place for quite some time now, we keep clearing em out but they keep right on coming back," the potectron said in its drawl like voice.
"Who is we exactly?" Seven asked.
"Why me and the other sheriffs of course," the sheriff protectron said.
Seven was beginning to get the feeling that this place was competly deserted and most likely these Bloodworms were to blame, but that's when an idea hit him if this place was indeed deserted then not only could they use this as a proper staging area but also as a safe haven for any slaves they freed, this place was incredibly defensible what with its high rocky walls surrounding it, there was only one way in or out that he could see and with armed robots wandering around he could probably task them with security.
"Sure I'll help you with your work problem err pardner," he said.
"Well hot damn that's good news, what's your name son?" the protectron asked.
"Seven," he replied.
"Good to meet cha deputy Seven, I'm sheriff Hawk and that fine fella over there is sheriff Eagle, you might find a few of our other fellows wandering about but this nifty badge will let them know you are with us," the potectron said clomping right up to Seven and sticking a star-shaped sticker to the chest of his armour.
"Err thanks," Seven said looking down at the seriously out-of-place little yellow five-point star.
Suddenly out of the blue there was an ear-splitting screech followed by a yell that morphed into a roar, Seven and the sheriff spun around just in time to see a truly massive shape burst out of a bush at top speed.
Seven very nearly shot it until he realised what he was looking at, it was a Gatorclaw.
Somehow one of the Gatorclaws from the Safari zone had managed to not only follow him but had stayed in his blind spot the entire way here, though how in the name of hell he'd managed to miss it was rather beyond him as it wasn't exactly small, in his estimation if it laid down it would be about fifteen feet long from snout tip to tail tip though it stood at nine foot tall as well so not exactly small by any measure of the imagination.
It also rapidly became apparent that it was a she by both the shape and the rather obvious assets that she shared with both Visa and Vess, plus she wasn't exactly small in that department either as was evident by the way she very nearly kept hitting herself in the face as she lept about trying to dislodge the worm clamped tightly onto her tail.
The potectron raised its weapon, "Damn varmint gators, don't you worry deputy I'll protect you," it said but Seven managed just in time to force its hands down with a hit of Telekinesis making both its shots go into the floor at its feet.
"Don't! She's with me!" he yelled.
This seems to confuse the protectron, "Error does not compute," it said in a very much non-westernized voice.
"It's a costume, there's a person in there," Seven said quickly and by the rapid blinking light inside the dome-shaped head the Protectron was trying to process this but it seemed to accept it.
"Well shucks this is embarrassing, sorry there little lady I very nearly shot you full of holes, good work there deputy but we'd better make sure that worm doesn't harass the good lady anymore," sheriff Hawk said before with incredible accuracy it shot the large red coloured worm creature off the Gatorclaw's tail despite the fact that she was currently smashing it into the ground in order to try and remove it making a resonating boom every time she hit.
The worm screeched and let go before being thrown clear and both the sheriff and Seven proceeded to blast the crap out of the vile-looking creature causing both a mixture of blood and vile yellow ichor to spray in all directions as it writhed around in its death throes.
"Err sheriff if you would be so kind I need to have a quick word with my friend here we'll join you in a moment if that is ok?" Seven said glancing from the Gatorclaw who was cradling her tail and inspecting the damage to the protectron and back.
"Well of course pardner, I'll mozy on over to the mine and I'll meet you there," sheriff Hawk said and with that he began to clomp away leaving Seven with the rather large Gatorclaw who was still trying to soothe her wounded tail.
"Well, I must say I'm impressed that you managed to follow me all the way from the Safari zone without me seeing you though I must admit to being a bit annoyed with myself that I somehow managed to miss you, you're not exactly a small girl are you?" Seven said.
The Gatorclaw released her massive tail and turned to look at Seven, she had a kinda guilty look in her deep amber-coloured eyes as she looked at him, "Me's wanted to see you's, you's is different to other humans, not like them at all, you's is like miss Eve and miss Eve is kind and nice but its more than that you's is special and Thundertail wants to know why," she said in an incredibly deep and rumbly but oddly still feminine voice.
Both of Seven's eyebrows shot up inside his helmet, "Well I guess that settles the argument on whether there are sentient Gatorclaws but I wasn't expecting to be able to find you so quick but then I suppose I didn't find you now did I?" he said and the big Gatorclaw shook her large head before drawing herself up to stand proudly puffing out her incredibly ample chest as she did.
"Nope, Thundertail finds you first!" she said proudly.
"Thundertail? Who's that?" Seven asked and the massive female Gatorclaw slammed a fist the size of a Mini nuke into her chest which to his surprise barely made her scales move despite hitting herself with enough force to make a sharp slap noise issue.
"Me's is Thundertail! Miss Eve names me so because she said me's tail is so strong it makes air ring like thunder when me's hits ground with it!" she said proudly before deciding to prove her point by strike in the ground and to Seven's shock, there was a boom exactly like a mini thunder strike as she did.
Seven couldn't help but run his eyes over the massive female Gatorclaw now and he had to admit she was quite a specimen, her legs were short and somewhat stubby but were incredibly muscular, and her thighs were twice as wide as his torso and this led into a massive part of flared hips before reaching her huge torso which other than her massive tail made up most of her length.
To his surprise, she had twin rows of abs in two neat rows of two running up her front so there were four of them in a line running in columns up her massive torso to her breasts which were both nearly as big as Seven's torso each.
Atop of these were her massive shoulders which looked to have muscles layered atop muscles to the point where she looked like she could punch clean through a concrete wall with very little effort, then finally was her head.
Now she had an unusually shaped neck which considering she was obviously mutated from an alligator was no big surprise, her head was pretty much affixed right to her shoulders with no visible neck but she seemed to have some kind of multijointed spine that allowed her to lower her head horizontal or lift it to look vertical into the sky which would be useful if she was laid down or in the water.
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.