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Heart and Claw Update(final)

Here are the last 5k words for Heart and Claw... sort of. I'll be going back and ironing out the grammar, adding and removing parts as needed, but I'm gonna take a few days to focus on my mental health. jk I'm fine, just a little worn out after all the deathclaw action. Ebooks will come after editing is done, and revision will be posted gradually on scbmstories. Of course, feedback door is always open so if you have suggestions, throw them my way.

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“Oh, I wasn’t just talkin...

Heart and Claw Update

3k words. Had some bumps in the road writing this one out, but should be a good enough payoff for the conclusion.

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Cooper placed a hand on the lip of earth covering him and Pearl, the pair looking down the length of road towards the structure in the near distance. The lodge emitted an aura of light, a yellow ball that encompassed both the building, and the walls of the pen that flanked the acres behind it.

Under the cover of darkness, they had snuck close enough to the lo...

Heart and Claw Update

2k words. Am sorry for the delay I was busy and definitely not playing video games pls believe me. We're in the final act of the fic now so get excited.

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Cooper clipped his sword to his belt, keeping his fingers clear of the button that would engage the shocking element, walking down the lobbying tunnel of the mine, each pace followed by a whir of motors. He’d stepped into the power armour frame once again, the suit a lot less bulky with most of its armour ...

Heart and Claw Update(disclaimer pt3)

3.5k words. Last section of the big smut scene

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He felt the circulation in his hand cutting off, Cooper glancing over to see the one impaling herself on his arm tensing up, throwing her horned head back as she growled, the sound reminiscent of the calls Cooper had heard in his initial delve into the den. There was a few scant moments in which the beast didn’t move, and then her orgasm burned through her core, her scaly body shuddering as waves of her ejaculate ran down in his...

Heart and Claw Update (disclaimer pt2)

2k words. Same disclaimer as last post applies here, read at your own peril.

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Where Peal’s loins had been a more familiar, slitted entrance, this one was instead a set of three conjoined stretches of skin, forming a triangular entrance of flawless flesh, centered by a swollen bud. Outwardly it was strange, oddly shaped, but the same principles must apply given the context.

The deathclaw placed his hand on its crotch, his curiosity getting the better of him as he ran a t...

Heart and Claw Update(and disclaimer)

2.2k words update. Sex scene 4/4. Also I feel obliged to write a disclaimer for this and the following part or two. I was on the fence considering putting/writing bestiality content (which may or may not bleed into these updates at various points) I also thought about making it top-tier only, or patron-only, but I went ahead and bit the bullet and made it a fully-fledged scene. I twisted it as much as I could with Pearl, but there's no blurring of the lines on this scene. So for those who lik...

Heart and Claw Update

2k words.

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Cooper didn’t have to see the sky to tell it was getting late, but his limited progress on repairing the power armour was making him too frustrated to consider going to sleep. He’d managed to secure the chest piece onto the frame, literally taping it back on using spare adhesives Pearl had in her piles of spare parts. The legs and arm pieces were another story. Cooper was resourceful, but he’d only had limited experience with power armour, and repairing the dam...

Heart and Claw Update

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After dusting himself off, they proceeded deeper into the mine, coming across the runt again after a few minutes. Like before, it was rushing down the mineshafts, taking the turns that didn’t intersect with Cooper’s path. Maybe it was exercising, or trying to keep itself warm by doing laps, but it was an amusing sight either way.

He could hear noises coming from down one of the passages, and he followed it, vaguely recognizing the area from his initial swe...

Heart and Claw Update

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“Been teaching them English in my spare time, which is all the time really,” Pearl explained, switching languages as she translated for the others. “They mostly understand yes and no, so if someone tries anything just say no, they should get the message. I’ll go get the carcass.”

“I’ll come with you,” Cooper said, hurrying along after her. She smirked at him, but didn’t say anything, the two plucking the dead brahmin by its hooves, hauling it i...

Heart and Claw Update

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“… Oooooh yaw-awwwn, slept like a big old scaley log,” -came from around the bend, the two hunters stopping as the voice grew louder. “Would have slept a bit better if you weren’t shouting all morning, Coopsie~”

Pearl turned the corner, her pink scales catching the light spilling in from the tunnel mouth. She was picking at something on her bicep, her gaze turned to the floor, oblivious to all the humans gawking at her. 2023-11-18 01:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Heart and Claw Artwork, and Update

Cover art for Heart and Claw is here and ready for you lovely people. I really wanted to put some oomph into the pink and white colouration of our scaly love interest, and hynvale delivered! Check their page out here: https://www.deviantart.com/hynvale

Oh, and here's the next 3.3k words, because you're awesome.

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“Fine,” she began. “I’ll use my mouth for… other stuff.”

She pushed ...

Heart and Claw Update

3.3k words. Sex scene 3/4, part 1/2(?) 

“That wasn’t a warning, Coops, you can touch me all you want…”

Her verbal permission emboldened him, Cooper settling his palms on her pinched waist, Pearl mirroring his movements as she continued her massage. He’d felt her up before, he knew her quite intimately after their encounter in the pool, so why was he suddenly delighting in the way she looked and felt, and apologizing for doing so?

His outlook on her was changin...

Heart and Claw Update

Am back, god I hate sitting in a car for six hours both ways. Need to get back in the groove but here's 4.2k words

“I sense a bit of conflict of interest here,” Pearl noted. He expected her to provide some argument or remark, but instead she just placed her chin on his head, holding him close. “Take your time, Cooper, I’m not going anywhere.”

-xXx-

After cleaning themselves up, Cooper and Pearl made their way back to the entrance of the mine, reign...

Heart and Claw Update

8000 words. Sex scene 2/? I'm a little conflicted at having another smut scene so close after the first, is it too soon? Could remove it or delay it, let me know your thoughts. Oh, and I'll be going outta town for a few days, so expect delays in updates, moreso than usual of course :)

Take are everyone and thank you all for your support!

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Double-checking to make sure Pearl was sleeping, the steady rise and fall of her torso confirming as much, he slipped out of the nest, ...

Heart and Claw

3.8k words. Sex scene 1/?

“Good boy. You just relax, and let me do all the work…”

He felt her face leave his neck, Cooper turning his head to watch as Pearl delved into the sheets, the light so dim he could only see her glowing eyes. She blinked one in a suggestive wink, and then she pulled the covers over herself, the fabrics tenting over her thorny backside.

He felt one of her long legs swing over him, his shins trapped from both sides by scaley flesh as she sat on h...

Heart and Claw Update

4k words. Sorry for the delay I'm feeling a little off these past few days. 

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“Catch,” she chimed, Cooper raising his hands to catch the biggest slice of meat in the world. The steak was thicker than his wrist, and longer than Pearl’s claws, Cooper handling it like it was a bag of sand.

“You can have this one,” he said, hauling it onto the grill, the metal legs buckling under its weight. “How’d you like it done?”

“Blue,” Pearl replied.

Heart and Claw Update

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“Three thousand caps?” she asked, the sound of clanging metal informing him she’d discarded his armour. “Is that what your life is worth to you? You’d die for the chance to get rich?”

“Yes! I told you that already!” he shouted into the shadows. “I haven’t got anything to go back to, it’s do or die for me.”

He put his back to the corner, holding his sword out to illuminate as much as possible. He’d known there’d always been the possibility...

Heart and Claw Update

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“You made it a lot further than I thought you would, Cooper.”

He spun around to face the voice, his headlamp driving back the shadows to reveal Pearl, standing in the threshold of the exit. Her bright eyes were slightly curved at the bottom, as though she was smiling at him from beneath her hood.

“Pearl? What are you doing here?” he asked. “it isn’t safe, there’s still one more of these things around here somewhere.”

“I know, I k...

Heart and Claw Update

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He fired off another dart, this one impaling it in the chest, and its eyes seemed to dim, the beast holding out its hands as it leaned forward. He felt it take one lumbering step, and then its leg gave out, the beast eating the dirt with a puff of dust.

He turned his headlamp on cautiously, and sure enough, the beast was lying on the floor as though it was resting, its bright eyes only open a sliver. The tranquilizer had worked exactly like Hendrix had told him, Cooper ...

Fallout, With Heart and Claw Update

4k words.

“And these have to be wolf tracks, right?” Pearl asked, her cloak bunding around her feet as she crouched in the snow. Cooper spent most of the day teaching Pearl the basics of tracking game as they followed in the pack’s footsteps. He’d never had the opportunity to pass on his skills to another, there wasn’t exactly an abundance of students, and while it helped pass the time, it also made him feel good to know that Pearl wouldn’t be lacking for food once they even...

Vanguard Cover Art

I've finished commissioning artwork for Vanguard, this time it comes from TheNexusInfinity: https://www.deviantart.com/thenexusinfinity

Here we have Ryan (left) and Samiha (right) looking quite heroic for the camera. I'll tweak in some titles somewhere once I've cleared up Heart and Claw (the fallout halloween fic im currently working on)

Fallout Halloween Word Update

2850 words. Claw Heart? In Heart and Claw? Oh I like that one. With Heart and Claw? Patent Pending but anyway, enjoy.

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After a bit more walking, the fading light soon reached a tipping point, the snowy hills plunging into shadow, Pearl watching as he clicked on his headlamp. Cooper had done plenty of long walks in his time, and so had Pearl apparently, his companion not uttering a single complaint as they trekked late into the night. When the parting clouds eventually revealed...

Fallout Halloween Update

5k words gotta go soon let me know what you guys think!

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Night had fallen, Cooper losing sight of the distant rocky mountains as the dreary light of dusk lost its strength behind the overcast. His helmet was equipped with a mounted headlamp, and he reached up to turn it on, a pool of yellow light cutting back the darkness wherever he turned his gaze, illuminating the patches of snow interwoven by the occasional rocky outcrop.

The land began to grow uneven, Cooper slipping...

Fallout, Halloween Special

I hope you all like deathclaws, because for this year's halloween I'll be drawing up a fallout story, and the first 10k words is here for all you lovely supporters. Never celebrated the spooky season myself, but the world doesn't revolve around me, and I like deathclaws, so....

Anywho, here's the first major update to my latest installation, which I will now call... something. Heart of the Claw? Hunt for the Claw? Claw Hunt? I'll work on it, but for now we'll just call it 'Fallout death...

Vanguard Word Update

2.1k word update. 

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A few days after their successful mission in the sim, the team was back in the armoury again, splitting their time between configuring their weapons and testing out the combat armour that would be standard-issue for all Alliance forces. It was an exact replica of the armour used by the UEC, save for the blue highlights that had become the staple of the Navy. Ryan was intimately familiar with the gear already, so he spent most of his time with his weapon...

Vanguard Word Update

3097 word update. Sorry for the slight delay I have a little side project I'm working on, which I'm sure you'll all like. Hopefully. Maybe. Anway here's more Vanguard.

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The Balokarids deployed their shields, parting a little to give Ryan and Brindley a line of fire. As they downed the two projections, there was movement on the right, Ryan looking over to see another Confederate come rushing into the doorway from somewhere deeper in the bunker.

Before the projection could ...

Vanguard Word Update

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Chapter 4: Cohesion

“Headsets on people!” Admaski’s voice blared over the intercom. “Don’t make me start thinking twice about this team, I want to see you beat the par score before you drop.”

They were back in the sim room, the holographic lights built into the wireframes caging the room flaring to life as the projectors powered on, the whole team assembled in their epicenter. Ryan, Dominic and Brindley had their mock weapons in hand, draped with p...

Vanguard Word Update

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For the next week Adamski had the team schooled about their enemy, the United Earth Confederate. Although Ryan was intimately familiar with their ground tactics, the lessons were a fresh reminder that the Hub was facing off against a much more powerful enemy. The Hub was a single station, developed and with money to spare, but it was still just one megastructure, and the UEC had the entire Core Worlds sector under their thumb, and their planets were the most developed in hum...

Vanguard Word Update

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“Uhm… yes,” Samiha replied. The two humans exchanged a glance.

“’Yes’?” the waiter asked. “As in…?”

“I’ll take them both. And the eye fillet, the sirloin as well. You know what, just give me one of each. Rare as you please, I like it bloody.”

The waiter typed her order into his datapad with a diplomatic very well. “Just the rump for me, thanks,” Ryan said when it was his turn. “And some calamari. Oh, and one...

Vanguard Word Update

2500 words. Btw do you fine people like the new look for patreon? Personally I think the new logo looks like a little smidge on my desktop, and some of the new font styles look strange, but maybe that's just me. 

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Chapter 4: Reset

Ryan smoothed out the crinkles in his Alliance fatigues as he passed through the administration part of the base, stopping to salute a Lieutenant walking the other way. The night cycle was just beginning to start on the Hub, the street la...