chazzfox wanted to do a request for people who commented on her art. Well I managed to get one. I suggested something fun and family safe(yeah, weird huh!). Just tannim scratching her character's back. It's sweet and fun and everybody loves it to some degree.

I think she did a good job. It looks cute and they both look happy. So... I wrote a story description for it. Read it and leave her a comment lazy peoples.

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Scratch Off, One Spring Day
by tannim
June 25, 2010

The dragon stood on one leg behind the big lilac bush. He really wished it was in better health and had a thicker bottom, but it was the only non-obvious cover for him. His wings were furled along his back with one leg lifted awkwardly to keep it out of the way. Anybody seeing him from the road would think it very silly. Anybody, say a vixen, seeing it from the other side would see a bush with maybe a bit of extra green.

Malkavia wasn't sure where Tannim had wandered off too. She'd sent him out to pick some early raspberries fifteen minutes ago and sat in the grass waiting for him. The spring sun was getting annoying as it heated her pretty yellow, orange, pink and purple fur and she was getting a bit too hot.

After another minute she glared at the bright ball in the sky and then picked up the basket and hurried over to the shade of the lilac bush. On the way she decided she would definitely have to plant trees sometime! Just as she sat the basket down she twitched an ear at a rustling noise.

A moment later she was squealing as Tannim pounced and rolled around to the ground with her. "I couldn't get your raspberries! The birds got them first." He rolled once more until she was on top of him and he looked up at her. "But I got you something else instead."

"What did you get me?" She squealed as he tickled her sides and immediately tried to tickle him back.

"I got you the joy of laughter" His fingers dug into and scratched lightly through her fur. "or some silly thing like that."

Malkavia laughed and squirmed off of him, he let her go. As he rolled over though, she jumped onto his back and clawed at it. He deflated into the grass with a happy groan. His dull claws felt great scratching his scaled hide.

She worked around his wings carefully, smirking at how easy it had been to get him to turn to jelly with it. His tail swished behind her while he lay spread out on the soft green grass. Both wings spread out when stroked between them with her paws. Her claws dragging along him made him rumble in relief. The gnats had been nagging him back there most of the day.

It didn't take long to fully scratch his back. It did take long to satisfy him enough to roll over and yawn. He watched her, deciding if he'd had enough, then finally sat up.

"I haven't had a good back scratching in a long time. Still feels great." He looked over at the fox squatting in the grass, then crawled around behind her and drug a claw down her back.

Malkavia arched her back and hummed. His claws were a bit sharper than hers, but he was careful to use gentle strokes while scratching up and down through the fur. She squirmed in front of him, giggling when he accidentally tickled her and pushing back into it when he wasn't pressing hard enough.

Her tail swished just as his had while he scritched along her shoulders. The long hair made hitting all the good spots harder, but also more fun. It was like a game as he drug his claws throughout the vulpine neck and down along her spine.

Tannim traced the cute purple splotch a few times with two claws. She leaned right at first, following the claws, then left as he came around the other side of the splotch. Her ears twitched when the rest of the claws joined in, scratching back up and then around her arms to play with the tufts of fur along the bottom of each.

The dragon playfully mussed them up, then smoothed them back over again. She squirmed again when he scratched down her sides and tickled her a bit but he stopped that before it became annoying. Malkavia swished her head to swing her hair into his face and he took it as an invitation to do her shoulders again.

"Oh, that DOES feel good." She sighed. "I haven't had a good one in a long time either.

Tannim scritched back down to work just above her tailbase. His claws lifted up to the middle of her back, leaving little furrows through the fur, then smoothing the fur back down on the return trip. She slumped forward, almost as limp as he had been and he smoothed her fur down one more time before sitting back.

"What's in the basket?" He asked with his tail lifting the top.

She smacked his tail away from it and huffed. "Nothing for you, dragon. You couldn't even get the raspberries."

"Well, actually, I got them, I just ate them. But I kept six for you." He dug around the lilac bush and held out the big bowl to show sever berries.

She took it from him before he could hide the seventh, then laughed. "Next time I'll get them myself so I can eat them all instead."

The basket was opened. The sandwiches were taken out. The ice cream bars were eaten first before they could fully melt. It was a pleasant afternoon with the berries adding a nice touch to Malkavia's ice cream. She didn't share them with Tannim, but he didn't mind, he had had more than enough already.