Jaye: "Fucking hell, what the fuck happened to you?"
Jenny: "OMG! Who did this to YOU!?"
Victor: "No worries, I was just shopping for a new scarf..."

Victor has been snooping around Ryoko's family den (a shrine) stealing artifacts, and has recently been caught at last. A shuffle followed afterwards with Ryoko nearly claiming victory over the battle and regaining her family's honor and treasures. Unfortunately, Victor managed to catch her off-guard and tear one of her tails off in the end, wounding her greatly and limiting her prowess for a time. As a result, she was forced to concede and retreat back to the shrine with one less tail lagging between her legs. For this reason, her family has suffered dishonor by her hand and later forced out to battle against Victor to reclaim her tail and family treasures or be exiled and shunned away. In turn, she has nothing but loathing for this man, his dark ways, and all others that follow him; making her the self-proclaimed rival.
Does he still have the tail? Absolutely. It's a tail of a kitsune from a powerful clan, it's full of chakra and mystical energy that Victor wants to examine closely; plus he can wave it around in her face like a game of gotcha-nose or go old-school and wear it as a tie even. Suffice it to say, she's made her way and going undercover as a transfer student at a nearby college (another cliche, I know but who doesn't love a decent cliche?).

This was planned in advance and I wanted Kaboozle to be the one to drawn since he is one of those great artists who can quickly draw something so detailed in a relatively short amount of time with little "guidance" provided by the commissioner (I wrote plenty and provided poses but it was all "jumbled" together). During Hump Day, he offers a lot of great, discounted deals and I ACTUALLY managed to win another round (the damn wheel likes to tease me). I'll probably try to get another one but this one cost him a lot of time and sleep, he was up until 5:30 am working on four other commissions. Either way, I feel extremely lucky with how many different, favored artists I'm managing to issue commissions from. I fear that it may be a while (perhaps a few months) before I can get anymore but at least I've developed Ryoko's character a bit further :S

Drawn by  KaboozleFA
Colored by  Bulgefan