DESCRIPTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION

STOP! CHECK OUT THE ORIGINAL SUBMISSION TODAY!

---

Leona looked up at the relatively tall building as she stood outside its small, stone fence that surrounded the perimeter, the warm summer sunlight gently reflecting off the surface of the glass doors ahead up the path from where she stood as well as the sizable plaque overhead labelled "XION STUDIOS." The landscape of the studio had a decent professional structure which balances out with the quiet, nature-filled, open-area setting it was located in. Standard business building - no higher than the tress along the several walkways that stretched out in multiple directions around the place - with an otherwise calm, comfortable feel to it. Activity seemed to be fairly quiet on the outside, though something told the kunoichi that there was more to this place than meets the eye.

Recognizing the building with a gentle nod to herself, the lioness slowly made her way up on the paved path towards the glass doors. She was clad in her standard kunoichi attire - except her favourite tube top was replaced with a slimmer-looking red bikini top - along with her handy ninja sandals and fingerless gloves. But as battle-ready as she typically looked, she needed to look and act as innocent and tastefully revealing as possible for her own self-appointed mission.

Leona silently recalled to herself how she had once attempted to discreetly sneak into the studios some time ago. The kunoichi had attempted to get her hand-paws on the documents behind the rumored "PLAN VHS," a supposed real-time phenomenon of harnessing vintage 1970s/1980s television and video cassette aesthetics in day-to-day life. The lioness was on the verge that day of delving further into the secrets behind such a supernatural oddity. She had just managed to sneak directly into the main studio office and pilfer through the dossiers after timing when the studio head - Tydrian Xion - was away for lunch. But she barely even had a minute in there before she heard paw-steps suddenly approaching the door to the room again. Perhaps she had set off an alarm. Or maybe a hidden security camera picked up her presence. Whatever the case may have been, she unfortunately had to cut her efforts super-short that time and hastily yet swiftly escape to avoid any confrontations. What's more, Leona didn't know till it was too late that she had naturally mastered it without even trying simply by using cliched stealth tactics that she used to get into the studio in the first place: climbing a rope from a grappling hook along the side of a building. A befitting aesthetic, and a handy one at that as it was how she managed to escape that day.

Since then, she had a small mixture of emotions. She was rather tickled pink to have become one with the phenomenon without even noticing, but she didn't have enough time to know the specifics on how to do it naturally anywhere after the fact.

All the kunoichi could do now was shake her head as she kept on walking, pushing back the fleeting memory of that halted attempt.

I won't fail this time! Leona thought to herself, silently pumping a fist as she approached the glass doors.

She silently paused to herself for a few moments with her eyes closed, getting into some kind of a veiled behaviour and demeanor to mask her hidden intentions. Opening her eyes, she rung the buzzer outside the doors' edges which linked directly to the main office on the upper floors. At first, there was silence; nothing but the faint breeze that grazed her body and barely got her long, flowing brown hair to dance. Then her ears twitched to the sound of static from the small, inconspicuous intercom.

"Yes? May I help you?" the voice asked, sounding friendly and sincere through the minor buzzing as if trying to help Leona.

"Oh! Um, excuse me~!" Leona spoke sweetly, right on cue. "Is Mister Ty here?"

The attitude she sported as she spoke almost resembled that of a sweet, innocent teenage girl, bright eyes and all. Her torso moved playfully and almost rhythmically from side to side, her finger gently pressing up against under her bottom lip to feign said innocence.

"This is he!" the voice replied

"Oh, good!" the kunoichi lioness exclaimed, tail swishing slowly behind her as she kept up her gentle behaviour. "I've heard about your, well, 'special photoshoots' that you hold here, and I've seen how well your photos turn out! And, um... I've always wanted to be a model, especially with someone I can trust. So... may I be a model for your next upcoming collection? Pretty please~?"

Once again, there was some silence for a moment. The voice behind the speaker was likely considering. Leona stared into the speaker, eyelashes fluttering gracefully. She didn't know if there was a camera within the intercom or not, so she just held her pose where she was in case Tydrian was looking directly into her eyes through any camera. For all she knew, cameras that were hiding in plain sight were likely getting some sneaky previews of her already.

A metallic click echoed within the doors, and Leona's eyes turned toward the sound, still in her innocent pose.

"Office is up the stairs and first door on your right," said the voice. "We can go over everything there!"

Yes! Her plan of infiltration was working so far! Of course, she was more than prepared to defend herself or make yet __another__ getaway in case the plan ever were to go awry. She gently swung open the door and let herself in.

Making her way up the staircase, Leona took note of the facility; multiple doors down the hallway that likely led into several studios or maybe even more personal spaces containing secrets that'd be worth loads of gold to others. Other than that, there was nothing necessarily fancy inside the building. But that's not to say that the place is untidy; everything looked and smelled clean from top to bottom. The lioness soon reached the top step, and she looked for the first door to her right in yet another long hallway which wasn't too far to reach.

Two gentle knocks of her knuckles met the black, metal door before she let herself in, assuming that she was in the right area. And it was! She surveyed the whole room quietly to herself. Large vertical panels of double-paned soundproof glass surrounded two of the four walls, the same windows she hooked herself in through before. She recognized how spacious the room was, fitting for more private and personal photos to be sure as one area of the hardwood floor was littered with beanbags and fabrics. A long, blue sofa accompanied the set of tall lights and tripods, sitting in front of a backdrop with three or four layers of solid-coloured backgrounds. The kunoichi then noticed the wooden business table with a state-of-the-art desktop setup resting comfortably on top of it; behind that desk sat a tall filing cabinet with multiple drawers, one of which looked to be bursting with unknown files. She remembered it all like it was yesterday. That's exactly where she tried filtering through everything before she had to vamoose that day. Leona knew the building owner would appear shortly to meet her - he was in a small room adjacent to his desk area - but she also knew that she had to think of a way to get this Tydrian guy out of the room for a good, long while, just long enough for her to collect any and all data related to "PLAN VHS" that she sought after. In the meantime, she mustn't seem like she was hiding anything.

Not more than a second later of thinking that to herself, the small door swung open. Leona turned behind here, and there stood the white-as-snow feline that almost caught her up-close that day...

[TO BE CONTINUED]

---

Tydrian ©

Leona Mika ©

---

WHOA! This is an epic surprise, Ty!

Having had some pretty shitty times these last few months - and still kinda am, tbh - I need something some to perk me up big-time. And suffice to say, while I still have a lot to sort out... this piece definitely brought a smile to my face!

Funnily enough, it was randomly leaving a shout on my page that I ended up checking out his page and seeing quite a few pics you've drawn for him featuring his characters! Little did I realize that that'd lead me this this beauty of a surprise!

Where to begin!? Excellent poses the two parties are in and how natural they look, especially Leona's subtly flirty body language; the way she rubs her hand-paw along her thigh as she playfully chats with Ty seems very alluring and engaging! Great attention to detail with her shifting her weight to one side in her pose like that as evidenced with her foot-paw casually raised up around the heel area! Her facial expression's rather innocent yet cheeky the way she's smiling up at Ty as if she's hiding something or aware of something that Ty isn't! lmao Way to be on top of getting those tufts of fur all over her body to really show off that lioness fluffiness! Adorable work on her overall wardrobe! Even with her bikini bottoms, it's so damn sexy yet tasteful to show off some of her crotch lines while still keeping her modest what with how short they are! Granted, I wasn't expecting her to have arm warmers and leg warmers on her as I never typically visualise her with that stuff on at all! That said, way to pull it off so neatly and fittingly on her; everything look very comfortable on her! Plus I'm well aware that that's more his thing anyway, so it works! Maybe this takes place some time after she enters his office? lol Bravo with her hairdo/mane and how fluidly it flows down behind her; nicely done getting her bangs to part evenly and sweetly! Amazing body definition on her overall structure, and the curve in her tail looks very cute! Colour palettes are looking marvelous! Plus her markings are done splendidly! Compared to that VHS-styled picture drawn for me before, it's hard to choose between either style as they're very expressive and enjoyable to check out!

Leona's whisker markings are just markings, not actual whiskers, so the ones drawn on the left (not her left) shouldn't really be visible (think Naruto and his cheek markings). But that's not the worst thing in the world this time around. lol Also she actually wears a tube top and not really a bikini top. Of course, the way it was drawn here looks very sweet, so I don't mind that much either.

Spectacular gift you've made for me, Ty! Thank you, thank you, thank you for being so damn awesome as always!

Now I really need to return the favor and draw you a gift or two! Well... That is if I can ever get my damn tablet driver situation resolved in the future; can't very well draw without it lest you want some crappy traditional pencil smears scanned in.

WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE? GO FAVE THE ORIGINAL, SHOW SOME MAJOR LOVE TODAY, AND TELL HIM LEO SENT YOU!