Living with My Shadow (Lone x Wolf)

[WolfDog12]

Human form

 

Other forms:

 

 

(True form is the snake like thing in the middle. Favored form is the cat)

 

Name: Shadow (As named by his new owner)

Age: Unknown

Gender: Male

Species: Demon

 

Personality: Ya, he's a cat.... so an asshole.

 

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How did he end up here again? The black cat sat in a small cage glancing about at the other cages, stacked on top of one another. He scowled, the cat thin and lanky, looking rather underweight really and his eyes well.... they didn't look like normal cat eyes. In fact, there were no irises, and each eye was different. One was pure white and the other green, both glowing, the green more prominently.

 

A small cat mewed at him and the gaunt feline scoffed, hissed, scared the kitten and continued to look about the room. He could easily sneak out of here... Hell, he could break out of here and make a huge scene, terrify everyone... Why not? As the feline weighed his options, the door to the cat adoption room opened and a worker stepped in. It would probably be best to sneak out of here in the night. He already got caught when he was sleeping today so maybe waiting a while wouldn't be too bad.

 

The female walked over to his cage and the cat turned away and sat staring at the back of the cage. He didn't want to deal with humans. Though, she wasn't going away... In fact, she seemed concerned by the fact that all his paws were red and looked like they were covered in blood. The female opened the cage and reached towards the black cat to give him a check-up, as she reached towards him, the cat hissed loudly and jumped to the back, arching upwards and clawing out at her as she continued. Though, his eyes alone seemed to be enough to get her to slam the cage shut again and run off to go talk to someone.

[LoneDigger]

Asher had always wanted a cat ever since he could first remember. His first stuffie of choice when he was only about a year or two old at the mall had been a black stuffed cat with white paws sitting on the shelf and he had clung to that thing as if were real for the longest time. Until he got too old to be carrying around toys, though he never got rid of the thing. It sat on a shelf in his room, then eventually found it's way into a box in his parents attic for safe keeping.

The reason they had never let him get a real kitty was because his father had horrible allergies. But now that he was grown up with his own place he was finally ready to get the pet he had been waiting for his entire life so anxiously.

At first, he wanted a cat that looked just like his toy. Same markings and everything. Oh, and it had to be female.

But getting older and seeing how things are it's not important the marking or gender of his new pet, but rather saving a life.

With cat overpopulation and ironically enough he heard that black cats were already hard to get adopted. Because they don't stand out and some assholes were still living in the past with superstitions that were evil.

It probably didn't help matters that one of the kennel staff was trying to tell him exactly the latter, but he wouldn't listen to her. Just because black is the so called color of the devil doesn't mean the cat is a monster!

Ignoring any warnings the male walked into the cat room, eyes scanning over each and every cage. Cooing softly at all the different ones, but he freezes when he stops at the black cat's kennel.

 

...

 

"... This one."

[WolfDog12]

The black cat was at the back of the cage laying down facing away from the cage door. He was currently ignoring every human that walked by with the occasional hiss and warning growl if anyone stepped to close or he could sense their eyes staring at him. Honestly, the feline didn't care that many ignored the moody black cat until he heard the words,

"... This one"

and quickly turned around to make sure the human wasn't talking to him but a cage either above, below, or even next to him.... Nope.

 

At first, he stared into the human's eyes, wide-eyed and shocked but then frowned, narrowing those bizarre eyes, and giving off a low growl. The girl there quickly tried to talk the male out of it, explaining that this stray had just been picked up in the morning and they had yet to do any checks. Not to mention the fight it put up. The strange feline slowly got up and sat in front of the cage door still narrowing his eyes and ears down, fur sticking up strangely. In this position, it was easy to see just how thin this cat was and the fur... well it almost didn't look like fur.

[LoneDigger]

"He's so scrawny... and mean, and black as the dark... He's perfect!"

 

Perfect in his own imperfections that was, nobody would want to take this cat. There was something wrong with the poor thing clearly but it was nothing a bit of love couldn't fix. Or so Asher immaturely assumed.

 

"I already went shopping and got everything a cat could need plus more, please consider me taking him home today... Look, he's just acting all mangy because he's stressed out here. He'll be very spoiled... it won't take long to fatten him back up."

 

The male said all this without his eyes ever leaving the black feline, as if he were totally memorized by the strange cat. But he was in love just the same.

[WolfDog12]

"Very well...." the female said, clearly uncertain. "We should make sure that he gets all his shots before you are able to adopt him and if you'd like we can have him neutered but you'll have to wait two more days before he can be officially adopted. The other option is taking him home today but you'd have to take him to a vet and get all those shots yourself." She tried to explain things the best she could but it was clear she just didn't want to be dealing with this cat anymore than needed.

 

Of course, the human seemed impatient about waiting to take this "Cat" home and the girl sighed and lead Asher to the front to do the paperwork while a couple others went in to get him into a cat carrier. This dumb human had no idea what he was getting himself into. Though... that might be fun... So, while he didn't want to put up with those that wanted to cage him, he did want to go home to torment this man until he was inevitably going to throw him back on the streets.

 

Still, a cat carrier? Hell no! The black cat lashed out with a hiss and growl. He knocked the carrier away from his cage and bound off around the room, before slipping under the closed door like water, snickering at the humans who were probably shitting themselves after what they just witnessed and hurried down the hall until he found the human signing the paperwork. Without hesitation, the black cat jumped on the man's leg and climbed him like a tree, digging in claws on the way up before coming to a stop on the man's shoulder looking down at the paper's he was writing on. The girl just about had a heart attack when he appeared there, looking into his lifeless eyes, panting and grabbing her chest. She'd dealt with a lot but she wasn't even sure this was a cat.

[LoneDigger]

Ow, ow... fuck! What the shit was that?! Aw... nevermind. It was just his new best friend.

"He likes me already..."

Asher smiled, this was so cool. His cat was so loyal it didn't even need a carrier and he could take him everywhere! Just riding on his shoulder like the best buds that they were.

 

"Almost ready, my little Shadow~"

 

He decided to name the kitty that because the feline had appeared right behind him without him even hearing, and it felt like the cat was going to stick close to him, and well... he was the color of a-- You get the idea.

Ashser finished the paperwork by signing his name. Only he kept it to himself that the whole vet visit thing would be postponed, he had way more fun things he wanted to show his new pet before making him go to the scary place.

[WolfDog12]

The human was calling him that lame ass name? Well it probably wasn't the worst thing he could have been called but at the same time it was the kind of name a child would give a cat. So, he figured tormenting this oh so innocent human would be even more fun than he thought it was.

 

The men finally came barreling out of the cat room just as they were headed out the door. Of course, they were unable to speak for a minute as they stared at the cat who looked back and stuck out his tongue at the humans before they got in Asher's car. The cat jumped off his shoulder onto the center console and then into the back seat exploring the car on his own before crawling under the passenger seat into the front then jumping on the seat once satisfied with his exploration.

 

For a minute, "Shadow" sat there staring at the human before turning around and pressing to open the window hoping to hop out. He wanted to ride on top of the car!!! The feline growled when he wasn't able to open the window due to them being locked and was forced to wait for them to get "Home".

 

Once they made it, Shadow hitched a ride again into the house and immediately began to tear through the place like it was all his to begin with. He didn't care what he crashed into, a chair, a table, desk, it didn't matter as he bound about, light footed and surprisingly quiet as he did so. Other than when he crashed into things of course. Only his footsteps were the silent parts. This would be his new domain!!! And to show it was his, he made sure to slip in a closed door the same way he escaped the men at the kennel and found a pile of laundry to make his temporary bed. Now it was up to the human to find him. Should take a while since he wouldn't expect a cat to fit through the underside of a door.

 

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The human was calling him that lame ass name? Well it probably wasn't the worst thing he could have been called but at the same time it was the kind of name a child would give a cat. So, he figured tormenting this oh so innocent human would be even more fun than he thought it was.

 

The men finally came barreling out of the cat room just as they were headed out the door. Of course, they were unable to speak for a minute as they stared at the cat who looked back and stuck out his tongue at the humans before they got in Asher's car. The cat jumped off his shoulder onto the center console and then into the back seat exploring the car on his own before crawling under the passenger seat into the front then jumping on the seat once satisfied with his exploration.

 

For a minute, "Shadow" sat there staring at the human before turning around and pressing to open the window hoping to hop out. He wanted to ride on top of the car!!! The feline growled when he wasn't able to open the window due to them being locked and was forced to wait for them to get "Home".

 

Once they made it, Shadow hitched a ride again into the house and immediately began to tear through the place like it was all his to begin with. He didn't care what he crashed into, a chair, a table, desk, it didn't matter as he bound about, light footed and surprisingly quiet as he did so. Other than when he crashed into things of course. Only his footsteps were the silent parts. This would be his new domain!!! And to show it was his, he made sure to slip in a closed door the same way he escaped the men at the kennel and found a pile of laundry to make his temporary bed. Now it was up to the human to find him. Should take a while since he wouldn't expect a cat to fit through the underside of a door.

[LoneDigger]

Maybe the carrier was necessary since it was probably not very safe for the cat to be free roaming inside a moving car, but he just made sure to drive extra carefully and try not to be distracted by his fascinating new kitty.

Shadow sure was energetic... He would be so much fun! He already had a lazer pointer and other cat toys to keep his friend entertained. He even got this really unnecessary over the top cat climbing gym that took up almost a whole spare room.

Though he could hardly keep up with his new pet as it tore right through the halls going who knows where. Probably to explore his new home and get comfortable.

 

"Shadow, wait!"

 

He cringed when he heard something crash, well... at least he knew which way the cat had gone from the broken lamp in his wake. But that was soon forgotten about when he walked into his bedroom to find the feline curled up in a pile of dirty laundry nonetheless.

 

"No, kitty. I got you a nicer bed right here. See?"

 

Whatever it was it wasn't just a cat bed, in fact it seemed more like a bed suited for a Great Dane or something huge.

[WolfDog12]

Damn, it seemed the human was so concerned with finding where he went that he didn't even realize he had to open his bedroom door to find the speedy feline. Of course, Shadow lifted his head and looked towards the bed before narrowing his eyes again, rummaging around in the laundry until half of it was on the floor, and nestled back into what was left in the basket and looked over at the human with what almost looked like a grin.

 

This dumb human... He didn't find this cat even remotely strange. So now it was going to be even more fun tormenting him since he had no idea what he adopted. Time to show him who was boss in this house.

 

Shadow finally hopped out of the basket of laundry and tore through the house once again until he froze when he got to the kitchen. He was actually a bit hungry so may as well get some food. Looking back to make sure Asher hadn't caught up yet, Shadow changed into a human form, opened the fridge and quickly changed back to a cat to rummage through without the human seeing his other form. What to eat what to eat?! Nothing was beyond his reach.

[LoneDigger]

As Asher was trying to tidy up the mess his cat had already disappeared again! Sighing as he shoved the laundry back down the basket he went searching for the feline.

He thought he heard something in the kitchen and when he ran into the room somehow he had left the fridge door open? Weird... He stepped closer only to find Shadow perched on the shelf eating who knows what.

But instead of being mad, he just felt guilty. He should have known his pet would be hungry coming home and he hadn't even left him out any food.

He went to the pantry and opened up a tin of wet cat food, spooning into a fancy little bowl and setting it on the counter.

 

"Come try this! It's much better than human food, I think..."

 

Cats weren't supposed to like people food at all though. Maybe his was a just a fussy eater.

[WolfDog12]

Shadow was face deep in some left over chicken when Asher reappeared and got him a can of wet cat food. Gross. He could smell it from here. The feline narrowed his eyes at the human again, expressing his distaste for the wet canned food and proceeded to finish the leftover chicken before exploring more of the fridge for whatever else he could get into. There wasn't a hell of a lot but he did find a tube of mustard and knocked it onto its side with an evil grin before pouncing on it so it would explode outward.

 

Shadow let out a snicker before jumping out of the fridge, avoiding the new mustard mess and practically skipping off towards the living room. This human should be ready to lose his shit soon enough. As far as he'd seen, humans didn't have much in the way of patience. Though, this one did seem a little more resilient, he had to admit. Oh well.

 

With a quick search, Shadow found the remote to the TV and turned it on, flipping through the channels surprisingly well as a cat until he found a horror film and sat on the couch watching it, giving off a bit of a snicker any time someone was brutally murdered. He was having so much fun right now!

[LoneDigger]

Asher was a bit at a loss. The main reason he wanted a cat was because they were supposed to be less troublesome than dogs, but this hardly seemed to be the case. His feline was a handful, but he excused it on the cat just adjusting to home life.

 

"Seriously, Shadow?! It's not a toy..."

 

The male groaned when the cat pounced on the bottle, squirting mustard everywhere. Another mess to clean..

After he made sure the fridge was shut tight he walked into the living room only to shake his head at the TV.

 

"No, no... We don't watch those kinds of things here."

 

He took the remote and flipped he channel to an animal documentary, maybe Shadow would like watching the Lions?

[WolfDog12]

Shadow flared at the man when he grabbed the remote and changed the channel. So.... this guy liked lions? Fine. Then maybe he should have one. Shadow waited a moment for the human to sit down before he hopped onto the back of the couch and hopped down behind it turning into a large black lion and stepped around the side of the couch and opened his mouth as if roaring but the roar sound came from the lion on the TV.

 

After he was sure he'd given the human a good scare, shadow turned back into the small house cat form and went into a laughing fit. He rolled on his back snickering and meowing as he kicked and laughed for a while. If this was what was going to send him back to the streets, may as well go out with a bang!!

 

Shadow finally rolled onto his side, calming down and sat up, panting slightly from all the laughing. Finally, he hopped onto the arm rest of the couch and waited for the human to either grab him and kick him out or run from him. There was no way a normal human could handle this kind of thing with ease. Or, so Shadow believed.

[LoneDigger]

What the fuck was that?! It was like the horror movie and lion documentary had a baby... A terrifying demon child.

But despite his own mini heart attack he still hadn't put two and two together. Throwing the remote at the beast while screaming.

 

"GIVE HIM BACK YOU MONSTER!!!"

 

He thought this thing had taken his precious kitty Shadow. But low and behold it was Shadow and he was laughing at him, how dare he!

 

"It's not funny...!!!"

 

Asher flushed, hugging himself tightly. Why did this cat hate him when all he'd ever done was be kind to him?!

[WolfDog12]

The remote easily bounded off the shadowy mane of the lion but didn't seem in any way bothered by it. Shadow just transformed back, had his laughing fit and sat on the arm rest. Though, he did find it odd the human didn't just run away but opted to throw a remote at a freaking lion and yell at it to give him back his cat. Shadow watched as the human hugged himself and seemed really hurt by the prank. What was it about this human that rubbed Shadow so strangely.

 

The feline jumped on the man's shoulders and licked his face a little with a strangely soft tongue before jumping away, changing into his true form, a spectral snake like thing, and flying off across the room before landing on his feet as a human. "You're really weird you know that?" His voice sounded distant as if it wasn't actually coming from the human with the black eyes. Though, now his eyes had irises... Though his eyes themselves were black, he had green irises and his neck looked to have an old scar poorly stitched up as if someone tried cutting his throat.

 

"I'm shocked you adopted a demon without even caring." Shadow continued in that weird voice, leaning back against the wall.

[LoneDigger]

"I didn't adopt a demon... I adopted a kitty..."

 

Asher tried to defend himself but his voice was rather small now that he was face to face with something he frankly had no idea about.

He was terrified, but his curious nature was somehow stronger than fear. After all, life was so dull and pointless most days this couldn't be any worse, right?

 

"... Can you turn back?"

[WolfDog12]

"Wait... you're not kicking me out?" He asked looking at the other, cocking his head a bit. Why was this human asking him to turn back? To see if he could? Because he wanted to keep him as a cat? What was the reason for asking. "Well you better explain why you aren't just kicking me to the curb. I can't talk as a cat, only in this form and my true form." With that, he shrugged and changed back into a cat, walking over and hopping back onto the arm of the couch.

 

The feline watched the human both curiously and with a bit of a sour look on his face. He couldn't talk but if this form made Asher more comfortable, then that was fine. He had to understand this human and from what he saw of the house so far, it didn't seem to be a bad place so he was willing to make it his if allowed to stay. Though, who would let a demon stay in their house?

[LoneDigger]

"Um... I don't know how demons work exactly. But I may have accidentally made a contract with you so you're probably stuck..."

 

Well, he had to sign the adoption contract for a cat, would that transfer over as counting as a demon contract? He had no idea.

The only thing he did know was that he wanted a kitty. That was it. Was that really too much to ask for these days?

 

"I need to sit down..."

 

Well, more like Asher just flopped down on the couch, suddenly feeling light headed and sick to his stomach at once the realization of what he had gotten himself into hit hard.

[WolfDog12]

The feline practically sighed as he shook his head. Demons didn't enter into contracts. Not like that but, there was paperwork that said Shadow was now his... and honestly, a big thing was that this human named him. That was really bound them together. Sure, Shadow could still leave if he wanted. It wasn't like he was bound here but did he really want to go?

 

Shadow changed to his true form, rising above the fallen human and said, "I'm not bound to you by contract but you named me so I guess I could be your pet. Though, I'm not going to make things easy on you." With a snicker the feline changed back to a cat, landed on Asher's chest and curled up to take a nap. He didn't care how tense the human was beneath him, he liked being inconvenient. So, there he slept.

[LoneDigger]

Honestly Asher just looked petrified, it wasn't even helping that the demonic cat was now sleeping on his chest, paralyzing him even worse. But this time it wasn't out of fear of the creature, but the guilt he would feel for waking up his poor sleepy pet.

So there he was, completely trapped. He tried to get himself angry, anything but this... Yet he couldn't bring himself to feel truly bothered, in fact he was a bit excited. Definitely intrigued by the possibilities.

[WolfDog12]

Shadow easily slept for two hours before waking up. He yawned, stretched, claws at the human beneath him a bit then sitting and looking down at him. He should at least start with seeing if the human had calmed down or not. Shadow jumped to the floor, and padded away some before turning to look back at the other. It was time to see if the human was too scared to keep him around or if he was open to having a demon around.

 

The feline raised a brow towards Asher to hear his verdict would he kick the demon or keep him? Either way, Shadow wasn't a normal cat and Asher would have to accept that as fact.

[LoneDigger]

"You're my cat... I'm not giving up on you just because you have some... um, faults. I knew you were meant to be mine from the moment I saw you."

 

Asher gave his cheesy little speak as he sat up with a groan, feeling sore from the awkward position he had been stuck in for too long, giving a little stretch. Hey, at least he could talk to his pet, that was a plus! Even if it was demonic and creepy... probably out to get him too.

[WolfDog12]

The cat gave a cheeky smirk and padded off to find something to play with. He was bored and wanted a toy to entertain himself. Sure, he had a human now but he could bother him more another time. Shadow found his way up to a window sill and looked out, staring for a moment before finding a pillow and he opened his claws ready to make a mess. Of course he seemed to wait for Asher to find him first.

 

Now it was a stand off. Shadow was ready to tear into this pillow if Asher didn't offer anything else to entertain him with. The feline narrowed his eyes with that evil smirk.

[LoneDigger]

No, no, no fuck! He quickly dug into his pocket to pull out the lazer pointer, turning it on so the little red dot appeared on the sill, he moved it around to catch the feline's attention and lure him away from the good pillow.

Please let this work just like those stupid videos he watched online...

[WolfDog12]

For a minute, it didn't look like he'd fall for it. Shadow kept his focus on Asher until finally, he darted off like a freaking bullet at the red dot. He had no care for what was around and crashed head first into the wall with a loud bang. Of course, he bounced back without so much as pausing the rub his head and tore off after the laser light. The feline continued to crash into things, throwing himself fully at the light rather than just trying to catch it in his paws.

 

Without even realizing it, Shadow was in his true form darting back and forth, the flying snake-like creature still trying to catch the light. Once again, he was still hitting things but this time, it wasn't as bad since if he got low enough, he'd slip under things without too much issue but several times, Shadow changed forms, scratched up the floors, walls, and a number of other things until he found himself in human form stuck under the freaking bed, reaching out trying to claw at the light with his hands. Even in this form, he shared the red/clawed hand feature every form he took on had.

 

All that could be seen were the two arms sticking out from under the bed trying desperately to reach for the light.