Life under watch

Story by shadow_senta on SoFurry

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This story was a really old one I did. I know that the wording on this is really weird and not really the best work but it's like 4 years old. This is about how Shadow meets a new love and ends up in servitude.


There is a town far far away where a wolf who might as well have changed the lives of everyone around him. His name is Shadow Senta the second or Shadow 2 for short. He's in the bottom of his class he's a very slow learner, but he loves to read and he's also an inventor so he gets paid for every invention he invents and gets royalties from them. Also he doesn't know a lot about the city he lives in so let's see what he's up to.

"Oh what have we here" says Shadow as he's rummaging through a trash can.

"Looks like a book, an old book. Really old, like maybe a couple of years or so, well I think I'll go to the park to read this one". Not long after getting to the park.

"Hmm this is a weird book."

"Hey Shadow!" yelled a girl from across the park. "Huh? Who could that be? No one knows I'm at the park. I just wanted to be alone today." Shadow said irritantly

"Hey Shadow".

"Oh Mirra it's you".

Shadow has known Mirra for a while now and he is deeply in love with her but doesn't have the courage to tell her.

"Hey Mirra, what brings you to these parts?"

"Well I was looking for you" Mel said shyly.

"You were, why?"

"Well Ben, Kim, and I were gonna go to a water park. I thought you would want to come with us."

"Eh why not I don't have much else to do." So then the two went off to meet the others at the water park.

Ben is a very interesting one Shadow doesn't know much about him but he does know that he likes Kim, he's also very athletic. Kim on the other hand is one of the smartest people in the school and she's known Shadow since they were in kindergarten. They met while Shadow was trying to set fire to a water fountain. He was the one kid in class that everyone would try to stay away from, he had such a bad childhood.

Shadow got in a car accident when he was seven so he lost a lot of his memory which included the memories about Kim. He didn't get his memories back until Mirra reintroduced him to her in the ninth grade.

"Hey guys" Shadows said as Mirra and he was walking toward them.

"Were you two waiting long?" said Shadow.

"Nah, we just got here" Ben said.

"You know you two should start talking to each other more" Shadow said to Ben.

"Why?"

"Because I know you like her"

"What? What makes you think that?"

"Well first of all you always talk about her, you're always staring at her, and you made a comic of you and her together."

"When'd you find that?"

"When I took your backpack, remember?"

"Oh right, now I remember"

"Hey you guys done talking yet?" Mirra said impatiently

"Yeah, yeah" said Shadow.

"Well then let's go". So after a couple of hours they finally left the water park.

"Woo that was actually really fun" said Shadow. "Hey you guys hungry?"

"Yeah, how about we try the diner" Mirra said.

"Well how about no, my brother works there." Shadow exclaimed.

"Oh come on Shadow your bro's cool he gives us discounts on everything." Ben said.

"C'mon Shadow I'm freaking hungry" Mirra yelled.

"Ugh fine but don't expect me to be in a good mood." Shadow said stubbornly

So then they walked to the old diner, Shadow's brother was not the best person to be around. Working at the diner is the one job he can actually do. He's been fired from all the other jobs he's been at. His actual name is Lance but everyone calls him Shade, no one really knows why.

"Hey bro"

"Oh Shadow it's been a while" said his brother.

"Yeah yeah just here to grab a bite with some friends." Shadow said happily.

"Well then let me set you guys up, it's on the house"

"Ok thanks Lance" said Shadow as he walked to a table.

"So what do you feel like eating" Shadow said to Mirra.

"Hmm, well I think I'll get the steak dinner looks good but I can't really afford it" Mirra said sadly.

"Hey who said you were going to pay, hey guys you aren't gonna be paying for the food, my bro said it's free." Shadow said happily

"Choose whatever you guys want"

"Ok, so you guys ready to order?"

So while eating Lance walks over to the table to talk to Shadow's friends friends.

"So how's the food?" said Lance

"Pretty good this time, it's not to burnt" said Shadow.

"Oh well thanks" Lance said with a smirk on his face.

"Hey Shadow can I talk to you in a bit" said Mirra.

"Sure, hey Ben what do you think she wants to talk about?" Shadow said nervously.

"How should I know?" Ben whispered

So after the dinner they all went home Shadow invited Mirra to his house because she wanted to talk.

"So what did you want to talk about?" said Shadow.

"Well I wanted to ask you a very personal question" "hmm?"

"I wanted to ask you..... If you like me?" Mirra said abruptly.

"Well um that's a very interesting question"

"C'mon just give me an answer, please"

"Fine well I um" but suddenly the phone starts to ring.

This is the perfect way to get out of a moment like this Shadow thought to himself.

"Hey Shadow, can you come over I need some help with something" said Ben.

"Um sure, I'll be right over"

"Sorry Mirra I have to go help Ben I'll answer that I different time"

"But..."

"See ya". So Shadow goes to his friend Ben's house.

"Hey Ben"

"Oh good you made it, I need your help with this" "With what?"

"It's over here c'mon". So he walks into a pitch black room. His phone rings.

"Huh? Hold on Shadow."

"Yeah, yeah he's right here, ok Shadow stand right um here"

"Ok, why?" So he pulls a rope and a cage fall over him.

"Hey what's going on?"

"Just wait there I can't have you go running off" then the door bell rang.

"Well that was fast, wait right here" then Shadow heard some people talking at the door.

"Ok Shadow so you don't go running off and you're forced to stay here, Mirra wants to tell you something."

"Ok Shadow I want to know, Do you like me or not?"

"Oh c'mon this is what you had to do to make me answer?"

"Yes now please answer me"

"ok fine but Ben you have to leave" so ben lowers his head walks out.

"Ok Mirra, look like I have no choice but to answer you now, ok so I do like you. A lot"

"Oh thank god, this could have gotten really awkward" Mirra said happily.

So Mirra walks over into the dark room and turns on the light.

"Happy Birthday" shouted all of Shadow's friends.

"Oh, thanks guys. You really didn't have to do this" said Shadow.

"Yeah but you're a good friend, and you really disserve this" said Mirra.

"Well thanks guys, this is so nice, but do you mind taking off the cage?"

So Shadow and his friends have a great party until 1 uninvited guest appears.

"Oh Shadow!" says a girl from outside the house.

"Hey Shadow did you hear that?"

"Oh dear god, how did she find me!?"

So Shadow then starts to run to the back off the house and keeps running.

"There you are!"

"Please stay away!"Shadow says while backing away

"Not a chance!" She then tackles Shadow to the floor.

"Krystal what are you doing here?"

"I told you I would find you; I especially wouldn't miss your birthday"

Krystal is a girl who has loved Shadow since he was little; she has been in every one of his schools and every one of his classes. She's pretty much obsessed with him, and she knows everything about him. It's extremely creepy but he just can't get away from her.

"Krystal I told you the last time to stay away from me, anyways how did you find me?"

"Well awhile ago I saw you at school so I decided to follow you home and then here"

"But what's the point? Really why did you come?" said Shadow angrily.

"Please don't be mad with me I just missed you so much, it's hard to go a day without seeing you." Krystal said sadly as she started to cry.

"Oh great, shh shh its ok don't cry" Shadow said while he sat up to hold her.

"Stay right here I'll be right back"

So Shadow ran into the house and got something of his. He got out his guitar. Ok well I didn't get to tell you this earlier that Shadow can play the guitar as well, he can play really well actually.

"I'll play you a little something just please don't cry" so after a short while she started to calm down.

"Thanks Shadow" Krystal said happily as she started to hug him.

But at that moment Mel walked out of the house to try to find Shadow.

"Hmmm Shadow? What are you doing?"

"Oh he's just giving me a nice warm hug"

"Hey! Let me answer for myself" Shadow said abruptly.

"Krystal please leave us."

"Ok see you later Shadow" Krystal said amorously. "She's gonna get me killed one day" Shadow said to himself.

"So what was all that about?" Mirra said.

"Well I asked her why she was able to find me but..."

"I mean who is she, how does she know you and why was she hugging you?"

"Wow hold on now let me finish answering"

"Fine go ahead."

"Ok well first of all her name is Krystal, I know her from school like in preschool, and it's been like she was following me because she's been in every one of my classes since then"

"Ok I get that but why was she hugging you?"

"I was just getting to that, I kept asking her why she came here and why she was following me. And I guess I made her sad and she started to cry."

"Yeah and?"

"And I didn't want to see her crying so I got my guitar and played her a little song and then she stopped crying and she started hugging me, and then that's where you came in."

"I can't believe that's all you can come up with" "What? I'm telling the truth"

"Well then if you're telling the truth then how did she manage to find you again?"

"She said she followed me from school" so after an hour of arguing then finally made up.

"So you understand now Mirra?"

"Yeah, yeah". So then they walked back inside the house and continued the party for hours.

"So Shadow what happened out there?" said Andy. Ok Andy is another one of Shadow's friends and he is the one that gets Shadow out of whatever mess he gets himself into.

"Oh it was nothing; Krystal managed to find me again"

"Wow really I thought you lost her in Europe" "Yeah so did I"

"Hey Shadow come over here" said Mirra.

"Yeah what's up?"

"Well I was just telling Kim how you and me first met, I'm a little fuzzy on the topic you mind helping me out?"

"Well if I remember correctly we met in Mrs. Katamori's class right?"

"That's right it was her class, man did she hate me" "Nah it was just because you didn't do any of the work"

"Oh right"

"Well at least I got to meet you there, if it wasn't for her class then we probably haven't have ever met"

"Yeah that was great" so after awhile of reminiscing they decided to end the party.

"Wow that was great" Shadow said happily.

"Yeah but Shadow I'm really happy you said that you liked me because I really didn't want to wait any longer to find out"

"Well were you waiting long?"

"Waiting long for what?"

"Well, were you waiting long to find out that I liked you?"

"Yeah it was about three years ago when you took me to the movies don't you remember?"

"Oh right I saved up all my money for that day" "Really we only spent like thirty dollars that day" "Yeah but that was before my watch started selling, which reminds me"

"Hmm?"

"Well tomorrow I get my check maybe you want to go somewhere?"

"Sure, I'd love to" so then Shadow took Mirra home and then went to sleep.

But in the morning Shadow would find a little surprise waiting for him.

"Well that was a great sleep; hmm I must have fallen asleep at Mel's house" so Shadow got up and walked back to his house.

"Oh a present on the porch, how nice" but right when he opened the box a necklace flew at him and wrapped around his neck.

"What in the world?"

"Oh Shadow I hope you like my present"

"Hey I remember that voice"

"Yup it's me again"

"What the-? Krystal what are you doing here, and what this thing on my neck?"

"Well first of all I really liked that song you played for me yesterday and I really wanted more moments like that with you, so I went and bought myself a hypno-collar"

"A hypno-collar?"

"Yup it's guaranteed to make anyone you want follow your ever command"

"Oh this can't be good"

"Well for you, probably not but for me it's wonderful" Krystal said with a smile on her face.

"So first of all I want you to carry me home"

"Ugh, at least I can still talk"

"Yeah I didn't get the muzzle because I wanted to hear your beautiful voice"

"Oh c'mon just let me go and we'll forget any of this ever happened"

"How about no, I like this I can have you do anything I want, and I mean anything"

"Oh I defiantly need help"

"Well where we're going no one will be able to find you thanks to your military grade jammer"

"How did you even get your hands on something like that I made sure it was for military purposes only?"

"Yeah I found a way"

"Well here we are"

"Oh great" so after hours of doing work for Krystal, Shadow finally gets a break.

"Oh god I need to find a way out of here"

"There is no way out, I made sure of it"

"Oh please, someone find me" Shadow said to himself.

"Well Shadow now that we're alone maybe we can have some fun, first go make us a romantic dinner"

"Well this is going to end well" Shadow said sarcastically.

So after they're dinner Shadow got some free time to explore the house.

"Man she really has this place locked down; I hope I can get out of here"

"Hello, anybody home?"

"Hmm? Who's that?" Shadow said as he started walking towards the door.

"Another girl? Great two times the suffering"

"Hello, aww great home alone again"

"Huh I wonder who that is"

"Hmm? Who was that, who's here?"

"Hmm, let's see if I can find out who she is".

So as Shadow was trying to find out whom this mystery girl was. Krystal thought that Shadow had a long enough break and went to go look for him.

"Hello! Where are you? Oh sis you home so early"

"Hey umm who are you talking to?"

"Oh a just a friend of mine"

"Of course he's a "friend" and where is your friend?"

"Oh he's umm; well actually I lost him in the house somewhere"

"Great now we have a guy running around in our house, oh also why'd I find a box labeled hypno-collar in the trash can?"

"Oh I put that on him"

"You put the hypno-collar on one of your friends? Why?"

So after talking so long Shadow now knew enough of the mystery girl to go introduce himself even though he doesn't know her name and he doesn't even know how she looks.

"Oh Shadow there you are" Krystal said gladly. "Yeah I'm here" but at the sight of the girl Shadow was in shock.

"Kim? What? I didn't know you had a sister" "

Oh Shadow it's you, Wait Krystal you put the hypno-collar on him?!"

"Well I didn't know Shadow was your friend"

"Kim you've never told me you had a sister, and not to mention your sister is Krystal"

"Well Shadow I didn't think you would really care"

"I just noticed this as well; you never even invited me to your house for all the years we've known each other"

"Uhh yeah I didn't did I, well Shadow let's get that collar off of you"

"What you're not going to take off the collar from my precious Shadow" Krystal said angrily.

"Krystal you can't keep him here forever!"

"Oh shut up I just want him as my new pet and servant"

"Well he won't be for long if I have any say in it" so then they had a little fight until Krystal found out she ordered 3 hypno-collars so she managed to put one on Kim.

"What the? Did you put a hypno-collar on me?"

"Well let's see you try to take it off now"

"Ugh, why can't I pull this thing off?"

"Because it has a special sensor that tells you if the person wearing the collar is trying to take it off and automatically weakens the user so low that you can't even pick up a piece of paper" Shadow said sadly.

"Oh that's great so now you and me are stuck here, wait a minute why don't we just run out while she's not looking?" So then Kim starts running for the door.

"Wait I wouldn't do that if I were..." But she ran to fast to hear his warning. Bzzzt

"Ahhh! What the hell was that?"

"Well before you started running I was going to tell you that the collars will shock you if you try to leave the house"

"Great so you're telling me we can't leave"

"Yeah pretty much"

"Oh this is just great"

So after a couple of days of being locked in the house Shadow and Kim decide to talk to each other since they seem to have grown apart.

"So your sister is Krystal?"

"Yeah I thought I told you ages ago"

"Well I must have forgotten about it"

"Yeah and you can't even imagine how much I hate her"

"Hate her, why? She's your sister"

"Yeah but she's the favorite in the family, no matter what I do I'm always criticized for it."

"Wow that must suck, but at least you have parents mine left me when I was 5, you remember the first time you and me met"

"Yeah it was the first day of Kindergarten"

"Yeah well that was the last day I ever saw my parents, I have no idea what actually happened to them"

"Well my parents are never here, the maids and butlers take care of us, so in a way you and I are kind of the same"

"Yeah we are in some ways; you know you're actually smart"

"Says mister inventor"

"Yeah the guy that didn't even build a fail safe into his inventions. Plus Inventing is nothing it's just putting bits and bobs together"

So several hours later Shadow and Kim go and look for something to eat in the huge house they now live in.

"So Shadow what do you feel like eating?"

"Ehh I don't really care I could eat anything right now"

"Hmm, how about some caviar with poached eggs?"

"What? That sounds really expensive"

"Nah we have tons of this stuff"

"Well I'll have some of that then". So now Shadow was unknowingly building a special bond with Kim and Krystal didn't like this, not one bit.

"Oh Shadow, where are you?" Krystal said irritatedly.

"Oh great she found us" Kim said sadly

"Well we can try to hide if you want, I found a way to the attic and it doesn't seem like anyone has been up there in a while"

"Sure it'll give us more time to talk to each other" Kim said happily. So now Kim and Shadow go up to the attic and hide from Krystal.

"Hey how long do you think we can hide from her?" Kim said cautiously

"I doubt for very long"

"Well at least we can we can still have some time together" Kim said happily

"So Shadow how did u get stuck in this mess?"

"Well I was just getting home when I saw a present on my door step"

"And you didn't think that was suspicious?"

"Hey don't question me, I was half asleep"

"Well then again you don't even know that... umm never mind" Kim said nervously

"Wait what were you about to say, I didn't know what?"

"Oh it's nothing"

"If I've learned anything over the years I've known you it's that whenever you say it's nothing, you really mean it's something really important"

"Well if I tell you promise you won't laugh"

"Ok ok I won't laugh"

"Well you know when you, I, Mirra, and everyone else went to the Christmas party?"

"Well kind of, I didn't really remember much that night, all I remember is that you took me into the room because you had to tell me something"

"You don't remember what I told you Shadow?"

"Umm no not really"

"Well ...."

"There you two are!" Krystal yelled angrily