Dodge here, duck there, look out! lady with a pram! I narrowly avoid the kamikazie lady in seconds, I hate shopping centres, there always packed with whiney little kids, mums with push chairs, it never ends, their just to full with people, and trying to make your way round them is bad enough, let alone trying to find somewhere to buy something, thats why I brought my freind with me, Dan, to help me look for a birthday present for my little sister, Helen, she was 14 today and needed to get her something. She was at school right now, and I had no colldge, and stupid me! I forget to buy her a present. Thats why I am navigating this hellish maze, looking for a present for her. Me and Dan stop outside a new agents to figure out where to go next "jesus, its murder here Dan, you think we should go elsewhere?"  Dan looked around scartching his head in confusion, "I have no clue..." I sigh, he never really liked crowded areas. "well" he responded, looking back towards me. "we could look at the directory, I heard they might have added another shop or two, they should have added it there as well, it would be kinda stupid not too" I nodded and rasied my head above the crowd to look for the three sided piller. The top could just be mad out umungst the crowd. I grined in sweet succes and looked back to Dan who was staring around the opposite direction. "hey Dan its over here!" I waved towards the directory and started to weave in between the people, moving past a slow gothic kid who was mumbling and squezing between a group of talking freinds.

Dan sighed, doing all sorts of manuvering till he gets to me, Im looking at the directory "all I want is something small, like a teddy, and she really likes dragons" Dan looked at me "What about a Dragon plush?" he said. I couldve hugged Dan right then and there"You are a genious my freind!!, now, is there anywhere here that does that sort of thing?" Dan looked back at the directory and ran his finger down the list of shops, he eventually found one that sold various toys and stuffed animals, so we tried there......a few minutes later, we come out of the shop, our hands emtpy "could you believe that??" I say to Dan, frustrated "All I want is a simple dragon plush, and the ones they have are like twenty dollars, Im not paying that" Dan just smiled "Cmon, lets try some place else" I sigh, no, theres nothing else here, lets just go home, I'll think of something else to get her" my heart heavy, we walked out of the busy centre, for a change, we decided to walk a different way home, and along the way, I kick a can into the gutter and look up, across the road, was a grubby looking shop, which I couldnt believe, had plushies in the window, lots of them "Dan!" I yell "look, lets go there, hurry!" Dan ran after me "Slow down man! your gonna break something!"

Luckily the road wasn't a busy one as we crossed the road, Dan following behind. As I got closer and closer to the brick building I could see it was worn from age. I looked at the plushies that sat ontop of large blue pillars near the window sill. "what is this place?" I hear behind me as Dan finally caught up. "I don't know" I looked up at the sign, it was white but with big colored letters that said 'PlushieSkins "huh, I never heard of 'PlushieSkins' before.... must be a store that leased the building. I looked to Dan who was still gazing at the sign. He looked back down at me, "well we going in or not" he chuckled wavering his hand towards the door. "hey! I am  I am! geez!" Dan shook his head as we aproached the door. "I know your not the biggest fan of plushies Dan, neither am I" I said chuckling as  I opened the old brass nob, letting the door swing itself open since it was put in improperly and tilted inside. "woah... what is this place?" Dan said behind me. And I knew what he meant. There were plushies... everywhere, on the shelves on the counter, on the rug, on pedestals, everywhere, of all different sizes and colors.

"looking for something?" Me and Dan jumped out of our skins and spun around. A tall, thin man, with greasy hair and an oily voice stood behind us "I said are you two gentleman looking for something?" I finally found the words to say something before we looked like idiots "oh yes Umm, I was wondering if you had any dragon plushies?" It seemed like a dumb question, and the man smirked and seemed to think so to "dragon plushies? or coarse sir....right this way" a wide grin spread across his face as he turned, me and Dan looked at each other, the grin was definetly unsettling. We followed the man to a second room of the shop, inside were literally hundreds of dragon plushies, I couldnt decide, the man crossed his arms, staring me down....I got the message to hurry up, although, why would he want me to hurry up? I walked along the rows of plushies, finally finding one I like, it was a dark green coloured dragon,it was sitting down with its tail out, it had a large yellow belly,a long fat fluffy tail and wings, two stubby, short legs and fat, fluffy arms, a forked tounge hanging out of its mouth "this one" I said, the man smiled "very good choice sir, excellent if I do say so" as the man took the plush away to put in a bag, I nudged Dan "geez is this guy for real?" we both snicker and go up to the counter "that will be one dollar please"......"one dollar? thats cheap" the man grinned "you can pay more if you like" "no no" I say quickly "one dollar is just fine" I pay for the plush, and leave with Dan and my purchase. The man watched us leave from his front window, grinning wickedly as his shop, and everything in it.....vanished.....

Back at my house, Dan came in for a while as I challenged him to a game of street fighter on my xbox. "Cmon dude, Im gonna kick your ass this time" I laugh "yeh right, let me just put my sisters present on her bed" I go into my sisters room and take that dragon plush out of the bag, taking the chance to get a closer look at it, the plushes eyes, they were so....real....they looked so full of life. Dan came into my sisters room to, standing beside me "cmon, what you doing, I want to play" he takes the plush from my hand and throws it on my sisters bed "cmon, lets go, you got a funeral to go to" he joked. I was about to follow when I started to feel very strange, not sick or pain, just.....strange. Why was I feeling so strange? I felt as if some un-natural warmth descended upon me. Ya the plushies fur felt unbeleivaly warm, but that was just to the touch. I eyed the plushy and curled my lip. Walking over, I placed the plush dragon upright on the pillow and turned to face Dan who seemed to be getting a tad impatient. "oh... sorry man, just felt weird for a second... still do really" My stomach seemed to growl. "thats weird... I ate already..." it growled again but then slowly became muffled, as if it was absorbed. I couldn't understand why, but I knew something was wrong when I started to feel a tickling sensation in my stomach. I moved a hand over to my belly and itched it a tad. Dan eyed me weirdly, "dude, whats wrong? you sick?" I look to him. "I don't know... my stomach itches... and its going up into my throat" Dans eyes widened, "did you eat somehting you may have been allergic too?"

I looked at him worriedly "no no, Im not allergic to anything, but man, this feels really strange, and strangely.....good" Dan looked at me confused "You sure your not sick I mean---" Dan stopped mid sentace and he gasped "what?" I said, he just shook his head at pointed at my chest, I looked down and yelped, my belly was growing! It was expanding slowly but surely, it looked like I was getting fatter, my belly continued to expand outwards as my chest barrelled out, my entire upper body growing larger "Dude! what the hell!!" I pressed on my chest, my skin wasent normal....it was alot softer, and had had the shine like velvet "Dan! whats happeneing to me! whats happening to my skin?!" What was going on? I heard of skin becoming scaly and deteriorating when your allergic, but certainly not at this pace, let alone making the skin soft! In desperation to prevent my chest from expanding, I tried to hold it down as best I could, pushing it back. At first it seemed to be working, holding back the advance. But then something happened, I started to feel pressure in my stomach. I gasped as my skin started to actually expand around my fingers, making it look like I was simply pressing into silly putty. Dan was stunned, shocked into his place. But he shook his head and snapped out of it, coming over with his hands rasied, not sure what to do. Finally he pushed my chest with me as we both tried to contain the expanision. It looked horrid... but amazingly it did not hurt like I thought it would... it felt almost nice......wait what was I thinking??

My belly started to slow its advance, I sighed but the changes didnt stop, a warm and.....pleasent feeling spread into my legs, what I didnt know, that my insides were turning to padding, the padding spread into my legs, the bones vanishing and I fell down on my rump, I watched as my legs grew shorter and stubbier, my jeans were destroyed....but I didnt care, I was to entangled in these wonderfull sensations....what was I thinking? But it felt so good......the legs grew fatter, covered by my newly growing soft skin, my feet started to swell, I cringed as my feet exploded out of my shoes, the toes were gone, I had huge soft padded feet, sort of an oval shape, I tried to move my legs but couldnt, and amazingly......I smiled.

Meanwhile, Dan looked down at me horrorfied. "Dude... your... your..." he looked ot the dragon plushy and back to me with wide eyes. "your turning into a p-p-p-p-plushy!" I moved my head to the bed but couldn't see the dragon plush. I attempted to move but... my legs wouldn't budge! They were limp. I tried to sway my hips to the side only to have them just move non-chalantly with them, non-responsive. Then... I lost feeling of the carpet beneath my hands... well not exactly, I could still feel the fibres of the rug, but they wern't harsh agasint my skin... instead, soft, and harmless, the feeling seemed to be on my palm than in between my fingers. I looked over to investigate. My fingers... were closing up! and I couldn't move my wrists! But this didn't panic me, instead I tested them out by moving my arm across the floor, giggling at how soft the carpet felt now. "DUDE?!?! what are you doing!!?" I looked up with a smile. It was almost like I didn' care, and I didnt I was enjoying every second, not even minding my humanity slipping away. "What do you mean? your doing it too" Dan looked at me stunned for a second as I pointed with a limp hand to Dan's stomach which began to expand beneath him. "GAHHHH!?!?!?" I giggled, Dan's belly was expanding slow and steady, just like mine, the belt on his jeans snapped as his belly continued to grow and grow, his skin turning soft, again just like mine, my changes progressed faster, and I was enjoying it so much, I tried edging the changes on. Dan was looking at his belly, horrified, then those warm, cosy feelings swept over Dan as they did me, his insides transforming from flesh to padding quickly spread into his legs, he fell down on his rump to, his legs grew shorter and fatter like mine, his shoes exploding showing the same large, toeless padded feet, his jeans in tatters around him. Back over at me, the sensations spread up my arms, making them grow fatter and more fluffy, I gasped at the pleasure as the insides turned to padding, my arms laying out in front of me, nesting nicely either side of my large, soft belly. I smiled and looked back over at Dan.

Dan's horrofied look slowly swept into a grin and mine broadened when I saw him come to a revalation. "don't you feel happy?" Dan nodded as he watched his legs continue to grow fatter. "ya.... yes I am!" I looked down and noticed a thread seemd its way on both of my sides, as if sewn by an invisable needle, seperating the yellow color of my belly with the dark green of my body. I soon found moving my waist was now impossible, yet I still managed to sit up. Stuffing formed inside me, piling up on over itself at my waist and continuing up to my stomach. I heared a ripping noise, but ignored it at first, too pre-occupied by this glorious proccess. It wasn't until Dan noticed that I did. Dan looked to my side in puzzlement. "look! your growing a tail!" he pointed with his hands that started to fuse. I blinked and craned my neck around.  thought  felt something behind me... it was as if i could feel the carpet behind me with some unknown appendage. But now, I knew where it was coming from.... I had my very own, fat, stuffed, dragon tail.... a small tag pertruded from the seems. I looked closer and would have been horrified if i didn't feel so good. "100% cotton stuffing, machine wachable" I read outloud.

Dan burst out in laughter, so did I, we stopped however, when Dans fabric skin started changing colour, his round belly turning dark yellow, all along under his arms and changing hands to, while the rest of him turning dark green, the tops of his hands and arms as well "It tickles" Dan chuckled, the stitched seperating the colours. My neck was pulled back around, my head locked facing forward "I think my heads going to change next!" I was excited, but it didnt, I felt more somethings growing out of my back, of what I thought, a pair of lovely soft, fat wings grew out of my back. Soft curvy spines sprouted from the end of my new tail, to the top of my neck "I wish you could feel this part Dan, its wonderfull!" I wished I could move so I could get a better look at myself, but it didnt bother me one bit, I was to entangled in the great feelings and sensations to care. I couldnt move anypart of my body now, but I didnt care. I could still feel the carpet on my lovely soft skin and that was good enough for me. I gasped with excitment as my head started to change, my ears tingled as they grew bigger and upwards, turning into fluffy horns. My face pushing out into a soft, fat muzzle. My teeth sunk back into the muzzle, I had no teeth now, the inside of my mouth turning to velvet and the stitching locked my mouth, letting the lower jaw hang open. My tounge tickled as it transformed into cotton, growing long and forked, snaking its way out as it hung out of my mouth, as if I was gonna give someone a big dragon lick! And I giggled at the thought. I averted my eyes back over to Dan as I couldnt turn my neck now "How you doing Dan, I think Im almost done" I have no idea how I spoke, my mouth didnt move! But Dan heard me, I didnt know how he did but It didnt matter.

I couldn't move my eyes, they seemed stationary, unmoving and unwavering. My vision became blurred ever so slightly as a small film of plastic incapsulated them slowly turning the gelatinous eye into hard plastic with that same, realistic eye color. My arms and legs finnaly stopped transforming, leaving giant fat stubs with puny fat talons. My arms slowly rose into the air, but I didn't feel gravity pull them down, it was if they were meant to stay there... forever even. Dan nodded to me, as his arms were finally covered in that same soft skin, the stitching finishing its long trip around his body. "good! oh man, I....... I don't know why I'm welcoming this...... I mean I'm turning into a plsuhy! we both are! but... the stuffing..... so soft..... I just want to cuddle with someone" Gravity pulled dan to the side and his head hit the side of the bed, leaving him on a tilt. Part of the blanket was obstructing his vision, but he couldn't do anything about it, not that he cared anymore. Three white plush, rounded cones pressed out of the fabric on his feet for talons as well as his hands. Dan couldn't help but laugh as a tail stretched far behind him and even seemed to wag for a second before stopping limp. The only thing left now... was his face. The soft plush arose in his body and slowly turned his mind to cotton. His mouth stretched out into a muzzle of interlaced fibers, his bottom jaw fell limp as he laughed, his throat was closed off and a long forked tougue lolled out to the side, as with me. His ears also came up into horns. I chuckled in my mind as he suffered the same fate. Goregous wings burst from the back of Dan and pushed against the overlying blanket on the bed. The only thing moving now was his wavering eye.... which slowly was enveloped in plastic and turned into that same eye that struck us at the shop.

Everything went quiet in that room, no more shuffling, or muffling of growing cotton, complete silence, apart from the faint hum of the xbox in the next room. We were sat in there, me and Dan, motionless and fully awake and aware. And yknow what? We were loving every....single.....second, we loved our plushy forms, the feeling of softness and warmth was overwelming and simply in-toxicating. We couldve drowned in our own happiness. Without my plastic eyes moving, I saw the origonal dragon plush, the one that gave us this gift, turned to dust......<why did it do that?> I thought. Dan was still silent, Im guessing he was enjoying himself to much, I them heard him in my cotton mind <Dude!! this is truly amazing!! this is friggin awsome!! Ive never felt so good before in my entire life!!!> I laughed in my head, so there we were, two huge dragon plushes in my sisters room. I wanted to be cuddled, so did Dan I think. We heard the clicking of tumblers as my front door was unlocked and opened "Hello? anyone home?" It was my little sister!! She'd come home from school! I was calling out to her in my mind, she came up stairs and walked in on me and Dan. She shouted in glee and ran over to me, she gave my large, fat belly a really tight hug........I cant even explain how GOOD that felt! She then rushed over to Dan. My sister hugged Dan, making his arms go slightly around her until they sprung back  when she released. I then heard another thought from him. <Chris?.... I'm glad we found that plushy... I just feel and know that our purpose now is to be hugged and cuddled for eternity....> Dan lost balance on the bed and slowly lid off letting his motioless body hit the floor.

I laughed at him, he didnt care though, those good, soft feelings never left him <Dan, your right, I hope we never turn back......, I hope we're plushies forever.....> My sister was so pleased and happy, her big brother had bought her to big dragon toys for her birthday, she couldnt wait to give him her hugs and thanks.......but in a way.......she already has.