From baes to bookends, captioned version

There you go the captioned version ;) Thanks to Thea Inanimate for the review of the text ;) And feel free to comment the story and what do you think about it :D

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Two people were walking through an early summer night. They were heading towards the parking lot where they had parked their car before the costume party at their favorite comic book store. Mikhail and Mikenzie were a young geek couple, happily married to each other and loving their shared passion. Despite how warm the night was they were, dressed in costumes designed to look like sci-fi bodysuits. The costumes were expertly made and the illusion was only broken by the fact the pair were carrying bags overflowing with books, comics and more stuff they had purchased.

The pair filled the night with happy laughter as they talked about how fun the party had been, about the compliments their costumes had gotten and how they’d both had a good time. Summer evenings, with their prickly heat and most of the couples friends on vacation, were usually boring, but the owner of the store had the idea to hold a costume party for their regulars who were still in the city and make it a special night. Snacks, costumes and a selection of old bad sci-fi and fantasy movies to laugh along with.

As Mikhail and Mikenzie had been facing a boring summer stuck at home, not enough money to go on a fancy vacation, so when Mikhail found out about the party they both jumped at the chance to have a fun Saturday night out instead of their usual Netflix binge. Besides, they had a fond memory of last Halloween when both decided to make matching costumes of two of their characters from RPGs they had played, Kai’Elion and Christi’iara, two mercenaries from a universe where humanity is expanding through the galaxy, fighting aliens and mutants, and they kept the costumes so... why not repeat the experience? That was definitely a better plan than stay in and just watch some TV... again. 

And it was. Maybe they didn't win the improvised costume contest, but the owner of the store laughed so much with their performance that they gave them some old books and comics as a thank you for taking part.

Now, after hours of chatting, drinking, and laughing, they walked back towards their car, hugging each other and enjoying their happy evening, mentally saving some good memories in their minds for the future.

Or at least the future that would have been, if on the way to their car, they hadn’t found the Doll Maker.

The old witch liked getting up early in summer and taking a walk around town. It was an excellent season and the perfect time to find cute runners, dressed in tights and short jogging clothes, and to make them into even cuter figures to add her collection. Although Mikhail and Mikenzie weren't the type of prey that she was seeking, see couldn’t help but think they were perfect after seeing the couple walking along, hugging and laughing, whilst wearing their strange clothing. Despite the Doll Maker only using girls to create her figures, she decided not to let the fact Mikhail was a man stop her from making a perfect pair of figures, eternally together. And thus the magic began.

Mikhail stopped, feeling a strange chill in his body. Mikenzie wanted to ask him what was wrong, but when she tried to speak, the words wouldn’t leave her mouth. She could see how the chest of her husband grew really fast, the tight bodysuit leaving no room for doubt, into a pair of breasts. “What!?” Mikhail screamed watching his new tits rise from his chest, and as he did so he heard the tone of his voice changing rapidly from male to female, while his beard was absorbed with a soft sucking sound and the features of the face softened. His waist was visibly shrank. The couple was scared and surprised, not even 10 seconds had passed since Mikhail felt the chill, and now he didn't look like his character Kai’Elion, but the female version of him, Kai’Lee, who they created some time ago for their personal RPs with these characters. But this time it wasn't a game, this time was real. He... she was a woman now. Neither of them knew what happened, what to do, or even what to say.

But the moment of disbelief and surprise didn’t last long. The second part of the Doll Maker’s magic started, not a gender bending spell this time, but her usual magic. The couple watched as both were separately surrounded by a blue light, each one of them shouted the name of the other in fear, not for themselves, but for the other. In the time of a single heartbeat the magical light covered both girls, swirling up like a twister and then wrapping around them like a cocoon. A sucking sound echoed loudly around the parking lot, and then the spell finished and burst with a quiet "pop". With her usual crazy gaze, the Doll Maker approached the fallen bags that only one minute ago the lovely couple were carrying, and in the middle of them, a new pair of figures shaped like Kai’Lee and Christi’iara, united on a single base, waiting to be picked up from the ground. The crazy eyes of the witch took a detailed look at her new creation. They were great, but for some reason, they... they were missing something. Looking at the dropped bags full of books, she knew what it was and with a quick movement from her finger, a section divided the base of the figures, two metal sheets growing from the division. Now the couple weren't only cute sci-fi figures, they were now functional bookends. Beautiful and useful. Doll Maker was really satisfied with these ones.

Despite being happy with the result of her work, the couple weren't the type of work that would fit properly in her collection, so she decided to search for a better home for them. With a snap of her fingers, the bags that Mikhail and Mikenzie were carrying from the party began to float in the air, the new bookend set too, the bags disintegrated into dust and reformed around the figures creating a box with a transparent plastic window at the front to allow people to see the cute plastic couple. The books themselves were put next to the box, and a second larger box was created around books and dolls, this time a simple opaque cardboard box, with seals and stickers like a normal package would be posted in. The Doll Maker smiled again, happy with her work, and taking a little walk, she went to the comic book shop, the same shop that had hosted the party. And then the crazy witch used her magic to open the now empty store, walked in and left the box inside, next the cash register. She was sure in that place someone would find a good home for her latest creation.

And then Doll Maker returned to her hunt, trying to find a cute runner to add to her collection of figures. Without looking back or devoting a second thought to the cute couple that she had transformed into a plastic and metal bookend set, freezing them in the time inside their costumes and characters forever.

Years later, the bookend set would be discovered by some magicians, who were collecting the Doll Maker’s victims, in a pawn shop. It had been bought from the comic book shop, had multiple different owners and finally was sold to the pawn shop for a few bucks by someone who had no idea about their real value. But that is a different story...