[Bogey TFTG, Age Progression]

“T-Tetsu, s-should we really go in here?”

“Listen, Kaname, I can’t back down after a dare. N-No matter how scary the place is!”

Two young boys, who had barely reached the double digits, found themselves standing outside a factory on the edge of their town. The place had been abandoned around the time they were both born, but nobody bothered tearing it down because of rumors about workers getting into deadly accidents. So it just stood there, serving as a proverbial graveyard for those that had apparently fallen in the line of duty.

And here the boys were. Well aware of the factory’s reputation. Well aware that it could be bogus. Well aware that there was an equal chance of it being totally true and that they could be disturbing the ones that had once worked here… And they dared wander inside. At least, the older of the two young boys did. But not without his friend. Because he wasn’t stupid enough to go alone.

“Kaname! We’re just going to go in there, get ourselves some dusty toys, and then get out. We’ll show it to that meanie, and then we’ll head back home.” Tetsu, the more confident of the two, laid out their plan. Even though he was shivering from head to toe as he explained the plan.

“H-How do you know we won’t get caught and eaten by ghosts..?” Kaname, the bespectacled boy who was shaking even harder than his friend, was a scaredy cat. But he was also a close friend of the stronger boy. He didn’t want to let him down, even when it could end badly. Because they were friends, and he had helped him so much…

Tetsu narrowed his eyes a bit, trying to think of a good excuse. He didn’t know either, but what was he supposed to say..?

He blinked as the lights turned on inside his head. “Okay. Listen. We’ll take the toys home after, and we’ll give them to my little sister. She’s turning two in a few days, and I’m sure she’d love them. Even if we gotta wash them and make sure they’re not dusty.” He said. If there was one thing that’d keep him from chickening out, it was the fact that he was helping somebody. Even if that helping deed was something small and honestly insignificant.

Kaname looked at his friend, and slowly nodded. “O-Okay. W-Well, l-let’s go…” He said, as he stepped inside with his friend by his side. He just hoped that they wouldn’t get lost or anything…

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They had gotten lost. Like, almost immediately after separating, they had gotten lost. Not only that, but they had gotten separated.

And whose fault was it? Tetsu’s, of course. He noticed something glinting in the distance, thinking it was a metallic toy that still had a bit of shine to it, and he ran off. Leaving Kaname all by himself, his body trembling as he walked through the darkness.

“T-Tetsu! P-Please come back! H-How are we going to get home if we don’t know which way’s the way out!?” The young boy cried out, shivering and trembling so hard that he could hardly stay standing. It felt like the heaviest weights in the universe were resting on his shoulders… Ah, he just wanted to be home and comfy in his bed.

Just as he was about to give up hope, he blinked and noticed something close to him. On one of the stopped conveyors that led deeper into the factory was… A little teddy bear? It didn’t seem like it was in the best condition, because all of the stitching was on the outside and was really thick, but it seemed… Charming in its own way.

“W-Well…” Kaname muttered as he looked around, before grabbing the teddy bear and holding it in his arms. “A-At least I found one. I don’t know if his sister’s going to like this bear…” He muttered, still hoping that he could find his friend before it was too late.

As he walked through the darkness with the bear in his arms, it felt like… a warmth was washing over him. Like, he had been shivering both from the fear and from the cold night time air, but… Just holding this bear was enough to give him a reprieve from the cold. Which was really nice.

Still, even with how comfortable it made him.. He still started to sob a little as he couldn’t find Tetsu. Where was he..? Were they both going to be lost within the factory until morning… Or more than that? Were they going to be lost in here forever?

“A little child, crying his heart out…”

A voice poured through his ears, and his heart jumped in shock. Where was that voice coming from? More importantly, who had noticed him? He thought that the place was abandoned! W-Wait, it was a ghost, wasn’t it?! Oh no, oh no oh no oh no!

“D-Don’t eat me! I don’t taste good! I-I eat lots of veggies!” Kaname shouted out into the darkness, but he didn’t receive an answer to his panicked shouting. Just the endless quiet. His voice didn’t even echo…

It was only when his new teddy bear started to shake that he realized he had done something terrible already. Especially as it started to burst at the seams, the threading stretching out to allow all of the filling to pour out.

“You’ll be safe. He’ll be safe…” The bear was the one speaking. Not just that, but the voice was… Soft and feminine. Like it was trying to assure him that he was going to be alright. Even though it was definitely the creepiest thing in the entire factory!

Kaname couldn’t get away. Not as the teddy bear started to open up fully, letting the fluffy filling take him. Dragging him inside, as the stuffing closed around him and trapped him inside.

He tried to struggle. He tried to break free. But the softness around him was choking him out. It was making it hard to think. Harder to breathe. He couldn’t do anything except get compressed by the stuffing…

At least, right up until he could feel the stuffing conform to his body. Or rather… His body was becoming one with the stuffing. Little by little, it felt like he could move his hands… And his legs…

His heart pounded against his now-plush chest, panting as he remembered his friend. T-Tetsu was still in danger. He was still stuck in the darkness. But the bear… The bear with that feminine voice told him that he’d be alright.

But wait.. If… If he was inside the bear, and the bear was female, then…

Kaname’s mind barely managed to process the truth of the matter at hand before he felt his body growing hotter. Little by little, the teddy bear started to change shape. The stuffing shut itself back inside the fabric, filling out the body. But not just to make it nice and plush and full like a real teddy bear.

No, now that it had merged with him… It grew even more feminine. Hips pinching together, breasts growing from his chest, and an utter lack of anything masculine below the waist. Not only that, but adorably plush horns popped out of his head and a long mane of dark hair poured down his back.

Combine all of that with the image of his… Her friend burning into her mind, and she could hardly call herself human nor male at this point. Nor would she bother. She had to save him, so he wouldn’t cry when he was all alone..

Kaname disappeared into the darkness, hoping to find her dear Tetsu sooner rather than later…

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“Great. I’m lost.”

Tetsu finally realized that he might’ve done something terrible. Despite the fact that he now held a rather pristine cymbal monkey, one that admittedly was a bit too… adultish for his liking? What with the buff arms and feminine shape and all. Because as it turned out, he had gotten completely and utterly lost, and he had left his friend behind.

“Kaname! Kaname! Where are you!?” He shouted into the darkness, hoping to get an answer back. Come on, the factory wasn’t that big. At least, that’s what he thought. There was no way that he’d end up stuck in here for the rest of the night.

His cries were answered, as a plush set of steps echoed through the darkness. “Ah. Great, Kaname! Let’s get out-” Tetsu was just about to feel pure relief, only for shock to pour onto his face as he stared at who he thought was his friend.

“Ssssh.” Kaname, now in the form of a Bogey, the living teddy bear, said as she smiled and stepped closer to her little friend. “You’ll be safe, Tetsu. As long as you’re with me…”

Before Tetsu could do anything, he was pulled into her arms, his body growing limp within seconds of being stuffed into her bosom. He didn’t understand what had happened to his friend. Nor what this weird teddy bear lady was…

Nor would he remember what happened shortly after that, as Kaname’s feelings for her friend boiled over and made her do something that would leave a scar on his psyche for the future.

All that he would remember… Was that he never wanted to see a stuffed bear ever again...