Astrid loved malls. They were her favourite place in the whole world. So many people. So much different places to get food. So many clothing stores. So many places to nerd out. It was just her absolute favourite thing in the world. So it came as no surprise as that’s where the majority of her benders took place.
She first entered Victoria’s Secret, a place where she usually started out, though she never stayed for very long. Her first victims were in a corner, browsing some of the lacy items that their heart desired. It was perfect for Astrid since it was at the back of the store and no one could really see.
The friends were split up in two, with a single girl standing on the left, and two more girls standing on the right. Astrid approached the girls on the right and gave them both a tap on the head. As soon as her fingers lifted from their heads, the girls began to disappear. The first one had her arms fuse together into a loop, as well as her legs do the same. Her body thinned out and then expanded to give room for two large cups. Meanwhile the other girls hands fused together behind her, and her feet fused in the same place as her hands, making three separate holes.
Both of the girls shrank fairly quickly, as they both changed from skin to a fabric of sorts, finally settling into their final form, a lacy bra and panties, not unlike the ones they just had been looking at. After seeing her handiwork, Astrid squealed in happiness, which drew attention of the other girl standing by herself.
Since Astrid had her attention, she had found herself in a creative situation with two transformed girls and another future one.
“Oh my god, you have to try these on! They are so cute!” Astrid squealed in a voice the third girl appreciated. Unknowing what the bra and panties really were, she quickly went to a change room and tried them on. Being extremely satisfied with how they looked, she left the changing room to show off to Astrid. Since they were in the back of the store, no one really see what was going on, which was perfect for Astrid.
“Let me get a picture. Pose!” Screamed Astrid, and the girl did exactly that. However, as soon as Astrid took the picture, the girl froze in place with her face disappearing into her head, leaving behind a smooth surface. The rest of her body became smooth and of a single colour, as she became made of plastic.
Not seeing a reason to move the mannequin, Astrid moved on, already having forgot about the girls. It was a weird situation for the girls however, they would forever enjoy it as Astrid loved transformation, but was never cruel about it.
Astrid was joyful because of this experience. She loved coming to the mall and just having a lot of fun. While sometimes she thought of more creative ways to change, today was not that day, since Astrid just started to run and tap the heads of anybody nearby, letting her subconscious take the wheel.
For instance, three friends who were walking down the side were unlucky enough to get their heads tapped. The girl had heeled over and fell on all fours, quickly growing fur and changing into a guide for the guy. The guy had then been blinded and underwent a gender change, with his breasts forming up to a small B-cup, his hips becoming more curvy, and overall becoming a lot more feminine. He had changed into a smaller, petite blind woman who was around 25 years of age. The third friend got the worst of it, as he had his body strung out into a strap, and his head morphing into a retracting machine. He then clipped onto the collar of the dog, completing his transformation into a retracting dog collar.
Another similar set of victims was a man and his dog, who simply switched places, as the man became the dog, and the dog became the man. They both stopped for a second to transform into each other, but after that second, they continued walking.
Another pair, this time a mother and son, were sitting on the bench when they happened to undergo a much different transformation. Instead of transforming into each other like others, these two swapped minds. Which means that the mother now thought she was the son trapped in the mother’s body, and vice versa with the son. The situation got cleared up a little bit, when the next morning they had been put in what they thought were their respective bodies when they woke up. Sometime Astrid adds in a delayed transformation. The fun times should always last, she thought.
The last group of people to transform before Astrid stopped to find something special was a group of three teenagers. Two girls and one guy. The guy had, like the previous guy, transformed into a women, this time being much older at around 40, and having bigger breasts and curves like a more mature woman would. The first girl regressed in age to become about 6 months old and was placed in the new stroller.
The stroller had come from the third friend, who’s arms and legs crossed at the ground while her hands and feet became wheels. The rest of her body became an overhang to provide shade and protection for the baby. In the end, the mother had just been walking her baby down the hall on her way to buy more clothes for the both of them in their new stroller.
As Astrid came to an end of this run, she saw something that she had forgotten was here. The Ice Palace. It was an indoor public sheet of ice that anyone could use. Right now there were a couple of people on the ice, one of which was a hockey player dress in a t-shirt, jeans, and with gloves and a helmet on, while the other was a figure skater wearing a full outfit and professional skates. The excited witch was hit with a burst of joy as she sent her magic down to the skaters.
Due to her magic, the figure skater and the hockey player collided with each other, and as they fell to the ground, the hockey players t-shirt and jeans turned into a light blue dress made for beauty on ice, while the figure skater dress turned into an old t-shirt and jeans, as well as gaining a helmet with a full cage. The two had effectively switched lives as they helped each other up, going about their days as if nothing happened.
She continued on to a local women’s clothing store. Since it was very busy, and the employees were obviously over worked, she had an idea to help them. Instead of individually head tapping everyone in sight, Astrid simply laid a charm down on the store, and its magic would take its course.
Shoppers who would grab a piece of clothing or an accessory, would be turned into that accessory and placed right where they belong. For instance, a woman who thought a pair of track pants looked really comfy went up to grab them, where instead of grabbing them she was sucked into the top of the pile, folded up, and placed as just another pair of pants. A young girl trying to reach a sweater on the top shelf was lifted up and hung upon the high rack once she finally touched the sweater, hollowing out with her legs retracting into her body in the process. Another young girl liked the summer of a necklace, but was quickly hung up on a piece of cardboard like all the other necklaces in a matter of seconds, with her entire body compounding into a string, and some sections bulging out to become shiny metal upon the string. Someone thought a pair of leggings looked cute, until the entire top half of her body retracted into her legs as she became made of nylon. Multiple girls were hung up on the racks while reaching for t shirts as their heads fell into their bodies, and their legs lifting up into their torso as they turned into fabric.
Satisfied with the store’s new inventory, Astrid continued on until she found a more general clothing store, and a couple looking for clothes. A man and his girlfriend stood outside a changing room, and Astrid saw an opportunity. She sent her magic their way, and the man became an exact replica of his girlfriend, while his girlfriend became every different part of the outfit she was going to buy. Her head lifted up into a baseball cap, her body become a thin t-shirt, her arms joining together becoming a nice gray scarf, her legs become soft black leggings, and her feet turned into a red pair of converse. The girlfriend now walked into a now open change room as she tried on her new outfit.
The witch’s couldn’t be contained, since she saw a pair of twins walking together, and decided to conjoin them together with one body and two heads. The twins barely noticed as they kept walking as if nothing changed.
Other smaller changes to random passerby ensued. A man became a beanie for his girlfriend who couldn’t find the one she wanted. A salesperson became a cardboard cutout of themselves trying to seek vacations to Bermuda. A minimum wage employee became the shoes that the store was out of. Finally, a security guard became the chair desired by the next guy on shift at a jewelry store.
Astrid put some effort into these final changes as she prepared to leave the mall. She turned a gay couple walking hand in hand into one man who had dissociative identity disorder, merging them into one being. She morphed a rude man at a bar down one of the restaurant wings of the mall into a new barstool, making his back protrude into a circle, and his limbs thinning out to become the legs of the stool. Another man at the bar had gotten his wished and was sucked up into his glass when he demanded another beer. A customer at this very same bar became the pen that the waitress had lost, his head separating from his body and becoming the cap, while the rest of his body thinned out, turning his skin into the shell, and his internal organs and blood into the actual pen and ink of the pen.
One of her favourite changes had to be the girl who really wanted these new high heels from her favourite shop in the mall, so she became them ready to buy. Her arms had thinned out to become the actual heel, and the rest of her body gave room to put a foot into, creating nice 4.5 inch stilettos.
Another change that Astrid wanted to live in her memory was the group of friends who were browing a makeup store. One of the friends couldn’t find the eye shadow pallets she wanted, so she became the pallet, and her friends all became the different colours of eye shadows.
However, Astrid favourite change was in the arcade. An older man had just won the jackpot in ski-ball, and the prize was 9,000 tickets. He celebrated before realizing that he was individually separating into the tickets very quickly as he took his last breath and fell into the pile of tickets that used to be him.
Astrid felt like she was near out of energy after such a long day, so she decided to head out but she wanted to end in a high note. While outside, she changed a lonely man into a crow, another lonely person, this time a women, into a new Tesla Model S in the parking stall she was standing in, and lastly , a pair of friends into her purse, which she had lost earlier in the day, and the content of her purse that were lost, which involved many things like cash, I.D., makeup, and other such things.
By this time Astrid was ready to call it a day, as she head out of the mall waiting to have another day of fun.