Thank you everybody! Feel free to check out my other stories! They are all amazing!
Sorceress Supreme's story's are all wonderful as well;) and I think that if you like this story, you'll like BREAKING NEWS! and Red Bull, Coffee, and other drugs. Those have Loki, Darcy, Stephen, and Astrid. :) Breaking news has the other Avengers, including a few drunk asgardians. ;)
Two days later...
Stephen rubbed his temples, trying to concentrate with the loud music pulsing from Astrid's Ipod. She had refused to leave him in peace, and now her music was blaring in his ears while he tried in vain to focus.
Stephen growled in frustration, and thought the sound endearing. He sounded like Astrid. But then he remembered that he didn't want to sound like Astrid.
His voice came from the bathroom, Astrid apparently singing in his body.
Stephen felt his frustration growing. He felt violated and completely useless.
Screaming he shot an energy blast into the Ipod.
''What the hell did you do to my music!?'' Astrid cried, looking at the smoking the smoking plastic.
''I exploded... It.'' Stephen paused, and flexed his hands. He had used magic in Astrid's body! He could magic them back!
Loki sighed, he was utterly bored with everything. Even the thought of a cure from this imprisonment was dull.
''Honey I'm sure we'll be freed in a couple days. Wong is looking everywhere for the answer to this riddle, and is...'' Darcy paused, rubbing a hand through the hair which was on Loki's head.
''If I am to stay in your body forever, we will have to get used to the idea of making love to ourselves.'' Loki whispered, looking at Darcy. Her now green eyes pierced his. Did he really have such a fascinating face?
"Guys I just discovered something!" Astrid- er, Stephen, abruptly came into the room, looking excited and relieved.
"What, that you sound completely obnoxious when you have a girl's voice?" Loki quipped. He never missed the chance to poke fun at his best frenemy. If that's what they were to be called.
"NO! Well, yes that's true, but that's not the point!" Stephen began pacing in front of them, his arms clasped behind his back. The effect was lost on them though since Stephen was still stuck in a 5 foot 3 body and had a very feminine figure. "Even though I may be trapped in Astrid's body, I still possess and retain all my magical abilities. I can fix this!"
Darcy's face broke into a smile at the news. Loki, however, wasn't nearly as impressed.
"Why haven't you done anything about it then?! Do you think I like being stuck in my girlfriend's body? While you're making your little discoveries," Loki sneered, "I have been absolutely hating your guts for every damn reason imaginable!"
A dark figure suddenly swooped into the room, grabbing Loki by the collar of his sweater and slamming his female body up against the wall. Stephen's face, and yet not Stephen but Astrid, glowered in rage down at the helpless Asgardian.
"Don't you DARE talk to him that way again!" she snarled, looking even more menacing when it was the sorcerer's guise that she wore. She gave Loki a little shake. "You hear me? If you weren't wearing Darcy's skin now, like a shield of protection, I would be pounding your pretty little face in. Stephen is trying the best he can to fix this, and nobody seems to get that. I suggest you spend a little more time with your mouth SHUT. Or I'll shut it for you." She growled the last part threateningly.
Someone placed a hand on Astrid's shoulder. Darcy spoke gently, sincerity shining through the green of her Loki eyes. "It's okay Astrid. Just take a deep, calming breath." she waited until Astrid had done so, then continued speaking. "Loki didn't mean what he said. At least, not in the way he made it sound. We're all just really frustrated and feeling this pent-up energy. It's affecting us. But we have to fight it. We can't give in. There's a solution to this mess, don't worry."
Astrid's Stephenish face crumpled in a look of despair. She sighed heavily, collapsing against the wall. "I feel so confused. I don't know whether I'm a man or a woman anymore. I still think like me, but then I act like a guy. I hate this! I just want my body back," she whimpered.
"We all do," Loki said quietly. He felt a twinge of empathy for the poor woman. All this time he'd spent focusing only on his comforts and how uncomfortable things were for him. He hadn't given a thought to how Astrid may feel, or Stephen for that matter.
Stephen looked at Astrid, ''Don't ever do that again.''
Loki smiled, he wouldn't want his girlfriend to act like that either. Getting defended by your girlfriend is the worst sin ever in a guys world.
''I think we should all have a break...'' Darcy began slowly, looking around the room, ''All of us except Stephen, who will be trying to change us back.
Stephen mumbled curses under his breath. He was down in the dim-lit cellar, the only light source being the Stone, which was glowing brightly.
''I never get breaks.'' Stephen mumbled, trying another spell. ''Stephen do this, Stephen do that.''
''Ashali Dauminodor!'' He exclaimed, trying the last spell of reversing ever used. ''God why?!'' Enraged and beyond frustrated, he picked up the fire opal and threw it as hard as he could against the wall.
Time seemed to slow as he watched, horrified, as the Stone hit the rock wall and broke into a million pieces. His last thought before the world went black was 'That was our only chance'.
Their only chance for breaking the spell.