Authors note: Ello! Yes, I have problems…but you people should know that by now! I don't own Ariel. One of my best friends, AkiraKnuckles, owns her. Thank you. Oh, and in this chapter, but this chapter only, Prince Zuko may be a little out of character.
Sokka and Ayame were all alone on an island. Aang and Katara had traveled to the Fire Nation for some unknown reason.
"So, what are we going to do?" asked Ayame, poking the unknown.
"Whatever we want I guess," said Sokka.
Ayame looked at Sokka with a grin on her face.
"TAG! YOU'RE IT!" screamed Ayame as she poked his shoulder. She got up and ran. Unfortunately, she ran into a tree. "I'm okay!"
"Are you sure?" asked Sokka.
"Yep!"
"Okay, I don't get it, you get hit in the head with a stupid piece of rope and you pass out. You run into a tree really hard, you bounce back up untouched…" said Sokka confused.
"I don know," said Ayame. "Hey I'm going to go find some water to take a bath in,"
"I'll come with you, I haven't taken one in a while," Sokka got up and stretched.
"Beat you there!" yelled Ayame. Ayame ran into the woods. She stopped at a beautiful hot spring. "Wow!"
Sokka finally caught up with her and looked at the springs.
"Look," pointed Sokka. "There's a giant rock right in the middle, separating one side from the other, we could both go in at the same time."
"Fine, but no peeking," said Ayame. "I call this side!" Ayame shooed Sokka to the other side so she could undress.
She took off her waist scarf first, then her whole dress. She stepped into the hot springs with out any flinch of the hotness.
Sokka took of his top robe first. Then his other shirts, then his pants. As he got into the water, he flinched a bit, the water was hot. He started to relax.
"Hey Sokka!" yelled Ayame from the other side.
"What?" Sokka's voice was kind of irritated.
"People are coming on my side,"
"What!"
"Yeah, they look like fire navy people."
"Can they see you?"
"No, but when they come closer they probably will, oh and my clothes!" Ayame's voice became cheery from some reason.
"Ayame, get over on this side quick!" Sokka knew who it was. It was Prince Zuko. He must of saw the campsite and thought the avatar was here with them.
"What!" yelled Ayame. "No way!"
"Do you want to be seen and taken away?"
"…No,"
"Then get over here!"
"But…your naked…" said Ayame with a fearful tone.
"You wont see anything! I'm in the water!"
"No way!"
Sokka got tired of this. She was just to stubborn to come. She obviously doesn't know that her life and freedom are in danger if she is caught. He swam over behind Ayame. He grabbed her waist, trying not to go to low, and brought her over to the other side.
"What are you doing?" she snapped staying low under the water.
"Shhh," whispered Sokka.
They listened as voices were talking on the other side.
"Uncle, do I really have to do this?" whined Zuko.
"Yes," said Uncle Iroh. "You are to stressed with this Avatar, that you have no time to relax."
From the sounds of it, there were other fire navy soldiers with them also.
"Ayame," said Sokka. "You have to be really quiet."
"But what are we going to do?" asked Ayame. "We can't just sit here and wait for them to leave, and plus my stuff is over there."
Sokka looked confused. He didn't know what she meant.
"I have no clothes!"
"Oh."
They started to listen again.
"So, is there any news on the Avatar?" asked Zuko.
"Prince Zuko, you should relax, that's why we're here, and we're not leaving until you relax!" said Uncle Iroh.
"Great," sighed Sokka. "We're going to be here forever,"
"With no clothes," added Ayame.
"Hey! I have clothes, you're the one without them."
"Oh yeah sure, brag about it." Ayame started to listen. Then she got an idea. "Hey I got an idea!"
"Wow, that's a first."
"Okay, I'll ignore that," said Ayame. "Close your eyes."
"What are you going to do?" asked Sokka.
"Close them!"
Sokka closed his eye and went underwater. Ayame got up and went over to Sokka's clothes. She took them and put them on. They were a little too saggy for her, but she didn't care.
"Okay, you can open your eyes now." Said Ayame coming back into the water.
"T-those are my clothes!" said Sokka surprised.
"I know that," said Ayame. "I'm going to trick them into thinking that Aang is here."
"Okay how are you going to do that?"
"If I hide my face, they will think I'm you, then you can escape!"
"But I don't have any clothes!"
"Why not?"
"'Cause your wearing them!"
"Well, you can wear some leaves or something." Ayame got out of the water and crept through the woods to the other side. Sokka listened.
"Prince Zuko," said Uncle Iroh. "Isn't this relaxing?"
"Shhh Uncle," said Zuko. "I hear something."
In the distance they could hear someone walking.
"Come on Aang, the fire navy is here! Let's get out of here!" shouted Ayame trying to disguise her voice.
"THE AVATAR!" yelled Zuko. He got up and put his clothes on in 5 seconds. "Hurry Uncle!"
The rest of the fire navy got up and got dressed. When they spotted Ayame, they ran after her. Soon, they were gone.
Sokka got out and looked. It was just he in the springs. Then he noticed Ayame's things. "Two can play that game," He walked over to them and picked them up. He observed them. They were smaller then his regular clothes, but not by much. He put on the dress, it was tight on the waist but a little baggy by his chest. Then he took the purple scarf and tied it around his waist. He started running towards the others.
Ayame was running through all the twists and turns, trying to make them confused. While she was running, she put her hair up in a bun, so it would look a little more like Sokka.
"Get him!" she heard Zuko saying.
Come on, thought Ayame, I can't look that much like a boy.
She felt a burst of fire hit her feet. She stumbled and fell down on the ground hard. Zuko came closer. She closed her eyes ready for what ever was coming, but it never came. She opened her eyes. A boomerang had hit Zuko. Ayame looked behind Zuko and started laughing. Not to far from her, was Sokka in her dress.
"What's so funny?" Zuko turned around and saw "Ayame". "What the?"
"Leave her-uh him alone!" yelled Sokka trying to sound like a girl, which made Ayame laugh even more.
Zuko noticed something different. He looked back at "Sokka" then to "Ayame". He noticed that "Sokka" was a little curvier then usual, almost like he had a figure. Then he looked at "Ayame", she wasn't curvy at all.
"What's going on here?" Zuko seemed pissed.
"You look funny in a dress!" laughed Ayame behind Zuko in her regular voice.
"Well, you left me no choice!" yelled Sokka in his normal voice.
Now Zuko was really confused.
"Prince Zuko," came Uncle Iroh's voice. "It seems they pulled the switch on us," Uncle Iroh started to laugh.
"It's not funny Uncle!" yelled Zuko.
"Of coarse it is!" laughed Ayame. "Look at him in a dress!"
"It doesn't matter," said Zuko. "Your both coming with me,"
"Uh, can we change clothes first?" asked Sokka trying to stall time.
"Fine, but we will be watching you so you cant escape." Said Zuko.
"By any chance," said Ayame. "Would you have a woman or girl with you?"
"No."
"THEN NO WAY!"
"Fine, we'll set up something for you to change in, then we will leave." Said Zuko motioning his men to get her a tent.
"Okay!"
They set up a tent for Ayame. Sokka took of her dress and handed them into the tent without looking. Also without looking, Ayame gave Sokka his clothes. When she came out, she looked like Ayame again, same with Sokka.
As soon a Zuko was going to tie them up, a gust of wind came and knocked him over. Ayame and Sokka looked to where it came from. It was an airbender, but it wasn't Aang. It was a girl.
"AHHHHH!" screamed Ayame excitingly.
"AHHHHH!" screamed the girl.
Ayame got up and ran to the girl and hugged her.
"Ariel!" shouted Zuko.
"Ariel?" asked Sokka.
"Ariel!" shouted Uncle Iroh.
"Ariel!" shouted all the soldiers.
"Ayame!" shouted Ayame. "Ariel!"
"How have you been?" asked Ariel.
"Uh, can't complain, few bumps over there, a couple of cliffs over here, yeah pretty good!" said Ayame still hugging Ariel.
Ariel was the same size as Ayame. She had long brown hair down to her butt. She wore a yellow and blue bandana, with a long blue dress with a yellow hem. She almost looked like Ayame, almost.
"Ah twins!" screamed Sokka.
Ariel laughed. "No silly! I met Ayame a long time ago when she came to my village. We had been friends since."
"Yep!" shouted Ayame.
"Ariel!" shouted Zuko. "What are you doing here?"
"Uh, I was just following you…but not in a stalker way um, yeah." Said Ariel scratching her head. "But then I saw you in the hot springs and WHOA!"
"Okay lets talk about that later…" said Zuko who was blushing.
"That was a little uncalled for," said Sokka. "Now I have a sickening thought in my head."
"So Zuko, what are you doing here?" asked Ariel.
"I was looking for the Avat- wait! Where is he?" demanded Zuko.
"Oh," said Ayame. "We don't know, he left us here a while ago for some unknown reason,"
"WHAT!"
"Avatar, Avatar, Avatar," said Ariel. "THAT'S ALL YOU TALK ABOUT! What about me?"
"What about you?" asked Sokka.
She glared at him.
"Well, I-I need to find, when I find t-t-the Avatar t-then we can go uh cant we talk about this later?" Zuko seemed frightened in a way.
Ayame went over and bent down to Sokka.
"I think he likes her…" whispered Ayame.
"No? Really? I couldn't tell." Said Sokka sarcastically.
"Yeah when later? AFTER YOU CATCH THE AVATAR! You're never going to get him! And then when where there be time for me?" shouted Ariel.
"Ooh, that must of hurt," said Sokka. Sokka went to Zuko and patted him on the shoulder. "It's okay man,"
"GET OUT OF THIS! IT'S NOT YOUR BUSINESS!" screamed Zuko.
"WELL IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE YOUR BUSINESS EITHER!" shouted Ariel.
"Oh," said Ayame. She went up to Sokka and grabbed his arm. "Come on, lets get out of here before she decides to get mad."
Sokka's eyes grew big. "S-she's not mad already?"
Ariel went over to Zuko and hugged him. "I'm sorry, it's just I get so upset when you talk about the Avatar."
Zuko hugged back. "It's okay, I get upset when people talk about the Avatar too,"
"No you don't," said Ayame.
He glared at her.
Authors note: Thank you AkiraKnuckles! I have her right here, she helped me with the end of the story! PLEASE REVIEW! I SEE THAT YOUR MOUSE IS GOING TO THE REVIEW BUTTON! CLICK IT OR DIE! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! …Whoa! I need to take my pills. PLEASE REVIEW!
