"So, you're telling us the four of you switched bodies?" Mai asked, her arms crossed in boredom.
Azula nodded, eyebrows slanted in frustration, "That's exactly what I'm telling you."
"Wait," Ty Lee stepped forward, "Then who's who?"
"I'm Azula," Azula spoke up, "Zuko's in the peasant's body."
"I'm not a peasant!" Sokka complained.
"His name is Sokka," Toph spoke up, "and that's Katara," she pointed to Zuko's body.
"So, Zuko's stuck in Cutie's body?" Ty Lee asked with a smile, cartwheeling over to Zuko's side, "you should definitely keep this body."
Sokka laughed conceitedly and elbowed Katara, "She thinks I'm cute."
Katara looked at him, "We'll see."
"So, the waterbender is in Zuko's body?" Mai asked.
"My name's Katara!" she shouted.
"That stinks," Mai said, looking Katara over, "But for some strange reason, I'm still attracted to Zuko's body."
Katara gulped and backed away awkwardly.
"Too bad you're in Azula's body, Cutie," Ty Lee said, stepping next to Sokka, "Otherwise we could've worked something out between us."
"Uh, I'm involved with Suki," Sokka answered. From the corner of his eye he saw Toph turn away.
"At least you and Azula are in bodies your own gender," Mai told Zuko, "I mean, you're lucky you're still a guy."
Zuko crossed his arms, "Barely."
"Hey!" Sokka interrupted, "I take offense to that!"
"Shut your air-hole," Azula said, flicking Sokka in the throat.
"Ouch!" he rubbed his neck, "you hurt my Sokka's apple."
"Your what?" Katara asked, amazed at Sokka's idiocy.
"My Sokka's apple," he repeated.
"Do you mean your Adam's apple?" Zuko asked.
"Oh my god," Katara rolled her eyes, "for the millionth time, Sokka, it's not named after each individual man."
"It's not?" Sokka asked sheepishly, "Oh. Whoops."
Azula slapped her forehead, "Why do we have to be involved with these idiots?" she asked herself.
"Um, why are you staring at me?" Katara asked Mai.
"Zuko's body is just so hot," she answered.
"But, I'm Katara."
Mai shrugged, "So?"
Katara's expression changed to one of revulsion, and she took a step back.
"Have you dunderheads forgotten that we have a time limit here!?" Toph spoke up angrily, "unless you freaks want to be mixed-up forever, I suggest you start moving your lard butts!"
"Time limit?" Ty Lee turned to Azula, "what does she mean?"
Aang sighed, "This is useless Momo," he stood, stretching his back, "How am I supposed to find these herbs? I don't know where they're found, let alone what they look like!" He pointed to an herb on the list, "What's Sandalwood?"
Momo chattered for a moment before taking off from Aang's shoulder. Aang watched him fly away before his gaze fell back onto the list in his hands. The old lady had told him to bring her the herbs on the list so she could make the antidote, but he couldn't find any of them.
"Plum blossom," he looked up from the list, "isn't that what that crazy herbalist I visited put on her cat's food? Miyuki, was that the cat's name?" he looked around, "plum blossom, plum blossom...hey! That looks like it!" He bent down and plucked a flower, then brought it to eye level.
If I'm wrong...
He studied it a moment longer before spotting Momo. Momo flew to his side, dropping some sort of plant on Aang's lap, then flew over to the list and placed a foot on the name 'Sandalwood'. Aang looked from the plant, to the list, to Momo, and hugged him.
"You never told me you knew about herbs!" Aang cried, "now go find the rest boy!"
"Now that Ty Lee and Mai are here, we can cover more ground," Katara said, making her way over to Appa, "We'll split up into three groups."
"I want to go with Cutie!" Ty Lee said, clutching onto Zuko.
"Get off!" he squirmed, trying to get her to release him.
"I thought I was Cutie," Sokka said, let down.
"But now you look like Azula," Toph pointed out.
"I'm going with Zuko's body," Mai said calmly.
"No way!" Katara backed off, "I'm not Zuko!"
"This is getting ridiculous!" Toph cried.
"I'm with blind-girl," Azula said, "you guys are wasting my time. Mai, Ty Lee, you two go with the peasant. Brother, you go with the waterbender, and I'll go with Rocky on foot."
Toph crossed her arms, "Did you just call me Rocky?"
"But I want to go with Cutie's body!" Ty Lee wailed, lunging for Zuko's arm.
"Touch me and I'll kill you with a boomerang."
Ty Lee smiled, "Is that a threat or a promise?"
"Gross!" Zuko cried, appalled.
"Oh sure," Sokka crossed his arms, "just 'cause I don't look cute doesn't mean you can't like me anymore."
"Do you want her to like you, Sokka?" Toph asked.
"It's nice to know I have options," he replied.
"Katara's got options and it doesn't seem like she finds it 'nice'." Toph pointed and Sokka followed her finger to Katara.
"Just one hug," Mai pleaded.
"No!" Katara cried, shoving Mai from her.
Azula sighed, "Forget this. It's already getting dark again. Let's just search as a group since we're incapable of figuring this out."
"How did you two even find us?" Zuko asked, speaking to Mai and Ty Lee.
"We followed your cuteness," Ty Lee said with a smile as she tickled under Zuko's chin. He pushed her away harshly, causing her to fall to the ground.
"Forget how they found us!" Azula shouted, "I really do not enjoy being stuck in this shapeless, straggly haired, small chested body!"
"Small chested!" Katara shrieked.
"Well, actually Katara," Sokka spoke up, "hers do feel bigger then when I was in your body," he grabbed his chest.
"Hands off!" Azula shouted.
"I am not small chested! If anyone's small chested it's you!" Katara yelled, pointing at Azula, "Zuko's got bigger ones then you have!"
"Hey!" Zuko interrupted, "it's muscle!"
"Yeah, yeah," Sokka said, "Put a Sokka in it." Everyone stopped to stare at Sokka as he cracked up, "Get it?" he asked between laughs, "A Sokka? Like a sock?"
"Are you serious?" Azula asked.
Sokka continued laughing, "I crack myself up! A Sokka! That's a knee slapper!" With another wheeze he slapped Toph in the knees, sending her falling down.
"Sokka you idiot!" Toph said as she sat up, rubbing her back, "you're supposed to slap your own knees."
He stopped laughing and looked at the six watching him, "Oh. My bad," he smiled, "but it was pretty funny!" He started laughing again, then stopped and clutched his stomach, "Ouch. Cramps."
"Cramps?" Mai stared at him a second before realizing what he meant, "Oh. That's awkward."
"You idiots!" Azula cried, "the sun is setting!"
"It's no use!" Toph shouted, "you guys will never put aside you differences to work this out, will you?!"
"Wait," Azula said, "No-sight's got a point. Didn't the Avatar say the old lady told him we couldn't switch back until we learned our lesson?"
"That's right," Katara agreed, "Our lesson must be what Toph said! To put aside our differences and work together! To get along!"
"So," Sokka put a hand on Katara's shoulder, "we're going to be stuck like this forever, aren't we?"
"Way to be Mr. Brightside," Toph said, playfully punching Sokka's arm.
It was dark out when Aang finally arrived with the herbs for the antidote. He hastily handed them over to the old lady, then dropped to his knees in exhaustion.
"When will the antidote be ready?" he asked her.
"In time, don't worry," she replied, "it'll be done by tomorrow morning."
Aang sat forward, "Tomorrow morning!?" he exclaimed.
She turned to him, "Did you expect this to be quick? These ingredients must be mixed, they must simmer, they must be stirred, and they must sit overnight. There's a process to everything, after all."
"You do realize the time limit's almost up, right?"
"Of course I realize," she answered, plopping a hunk of brownish-green mashed leaves into the pot before her, "it'll be done in time. You'll have about four hours to locate your friends and deliver to them the potion."
"Four hours?! That's it?!"
"You can't rush these things, or the results could be deadly. Besides, four hours is plenty enough time," she smiled at him, revealing a mouth missing many teeth, "why don't you close your eyes and rest? I'll wake you when the potion's ready."
Author's Note: Sorry it took so long to get this up. I had so many computer problems, then I got sick. I'm not even going to go on. Anyway, hope you liked it. And once again, thanks to all of you for commenting!