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[Meanwhile, back in the Avatar Universe...]
'So, you mean to tell me that just to get out of all these meetings, you're planning to go on an imaginary Toph hunt?'
Zuko was leaning back against a tree, glaring at the turtleducks in the pond. Aang nodded happily to him, ignoring the sarcastic note in his friend's voice.
'Yes! Except, it's not an imaginary Toph hunt.She has actually gone missing. It's not like we're making up stories or anything.'
Zuko just groaned. When a servant had run into his room this morning, saying that the Avatar had landed was urgently requesting to see him, he was not expecting this. He was expecting something like the rebels were attacking, or that the Earth King had a heart attack, something important.
Instead, he got a very smug-looking Aang and Sokka, and a tired looking Katara. Before Zuko could even ask what was wrong, Sokka all but dragged him into a spare room in the Palace, whisper-yelling at him to be quiet until Aang and Katara got back (they were settling Appa down in the stables).
When the couple had returned, Zuko had immediately jumped on Katara for answers. "Katara, what is going on?"
Katara just shook her head. "Believe me, I have no idea." She turned to still smug-looking Sokka and Aang. "Something about Toph being AWOL." [A/N: This is a military thing, so would they know this? If not, just change it to 'missing' XD]
Aang nodded frantically, his smirk fading slightly. "She's gone!" He held his hands up. "Missing! Vanished! Completely disappeared! We don't know where to find her!"
Sokka joined in. "And we figured that if she's ditching on meetings, we would need the whole lot of us to bring her back. It may take a while, too."
Zuko sighed. "You're just ditching out on meetings again, aren't you?"
"No!" Aang answered. "Well…"
Katara tapped her forehead with the heel of her palm. "I can't believe you two," she said loudly, putting her hands on her hips. "You go ranting and carrying on and on about Toph going missing and you've looked all over Ba Sing Se and still can't find her, and all you're trying to do is get out of meetings." She shook her head. "You two are hopeless!"
"Katara!" Aang cried desperately. "You do not know what it is like to be the only sixteen-year-old in those meetings, even if I am the Avatar! It's so freaky!"
Sokka poked Aang's shoulder, grinning. "Serves you right for being the Ava-" Katara waved her hand, and a ball of water rose out of the pond and froze around Sokka's foot. He looked down at it. "Hey! Katara!" But Katara wasn't finished. She lifted her hand up and all of a sudden Sokka was upside-down, hanging from an ice block in the air. "Katara!" he screamed. "Get me down from here!"
"Not until you tell me the real reason for bringing us all the way out here," she said crossly.
"Toph is really gone!"
"Oh, really?"
"Yes! Really! Now get me down!"
Katara turned to Aang and Zuko. "Zuko, do you believe any of this?" she asked.
"Which part?" Zuko replied.
"Any of it."
"I believe that Toph ditched, but not that's she's missing."
"Katara," Aang tried. "Listen, Toph really is missing. She ditched all her meetings, we couldn't find her at her house – we really did look – so we really need to look for her."
"Oof!" Everyone turned to see Sokka on the ground, boomerang in hand. Katara raised an eyebrow and waved her hand again. The ice melted and returned to the pond as water. Sokka sat up, rubbing his head. He looked up at everyone. "Toph is gone. How many times do we have to say it?"
"Maybe a few more," Zuko suggested sarcastically, though his voice was cold. "Then we might start believing you."
Sokka stood up and put his boomerang away. "For the last time, Toph is gone."
Katara sighed. "Okay then, tomorrow morning we'll head out and check some known places. I still think that Toph is pulling a prank on us, but you never know."
"Yes!" Aang punched the air, before laughing nervously at Katara and Zuko's faces. He brought his hand down.
Zuko sighed. "Come on, I'll show you where you guys can sleep."
As Katara said, they set out the next day to hunt for Toph, but by the end of the day…
Aang collapsed in a chair. "Aw man!" he cried, flinging his arm over his eyes. "She is nowhere in Ba Sing Se! Nowhere!"
"I find it hard to believe that she's not in any of the surrounding areas, too," Katara added.
Sokka pointed a finger at her accusingly. "So, do you believe us now?" he demanded.
"Well, Toph is definitely not in the city, that's for sure," Zuko said. "She must have really wanted to ditch."
"I agree," Katara said grimly, her mouth drawn into a straight line. "It seems like somethings wrong."
"You think so?" Sokka asked, scratching the back of his head. "You sure she just didn't majorly ditch?"
"Sokka! You're the one that was insisting that Toph is missing!"
"Yeah, but this is Toph we're talking about," Sokka replied.
"No," Aang butted in. "If Toph was just ditching, she would at least stay in the city. Something doesn't feel right."
"You think so?" Zuko asked.
"He's right," Katara agreed. "And the fact that she's not in the outskirts of the city doesn't make much sense to me, either."
Sokka shrugged. "Well, Aang's the Avatar." Then he grinned. "Looks like Team Avatar have another mission!"
But everyone else was grim, and even Sokka was in agreement. Either Toph was in trouble, or she was soon going to be.