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5 hcs for zukaang body-swap please?
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1. Katara and Sokka wake up, after a full day of Aang acting extremely strange, to find their friend gone. Vanished. Into thin air. But with the Winter Solstice only a handful of days behind them, Sokka of all people, decides this smells like spirit related shenanigans. After all, didn't he vanish and get kidnapped by an angry panda spirit? And Katara thinks about it, and she says maybe, but Aang was acting really weird yesterday. So Sokka switches gears and says, maybe Aang was possessed, and they have to go find his body drag him back and get someone to kick the possessing spirit out. So they set out, trying to see if they can find Aang.
2. This is made substantially easier by the fact that they have Appa, which means Aang doesn't. and Sokka's whole possession theory gets a huge boost, when they figure out the Aang uses isn't using his glider to fly, and in fact none of the tracks or traces Sokka finds seem to indicate that Aang has been airbending at all. It's almost as if he's forgotten how.
3. They track Aang all the way to town, whereupon tracking him becomes child's play, because when you ask, uh, hey, did a bald kid with airbender tattoos, wearing yellow and orange pass through this way, everybody in fact remembers the bald kid with airbender tattoos, wearing yellow and orange. It's possible they should keep this in mind for the future. After they've gotten Aang back. When people tell them, yeah they remember the kid, he was really rude and disrespectful, and shouty, Sokka and Katara look at each other. Yeah, possession. Totally possession.
4. But anyway, someone says he's pretty sure Aang stole his boat. See, he had this old repurposed Fire Nation skiff as a fishing boat, and it disappeared right after the kid came through, and that kid was skulking all around, and if the kid's yours, will you two fine upstanding teenagers pay him for it? Katara and Sokka are like, no thanks, bye, and take off on Appa.
5. So they start looking on the ocean for a Fire Nation steamer skiff. But they have no idea where whatever's got control of Aang's body would take them, how are they supposed to find him? And Sokka hits on a terrible idea. What if they find Zuko, and follow him? He always manages to find Aang somehow. Katara is not convinced this is a good idea, but she doesn't have anything better. And Zuko's ship can't be far. Sure enough, they find it just a little way down the coast from the port Aang sailed from. And more importantly, They can see Aang standing on deck.