Description
The Aang Gang sat around a small campfire in the forest, slowly supping soup ladled from a large pot that bubbled softly over the fire.
"Katara, this soup is great!" Aang beamed.
"Thank you, but I didn't do anything different," Katara replied. "It's the same recipe and ingredients that I've been using all week."
Both looked up as Sokka chuckled smugly. "I think you have me to thank for today's great food."
"Yeah?" Toph snorted incredulously. "And what'd you do? Add a little of your 'special cactus juice'?"
"No!" he blushed at the embarrassing memory. "I added some berries that I found in the forest!"
Three sets of spoons froze midway to mouths. "Sokka... what berries did you add?"
"Does it matter?" he asked, taking another spoonful. "It tastes way better now."
"It matters cause they might be poison!" Toph spat, both figuratively and literally. "So you'd better tell me what these berries were so I'll know if we can keep eating or if Katara needs to bend the soup back out of our stomachs."
Aang grimaced and whispered to Katara, "Can you do that?"
Her complexion more than a little green, she replied: "...I really hope I don't have to find out."
"Well, they were small and pink-"
A pair of jutting rocks suddenly thrust both Toph and Sokka to their feet. "Details I can use!"
"I don't know! They were round! But kinda pointy at the end! And they grew in little clusters! And-"
"...Were the leaves shaped like arrowheads?" Toph interrupted.
"Yeah?"
The earthbender sat back down. "Oh boy... you've really done it now, boomerang boy."
"What is it?" Aang pressed, "Are they poisonous?"
"No, but- urk!" Toph gripped her stomach as it suddenly gurgled alarmingly. Moments later, the entire troupe was clutching their stomachs in pain.
"Z-Zoana's Revenge!" Toph gasped as she struggled to stand. "The 'Spirit's Curse' fruit. It- Whoa!"
Toph gasped as she suddenly doubled in height, her body going through ten years of puberty in several seconds. Her formerly loose-fitting outfit strained against her sudden curves. But as resilient as the fabric was, it torn to pieces a moment later. Tan armour-like plates began to grow from her body, layering without restricting her movement like an organic samurai. Grey fur peeked out from between the plates and slowly moved to cover her face with darker fur around the eyes. Her jaw stretched and lengthened into a muzzle that quickly filled with sharp teeth, gnashing against the pain.
Meanwhile, Sokka lost as much height as Toph had gained, and most of his misplaced mass seemed to head to a pair of enormous breasts. Mottled grey and black fur covered his body, save for his head where his natural brown locks grew to the floor. A pair of pointed ears popped up from beneath his now silky brown locks. A sharp mewl escaped his body as he clutched at it, sharpening nails on his hands easily tearing jagged holes in his clothing. As his pants ripped from his expanding backside, a long tail escaped through one of the holes.
Katara squirmed as she grew a streamlined coat of chocolate brown fur with an almost oily sheen to it. Light gleamed off her body as the figure beneath thickened into more adult proportions. Almost unconsciously, she tore off all but the most essential parts of her outfit, finding it now far *far* too hot. Her sleek fur made her almost a living silhouette as her webbed hands futilely tried to stop her short muzzle from expanding any further.
Aang could only pant and watch as his pale skin was replaced with a soft, cream coat that covered from the tips of his tall and pointy ears to the thin skin membranes that now draped down from his arms like curtains. A brown patch covered the small breasts that made barely noticeable bulges beneath his shirt and continued down to his upper thighs as his pants became ever-so-slightly looser in the front. His tattooed arrows, against all logic, remained as blue patches in his otherwise pristine fur.
For a few minutes, all the group could do was pant as they slowly recovered, the transformations having drained much of their stamina. The moment one of them was capable of thinking clearly, they made their immediate thoughts known.
"Ahhh!" Sokka shrieked. "Why am I a girl?" His paw shot to his crotch and he quickly visibly relaxed. "Wait... wait... Phew. Nevermind. False alarm.” His body tensed again as he caught sight of the giant mounds blocking his downward view. He poked one, hesitantly, like it was a strange and exotic creature. “But… if it’s still there, why do I have these giant b... boo..."
Toph paused feeling her new pointy teeth to reply. "Cause that's what Zoana's Revenge does and why every kid in the Earth Kingdom knows not to touch it."
“It’s a berry that turns you into an animal?” Katara asked as she cautiously inspected her new face in a mirror made of waterbent ice.
“Or the wrong gender, or it makes you really tall, or gives you three extra sets of arms and eyes. It’s a magic Spirit fruit, we don’t question how or why it works.”
"How- how long are we stuck like this?" Aang asked while feeling around under her clothes as unnoticeably as possible, finding strange new sensitive things there.
Toph growled instinctively as she scratched her head. "Depends how much we each ate but... worst case? I'd say at least a couple weeks."
Sokka squeaked adorably. As if their journey wasn't crazy enough to start with.