On a bright summer morning, a giant brown seal-lion was pulling a royal boat across the ocean towards Ember Island. On board the boat was Zuko, Azula and Ty Lee. They stood looking up at the water.

"I can't believe we're taking a trip to Ember Island. This'll be so much fun just hanging out on the beach." Ty Lee said as she leaned on the front rails and felt the warm breeze on her face. She felt nothing, but positivity within the air. She then walked over to her boyfriend and clutched onto Zuko's arm. "What do you think, Zuko?"

Zuko was a bit quiet, ever since he set foot on the boat. "I don't know... doing nothing is not my best feat. Honestly, I'd rather be back at the palace."

"Lighten up, Zuzu. So, what if father sent us on a vacation and wanted to meet his advisors alone?" Azula said.

"Azula, doesn't your family have a house on Ember Island?" Ty Lee asked Azula.

"Yes. We used to go there every summer since we were kids. But ever since mother left, we stopped going." Azula answered.

Zuko slightly glance at Azula after mentioning their mother.

Ten minutes later, the royal boat steered to the docks. The three teens were met by two elderly twins. Lo and Li, who wore their vacation pink attires.

"Welcome to Ember Island, kids." Lo and Li greeted.

The three teens looked behind the twins to see a house smaller than most of the other houses they see. They had awkward looks on their faces. Shortly, the three teens gathered their belongings and soon left the boat. They entered Lo and Li's summer house, where they see a bunch of antiques and furniture.

"It smells like old ladies in here." Zuko said, as he smelled the scent of Lo and Li.

Ty Lee looked around the main room and spotted a portrait of two young women connecting their bottoms together. "Who are those two beautiful women?" Ty Lee asked as she pointed.

Lo and Li walked in front of the three teens. "Can't you tell? It's my sister and I?" They posed, connecting their bottoms together, like the portrait behind them.

Zuko tried to look away. He wished he never saw that pose just now.

Ty Lee spotted a pink bed and lied down. "Ooh! I love the seashell bedspread." she relaxed her body and turned to her side. She rubbed the pillow next to her.

"Ember Island is a magical place. It can help you understand yourselves and each other. The beach has a special way of even smoothening the most rigid edges." One of the twins grabbed a round black rock and rubbed it, entirely.

Azula yawned, as she knew that speech was boring.

Lo and Li removed their robes. "Now, time to hit the beach!"

Zuko saw Lo and Li's figures and was kind of sickened. He could feel something inside his stomach moving up and felt like hurling. He then ran to a nearby bathroom and started vomiting in a toilet.

Ty Lee seemed worried and Azula covered her ears, so she wouldn't hear her brother puke.

Thirty minutes later, Zuko, Azula and Ty Lee had walked on the beach in their swimsuits. Zuko wore a red swimming trunks and carried a closed red umbrella. He walked next to Ty Lee, who wore a short white skirt with a white bikini top and carried a big pink bag filled with accessories. Azula had worn a short red skirt with a red top, and carried nothing in her hands, because she felt too good for carrying things. They walked on the beach to see a bunch of people chatting, relaxing and surfing.

There were two kids happily building a big sand castle, until Azula had stomped upon it and glared at the two kids. The two small kids screamed and ran for their lives, as they ran from the older princess. Azula then kicked the sand bucket away.

"Dibs." Azula said, as she saw no one in their bubble.

A skinny boy with short dark brown hair had spotted Ty Lee and noticed how pretty she was. He instantly ran towards her and offered to help. "Excuse me, miss. You need some help unpacking?"

"No thanks. My boyfriend already has it covered." Ty Lee said, kindly.

The boy quickly turned to Zuko, who was glaring daggers at him. The boy winced and knew this wasn't a guy to be messed with. He quickly ran away from the prince.

"Hm? I wonder, where he's running off to?" Ty Lee wondered, as she saw him run elsewhere. She did not see Zuko glare daggers at the boy.

"Probably to bother someone else." Zuko answered.

"Oh, in that case..." Ty Lee then handed Zuko the big beach bag. "Would you mind unpacking?"

"Alright." Zuko smiled as he set the pink bag down and pulled out accessories. He soon pulled out the red couple towel, big enough for two people to sit on. He lied it flat on the sand.

"Thanks." Ty Lee smiled and took a seat.

"No problem." Zuko opened up the umbrella he had brought with him and planted it within the sand. There, Zuko and Ty Lee were given shade as they lied under the umbrella.

"This feels totally nice." Ty Lee said as she could feel less heat on her body. She looked to see kids running around.

Zuko glanced around the beach and noticed a person selling snow cones at a stand. He took a moment thought it would be nice to get his girlfriend a snow cone. "I'll be back. It won't take long."

"Okay." Ty Lee said as she watched him leave the shade.

Zuko walked towards the snow cone stand. A few people were ahead of him. After a minute and a half of waiting, he was now in front of the lone. "I'll take two strawberries." Zuko ordered two snow cones. One for him, and one for his girlfriend, Ty Lee.

Another minute later, Zuko arrived to meet his girlfriend with a pair the strawberry snow cones in his hands. Ty Lee was still looking around until Zuko arrived.

"You're back." Ty Lee noticed.

"I got you a snow cone." Zuko said as he handed Ty Lee one of the snow cones. "It's strawberry. I thought you might like it."

"And I do. Strawberry is my favorite." Ty Lee took a small bite and savored the strawberry-flavored snow cone. "Mmm. Delicious."

Zuko smiled, watching Ty Lee enjoy the snow cone.

Azula was lying on a separate individual towel, and scoffed when she saw Zuko and Ty Lee enjoying themselves under an umbrella. She felt a little lonely and glanced around the beach to see a few people playing volleyball. She saw a great opportunity to enjoy herself and cracked a smile on her face. "Hey, love birds. We're playing next."

Zuko sighed at his sister's demand. Both he and Ty Lee got up from their spot and walked alongside Azula towards the volleyball court.

"You two see that girl with the silly pigtails?" Azula had called both of them for a huddle. The three of them glance at one of their opponents. She was practicing to kick and catch with her knees and feet. "She's hesitant to kick the ball with her left foot. Something tells me it was a childhood injury."

Ty Lee glanced at the girl's foot and seemed to be a bit worried, mentioning childhood injury.

"If we keep delivering the ball to her left, we'll defeat them easily. Dismiss." Azula broke the huddle.

Ty Lee paused for two seconds after the huddle had broken. Thinking about the girl's foot.

Zuko laid a hand on Ty Lee's left shoulder, feeling concerned for her. "Something wrong?"

Ty Lee snapped out of it and shook her head no. "Mm-mmh. I'm fine."

A minute later, they were placed on one side of the volleyball net and the other three teenagers were on the other side of the net. One teenager had to sit out, due to an odd number.

Azula was given the pin beach ball and was ready to serve. She tossed it up in the air gently, then slapped it down viciously. Giving them the first point. It was now the other team's turn to serve the ball then punched it over to the other side of the net. But Zuko was able to rebound by knocking it up, then Azula would jump and kick the ball back over the net. The girl with the pig tails tried to rebound by sliding her body on the sand and reflecting the ball upwards with her fists, but was a second slower.

The pink beach ball were flying at such speed tried to hit a boy in the face, but the boy that was watching was able to duck his head in time.

The ball flew past a bunch of teens and landed near two teenagers named Ruon Jian and Chan, who were watching girls on the beach. They soon turned around to see a ball near them, then noticed a volleyball game going on. The two boys also spotted Ty Lee jumping high in the air and deflecting the ball back towards their opponents, giving them a point. She landed on top of the net with her acrobatics and smiled.

Both of them smiled as they liked what they see. Ty Lee's body type and her flexibility.

Azula and her team were at three-to-zero. If they make this next point, they win the game. The other team were ready to serve the ball again.

Azula knew where the ball was heading. Up. "Zuko. Don't move." Azula muttered as she moved near Zuko. She jumped onto his back then jumped high as she could. She kicked the ball back down with such force. It caused the ball to hit the other team's side hard. Making a boom in the area and a gust of wind.

The teenagers that Azula's team had lost and they were on the ground as they had nearly dodged that last ball. The beach ball had deflated and the net had caught on fire.

"Yes! Yes! You have been beaten! Now you will never again rise from the ashes of your defeat and dishonor!" Azula yelled with victory. A moment later, Azula sighed and calmed down. "Well, that was fun."

Without the teen's notice, Ruon Jian and Chan had slowly walked towards Ty Lee.

"Hey. I'm having a party tonight. You should come by." Chan winked at Ty Lee.

"Tch!" Zuko grunted at what he was seeing.

"Oh, sure. I love parties." Ty Lee said normally.

Zuko growled and was about to walk towards Chan with a clenched fist, until he was stopped by Azula who raised an arm. He did not like how random guys were flirting with his girlfriend.

"Forgive my brother. He has a bit of a temper." Azula said.

"Okay..." Chan and Ruon Jian remained silent for a moment.

"Aren't you going to invite us, too?" Azula asked.

Ruon Jian and Chan looked at each other like, "Do we really have to?" Then looked back at them.

"You don't know who we are, do you?" Azula asked.

"Do you know who we are? We're Chan and Ruon Jian." Chan said.

"Yeah." Ruon Jian said.

After a moment, they finally agreed.

"But fine. You're invited. But just so you know though, most of the important teenagers of the Fire Nation will be there. So act normal." Chan said.

"We'll do our best." Azula muttered.

Later that day, the sun was setting. Zuko, Azula and Ty Lee were having dinner at Lo and Li's summer house with them in the main room. They sat at a table and shared urban food.

"Why didn't you tell those guys who we were?" Zuko asked.

"I just wanted to see how people would treat us, if they didn't know who we were." Azula said.

"Like waves washing the footprints on the sand. Ember Island gives everyone a clean slate. Ember Islands gives you the clean slate." Li said.

Both Lo and Li clapped a few times and stood up. "To the party!" the twins yelled.

"Uh... Lo? Li? Only those who were invited can go to this party." Azula mentioned.

"Oh..." Lo and Li felt a bit depressed and sat back down.

Fifteen minutes after eating, the teens thought they could dress formally for the party.

Azula let her hair down, except for the top of her head, where there is a sash of hair. She wore a red skirt, a red short strapless top revealing her navel, an arm brace, a golden necklace piece and red slippers.

Zuko wore red shorts, and a sleeveless vest that shows his bare chest and brown sandals. He rubbed both his hands in his dark hair. He was staring out one of Lo and Li's windows staring at the sun set.

"How do I look, Zuko?" Ty Lee asked, as she walked behind him.

Zuko heard a voice then turned around to see Ty Lee smiling at him. Her hands were thrown behind her back. Ty Lee had worn a red strapless top revealing her navel. There were ribbon accessories on her top. She also wore a red skirt that covers her knees and red slippers.

Zuko blushed as he stared at her figure, head-to-toe. He quickly shook his head in a fast pace so he could focus. "Y-you look great."

Ty Lee blushed a bit. "Thank you."

Thirty minutes later, the teens walked over to Chan's address. Azula was walking in front of Zuko and Ty Lee, as they walked side-to-side. Zuko remained silent for a while, sense they left Lo and Li's summer house. Azula rung the bell a few times on his door.

Chan slowly opened the door from the inside and poked his head out the doorway, to see the three teens dressed in red. "You're kind of... early. No one's here, yet."

"I overheard you say that you'll be partying dusk to dawn. It's dusk, so we are.

"But that's just an expression..." Chan scratched his neck.

"We are the perfect party guests. We arrive on time because we are formal." Azula smiled showing him her teeth.

"Okay..." Chan invited them inside his house and brought the three of them into his living room. "My dad's an admiral and he has no idea has no idea I'm throwing this party. If you know him, don't tell him. And don't mess anything up." Chan said.

Ruon Jian was fixing the bang on his hair in the mirror and spotted the three teenagers. "So, uh... you're early." He leaned on the desk and tried to flirt with Azula and Ty Lee, but they just passed by without acknowledging him.

Zuko scoffed. "He thinks he's all that..." He turned to Ty Lee who was walking next to him. "What do you think of him?"

"Nothing." Ty Lee answered.

"Nothing? Really?"

"Mm-hmm. I don't really have an opinion about him. I just want to enjoy the party, you know?" Ty Lee smiled at Zuko.

"Maybe..." Zuko stopped walking.

Ty Lee noticed Zuko had stopped, and she turned to him. She saw a look on her face and felt curiously. "What's wrong?"

"For a while, I've been having second thoughts..."

"Second thoughts? About what?" she asked curiously.

"Coming to this party. I think we should leave before anything bad happens." Zuko insisted that the two of them go before more people enter Chan's house.

"You want to leave?"

"It's not that I don't dislike parties, it's just I have a bad feeling something might happen. Remember when you asked Azula if we had a house ealier?" Zuko asked, refreshing her memory. She nodded towards him. "It's on the tallest hill on this island. I was hoping that you and I could go there before it gets dark. The two of us. Whattya say?"

"What about Azula?"

"Azula can handle herself. I just want the two of us to go to my house." Zuko said.

"What's there?"

"Old memories and beautiful sight seeing." Zuko answered.

Ty Lee twiddled her fingers a bit and looked down at the floor. "That sounds nice, Zuko, but I don't know if I want to leave... I do love parties." She then looked up to Zuko with a thought. "Can we stay here and enjoy ourselves, first? Just for one hour?" Ty Lee tried to make Zuko reconsider.

"Ty Lee..."

"Please?" Ty Lee grabbed hold of one of Zuko's arms. She moved her body closer to his, centimeters apart and gave him the puppy eyes. "I want the two of us to have a good time here, together."

Zuko blushed at how cute she was doing it. He wanted to leave as quick as possible, but end up sighing anf giving in to Ty Lee's request. "Alright. One hour. That's it."

"Thank you so much!" Ty Lee hugged Zuko.

For the next hour, Zuko spent time with Ty Lee at Chan's party eating and somewhat dancing with other people. Ty Lee had chatted with Azula and a few other girls at the party. Zuko did feel a little better at the party whenever he's with Ty Lee. Within the hour, Zuko did his best not to physically attack boys that try to flirt with his girlfriend, but glare daggers at them, chasing them off. After an hour, Zuko and Ty Lee left Chan's house as promised.

The sky was dark, some stars had shine and the moon was out. Zuko and Ty Lee were now walking up a hill towards Zuko's old family summer home.

"I really did have a good time, tonight." Ty Lee chuckled, as she clutched Zuko's arm. "What did you think, Zuko? Did you enjoy yourself?"

"Well, it wasn't all bad." Zuko said as he walked.

"See? I told you. You just have to give things a chance." Ty Lee chuckled.

Zuko hid his smile from Ty Lee. 'Maybe I should...' He then looked forward to go to his summer home, next instead of Lo and Li's home. They continued walk and talk around Ember Island dor ten minutes, until they made their way up the hill. After five minutes of walking, the young couple made it to Zuko's summer home.

"We made it." Ty Lee said as the young couple had walked close to the double doors. She looked at the bushes and flowers around the front of the house.

"Yep." Zuko then gripped the door handles and realized it was locked.

"It's locked..." Ty Lee said as she heard the sound of locked doors.

"Don't worry. I have the a right here." Zuko told Ty Lee. Then he used enough force in his feet to kick the doors open.

"Eek!" Ty Lee squealed. "Z-Zuko! You shouldn't be kicking doors down! We'll get in trouble." Ty Lee jumped as she worried. Her head quickly shift left and right to see if anyone was around.

"Only if we get caught. Come on. There's something I wanna show you." Zuko said as he walked in his old summer house.

A cautious and worried Ty Lee gulped and quickly followed Zuko inside of his summer home. On the inside, Ty Lee discovered that the summer house was completely abandoned. There was nothing else, but dusty pillars, a couple of empty vases, big and small and what had lied in front of them was an old big family portrait of his family.

"It's really dusty in here." Ty Lee muttered after coughing a bit. She covered her mouth with her hand and walked next to Zuko. Ty Lee looked ahead to see Zuko, who staring at a big family painting.

Zuko did not utter a word. He stared at the big family portrait in front of him. In his mind, Zuko recalled it being ten years since that portrait was taken. He had looked at father, himself, then his mother face. Zuko remembered when Ursa gave him attention as a baby.

"It's your family." Ty Lee pointed out.

"It is."

"Are you okay?" Ty Lee asked, as she could somewhat sense sadness from Zuko.

Zuko glanced at her. "Yeah. I'm just thinking how much I miss my mother." Zuko openly told Ty Lee that he missed Ursa.

"I honestly miss her, too." Ty Lee said.

"Thanks."

"This place feels depressing..."

"I know." Zuko spotted and picked up a plate made of dry clay with a tiny handprint in it from a wide table. Zuko remembered he made that handprint as a baby. "Wanna see it?" He offered to show Ty Lee the dry clay.

"Mm-hmm." Ty Lee took the dry clay from him and looked at the small handprint. "This is real cute." She said as she rubbed it gently with her soft hands. "Zuko, was this you as a baby?"

"It was." Zuko responded.

"How cute." Ty Lee said in awe.

Zuko walked back to the double doors of the summer home and closed it so no one else could walk in or call the guards and alert them about trespassers. He grabbed another piece of long wood and put it between the double door handles, locking them in and locking others out.

"Um, Zuko? Shouldn't we return to Lo and Li's summer house?" Ty Lee questioned.

"Yeah. But I just don't want anyone barging in while we're together. You mind if I show you around?"

"S-show me around?" Ty Lee stuttered.

"Yeah. I noticed this is your first time here, so I may as well give you a tour of the place before we leave Ember Island. Come on. I want to show you around." Zuko smiled at her.

Ty Lee smiled back and grabbed his hand and followed him. "I'm ready."

Zuko begun to tour Ty Lee around his family's summer home for about ten minutes, leading her to multiple rooms. At least a dozen. The final place they had stopped at was the master bedroom, where Ozai and Ursa slept.

The couple sat on the bed together, a few inches apart from one another.

"Wow. That was an amazing tour. There were so many rooms, I don't know which one I liked the most." Ty Lee chuckled, feeling optimistic.

Zuko smirked. "Well, I'm glad that you loved the tour."

Zuko pulled out an small circular round rock from his pocket.

"What's that?" Ty Lee asked as she spotted the adamant object.

"It's a rock. I found it in the sand on the beach earlier. He passed the round rock to Ty Lee who took and rubbed it to her cheek.

"It's real smooth." Ty Lee said.

"Just like you are." Zuko thought out loud.

Ty Lee gasped and blushed. "You really think I am?"

Zuko jumped and look at her. "Huh? Wait-what did I just say?"

"I said the rock feels really smooth and then you said, "Just like you are." You were saying that I was smooth like this rock." Ty Lee quoted.

"I did?"

"Yeah." Ty Lee nodded.

"Oh, sorry if I thought out loud..." Zuko hesitated.

"It's okay. I'll take that as a compliment." Ty Lee giggled.

"Thanks." Zuko looked away and hid his blush.

"So, what do we do now?" Ty Lee asked, as she continued to rub the rock a bit then placed it down.

"Well, if you're bored, we could just-" Zuko paused as he felt something touching hand. He looked down to see his hand over Ty Lee's, which was over the round rock. He noticed he was making physical contact with Ty Lee's hand. They both stared at their hands, then brought their pair of eyes to stair at each others. Zuko's pair of golden eyes were locked onto Ty Lee's pair of brownish-gray eyes.

Ten seconds later while sitting on the bed, Zuko closed his eyes and Ty Lee slowly brought her face close to Zuko and made lip contact by kissing him. Her eyes were closed as she entered her tongue in his throat. Zuko caressed her cheek with his hand while making out.

After twenty seconds of making out, Zuko gently laid Ty Lee onto the middle of the master bed. Her arms were stretched out and her legs were open a forty-five degree angle. Zuko crawled over Ty Lee's body and removed his vest revealing his bare chest. He leaned his face close to Ty Lee's. A foot apart from one another.

They both blushed as they stared. They were alone. No one was around and nothing was stopping them from doing what they were about to do next.

Meanwhile, Azula was walking up the hill to their family summer home, looking for Zuko and Ty Lee. She checked in most places. The beach, Lo and Li's home some rocky areas of the beach and now the last option was their family summer home.

"They should be here. I checked most places I could think." Azula thought out loud as she had made it to the door. She then gripped the door handle and tried to pull, but it was locked. "That's weird... I could've sworn Zuko and Ty Lee would've been here.

Author's Note: The reason I didn't have Mai come to the beach was because I didn't want to make her a third wheel character. She stayed back home in Omashu with her family after returning home. I noticed in the original story that Mai didn't want to go to the beach, due to acting gloomy most of the time. I personally felt that Mai went to the beach because she was dating Zuko.

And as for Zuko and Ty Lee... ;)