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Fire Nation Prince in the U.S.A.

A/N: thanks for the reviews! Someone next door is shooting off fireworks! This took a long time to write to, but i think you will enjoy it very much.

Chapter 8:

The next day was clear and sunny. May was sitting outside on the deck listening to the sound of the ocean. Zuko was sitting next to her.

"I wanna go swimming." Said May

"I'm not really one for swimming," said Zuko.

"What? Firebender prince scared of a little water." Said May.

"No! It's just that my uncle when I was younger try to teach me to swim." Said Zuko.

"And what happened?" asked May.

"He threw me into part of a water hole that was 5 feet deep." Said Zuko.

"Did you learn how to swim?" asked May.

"Yeah, but I nearly drowned!" said Zuko.

"It worked." Said May. "I'm gonna go get ready to go swimming." May got up and went inside. Zuko was stuck outside by himself.

He waited 10 minutes before coming in. He found May in a cover up over her bikini top.

"So, have you decided to come?" asked May.

"Fine." Said Zuko.

"Good, cus I've been waiting 5 minutes." Said May.

May was putting her stuff down by a beach chair. Zuko had red swim shorts on. May took off her cover up shirt to reveal she was wearing a blue bikini top that matched her blue surfing shorts. Zuko looked at her with shock. She picked up a bag that had a zipper on it. Tied to it were 2 pairs of goggles. May started walking to the Gulf coast. Zuko came back to his senses to find May walking into the waves where they went up to her chest. Zuko quickly went to May. May threw him the other pair of goggles. May put her pair on and dived into the water. Zuko looked around for May. She popped up 10 feet in front of him holding a sand dollar. She opened her bag barely and put the sand dollar in there before zipping it shut.

"You gonna swim or not?" asked May. "You a chicken?"

"No!" said Zuko. His next step took him to where the water came up to his chin. May dived down again. Zuko took a deep breath and put his goggles on his eyes. He dived into the water. He couldn't see 5 inches in font of himself. Zuko came up the surface. May was holding up a good sized shark's tooth.

"That's gonna make a good necklace." Said May. She put the shark's tooth in her bag.

"How do you see down there?" asked Zuko.

"I grew up on the coast so I'm used to seeing down there." Said May. "You can here the ocean talk sometimes if you listen close enough."

"Sometimes you make no sense, May." Said Zuko.

"I can say the same about you, Zuko!" said May. "Now if you excuse me, I gotta go find more shark's teeth, and seashells to make necklaces for my friends." May dived down below. Zuko decided to dive down to, though he wished he was on land. Zuko looked around. At first he couldn't sea anything, but then things started taking shape. He could make out giant shells that held poisonous slugs in them. Others held crabs. Zuko popped up the surface. May's bag was more than full. May was only 5 feet in front of Zuko when a bigger wave than May had expected to came pushing her into Zuko. May was pushed into Zuko and their lips touched. The wave seemed to stop when their lips had made contact. Both May and Zuko were in complete shock. They both pulled away. May glared at the ocean.

"I hate you." Said May; not at Zuko, but the ocean. The ocean just seemed to push her like it was laughing. "As I said, I can understand the ocean. And Sometimes, I want to kill it."

Night had fallen, May and Zuko were in the room watching I Shouldn't be Alive. May was wearing a short sleeved white shirt and navy blue pants. Zuko had a baggy black shirt on and baggy black pants.May was busy making a necklace from the biggest shark's tooth she had found. On each side of the shark's tooth was a bead that looked like lightly had lightly been burnt. It was tied to a thin leather rope. May had already made 8 necklaces. May cut the last the last sting and tossed it to Zuko. Zuko looked over at May.

"What?" said May. "It's a shark's tooth necklace. Both boys and girls wear them. Sam wears one all the time. I make one for all of my friends. Last time I checked, you were a friend unless you just decided to turn evil. Or if you want to, just tied it around a bag or something like I do." May held up her backpack that had shark's teeth necklaces tied to the zippers.

"I'll just keep it safe." Said Zuko. "Can you really hear the ocean talk?"

"Yeah, it talks an almost silent language, but the waves say all." Said May. "They tell whether it is happy, sad, lonely, angry, and hopeless. I've just learn to understand it."

"Has it ever told you about something that is going to happen?" asked Zuko.

"Yeah," said May. "It has."

"Like what?" asked Zuko.

"Like it seems to be hiding something special whenever I have traveled to your world." Said May. "And then again the ocean seems like it wants to pester me at other times like today."

"I've never thought of the ocean as a friend." Said Zuko. "I always thought of it as a prison."

"The ocean in your world seemed sad too." Said May. "It wanted to take you back, but something kept you from going back." May looked over at the clock. It was 9 P.M. She put her kit down on the nightstand. She put her head on the pillow and stared off into the ceiling. Zuko turned off the T.V. and the light. "How do we keep changing worlds, Zuko?" asked May.

"I don't know." Said Zuko and that was the truth. "Something tells me that we shouldn't know anyway."

"I just wonder sometimes." Said May. "I'm going to bed." Zuko closed his eyes as he could hear his own heart beating in his chest. He held the shark's tooth necklace in his hand. His mind drifted off to memories that he shared with May. Like of the time they had been stranded on that god forsaken island in the middle of nowhere. When they were about to be executed. Another time when she made the promise to never leave him. Memories of their past filled his head as he went off to sleep.

A/N: And another chapter to fill this book. I know how you feel about waiting for the season premeire. We need to try and gather as much info on the last 2 chappies for the season premiere! Though i still enjoy it when it is a surprise!