Ugh...Now those darn plot bunnies leave me alone. Why now? Anyway, here's the next chapter. This will also probably be the last chapter in Ember Island, unless you guys can convince me otherwise ;D, and give me "suggestions". But just this once...

Disclaimer: I still don't own Avatar or its characters. Seriously, do I need these in every chapter?

Of course, the ages are still the same; Zuko- 8, Mai/Azula/Ty Lee- 7

Chapter 10: More Beach Trouble

Ty Lee slowly stood up and stretched. She had just finished eating lunch, along with everybody else. So now, Ursa and Zuko were left cleaning up. After all, Azula wasn't exactly the helping type.

"So, what do you want to do now?" the young princess turned to her two friends. Mai simply shrugged, telling her she didn't mind whatever she was going to have them do next. Ty Lee looked around to see if there was anything interesting to do.

"Can we go swimming?" she asked hopefully.

"But we just ate-"

"Yes we can swim." Azula interrupted. "It'll be fine, Mai." She said as they started walking towards the water. But just as they were almost there, a group of boys- about their age- approached them. Well mostly Ty Lee.

"Hi!" she greeted them.

"Hey," one of them replied.

"So you wanna come with us?" another one, this time a little taller and in Ty Lee's opinion- "cuter", asked, gesturing to a little area where there were more people. The girl looked back at Azula and Mai. Mai, of course, didn't exactly care whether she go spend (or waste...) time with those boys, and Azula had an approving, yet jealous look on her face.

"Sure." she replied turning back to them as they all walked off. Even from afar, you could see they were still arguing on who gets her first.

"What, jealous?" Mai smirked seeing the look on her friend's face.

"No," Azula refused to make eye contact. "I bet I could get a boy to like me easily." she boasted pretty confident.

"Really?"

"Yes, watch." she said as she approached a boy who looked just slightly older than the princess. Aggressively, she grabbed the innocent boy by the shirt and spoke in a somewhat demanding voice. "What's your name?"

"Uh, Ruon Jian..." he replied, sounding intimidated by her. Zuko had walked their direction, and was now standing by Mai- watching what his sister was to do with the boy.

"Okay Ruon Jian, I'm princess Azula. I'm pretty sure you know that." she smiled. "And you're going to like me or else."

"Or else...what?" he regretted asking, but he had to know.

"You'll have to figure that out." she threatened. Mai and Zuko couldn't help but laugh slightly. "Now, do you like me?"

"Y-yes?" he answered. She let go of his shirt, satisfied and instead took him by the hand and turned to her brother and friend.

"See?"

"Not like that, though..." Mai replied still trying not to laugh.

"Um, sorry about that. You just...go on." Zuko told the boy as he separated his hand from his little sister's. "While you still can..." he added in a whisper. Ruon Jian smiled weakly and ran. Ran as if his life depended on it. This just caused Mai to burst into more laughter. Azula shot her a glare that caused her to look away.

"Like you can do better," she crossed her arms, a little disappointed. As if on cue, another boy came up to them.

"Hey, what's up?" he asked looking especially at Mai.

"Um, not much." She was pretty sure the boy was hitting on her. And being in a political family, she highly doubted her parents would approve of her being with this guy. Not to mention her age. She turned around to see the surprised expression on Azula's face, and an unrecognizable look from Zuko.

"What do you want?" Zuko glared at him, unaware of it.

"Nothing," he shot back. Then turned to Mai. "So, you wanna go hang out?" If possible, Azula looked even more surprised, and Zuko looked angrily at the boy.

"You know, I'd love to," Mai replied, smirking. Playing with Azula and Zuko's emotions was pretty fun. "But I can't. It's complicated." Azula noticed how Zuko's face lit up after she said this.

"Alright, that's cool." he shrugged and left. As soon as he was gone, she turned to Azula and waited for her to say something. She still had her arms crossed, and a few moments passed before she could find the right words to say. She opened her mouth to say something, but Mai interrupted.

"You just come on a little too strong," she explained.

"Whatever..." she simply walked away.

"So..." Zuko tried starting a conversation. Mai smiled and pulled him off to go somewhere else.

To make the long story short, the rest of the time spent at the beach- which was a fair amount of time- was fun. Even Mai thought so, which means it couldn't have been boring. Ty Lee had stayed at the "party" they had, Azula had stayed pretty quiet with Ty Lee still trying to prove herself. Mai and Zuko on the other hand, were just sitting in the shade- together- occasionally getting up when told.

Of course there was much more to do, but they still had about four weeks on the island. Which means four more weeks of adventure, pranks, and romance...

Yay! Chapter 10! Tell me what you think!

Oh yes, and I almost forgot to mention...a little thanks to avatarfreak3, for helping me with my story. So yeah, a little shout out to me betareader! Anyway, don't forget to REVIEW!

-Black5Belt