Zuko woke up with a slow yawn as he got out of bed. The Gaang, as Sokka liked to call them, had been hiding out on Ember Island for over a week now. Sozin's commit would be here before they knew it, and there was still a lot to do. However, despite his better judgment, they would not be worrying about that today.

The night before Toph had gone on a huge rant about needing to supplement fun, with work, and for some reason, everyone agreed with her. Therefore, today they were all taking a "beach day". Zuko rolled his eyes just at the thought of it. Had they taken breaks like this even when he had been chasing them? How in the world had he missed them so many times?!

"Sifu Hotman!" "Zuko!" "Sparky!"

He sighed as he walked over to the door that was currently being beaten to death. "What?"

The glare didn't phase Aang, Sokka, and Toph who were all smiling up at him. "Katara told us, to tell you, that breakfast was ready!"

He pinched the bridge of his nose, "Couldn't just one of you have come to tell me that?"

"Nope!" Toph and Aang each grabbed one of his arms. "Come on! The faster we eat, the sooner we can get to the beach!"

"Alright, alright I'm coming!" he yanked his arms out of their grasp.

"Good morning everyone." Katara greeted as they stepped up to the campfire.

"What are we having today?" Sokka ran over and peered into the cooking pot. "Is it perhaps a wonderfully scrumptious food that is oh so juicy, and oh so tender, and rhymes with street?"

"Why yes Sokka." Katara grinned. "It is delicious. And it does rhyme with street." She handed him a bowl.

"Thank you spirits for finally shining upon me! I will worship your wonderful spirity wonderfulness until the day I die. I love me some good..." he finally looked down at the bowl. "Katara... what is this?"

"Beat soup." She smiled innocently. "Why? Was that not what you were hoping for?"

He glared at her, "I wanted meat, woman! Meat! M-E-A-T! Not beats!"

Suki shook her head as to two continued arguing. "How can one person, be so loud?"

Toph punched her arm, "Hey you're the one that decided to date him!"

She sighed, "A decision I question on an almost hourly basis."

Once the argument had finally ended, with Sokka having a bowl of beat soup poured onto his head, the rest sat down to eat.

"So, what's on the agenda today?" Katara asked handing out the last bowl.

"Beach day!" Aang jumped up in the air, "Nothing but fun, in the sun!" They all started cheering.

"Hold on one second there." Zuko grabbed him by the back of his tunic and pulled him back down to the ground. "I'm setting a few ground rules before I let you waste an entire day of training, on a beach day."

"Aw, Sifu Hotman have a heart!" Aang whined.

Zuko glared at him, "Do you want me to make this worse?" he quickly shook his head. "Good. Then no complaining. Every hour, you are going to do 20 hot squats. As long as you do that, I can permit you to have a day off. But we will train even harder tomorrow, you got that?" Aang groaned. "Was that complaining I heard?" he shook his head quickly. "I didn't think so. Besides, if Momo can do a hot squat, so can you."

Everyone looked over at Momo who was recreating the moves he had seen Aang and Zuko practicing the night before. "What great form you have Lord Momo of the Momo Dynasty!" Katara scratched him behind the ear, and everyone laughed.

"So seriously," Suki started once everyone calmed down, "What are we doing today? What beach are we going to?"

"We need to go somewhere where no one can recognize Aang and Zuko." Toph pointed out.

"I know a place," Zuko spoke up. "It's a private beach. Reserved for only members of the royal family. It hasn't been used in years."

"That sounds perfect!" Katara started cleaning up.

"That's just great... Really... I'm happy... But can somebody bend this hot beat juice off of me?!?!" he waved his soaked sleeves around for emphasis.

"Oh yeah, sorry Sokka." Aang bent the water out of his clothes and onto the floor.

"Much obliged. Wait?" he smelled his tunic. "Ew! Why do I still smell like beats?!"

Aang shrugged, "Sorry, I haven't mastered beat bending yet. Good luck with that." He ran off to go get his things.

"Hey! Get back here and do something about this!" he huffed once everyone had left him and turned to Momo. "Do any of those moves you were trying earlier bend beats?" Momo replicated the water bending move Aang had just performed. Sokka patted him on the head affectionately. "You're useless. Ow! Don't bite me! Hey!"

(A/N - Hey guys thanks for reading. I hope you like it so far. Flamio hotman!)