Avatar the Last Airbender One Shots

Momo x Melon Lord

White clouds gently wisped in the early evening sky. Momo was famished, foraging for fruits or nuts ran futile. He needed something big and juicy.

The lemur craved melon.

Momo recalled hiding behind Zuko's leg after Aang roared like a tiger-dillo. He watched Aang skedaddle towards Katara offering him melon juice.

'Fools,' Momo thought. 'Hollowing out a melon, not even eating the rind. Absolute simpletons. Appa and I are the only ones around here whose stomachs could handle the sweet, firm and crunchy rind of a melon.'

He witnessed the Avatar sip up the melon juice eagerly, like a pink freshly born lemur sucking on it's mother's bosom.

'Yes, child drink that melon. Savor it. For one day I will get my paws on ALL of the melons, and they will be mine.'

The lemur, scheming, slipped into the background.

Momo knew he needed something sharp to be able to cut into a melon. His short and tiny snout may be able to chew on a melon rind, but it wasn't made to eat through a melon rind.

He took flight, scouting the beach for something to poke with. He found Appa.

'Yes. The friendly flying brute will bite the melon in half for me.'

Momo landed on the bison. Since when was Appa shaved? And since when was he made out of sand.

'NO. Appa has turned into sand! How!? I will knaw on the bones of whoever-'

Momo fled as Zuko's fire engulfed the sand Appa. Momo glided back towards the summer house and found the real Appa snoozing in the shade.

'Sleep well, gentle beast.' Momo thought to himself.  'I too shall dream of sweet melon.' He curled next to Appa, and snoozed.

Momo's ears perked at the sound of footsteps.

"So Sokka, how are you going to simulate our battle plan to take out the fire lord?" Toph asked.

"Toph, I'm glad you asked. I'm going to use this melon as the Fire Lord's head, I'm hoping that Aang will chop it with an air bending slice!" Sokka obnoxiously swooped his arm to demonstrate.

'Yes. Finally'

Sokka sat down on the steps. He asked Toph to give him his sword. Toph reached over and handed it to Sokka before lounging over the steps, arms behind her back.

Sokka stabbed two parallel holes in the melon. He then carved them into angry looking slits.

'Yes, goofy human. Stab the melon. Give me the juice.'

The tropical refreshing aroma of the melon flesh wafted towards the lemur's nose. Sokka slashed a broad slit, and made a mouth by widening it at the bottom.

'Yes...YES' The end of Momo's tail wiggled in anticipation, his tiny mouth watering.

Sokka stuck his tongue out, concentrating as he created a zig zag pattern to capture Ozai's royal menace.

"Haha. Perfect. I'm gonna put it on a stick, robe it, and give it an evil fire lord beard." Sokka stood up and walked away.

'NO' Momo was in disbelief. Defeated, he followed Sokka, hoping to snatch some melon.

The clouds were now pink in the late evening. The melon was now the melon lord, the juicy head mounted on a body of sticks, clothed in red drapes. The melon lord loomed royally on the peak of the cliff. Momo was perched on a rock, ready to pounce. But then, Toph rumbled her way to the top, and stationed herself in front of Momo's prize.

The lemur waited.

'The short human is chucking fire rocks at the others. They are fighting over the melon.' Momo realized in his inner monologue.

'FOOLS. I shall claim the melon.'

Momo jumped, taking flight. He was about to close in on the precious, bountiful fruit, before he noticed Aang much nearer to it. Momo cursed in his tiny walnut-sized head, and swooped away back to his vantage point.

Aang was ready to smash the head with his staff, but the staff paused.

'FOOLISH AIR HUMAN' Momo shifted his little legs, ready to jump into flight again. 'THE GOOFY HUMAN WILL DELIVER'

Momo watched as Sokka, displeased, drew his sword and sliced Melon Lord's head.

'YES' Momo flew as fast as he could. Not only was the melon more open, the humans are bickering, their attention diverted from Momo's beloved.

The lemur triumphantly landed and jumped toward the biggest half. He happily lapped up the juices, and savored every bit of the melon, until he could eat no more.

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If you guys were thinking something nasty when you read the title, I don't blame you.

It's been like 5 years since I last wrote, so this story is a bit of a warm-up for me.

I want to write more, but I might go on a short (actually short) hiatus, just a few weeks. I've planned out the scenarios of like 8 other one shots, and each of them were requested by multiple people. I have also taken consideration to requests that were isolated and were asked by one person.