Meelo's Domain
Air Acolyte Family Dormitories

TREAAAAASUREEEEE!

Meelo dashed forwards, skidding around the corner and almost slamming into the legs of an Acolyte who got in his way. No time to wait for him to get out of his road! He was treasure hunting here! Rolling between the man's legs, the young Airbender shot off, waving a fist and shouting back at the shocked man as he vanished out of an open window.

"WATCH WHERE YOU GOING, DUMMY!"

With a long, high pitched "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" of laughter, Meelo plummeted from the top floor of the building, arms and legs flailing manically, before letting a small blast of air soften his landing as he hit the ground in a wobbly way. Stumbling, he put his hand out and rolled onto it, pushing himself off the floor with a further, much more creative prrrrrt of gas. Flipping onto his feet, he continued onward, heading towards the dormitories.

Mommy had told him a great story about how a brave man went on a quest to steal a great big pile of treasure from an evil queen and also save a princess or something. The man had sneaked into the queen's castle, but the treasure room was hidden. But then the man's pet badger-mole earthbended a way into the secret treasure room and the man put all the gold and stuff on the badger-mole's back. Then there was a bit about him saving the princess or something, but he was not really paying attention by that point.

The important part was that evil queen's castle was on an island, just like here! That must mean that there must be some hidden treasure somewhere on Air Temple Island! His mom had not liked it when he had squirmed out of his bed and ran off, but she would not mind so much when he came back with a gem the size of her belly! She could buy a whole new baby with something like that! She obviously wanted one. Probably why she was getting new baby stuff.

Reaching the dormitories, Meelo pressed his back up against the wall and poked his head around the open door. How where they supposed to hide things if they kept stuff open?! This was easy!

Too easy...

He would have to be sneaky, like the man in the story. Tiptoeing into the building, Meelo began to look around for guards, inching about and keeping his ears open for any noise. Nobody seemed to be in here. Good. Time to search! He snuck into a few rooms, threw open the draws and looked under the beds, but there was nothing! There had to be a hidden switch or panel or something!

Leaving another room in a mess, Meelo peeked into a new room and his eyes widened. Books! Books everywhere! This had to be it! Nobody would keep this many books around unless they were trying to hide something from sight. There was no other explanation! Leaping up onto the highest shelf, the young boy began tossing books into the air, searching for a hidden button or fake book.

The treasure will be mine!

Air Acolyte Family Dormitories
[tag: Ren]

Throwing himself from shelf to shelf, Meelo did not hear the entrance of another person, continuing to toss book after book over his shoulder. However, there was suddenly a solid thunk and a squeak of pain, followed by a stammering plea for him to stop doing something. Turning with a sharp rotation of air, the young boy stuck out his arms to defend himself against this new threat against his quest for treasure.

His big eyes widened even further when he saw who it was that had entered the room. The evil queen! She must be here to evilly capture me and put me in her stew of evil! Because she's evil! He did not panic though. All evil queen's had weaknesses, this one had to have one too! It was always something obvious that most people would not see, but he was smarter than them by lots.

For a moment, the young boy and the woman locked eyes, his brave gaze somewhat dampened by the "ferocious" scowl his large eyebrows were attempting to perform. He was not fooled by the person's eyes watering up with pain; all the greatest evil villains were tricky. But he would not be tricked by any amount of trickiness!

Diving from the bookcase with a manly (and only a little high-pitched) warcry, Meelo flipped in the air and landed on the shelf furthest from the queen, making a gesture with his hand as he did. The villain's glasses, knocked from her face with his ingenious book attack, were surrounded by an air current, lifting them off the floor and right into his hand. Turning to face her while gripping onto the wooden surface, Meelo gave a "haha!" of victory.

"You won't trick me, evil queen! Now, show me your hidden switch to your secret treasure room! Or the glasses get it!" Meelo cried out triumphantly, raising the object in his hand over his head.

Soon, all the treasure will be mine!

Air Acolyte Family Dormitories
[tag: Ren]

The evil queen groped around the air, begging for the return of her glasses, as if she actually needed them. Meelo would not be fooled. She probably only wore them to trick people into thinking that she was shy or something, but he was not like the rest! His daddy's daddy was Grampa Aang, the Avatar! It would take more than a pair of glasses to trick him! He gave her another fearsome squinting. That should make her stop acting like some scared Acolyte and show her true colours!

When she finally stop cringing and started talking in a deeper tone, Meelo knew that he had been victorious. No-one had the willpower to stand up to his mighty scowl! Every time he used it on his mommy or the Acolytes working in the kitchen, they always clasped their hands together in fear gave him a cookie to appease his fury. Why would this evil queen be any different? Soon, all the secrets of the treasure shall be mine!

The young Airbender listened hard as the evil queen began explaining to him the nature of her treasure. Something more valuable than gold and jewels that lasted a lifetime?! What could it be? Cookies? No, cookies did not last a lifetime, not the way he ate them. Ah! Maybe it was a magical, fire-breathing turtle-hawk that grew infinite cookie plants on it's shell and burped rainbows?! But where would she keep one in here? Unless, she had fed it a potion that shrunk it to fit behind a book or under her bed! It made perfect sense! How hard was that to understand?

Suddenly having a brilliant idea, he jumped down from the bookshelf. Gliding across the room, Meelo landed at the foot of her bed in an heroic fashion.

"I know how to understand your treasure, evil queen!" Meelo said triumphantly. "If I wear your glasses, then I will see everything as you do! Haha!"

With that cry, the young boy jammed the glasses onto his face, but tore them off with a further cry of discomfort.

"Argh! Jumping hog monkeys, lady, how can you see anything with them on your face! I'm blind!", he yelled, doing several laps of the room while loudly screaming and flailing his arms about, his eye squeezed shut. It was not long before he ran straight into a bookcase, falling onto his back with a grunt. To add to the moment, the universe saw fit to have a single book fall off the self and land, open, onto his face.

"Owie", came a muffled groan from underneath pages of the think volume.

Air Acolyte Family Dormitories
[tag: Ren]

It was dark for a moment as Meelo just lay there under the large book, trying to get his body to obey his commands. Left foot, right foot, left hand, right hand. Twitch, twitch, twitch, twitch, still too dazed to move. But then, suddenly, the lights turned back on, and the young airbender squinted up into the glaring light, a fuzzy figure leaning over him, asking him if he was okay. As a reply, Meelo made a slight turning motion with his shoulders and a breeze caught him, lifting him up. Landing deftly on his feet, Meelo gave the Acolyte a thumbs up and a big, gap-toothed smile.

"I'm okay", the boy announced, shaking his body like a polar bear dog trying to get dry. "I've had things fall on my head a whole bunch of times. Ikki says that's why my head is shaped funny!"

For the time being, Meelo seemed to have forgotten what it was he had originally come into the room to do and listened as the Acolyte explained how here glasses worked, pulling a distraught face. She could only see normally with those things on?! Why? What happened to her eyes to make them so bad? Maybe somebody put glasses on her when she was young, too? He looked at the things adorning the woman's face with warily. Glasses were a real hazard. Maybe he should smash them in case they took his sight again! But then she would not be able to see... Fiendish glasses!

Suddenly, the Acolyte change the subject and Meelo tilted his head in confusion. Power? What? He did not get it. Wait... she was the evil queen! She's bragging about her powers and she's about to reveal their source to me! And when she does, the secret way to her hidden treasure will be easy to find! This plan is pure genius! She went on about different powers, like muscles and stuff, until she mentioned the "best power". She paused for a second before asking if he really wanted to know.

Meelo charged forwards towards the evil queen, running around her legs in circles chanting "tellmetellmetellme" over and over in a high pitched yelp that made it all sound like a single, uninterrupted word. Grabbing a handful of her clothes, the little kid pulled himself up to her front and clasped ahold of the front of her robe, his face inches from hers.

"Tell me", Meelo whispered, the toothy grin back on his face as he uttered his request.

Air Acolyte Family Dormitories
[tag: Ren]

The Acolyte pulled herself gently from the young airbender's grip, plonking him down on the bed before joining him there. Sorting through a bunch of books, she gave them a tap before announcing that it was they that held "the best power". Pouting skeptically, Meelo narrowed his eyes questioningly at her. The only books that he knew about where picture books and the ones his mommy and daddy read him when they tried to put him to bed. They had nice stories in them, but he did not see how they were "powerful". Unless they were magic picture books, ones that made whatever you read come to life! Then he could play with dragons, something that he really wanted to do!

She went on to explain what she meant more, saying that by books she had meant knowledge. If knowledge was power, then why was Jinora not the Queen of the World?! She always had her nose pressed up against a book, even at the table while they ate sometimes. Meelo was certain that she was not actually reading at all. It looked more like she was smelling the pages. He had done that once, with a big book in his daddy's room. It smelt like old and he had not been able to stop sneezing for ages. Then he had told him off for leaving snot marks on the pages. It wasn't like you couldn't read it anymore. You could see through the stains!

"I like stories that have princes rescuing the princesses. Then they get icky and start smooching, I don't like that part so much. It's the bit when the princes save the princess that I like. No-one should be locked away just for being born different, or into a family that is important. People need to be free! Like a leaf! BE THE LEAF!" Meelo chattered away, screaming out the last part while throwing his arms in the air. A wind pushed through the room, lifting up some of the smaller books for a second before fading away.

He then noticed that she was offering him some candy.

"THE TREASURE!" Meelo yelled out, snatching a handful of treats and shoving them into his mouth, chewing on them furiously. Cackling madly, the boy bounced impossibly into the air, landing feet first off the ceiling then pushing off onto the wall. He did this several times, all the while laughing manically, until he eventually landed back on the bed. He continued jumping up and down on the soft surface, flailing is limbs in a crazed fashion before wrapping his them around her neck and poking his head next to her face.

"I like sweets", he said happily, his hand snaking down towards the open bag once more.

OOC: I'm not sure where to go from here, PM me?



Meelo looked skeptical of her claim, and she didn't blame him. She had always had a love for knowledge herself - a love not shared by the other children her age. Meelo seemed like a rambunctious, precocious sort, and ill-suited to quiet study.

I like stories that have the princes rescuing the princesses.

She opened her mouth to say something about how princesses should try to rescue themselves too, but Meelo babbled on about how icky kissing was and said something that particularly stood out to her: no one should be locked away just for being born different. Her mouth snapped shut. Meelo reached for her candy, calling it 'treasure' and bounced around her room. Ren sat there, looking at the boy quite curiously. Meelo had yet to notice any discrepancy in the way she presented and her physical body, but... maybe he would understand. Sort of. At the very least there was a good basis for his understanding.

She allowed him to help himself to another handful, then folded the top of the bag over. "Say, Meelo," Ren said experimentally. "Remember how you said that no one should be locked away for being born 'different'?" She smiled at him, leaning back onto her bed in a more comfortable position. "What do you mean by "different"? Any kind of different, or only certain kinds of different?"

Air Acolyte Family Dormitories
[tag: Ren]

Stuffing another large handful of the candies into his mouth, Meelo chewed frantically. He was not sure what kind of sweets they were, or what type of flavour were in the bag, but the textures and flavours all smashed together, releasing a huge burst of amazing sensation. In seconds, what had been a collection of different sweeties changed into a big, mushy ball of awesome in a way that only so many different sweeties could.

Noticing that the Acolyte had covered the bag over (no doubt in an effort to stop him taking all the treasure), Meelo pouted in annoyance now that his access to the sugary goodness had been cut off. He had already swallowed most of the handful he had shoved into his mouth. Rotating his tongue to pick at the remaining bits stuck in his teeth, he almost missed what Ren had been asking him. Making several odd clucking noises as he continued his excavations, the young airbender gave her a confused look.

"There's different kinds of different?" Meelo said in dismay. "That makes my head hurt."

With a dramatic pose, the boy made a hurg type noise and fell off of the Acolyte's back, flailing wildly as he hit the mattress before going still, playing dead with his tongue hanging out. He stayed like that for a few moments, but then spoke once more, his voice sounding serious for the first time since he broke into her room.

"Daddy says that it doesn't matter who a person is born as. It's who they grow up to be that counts, and we shouldn't treat anyone badly just for being who they are. We should all be allowed to be free, free to choose who we want to be."

There was a pause as Meelo heaved himself up again, kicking a book off his foot where it had fallen when he had flopped off of Ren's back and scooching himself up to sit next to her, grinning widely up at her face.

"But then again, daddy tells me off for eating all the cookies, so I don't really listen too hard to him", the boy added with a giggle.