I'm back! With another KFP Christmas fic! This one...it's focused on Max. This came to my head over the summer and I wonder what if Max had a little brother of his own for Christmas? This is for Joe 'Po' Navark and I hope you all like this! Consider this as an early Christmas present from me to you.

Brother for Christmas

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Max's Christmas Wish

It was a snowy afternoon at the Valley of Peace, where everytone is getting themselves rwady for the holidays, the special time where people spend it with their families and friends, give good cheer and also prepping up for that special holiday. In one of those village homes, a certain 8 year old white tiger cub looks up at the window and sees the snow fall, but also thinking about what he's missing in his life.

He takes a deep sigh and blinks his eyes a few times until his window started to turn a little foggy, and then proceeded to make zig-zag lines around the window and tapping his fingers a little bit.

Just then, Cody walks past his room and he sees Max stranding there at the window, feeling a little bored, but somewhat down and he walks into his room and he said, "Hey, Max."

"Hey, Cody." Max replied.

Cody went behind Max and he could see the bored expression on his face, but maybe there was something else he was feeling that he doesn't even know yet and he wanted to find out what it was, so Cody told him, "What's going on in your world?"

Max didn't take a look at Cody for a minute, not even a quick glance at him and Max responded, "Bored."

"Come on, little guy. Talk to me." Cody said.

Max then turns around and faces Cody for a minute and the two shared a couple of silent glares with each other and as they're staring at each other, Max then said, "I feel like...you know that empty feeling you get inside of your tummy?"

"Um...like when you're not eating?" asked Cody.

Max nodded his head in response to that and he told him, "No, I mean...like something isn't there. It's like you have everything you want, but there's something that's maybe not there."

Cody wasn't quite sure what Max meant by that and he then asked him, "What do you mean?"

"Well...it kinda stinks being the youngest. When you're little, you're nothing." Max replied.

Cody quickly sorta got what Max was saying about him being the youngest of all 33 kids and he lets out a slight chuckle and said, "That's all?"

"Yeah." Max replied.

Cody puts his hand on Max's shoulder and said, "Sometimes, when you're the youngest, you feel like you're being treated like a baby."

"But I'm not a baby. I'm only 8 and a half years old." Max stated.

"There's nothing wrong with that." Cody stated.

Max sorta felt like Cody wasn't understanding in his position well and he told him, "That's the problem...I'm a big kid. I should do a lot of things big kids should be doing."

Cody could see Max's point a little bit that he was kinda sick of being the baby of a house full of 33 older brothers and sisters and that he's over being treated like one and he told him, "Max...you'll have your chance soon enough. When you're older, you can do all of those things...but until then, you have to be patient."

Max lets out a deep sigh for a second and he said, "Okay."

Cody then puts Max in a headlock and gave him a noogie and told him, "Love you, you little knucklehead."

Max lets out a little laugh at this and he said, "You too, jerkface."

After this, Cody comes towards the dining room and sees Logan and Sage going at each other after an argument over who won an arm wrestling and he could tell that this is not gonna go well and he goes inside the room and sees Sage on the brink of losing it and Cody stops this immediately and said, "What the heck's going on here?!"

"Sage was cheating!" Logan shouted, pointing at him.

The white wolfdog growled at him in response to that and he said, "Was not! I should have won that match, fair and square!"

Logan glares at him and said, "That's not how the game works, Sage. I should be the one to put your arm on the other side."

"That does not compute!" Sage shouted.

Cody placed his paw over both of their mouths and he asked, "Every single day, it's the same thing. You guys argue over everything and this is really getting ridiculous. Plus, does it really matter who won?"

"Yes!" they both shouted.

Just then, Mako comes back home along with Arizona coming in the house as well and Mako looks over at Arizona, who's wearing a grey scarf over his neck and a brown snow hat on his head and he said, "Big day at the orphanage, huh?"

"Pretty big. But I'm glad you stepped in to assist in volunteering, Arizona." Mako said.

Arizona chuckled softly at this and he said, "Anything that involves kids, I'm in."

"Hey, dad. Arizona." Cody said.

Mako looks over at Cody and he replied, "Hey, son."

Arizona walks over to Cody and gives him a solid fist-bump and he asked, "How's everything here?"

"Ugh, just trying to diffuse an argument between Logan and Sage." Cody said, in exaspertion.

Arizona groans in response after hearing this because he knew that these two wolves were at each other's throats from the minute Sage was a new member in this house and asked, "Again? What's it for this time?"

"They're arguing over who won the arm wrestling match." Cody replied.

Arizona looks over at Sage and Logan and he walks to both of them and asked, "All right, who won?"

"I won." Logan replied, with a smirk on his face.

Sage lets out a growl and he plans to put his fist above Logan's mouth and said, "Cheater."

"You just can't accept the fact that I won, loser!" Logan said, taunting him.

"Shut up!" Sage shouted.

Mako was definitely not up for this whole dog-fight in the house and he said, "Okay, boys...enough of this already. Besides, it's the holidays. Shouldn't you learn how to get along with each other?"

"I can try, but Sage's too difficult to get along with." Logan answered.

"If you were from South China, I would've ripped your face off if you stepped into my turf!" Sage growled.

Arizona clears his throat as he looks up at Sage and he said, "But we're not in Southern China. We're in the Valley of Peace. You just have to get used to it here."

Sage made a huge sigh and he said, "Fine."

Arizona then nods his head and he said to Mako, "I gotta head back to the palace. Shifu's probably waiting for me to decorate the entire Jade Palace for the holidays."

"All righty. Hey, will you come back tomorrow. Because there are some kids that don't have a home or a family to call their own for the holidays." Mako asked.

Arizona smiled at this and said, "Sure thing. Tell Max I said 'hi', okay?"

"Will do."

As soon as Arizona left the house, Mako decided to go over to his room to do some meditating after a long day at work...while a certain white tiger overheard everything in the room and that's when it hit him...something that he was thinking of having for Christmas.

"A little brother..." Max whispered.

And that is the start of the story. Stick around for more Holiday awesomeness! Tell me what you guys think! Also...how'd I do?