I'm BACK! Since it's Halloween, I thought it was fitting to have a Kung Fu Panda Halloween fic that involves Max. Since he is getting a little older and his Halloween enthusiasm has hit a huge skyrocket. But...a little banter between him and Tigress resurfaces once again and what happens next...let's just say Max is giving Tigress the Halloween spirit. You'll see what I mean. Enjoy!

White Striped Nightmare

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: Halloween Enthusiasm

It's only a few days left until Halloween night comes upon the Valley of Peace and everyone is extremely excited about this holiday to come around. Wind blowing leaves through the ground, pumpkin carvings with jack-o-lanterns and all the kids running around with so much jubilee over the holiday. The same goes for the Bushido-Akio's house as they gather themselves around, setting up the house for some halloween excitement and some of the kids are getting into the spirit; mainly Max, Duke, Bakari and Isaiah. But Max is the one that's completely stoked up about Halloween the most because he likes things that are spooky and ancient and Isaiah comes up to him and asked, "You're excited about Halloween?"

Max looks at Isaiah with a face full of excitement and joy that looks as if it couldn't be contained and he said, "Excited? I'm completely happy for this day to come. Halloween is like the best holiday ever; with trick or treating, getting into costume and going to the Jade Palace Halloween party. How could it be less awesome?"

Isaiah chuckled at this and could tell from his brother's excitement that this holiday obviously gets Max happy and it shows and he smiled back and said, "I'm excited too."

"What are you gonna be this year?" asked Max.

"Um...I'll probably be a samurai. Just run around the neighborhood like a super-secret samurai and ask them for candy or they'll feel my wrath." Isaiah replied, making his best samurai moves.

Max looks at those samurai moves that Isaiah made and he smiled at this and said, "I know I'd give you candy if you made that move."

"Yeah, you don't want to mess with this. What about you? Since you're so excited about Halloween, what are you gonna be?" asked Isaiah.

Max gave it some thought about who he wants to be for Halloween until finally...he snaps his fingers and said, "A clown! I've always wanted to dress up as a clown, but not just any clown. A very scary clown."

"Wow...a scary clown. That would definitely be a radical costume." Isaiah said, smiling.

Max nodded his head at this and agreed with it and said, "Yep. Musaki told me that there's a clown costume with some makeup to make it more scarier and freakier, but to keep the fun of one."

As Isaiah is enthusiastic about Max's choice of being who he wants to be for Halloween, a little thought had come into the foreplay when it came to being invited to the Jade Palace Halloween Party in regards to one certain kung-fu master who has a deep opposition of clowns and asked, "Doesn't Tigress hate clowns?"

"Oh, yeah...I forgot about that. Well...maybe she won't notice that I'm gonna be a clown this year." Max added.

Just then, Samurai and Phoenix come downstairs to get themselves a snack and as they opened up the cabinets, they were alarmed to find a fake dead zombie's head in there and when it fell down, they picked it up and figured that it was fake with a note that read 'Wimps!'. Only one person knew how to do everything they can to scare them and they both said, "Sage..."

"Why can't this guy stop scaring the crap out of us?" Samurai asked, growling in frustration.

"It's like he wants us to pee our pants." Phoenix agreed, with a hint of annoyance.

"And I thought that Tsunami's Halloween pranks are the worst." Samurai added.

Just then, Max and Isaiah walked to the kitchen, apparently overhearing the screams and Isaiah asked, "What happened? We heard someone scream?"

"It's okay, guys. It was just one of Sage's stupid tricks." Phoenix answered.

Max could tell it was all Sage's doing based on that fake looking mask that seems like the real thing and asked, "He got you guys too, huh?"

"Yeah, he did. Wait, what do you mean 'got you guys too'?" asked Samurai, apparently very puzzled.

"He pulled a prank on us in the bathroom this morning. I was gonna pee, but then I saw some green monster popping out of the toilet and because of Sage, I got pee in my underwear." Isaiah replied.

Samurai and Phoenix snickered at that without Isaiah listening or knowing, but Isaiah could hear it superclear, which made him annoyed and embarrassed at the same time while glaring at them for a second and after Samurai and Phoenix looked at him, they stopped for a second and Isaiah said, "Really, guys? It's not really that funny."

"I'm sorry. It's just that you were gonna pee and then instead...you peed yourself." Phoenix said.

"You think that was stupid? Try waking up to having a pair of Sage's dirty underwear on your face. It smells like someone just haven't showered in 12,000 years." Max replied.

Samurai sighed at this and he said, "Something has to be done."

Just then, they see a very cocky Sage with just his shirt and underwear walking through the kitchen, looking at his victims with a smirk and said, "So...how'd you enjoy your Halloween presents?"

"Not by an inch." Phoenix replied.

Sage scoffs at this and expected this reaction and he said, "Good. And by the way...I put some stink bomb in Luna's room and I'm gonna put the blame on your four."

"You what?!" Samurai asked, very shocked.

Sage looked at them with a very cocky smile as he hears the stink bomb going off and Luna was shrieking from a distance, much to Sage's delight and he said, "Music to my hears."

"SAGE! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Luna screamed.

"It wasn't me!" Sage said, innocently.

"Oh, I know it's you! You got your name on your stupid bomb!" Luna shrieked, from a distance.

Soon, Sage's cocky smirk lowered to a shocked expression as to how his name was still there and Samurai smirked back and said, "Looks like your blame game got foiled."

"Shut up." Sage growled.

That's just the beginning! Stay tuned!