Enter Max
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Dai and Tigress walked through the woods as they walked Dai heard a cry for help. "Someone help me!" "You hear that?" He asked Tigress. "Yeah I do." Tigress said. Dai heard it again. "Get away from me!" "This way!" he said running off with Tigress right behind him. They followed the yells until they found a young tiger cornered by some wolves that were beating him up. "Hey!" Dai shouted. "Leave him alone!"
The Wolves stopped and turned towards Dai and Tigress. One of them held the cub in his hand and tossed him aside. Dai snarled at the wolf and attacked them. Tigress was right behind him they took care of the wolves quickly but as Dai turned to finish off the last one he paused when he saw the wolf holding the cub in front in him. "You coward!" Dai said and took a step toward the wolf. "I don't think so Dragon Warrior." The wolf said pressing a dagger to the cub's throat causing him to whimper. "Let him go." Dai said. "No, this cub is mine I can do what I want to him." The wolf said licking the side of the cub's face which caused him to start crying. That was it, Dai had seen enough. He reached into his belt for a throwing star and took careful aim if he missed he'd kill the cub. He never got the chance. The wolf tossed the cub into a tree and charged at Dai he quickly threw the star as hard as he could and hit the wolf in the eye knocking him over he got up and ran off. "Tigress, go after that wolf!" Dai said "I'll take care of the Cub."
Tigress raced off after the wolf and Dai went over to the young Cub who was still curled on the ground. "Are you okay?" Dai asked touching the Cub on the shoulder, the Cub rolled over and yelled and clawed at Dai when he saw him crouched over him. "It's okay." Dai said gently. "My name is Dai Nakamura." "I'm the Dragon Warrior." "I'm not going to hurt you." "What's your name?" Dai asked. "Max." The cub said. "What are you doing out here?" Dai asked. Max described what had happened to him and Dai listened horrified. He couldn't believe parents would do that to their child. "You're safe now." Dai said standing up and helping the cub up. "Don't worry." At that point Tigress returned and Max yelled and hid behind Dai. "Get away from me!" he yelled at Tigress.
"What's wrong?"Dai asked. "It's my mother she's back!" Max said. It took a moment for Dai to realize Tigress must look like Max's mother. "That's just my friend Tigress." Dai said "She won't hurt you either." Tigress approached them and looked at Max who was still wary of her. "This is Max." Dai said. "Hi." Max said shyly. Where are his parents?" Tigress asked. "His parents abused and molested him." Dai said. "His own mother tossed him down a cliff." "Who would do that to their child?" Tigress said. Dai heard a howling in the distance. "We'd better go." He said crouching down to Max's level. "Climb on my back." he said taking off his pack. Max climbed on Dai's back and they ran out of the area. Dai glanced to his side and saw wolves running through the tress next to them, Max saw them too. "Dai!" He said. "I know Max just hold on!" Dai said. Leaping over some wolves blocking their way. An arrow flew past them and Max yelled Dai spun around hoping to shield Max from the arrows. "Max, hide!" Dai said. Max slid off Dai's back and found a hollow tree trunk hide himself in as Dai fought off the wolves with Tigress.
Suddenly a wolf appeared in front of Max and he screamed clawing at its face. The wolf growled and reached in to try and grab Max but he clawed at its arm and backed up further into the tree trunk until he reached the back. The wolf reached in and grabbed Max by his tail and started to pull him out. "DAI HELP ME!" he screamed digging his claws into the wood and kicking at the wolf. Dai spun around and saw the wolf trying to pull Max out of the tree trunk. Dai raced over and grabbed the wolf by the back fur on his back and tossed him away from the tree trunk. Dai walked up to the wolf and stabbed him with his sword killing him. Inside the tree trunk Max remained curled up against the back of the tree trunk then Dai's face appeared at the entrance. Max crawled out of the tree trunk and hugged Dai. "Are you okay?" Dai asked hugging him back. Max nodded sobbing. Tigress watched all this and felt a twinge of jealousy. "We better get going." she said. "Right." Dai said. Max climbed back on Dai's back and they continued on.
"Why did you save me?" Max asked after awhile. Dai sighed. His past wasn't really something he wanted to talk about. "I don't like to talk about my past." Dai said. "Why not?" Max asked. "I had kind of a rough childhood." Dai said. "What happened?" Max asked. Dai sighed again. "I was abducted and abused by a wolf when I was about eleven years old." "I managed to kill the wolf and escape and make it back home but…" Dai paused for a moment. "When I got home everything started to fall apart." "A day later some guards arrived to arrest me for murdering the wolf." As he talked Dai's voice grew angry. "They wanted to take me away from my parents!" "They were going to take away everyone I knew and everyone I loved!" he said loudly his claws coming out. "What did you do?" Max asked. "I fought back." Dai said "I wasn't going to let them take me anywhere." "That was the last time I saw my parents." Dai added. "I was forced to flee Gongmen City after that."
"Then what happened?" Max asked. "Some wolves chased me and cornered me by a cliff so I jumped." Dai said. They set up camp that night and Dai Helped Tigress put up the tents. Max would stay in Dai's tent. Dai laid in his tent that night. He looked over at the Cub sleeping peacefully next to him. After a moment Dai got up and left the tent. What was he going to do with Max? Considering his and Tigress' experience with the Bao Gu Orphanage, he didn't really want to leave Max there. He couldn't just abandon Max either. A yell coming from his tent made Dai whirl around and race back into camp it had sounded like Max. "I'm coming Max!" Dai yelled.
Should Dai hang on to Max? Let me know what you think I hope I did okay Max was a bit harder to write than I thought.
By the way the theme for this story is Linkin Park's newest song Until it's gone.