We switch back to Max and see where his 'prisoner room' is like and then Shiang Zhi is curious about how Max is his half-brother.


Chapter 9: How It's Possible

That morning, Max wakes up and sees himself surrounded by that room that's pretty scary and too dark and that something that he should never experience and hoped that this is a nightmare and that he'll wake up to see himself in his adopted dad's house, but to know that it was all reality...completely sinks in and that this is for real. And Max did not like it one bit.

He finds himself chained up on his wrists and stuck on some pole and he felt really scared that he couldn't get out or anything, almost like a prisoner of some sorts. He struggled to get free, but those chains couldn't budge, break or anything. That really scares and frustrates Max to the extent that these people were dead serious.

Somehow, the clouded leopards walk past him and often times, they stop by and give out cold, demonized looks at Max and just walks away from him. Max literally feels like that he's stuck in that situation where he's all alone, left behind and abandoned again...and at this point, he's being shunned out from those strangers who don't even know him or give him a slight chance.

"Can't wait to see Xiaoshin literally kill this little punk." one clouded leopard remarked.

"Yeah, he ought to pay for what he had done to him." another leopard spoke out.

That part kinda drove Max into curiosity about what he actually did to his birth father and that was pretty confusing for him because it made him wonder what was something that Max did that made him want to actually kidnap him and bring him here. He just didn't understand what was going on and that it was all happening so fast.

He just wished that he would get out of there and find Arizona and go back home, but those leopards will not let him go and neither would Xiaoshin and even if he did escape, his birth father would do anything to stop him.

Just then, Shiang Zhi walks past Max's cell and he stops to take a look at him and as he looked at Max, he could tell that he was most definitely suffering and he wasn't quite sure what to do or how to handle the fact that Max is his birth father and why Xiaoshin would want revenge on him.

Meanwhile, Xiaoshin was busy sharpening his swords, dagger and knives to stab Max in when that day comes and as he looks at the picture of Max, he lets out a snarl and just claws directly to the face and imagines what he would do if he killed him. He would love to see him feel the same pain his victims brought him and it would officially end his long-term suffering of bringing Max into the world by his late mate.

Looking at all the wives he had so far and all the cubs he birthed, fatherhood was definitely not the best thing for him as it brought him a world of suffering and that he would go out and brutally kill every child...except for Shiang Zhi.

"Father?"

Xiaoshin turns around and he sees Shiang Zhi standing there and he asked, "Yes, son?"

"I brought you some more swords for you to polish and sharpen." Shiang Zhi said, bringing in the weapons.

"Just leave them on the floor. I'll get them later." Xiaoshin replied.

Shiang did leave the weapons on the ground and he was gonna leave, but not before he wanted to ask him something that was Max related and he asked, "Father...what exactly do you have planned for the cub?"

Xiaoshin rose an eyebrow to this and he turned to his oldest and he explained, "As I mentioned, I will murder him. He has to pay for what he did and he also knows what he has done."

"What did he do?" asked Shiang.

Xiaoshin could suspect that his oldest might be a little suspicious about his motive and he said, "It is better if you never know. But what I can tell you is that he's the reason for my long-suffering misery and it is my duty to end it."

"Don't you think that's too far?"

"No, I do not. And do not tell me that it is wrong, otherwise you will receive a little taste of the consequences that I've given you as a cub...remember?" Xiaoshin said, in a cold tone.

Shiang Zhi then remembers the enduring times he had to go through...being violently abused, beaten up and the worst of all...being molested many times and locked up in rooms. Something that Shiang knows that's deeply scarred up and that he wouldn't experience that again. He then said, "I understand."

"Good."

Shiang left the room and Xiaoshin was busy thinking of ways to completely force Max to do something that he knows well before he plans to kill him and said, "Hmmm...what can I do to take advantage of Maximus again?"


What Xiaoshin told Shiang Zhi about his reasons...that's a little sampler. The full reason will come later on, so until then...